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Host only Configuration

anilchaurasia — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:43:39 GMT

Hi All,

Can aanyone please tell me how to create a host only network on a host.

I Googled around for some time but could not find any poist that solves my problem.

I am very new to vShere and detailed steps would be appreciated.

Thanks

VCP3 - is this the end at end of 2009

jcck20007 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:29:52 GMT

Hi All:
i have a friend who took the vi3 training class, but wanting to finding if it is in fact true that VMware is retiring VCP3 test at end of the year, i understand VCP3 will not be expired by the end of 2009 but can we still take VCP3 exam after the end of 2009 ?, where is this official statement from Vmware on this ... I cannot find it in vmware's certification web site

thanks

one cluster or two?

russ79 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:58:27 GMT

in a nutshell my current enviornment:

1 Intel Cluster of 5 hosts (core 2 and i7) for production, attached to production san
1 Intel Cluster of 2 hosts (core 2) for development, attached to development san
4 Standalone Intel hosts (core 2) some for production, some for development
6 Standalone AMD hosts (older opteron) for development

I am beginning the process of upgrading to vSphere and I've made the suggestion of pooling all of our Intel boxes into 1 cluster on the production san. We have enough capacity to retire our AMD boxes. I could use resource pools and vlans to keep production and development VMs separated. I am looking for any thoughts and comments on this plan. I think this might be a good idea but i'm curious to know if anyone thinks otherwise.

VMware - FIX FUSION 3 - NOW!!!!!!

francis.carden — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:17:56 GMT

I LOVED FUSION 2.0 - I ranted about it to 100's of people. Best thing since sliced bread is what I used to say.

Now I upgraded to Fusion 3 and it's TERRIBLE. Performance is a joke. I use this in my daily work and if I'm lucky it still works. I can't rely on it now for my demonstrations. Shame. Shame. Shame.

Being a user of Fusion 2 since it was released, I can say I rated the s/w as a 9 or 10 for enterprise use. Now I rate it as a 3.

I will be doing a Video this weekend of how bad it is and will post it online. Since no one from VMware seems to bother to read these forums or comment. I suggest they see what people said about united Airlines when THEY didn't listen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

VMware Tools required for linux?

kenw232 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:08:07 GMT

Under ESX4 for a properly/fast working Linux guest(s) do I VMware Tools installed? I'm not running X windows or doing any video at all. Its purely text based servers like web and samba. Thanks.

v2 to v3 - recreate image?

perryg@securcomputing.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:56:29 GMT

I am running Fusion 2.06 and built a Win 7 Pro image selecting Windows Server 2008 as the OS. In upgrading to v3, will I get the best results creating a new image using the correct OS selection or is there some other way to migrate? Or will it not make any difference and can I jsut use the existing image?

Thanks,

Perry

DroboPro

robpotthoff — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:46:48 GMT

Is anyone using the iSCSI of the DroboPro to connect it to ESX?

If so is it working well and what did you need to do to get it working?

Access vm from within LAN

Mykle — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:42:53 GMT

Host: Windows 7 Enterprise x64

Guest: Ubuntu Server 9.10

I am trying to access an apache web server from another machine on my lan. I can access it on my host with NAT networking but not with BRIDGED networking. Which method should I use to access it from my LAN? I will eventually port forward my router to this virtual machine. Thanks.

Retrieve License Information

siarra — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:50:20 GMT

Can anyone tell me how to retrieve the license key from our ESXi 3.5? Our vCenter is our licensing server. I need to identify the actual license key to see which network it's being used on. I know in the licensing tab you can see how many are used and how many are still available but that's not helping me. The key is what I need to be able to view.

Thanks.

VDR and High I/O SQL Server

jjahns — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:36:24 GMT

This probably goes beyond support, so I am just testing this.

Here is a description of my environment.
We have a SQL 2000 server running on a Windows 2003 x64 VM. MDFs are located on a separate VMDK. LDFs are located on a separate VMDK. Both of these have been made independent persistent VMDKs, so they do not get snapshot.

Using the freeze scripts, I was able to use osql to call a stored procedure I created for backing up the databases on the VM, and then pause the MSSQLSERVER service so the snapshot can occur. Once the snapshot gets done, the MSSQLSERVER service is set to continue. This seems to be working very well without killing the applications on the VM that use the database instance.

I have not tested this in VDR yet. But I worry that deduplication may not matter here, since I am overwriting the same bak file for the backup of each database. WIll VDR be that smart and know what to do? Or will the block arrangement for that bit of data be completely different and it backs it up again?

Am I alone in this method? Can someone shed some insight?

Copy Paste in Fusion 3 (Text as Images)

kahunamike — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:12:53 GMT

I'm having difficulty with trying to Copy and Paste between Fusion and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. When I copy from Microsoft Excel or Microsoft OneNote in Fusion and Paste it in Mac OS X, it always pastes it as an image. I don't want it as an image and the only workaround that I have thought of is to paste it in Notepad within Windows XP and then Copy-Paste it into Mac OS X. Is there a way to default it back to the way Fusion 2 handled Copy-Paste. I may just stick with Fusion 2 if there's not a good fix since it's wasting a lot of my time. Thanks.

Macbook Pro 10.6 Snow Leopard

Windows XP running in VMWare Fusion 3

Mike

ESX4 on Poweredge T110?

kevcherry — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:04:04 GMT

Has anyone successfully install ESX 4 on a Dell PowerEdge T110?

Ubuntu 7.10 panels and Unity mode

matthewls — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:50:31 GMT

I've noticed the ubuntu panels can disappear and not reappear after I switch between single window and unity modes. They don't reappear with full screen mode either. If I "show taskbar in unity" the panels persist. across modes.

For the VMware Fusion team list...

MS

Method for top level PerformanceManager properties

silmaril — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:17:29 GMT

What method should be used to query the description, historicalInterval and perfCounter properties of the Performance Manager Object?

Regards

Logon scripts on VMWare View 3.1.2

SisypheanShrug — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:14:33 GMT

Hello.

We have been using Citrix to present desktops to clients for about 3 years now. We have several group policy objects that are in used based on the container that users are in. In these GPOs we do things like restrict control panel access, access to the registry, remove common program group, etc. We also run login scripts that map particular drives and copy down some ini files and run a process that reads keys into the local HKCU based on an extract that we do on logout (to save user settings).

This all works well in Citrix.

We are testing a VMware View 3.1.2 implementation.

Using similar GPOs (though brand new, as the test environment is in its own new domain), we are able to restrict the desktop, copy the ini files down, read the values out of the registry on log out, read values into the registry on login and map network drives.

About 50% of the time, the login process works without a hitch. The users map the drive letters, the registry entries get read in (we can see this using a verbose command) and the world is golden.

The other 50% of the time, it looks like the GPO is not read in. I re enabled access to the start menu and access to the command prompt and even when the GPOs are not applied, gpresult shows that the correct GPOs are applied and in the correct order.

We are using a mandatory profile for standard login.

Any thoughts on why the login scripts don't run sometimes?

The client machines are VMs of Windows XP Pro spk3, 32 bit.. The servers are 64 bit Windows 2003, SPK2, Using GPMC to modify GPOs.

I can a attach HTML outputs of the GPOs and text of the login scripts if required.

