User contributions for Wila
6 January 2024
- 14:0214:02, 6 January 2024 diff hist +1,370 Shrink guest on hosted platform →Zero out using fstrim current
3 January 2024
- 18:3318:33, 3 January 2024 diff hist +292 Shrink guest on hosted platform →Zero out using fstrim: adding a small example
22 September 2023
- 19:0519:05, 22 September 2023 diff hist +586 Fixing a VM that had AutoAddVTPM set No edit summary current
- 19:0219:02, 22 September 2023 diff hist +566 m Fixing a VM that had AutoAddVTPM set →Here's one solution where you have a few manual steps
- 18:5518:55, 22 September 2023 diff hist 0 m Fixing a VM that had AutoAddVTPM set No edit summary
- 18:5318:53, 22 September 2023 diff hist +1,371 N Fixing a VM that had AutoAddVTPM set Created page with "You might have made the mistake to use an experimental solution that was offered for a while by VMware to install Windows 11 as guest OS. It involved adding a line to the .vmx file and after that you could add a TPM and thus install Windows 11. This would encrypt parts of the VM, but not give you a password and as such some people to find out that their VM won't work on some other hosts. The good part is that your data isn't actually encrypted, the bad part is that it is..."
12 September 2022
- 13:3813:38, 12 September 2022 diff hist −5 m Vmware-vdiskmanager Update vddk link to version 7.0 current
7 September 2022
18 July 2022
- 12:1012:10, 18 July 2022 diff hist +810 Vmx hacks Player - disable mitigations current
19 March 2022
8 December 2021
- 03:4103:41, 8 December 2021 diff hist +492 Vmx hacks →Any platform
27 November 2021
- 21:0321:03, 27 November 2021 diff hist +24 DOS No edit summary current
- 21:0221:02, 27 November 2021 diff hist −67 Windows 3.1 No edit summary current
- 20:5320:53, 27 November 2021 diff hist +230 N Windows 3.1 Created page with " http://www.scampers.org/steve/vmware/#31pack http://www.stankowic-development.net/?p=6674&lang=en https://sites.google.com/site/chitchatvmback/misc [https://github.com/Nat..."
17 November 2021
- 14:0714:07, 17 November 2021 diff hist +143 m Vmx hacks Note about multiple GPU's when having issues with Vulkan
- 14:0514:05, 17 November 2021 diff hist +449 Vmx hacks Disable all USB devices
12 November 2021
- 12:2412:24, 12 November 2021 diff hist +2 Vmx hacks →Linux Host - switch back from Vulkan to X11
- 12:2112:21, 12 November 2021 diff hist +652 Vmx hacks →Change thumbnail speed
2 November 2021
- 11:5511:55, 2 November 2021 diff hist +3,365 N Building Gallium3D Copy from my internal wiki on how-to build Gallium3D (hopelessly out of date now, but perhaps it helps) current
- 11:5511:55, 2 November 2021 diff hist +27 Vmwgfx →vmwgfx current
- 11:5411:54, 2 November 2021 diff hist +63 Vmwgfx →vmwgfx
- 11:4811:48, 2 November 2021 diff hist +137 Vmwgfx →vmwgfx
- 11:3211:32, 2 November 2021 diff hist +247 N Vmwgfx Created page with "== vmwgfx == 3D accelerated graphics in Linux This driver is nowadays part of the linux kernel, see: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx B..."
- 11:3011:30, 2 November 2021 diff hist +4 m Build guest vmware kernel modules →available kernel modules current
29 October 2021
- 11:0711:07, 29 October 2021 diff hist +373 m Vmx hacks Add Dark Mode setting
13 October 2021
- 01:1501:15, 13 October 2021 diff hist +118 Shrink guest on hosted platform →Zero out using fstrim
- 00:2300:23, 13 October 2021 diff hist +127 m Shrink guest on hosted platform →Zero out using fstrim
- 00:1400:14, 13 October 2021 diff hist +58 Shrink guest on hosted platform →Zero out using fstrim
- 00:1200:12, 13 October 2021 diff hist +292 Shrink guest on hosted platform →Zero out a part of your virtual disk
12 October 2021
- 00:5600:56, 12 October 2021 diff hist −2 m Open-vm-tools →old links current
- 00:5600:56, 12 October 2021 diff hist −2 m Open-vm-tools →old links
- 00:5500:55, 12 October 2021 diff hist +214 Open-vm-tools No edit summary
- 00:4600:46, 12 October 2021 diff hist +448 Open-vm-tools →Open Virtual Machine Tools
7 October 2021
- 18:2318:23, 7 October 2021 diff hist +1 m Vmx hacks typo
9 August 2021
- 15:3515:35, 9 August 2021 diff hist +547 Shrink guest on hosted platform Added an example of the shrinking process in progress and listing the RDP side effect that I am seeing here.
