VMware tips & tricks
Windows 2000 server in a VM: keeps rebooting due to "new hardware"
- boot into "safe mode" and disable "plug and play" service, reboot
- boot into "normal mode"
- logging in takes now around 5-10 minutes (or maybe longer)
- install vmware tools and reboot
- boot into "safe mode" and enable the "plug and play" service again and reboot
VMware Workstation: increase size of virtual disk
vmware-vdiskmanager -x 40Gb vm.vmdk
40Gb is the new size of the virtual disk.
vm.vmdk is the virtual disk meta-file; the text-file containing the string "# Disk DescriptorFile".
VMware 2.5: cannot stop VM
Solution 1
When you cannot stop a vm from the web-interface nor via the console, login to the system using ssh. Then:
ps -auxwww | grep -i NAME_OF_VM
Find the PID and kill -9 pid.
Solution 2
Get a list of VM id's:
vm-support -x
kill the VM:
vm-support -X VMID
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