Where I currently work we run a Kronos time keeping system for our employees, this system is not supported on VMware so a physical server was dedicated to the task.
Sadly (?) Kronos is quite a light weight application that hardly utilises the servers resources, not wanting to let a physical host go to waste VMware Virtual Centre was to be installed. All was looking promising apart from both Kronos and VMware utilising Macrovision’s Flex Licesing server, and since each instance binds to port 27000 TCP a work around had to be found.
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Wojtek VMWare FLEX, Licensing, VMWare
The lack of a GUI tends to make simple tasks that little bit harder, ie installing VMware tools.
Start the install as per normal by clicking on Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. You’ll find that nothing will happen, well not quite you now have a cdrom (d:\).
In the command prompt execute the following, obviously replacing d:\ with what ever drive letter was mapped.
msiexec.exe /i “d:\VMware Tools.msi” /qn
Once installed the server will reboot.
Wojtek VMWare, Windows Server Core, VMWare
Windows XP requires drivers for the ESX SCSI adapter otherwise it comes back with…
Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.
Download the Vmware SCSI Driver and using Data Store manager upload it to your server.
In machine properties connect the floppy drive and select the image.
During startup press F6 to load additoinal drivers.
Bingo Bango~!
Wojtek VMWare, Windows ESX, Microsoft, VMWare, XP