How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
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winlego3210
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How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
Just as the title says, how to I switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation 9?
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RentedMule
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Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
You don't switch it off in VMWare itself, you switch it off in the guest os.
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Lukas Marsik
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Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
Yeah sure... add this to the VM's .vmx file, make sure it is the last line:RentedMule wrote:You don't switch it off in VMWare itself, you switch it off in the guest os.
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acpi.present = "FALSE"
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Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
You can select VM > Power > Power on to BIOS and BIOS will open, so that you can disable ACPI.
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winlego3210
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Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
How about VirtualBox?
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Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
You realise that question can be easily answered by google?winlego3210 wrote:How about VirtualBox?
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WinPC
Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
Except that this community at least has a great deal of experience with virtualization, since the whole point of this community is to install and test operating systems and software, something which is done primarily by way of virtualization.MegaDragon998 wrote:You realise that question can be easily answered by google?winlego3210 wrote:How about VirtualBox?
In my opinion, we need a dedicated page (or thread for that matter) with information on installing and configuring a wide variety of emulators and virtualization packages for each platform (by "platform" I mean both, host and guest), so that members won't have to ask themselves or search for information from other sources.
Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
WinPC, that's what the tutorials section is for.
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Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
Only no one uses it anymore. It seems to me that people have somehow abandoned it.Andy wrote:WinPC, that's what the tutorials section is for.
And it's not like it is a centralized thread dedicated solely to emulation and virtualization either - while it does infact have several topics related to such, what we really need is one (stickied) thread dedicated to that subject entirely, so that members won't have to constantly search through loads of unrelated topics or worse, searching elsewhere entirely.
Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
And they'll continue to do so unless people post tutorials there.
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Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
What's the problem with google? Google does it pretty good and in my opinion we don't need to fill forum with useless tutorials which are usually one of 3 top results on google search.WinPC wrote:Only no one uses it anymore. It seems to me that people have somehow abandoned it.Andy wrote:WinPC, that's what the tutorials section is for.
And it's not like it is a centralized thread dedicated solely to emulation and virtualization either - while it does infact have several topics related to such, what we really need is one (stickied) thread dedicated to that subject entirely, so that members won't have to constantly search through loads of unrelated topics or worse, searching elsewhere entirely.
I know some users really want to use BA for their personal encyclopedia, but that's not really possible.Adding tutorial for every single thing would overload the forum.Also, if user really can't find any help on google, he (or she) can always ask on IRC channel on which im sure they would easily fix the problem.
Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
BA is supposed to be here to keep these tutorials available. Off-site tutorials won't exist forever so our aim is to compile that information ourselves in one place.
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Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
Since when is that? Also off-site tutorials can be archived using web archive which archives most of the stuff these days.(If they are not archived, they are mostly still there as i found few tutorials written in 1997 or so)Andy wrote:BA is supposed to be here to keep these tutorials available. Off-site tutorials won't exist forever so our aim is to compile that information ourselves in one place.
Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
Not everything is archived by the web archive, and even if it is, it can often be years behind in actually publishing it. We're an archive site not just for the files but for everything associated with it as well. Why can't you accept that? That is our purpose, otherwise you might as well say we shouldn't exist because the web archive might have copied of everything we have on the site too.
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Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
I can accept that we must archive stuff, but i think this is going to be too much.Andy wrote:Not everything is archived by the web archive, and even if it is, it can often be years behind in actually publishing it. We're an archive site not just for the files but for everything associated with it as well. Why can't you accept that? That is our purpose, otherwise you might as well say we shouldn't exist because the web archive might have copied of everything we have on the site too.
Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
Archiving the web would be too much for us, but archiving related topics to beta's is not. That's why this site existed from day one.
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Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
BetaArchive is dedicated to installing and testing operating systems and software. How does that not involve virtualization? Most people use virtualization when they test it anyway, so having virtualization-related topics is quite important for us when people are searching for information on how to get each operating system and each piece of software to work.MegaDragon998 wrote:What's the problem with google? Google does it pretty good and in my opinion we don't need to fill forum with useless tutorials which are usually one of 3 top results on google search.
I know some users really want to use BA for their personal encyclopedia, but that's not really possible.Adding tutorial for every single thing would overload the forum.Also, if user really can't find any help on google, he (or she) can always ask on IRC channel on which im sure they would easily fix the problem.
Also, the problem with Google is that it often takes words out of context. Just yesterday, when I was searching online for information on how to enable MIDI support in VirtualBox with Windows NT 3.51 as the guest operating system, in just about every case, the words were taken out of context in such a way that nearly all of the search results that I received were pretty much unrelated.
Add to that the fact that not all information is even readily accessible from Google, and even then, this is after all, a forum that is dedicated to installing and testing software, so I don't personally see how virtualization-related questions are at all inappropriate here.
I also agree with Andy; sometimes sites go offline, so we should be aiming to preserve these tutorials as much as possible in case that happens.
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Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
Ok, BA should archive every single thing that someone needs and should be another wikipedia.Hmm...that reminds me of....why dont we use BA wiki for tutorials if they are so precious?WinPC wrote:BetaArchive is dedicated to installing and testing operating systems and software. How does that not involve virtualization? Most people use virtualization when they test it anyway, so having virtualization-related topics is quite important for us when people are searching for information on how to get each operating system and each piece of software to work.MegaDragon998 wrote:What's the problem with google? Google does it pretty good and in my opinion we don't need to fill forum with useless tutorials which are usually one of 3 top results on google search.
I know some users really want to use BA for their personal encyclopedia, but that's not really possible.Adding tutorial for every single thing would overload the forum.Also, if user really can't find any help on google, he (or she) can always ask on IRC channel on which im sure they would easily fix the problem.
Also, the problem with Google is that it often takes words out of context. Just yesterday, when I was searching online for information on how to enable MIDI support in VirtualBox with Windows NT 3.51 as the guest operating system, in just about every case, the words were taken out of context in such a way that nearly all of the search results that I received were pretty much unrelated.
Add to that the fact that not all information is even readily accessible from Google, and even then, this is after all, a forum that is dedicated to installing and testing software, so I don't personally see how virtualization-related questions are at all inappropriate here.
I also agree with Andy; sometimes sites go offline, so we should be aiming to preserve these tutorials as much as possible in case that happens.
Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
That is a good idea. The forum or the wiki can be used for such things. Feel free to copy them over to the wiki if you wish.
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Re: How to switch off ACPI in VMware Workstation?
I'm glad we share opinion on that.Andy wrote:That is a good idea. The forum or the wiki can be used for such things. Feel free to copy them over to the wiki if you wish.