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So I have assembled a machine that I am using as a VMWare ESXI (v 6.7) host. I have successfully installed a Windows 10 VM on said host and it powers on and runs as one would expect. I then attempted a Ubuntu VM (18.04) and it successfully installs but after about a minute of uptime after the initial installation, the VM suddenly powers off and any attempts to power it on again result in this error: "The operation is not allowed in the current state". The current state is Powered Off. My Windows 10 VM still works just fine. I've tried Ubuntu 18.04 as well as CentOS 7.5 and get the same result after creating VMs using both. Any ideas here?
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So I was very inspired by Linus's video where he built a "Server" but VM'ed a Streaming PC, and Gaming PC. So I'm reaching out the community to see if there has been anymore discussion on the build, and how viable it is. Also would this build be better with the new Thread ripper for the sheer additional about of cores to allocate? Or is Intel really the only way to go? Lastly I really think I want to make this my next build but would like to see you all think. Thanks!
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I’m finishing my pc of tonight and I’m using a user friendly version of Linux called ubanto I think I’m woundering if I use VM ware can I use windows and one last question if I have 4 cores 8 threads and 16gb of ram can I use the windows virtual machine as if it had all of the same specs? -
The title pretty much says it all. I want VMWare to stop the guest OS from suspending it if I leave it unattended for some time. Some suggestions I saw online were to set the power options in my host PC to never automatically go to sleep or the display to turn off. I have done both these things and stopped the PC from sleeping and turning display off for power saving but still no luck. I also tried adding these codes: suspend.disabled = “True” and suspend.disabled = “1” in the vmx file of the vm and restarted VMware. This didnt work too. If u know of anyway to achieve this please do let me know. Thanks.
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I have Windows Server 2016 setup in my laptop using VM Ware. i have connected 2 network adapters to this VM, which is my Ethernet and my WIFI adapter. The Ethernet is connected to another laptop which is running server 2016 as a DHCP server. my second network adapter is the WIFI adapter which is connected to my router that provides IP addresses from its own DHCP. my problem is i can connect to this router and even get an IP from it but i cant ping it or the other computers connected to it. i cannot also access internet from it. any suggestions to troubleshoot this would be very helpful. Thank you.
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Hi Guys, 1st post here so appreciate any help you can give. Recently bought an xps 9560, undervolted and about to upgrade ram to 32gb and repaste while I’m there. I only have 256gb of nvme ssd under the hood. So what I plan on doing is having 2 seperate external ssd for games and macOS. Does anyone have a link or could explain the steps involved in setting up a VM via an external ssd which can be mounted and dismounted when needed? For example, Would I just install VMware onto the ssd along with the setup files for OSX or does VMware install onto windows and then directed to the drive that macOS is installed on? I also presume i need to set a static drive letter for the ssd like the games drive. One last question, would there be any significant performance boost for the VM using a thunderbolt ssd over a usb3.0 ssd? Thanks ladies and gents
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Hi folks, I recently built myself a new system, leaving me with my old computer having the following specs : i5-3570k @ stock speed 2*8 GB DDR3 @ 1333Mhz 4*1 TB WD Blue 7.2k Drives 120 GB Kingston UV400 SSD 2*Gbe Intel NIC I'm planning to use this machine as an ESXi Server, virtualizing all my physical instances of various servers. I'm curious as to know whether at this point of time, given that my processor is fairly old, is there any point in adding two more sticks of 8GB ram, or should I just continue running the same config, and save money for an entirely new build ? I'm also a CS and IT undergrad, so sometimes I can have anywhere from 4-10 VM's running (hence the 4 * 1 TB Disks in my old system). Also, if I do upgrade to 32 gigs, together with a RAID 0 of 8 * 1TB Purple WDs (Raid controller and spare disks lying around from various builds), how many VMs can I run simultaneously run without the CPU being a bottleneck ?
