I should start by saying that I am a novice in OCI and VirtualBox.
My goal is to create a VirtualBox VM and give it a certain MAC address and run it in OCI with the same MAC address.
Currently when I start the imported VM in OCI it has a different MAC. Is there a way to keep the MAC address ? Additionally, is there a way to edit the MAC address to OCI instance?
Thank you in advance!
No. MAC addresses are assigned by Oracle Cloud's networking service and cannot be changed.
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Is there any way to run Bluestacks on virtualized instances in the cloud.
I tried both AWS, GCE, both failed.
AWS fails with the message "Failed due to enabled Hyper-V", even It's disabled in the settings.
And GCE just cannot start bluestacks, it simply loads and finally says "couldn't start Bluestacks"
What's interesting that these guys managed to do it.. https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/Cognosys-Inc-1-Click-Ready-Secured-BlueStacks-App-/B01N0E0YYZ
But how? Cannot use their image as it's old.
Bluestack doesn't work for me too. I saw Cognosys but they are running on Windows Server 2012 which is really old.
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I am trying to get Micro Cloud Foundry working under Windows 7 64 bit with VMware workstation 7.1.4. For some reason, the VM starts with no eth0 only lo, therefore I never get a network connection. Ideas?
Do you have any other VMs running at the same time that may be using the same virtual adapter? Have you also checked the network settings on the VM to make sure a physical interface is selected on which to bridge the virtual adapter with.
As an alternate to deleting VM and starting from scratch again, and loose all your work, you could also rename the folder that contains the VM image. When relaunching VM from renamed folder, VMWare will ask whether you "copied" or "moved" this VM. Select the "I moved" option and then VMware will recreate the ethernet adapter configuration for you and you are good to go from then on
I'm going to develop mostly Django sites on a MacBook Pro and would like to use Ubuntu VMs for testing purposes.
Which product is better suited for this purpose?
Can I connect to the VM via TCP/IP (so I can have apache running on the VM and access it from Safari on my MBP)?
Thanks!
It should be possible using VMWARE FUSION. It has a good network management, and you should be able to access easily your vm via network.
I've successfully used both VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion for this. On both systems, you can set the guest up so that it has its own IP address, and connect to it via HTTP, SSH and even native file sharing, so you can mount the guest's drive as a network drive from the Mac, and vice versa. This makes it possible to do the editing on the Mac in eg Textmate, but run the server on the VM.
I can only tell you about my experiences with a Core2Quad Q6600 on VMWare Fusion 3.0. I have three boot partitions on this system (ahem yes it is a hackintosh running with the E-Fix USB).
So i can do performance measurements. I use it for sometimes very large compiler sessions. And the amazing fact was that Linux as a Guest runs without any measureable time difference on virtualised and native Linux. Windows7 on the other hand only runs with 40% on my machine and GUI is allmost non useable while the GNOME Desktop from latest Ubuntu still works fine.
Check this out. Virtual Box is free so there is nothing to loose.
we are setting up new QE testing server. I guess host OS will be win2008
Which vmware server to choose - 1.x or 2.x ?
A year ago I tried vmware 1 server with Win2008 and it did not work at all.
However, Vmware server 2 did not seem to have the handy vmware console
VMware Server Console\vmware.exe
(is the new vmware server2 still just web based?)
we have a lot of vmware 1 images, are these ok for v2?
Or is it just better to go with HyperV?
Hyper-V Server or ESXi would probably be the best performing and most trouble free options - ie virtualisation not really dependant on the host operating system (but still free).
You can use tools like Vmdk2Vhd to convert image files. Be aware that you should boot the image in its old format first and uninstall vmware tools and some drivers like specific disk controller drivers (as per the instructions of the tool) before you convert it.
Going the enterprise route the System Center Virtual Machine Manager can do this mostly automatically, but then it's not a free solution anymore :) This platform can of course also do physical to virtual migrations for you...
...but alas, you can prepare a physical machine the same way as before converting a vmware image and then use normal imaging tools to clone it into a virtual machine. Or you can use Vmware's free converter tool and then convert the resulting vmdk image to vhd :)
Vmware Server v2 can use v1 images. Windows Server 2008 is supported only in v2. v2 also includes the Virtual Infrastructure Client which you can use instead of the web access ( the client replaces the old console from v1). This is the same client that is used with ESX.
vmware 2.0 crashed regularly on one server I have - however, hasn't crashed since the recent 2.0.1 update (but its only been a week).
I have w2K8 running under vmware 1.0.9 - by selecting Vista (experimental) as the OS setting. However, it's not under any load yet.
I'd recommend ESXi over VMware Server (you can migrate the images) purely for performance reasons. Server 2008 and Vista both run abysmally under VMware Server from my experience. With ESXi and a decent hardware RAID setup, things can be a bit more bearable.
Ok, so let's say that I want to try virtualization in my environment. I want to use ESXi to do that because it is free. I can use the install disk and setup a box to run the ESXi Host.
I'm not sure if the VMware Infrastructure Client is free for one thing. You can use it to attach an ovf file (a packaged VM). The problem I had is creating an ovf file that worked. The free converter didn't do the trick.
Does anyone have any tips or guidelines?
The VMware Infrastructure Client is free with certain restrictions. You just download it over the web from an installed ESXi host.
You need licenses to enable vMotion, but for a single host there's no problem.
We're using ESXi (free) with the VI Client (free) and getting tons better performance than VMware Server (also free). I wasn't so sure about the VI Client thing until I talked to someone else that had a working setup, it's a bit confusing and definitely not "obvious" if you're new to the various enterprise level VMware solutions.
Edit: This was true for ESX3, things change and it is no longer true. See comments for ESX4/5 solutions.
Yes, VI Client is free with ESXi, you just don't get advanced features.
For creating an OVF you should have a look at VMware Studio, a new Beta was released recently.
Sadly, no, the VMware client is not free:
"Further, managing a VMware ESXi host with VMware vCenter Server requires a VMware vCenter Server Agent for each host, only available with the purchase of a VMware Infrastructure license (Foundation, Standard, or Enterprise)."
From this VMware page:
http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/uses.html