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Hi there I am having some technical difficulties while trying to use gns3 with a gns3vm on ubuntu. vMware is installed, the gns3vm is installed and the gns3vm runs allowing me to access the web ui without any problem yet for some reason unknown to me it does not want to let me select the gns3vm when selecting or the other method through the setup wizard from the help tab. normal person way... setup wizard from the help tab... os version info vMware Player gns3vm

Hello LTT forums, I live in France and I'm sharing with this community a project that was proposed by multiple "intervenants" (people who teach us subjects at school) to us who are in a apprenticeship school Our current state in IT infrastructure is limited, meaning only the basics are given to us (access to internet, power and school outlook) The direction has approved of this project with others of the head of our school to engange to deploy a IT infrastructure for our needs in education Since most of us are students, and we learn computer technology, we have to bring our own laptops capable to do emulation (vmware workstation, cisco packet tracer & more) Some of our tutors have been happily discarding their old IT equipement to this project (dell / HPE servers, cisco switches, etc) instead of recycling them or throwing them away. We already have an agreement where we can install a 25u rack with the servers given to us, We would like to host a primary vsphere server that would be for administration, and two secondary ones for the students and teachers to access remotely This would enable the "intervenants" / teachers to prepare in advance courses for classes on subjects of virtualisation or networking, and would also enable us students to connect on the network to discover the technology What would you recommend?

I have an Asus Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI II motherboard with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5975WX CPU. I have installed VMware Esxi 8.0U2 and vCenter. I successfully passthrough an NVIDIA RTX 4090 to a virtual machine and had no issues. However, the need to have accelerated graphics for multiple VM is critical to our workload. The next aim was to use NVIDA vGPU profiles from a single GPU & passthrough to multiple virtual machines. For this, I purchased the RTX 5000ada. I have installed the host and NVIDIA management drivers and applied the vGPU profile to a VM. When I try to boot the VM I get the following error message of "Could not initialise plugin "libnvidia-vgx.so" I believe this is an SR-IOV issue. I can confirm I have enabled SR-IOV Support and IOMMU in the Asus motherboard, however, I am still getting "not-capable" against the RTX 5000ada under SR-IOV in VMware Esxi 8.0U2 Has anyone successfully gotten SR-IOV to work with VMware Esxi 8 + Center. Any assistance and guidance would be helpful. Thank you in advance

When I made my virtual machine, I assigned it 2 of my 4 cores, but when I check task manager, its only showing 1 core, and changing the virtual cores seems to do nothing. The CPU is also running near stock, as opposed to what my host PC is getting. I attached a photo of both task managers for reference. Also, I am using the free VMWare 17 if that matters. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Firstly, sorry if this is the wrong area. I'm looking at converting a users machine to virtual. Before I do this, is there a way to convert and restore back to a physical machine if required? TIA.

Budget (including currency): Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Storage server for my VMware ESXi host Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): My esxi host specs: Supermicro 743 chassis, redundant PWS-920P-SQ PSUs, X9DR3-F, dual xeon E5-2620 (v2) would be adequate, 256 GB RAM, and currenly H700 raid with pairs of 4TB drives in Raid 1 config. (I only want to run Raid 1. Period.) My esxi host runs a small number of VMs: 1x Windows DC, 1x Exchange 2010 singe host, 1x Windows server for fileshare, 1x Windows server for misc things, and 1x Windows 10 desktop. I need to build a storage server for my ESXi host.... My plan is to migrate my VMs from the H700 DAS storage to the storage server. NFS/iSCSI I do not mind what storage networking used. All my servers exist in a 2nd bedroom in an appartment... so no screaming data center fans allowed! (MY Supermicro 743 chassis is heavily modified with noctua fans to provide enough airflow and manage to be quieter than my existing 8x 4TB WDC Gold drives) I regret I waited so long to buy a used Supermicro CSE-846 chassis. A few years ago there were LOTS of options! These days the 846 chassis is rare. I am really impressed with my 2x Super Micro 920W "PWS-920P-SQ" power supplies: 80 Plus Platinum + redundant + quieter than hard drives!!! I like the 846 chassis because it has more drive bays than I need... so I can space out my drives and get air. I also like the 846 chassis because it has A LOT of room inside to swap fans out for quieter ones. Unless I stumble across a left over CSE-846 unicorn of chassis.................... I may need to look for alternatives. Quiet server inspirations:

I'll keep it short: I am a software dev, I want to test cross-platform applications but I do not have an apple MacBook or similar. I do have a fairly adequate PC with a 256GB Sata based C drive for my main OS (W10), I also recently went out and got a 1TB NVMe (WD BLACK) for storing all my projects. I also have a 1TB 7200RPM HDD for storing data. My question is; Will setting up the vmware on the NVMe in this configuration allow me to run MacOS as smoothly as it is running off of any other MacBook? If not, what can I improve or change?