7 June 2021
- 16:1016:10, 7 June 2021 diff hist +32 m Resources →VMware Developer targeted sites current
- 16:0816:08, 7 June 2021 diff hist +86 m Resources →VMware Developer targeted sites
- 16:0516:05, 7 June 2021 diff hist −47 m Resources Fixing link
- 16:0116:01, 7 June 2021 diff hist +9 m Pyvmware Fixing link current
- 15:5715:57, 7 June 2021 diff hist −17 m Protecting ESX VMFS Stores with Automation Fixing link current
- 15:5615:56, 7 June 2021 diff hist −14 m Protecting ESX VMFS Stores with Automation Fixing link
6 June 2021
- 01:4201:42, 6 June 2021 diff hist +12 m Vitoolkit: Status Moved from /wiki folder to wiki subdomain earlier this week current
5 June 2021
- 18:1118:11, 5 June 2021 diff hist +585 m PowerCLI: Change Virtual Machines Guest OS Names Adding the code itself (just in case) current
- 18:0918:09, 5 June 2021 diff hist +136 m PowerCLI: Change Virtual Machines Guest OS Names Updated link to point to a copy at web.archive.org as the site is no longer there.
21 April 2021
- 16:4816:48, 21 April 2021 diff hist +23 m Vmx hacks →Open file with host OS application
- 16:4716:47, 21 April 2021 diff hist +501 Vmx hacks →Pass OS X host serial number
16 April 2021
- 00:3900:39, 16 April 2021 diff hist +226 m Shrink guest on hosted platform and for Fusion
- 00:3000:30, 16 April 2021 diff hist +447 Shrink guest on hosted platform adding links to the official doc of VMware Workstation
- 00:2400:24, 16 April 2021 diff hist +377 Shrink guest on hosted platform Note about zero'ing out an encrypted disk
13 February 2021
- 19:3919:39, 13 February 2021 diff hist +455 DOS Added a few relevant links
13 December 2020
- 03:0503:05, 13 December 2020 diff hist +163 m Vmrun →External links current
11 December 2020
- 21:0021:00, 11 December 2020 diff hist +1,225 N Ovftool Created page with "== Ovftool == Ovftool is a command line utility that you can run to import/export a VM which is following the OVF standards between different virtualisation products. There'..." current
10 December 2020
- 03:1603:16, 10 December 2020 diff hist +1,297 N Vctl Created page with "== vctl == Both VMware Workstation as well as VMware Fusion nowadays have additional support to run and manage containers and the ability to run local kubernetes clusters. =..." current
6 December 2020
- 00:4300:43, 6 December 2020 diff hist +772 VIX workaround for getting VIX on VMware Player installed current
5 December 2020
- 19:3819:38, 5 December 2020 diff hist +170 m Vmx hacks No edit summary
- 19:3619:36, 5 December 2020 diff hist −227 m Vmx hacks it's actually fine, remove the EULA notice
- 19:3119:31, 5 December 2020 diff hist +671 Vmx hacks Added a small introduction
- 19:1519:15, 5 December 2020 diff hist +18,758 N Vmx hacks Created page with " === VMX hacks === ==== Wait 5 seconds on booting ==== Wait 5 seconds on booting: bios.bootDelay = "5000" Time is in milliseconds, change it accordingly. ==== Open BIOS sett..."
- 18:5618:56, 5 December 2020 diff hist +34 m Main Page →Contribute / help out current
25 July 2020
- 11:3911:39, 25 July 2020 diff hist +114 m VIX →Download
- 11:3711:37, 25 July 2020 diff hist +339 m VIX No edit summary
24 July 2020
- 16:2516:25, 24 July 2020 diff hist +322 m VIX No edit summary
13 March 2020
- 01:0201:02, 13 March 2020 diff hist +388 Shrink guest on hosted platform added a note to look at the vmdk file ownership after shrinking via the command line.
