IT Knowledgebase Articles

When using VMware Server & Workstation, you will, at some point, go to the directory where your VMware virtual machines are stored. Inside this directory, you will see a number of strange files and you will probably wonder what they are and what they do. Now, you can stop wondering and find out. Directory Listing…

When most people think of Virtualization, they might think of Microsoft but I’d be willing to bet that they think of VMware. In fact, there may be many out there who don’t know that there are other virtualization products besides VMware’s solutions. While VMware has excellent Virtualization products, I think it is important to know…

In our Remotely Manage VMware Servers article, we talked about the different ways to remotely manage your VMware Server. A very cool (I believe) “backdoor” management method for VMware is VNC. And even better, its built-in to VMware – you don’t have to install it. All you have to do is turn it on. Let’s…

Just like with any network operating system, to securely setup VMware ESX, you need to understand how to configure users, groups, and roles. In this article, you will find out how. Introduction to VMware ESX users, groups, and roles Keep in mind that VMware ESX is a modified version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Thus,…

Did you know that you can download FREE, already configured servers from the Internet, then run them on your Windows XP/2003 or Linux VMware computer? These servers can do some amazing things, they are free, and they can be up and running in minutes. Let’s find out how… Read more: Updated for 2013 – Top…

In our article on How to Install VMWare Server, we encountered an error on installation about the VMWare Web Service. In this article, we will learn how to resolve that error and get the VMWare web server started. In the installation, we received the error that the install could not start the VMware Management Interface…

In using VMware Server, sooner or later you will have a need to script the startup and shutdown of VMware Servers. You may want to do this for backup purposes or just to be able to run a script that can quickly stop or start virtual servers without bring up the VMware administrative application. Let‘s…

Have you seen 64-bit versions of popular operating systems any applications? Perhaps you would like to try out these 64-bit editions. VMware is the ideal test bed to do this but what is required? Let’s find out how to make it work… Running a 64-bit VM Guest on your 32-bit CPU? There are a ton…

As soon as you begin using VMware Servers in a production environment you will have a need for remotely managing those VMware servers. Sure you could use remote desktop or something but there are much better tools. As the number of servers grows, the need will grow for a remote management application to administer those…

VMware Workstation and Server uses virtual disk files as the disk drives for virtual machines. These files (ending in .vmdk) are just files on the host’s hard drive. There are a number of scenarios where you would want to mount these virtual disks on the host operating system. Perhaps you want to transfer a file…