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Parallels / VMware Fusion Ctrl-Alt-Del on a MAC

Date March 28, 2008 Author By kadmin Category Mac OSX, VMware, Windows XP

Problem: You just set up Windows as a virtual machine on your Mac so that you can do real work. The screen comes up and asks you to press Control-Alt-Delete to log in. You don’t have those keys on your Mac keyboard. Solution: fn-ctrl-option-delete

Debian Etch VMware Network Card Problem

Date July 30, 2007 Author By kadmin Category Linux, VMware

Problem When you make a copy of a VMware Virtual Machine, the network card on the copy doesn’t work. Solution When you boot the copy, VMware creates a new MAC address for the NIC. Debian adds a new line to this file with the new MAC address. /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules Delete the lines with the old MAC addresses […]

VMware VMEM Files – How to disable .vmem files

Date April 7, 2006 Author By kadmin Category VMware

If you are a VMware user, you have undoubtedly tried to backup a virtual server while it is running. Until recently, you could. However, the newer versions of VMware use .vmem files which are created when the virtual machines are running. There is really no documentation as to why they exist but they are locked […]