Author: Dinesh
Dinesh is the founder of Sysprobs and written more than 400 articles. Enthusiast in Microsoft and cloud technologies with more than 15 years of IT experience.
Note: I have added the latest Windows server versions in the title, but the below demonstration had been done with Windows 2008 R2 server version in VMware workstation. The key point is, the below steps are applicable for Windows 2012/2016 and even the latest Windows 2019 server cluster setup. Also, if you are a VirtualBox or Hyper-V on Windows 10 user, you can follow the same steps. Technically, you do not need many settings on the virtualization software to make this setup work. Mainly the VMs you are creating for this purpose should communicate among them to make the failover…
If you are thinking to get the experience of Chromebook and its OS without buying it, trying the Chrome OS in VMware or VirtualBox with your Windows computer is the ideal way. Chromium is a lightweight browser-based OS that allows accessing most of the Google and Andoird apps. The Chromebook is suitable for kids and education where you can do most of the tasks online with Google apps and cloud storage. More importantly, Chromebooks are affordable. Since it is not that simple to install the vanilla version of Chrome OS, we can use the other alternate options. Thanks to Neverware…
Do you want to configure your Windows 10 computer as an FTP server? This guide shows how to set up an FTP server on Windows 10 which is applicable for Windows 8.1 by using the built-in Microsoft features. You can make any computer as an FTP server by installing third-party applications like Filezilla FTP server which is quite easy. But the following step by step guide shows how to use the Windows services, features and IIS on a Windows 10 computer without installing any third-party software or tools. Having an FTP server on an internal or external network is always…
For some reasons, if you find that vt-x is disabled in the BIOS, then this guide will be useful to enable virtualization in BIOS. We mentioned the tools and methods for Intel and AMD based computers here. The hardware Virtualization Technology (VT) extensions should be enabled in motherboard BIOS to run recent Operating Systems and some of the virtualization applications. Specifically, Windows 10, and 8.1 require VT-x/AMD-V enabled processors to accelerate the usage of desktop virtualization software like VMware, VirtualBox, and Hyper-V. Even to install the latest Windows Operating Systems as the virtual machine, VT should be enabled on the…
Ubuntu is one of the leading Linux distribution many people like to get hands-on experience. It has desktop and server versions. In this guide, I will show how to install the latest Ubuntu 19.10 on VMware workstation with working VMware tools and setting up a VMware shared folder between the guest OS and host Windows 10 OS. Installing another OS such as Ubuntu Linux on a Windows 10 computer by using virtualization software like VMware is the best way to experiment with any kind of new OS. You do not need to install on the physical hard disk or modify…
Update: The latest Windows 11 is here, but if you are still using Windows 7 and want to change the version in the year 2021 or later, keep reading the below steps. Some users mentioned that the modifying registry trick does not work anymore. Hence, I’m including a downgrade tool that may do the job. Anyhow, I’m not able to verify both steps now since Windows 7 is out of support and it is not recommended to use anymore. Original Post: I installed/downgraded Windows 7 Ultimate to the Professional version without formatting or reinstalling OS on one of the computers.…
If you are looking for the pre-installed Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard VMware image, then this post will be useful to find out the correct image and show the steps to install it on VMware Player or Workstation. In this guide, we discuss the 10.6.4 version which can be upgraded to a certain level in VMWare on your Windows computer. The following method is completely for testing and learning purpose only. Do not use in the production or permanent use. Obviously, we can’t expect a good performance inside the VM, but overall it will be a good experience to…
If you use VMware workstation or VMware Player to host several virtual machines, then this post will be helpful to improve the VM performance. Most of the time, your first few VMs will perform well on a single host computer. Once you keep adding many VMs and powering on them together, then you will see the slowness of virtual machines. Here I show the few tweaks and settings to improve virtual machine performance in VMware. Most of the users miss configuring the basic requirements for VM to perform well. Few essential elements and settings can be done to improve the…