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sharing folders in vmware

dmugisha — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:49:24 GMT

Hello,

Iam using vmware 4.0 and 3 virtual machines on it running Windows server2003. I have however failed to share folders between the three machines.

I thought right clicking the folder and selecting sharing and security would do but this option isnt available.

Kindly help.

Thanks.

What is the special about the VmWare

BestOfRest — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:57:20 GMT

lets find the what is the best feature in VmWare

Reseting Password in Windows on VMware

bosscat77 — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:42:12 GMT

Is there anyone who could tell me how to reset the password for the log in page for windows on the virtual drive, if there is I would greatly appreciate a response.

Has VMWorld 2009 for the U.S. been announced yet?

NYSDHCR — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:25:41 GMT

Has VMWorld 2009 for the U.S. been announced yet? If so, what is the location? Florida? New York?

vmware with vijava

jayavmware — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:50:23 GMT

hi dis z sujit i want to do a project on vmware with vijava but i donot know much about vmware so please help me by sending details about the concept of vmware with vijava

It says need to allocate more memory

timrp1 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:39:14 GMT

Hi,
It says I need to allocate more memory and when I click ok it keeps on coming up with the same thing and I cannot do anything

Can VCP's get a discounted VMWorld Subscription?

gr1pp3rjay — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:01:34 GMT

Hi all.

I know that us VCP's get a discount on the real VMWorld (and Europe) but do we also get a discount for the virtual VMWorld subscription?

I hope so, because my credit card can't handle $699 straight after Christmas!

Cheers.

Where can I found the documents and articles on the VMworld 2008?

zhangfred_vm — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:33:54 GMT

Where can I found the documents and articles on the VMworld 2008?

Random "follow-up" calls

khughes — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:26:36 GMT

So are others besides just me getting calls still from booth vendors at VMworld? I just got another one this morning and I had no idea what the company was or what products they were "showcasing". I would've thought they would've called sooner because at least for me I don't remember 1/2 of the vendors I got swag from or what they actually were providing to the virtual world.

Kyle

Installation procedure

jujuk — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:09:49 GMT

Dear all,

i am new in the vmware world and know the installation procedure and all the security level it have.so please support me to incourage the mattars which you all have.

Chip PC free thin client?

jasonboche — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:56:22 GMT

Has anyone received the email from Chip PC to receive their free thin client yet? I have not.

Jason Boche
VMware Communities User Moderator
Minneapolis Area VMware User Group Leader

vmworld

ChrisLopes — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:52:24 GMT

Hi,

Can someone kind enough to PM me on how to get the above vmworld lab guide.

It vmworld 2008 . I have download vmworld2008 Europ.

I love vmware. Can guru assist on this guide for me.

Please PM me.

Thanks

Expert Panel

RParker — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:08:14 GMT

Nine Fine Guys - $40.00

Cheesecake - $12.00

Crap Game losses - $300.00

V-Bar - $112.00

Hotel Stay - $571.00

Meeting the experts and spending time with people from the forums in person, *PRICELESS*!

Thanks to Kyle, Jason, Eric, Ed, Tom, Steve, and Terri (sorry if I forgot some other names). We really had a good time. I was thrilled to meet everyone. It was a blast.

I personally didn't think much of the cheesy wifi setups (and I accidentally bumped everyone off one of them -- oops) and I thought VM Ware could have spent just a little more time on the "event" we did at the LVMS, that was somewhat of a dissapointment, at least for me. It was as if it was a last minute "get together" idea. Anyway, the Vendor Room was awesome, reminded me of Comdex from years ago. I met some really cool people (you know who you are!). It was fun meeting all of you, we have to this again.

I really enjoyed the VM World overall (sans the connectivity issues on my phone). I look forward to the new stuff coming out. This will be a fantastic 2009. Can't wait.

Session Presentations

dcap — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:54:15 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone know when all of the session presentations will be posted? I've seen some have been posted already but not all.