Some really newbie questions (VMware workstation and Ubuntu guest)

ohaya — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:48:01 GMT

Hi,

I'm a fairly new VMware user, and have some questions:

1) I have VMware Workstation 6.5.2 running on a Windows 2003 host.

I just created a new guest and installed Ubuntu 9.10 (desktop), and it was kind of working ok. I also installed VMware tools for linux. Network for the guest is set to "Bridged".

However, after I rebooted the guest, I noted that I don't have connectivity:

I just found that if I run a command:

ifconfig eth0 up

then, the networking works.

I was wondering why the network doesn't work, to begin with, after I startup the guest?

2) VMware Tools - copy/paste: As mentioned above, I installed VMware tools for Linux on this guest, so after starting the guest, I don't have to do Ctrl+Alt to move the mouse pointer between the guest and the host.

From the dialog, I have to manually run "vmware-user" after starting the guest, to get copy-paste between the guest and the host. But, when I run vmware-user as root, I get:

root@ubuntu4nc:~# vmware-user
root@ubuntu4nc:~# vmware-user: could not open /proc/fs/vmblock/dev
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
vmware-user failed to initialize blocking driver.

(vmware-user:1823): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

Copy-paste seems to work after that, but why am I getting the above messages?

3) VMware-Tools (vmware-toolbox): I gather that to get shared folders working, I need to run vmware-toolbox, so I run:

nohup vmware-toolbox &

and the vmware-toolbox pops up.

But, I can't figure out what else I need to do to share folders with the host?

I've tried adding folders in Settings, but where do I "see" the shared folders in the Ubuntu guest?

Sorry for all the questions, but thanks in advance!!

Jim

Virtual Appliance - Password protect.

EranL — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:50:47 GMT

Hi guy,

I have just export a VM machine as a Virtual Appliance and I wonder:
Is there any way I can password protect my Virtual Appliance?

Thanks,

Eran Levi

Virtual Appliance - Password protect

EranL — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:47:45 GMT

Hi guy,

I have just export a VM machine as a Virtual Appliance and I wonder:
Is there any way I can password protect my Virtual Appliance?

Thanks,

Eran Levi

Pre-allocated VM disk size growing

stevelittler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:20:23 GMT

I have VMWare Fusion 2 on Mac OSX 10.5.6 and I have a 120 GB
preallocated Vitual Machine for Win XP Pro that grew to 188GB. I had two Snapshots
that I didn't need so I deleted them but I didn't recover any space. So
then I deleted the following files:

Windows XP Professional - 000001.vmdk and

Windows XP Professional - 000002.vmdk and recovered about 98 GB space.

But now when I restart VMWare Fusion 2, it gives me a message that it
can't find Windows XP Professional - 000001.vmdk and asks me to
navigate to it but of course I can't find it because I deleted it.

What can I do now to get the Virtual Machine running again?

Many thanks!

Steve Littler in Gainesville, FL

vmdkファイルの移設方法

onoke — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:21:01 GMT

こんにちわ

”やっちまった”状態に陥りまして、救済策がないものかお尋ねします。

環境：　ホストOS Win Vista
VMWare Player 2.5.1 ゲストOS FedoraCore10

やっちまった：
　　　　　FC10を11にyum upgradeして、依存関係にひっかかり、該当パッケージをyum deleteとしたら700以上のパッケージが依存関係にあり同時に削除された。
　　　　　再起動すると、もう起動しない。

　　　　　深夜に半分うつろな状態で操作したのが間違いでした。

救済したいこと：
　　　　　１．現状回復したい
　　　　　２．せめて、vmdkディスクを、新規のゲストOSで使えるようにしたい(マウント?)したい

方法、アドバイスなどどうぞお願い致します。

小野

Cannot Open Guest Console when Host is Disconnected from Network

OrboJeff — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:28:18 GMT

I cannot the open the Console on my Guest when my Host machine is not connected to a netowrk. Once I connect to a Wifi or wired network it opens without issue

I can open the VMWare Infrastructure Web Access page and Power on my Guest, but cannot open the Console

Fusion 3.0 Import Win7 x64 Boot Camp Partition Problems

bleepjay — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:27:05 GMT

Here's my progression of installation.

Snow Leopard on Mac - > Fusion 2.0(latest) - > Windows 7 Boot Camp Partition running Fusion (Not native VM) -> Fusion 3.0 Beta -> Fusion 3.0 RC -> Fusion 3.0

I got a larger HD so I created an Image and restored using CCC for mac partition and WinClone for Win7 Partition. Upgrade went successful.

Now, I am wanting to move my Boot Camp Partition to a native VM image so I am using the 'Import' Option for my Boot Camp Partition. After running the Import process (which takes a very long time), I'm getting the following error:

"vmware importer is unable to prepare your virtual machine to run under vmware fusion"

I've searched and searched but cannot find any help out there for this situation or where to even begin. Any ideas?

Script to count VMotions per VM

rassini — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:34:52 GMT

Looking for a script that will report how many times a VM has migrated witing a give timeframe. -Start date to End date.

Output it to .csv file.

Main purpose is to check if the same VM9s) are constantly migrating with DRS automatic set.

Yes I could set DRS to "partially automatic" and track it manually but that won't capture the overnight activity.

Thanks.

upgrade to W7 and vmware fusion 3.0 - can no longer access \\vmware-host

jgw7 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:31:15 GMT

I was running OS 10.6.1, Vista and Fusion 2.0.6, and had \\vmware-host\z: as a mapped network drive visible (which was the same location as the 'vmware shared folder' icon provided by Fusion on my windows desktop)

after upgrading to Fusion 3.0 and W7, the 'vmware shared folder' desktop icon still works fine...BUT the mapped drive is no longer accessible ("vmware-host is not accessible") ... this is causing major issues, since many of my windows apps were set up to use the shared Documents folder (quicken, turbotax, etc).

I tried the suggestion to uninstall/re-install vmware tools, but I get an error message during the uninstall that the vmware-host drive is no longer available!! ("error 1606: could not access network location \\vmaware-host\shared folders\documents")

I tried a fresh install of Fusion 3.0, followed by a fresh install of Vista (everything was working fine to this point), and then installed the upgrade to W7, and the same problem re-appeared.

I also tried both NAT and Bridged modes for the vmware network adapter with no affect.

It's interesting that I can still dbl click the "vmware shared folder' desktop icon and go to the shared folder... and then in the left hand window pane under 'network' the "vmware-host" is listed but if I click on it I get the "vmware-host is not accessible" error message...!!

please help!

Broadcom Nextreme II 10Gb 57710 whithout link on ESX 4

Michaelvx — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:12:58 GMT

Hello, I have two servers IBM x3655 with ESX4, each with two Broadcom Nextreme II 10Gb 57710 single port, the ESX 4 see the NIC´s and the output of the esxcfg-nics -l show, Link "Up", Speed "10000Mbps", Duplex "Full", but from the switch side (1000Mbps), the Link Led is off,

From the GUI i tried to change the Speed of the NIC, it shows only two options, Auto negotiate and 10000Mbps Full and none of these has resulted in connectivity.

Does anyone out there have any suggestion what I might do to resolve my issues?

Thanks!

I already tried downloading the "VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0 Driver CD for Broadcom NetXtreme II Ethernet Network Controllers" from

http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/esx_40_bnx2x_dt/ZHcqYmR3KmVidGR3

and follow this procedure but with the same result.

