New VMware P2V v4 client allows physical to virtual convert for various Linux distributives. P2V allows transferring of Linux machines to Virtual VMware ESX compatible. Currently supported versions are:   Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, 9, 10 Ubuntu Linux 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x Other Linux versions can be converted by imaging tools to the following format: (*.vmc *.pvs *.vmx *.sv2i *.spf *.tib) Read more

In order to enter to VM machine bios settings follow the steps bellow Navigate to desired virtual machine Press on “Edit Virtual Machine Settings” Navigate to Options>Boot Options In the right side you have 2 options Power on Boot Delay Force BIOS setup You can use each one of the first will set system boot delay time and will give you the ability to enter system BIOS – You can set it to 1000 miliseconds The Other one will force entering in to bios on next boot. Read more

You connect new ISO image and try to boot from it , but instead booting from Image , VMware loads installed OS , sounds familiar? Here what you should check: First make sure that CD room or image are selected as “Connected” and “Connect at power on” By default VM machine tries to boot first from attached CD device If you still can’t boot navigate to Options>Boot Options and in the right pane under “force BIOS Setup” select "The next time the virtual machine boots, force Read more

Install ESX Firefox Web Management Plug-In for Windows Download the MKS plug-in file from the Stage Manager server using Internet Explorer from the following address: https://Servername/StageManager/ControlPanel/Machines/MachineDetails/ActiveXControls/xpihandler.ashx?filename=vmware-mks-windows-ff-3.xpi Where <Servername> fill your server hostname. Rename the extension of the file from .xpi to .zip . Unzip the file's contents into %ProgramFiles%Mozilla Read more

You may see that error when you migrate virtual machine between two ESX servers with different hardware. Please right click on VM and choose "Edit Options", select "Options", select "CPUID mask" and change it to "Hide the NX flag from quest". It will give you more comparability between CPUs but will hurt performance. Read more