Re: Partition Alignment
as per the vSphere 5 Storage Best Practices mentioned in the vmworld 2012 doc INF-STO2980the storage geeks... says Alignment is Optimal I/O•VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, NetApp, EMC all agree, align...
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Hi André, my goodness, with that I opened a can of worms. I've never been aware that modern Operating Systems like Debian doesn't take care of a correct partition alignment, at least not always. The...
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Gopinath Keerthyrajan schrieb: [...]just type... fdisk -lu as root... Okay I'm relieved to read that Debian seems to align at least the first partition correct on sector 2048: root@debian606x86-1:~#...
View ArticleIssue Installing Mounting .iso Images in Windows 8
Hi-I have VM Fusion 5.0 on an iMac, I've installed a Windows 8 64 bit machine that is working fine. I try to install an Microsoft Office 2013 64 bit drive from an .ISO image, though, and it won't mount...
View ArticleIdentity of Optical Drive incorrect in VMWare Fusion 5.0
I just upgraded to the latest version of VMWare Fusion 5.0.2I have a Mac Mini 2.3 GHz quad core i7 machine with 16 Gigs of RAMI am running Mac OSX 10.8.2I also just upgraded my Windows from Windows XP...
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Hi, after investigating the output of fdisk or sfdisk I encountered an odd number of heads of the virtual disk: Disk /dev/sda: 1305 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track 255 heads is quite a lot I...
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Re: Issue Installing Mounting .iso Images in Windows 8
If you have a valid ISO Image you should be able to just assign the image to the CD/DVD in the Virtual Machine's Settings and then Windows should see it just as if it was an optical disc that was...
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Your virtual optical drive is emulated, and should be listed as a "VMware Virtual CD-ROM drive." Your physical optical drive is not directly accessible by the guest operating system.
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That "NEC" drive is probably the virtual drive. Google say the BE14NU40 is a USB drive - you can try forwarding it to the VM through the "Connect USB device" option.
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that's perfect, thank you very much! Vern
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MarAndreas is correct. My previous answer does not apply to USB drives.
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Re: Identity of Optical Drive incorrect in VMWare Fusion 5.0
The image below shows the Host/Guest CD/DVD Info and the Guest sees it the same as the Host. So are you saying that in spite of the fact the Guest sees the physical CD/DVD that it is still emulated?...
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CLearly, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Please ignore me.
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Jim Mattson wrote: CLearly, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Please ignore me. Since you're a VMware employee I'm going to ask this because I'm not sure whether or not you were joking with that...
View Articlecan't get the volume to work on windows with vmware fusion
i'm using vmware 3.1.2 fusion, i can't get the volume to work on the windows side. i've checked the little icon in the lower right corner and i've looked at the control panel where it says volume on...
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Re: Identity of Optical Drive incorrect in VMWare Fusion 5.0
If you don't use it as previously suggested as a USB device then you may have to manually edit the target Virtual Machine's .vmx configuration file. Look for an option in the .vmx configuration file...
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To help figure out what is what, the best way to provide comprehensive diagnostic information is to use the "Collect Support Information" command from the VMware Fusion (menu bar)> Help > Collect...
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Re: back track 5
BackTrack 5 R3 has released a single VMware Image (Gnome, 32 bit). So virtual machine will not be able to run 64-bit code. Also fallow the lonk .....
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WoodyZ wrote:Since you're a VMware employee I'm going to ask this because I'm not sure whether or not you were joking with that last comment... So are you saying that when you originally said "Your...
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Well, did you do as the informational message suggested? Namely... "For more details, see http://vmware.com/info?id=152"
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