To update or add drivers on existing ESX installations using esxupdate:
(for ESX only)

1. Power on the ESX host and log into an account with administrator capability.
2. Place the driver CD in the CD-ROM drive of the ESX host.
3. Mount the driver CD.
4. Navigate to <cd mount point>/offline-bundle/ and locate the
<offline-bundle>.zip file.
5. Run the esxupdate command to install drivers using the offline bundle.

esxupdate --bundle=<offline-bundle>.zip update

Changelog?

building39 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:34:34 GMT

Is there a changelog document for VMware Server 2.0.2? We'd like to know what changed between releases.

Trouble installing Windows 7 on VMware Fusion 3

ggore — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:31:06 GMT

I upgraded to VMware Fusion 3 yesterday. All went well, my Jackalope Linux virtual machine works fine. I want to install Windows 7 onto my Mac using a Virtual Machine. I put the DVD in the drive, the Mac recognized it. Launched Fusion and it saw the DVD and offered to install the operating system when I selected, File>New. I entered what I wanted for a password and the Windows Product Key, accepted the rest of the defaults and clicked Install, and that was it. The virtual machine window indicated a network boot I guess, something about DHCP and then the process ended with the message "No bootable device detected". The Windows install DVD was gone from the Mac desktop and the install stopped. Am I doing something wrong?

Workstation 7 - Pin to Taskbar... odd behaviour

rhazell — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:49:33 GMT

I just installed Workstation 7 (upgraded from 6)... on Windows 7.

When I "Pin to Taskbar" the WS7 application something weird happens... When I start the WS7 application it creates an additional icon on the taskbar that appears to represent the running instance of the app. That is, after clicking the icon on the taskbar to start, when the application starts an additional icon appears.

Is this a known issue? If not, how do I go about "offically" reporting this issue?

There are also several over oddities of how the application interacts with the taskbar icon - more on this later

Thanks in advance.

Web Management Console: Login Attempts Timeout, proxy log shows exceptions

Anthony.Neal — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:34:45 GMT

Hi everyone,

My host is a Fedora Core 11 quad-core with 8G RAM running kernel 2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64. I'm attempting to run VMWare Server 2.0.1 (with the vmware-server-modules-2629tar.gz patch).

Web Browser is on Fedora as well, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091027 Fedora/3.5.4-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.4, accessing through URL http://localhost:8222

I will not lie, getting to this point has been a rough road.

VMWare is built, starts up, shuts down, starts again... logs look fine AFAIK. However it is hard to tell just how good things are when you can not log into the Web Management Console. Put in my root user and password and get this messae after it spins for a while.

The server is not responding. Please check that the server is running and accepting connections.

Heh. Well, I'd love to. Checking the /var/log/vmware/webAccess/proxy.log file (the only log file with anything in it under webAccess), I see a lot of this:

2009-11-05 13:01:58,125,http-8308-1<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : AxisFault ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
2009-11-05 13:04:47,572,http-8308-2<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : AxisFault ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
2009-11-05 14:50:20,426,http-8308-1<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : AxisFault ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
2009-11-05 14:51:28,440,http-8308-2<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : AxisFault ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
2009-11-05 14:55:50,152,http-8308-3<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : AxisFault ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
2009-11-05 15:03:39,921,http-8308-4<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : AxisFault ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

I've checked the main VMWare logs and nothing looks out of order (a few warnings, but nothing that looks pertinent, it's attached if you're interested).

Has anyone seen this or have words of wisdom ("use a supported host OS" does not help me, thank you)?

Thanks,
Anthony

VMware Server installation just fails, no error message

larrymenard — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:26:32 GMT

Hi,

I've had VMware 2.0 Server running on my Windows XP laptop for a year or more now, and it's been working fine. Then one day a couple of weeks ago it just stopped working. I forget the symptoms now, but that's not the point... I uninstalled it and since then have been trying to reinstall it. That's the problem... it won't reinstall. The installer immediately exits with no error messages at all.

I've tried both 2.0.1 and 2.0.2. Same thing happens (basically, nothing).

Last week I found a posting somewhere here that described a "VMware Installer Cleaner" script, but that didn't help at all.

I wish I had more info to give you, but that's all I have. Really appreciate any help with this.

Thanks.

Java issues in Fusion 3.0 created VM (ok in upgraded VM)

KieranK — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:49:50 GMT

I have created a new XP SP3 VM using Fusion 3.0 and the java web application I use is extremely sluggish. Checking Task Manager the Java.exe process has high cpu usage. I searched the forum and found a suggestion to disable 3D acceleration in the VM - which appears to have fixed the issue.

However, oddly, the XP SP3 VM I created with Fusion 2.0x has no problems. 3D Acceleration is active, and I haven't changed any other VM settings. So I'm not sure why the VM created with Fusion 3.0 would cause this problem with Java?

Java version was the same in both VM's: 1.6.0_16

Convert VMs from vSphere change mouse driver in XP SP3 from VMMouse to Compatible PS2 -> slow mouse!

Virgile — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:28:22 GMT

Hello,

I use vCenter Converter in order to shrink the VMs on my vSphere, and I just find out that after a conversion, the VMs get a horribly slow mouse: in fact the driver change from vmmouse to mouse compatible ps2 (default driver for XP).

I have the last converter (4.0.1) and a uptodate vspshere, what should I do ?

thx!

Failover Clustering

Mintofoxburr — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:20:45 GMT

This is more of a configuration question I am new to VMware so I apologies for my lack of knownledge. We have 4 ESX 4i Embedded servers connected to EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. I was hoping to build a couple of windows 2008 servers running Failover Clustering but it looks like from reading the VMware documentation this is not possible with the current configuration I am running which is 4 ESX Servers in a Cluster with DRS and HA enabled and also an iSCSI SAN as storage. Can anyone confirm this to be true and if so how could I do MSCS on VMware with my current configuration do I have to go back to physical servers for this to work?

Thanks in advance

Gary

Workstation 7 VM crashes when installing Windows 7

PlumBob — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:08:25 GMT

I'm trying to install Windows 7 x86 on a new VM disk and it crashes with this error:

NOT_IMPLEMENTED d:/build/ob/bora-203739/bora/vmx/main/pollVMX.c:3981

The host is 64-bit Windows 7 running on a Intel Core i7 (four cores) with 6GB of RAM. I have collected the support data if anyone wants to see it. The log file is attached.

VMplayer stuck at downloading extra components

crapp0 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:22:27 GMT

I have recently upgraded from the RC to the full version of vmplayer 3.0 but i am still having the problem of updating vmplayer 3.0 with the necessary vmtools.

Does anybody here encounter the same problem and hopefully there is a fix to my predicament.

Whenever i try to download all of the components of vmtools, its stuck at the window where its vmplayer is trying to connect to the update server.

This problem was also present in vmplayer 3 RC and i thought it would go away after upgrading it to the version 3 but it seems it hasnt.

Portable for Catia P3V5R19

Bamdad63 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:38:54 GMT

Hi,

I tried to make a portable for Catia P3 V5R19. The package was made for both Thinstall and the USB options. The executable from the bin folder is not working for both options. I noticed that the executable icon on the desktop for the original installation has to provoke an environment like this:

"C:\Program Files\Dassault Systemes\B19\intel_a\code\bin\CATSTART.exe" -run "CNEXT.exe" -env CATIA_P3.V5R19.B19 -direnv "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\DassaultSystemes\CATEnv" -nowindow"

Is there any solution for this?