Session presentations on line?

ejward — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:59:10 GMT

I thought I had heard somewhere that they were going to post the session presentations BEFORE Vmworld. Does anyone know where they would be? I've got a 5 hour flight and need something to help me sleep.

So How did you find it?

tom howarth — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:21:44 GMT

First of all, to all those VMTNer's I managed to meet up with, you were all more that I expected. I thank for the time you spent with me.

For those that I did not get time to catch up with, there's always VMworld Europe 2009

Tom Howarth
VMware Communities User Moderator

Thank you for attending VMworld

JDLangdon — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:17:03 GMT

I just received a nice e-mail thanking me for attending VMworld but I think I must of missed something. While VMworld was "engaging and informative", the VMworld I attended did not have "over 160 instructor-led labs and 30+ hours of self-paced labs".

Jason

Favorite Sessions/Labs

khughes — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:43:33 GMT

With the release of the sessions and labs coming in the coming weeks, was interested in what sessions and/or labs were your favorites, and why? I'll be downloading quite a few including the ones I went to but would be interested in finding other good sessions that I might have missed.

Oh and don't say the VMTN community session, bunch of brown nosers....

I'll say that my favorite sessions were both based off of security, partly because that's where I wanted to improve my skills and help my company: Practical Securing Solutions for a Virtual Infrastructure (po2773) and Securing VMware Infrastructure: Lockdown and operations (po2412). I found both of them well presented and full of good security tips and best practices.

In the lockdown and operations they took a visio snapshot of a large company that used ESX and broke down all their security messures and configuration, said what was good, what was bad, and what they might have done differently. I found that way of deminstrating it very easy to follow and very well explained.

So what are your favorites?

Kyle

chat

sanju_chibb — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:46:04 GMT

hi all,

is there any chat facility in vmware site?

Vmworld 2008 first impressions?

ejward — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:02:57 GMT

So, what does everyone think?

The setup seems like it'll work.

I'm SOOOOO glad I didn't send in my picture for that cartooning thing. If you're not here yet, you'll see why.

Labs ..... horrible. Just like last year. I really hate to say that but, with it limited to 2 labs, I can't even re-take the ones that didn't work. The first lab I took was scripting. It was pretty good however the materials had issues. They don't have physical books this year. The lab manual is a PDF so there's no place to take notes. Also, you have to keep scrolling back an forth for information. Which wouldn't be a problem if the machines weren't running so slow. It literally took about 30 seconds to go back a page. The biggest issue I had with the scripting lab was that the book didn't tell you what your output was supposed to look like. There was no way to tell if you did it correctly or not. The techs that were there to assist were not on the same page. When I asked one tech if the commands case sensative, he said "no". Later, when I was having issues, another tech said it was. As far as I can tell, the commands are not case sensative.

The other lab I took was Site Recovery Manager. They had issues with the PDF file. It kept crashing. So, you'd go forward through the lab a couple of pages then, Acrobat would creash. You'd have to wait for it to open again (About 2 to 3 minutes) and you'd get a couple pages further. When I finally got everything installed, I was supposed to see the replicated storage in VC. I couldn't. Two different techs couldn't figure out why. By that time we were already an hour into an hour and a half lab anyway. So my SRM install and configure lab consisted of me clicking on next, next, next. That's it. I necer got to the configure part.

I'm really disappointed. Especially since I can't re-take them. I understand that it's not easy setting this stuff up. They couldn't really rent the whole floor a week in advance just to set these labs up so I know they mush have been here since last night setting them up.

If only there was a way to have all the machines we were working on in some sort of portable format. This way they could set it all up somewhere else weeks or even months in advance and test, test, test. Then, on the day of the lab, copy all these machines here. Too bad that technology is years away.

need help

sanju_chibb — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:42:47 GMT

hi all,

i have created the virtual machine windows 2008. But i am not getting the driver for virtual nic, it would be really great help if any body have solution for this.

