Recently, I’ve tested the VM Converter on a Windows 2003 Server. The VM converter was installed on another station for client and server installation. We was trying to convert a Windows 2003 server from physical to virtual (p2v). The conversion went fine up to 95% and then it failed and gave an “Reconfiguration Failed” error [...]
Recently, we ran into this problem where access to our VM was unavailable. We are getting the “Unable to access a file since it is locked” error message with one of our VM that got converted from physical to Virtual (P2V) with the VM Converter.
Searching the web, we found this site that has a solution [...]
There are several companies that provide software to do this. Our favorite is VMWare. This is because it is easy and simple.
1. You will need to download the VMWare Converter from the VMWare site (http://www.vmware.com). This is free.
2. Once downloaded you will need to install it. We choose the Client/Server installation. This give you the [...]
hmm…. In the non Virtual world for Windows OS, we use ERD. It has the option to reset the Administrator password. But, today I forgot the Administrator password to one of my Virtual Server. I inserted the ERD into the CD-ROM drive of the Virtual machine hoping that it can reset the Admin password for [...]
Finally, I got ESXi to work on my IBM Lenovo T61 laptop. VMware doesn’t make it easy for unsupported hardware, but I found the file and site with the instruction on how to do it. Check out VM-HELP.
1. You will need to download the ESXi iso and register with them to get a free ESXi [...]