Best Regards

Fusion 3 killed Vista hibernation

smithchuck — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:58:06 GMT

I've been using Fusion 2.x on my iMac for many months, running Vista from my Boot Camp partition. I've had the Start Menu Power button set to "Hibernate" and it's worked as expected. Today I upgraded to Fusion 3.0 and now the Boot Camp-based virtual machine no longer wants to hibernate, only Sleep or Shut Down. The host is a 2008 iMac with a 3.06 GHz processor and 4 GB of RAM, currently running Leopard 10.5.8 (although I have a Snow Leopard upgrade waiting). Fusion is 3.0.0 (204229).

If I boot the computer from the Boot Camp partition (which I rarely do, normally), I find that I can still use hibernation.

(It also seems to have a problem remembering my preferred display resolution in Vista, but I'll save that for another time unless somebody can point me to an answer on that one too.)

Thanks in advance for any helpful advice,
...Chuck

vmfs inconsistent after disk failure

bovineone — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:55:36 GMT

I have an ESXi 3.5 server with a simple local RAID5 array. One of the drives in the array failed causing the whole system to hang, so it was replaced, and the array rebuilt. However, the unclean shutdown during the failure seems to have caused one of my vmdk files to become inaccessible. As you can see, when I attempt to list the files within the vm directory, it displays "No such file or directory" for the flat backing of the vmdk indicating that the file might still actually be there. The free disk space on volume is still showing the space being consumed by the phantom disk file.

/vmfs/volumes/4ad3ba84-4e750958-3b28-0007e9065658/drool # ls -l
ls: ./drool-flat.vmdk: No such file or directory
-rw------- 1 root root 8684 Oct 19 17:27 drool.nvram
-rw------- 1 root root 408 Oct 19 18:02 drool.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 16 21:08 drool.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2292 Oct 19 18:04 drool.vmx
-rw------- 1 root root 269 Oct 19 18:04 drool.vmxf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70507 Oct 16 22:56 vmware-1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40996 Oct 19 18:05 vmware-2.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14944 Nov 4 23:50 vmware-3.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14944 Nov 4 23:51 vmware-4.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14944 Nov 6 23:54 vmware.log
/vmfs/volumes/4ad3ba84-4e750958-3b28-0007e9065658/drool #

Output from fdisk:

Disk /dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:0: 367.0 GB, 367033057280 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 350030 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:1 5 750 763904 5 Extended
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:2 751 4845 4193280 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:3 4846 350030 353469440 fb VMFS
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:4 * 1 4 4080 4 FAT16 <32M
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:5 5 52 49136 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:6 53 100 49136 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:7 101 210 112624 fc VMKcore
/dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:8 211 750 552944 6 FAT16

When attempting to do "vmkfstools -R" it always fails--maybe this isn't supported on ESXi?

vmkfstools -R /dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:3

VMware ESX Server Question:
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Error: vmkfstools failed: vmkernel is not loaded or call not implemented.

Any other suggestions?

Suggestion: Exclude Dock area from desktop in Unity

thully — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:35:11 GMT

In Beta 4, Unity uses the entire screen - including the Dock - as the Windows desktop.
Thus, maximizing a window makes part of it appear underneath the Dock. Could this be fixed in the next version - either by excluding the Dock or by offering this as an option as Parallels Coherence does?

reconfiguring a virtual machine

jjj0923 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:51:13 GMT

Ok - I used the connector today to move a physical machine to a virtual machine I created using the Infrastructure Client connecting to my esx 3i server

the pysical machine I moved had 200 gb of disk space and 150 gb free.

The connector would not allow me to choose a virtual machine I had already created before starting the connector and instead created a new VM with 200 gb of space allocated.

Is there anyway to reduce the amount of disk space allocated after a machine has been moved?

thanks in advance

Jeff

T-shirt for User Group in vForum Singapore

Iwan Rahabok — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:47:28 GMT

In recognition for the growing local community, marketing just told me that they are making t-shirt for the user-group.

Once the t-shirts are done, you can come and collect at your convenience, at VMware office, where we always have our meetings.

Just look for Grace.

Will post again here once the t-shirts are ready for collection.

So please wear it during the vForum on 24 Nov. There should be around 800 people on that day, so it's a good way to increase the profile of the user group.

Cheers!

A number of Unity problems

BobWatson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:42:57 GMT

There are a number of issues I'm having with Unity - and after playing with Parallels 5 for a bit; they're really quite glaring, some of them exist from Fusion 2, and some of them are new in 3; but none of them exist in PD5:

When clicking from a Mac application to a WIndows one, often the Windows app doesn't come to the front
When dragging windows around, you get flickers of the background, and sometimes, you end up with windows that are half missing (i.e. you see the old window outline, but the window is actually off to the left, and the remainder is filled with your background color
Often, drop shadows aren't properly refreshed -- so the drop shadow of the window 'at the back' is drawn over the top of the window 'at the front'
Exposé is useless if you have a number of overlapping windows

VMware Fusion 3 runs extremely slow...

JangMunho — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:32:48 GMT

First, my MacBook Pro:
Core 2 T9300 @ 2.5GHz
4GB memory
250GB SATA HDD
Snow Leopard 10.6.1
VMware Fusion 3.0

When I was using Leopard and VMware Fusion 2.x, the virtual machines ran fast, but now they are extremely slow. BTW, I enabled the 64-bit kernel.
I managed to find the reason, that is because the process "mds" in the host OS, not a problem of the guest os. Everytime I turn on my Windows XP in VMware, "mds" will show up in the Activity Monitor window, and take up about 2%~20% CPU usage, the hard disk becomes noisy at the same time. What I could only do is to wait, after about 1 hour, mds will "calm down", and my MBP returns quiet. But, when next time I turn on my virtual machine, "mds" will show up again...

"Mds" is driving me crazy... I tried to google for answers, but no result.
Anybody is facing this issue too? Or anybody knows how to deal with the problem? Thanks!

Workstation 7 guest not receiving IP on wireless host

jeffdgr8 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:42:36 GMT

I recently installed VMware Workstation 7 and on the 2 systems that are wirelessly connected to the network I am unable to get an IP address on the guest systems. When I look at the router device IPs I notice that the DHCP is assigning a lot of IPs to the MAC address of the host system. For some reason these IPs are not being routed correctly to the guest. On the systems that have wired network access on the host I'm not having this issue.

When I want to play virtual mashine - BSOD

Vizir — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:11:41 GMT

Hello, when I want to play virtual mashine my notebook crash by BSOD. In BSOD is file "vmx86.sys" ... I tryed Instal vmware workstation 7 and there is the same ...
I can create virtual mashine but when i want to run - notebook crash ...

So, I formated my HDD and instal OS (windows 7 64bit) again a tryed again but its the same ...

My notebook is Asus K50AB (Turion X2 RM74, 4GB RAM, and Ati 4570)

I attach photo of BSOD

thank you for help ...

Serial port missing with linked clones and Wyse thin clients

pharmer — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:22 GMT

We are using Wyse V10L with VMware View 3.1 and linked clones

The master image has serial ports and when connecting to the master via RDP from a Wyse client - serial ports are OK

However, any clone created from the master show no serial ports in device manager

I have tried multiple masters to eliminate any issue with a single build (XP SP3)

Is there no support for serial ports in a linked clone?

Anyone know?

