Reference: http://askubuntu.com/questions/151099/how-to-uninstall-vmware-player sudo vmware-installer -l sudo vmware-installer -u PRODUCT-NAME With the first command you can see what products you have. With the second you can choose which product uninstall.
Category: VMWare
Extending dynamically Linux RAMs in VMWare VM without rebooting
Situation: Need to raise the amount of RAM in a VMWare VM without rebooting. Solution: – In VMWare interface: Raise the amount of RAM for the VM – In the Linux VM: Run the following script: #!/bin/bash # This script enables in system the unrecognized RAMs deleteline () { echo -ne $dellineup } ### check …
Update the number of CPU dynamically in a VMWare VM
Situation: I’ve come across a situation where I needed to LIVE-raise the number of CPUs for a VMWAre Linux VM without having to reboot. Solution: – In VMAre ris the number of CPUs – In the Linux VM do the following: – Save the following script into /root/bin/ directory (It was take from this article: …
Hard disk resize and sync without rebooting
Description: Sometimes I need to resize a virtual disk for a virtual machine without having to reboot the machine. For the kernel to recognize that a virtual disk has changed size. Here are the step to do that: Unmount the concerned partition: Eg. /dev/sdb1 umount /dev/sdb1 Find out which SCSI devices are involved: ls /sys/class/scsi_device/ …
Adding dynamicall a new Virtual Disk in Linux in VMWare
for i in $(ls /sys/class/scsi_host); do echo “- – -” > /sys/class/scsi_host/$i/scan ; done
Expanding a VMWare external volume
Description: The task here is simply to raise the zize of a data volume attached to a VMWare virtual machine. Steps: 1. Stop the instance that is attached to the volume to be expanded. 2. Create a snapshot of the volume. 3. Create a new volume from the snapshot. There you have the possibility to …