I'm working with a Redhat VM that indicates VMware Tools OSPs is installed and running, since its VMware Tools status in vSphere is "Running (3rd-party/Independent)". I have also verified that the VMware Tools daemon, vmtoolsd, is running by running the following command ...
# pgrep -fl vmtoolsd
>> 6048 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd
However, whenever I try to run the vmware-toolbox-cmd command, it says command not found. What is this VM missing that it has VMware Tools OSPs installed but does not have the command for it?
There is no GUI interface called vmware-toolbox with vmware player 5 (and other newer products), as per Installing and Configuring VMware Tools:
The graphical user interface for VMware Tools, which is sometimes called the VMware Tools control panel and which is available from the notification area in the guest operating system, has been deprecated
You can however find settings for the toolbox, say "Update automatically", in the graphical user interface of the VMWare Player on the host (as in Player -> Manage -> Virtual Machine Settings -> Options -> VMware Tools).
As for vmware-toolbox-cmd doesn't do anything"? You bet it does, read the doc above.
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I am trying to create custom vagrant box file. I plan to use VirtualBox and I am reading this documentation: https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/virtualbox/boxes.html
When the doc says,"VirtualBox Guest Additions must be installed so that things such as shared folders can function. Installing guest additions also usually improves performance since the guest OS can make some optimizations by knowing it is running within VirtualBox.
Before installing the guest additions, you'll need the linux kernel headers and the basic developer tools ...", but it doesn't say if this is to be done on the guest OS or host OS where I installed vargant and VirtualBox.
So I am guessing that I need to install a VM on VirtualBox and install the "VirtualBox Guest Addtitions" on this VM. Am I right?
The guest additions need to be installed on the guest OS. The host operating system only needs Virtualbox and vagrant installed. There are various descriptions out there for different operating systems and versions. It depends a bit on what your guest os looks like, so without a hint on what guest OS you are installing, I cannot provide more information.
Just FYI: You can use the boxes from vagrantcloud.com as a base, boot it and install softwareon top, exporting it to create "your" base box. In most cases, this works pretty well and you don't need to set up a whole new box. Take a look at the featured boxes, e.g. from chef. Chef boxes are the most basic setup one can create with really just the OS and the things vagrant need (ssh key, guest additions and so on).
I got a repo where I take a chef box and add some of my standard software stack (using chef) and export it as a new box. Have a look at Sgoettschkes/va for more information.
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.
I installed Mountain Lion and then I tried to run and then got this error:
The virtual machine cannot enter Unity mode because:
- The guest operating system does not have VMware Tools installed.
- The guest operating system's resolution cannot be changed.
Then I try to update tools:
Could not find component on update server.
Contact VMware Support or your system administrator.
Arkadi's answer is right, here are the detailed actions:
(See also this post for more snapshots)
Download darwin.iso.
Right click your virtual machine in vmware
Click the settings menu item
Select CD/DVD item in the left UI
On the right UI, select and mount the darwin.iso.
Now, the vmware tools installation is started in your Mac OSX virtual machine:
You can download VMWare Tools and graphic driver from here:
VMware_Tools
Graphic Driver - VMsvga2
The links supplied in Boris M answer points to software that is outdated and opens ad-ware sites in browser after install.
Here are the official darwin.iso (9MB) and darwin.iso.sig files from VMware Fusion 6.0.4 for Mac. Put it into vmware/isoimages/ folder next to other ISO files.
Unfortunately, VM > Install VMware Tools menu entry still won't work, so attach the ISO manually and install the package.
I'm planning to install Visual Studio (for editing .aspx files) in a guest VM.
If I'm working in the Host computer, is there a way to open a file on that Host with a program in the Guest VM?
You could use the Shared folder feature for access to files on a host machine from Guest VM. To use this feature you should install the VMware tools on Guest VM. After setting up the Shared folder, you can access files on the host in a path like “\.host\Shared Folders\Test files”.
To send a command to open file on Guest OS from the host you could use vmrun utility, which helps you manage virtual machines from command line (for more detail see this official manual and examples in “Running Guest Applications”). On the other hand, you could just open a VM console and run script manually :)
In addition, I don't recommend to install Visual Studio on Guest VM. The Visual Studio will always execute faster on the host. Moreover, you will be more convenient to work with snapshots and few VMs. In this case, you could use remote debugging tools for debug and automatically deploy your application on Guest VM after build.
Apologies if this has been asked already, searching the web reveals lots and lots of threads about installing the Win8 beta on VMware but not the other way around.
I am trying to install VMware Server 2.0.2 on a Windows 8 Preview machine. It appears to install correctly but I cannot then reach the web based homepage to configure virtual machines, i.e.
https://localhost:8333/ui/
gives the error that the "connection attempt to localhost was rejected. The website may be down or your network may not be properly configured".
Has anyone had any success running VMware Server 2.0.2 on Windows 8 Preview? If so were there any gotchas you needed to avoid?
I don't think it will ever be resolved. VMware Server was declared End Of Availability in January 2010; There will be no support for Windows 8.
Your best try would be trying launching the services in compatibility mode, but why would you do that? Why not use the much more advanced VMware Player or VMware Workstation products?
I've found a way to run it on Windows 8.
On my PC with a x64 version of Windows 8, when I installed VMware Server 2, I found there was a service called VMware Host Agent that cannot be run. When I opened the system Service Manager and clicked to launch this service, it gave me the error.
My solution is to create a service with the same command string and set it to start automatically by using the "sc create" command in cmd.exe. And it worked for me!