Make Your IT System More Efficient, Secure And Flexible With VMware

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Reduce the cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure, this is the saying of VMware to all the virtualization lovers. VMware is the most easiest and efficient software I had ever used for virtual machines, there are many other softwares available in the market but this software, I think is the best. This is not a free software but few applications from VMware are free and very useful to perform daily tasks. I would like to include only those softwares which are free.

VMware Player

VMware player is free to try any operating system like, You want to try Windows 7 go for free VMware player and if you like to make your mind to see what’s going on in Ubuntu you can choose VMware player and get everything done in just few very easy steps.

VMware Server

Start Achieving the Benefits of Virtualization

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A list of LINUX VMware images

VMware is a great technology that completely give you freedom inside an operating system. You can run a complete operating system inside an operating system. There is no limitation and its not very hard to configure. Try out another operating system, test a different platform, preview a new distro. Hopefully this page of VMware images, or "Virtual Appliances" is useful.

Compatibility

These images will work in:

How to use these images

  1. Get the free VMware Player (or VMware Server, ESX 3, or VMware Workstation)
  2. Download the image you want to use (see the list below)
  3. Unzip it
  4. Load the image in VMware

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How to start virtual machine automatically

I have been working on virtual machine since 2006 and trying to find more and more appropriate solution, excellent performance and hardware utilization. I found VMware an excellent tool to solve your day to day home, business and enterprise virtualization problems. I used most of the versions of VMware for almost all kinds of guest operating system like Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX and also tried to install MAC (I was not able to install MAC, perhaps I was missing something). If you install your machine using VMware workstation, you probably won’t be able to boot your machine at your original windows startup, because you have to start your virtual machine as a service not as an application like you do in VMware workstation or VMware player. VMware server provide this functionality with ease because it starts the virtual machine as a service.

You can download VMware Server 2 for free from under given URL;
VMware Server 2
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Configurations of VMware server are very easy. You just need to download the setup file from VMware website www.vmware.com and run the setup. It will automatically install the VMware server including apache tomcat. You have to take care of apache tomcat ports. If something goes wrong please stop the service of already installed apache tomcat.

How to Start Your Virtual Machine Automatically?

1. Log into your VMware server

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VMware Workstation and Server Shortcut Keys

Everybody knows VMware very well because its the biggest need of the world today. It is being used to cut short the cost, time, resources and man power. Using VMware is not a big task but using it efficiently can make a difference. VMware has a couple of very good short cut keys. So what can you do with these keyboard shortcut keys? Here is a list of some of the more important functions:

  • Ungrab your mouse from being synced with the virtual machine and allow you to control it in the host again (assuming no VMware Tools are installed)
  • Switch between virtual machines
  • Leave full screen mode
  • Send Ctrl-Alt-Del to the virtual machine only (and not to the host machine) There are some required keyboard shortcuts you need to know just to use VMware. Then there are other keyboard shortcuts that you must know.

    VMware Workstation Shortcuts

    F11 Switches to full-screen mode and back to normal mode
    Ctrl-Alt-Insert Sends a Ctrl-Alt-Delete to the VMware Guest OS
    Ctrl-Alt Is also used for – exiting full screen mode
    Ctrl-Alt-Enter Expands the current VM into full-screen. If you have a number of VMs, this sequence will also move you between virtual machines
    Ctrl-Alt-Tab Switch between VMs when the mouse is grabbed
    Ctrl-Tab Switch between VMs when the mouse is not grabbed but VMware is the active window
    Ctrl-Alt Is used to exit a Virtual machine from having control of your mouse and return your mouse control to the host machine
    Ctrl-Alt-Space Will allow you to send a keyboard sequence usually used with VMware server to the VMware guest without VMware Server recognizing it

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How to Increase Hard Disk Space in VMware?

VMware is a great tool in terms of virtual installation and configuration of operating systems, multiple examples can be given to support this tool. VMware Guarantee the highest availability of IT services with VMware desktop & server virtualization. Reduce costs, run enterprise applications with the highest possibilities. VMware lets you run another computer in your computer. Try out another operating system, test a different platform, preview a new distro. I think that’s enough to support the VMware platform the real thing is title of this post “How to Increase Hard disk space in VMware”. Unlike other virtual tools VMware don’t let the users to automatically grow their disk space (Disk management selection at virtual machine setup ask you how much space you will allocate this virtual machine) if required by the operating system or large amount of data stored on that virtual machine. There is a simple tool given in the VMware 5.0 and above versions to increase the disk space (There are lots of other options I will share them some other time). Under given is are few simple steps to increase the disk space;

1. Open a command prompt in windows

2. Open the VMware installation folder from root drive

C:Program FilesVMwareVMware Workstation

Search the vmware-vdiskmanager.exe tool

3. Enter the command given as under;

vmware-vdiskmanager.exe –x 15Gb “Path to virtual machine“

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