Dual core vs Quadcore

SuperMiguel — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:25:40 GMT

I have a machine with 12GB of ram and i want to run 2 servers and 2 client.. I currently have a AMD 6000+ Dual core...

Is it worth it to put a quadcore cpu in this system like a AMD X4 630???

Thanks

Issues with Upgrading an ESXi 3.5 host to 4.0 in a cluster with other 3.5 hosts

acoustix — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:23:35 GMT

I think I'm losing my mind. Here is my scenario: I originally had three ESXi 3.5 U4 hosts in a cluster managed by virtualcenter 2.5. A few weeks ago I did a successful upgrade on VC to version 4.0. All of the configs stayed the same. All of my network adapter/virtual switches were configured the same on all hosts:

vSwitch0 / VMkernel Port / Management Network / vmk0: 192.168.1.x (16 - vmsvr1, 17 - vmsvr2, 18 - vmsvr3)

vSwitch1 / Virtual Machine Port Group / Virtual Machine Network

vSwitch2 / VMkernel Port / iSCSI VLAN 25 / vmk1: 192.168.25.x (13 - vmsvr1, 14 - vmsvr2, 15 - vmsvr3)

vSwitch3 / VMkernel Port / iSCSI VLAN 26 / vmk2: 192.168.26.x (13 - vmsvr1, 14 - vmsvr2, 15 - vmsvr3)

Here is my IP scheme for the physical ports on the servers: Nic1: 192.168.0.x - virtual machines. Nic2: 192.168.1x - Management network, Nic3: 192.168.25.x - iSCSI VLAN, Nic4: 192.168.26.x - iSCSI VLAN. Both iSCSI VLANS have access control lists that do not allow traffic to leave or enter the VLAN. In other words you cannot access VLAN 25 or 26 from any other network like 192.168.0.0 or 192.168.1.0.

Yesterday I evacuated all of my VM's from my first ESXi host: vmsvr1. (my other hosts are vmsvr2 and vmsvr3) I put the host into maintenance mode and moved the host outside of the cluster. I then deleted this host from VC. I did a fresh install of ESXi (embeded) onto my Dell PowerEdge R805 server. After configuring the management interface exactly like the original server I configured the network settings on vmsvr1 exactly the same as above. I did all of the other configs the same as well (scratchconfig, iSCSI SAN, etc). I added the host vmsvr1 to the cluster on my VC. Then got an error when configuring the host for VMware HA:

Host vmsvr1 does not have the following networks used by other hosts from HA communication: 192.168.25.14,192.168.26.14. Consider using HA advanced option das.allowNetwork to control network usage.(FYI: those addresses are my iSCSI adapter addresses for vmsvr2 - are not NOT configured for HA comminication)

Host vmsvr1 has the follow extra networs not used by other hosts for HA comminication: 192.168.1.16. Consider using HA advanced option das.allowNetwork to control network usage. (this IP address is my management network along with 192.168.1.17 for vmsvr2 and 192.168.1.18 for vmsvr3)

Now the REAL kicker is this: When I go and look at my network configs for vmsvr2 I noticed that it changed from the config I posted above. Vmsvr2 now looks like this:

vSwitch0 / Virtual Machine Port Group / Management Network

vSwitch1 / Virtual Machine Port Group / Virtual Machine Network

vSwitch2 / VMkernel Port / iSCSI VLAN 25 / vmk1: 192.168.25.14

vSwitch3 / VMkernel Port / iSCSI VLAN 26 / vmk2: 192.168.26.14

What the heck is going on here? I did not change anything on vmsvr2. Even thought it shows vSwitch0 as a VM port group with no IP address I'm still able to manage the machine as if it were a VMkernel port with an IP address assigned to it. This is why my HA config is bombing on vmsvr1. What is causing vmsvr2 to change on it's own and how can I change vSwitch0 back to a VMkernel port with an IP address without messing everything up?

Thanks in advance,

Nick

S5000VSA-SATAR + LSI1064E (SASWT4i)

mierzenp — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:03:24 GMT

Hello world

I just upgraded my old host based on Intel S5000VSATAR (ESB) with new LSI controller, but it's not working properly
After booting from installation CD ESXi 4.0 i saw my super-extra (huh) logical raid device (IME aka 10E) , so I've installed on my new device ESXi and after booting i get:

Failed to find boot partition

So, going through easy way, i've installed ESXi on single hard drive connected to mainboard (AHCI or Legacy). So far, so good
After trying manage my new-extra-10E-super-LSI-raid-drive by VS, i do not see it - nothing, no device, no storage nothing
No mater if the device is Raid 1, Raid 0, Raid 10E

Yes, i do not see this controler on HCL and can't find information about it anywhere

The guy on Polish forum Techit is writting about the controller and it's working ( http://forum.techit.pl/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=372 ) , so i'm lost :-|
under other system like linux (system rescue cd) i see logical drive

Any idea, any help ?

Best regards

BusLogic or LSI for Windows XP?

ercruzv — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:08:39 GMT

Hi folks!

Can somebody tell me which controller driver is better for Windows XP deployments for VDI? ¿BusLogic or LSI?

Thanks in advance!

Best Regards,

Randy

No Lockout in Workstation 7, how can I protect the snapshot ? (Allow the people to restore not the snapshot, but not create)

Reaperhk — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:57:22 GMT

Hello, I am helping my university to setup the vmware workstation for the lab use.

In the previous version, there is an administrative lockout which can be used to protect the parameters and the snapshot.

I am trying the Workstation 7, but that feature has been removed. I have done some search in this discuss forum, the vmware said that it conflict with the new feature, so they have removed the lockout.

My question is:

If I want to create a Vmware image, I want anyone can restore the snapshot I have created if necessary but they are not allowed to create a new snapshot (or delete a snapshot)

How should I do the setting?

Or should I just stick to vmware 6.5 and don't upgrade workstation?

vSphere Web Access 4.0

Jchumillas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:10:55 GMT

Hola

tengo una duda o problema no se como determinarlo. La cuestion es que yo a un usuario le doy permisos en "VMs and Templates" en una carpeta en concreto que tengo 3 máquinas virtuales. El perfil que le doy es de "Virtual machine user". El usuario accede via web a la plataforma vSphere correctamente, ve las máquinas virtuales, configuraciones, etc..., pero cuando se va a consola para ver la máquina (El plugin esta instalado y he probado con varios navegadores), aparece el error "Cannot access virtual machine console. The request timed out. Try Again CloseThe attempt to acquire a valid session ticket for "Server" took longer than expected. If this problem persists, contact your system administrator."

Se que el tema es de permisos, pero no veo donde esta el asunto.

¿Alguna idea?

Gracias.

Product Recommendation please

Ericinboston — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:24:13 GMT

Hi all...my team and I have been using VMWare Workstation for years. I have been looking on the VMW website and cannot find a product that fits my use case (if VMW even creates such said product):

We'd like to have a VMW product that installs on the hard drive which replaces an Operating System...therefore, when we power up the computer, a VMWare product starts up rather than Windows or another OS. So imagine powering up your laptop and 10 seconds later VMWare Workstation is running.

Once the VMW product has opened up, we can navigate to another hard drive and open a VM that was created on VMWare Workstation 6.0 and higher. So in essence we are removing all the Windows (or other OS) overhead to make our VMs perform better. We use laptops to demo software so we don't have access to things like 16GB of memory or super fast CPUs...just whatever laptop technology exists.