Community VM World Party 2008

RParker — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:05:32 GMT

So the the people that are attending, VMTN experts, and honored guests... I propose a party.

UPDATE ****

9/15/08 - 2000 - V Bar is the new meeting place. WE are picking a bar, so we can chat more

Sweet! Monday: 10p.m. to 2a.m. DJ Alpyne. Top 40, Club Classics, 80's, Hip Hop

Sounds like fun: V Bar is located along restaurant row, and can accommodate up to 250
people. VIP accommodations and bottle service are also available.

I say we can meet there say around 8:00 on Monday, and talk about our first day. We can meet out front, and I can make reservations under VM Motion

If you like that idea.. we can have fun, meet each other, get to know each other better.. Sound like a plan?

ROLL CALL!

RParker — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:38:34 GMT

So who is CURRENTLY here, as of 3:34 Vegas time?

I arrived in Vegas at 10:30 AM Sat. Anyone else here?

I am kicking back, about to get my table games on...

Unofficial Presentations in Track Rooms

Texiwill — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:30:16 GMT

Hello,

I was considering doing an Unofficial prenstation or two in the track rooms. We can sign up to do these and VMworld will provide seating, etc. So who is interested in what?

Get the security folks together to round table ideas, etc. A mini-panel if you would.
General Virtual Security presentation
Forensics on VMware ESX presentation

So who wants what, which would you like to see/hear?

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator
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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.
CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354
As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

VMworld 2008 Check In and Announcement of Arrival Thread

sbeaver — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:13:53 GMT

When you arrive in Vegas and get settled post your arrival here so we all know who has arrived!! Viva Las Vegas

Steve Beaver
VMware Communities User Moderator
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Co-Author of "VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center"
See me at the VMworld Book Store for a book signing on Tuesday at 1:30
**Virtualization is a journey, not a project.**

VMworld Storage Sessions

JDLangdon — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:57:53 GMT

Does anyone know what topics will be discussed during the BOF120 Storage/SANs in a Virtual Environment Vmworld session? I'm looking for something that will touch on LUN sizing and SVC implementations.

Jason

Come join in right now - VMware Communities Roundtable #17

JohnTroyer — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:00:03 GMT

For the next hour we're accepting calls at the VMware Communities Roundtable

More info

http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2008/09/whats-your-vmwo.html

On the VMware Communities Podcast #17 tomorrow we'll be talking about all things VMworld. You're welcome to join us -- just listen in or give us your predictions for what will be happening at VMworld. I unfortunately can't play along, since I just got briefed on some of the news, but you feel free to go crazy.

If we run out of predictions, feel free to bring your VMware product and practice questions as well.
What: VMware Communities Roundtable #17
When: Wednesday, Sept 10
Noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 8pm British
Listen and chat: Go here and click the TalkShoe Live! button to listen live and join the chat
Phone in and ask a question: Phone number (724) 444-7444 followed by 19367#
Then if you're not a member just type 1# for your PIN
You'll be on hold but will hear the call.
When you want to ask your question, hit "*8" on your phone and you'll go in a question queue. You'll get a message that you're unmuted when we're ready for your question.
Call in via VOIP: Use a VOIP client to 66.212.134.192
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Next week come by and visit me in the Communities Lounge on the Solutions Exchange floor where I'll be broadcasting live at random intervals as well as holding a live Ask the Experts right there at the show.

Couple Questions...

heybuzzz — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:27:12 GMT

After breakfast it list "General Session" what's that all about?

Should the Key Notes "KNVMware - Question and Answer Session with Paul , President and CEO" be a priority?

Lastly, how's the free breakfast?

Thanks

Dress Code?

JDLangdon — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:49:30 GMT

Does Vmworld 2008 have a dress code?

