I found some adhoc solution – a bit hack perhaps but it works at least. Digging into similar issues found on google I came to a tool to extract disk descriptor out of the VMDK file. The content of the descriptor for my VMDK was something like this: # Disk DescriptorFile version=1 encoding=”windows-1252″ CID=5379bf0f parentCID=ffffffff … Read more
VM Player runs a virtual instance, but can’t create the vm. [Edit: Now it can.] Workstation allows for the creation and administration of virtual machines. If you have a second machine, you can create the vm on one and run it with the player the other machine. I bought Workstation and I use it setup … Read more
Paravirtualization is virtualization in which the guest operating system (the one being virtualized) is aware that it is a guest and accordingly has drivers that, instead of issuing hardware commands, simply issue commands directly to the host operating system. This also includes memory and thread management as well, which usually require unavailable privileged instructions in … Read more
First, install QEMU. On Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, run: $ apt-get install qemu Then run the following command: $ qemu-img convert -O vmdk imagefile.dd vmdkname.vmdk I’m assuming a flat disk image is a dd-style image. The convert operation also handles numerous other formats. For more information about the qemu-img command, see the output of $ … Read more
Have you heard about blue pill, red pill?. It’s a technique used to see if you are running inside a virtual machine or not. The origin of the term stems from the matrix movie where Neo is offered a blue or a red pill (to stay inside the matrix = blue, or to enter the … Read more
The easiest way to check your workstation is to download the VMware Processor Check for 64-Bit Compatibility tool from the VMware website. You can’t run a 64-bit VM session on a 32-bit processor. However, you can run a 64-bit VM session if you have a 64-bit processor but have installed a 32-bit host OS and … Read more
I had the same issue, but was quite easy to solve. Follow the next steps: 1) In the Virtual Machine (VMWare) settings: Set the USB compatibility to be 2.0 instead of 3.0 Check the setting “Show all USB input devices” 2) Add the device into the list of allowed development devices in your Apple Developer’s … Read more
There is a much better way to handle this issue. Rather than removing Hyper-V altogether, you just make alternate boot to temporarily disable it when you need to use VMWare. As shown here… http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SwitchEasilyBetweenVirtualBoxAndHyperVWithABCDEditBootEntryInWindows81.aspx C:\>bcdedit /copy {current} /d “No Hyper-V” The entry was successfully copied to {ff-23-113-824e-5c5144ea}. C:\>bcdedit /set {ff-23-113-824e-5c5144ea} hypervisorlaunchtype off The operation completed … Read more
On the XP machine, find your IP address by going to the command prompt and typing ipconfig. Try replacing the last number with 1 or 2. For example, if your IP address is 192.168.78.128, use http://192.168.78.1:3000.