Friday, October 17th, 2008
I was trying to installing VMWare Server 2.0 but it kept getting this error
System Administrator has set policies to prevent this installation.Quick and dirty solution in 8 steps:
Click Start -> Control Panel
Open Administrative Tools
Open Local Security Settings
Click Software Restriction Policies
If no software restrictions are defined, right click the Software Restriction ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
VMWare Server 2.0 Beta.
You define a Linux virtual machine (or import a machine defined elsewhere) and it stands forever during boot in "SCSI Spinning Disk".
This is due to the fact that machine has been defined using BusLogic SCSI while it should be using LSI.
Change Virtual Disk Controller Type to LSI ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Although unsure about the reasons why this happened, I'm reporting this since it might be useful in future.
Situation: have a working small (6 MB) Linux Live CD with kernel 2.6.8-1 running in VMWare workstation, defined as Linux 2.2.x Kernel guest OS.
Tried same in VMWare Free Server 2.0 Beta defining guest ...
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