Craig Mayhew

VMWare Server

by Craig Mayhew




Switching from Vmware to Virtual Box


So I accidentally let one of my SSDs completely run out of space. My VM running on this disk then promptly crashed. I knew I had to repair it - but while I'm at it - I'm going to convert it to Oracle's virtual…
VMWare Server  





Ubuntu: VMWare Runs Slow on NTFS Partition


I found the ntfs-3g process was using 100% cpu. Apparently VMWARE can thrash the hard drive so the workaround is to set “mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE” in the virtual machine's .vmx file and VMware will perform…
Linux/Ubuntu   VMWare Server   NTFS   ntfs-3g  





Installing VMWare Server on Ubuntu 9.04 64Bit


Download VMWare Server from http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

Extract the tar file to somewhere convenient, in this case I'm going to extract it to the desktop.

Execute vmware-install.pl which is in the…
Ubuntu 9.04   VMWare Server