I cannot achieve 10GB transfer speeds using NFS between a VMWare 6.7 Server and a TrueNAS Core Server. The 10GB connection otherwise works perfectly. All VMs on the VMWare Server operate at 10GB. The TrueNAS Server also does (I have active 10GB SMB shares). If I create an ISCSI drive on TrueNAS and connect that to the VMWare Server, 10GB is achieved without issue. Both servers only connect through DAC into a 10GB switch. It is only when I use NFS that speeds lower to 1GB (NFS is preferred for one use case I have). I have tried every port group and virtual switch setting that I can think of without any results, although I can only do so much since this is a 24x7 production environment. I have researched this heavily and cannot find a solution. Is there a way to enable 10GB using NFS in this situation? Things tried: Having dedicated 10GB management port groups and virtual switches. Setting MTUs to 9000. Ensuring all 1GB CAT6 cables are physically disconnected.

Hi, I am trying to ping between my host windows PC and guest windows VM. At the moment I have my network set upto bridging mode where it is bridged to my laptops inbuilt WiFi adapter. So far I am able to ping the home router, reach the internet and also ping another PC connected to my home router after disabling its firewall. I have disabled the firewalls in both the VM and the host and they still cannot seem to be able to ping each other. The host can also ping the router, ping the other PC in the network and access the internet. My router IP: 192.168.1.1 IP of the VM: 192.168.1.131 IP of the host: 192.168.1.5 IP of the other PC on the network: 192.168.1.4 Can anyone please suggest how I could achieve this. Thanks.

I am looking to build a sff virtualization server using ASRock's Deskmini x300 and a 5600g. Can anyone confirm that passing through the igpu to the vm is possible, and if it is, is it stable? I have tried googling, but have only found inconclusive answers. Thanks.

Budget (including currency): INR 400,000 Country: India Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 3x Windows 10 Pro VMs accessible by 3 different Monitors, keyboard/ mouse set, Storage Server (Probably with TrueNAS Core / Scale) Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Parts I already have: 1. AMD Epyc 7502 2. Supermicro H12SSL-I 3. Corsair RM1000X 4. 128GB Micron 3200MT/s ECC RDIMM 5. 3x Nvidia Quadro T600 4GB 6. Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen4 Card 7. 4x Samsung 980 Pro 1TB 8. 2x Samsung 980 Pro 2TB 9. 2x Samsung 860 Evo 250GB 10. 6x Seagate Exos 14TB I've attached an image to show my requirements. Can anyone suggest which OS will fulfill my requirements? For storage Server I will probably stick to TrueNAS Core / Scale. Apart from PCIe passthrough for GPU how can passthrough Keyboard / Mouse set to a VM through the onboard USB connectors.

So I've potentially bitten off more than I can chew. I picked up an HP ProLiant server; the DL380G6. Dual Xeon X5670 processors with about 72 GB DDR3-1333. It's currently got 16 TB in HDDs, with no RAID configuration or real OS implementation. The goal is a multi-purpose server/workstation, entirely dependent on the network. I'm thinking Unraid (which I've never worked with) from the top to manage partitions and the RAID config, either in RAID 5 or 10. Assuming I go RAID 10, that gives 8 TB of redundant storage, which should be fine for what I'm trying. For partitions and breakdown, I want to assign two cores and 4 TB to Plex, which I'll use to back up the unholy amount of DVDs and Blu-rays we have, and stream them via the PlayStations scattered in the house. I then want to assign four cores and 2 TB each to two VMs, supplemented with 6 GB RX550s (the best card I could find that supports virtualization and doesn't require any more power than the PCIe slot can provide). I'm also thinking a PCIe riser that allows for two more SATA connections, and I'll do OS for those VMs on a couple 256 GB SATA SSDs I have on hand. This is where it gets tricky. I want the VMs to be network-accessible, and to utilize a couple old (2012) AIO PCs as terminals/consoles/thin-clients to allow for two quick drop-in home offices as both my wife and myself go to remote work. I think VMWare offers a direct software solution for this, but the implementation is outside ANYTHING I have experience with. So if anyone has links to useful community resources, or software suggestions, or anything else useful, I'm receptive to everything.

