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Questions tagged [vmware]

A company that develops virtualization software; specify which tool you're using (Workstation, Player, ESX etc...) if relevant.

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How to extend filesystem partition on Ubuntu VM?

I'm running Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 as a VM on a mac with vmware fusion. I'm getting space warning issues and now want to expand from 20GB to 200GB. I powered off the VM and on the vmware side increased the allocated disk space: Power off the…
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Find out if the OS is running in a virtual environment

Is there any way to find out if the OS I'm running (actually installing) is running in a VMWare machine. I need to disable ntp settings if the automated install is done on a virtual machine but keep them enabled if installing on bare metal.
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Can't resize a partition using resize2fs

I recently resized the hard drive of a VM from 150 GB to 500 GB in VMWare ESXi. After doing this, I used Gparted to effectively resize the partition of this image. Now all I have to do is to resize the file system, since it still shows the old value…
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yum installs kernel-devel different from my kernel version

I am attempting to install the VMWare player in Fedora 19. I am running into the problem that multiple users have had where VMware player cannot find the kernel headers. I have installed the kernel-headers and kernel-devel packages through yum and…
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How to detect new hard disk attached without rebooting?

I'm having a little issue. I've a live system which run on RHEL 6.7 (VM) and have VMware 6.5 (which is not managed by our group) . The issue is, the other group tried to extend the capacity of an existing disk on a VM. After that, I ran a scan…
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Guest OS resolution (text too small) in vmware workstation 12 player

I have a windows 10 host OS where I have installed vmware workstation 12 player. I have an Xubuntu as a guest OS (virtual machine). The complication is: the text is too small in guest OS and almost unreadable. The steps that I have already taken to…
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How to extend CentOS 5 partition on VMware?

I have a CentOS 5 virtual machine and I added 20GB more to disk size. How do I initialize and extend the available space? I tried loading GParted as well, but the drive is locked; how do I unlock it?
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An installation step failed! Kali Linux 2016.2 64 Bit

I'm getting an error while trying to install Kali Linux 2016.2 64 Bit in my VMware machine. An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step is: Install the…
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How to find IP of virtual machine?

If I have a VM (using VirtualBox, for instance) running inside my main OS; how can I identify the virtual interface and IP address (of the VM) from within the original (host) OS? I thought I could just use ifconfig, ip a, or similar; but no…
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rsyslogd HUPed repeatedly

Noticing that for a VM box, getting in the logs that rsyslogd process gets HUPed. Finding no ideas except a few post in some forums saying this is for logrorate. Any ideas how to fix/troubleshoot…
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CentOS lock screen not unlocking

I have a centOS VM that when I lock the screen it will not let log me back in. I can enter my password as many times as I'd like, even try to "switch users" but the VM just ignores everything and keeps me logged out. I then have to do a restart. I…
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dm-0: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. Centos 7.1 on VmWare ESXI 5.5

I've got a error when system start on 2 VMs. dm-0: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. OS: CentOS 7.1 VMware ESXI 5.5 1-st VM has LSI Logic Parallel type for SCSI controller on HDD Datastorage. 2-nd VM has Paravirtual type for SCSI controller on…
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VMware on Linux host causes regular freezes

When running a virtual machine in VMware (Ubuntu 16.04 host), both the guest system (Windows 10 at the moment) and the host system regularly become unresponsive for several seconds, e.g. when starting Atom or Visual Studio in the guest VM. RAM usage…
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Connecting an iPhone to VMware freezes macOS and crashes the iPhone?

I've been using macOS as a guest running on VMware 12.5 for a while for iOS development successfully. My iPhone was recognized by the guest os and usable with xcode to test the Apps. But since a few updates (I can't tell if it is VMware update -…
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How do I figure out what's freezing up my machine?

I am running Arch on this machine: 3.40GHz i7 hexacore (4930K) 16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM 2xSamsung 840 EVO SSDs in Raid0 (using BTRFS raid) When I run VMware on my Arch with a few VMs (2 or 3), giving them about 2-4 cores each, and 2GB RAM each, my…
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