Schedule Builder Feedback

jasonboche — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:26:14 GMT

I generally like how the schedule builder has evolved and it's better this year than it has been previous years. However, one thing about it that is a bummer is that it doesn't allow overlapping content - even for personal time items of which I have been trying to plug several in that in some areas overlap start or finish times. It doesn't allow me to add two entries for the same time slot so that I can make a last minute decision on where I'm going to choose to spend my time.

Jason Boche
VMware Communities User Moderator

Authors With Books

JDLangdon — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:58:42 GMT

Are any of our community authors bring books to sell at VMworld? Is there a book signing session?

Jason

Partner Day

JDLangdon — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:42:44 GMT

When I registered for VMworld I choose the full event pass. Does this include Partner Day, and if so, how to I schedule sessions?

Invitation to iland Happy Hour at VMWorld - Free Stuff!

jgiardina — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:39:47 GMT

Hello, all. I would like to invite anyone attending VMWorld this
year to our happy hour. We will be giving away a Wii and other
prizes. Oh yeah, drinks are free, too!

You can sign up for the happy hour on our website, there is a large martini glass you can click on to sign up.

Hope to see you there!

Justin

http://iland.com

VM World 2008

RParker — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:10:20 GMT

Moderators, I know this isn't the correct forum, but I wanted to contact the people that use ESX 3.5 daily, and contribute to see who is going to VM World 2008.

So who among the active users and the ones that contribute and ask questions, is going to be at VM World 2008, in Vegas?

Does anyone else besides me think this is like the greatest event, a cool city, free of charge (on Company Asset) and the best part is, I don't have to take a vacation to Vegas.. AND we get to attend VM World, this is like a true dream come true for me. Anyone else going to be there besides myself?

Breakout Session Help

JDLangdon — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:30:48 GMT

Is there a breakout session which covers identifying underutilized and/or underpreforming VM's?

Jason

VMworld 2008

esiebert7625 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:47:26 GMT

Woohoo! first post in a new forum. So who's all going?

Eric Siebert
VMware Communities User Moderator
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Anyone else going from the UK?

biozfear — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:55:16 GMT

Hi,

Just wondered if there were any other people travelleing from the UK for Vmworld 2008? I'm there for 6 days from the Saturday so I've got a couple of days to climatise and have a look around Vegas for the first time. If there's enough of us maybe we could meet up for a bit of networking/drinking if anyones up for it?

Jon

Twitter @ VMworld

seagull — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:18:25 GMT

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Join today and start recieving VMworld updates.

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Labs at VMworld?

JDLangdon — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:52:40 GMT

Is it a safe assumption that lab manuals will be available to be downloaded by VMworld attendees as in previous years? I'm not officially registered yet and already there is a waiting list for the instructor led lab sessions.

Jason

Tips for New Attendees?

JDLangdon — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:19:07 GMT

I've heard several "horor stories" from people who have attended VMworld nad in most cases it's because the attendee wasn't prepared for what was instore. Do of you "VMworld Veterens" have any tips and advice for to help new attendees get the most out of VMworld?

Jason

FYI: Changes made to Breakout Session Schedule

jasonboche — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:10:54 GMT

FYI, received the following email this morning. Please check your schedules to see if your sessions were impacted:

Dear VMworld 2008 Attendee,
During the past week we have had to make some changes to the VMworld Breakout Session Schedule and as a result you may need to re-register for some of your sessions. We recommend that you log back into the Schedule Builder and check your schedule as soon as possible.
Sign in Now
To sign into Schedule Builder, you will need your VMworld 2008 registration username and password.
We apologize for the inconvenience and we look forward to seeing you at VMworld.
Sincerely,
The VMworld 2008 Team

Jason Boche
VMware Communities User Moderator

Training at VMworld

JDLangdon — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:54:45 GMT

Anyone registered for training during the week prior to VMworld? Looks like the much awaited VMware Infrastructure: Design course is being offered for the first time. VMware is also putting off the VMware Infrastructure 3: Fast Track V3.5 during the same week.

Jason