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Hi All, I want to build a personal server but I dont know which type of mother, CPU and amount of RAM would be enough. I want to clear out that I live in Argentina and here we only have acces to common and gaming hardware. (so no server grade hardware available) The idea is to run a ESXi 6.7 as base OS and create 5 VM. FreeNAS 11 Windows 10 Linux (Ubuntu probably) Testing (diferent OS testing) Testing (diferent OS testing) RAM: I think 32 GB would be enough (I know I can use less RAM if I delete 2 VM, but I want the CPU and Mother to be future prepeared.) CPU: I thought a Core i3 or i5 (the idea is to make a cheap server, if possible). Mother: No f**king clue. Right now I am running a FreeNAS 9.10 in a HP Precision M4600, it is a notebook (HERE) CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2540M CPU @ 2.60GHz RAM: 8GB And runs a SMB file system, a PLEX media server and Trasnmission.
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Can Someone please help me in installing Mac OS High Sierra on Vm ware. I'm having the iso file for the operating system.
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A while ago I attempted to build a Hackintosh for the family computer. Aside from me and my dad, my whole family was used to our iMac and OSX. It got old, so I used my skills to build one rather than buy another similarly spec'd one for over $5000 or whatever. Plus, I got to do my one and only white build! It has an i5 quad-core and a GTX 1050. I failed, though. She settled for me just installing Win 10 so the kids could use it. I tried running it in VMWare Workstation, but it was glitchy and bad. Here's my question, is there a way that I can, not dual-boot into Win and Mac, but like, set them both up to have a seamless transition without having to reboot the PC? Like, assign each user to a different OS? I had something like that going, as when you were signed as any of my brothers, it was Win10, but when you signed in as my mother, the VM was automatically open and it went right into the OSX desktop. But like I said, it was glitchy and slow. Anyone ever done something like this before? It would mean that my Mom could actually use the office computer comfortably AND nobody else would have to settle for Mac!
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I'm totally new to Linux, I've used Windows all my life, but I'm doing another very cool, watercooled build and I wanted to try my hand at it! I'm going for a minimalist install of Arch running i3-gaps and to be able to rice a nice desktop environment and learn some Python scripting. Aside from Raspbian, I've never touched Linux, and the installation process I see is gonna be a hassle, but not until I can actually boot into it! The build won't be finished for a while, so I'm practicing on my laptop. I have VMWare Workstation 14, and I created a virtual machine off of the ISO file: archlinux-2018.05.01-x86_64 Am I using the wrong live image? Is it compatible with VMWare? When I first created it, it asked what OS I was using, and under Linux, there was no option for Arch, so I just put Other. Is that important? When I try to boot, it runs some code, but stops shortly, displaying: Error: "(Whatever)" device did not show up after 30 seconds. Falling back to interactive prompt. sh: can't access tty. If anyone knows what's going on and wants to let me know, I'd really appreciate it! Image is down below...
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I'm planning to make a VMware rig for me and my brother because it's tiring to wait for our turns in using the computer. So to save money in another rig and in electricity bills I came up with an idea of a VMware rig for 2 people. Here are the planned specs: i7 3770 8 gb or 16 gb ram Z77/Z68 motherboard 240 gb ssd and 1 tb hard drive Sapphire RX 550 2gb (will upgrade after a few months) Is this enough to play Middleearth shadow of war and fortnite battle royale in simuntaneously in 720p? Most of the games we're going to play is just esports or easy to run games.
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Hello, I've installed VMware Workstation 14 Player and when I go to edit virtual machines settings I don't see "Preferred mode" drop-down for some reason. I'm using Windows 10 Pro 64-bit and I have the latest UEFI firmware installed. My CPU is i7-6700k and is capable of VT-x I have VT-x enabled in UEFI I have disabled Hyper-V I have the latest VMware Player installed It should be like this:
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Hey guys, quick question, in my company we use VMWare Horizon Client and awful thinclients to access our Network. However, the performance is appalling as the server is in another continent. All our work is web-based but we need the VMs to access shared drive. Is there a way to access the drive only from an external device, for example mapping the drive to a location on a laptop without having to work in the VM?