Does such a VMW product exist? The closest I have found is ESXi...however, that acts more of as a server where other machines would connect to it. What we are looking for is basically a way to boot our laptops into a VM so that we are not using Windows and all of it's memory and CPU overhead. If there was a slick VMW product that would do what we are looking for, that would be terrific.

Thanks so much in advance!

-Eric

Workstation 7: Can't SSH to guest from host....Bridged networking broken?

coalese — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:50:40 GMT

Hi:

Just finished upgrading to Workstation 7 (from 6.5.3 prior). Host is a WinXP Pro SP3 system. Guests are Ubuntu Linux (Jaunty, 9.04).

Everything worked fine wit the prior 6.5.3 Workstation where I was able to SSH in to the guest Linux VMs from the Windows host, typically using Putty or WinSCP.

Now with 7.0, and no other changes to the VMs, I cannot get an SSH connection to the the guest Linux VMs from the Windows host, typically using Putty or WinSCP. However, I CAN SSH in from an external machine (laptop or other server machines I have around). So I know that SSH is running fine on the guests, as it always has.

Network connections to the guests are bridged, as they always have been.

What is strange is that I can ping the guests successfully from the host and get a response. Just SSH isn't working for some reason. Just tested https access to the guess and that doesn't seem to be working either though it did with 6.5.3. What's funny is that my Putty log looks like this:

2009-11-01 16:46:48 Looking up host "coalese-vm-rd"
2009-11-01 16:46:48 Connecting to 10.66.66.32 port 22

...but it never connects, though it has obviously found the vm on the network at the correct IP address. Same idea with HTTPS access to a web server on the guest....it just sits there saying it's connected, but the browser on the host never gets a response. Accessing SSH/HTTPS from a separate machine works just fine, which is why I suspect that the bridged networking in 7.0 is fubared.

It's almost like the bridge is blocking or not making available various ports like 22 and 443 on the guest to the host machine.

Anyone else run into such strangeness?

Help with DR storage.

BearHuntr — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:54:42 GMT

We have a Production ESX environment in our primary datacenter and a DR ESX environment in our DR datacenter and we are using EMC Clariion SANs at both locations. Several production LUNs are mirrored to the DR site using Mirrorview in an asynchronous method. One of the LUNs in particular is devoted to VM Templates and it has no powered on machines so it rarely has anything to synchronize. We do use Site Recovery Manager, but for the purposes of what I am trying to do, it is really not pertinent.

Here is what I am trying to do: I want to temporarily connect the mirrored Template LUN to the DR ESX environment so that I can build a new VM from one of the templates at the DR site.

I have tried fracturing the mirror and connecting the DR LUN to the DR ESX host, and it shows up in storage management, but the VMFS volume is not present. If I try to add storage, it looks like the disk is empty and the wizard fails to complete.

I have tried creating a snapshot of the mirrored LUN and connecting the snapshot to the DR ESX host, and it also shows up in storage management, but the VMFS volume is also not present. If I try to add storage, it formats the disk.

Any ideas???

Port is Busy: All pipe instances are busy on Lab Manager

SgRddY — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:56:32 GMT

Hello,

I am getting this error message below on the host of Lab Manager and not sure what is causing it. I am running Lab Manager 3.01 and ESX3.5U3. It caused the Lab Manager website/console not available to users. Is there a solution for this?

Thanks.

Event code: 3005
Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred.
Event time: 3/31/2009 4:19:40 PM
Event time (UTC): 3/31/2009 11:19:40 PM
Event ID: 151e95e72d724395b03991e8200e5cfe
Event sequence: 564978
Event occurrence: 410
Event detail code: 0

Application information:
Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/1/Root/LabManager-1-128829953888811250
Trust level: Full
Application Virtual Path: /LabManager
Application Path: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Lab Manager Server\WebSrvr\
Machine name: LMCONSOLE

Process information:
Process ID: 1836
Process name: w3wp.exe
Account name: LMCONSOLE\VMwareLMWeb

Exception information:
Exception type: RemotingException
Exception message: Port is Busy: All pipe instances are busy.

Request information:
Request URL: https://lmconsole:443/LabManager/ControlPanel/Machines/MachineDetails/ConsolePage.aspx?id=8911&LMAJAX=1&CCContentId=CCContentAlert_1000000
Request path: /LabManager/ControlPanel/Machines/MachineDetails/ConsolePage.aspx
User host address: 10.168.81.170
User: brads
Is authenticated: True
Authentication Type: Forms
Thread account name: LMCONSOLE\VMwareLMWeb

Thread information:
Thread ID: 33
Thread account name: LMCONSOLE\VMwareLMWeb
Is impersonating: False
Stack trace: at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
at LabManager.Backend.Interfaces.IRemotingFactory.GetRootObject()
at LabManager.Web.Util.BackendSession.Init(Int32 userId, Int32 bucketId)
at LabManager.Web.Util.BackendSession.Init(HttpSessionState session)
at LabManager.Web.Page.AuthenticatedPage.OnInit(EventArgs e)
at LabManager.Web.Page.ContentPage.OnInit(EventArgs e)
at LabManager.Web.ControlPanel.DeploymentCenter.MachineDetail.ConsolePage.OnInit(EventArgs e)
at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer)
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)

Custom event details:

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Workstation 7 - Slow to start

rhazell — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:40:10 GMT

I just installed Workstation 7 (upgraded from 6)... WS6 took 1-2 seconds to start, WS7 is taking a painful 10-12 seconds to start (on the same computer). I am referring to the start time of the WS application itself.

Is this a known issue? Has anyone else experienced the same issue?

Thanks in advance.

VM Upload always fails at 97%

jimmyc1 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:30:54 GMT

Hi,

I am using VMware Convertor standalone version 3.0 to upload images to my VMWare ESXi server. I've tried many differant images but the process always fails at 97%. I had a look in the logs and this error always seems to be present:

~~2009-11-06 16:22:41.320 'P2V' 2220 error~~ task,295 Task failed: P2VError UNKNOWN_METHOD_FAULT(sysimage.fault.NfcConnectionFault)

I can't upload any images without having this issue, does anyone know what the problem could be? I've attached the logs from VMware convertor here.

Thanks,

Jimmy

Error running Recovery Plan - storage prep (IBM n / NetApp)

wackjunk — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:13:57 GMT

Hi, I'm getting an error when I try to test a recovery plan. I get it on any of the datastores I'm trying it on. It's an IBM n5200 (running NetApp OnTap). This worked at one point but there was a crash and after rebuild I get this error. What am I missing? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

