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Enabling ‘reserved host RAM’ on VMWare Wokstation Player

VMware’s Workstation Player checks how much swap space is available before starting up any virtual machine. If the host’s available swap space isn’t at lest 50% of the VM’s memory it spits out a warning: VMWare Workstation Player showing error message due to too little swap being available Unfortunately the GUI does not offer an option to change this behavior… Read more »

Allow blacklisted VMWare Workstation Player graphics driver

For some reason, VMWare decided to blacklist some graphics drivers for their VMware Workstation Player. That includes the Mesa DRI drivers for most Intel IGPs, which results in unbearably slow graphic performance and potentially error messages such as “Hardware graphics acceleration is not available” or “No 3D support is available from the host” when starting a virtual machine To enable… Read more »

Migrating a virtual machine from KVM to ESXi

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Migrating a virtual machine from one host to another is usually no big deal if both hosts run the same VMM. But what if one wants to move a VM from a host running a different hypervisor than the target host? In the case of moving a VM from KVM to ESXi that’s just not (easily) possible. However, one can… Read more »

Command-line deploy vCenter appliance (VCSA) 6.0 on a Linux machine

Up to version 5.5 a vCenter appliance was usually deployed by importing the corresponding ovf template that could be downloaded from the VMware website. That process changed with version 6.0 since there is no longer an ovf template. Instead, VMWare provides and ISO image that contains the necessary data and tools to deploy a vCenter appliance, even directly from the… Read more »