The BIOS of the VMware Workstation does not support to boot from a USB drive or stick which is connected to a virtual machine.
But there is a workaround:-) Use the Plop Boot Manager. Download the latest ZIP File and extract the plpbt.iso file. This contains a CD image which starts plop boot manager. Connect the iso file as a virtual CDROM to your virtual machine.
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Most of the Serversystems have a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) integrated for maintenace and management tasks.
Typical functions are, indepentend from the running operating system:
Usually, the BMC has its own LAN Interface and therefore an own IP Address.
Continue reading Windows: Read the IP Address of a BMC Board
In previous version of VMware Player the NAT and the “Host only” network settings could be change by vmnetcfg.exe.
Since VMware Player 5 this tools is no longer a part of the installation, but vmnetui.dll is available. You can start the virtual network editor using the Windows rundll32.exe.
Open a command line and change to the VMWare Player installation directory. This command bring the virtual network editor back:
rundll32.exe vmnetui.dll VMNetUI_ShowStandalone
Michael
Even though you have already installed and configured a Terminal Server license Server, you can not connect to a Terminal Server with the Remote Desktop Client from some individual clients. Some other will work.
The following error occurs:
The remote session was disconnected because there are no Terminal Server client access licenses available for this computer. Please contact the server administrator.
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Hi,
Sometimes you need the SID of a user or group. For example if you want to set permissions with icalcs in multilanguage environments. icacls needs as input the group name or the SID. If you want to set permission for the builtin groups you have to specify the group name in the current language of the operating system, i.e. “Users” for en-US and “Benutzer” for de-DE. The better choice is the SID, the SIDs for builtin groups are always the same.
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