Having an issue with adding another TrueNAS box to a VMWare storage pool. I can ping the address I set to the TrueNAS box on each of the hosts, but it isn't showing up in VMWare or VSphere as an iSCSI target. Any reason why this might be happening?

Hey guys, A new system admin here in my fourth week. I am attempting to archive a 33GB .PST file downloaded from Exchange and move it to a dedicated Archive drive in a VMWare VM over the network. Attached I have a photo of what I am seeing before it errors out on me. The file transfer at the full gigabit speed until it drops and remains to a crawl. The host's drives are running a traditional HDD raid so I am assuming it may be a cache issue that the drive simply cannot handle/maintain the sustained writes? Let me know what you guys think and I can provide any additional details. Thank you in advance!

Installed Project64 on my pc before reboot, and it runs fine. but when try to run project64 after reboot pc they give this error "Cannot open a ROM because plugins have not successfully initialized" when try to open ROM on Project64, Some applications such as VMware and ThrottleStop ran fine before reboot, after reboot pc it get c000003e error when try to run those applications. I also tried RetroArch on Linux it works fine but after reboot pc it crashes when loading content. VMware also works fine in Linux without errors. I also tried Windows 8.1 it gets same issue. Health in two HDDs is even good. Two HDDs don't have bad sectors issue. PC Specs: CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K GPU: AMD HD 6570 RAM: 4GB RAM OS: Crunchbang++ 64bit and Windows 10 64bit HDD: 2x500 GB HDD. HP Compaq 8200 Elite PC

hi so i'm letting one of my freand's use a vm on my computer but i dont want it to be the same network as me is there a way for me to have him on a difrent network but still be able to connect to the internet. im use vmware on my computer. thank.

Hello I have some trouble with my vm. It's a Ubuntu 20.04 guest on a windows 10 host. Everything works fine when I start the vm. But after a certain amount of time (sometimes 30 min, sometimes 1 hour, sometimes even sooner) it becomes incredibly slow. The mouse jumps instead of the normal movement, dragging windows is a pain cause it gets later at the position then the mouse. Opening files is slow as a snail, etc. My host device has 32 GB RAM and 8 cores 16 thread CPU. I located 6 cores to the vm in VMWare and 16GB of Ram. All the VMWare tools are installed. While the guest is being slow, there is no swap memory used and the 16GB is not fully used, the CPU is also at very low usage. Does anyone know how to solve this or why this is happening? About half a year ago it still worked perfectly fine and i didn't change a thing. I'll already thank you for reading my problem.

Everything but the gateron silent black switches an backlit rubber key caps, an some gpu treaking an finishing up oc tweaking and VMware installation, but other than that within a week and a half this will be my new for the first in 12 years primary pc pop os /win10pro combo, and within a month I'll have the two remaining parts to finish my second pop_os only also with 32gb of ram and a triple 140mm aio the last pic is of a custom keycap order from AnyKeyKeycaps off esty currently waiting on delivery along with a order of Gateron Silent Switch Pcb mount 5pin from KBDfans for my keychron c1 87 tkl hot-swapable keyboard the 2nd pix is for pre finsh it does now havw a full 32gb at some point ill take up-to-date pix an paint the ram yellow to an when the switchs an keycaps arrive show new pix then to the current is the default out of the box the current setup an config is AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 120 56.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler with one Noctua F12 industrialPPC-3000 fan in pull Gigabyte B450 AORUS M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB GAMING OC Video Card LINKUP - Ultra PCIe 4.0 X16 Riser Cable 2 x Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory 2 x Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (one on pci adapter ) EVGA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (with custom cables by cablemods) Corsair 275R Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case (painted montana cans traffic yellow with 3 coats) Logitech G502 HERO Wired Optical Mouse 2 x AOC C24G1 24.0" 1920x1080 144 Hz Monitors 2 x Noctua A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM 158.5 CFM 140 mm Fan top exhaust 3 x Noctua F12 industrialPPC-3000 PWM 109.89 CFM 120 mm Fan front intake 2 x Silverstone 8-Port PWM Fan Hub/Splitter 1 x PCIe NVMe Adapter M.2 NVMe SSD to PCI-e X16 Converter Card by RIITOP updated - my revised pics https://www.instagram.com/p/CSrgPRTMsng/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/CSIN5sFMRDX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I want to virtualization macOS big sir to start writing in Xcode but I’m not willing to go and buy a new computer made by Apple, but VMware doesn’t have a MacOS option. How would I get around that?

