Here are a few small commands that a colleague of mine showed me. These commands will start the Windows Device Manager and allow you to see devices that have been removed from the system. This can come in handy if you P2V (Convert a Physical machine to a Virtual machine). the Virtual hardware will be using […]
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Category: VMWare
VMware Server – vmrun list command
This is a quick how to article on using some basic command line tools to administer VMware server 2 virtual machines running on a Linux system. In my case I am running Vmware Server on Centos 5.4 but I’m sure this will be very similar if not exactly the same on other versions of Linux. […]
It Fixed it for me – VMware MUI blank page
I can’t take credit for creating this fix but I thought it may be helpful to get the info out there again. I recently installed VMware Server 2.0.2 on a new Centos 5.4 Linux server (32bit but it may work on 64bit as well) the install appeared to go smoothly but when I tried to […]
It Fixed It for Me – VMware ESXi server install.
Here is one that I hope someone finds useful.I recently was installing VMWare ESXi server on a Dell Optiplex GX280. Upon install I was getting an error about an invalid option in Bios and that I needed to Disable “limit CPUID value” or “Support Legacy NT4 OS” in the BIOS. My Dell system did not […]
“ItFixed” it for me!
This may come in handy for some one using Dynamsoft Source Anywhere.I have a virtual machine running on vmware that hosts our company’s source code. There is a program called Source Anywhere that allows our offshore developers to connect over a VPN and access the source code. Over the past few days we have been […]
PXE and Network Booting.
This article will hopefully help at least one techie out there. Please drop me a line if it does. I have been experimenting with PXE network booting of servers, desktops and laptops lately.If you don’t know what this is I will give the “in a nutshell” version of the explanation. PXE stands for Preboot Execution […]