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You think I could sandbag a complete install of Windows home inside an install of Windows Pro for both nefarious and legitimate reasons running apps like Adobe Premiere Pro? i5-7400 7th Gen Kaby Lake 32gb ddr4 24000 ram MSI Z270 GAMING M6 AC Intel motherboard Samsung 256gb m.2 m key ssd Radeon RX Radeon OC 2gb ROSEWILL ATX MID-TOWER 500 W Rosewill PSU
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So i want to connect my VM to internet using NAT. i know it is possible with something like bridged but i want to do it in NAT for reasons. when i tried by simply selecting the NAT option shown in the screenshot it does not connect. i tried to ping my router and i get host unreachable error with my static IP. VM ware NAT service also seem to be working fine in the host machine. what else should i check in order to get this working. I have this VM setup in another PC and in that it works fine by simply selecting that NAT option.
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Apparently, the story here is that Dell wants to go public again and they have found a possible unique solution. Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/29/dell-may-sell-itself-to-vmware/
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I have a server that is not doing much but I want to keep going, it has a software RAID(1) using mdadm that I would ideally like to keep in tack and pass through ESXi to the Ubuntu vm. So currently it is just a physical machine with no VM's on it, I want to clone it then install ESXi and put the image onto the ESXi host. I can't seem to find a good way to do it without losing my RAID. Suggestions or should I just move the data off onto a different location then install everything fresh and reset it all up?
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Dear techtippers, Recently (well, about 6 months ago) I bought an APC UPS for my home server. I've bought it to grow so it runs my server for about 1.5 hours I think so I haven't gotten around to setting up graceful shutdowns of my VM's. Now I'd like to do this but it seems there is not clear cut solution for this. I have an APS SMT1500 and I'm running an Esxi host on my server to host all of my VMs. The VMs are windows, linux, Freenas, a bit of everything. I'd like to give the command when my UPS is at #% battery it start gracefully shutting down Esxi VMs. Do any of you have experience with this?
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Hello lovely Linus Tech Tips Community! So, all this time I was running Mac Sierra on VMWare on my old Intel i7 5820k, and it worked smoothly. Now that I upgraded my Desktop to an AMD 16 Core Threadripper, VMWare is giving me a hard time. In other words, I can't get Mac to run anymore on VMWare. Other Forums suggested that it may be the AMD architecture. To be precise, as I boot up the OS on VMWare, it gets to the White Apple logo with black background, but no matter how long I wait, the graph (horizontal line that fills up to the right) that normally loads never shows up, and nothing ever happens. Anybody have success running Mac Sierra on an AMD Threadripper system? Thanks in advance
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so, long story short, I moved a Windows XP VM from my old pc to a new one. The VM already had problems but I've established its probably not worth the time and effort of fixing them. My question is if I create a new VM, can I use the same windows disk and key to activate Windows XP with Microsoft either over the internet or via phone. the version is XP Professional if that matters.
