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How to run Hyper-V on Windows 8 inside VMware Workstation 8

2 March, 2012 Roel van Lisdonk 10 Comments 1 category

Before you read any further, as Dane pointed out, you can install Hyper-V on Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview, but after rebooting you will be presented by a “blue screen”, because a HAL_Memory_Allocation was

Installing Windows 8 on a VMware workstation v8.0.1 virtual machine.

5 January, 2012 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

After using VirtualBox and VMWare workstation for running my Windows 8 virtual machines, I seems like VMWare workstation is the winner at this point in time for me. So here’s the installation guide for creating

Installing Microsoft Windows 8 on VMWare workstation 8

7 November, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

I was able to successfully install Microsoft Windows 8 as a guest operating system in VMWare Workstation 8 by following the instructions at: http://www.sysprobs.com/guide-install-windows-8-on-vmware-workstation-with-vmware-tools On previous installations of Windows, I would always format the disk

Solving black screen in VMWare 7 full screen or unitiy mode, when using Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 as guest

5 May, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

Only normal en quick switch modus worked for me in VMWare 7, when using Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 as a guest OS. Enabling 3D acceleration on de virtual machine monitor solved this problem. Open you’re

Mouse pointer disappears, when over textboxes or texteditor in VMWare

27 August, 2010 Roel van Lisdonk 36 Comments 1 category

When I use a Windows 7 x64 computer and start a Remote Desktop session to a machine running Windows 7 x64 with VMWare 7. De mouse pointer disappears in the VMWare guest running Windows XP,

Making the switch: VMWare Workstation 7 to Hyper-V server for performance reasons (PowerPivot on SharePoint 2010)

22 June, 2010 Roel van Lisdonk 2 Comments 1 category

History Back in 2002 I was working with a company which produced a CAD application written in VB6. The product was released in several languages. For each language we had a Microsoft Windows NT

How to share a printer on Windows 7 with a VMware Workstation 7 image on a NAT Network Connection

18 December, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 0 categories

If you want to print from a VMware Workstation 7 image, which uses a NAT network connection. You can use the default Windows printer sharing. On the host machine: start > devices and printers >

VMWare Workstation 6 some remote file systems do not support files larger than 2 GB, solution

22 May, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 0 categories

When you open an *.vmx file larger then 2GB from an UNC path, you will get an error … Some remote file systems do not support files larger than 2GB … Adding diskLib.sparseMaxFileSizeCheck= "FALSE" in

Setting the CPU frequency for better performance in VMWare Workstation

22 May, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 0 categories

When you have a host system with variable CPU frequency (some powermanagement tools in bios will slow down you’re processor speed to save energy) you must set the right CPU frequency for VMWare quest systems.

Disable system beeps in VMWare Workstation

22 May, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 0 categories

See: http://www.itexperience.net/2008/03/18/disable-system-beeps-in-vmware-workstation/ sc config beep start= disabled

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