--2009-08-11 09:46:05.215 'SysCommandLineWin32' 3860 verbose-- Starting process: "C:
Program Files\\VMware
VMware Site Recovery Manager\\external\\perl-5.8.8\\bin
perl.exe" "C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware Site Recovery Manager/scripts/SAN/IBM_ONTAP/command.pl"
--2009-08-11 09:46:11.090 'SecondarySanProvider' 3860 info-- testFailover exited with exit code 0
--2009-08-11 09:46:11.090 'SecondarySanProvider' 3860 trivia-- testFailover's output:
<Response>
4 Starting script
4 Test-Failover-start
4 Collecting igroup information
4 skipping igroup since its ostype is not vmware
4 skipping igroup since its ostype is not vmware
4 skipping igroup since its ostype is not vmware
4 skipping igroup since its ostype is not vmware
4 skipping igroup since its ostype is not vmware
4 igroup DR_VMWARE has initiator 210000e08b9b300b and type FC
4 igroup DR_VMWARE has initiator 210000e08b9b1c0c and type FC
4 igroup DR_VMWARE has initiator 210000e08b9b330b and type FC
4 Checking existence of Lun /vol/SM_VMWARE_PROD2/Prod_VMFS2
4 Lun /vol/SM_VMWARE_PROD2/Prod_VMFS2 exists
4 Creating test Clone volume testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_SM_VMWARE_PROD2
4 Mapping Lun /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_SM_VMWARE_PROD2/Prod_VMFS2
4 No such LUN exists
4 Mapping Lun /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_SM_VMWARE_PROD2/Prod_VMFS2 to DR_VMWARE failed
4 Test-Failover-start completed with errors
4 Generate EMS event in filer
4 Generating EMS event in filer succeeded
4 </Response>
--2009-08-11 09:46:11.090 'SecondarySanProvider' 3860 trivia-- 'testFailover' returned <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
4 <Response>
4 <ReturnCode>4</ReturnCode>
4 </Response>

--2009-08-11 09:46:11.090 'SecondarySanProvider' 3860 info-- Return code for testFailover: 4
--2009-08-11 09:46:11.090 'SecondarySanProvider' 3860 error-- The scripts returned an error, leaving the temporary file 'C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\vmware-SYSTEM\dr-sanprovider0'
--2009-08-11 09:46:11.090 'SecondarySanProvider' 3860 error-- Unknown error encountered by the script
--2009-08-11 09:46:11.090 'SecondarySanProvider' 3860 error-- No shadow LUNs found in testFailover/start output
--2009-08-11 09:46:11.090 'SecondarySanProvider' 3860 verbose-- Deleting lun snapshots

Non-standard resolution not working with VMWareResolutionSet.exe

LanceRasmussen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:12:10 GMT

Windows 7 Pro X64 Host with same as guest. Dual monitors on host set to 1920x1200 each.

I want to see the host taskbar, so factoring the VMWare window and all, I use 1900x1050 for each monitor for the guest.

With help, I now call "VMwareResolutionSet.exe 0 2 , 0 0 1900 1050 , 1900 0 1900 1050" in a bat file for windows startup. This correctly enables both monitors but sets the guest monitors to 1920 x 1080, which is not what I want.

Is this the proper call to the tool? Tool not setting things right? Windows not playing right?

Thanks for assistance.

Error adding array manager - VSphere 4, SRM 4 and Dell Equallogic

maytrix — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:29:17 GMT

I've built a new 2003 VSphere 4 server and have installed SRM on it along with a Dell Equallogic SAN. I am at the point of configuring the array manager. After I enter in the information and click connect, I get the following error:

Error Occured: XML Document is Empty

I've tried running the setup again with the repair option and removed and re-added the SRA with no luck.

Any help is appreciated.

Direct3D not working properly in Fusion 3, running bootcamp install of Windows 7 RC

Shaolo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:19:42 GMT

Hello,
I want to start off by saying how much I liked Fusion 2.06. I was extremely eager for the Win7 3D support in Fusion 3. Alas, it doesn't work for me. In fact, it's less useable than 2.06. Images and an explanation below.

Setup:
OSX 10.6.1
Windows 7 RC
Altium Designer Winter 09 and Summer 09 (both tested, same results)
17" Apple MacBook Pro Unibody with both integrated and discrete graphics.

I'm an Electrical Engineer. So all the software I use is more or less Windows based. I love my mac, and I prefer to run windows through Fusion if at possible. I use a program called Altium Designer. Altium uses Direct3D for all of their PCB layout drawing routines. Both in 2D and 3D. Using Fusion 2.06 I had issues with these routines. If I wanted to draw a trace, the trace would not be displayed while moving. BUT, the rest of the board was displayed just fine. 3D mode failed to run completely because I did not have a 3D compatible driver.

Install Fusion 3 and everything fails to work. The parts of the board that were being rendered properly before fail completely now.
Here is an example of what the file should look like while using Fusion 2.06: http://img.skitch.com/20091106-si92hg72dchbijuurij252r2w.jpg
Here's what it looks like in Fusion 3: http://img.skitch.com/20091106-f3yqyqyy5d332fahpqjyyn7aqp.jpg

The other issue is how incredibly slow Fusion 3 has become. 2.06 was fast enough to be useable. 3 is slow all around. It makes it painful to use. I've stopped using Fusion as a result and now just boot in to boot camp.

This has me very disappointed. I waited months for Fusion 3 to come out and was severely let down.

I hope that someone can help me figure this out. However, as there are no 3D settings per se, I don't have much hope.

VMWare Tools and Security :?

gsandorx — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:12:22 GMT

Hi everyone:

I'm a newbie with ESX 4.0. My experience with VMWare is only with VMWare Worskstation products.

I need to know if there are security issues regarding VMWare Tools for ESX 4.0? I'm in charge to consolidate a bunch of servers on one of my DMZ and I'm concerned about security. I mean, I'm wondering if there is a possiblity to get ESX access through a fully-compromised VM.

Thanks,

Sandor

USB dvb-t tuner in vmware desktop 7

miskol — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:02:16 GMT

Hello

I am currently testing dvb-t card in vmware desktop 7 in Window7 64bit

I have ubuntu 9.10(64bit ) in windows7(64bit)

I open usb dvb-t in VideoLan and i tuned up some tv station

It's realy nice and it's working, but it's look like vmware can't handle all data from usb tunner to virtualised ubuntu kernel.

Video isn't playing realy well. Many frames is lost. And all depends on actual cpu usag.

Is it possible to tune up usb layer in vmware?

Maybe some other sollution ?

I am going to switch to 32bit OSs tommorow

How to get Spotlight to stop results?

sscharf — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:03:23 GMT

Running Fusion 2.x, on Snow Leopard, but it showed in Leopard as well.

When I go to the Spotlight search in the top right hand of my Mac screen, I'll search for "disk" for example. I will get back several items that are on VM's, which is not what I am looking for.

Is there a way to get Spotlight to only offer me Mac results?

I think that this is some kind of integration that VMware enabled, but I cannot find the fix on the Mac side, or VMware side.

Thank you,

steve

12/10/2009 Phoenix VMUG Meeting - Agenda

mattman555 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:57:09 GMT

The Agenda and Sponsor List are now posted in our Forum.

There are a few areas in the agenda that need to be finalized and we will update it as soon as we can.

Thanks!

Matt Mancini

Phoenix VMUG Leader

ESXi 3.5 + Windows 7 - Hangs

GALROY — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:07:44 GMT

hello all,

I have a VM running windows 7.

from time to time it will hang upon restart. When it happens I do from vi shutdown, I disconnect the E1000 network based card and start and it starts without no problem.

any ideas?

Thanks

ESXi 4.0 - Attached an iSCSI Lun and want to import VM's from it....

COS — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:00:59 GMT

OK, I attached an iSCSI LUN that has a couple of VM's on it from a previous build test. Now I want to import those vm's to my ESXi 4.0 host. Can someone give me step by step method on doing this?