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I am currently running mac 10.13 on VMware workstation 14 pro. the system works decently well, however, iMessage continues to be a problem and I am unable to log in to iMessage. Additionally, the laptop I am running it on has a GTX 1050 with 2 GB of VRAM, I am also unable to take advantage of this in the guest operating system. I have followed the instructions located here (https://github.com/toshmatik/VMWare-iMessage/blob/master/instructions.md). however, i get an authentication error when I try to log in. the attached photo is of the authentication error, and below is a coppy of my .vmx file. .encoding = "windows-1252" config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "14" pciBridge0.present = "TRUE" pciBridge4.present = "TRUE" pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort" pciBridge4.functions = "8" pciBridge5.present = "TRUE" pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort" pciBridge5.functions = "8" pciBridge6.present = "TRUE" pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort" pciBridge6.functions = "8" pciBridge7.present = "TRUE" pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort" pciBridge7.functions = "8" vmci0.present = "TRUE" smc.present = "TRUE" hpet0.present = "TRUE" ich7m.present = "TRUE" usb.vbluetooth.startConnected = "TRUE" firmware = "efi" displayName = "macOS 10.13" guestOS = "darwin17-64" nvram = "macOS 10.13.nvram" virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted" gui.exitOnCLIHLT = "TRUE" powerType.powerOff = "soft" powerType.powerOn = "soft" powerType.suspend = "soft" powerType.reset = "soft" tools.syncTime = "FALSE" sound.autoDetect = "TRUE" sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio" sound.fileName = "-1" sound.present = "TRUE" numvcpus = "8" memsize = "8192" sata0.present = "TRUE" sata0:0.fileName = "D:\Andrew\VM\macOS High Sierra Final by Techsviewer\macOS High Sierra Final by Techsviewer.vmdk" usb.present = "TRUE" ehci.present = "TRUE" usb_xhci.present = "TRUE" ethernet0.connectionType = "nat" ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000e" ethernet0.present = "TRUE" extendedConfigFile = "macOS 10.13.vmxf" numa.autosize.cookie = "80001" numa.autosize.vcpu.maxPerVirtualNode = "8" uuid.bios = "56 4d 1f 79 c0 b2 61 9f-c6 f3 6e 63 cf 2d f6 1f" uuid.location = "56 4d 1f 79 c0 b2 61 9f-c6 f3 6e 63 cf 2d f6 1f" migrate.hostlog = ".\macOS 10.13-b9a97085.hlog" sata0:0.redo = "" pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17" pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21" pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22" pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23" pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24" usb.pciSlotNumber = "32" ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "160" sound.pciSlotNumber = "33" ehci.pciSlotNumber = "34" usb_xhci.pciSlotNumber = "192" vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "35" sata0.pciSlotNumber = "36" vmci0.id = "-819071457" monitor.phys_bits_used = "43" vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728" vmotion.checkpointSVGAPrimarySize = "134217728" cleanShutdown = "FALSE" softPowerOff = "FALSE" sata0:0.present = "TRUE" smc.version = "0" gui.lastPoweredViewMode = "fullscreen" usb_xhci:6.speed = "2" usb_xhci:6.present = "TRUE" usb_xhci:6.deviceType = "hub" usb_xhci:6.port = "6" usb_xhci:6.parent = "-1" usb_xhci:7.speed = "4" usb_xhci:7.present = "TRUE" usb_xhci:7.deviceType = "hub" usb_xhci:7.port = "7" usb_xhci:7.parent = "-1" toolsInstallManager.updateCounter = "69" usb_xhci.autoConnect.device0 = "path:1/0/0/11 autoclean:1" sata0:2.autoDetect = "TRUE" sata0:2.deviceType = "cdrom-raw" sata0:2.fileName = "auto detect" sata0:2.present = "TRUE" sata0:2.connectionStatus = "4" sata0:2.startConnected = "FALSE" usb_xhci:4.speed = "2" usb_xhci:4.present = "TRUE" usb_xhci:4.deviceType = "hub" usb_xhci:4.port = "4" usb_xhci:4.parent = "-1" usb_xhci:5.speed = "4" usb_xhci:5.present = "TRUE" usb_xhci:5.deviceType = "hub" usb_xhci:5.port = "5" usb_xhci:5.parent = "-1" usb_xhci.autoConnect.device1 = "path:1/0/0/7 autoclean:1" gui.viewModeAtPowerOn = "fullscreen" floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE" floppy0.autodetect = "TRUE" cpuid.coresPerSocket = "8" mks.keyboardFilter = "allow" workingDir = "." mks.enable3d = "TRUE" svga.graphicsMemoryKB = "2097152" vvtd.enable = "TRUE" vhv.enable = "TRUE" usb.generic.allowHID = "TRUE" floppy0.present = "FALSE" board-id = "Mac-F60DEB81FF30ACF6" hw.model.reflectHost = "FALSE" hw.model = "MacPro6,1" serialNumber.reflectHost = "FALSE" serialNumber = "F5KRP12GF9VM" smbios.reflectHost = "FALSE" board-id.reflectHost = "FALSE" ethernet0.addressType = "static" ethernet0.Address = "8:66:98:1:e8:7d" ethernet0.checkMACAddress = "false" efi.nvram.var.ROM.reflectHost = "FALSE" efi.nvram.var.MLB.reflectHost = "FALSE" efi.nvram.var.ROM = "2273E631D741" efi.nvram.var.MLB = "F5K618306QXDM678C" usb_xhci:8.present = "TRUE" usb_xhci:8.deviceType = "hid" usb_xhci:8.port = "0" usb_xhci:8.parent = "4"
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Hello, I need some general input for building a VMware EXSi, on which multiple workstations would be installed. Budget I have thought of is around 800USD. The dilemma is whether I should go for AMD ryzen or rely on Intel?? How much memory should I aim for? Also, power usage is to e looked into. Thanks Shashank
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So, this question is kind of long and technically 2 seperate questions but they relate so I'll keep them together. At the minute I've got 4 systems on my wired network: My desktop which has an i7 4790k in it An IBM x3650 M1 (2x Xeon e5450 36GB Ram) which runs virtual desktops and virtual apps An IBM x3650 M2 (2x Xeon X5650 64GB Ram) which is my main lab server as well as running VMware vCenter And, my main server which runs a router as well as Windows Server 2016 that serves as my NAS and Plex server. This machine is really underpowered with only an AMD a4-6300 dual core and 8GB of ram. I really cheaped out on it but it runs fine. The three servers are all running VMware ESXi 6.5 and are connected to the vCenter Server on the x3650 M2. The main server only has a dual port gigabit card in it which has one port for WAN and the other goes to a 24-Port gigabit switch which has everything else connected to it. So everything is running on a standard 1 gigabit connection to the rest of the network. There is an exception to this. I've got single port 10 gigabit SFP+ cards in both my desktop and my x3650 M2 which have a DAC cable running between them. What I want to do is buy another single port card for my x3650 M1 and 2 dual port cards to put into my main server. I can't do this with the current server as its only got one PCIe slot (it's ITX) which has the dual gigabit card in it. I intend to upgrade my desktop to an i7 8700k in the coming months so the 4790k system will become the main server and the POS a4-6300 will be retired. So i'll be able to do dual 10G cards then. For now what i will do is get the dual 10G cards for the x3650 M2 instead. I intend to run fibre from the two dual port cards, to each of the other systems with a 10G card, so there'll be one central system with 4 SFP+ ports that connect to everything else. With this, what I hope to do is setup a VM on the server that will act as a 10G switch. To the switch VM, I will use PCIe passthrough to give the VM direct access to the NICs and I'll give it a 10G port on the vSwitch as well so the other VMs can communicate with the rest of the network. I want to know if it is possible to setup a VM to act purely as a switch between essentially 5 different network ports. If this is possible with PfSense it'd make life easier cos i can just do it with the one VM instead of having a seperate router and switch. The other part of my question is. When I build my 8700k system, I want to only have 2 NVMe SSDs in it, and no SATA drives at all. My plan is to setup a 3TB iSCSI drive on my NAS and have my desktop connect to that for all my games and user files. I also want to move the drives form the IBM servers to the NAS to run all the VMs from network storage (I might have to buy a SAN disk shelf for this and use a SAS expander but that's not a problem) I know it's technically possible but, is iSCSI and a 10G network actually stable enough to support this? And, how much CPU horsepower will it use (if any). I'm sorry if I've confused you people but I like overly complicated things Thanks for any help.