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.
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I've been developing a c++ project on linux remote server these days, however, I'd like to do all the coding things on my windows machine using VS2017. So I need some kind of synchronization tool to synchronize the codes such that whenever I save the file in VS2017 the changes can be synchronized to the linux server immediately. Is there any tool or VS2017 extension can help me?
I don't want to use git as it may cause a lot meaningless commits.
Several ideas:
Cygwin. Compile your code on the emulated Linux/Unix environment for local testing and use Visual Studio as your IDE. Do final testing on the Linux box with less frequency. Can be combined with any of the ideas below.
Git, but with a different branch for commits. Do a squashed merged for all meaningful commits or pull requests to master.
Samba. Mount your Linux file system on your Windows PC or vice versa. Copy files between Windows and Linux as if was a network drive.
Local VM. Run Linux in a local Virtual Machine with VMWare or VirtualBox. Drag and drop files between Windows host and Linux guest OS using the host/guest extensions stuff. Then you can dink around with deploying to the real Linux machine later.
Personally, for my open source projects where I'm too lazy to boot into Linux locally to test code before deploying to AWS, I basically do some combination with the above.
And #5 of course is: Dropbox. :( I use OneDrive and a Python script on Linux to pull down files.
I want to have shared folders between my computer on Arch Linux and a virtual machine with ReactOS, but I don't know where the folder appears in ReactOS.
Where does it appear?
Do it as you would do on Windows:
Install VirtualBox Guest Additions in your ReactOS VM
Define your shares in your virtual machine configuration (through VirtualBox interface)
Reboot your ReactOS VM
If you checked automount in the VirtualBox GUI, they'll be already available, mapped as a drive letter in the explorer. If you didn't, then either go to 'Network Places' to find them, or directly type the UNC path in the explorer address bar, or use the 'net use' command line tool
I am new to Docker, using windows 10 home edition, and want to create a docker image for my C++ project developed with visual studio. As far as I understand, the image I need to create is going to be a windows image, and therefore I need to install “Docker for windows” and enable the Hyper-V feature. This is not possible with my windows home edition, as Hyper-V is available for windows 10 pro only. The other alternative, using “Docker toolbox” and a virtualbox linux VM, does not support creating or pulling windows containers. Did I miss something? Is there a workaround?
You could use the Windows Linux Subsystem: https://medium.com/#sebagomez/installing-the-docker-client-on-ubuntus-windows-subsystem-for-linux-612b392a44c4
EDIT: On second read of your question you probably want to have a windows-container for visual studio. This solutions makes Linux-containers possible, but doesn't help with windows images...
As you know, you are unable to install Docker for Windows Home edition, as it requires Hyper V virtualization.
So these are your options:
You will need to install Docker Toolbox which uses VirtualBox instead.
Docs and setup info available here:
https://docs.docker.com/toolbox/toolbox_install_windows/
Release downloads available here:
https://github.com/docker/toolbox/releases
Toolbox will install everything you need including VirtualBox.
You may also need to enable virtualization in your computer's BIOS settings. This will be different for each manufacturer, please refer to their documentation on which keys to use to access these settings on reboot.
After Toolbox is finished installing, open the Docker Quickstart Terminal. This will complete the setup and provision your VirtualBox machine.
Check your install:
Launch the Docker QuickStart terminal and type the command:
docker run hello-world
This should pull down the test container and print hello-world to your screen.
I am facing an issue when I try to run the cuckoo sandbox after all the installation.
Host Machine: macOS machine with VMware Fusion running. Guest : Windows VM
I installed the Cuckoo Sandbox in a virtual environment within macOS. I did edit the vmware.conf, memorey.conf, cuckoo.conf & processing.conf files.
When i do run the "cuckoo" command to start; it says it doesnt have permisssion to access the .vmx file I mentioned in the "vmware.conf" file.
I have given 777 permission to the entire folder. Not sure why the system gives me such an error.
If you have created a user in the system for the cuckoo sandbox, kindly assign appropriate privileges to the cuckoo sandbox user.
I downloaded a VM instance from the web and launched / modified it using it using VMware Workstation 12 Player
I would now like to transfer this image onto an ESXi host running VMware ESXi Version 5.5.0.
I have tried copying the working directory "C:\Users\xxxx\Downloads\Kali-Linux-2.0.0-vm-amd64\Kali-Linux-2.0.0-vm-amd64" to the ESXi datastore and have tried to import it using a couple of methods:
I tried browsing to the Datastore, right clicking the "Kali-Linux-2.0.0-vm-amd64.vmx" file and selecting "add to inventory"
I tried creating a virtual machine, selecting the option to use and existing disk and pointed it at the VMDK file.
Both methods allow me to create the machine, but fail with the following error when I try to power it up.
Failed to start the virtual machine.
Module DiskEarly power on failed.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/4dc219c6-2eb825c6-0119-d8d3855f4a40/Kali-Linux-2.0.0-vm-amd64/Kali-Linux-2.0.0-vm-amd64.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
The system cannot find the file specified
VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes/4dc219c6-2eb825c6-0119-d8d3855f4a40/Kali-Linux-2.0.0-vm-amd64/Kali-Linux-2.0.0-vm-amd64.vmdk". Verify the path is valid and try again.
I have checked and I can see the VMDK file on the Datastore.
I don't know if it of any significance, but the files on my desktop are broken down into multiple VMDK files and when I copied it to the Datastore, it turned them into one large VMDK file.
It might be best to use vmware converter to import the vm into your esxi host and/or even try an export to OVF from workstation and then an import (deploy OVF) to ESXi host.
From the error generated it looks like the original VM may still have some snapshots. Try and remove any snapshots, then take note of the disk controller and disk type of the workstation vm and check that it is supported for ESXi vm (for example IDE etc.), ESXi likes SCSI.