7 December 2019
- 21:1621:16, 7 December 2019 diff hist +85 VMware Icons →VMware Icons current
2 July 2019
- 17:5317:53, 2 July 2019 diff hist +341 Shrink guest on hosted platform Added a few more words to indicate that these commands are to be run from within the VM
22 May 2019
- 19:1019:10, 22 May 2019 diff hist +123 m Shrink guest on hosted platform →Shrink using vmware tools
12 February 2019
- 00:5100:51, 12 February 2019 diff hist +117 Shrink guest on hosted platform →Shrink using vmware tools
5 February 2019
- 13:4513:45, 5 February 2019 diff hist +52 m Resources Update dev blog link
- 13:4313:43, 5 February 2019 diff hist −74 m Resources Dev center now points to {code} home, link is redundant
- 13:4313:43, 5 February 2019 diff hist −100 m Resources removing dead link
- 13:3913:39, 5 February 2019 diff hist −66 m Resources removing dead link
- 13:3713:37, 5 February 2019 diff hist −71 m Resources removing dead link
- 13:2113:21, 5 February 2019 diff hist +190 m Vmrun →Command line help contents
23 January 2019
- 23:4623:46, 23 January 2019 diff hist +8 m VSphere SOAP No edit summary current
- 23:4423:44, 23 January 2019 diff hist +197 N VSphere SOAP Created page with " Blog post by Tony Ganchev * [https://blog.tonyganchev.com/accessing-vsphere-soap-apis-from-c/ Accessing vSphere SOAP APIs from C++] Category: C++ Category: vSphere A..."
5 May 2018
- 23:4423:44, 5 May 2018 diff hist +132 m Category:Vmware-tools No edit summary current
- 22:0722:07, 5 May 2018 diff hist +48 N Category:Vmware-tools Created page with "Category that lists vmware tools related topics."
- 22:0122:01, 5 May 2018 diff hist +1,365 N Vmware-checkvm Created page with "== vmware-checkvm == The vmware-checkvm command is part of vmware-tools and allows you to check some vmware properties about your VM. When run without parameters it returns..." current
27 February 2018
- 15:1915:19, 27 February 2018 diff hist +10 m Shrink guest on hosted platform →Using the clean up option in the menu
- 15:1715:17, 27 February 2018 diff hist +26 m Shrink guest on hosted platform →Using the clean up option in the menu
- 15:1515:15, 27 February 2018 diff hist −16 m Shrink guest on hosted platform No edit summary
- 15:1415:14, 27 February 2018 diff hist +425 Shrink guest on hosted platform →How much free space do you need before shrinking?
- 15:0815:08, 27 February 2018 diff hist +1,430 Shrink guest on hosted platform →Important
25 February 2018
- 13:2613:26, 25 February 2018 diff hist +42 m Shrink guest on hosted platform →Zero out a part of your disk
- 13:2313:23, 25 February 2018 diff hist +135 m Shrink guest on hosted platform →Zero out a part of your disk
- 13:0513:05, 25 February 2018 diff hist +74 m Shrink guest on hosted platform →Important
- 13:0313:03, 25 February 2018 diff hist +147 m Shrink guest on hosted platform →Important
- 12:5812:58, 25 February 2018 diff hist +16 m Shrink guest on hosted platform No edit summary
12 February 2018
- 17:3217:32, 12 February 2018 diff hist +20 m ESXi vSphere mount LUN problems forgot to categorize current
- 17:2717:27, 12 February 2018 diff hist +3,289 N ESXi vSphere mount LUN problems Created page with "=== cannot connect to LUN === Sometimes the correct LUN does not show up and trying to mount it only gives an option to format the LUN. * 1. Log in as root to the ESX host wh..."
23 January 2018
- 00:2400:24, 23 January 2018 diff hist +462 N Ray Heffer visio stencils Created page with "=== Ray Heffer Visio Stencils === author: Ray Heffer ==== Description ==== This is the 2nd version of his Visio Stenciles for VMware EUC. ===== Direct download ===== [http..." current
4 November 2017
- 16:3716:37, 4 November 2017 diff hist +911 Shrink guest on hosted platform →Zero out unused space in a Linux VM
26 October 2017
- 17:1317:13, 26 October 2017 diff hist +4 m Build guest vmware kernel modules →vgauth what?
- 17:1317:13, 26 October 2017 diff hist +1,555 Build guest vmware kernel modules →Troubleshooting
- 12:1012:10, 26 October 2017 diff hist +4 m Build guest vmware kernel modules →The solution
28 July 2017
- 00:5000:50, 28 July 2017 diff hist +122 Shrink guest on hosted platform →Shrink using vmware tools
6 July 2017
- 17:2417:24, 6 July 2017 diff hist +179 Shrink guest on hosted platform →Shrink using vmware tools
29 May 2017
- 20:2020:20, 29 May 2017 diff hist +51 m DOS No edit summary
- 20:1920:19, 29 May 2017 diff hist +215 N File:DOS-Drivers.zip This zip contains: cdrom.img -- Installer for CD-ROM drivers dosidle.img -- Makes MS-DOS not consume 100% CPU. wqghlt.img -- Like DOSIDLE, for Windows 3.1 SB16Win3x.iso -- CD image installer for Sound Blaster 16 current
- 19:4019:40, 29 May 2017 diff hist +521 N DOS Created page with "When creating a virtual machine with MS DOS (or PC Dos) then you'll notice that there are a few issues. The first major issue being that the VM will run one of your cores wit..."