Step 1, 2 & 6 only applies to hosted products (Workstation, Server, Player, Fusion), but not ESX Server. The other steps are regarding hw or...

VMware Workstation, VMware Player and VMware Server seem like redundant products. However there are quite a few distinctions, that are quite apparent...

A virtual machine in VMware Server, Workstation and Player can have virtual network cards that are "bridged", "NAT" or...

A VMDK file can be grown while no virtual machine is using it. Growng the VMDK only makes the virtual harddrive bigger - filesystem within the VMDK...

You might see variants of this error: "Host CPU is incompatible with the virtual machine's requirements at CPUID level 0x80000000001 register...

Converting a physical computer into a virtual one is also known as p2v (physical to virtual). Converting a virtual one to a physical one is also...

A VMDK file can be converted into another formate while no VM is using it. The operation will copy the old disk into a new one. ...

Few thoughts on snapshotting (and reverting to those snapshots) Active Directory Domain Controllers. "Hey, I'm going to patch this Domain...

Quick answer: don't. VMware Server or ESX do not have 3D support. Not at all. VMware Workstation 6.5, Player 2.5 and Fusion 2 have limited...

When trying to bring up the interface I get the following error messages: Reconfiguring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0:...

1. VMware Tools on Linux systems is not installed automatically 2. Many new linux distros now includes the open source version of VMware Tools...

Linux guests' performance may be improved if they have been created without much thought. Always use a single VCPU when the CPU capacity...

First off, for those who are not familiar with the basic concepts of time keeping and why time is not accurate in virtual environments, this...

You can access data that is contained within a VMDK without starting a virtual machine. Using vmware-mount.pl: Keep in mind that using the...

Template virtual machines are used to create new virtual machines quickly. These should be installed carefully, as modifications in the templates...

From : On Linux, if you run vmware-uninstall.pl when virtual machines are running, the uninstall will fail and it will not be possible to shut...

In this scenario the networking performance between host and guests is very slow, while the networking performance to other lan devices is good (both...

VMware Server 1.x  has incomplete USB 1.x support and you may not be able to use some USB devices with it. You may try the same...

This is a very common question: "I have an existing Windows installation on one partition, and I would like to boot it as a virtual machine from...

If you are using an unsupported Linux distribution or an unsupported (usually too new) kernel, you might need the any-any-update. Text below this...