Budget (including currency): 1500 USD Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mainly Work/ Internet surfing Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Ok so I want to build a PC to run 2 VMs. Ive built PCs So I know how that whole part works, but I was wondering how I could use 1 PC, say a 5700x and 3060 or so, to run 2 independant VMs. Is it possible to have them with their own I/O and file storing? Also, Please give input on how or what VM Softwares are good and If i'd need a server and how much ram would be appropriate for like 30 chrome tabs, my parents are weird.

In short, So I'm using vmware workstation pro to running my virtual machine. The host system is running win 10 and my 2 VMs running windows 11. Both of my virtual machine have different local IP addresses from each other and the host system. But I notice that their public IP address is same with my host system. What I want 1. All my VMs have different public IP adress (to host system and each other) Any solution?

I am going to build a powerful workstation based on AMD Threadripper Pro 3975WX and ASUS Pro-WS-WRX80E-SAGE-SE-WIFI motherboard. The idea is to have a virtualized environment created by means of VMware ESXi (the latest version) to be hosting guest systems like Windows, Linux, etc. And here comes my problem: I asked an official VMware distributor if ESXi is supported by the a.m. platform and I got the official list of processors compatibility - AMD Threadripper Pro 3975WX is NOT listed (what I knew already before). Based on my experience I know ESXi works on some platforms not officially supported but the level of investment is the reason that I need to be 100% sure that I will get what I need. Does anybody have an experience in such a configuration or may confirm it will work like intended?

Currently planning on deploying a localised virtualized environment just wanting to know which one is better and the pros and cons

Greetings, I'm a first-time poster here. My organization has assigned me the task of setting up 16 zero clients and a VMware Horizon server. The users are going to use CPU/GPU intensive apps (like Adobe Photoshop). The problem is, I have no idea how to pick the right server to handle the load, and also how to setup the physical network in a way that users don't experience any lag/delays. I would appreciate more experienced sysadmin's tips on how to setup this environment. Thank you all in advance

