I have a virtual machine I've been using in vmWare Workstation Player 12 for a couple years. I'd like to get Workstation Pro 14, but before I do, is there a special process for migrating a vm from player 12 to pro 14?
No process was needed. Simply installing Workstation Pro 14 was all that was needed. It saw and loaded the vms I had with no issues.
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I don't have ESXi inhouse, but am building a VM for a customer and they have two environments, an ESXi5.5 deployment and a 6.7.
At the moment I'm only able to export to an OVF/OVA format, which (for my customer) has worked in their 6.7 environment as I've downloaded the (Linux) version of Workstation 15 and am wondering how on earth I get to export the VM for ESX5.5. The VMware forums and online help don't seem to have been updated for Workstation 15 as they refer to a wizard which isn't available in the version of Workstation 15 that I have (only available in the paid version?)
I've also downloaded the VMware vCenter Converter (Windows version, standalone) as I was under the impression that that would be able to do convert anything to anything and therefore do what I needed, but it will only allow me to export to a 5.5 ESXi server within my environment, which I don't have.
What I'm looking at doing is building a VM that can be used in any ESXi environment, so I guess I should ask: what really is the best tool for me to be able to do that, considering that I don't have ESXi deployed here and am using VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox.
I had hoped that OVA/OVF would be a standard, and perhaps that's correct for newer VMWare Type I hypervisors?
My assumption is that you're running into an issue where the VM of a specific hardware version cannot be imported to the 5.5 environment. Each version of vSphere has a compatible hardware version, they're listed here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-64D4B1C9-CD5D-4C68-8B50-585F6A87EBA0.html
To downgrade an existing VM's hardware, you can manually create a new (custom) VM in Workstation and when asked for the Virtual Disk, point to the existing disks you have already created. Additional information: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1028019
Can I create CentOS7 with VM version 8 on vmware. (using vSphere Client)?
vmware compatiblity
Best Regards,
Fred
VMware (hardware) version 8 lines up with ESXi 5.0, so you won't be able to select CentOS7 on the drop-down box. This just means that it's not certified to work on that version of ESXi. You can still install CentOS7 though, you'll just need to select one of the "Linux Other" guest types instead.
Good morning,
I cannot copy&paste between host and virtual machine. It seems that both host and VM won't share Clipboard.
I tried many programs and different virtual machines and it doesn't work at all in both directions.
I can't copy anything.
Host is Windows 10. I tried:
VMWare Workstation 12, VMWare Workstation 15 - Fedora (Gnome, lxqt, lxed)
VirtualBox - Fedora (lxqt), Solaris, Windows 8.1
All options inside VirtualBox either VMWare were set properly.
On any of listed machines copy&paste doesn't work.
I create a virtual machine, Linux Mint 18. But I can't activate the Unity mode.
My system is windows 7 64bit. My vmware version is 12 pro.
The following features have reached end of life in Workstation 12 Pro and have been removed:
Unity mode on Linux guest and host operating systems
Integrated Virtual Debugger Visual Studio
Connection to the VMware vCloud Air subscription service (The VMware vCloud Air OnDemand service is still fully supported)
Here is the page.
I have a window7 (32 bit) machine. I installed Virtual Box and created a VM (Windows 2012 {64bit} with enabled VT-x/AMD-V,Nested Paging).
I want to enable Hyper-V on this VM any Idea?
I tried following links but not working for me:
Link1
Link2
but in my case I am using Virtual Box.
How can I enable Hyper-V feature?
Do you want to expose VT-x/AMD-V to the guest system in the VM so it can run Hyper-V inside VM? As far as I know, VirtualBox does not support it, but VMWare does, even in their free VMWare Player.
I have been running Windows Phone 8 emulator in VMWare Player without problems. Yes, it required manual editing of .vmx file, but is works reliably and without any problems at all.
If you decide to give VMWare Player a try, make sure you have VT-x/AMD-V available and enabled on your physical host computer. Then add the following setting to your VMWare machine:
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"
mce.enable = "TRUE"
and you should be able to start Hyper-V inside your VM.
For more information, see these links:
Unable to use Hyper-V platform inside a Windows 8 virtual machine
How to Enable Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Role in VMware
and some useful topics on VirtualBox forums which explain why the feature is not available on VirtualBox:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20589
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=52625&p=304452
I really miss this feature on VirtualBox because I find VMWare Player to be bloated and it slows the host system down much more than VirtualBox does.