Good question, Matt. Normally, when a VM boots it will try and initialize all of its connected devices. If a VM is configured on a system with a floppy drive and is copied to a system without one, the ...

There are various reasons why you may want to reflect the actual hardware the VM is running on rather than as a VM; by adding these three lines to the VMware configuration file, you can easily reflect ...

If you use VMware in virtually any of its flavors, then you've probably become familiar with the list of files created in each folder you create for a virtual machine (VM). Those listed files are used ...

If you use VMware in virtually any of its flavors, then you've probably become familiar with the list of files created in each folder you create for a virtual machine. Those files are used by the ...

Ever wanted to script the start or stop of a virtual machine? How about doing the same, but with a scheduled task? The vmrun command is another native tool installed with VMware Workstation. This tool ...

When starting a virtual machine in VMware Workstation, we encountered an error that implied that the Monitor module had failed to turn on. Due to this, the machine ...

More than 1,200 undocumented VMware VMX parameters have been discovered, some showing signs of being Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen hypervisor-aware Could VMware be gearing up to manage hypervisors other ...