Preface This guide REQUIRES you to have a working Mac or access to an existing macOS install. Obtaining the macOS operating system files outside of an existing macOS installation is software piracy, as such it is against the forums ToS to provide help with obtaining macOS IN ANY OTHER WAY than the method I will outline in this guide. PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME OR ANYBODY ELSE FOR HELP REGARDING OBTAINING macOS ON LINUX OR WINDOWS, YOU WILL BE IGNORED!! Prerequisites 1: A fairly modern CPU with X86-64 support (Intel or AMD is fine) 2: A PC running Windows or Linux with a MINIMUM of 16GB of RAM (The instructions in this guide will be for Windows, for Linux its almost identical) 3: Access to an existing macOS install to obtain the installation files 4: Some way of transferring the ISO from macOS to your host machine (shared folder, 32 GB USB flash drive or external HDD) 5: A copy of VMWare Player 16 or VMWare Workstation 16 (EXSi is also mentioned as being supported however I haven't tested it) 6: VMWare macOS Unlocker 7: Notepad++ (Optional) 8: Virtualisation support must be enabled in your systems UEFI Basic setup 1: Install VMWare in the usual way 2: Download and extract VMWare macOS Unlocker 3: Open the extracted folder and run "win-install.bat" as administrator 4: Wait, it might take up to 5 minutes to find and download the macOS VMWare Tools ISO 5: When the command prompt goes away we are ready to proceed with the next step Create the installation ISO 1: On your existing macOS installation download Big Sur from the app store 2: When the download finishes Big Sur setup will run, quit the installer back to desktop 3: Open Terminal 4: Create a blank image by issuing the following command (type your password when prompted) and hitting Enter sudo hdiutil create -o /tmp/BigSur -size 16384m -volname BigSur -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J 5: Mount the image you just created sudo hdiutil attach /tmp/BigSur.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/BigSur 6: Next use the Create Install Media command to create a Big Sur installer on the image you just mounted sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/BigSur --nointeraction 7: Unmount the image hdiutil eject -force /Volumes/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur 8: Convert the DMG to a CDR and move it to your desktop hdiutil convert /tmp/BigSur.dmg -format UDTO -o ~/Desktop/BigSur 9: Rename the CDR to ISO mv -v ~/Desktop/BigSur.cdr ~/Desktop/BigSur.iso 10: Clean up temporary files left over from Create Install Media (optional) sudo rm -fv /tmp/BigSur.dmg 11; Using whatever method you choose transfer the ISO from your desktop to your host machine Create the VM 1: Run VMWare, create a new machine, name the VM & select macOS > Big Sur 11.1 as the Operating System 2: Create a new HDD image as per your requirements (80GB Minimum) 3: Click Finish then click Customise Hardware 4: For my machine I gave it 4 of my Ryzen 3800X cores and 8GB of RAM, you do whatever you need 5: Click on Video and enable 3D Acceleration (ignore the warning, not using this option forces 3MB total VRAM, even with it you can only get 128MB) 6: Delete the existing SATA Hard Drive, create a new NVMe Hard Drive and point it to the HDD image you created in step 2 7: Set up any other options as you need them but don't change any other hardware, macOS works OOTB with the default sound card and NIC 8: Point the virtual CD drive to the ISO we created earlier in the guide 9: When you're finished close the Customise Hardware page If you have an Intel CPU you can now skip straight to Install Big Sur. If you have an AMD Ryzen CPU please carry on with Customising the VM Config Customising the VM Config Only follow this section if you have an AMD CPU, otherwise skip on to Install Big Sur. Throughout this section I will use *vmname*, this refers to the name you gave your VM when you created it. For example if you called the VM "macOS VM" then replace *vmname* with macOS VM. 1: Open the folder containing your VM Files (Default on Windows 10 is /Documents/Virtual Machines/*vmname*) 2: Locate the file called *vmname*.vmx and open it in your favourite text editor 3: Scroll down to the very bottom of the file and on a new, blank line paste the following cpuid.0.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:1011" cpuid.0.ebx = "0111:0101:0110:1110:0110:0101:0100:0111" cpuid.0.ecx = "0110:1100:0110:0101:0111:0100:0110:1110" cpuid.0.edx = "0100:1001:0110:0101:0110:1110:0110:1001" cpuid.1.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:0111:0001" cpuid.1.ebx = "0000:0010:0000:0001:0000:1000:0000:0000" cpuid.1.ecx = "1000:0010:1001:1000:0010:0010:0000:0011" cpuid.1.edx = “0000:0111:1000:1011:1111:1011:1111:1111” featureCompat.enable = "TRUE" 4: Save the file and close it Install Big Sur 1: Start the VM 2: macOS installation should fire up 3: Install macOS as per your requirements Install VMWare Tools VMWare won't automount the Darwin VMWare Tools images on a Windows or Linux host so you have to locate it manually 1: Once setup has finished and you're on the desktop of macOS click VM > Settings (on the VMWare Toolbar) 2: Click CD/DVD 3: In the ISO Image File section click the Browse button 4: Navigate to your VMWare installation folder (default is C:\Program Files (X86)\VMware\VMWare Workstation or C:\Program Files (X86)\VMware\VMWare Player) 5: Locate the file called darwin.iso and double click it 6: If its not already ticked then click the Connect checkbox 7: VMWare tools setup will mount automatically 8: Before running the setup script open System Preferences > Security & Privacy, click the padlock icon and enter your password to unlock edit mode 9: Run the VMWare Tools setup script and follow it through 10: About half way through a warning will pop up about VMWare Extensions, on the Security & Privacy page click Allow 10a: If you don't click allow fast enough VMWare tools might fail to install, if this happens just run it through again (as long as you've already clicked Allow it will work) 11: Reboot 12: Enjoy running macOS Big Sur in VMWare What works and doesn't work Most basic applications I have tested work. Office, Virtual DJ, Steam (though I haven't tried running any games) and Ableton Live. I have not tested any of the built in Apple apps. I have not signed in to an Apple account (and I would advise you don't either). I'm going to say that macOS virtualisation stuff (like Parallels Desktop) will not work though I haven't tested any. For whatever reason it is impossible to give the VM more than 128MB of VRAM, I have tried everything I could find to change the value, nothing works. With VMWare Tools installed drag and drop works, shared folders work, mouse integration works and dynamic resolution scaling works.