MtMan's Posts

From computer xxx7 can you ping 172.16.40.128 ? prompt> ping 172.16.40.128 Tell us if this works. I would assume computer xxx7 is on the same subnet as your VM debian (172.16.40.128). By same subnet I mean computer xxx7 would be 172.16.40.xxx7 If your virtual machine has an IP assigned that is not in the same subnet range you may not be able to route from computer xxx7 to your virtual machine. It sounds like your computer xxx7 is 193.19.177.xxx7 and your virtual machine is 172.16.40.128. Normally your virtual machine would have the same first three sets of numbers as your hosts IP address. It might be helpful if you gave the full IP address for your case.

Stdvorak, You can ssh to your virtual machine just like a physical machine. From a different computer or from the host just type ssh -l login_name 172.16.40.128 This is done outside the VMware console. You can add your virtual machine to your hosts file so that you can ssh by name instead of by IP address. Welcome to the VMware forums.

I also had the rreeppeeaattiinngg key problem running Fedora on a very high end Windows XP host. After unsuccessfully trying a few things in my vmx settings I found a fix in Fedora. In the System -> Preferences -> Keyboard gui adjust the "Repeat Keys" delay and speed. Simple, and worked right away.

Dr Dave, It's normal to take a minute or so to delete a snapshot in Workstation. Your performance for a large vm is quite good. The information in the snapshot is transferred to the working copy of the vm.

Yes indeed you can run 64 bit guests with a 32 bit host OS. I have WS 6 hosted on Windows XP (32 bit) and I run 64 bit linux distros. You are limited by the amount of memory made available by the host OS however, but WS is a great environment for development and test.

Sean, I run 64 bit guests from 32 bit XP hosts on a couple machines. I found that there is a BIOS bug on my HP workstation that causes the VT setting to get turned off after the workstation goes to sleep. You can test this by trying to start your 64 bit guest right after rebooting your host. To work around the BIOS bug I changed the power settings in the host to not sleep. I hope this helps.

joelinkc, Your idea of a private internet connection using VMware will work. The VMware Server product would likely meet your needs. You will need a separate Windows XP license for your VM. VMware does leave evidence on your host OS including: the install, registry settings, log files, VM files and services. Some corporate policies don't allow software to be installed unless approved, but this doesn't sound like a problem for you.

Rob, I'm doing something very similar. I use PGP Desktop to make an encrypted partition. I have installed VMware Workstation on my unencrypted partition and I have a VM kept on the encrypted partition. PGP also has the ability to do whole disk encryption, but I haven't used this feature. Whole disk encryption may in itself be the solution your looking for. Pieces of the guest can leak out to the hosts pagefile which is not encrypted (it would be if you are using whole disk encryption). Also there are registry settings and VMware log files that leave traces that VMs have been run. There is a Windows registry setting to clear the pagefile on shutdown, but I don't shut down very often, and it makes shut down take a couple minutes longer so I don't do this. It seems like it would be possible to make regfiles and scripts to remove and restore the VMware registry settings and log files. These scripts could be kept on your encrypted partition. This method would be a problem if you also used VMware Workstation with other unencrypted VMs, like I do.

Put the first Redhat installation CD into your CD ROM drive. In the VMware console, click VM -> Power -> Power On (or the green arrow icon) The rest is just like installing on a physical machine.

xunshirine, The VMware Workstation manual can be accessed from the workstation console "Help" menu. For information on shared folders look under: "Creating a New Virtual Machine "Installing VMWare Tools" "VMware Tools for Windows Guests" Also look under "Configuring a Virtual Network" I expect shared folders would be the easiest of the two options for you to set up.

xunshirine, There are two ways to share files between your host and guest OSs. 1) You can install VMware Tools in your guest and have a shared folder that is accessible from your host and guest operating systems. 2) You can use a network, much like you would to share files between two physical machines. You will need to set up networking in your guest, which is not difficult. Message was edited by: MtMan

You could print to your host's shared printer instead of printing directly to the parallel port using the guest. This assumes that you have a network connection to your host, and that you change VM -> settings -> hardware so that the guest does not take control of the printer parallel port.