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Try the following from the command line when login as root vmware-modconfig --console --install-all Another option would be to run through the GUI on one machine and copy the compiled modules to the other machines

You will most likely not be able to boot the VM since the image if the physical machine does not contain the device drivers for the virtual machine. You are better off using the free standalone VMware converter program P2V (Physical to Virtual)

If troubleshooting a network issue, please include the following additional information. Post the output from "ipconfig /all" (Windows) or " ifconfig -a" (Linux) from both the host and the guest OS Post the .vmx file from the virtual machine. Details of how your host is connected to the network / Internet (Cable Modem, DSL, Router, Switch, Wired, Wireless,...). Details on how networking is configured for the guest (NAT, bridged, host-only). Virtual "Host-Only" and "NAT" have a VMware DHCP server running on the virtual network adapters installed in the host. See chapter 14 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/ws65_manual.pdf

For Hosted products: Memory Trimming Workstation uses a memory trimming technique to return unused virtual machine memory to the host machine for other uses. While trimming usually has little impact on performance and may be needed in low memory situations, the I/O caused by memory trimming can sometimes interfere with disk-oriented workload performance in a guest. You can disable memory trimming for a guest in the virtual machine settings editor (VM > Settings > Options > Advanced). In the Settings section of the Advanced panel, select Disable memory page trimming. Page Sharing VMware uses a page sharing technique to allow guest memory pages with identical contents to be stored as a single copy-on-write page. Page sharing decreases host memory usage, but consumes system resources, potentially including I/O bandwidth. You may want to avoid this overhead for guests for which host memory is plentiful and I/O latency is important. To disable page sharing, add the following line to the virtual machine configuration (.vmx) file: sched.mem.pshare.enable=FALSE option

Looks like the copy was not good as far as the virtual disk is concerned. You may want to use vmware-vdiskmanger to split the disk into 2GB files before a copy to the new machine and you may want to try a diffent copy method.

The auto grab and ungrab is done with the vmware mouse driver. It would seem based on your disscription that your xorg.conf file is not configured to use vmmouse or the vmmouse drive is not install or installed in the wrong directory for your configuration. Post xorg.conf file

You should be pinging the host from the guest using IP 192.168.232.1 You will never reach the 192.168.70.102 host IP from the guest OS using NAT Both the host and guest are on subnet 192.168.232.xxx

Not any tutorials for setting up a domain controller & SQL Server 2005 from VMware I assume that you want to have the virtual machines in a isolated environment from the host and local network? If this is the case, just create two virtual machines configured to use "Custom" virtual networking and select virtual switch "VMnet2" in the configuration of both virtual machines. Install Windows, applications, create Domain controller ...etc just like you would a physical machine. You will need to assign a static IP in each Windows guest OS on the same subnet

The upgrade from 6.x to 6.5.x is free, so just download and install the software. The installer will uninstall the previous version, but will not touch your VM's You will need to power on your VM's after the upgrade and update the vmware tools installed in the guest OS(s)

Use vmware-vdiskmanager to expand the virtual disk and use a third party utility to expand the guest OS partition after expanding the virtual disk. Make a backup of your virtual machine before doing anything and make sure that you do not have any snapshots

Your Linux OS is configured with an IP of 192.168.4.100 and your Windows OS is configured with an IP of 192.168.1.101 Change your IP of the Linux guest to be on the same subnet as Windows and you should be good to go