Multiple LM instances, single pool of users

jschlach — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:49:02 GMT

Does anybody have a group of users accessing more than one instance of Lab Manager? I'd love to bounce some ideas off of you.

vmrun - Error: The specified service provider was not found

3PO — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:44:16 GMT

Hi,

i've installed vmware-server 2 on Gentoo 2008.0.

Installed Versions:

vmware-server 2.0.1.156745-r3

vmware-modules 1.0.0.24

vmware-vix 1.6.2.156745-r2

Everything works fine from a remote machine, but if i want to start up a VM from console via vmrun, i get this error message:

Error: The specified service provider was not found

Any suggestions how i can fix this problem?

When to use Unity Mode

alanl3 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:38:09 GMT

When should I use Unity Mode, and how can I find out about its features?
How can I learn about and how to use the many features of Fusion 3?
At present I just use it to go into Windows to access my few Windows programs.
Thanks,
Alan

Disk throughput rates on ESX 3.5 and VSphere

Androsbg — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:22:02 GMT

Dear colleagues,

I'd like to start a discussion on a very important and general topic - the disk throughput rate on any of the ESX versions. The reason to do that is a design I'm working on including implementation of virtual file servers. What I bumped into during the test phase was very poor performance. What we tested - copying 1GB file from the virtual machine disks, and issueing time dd command with block size 1024 and count 1000000 from the console of the ESX. There are the results:

ESX 4 on BL460 – 20MB/s
SAN attached, 40MB/s local SAS disk. (SAN attachedis EVA)

ESX 4 on BL685c G5 –
15MB/s SAN attached, 20MB/s local SAS disks

From Virtual machine –
copying files on VMFS - 10MB/s

ESX 3.5 on BL685c G6 –
30MB/s on SAN and 20MB/s on local disks (SAN attached is Clariion)

ESX 4 on BL685c G6 –
30MB/s on SAN, 20MB/s on local SAS disks

From the virtual
machine copying 1GB file on VMFS datastore – about
25MB/s

From the virtual
machine copying 1GB file on RAW device – about
25MB/s

The numbers are not any
different when using LSI, BUS logic or Paravirtual bus. They also didn’t change
when the queue length extended to 128.

ESX 3.5 running on Dell
T300 test lab – about 25MB/s on local and iSCSI disks

I installed a clean Win
2003 enterprise server on a blade BL685c G6 on it’s local disks. Then presented
a disk from the same array and tested the performance – it was close to 500MB/s
…

I now start to wonder - is this typical for the ESX ? I've done many implementations so far but always with a dedicated VM team and never received complains. This time however I planned for file, application and DB servers on Virtual.. And now it seems like not such a good idea.

I would appreciate if you share some thoughts and maybe execute similar tests in your environments and paste the results here.

Thank you in advance

Help, XP Pro SP2 Upgrade or Windows 7 Pro fresh install

blgood — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:43:38 GMT

I'm running Fusion 3.0.0, OS X 10.6.1 on a MACBook Pro 2.8 Core 2 Duo with 4GB memory. The VM I'm running is XP Pro SP2 upgraded from Home Edition. This setup only recognizes one processor. I did some research about a year ago on changing the HAL settings and decided against it. I just optimized the system for one processor.

I have to run some new software which I know is going to tax the system and would like to take advantage of the multiple cores.

Has anyone had any success in changing the HAL settings? Or reinstalling the XP PRO upgrade and changing settings?

Will it be easier to just outright buy Windows 7 Pro and avoid all the upgrade issues?

Any help will be really appreciated. I'm trying not to spend money but I'm also in a crunch where I can't spend much time testing different setups.

Thanks

Brandon

Bug with default application for file extensions

RoyHochstenbach — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:31:23 GMT

I found a bug when using VMware Fusion 3.0. Windows file types in Mac OS X are linked to applications in Windows through the virtual machine. But when I change for example one file type (all .nfo files) to open in Text Editor (inside Mac OS X) by default, it changes all windows files types (.zip, .rar, .exe) all to open in Text Editor on Mac OS X by default. I'm running Mac OS X 10.6

Unhappy User Experience of VM

nasterizer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:32:53 GMT

Ok I need everyones help here. Basically I have setup our VDI solution using ESX 3.5 VDM 2 using Wyse V90L's to connect to VM. I have setup to VM packages. The first package is basically your WinXP SP2 with basic apps like MS Office, Adobe Reader and Multimedia programs. Nothing out of the ordinary. The second was built upon the first except for some graphic intensive map applications.

Now even people using the first build (very basic package) have major complains about performance. They get black squares often where the graphics just dont show. There is also a lag in the responsiveness of most apps. Basically its really heavy.

Now were getting complaints and users are requesting regular PC's as a replacement. Where does my problem lie? Is it in the initial image that was created? Could it be it was created incorrectly? Network load is fine with pleanty to spare.

Again, I need any feedback I can get so dont hesitate.

PETITION - Native Mac version of the VI Client

virek — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:26:42 GMT

Copied from the Fusion forum...here's a better place I think.

I'm going to start this old chestnut again...

I'm here at VMWorld 2008, Cannes and I got talking to a couple of people. Now I'm not claiming any inside knowledge or anything but I'm guessing a petition with enough response will make VMware think seriously about doing a native mac VI Client.

I'm sure, like me, there are many of you who use the mac daily who also deploy, maintain, train and troubleshoot VI3, and booting an XP vm just to do that is well...a PITA.

So please, join in.

VMware is still one of those rare-breed companies that 'actually' listen to their customers, unlike others that say they do, but...don't.

Matthew VCP, VSP

VMware Player 3.0 now needs PAE support (2.5.3 did not)

BrunoG42 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:56:36 GMT

I used VMware Player 2.5.3and tried to upgrade to 3.0.
But after the installation and starting a VM I got the message:
PAE is required
and the player ended.

Yes I the CPU does not have PAE support - but why is it required starting from 3.0?
It could be an option - that would be cool.

Or those with PAE and more than 4GB RAM - they could use workstation...

Is there a way to use the new player with a CPU without PAE support?

Kind Regards

root@kim:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 600.000
cache size : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up bts est tm2
bogomips : 1196.18
clflush size : 64

Could not open virtual machine: c:\path\to\my_machine.vmx. Something is wrong with the configuration file.

aachkar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:42:26 GMT

Hello,

I'm using VMware Workstation 6.5.3 build-185404.

When I try to open (File->Open) my VM, I get the error:

"Could not open virtual machine: C:\QNX641_1\QNX641_1.vmx. Something is wrong with the configuration file."

Contents of .mvx file:

.encoding = "windows-1252"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
memsize = "256"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "QNX641_1-0-000002.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.autodetect = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
roamingVM.exitBehavior = "go"
displayName = "QNX641_1"
guestOS = "other"
nvram = "QNX641_1.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
ft.secondary0.enabled = "TRUE"
tools.upgrade.policy = "useGlobal"

extendedConfigFile = "QNX641_1.vmxf"

floppy0.fileName = "A:"

ide1:0.startConnected = "FALSE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
uuid.location = "56 4d 8d 26 8e 72 d6 0f-e2 09 6c 32 2f c0 f3 c8"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 8d 26 8e 72 d6 0f-e2 09 6c 32 2f c0 f3 c8"
ide0:0.redo = ""
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "33"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:c0:f3:c8"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmci0.id = "801174472"
ide1:0.fileName = "D:"

ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"

checkpoint.vmState = ""

priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "idle"

ide0:1.present = "FALSE"
ide0:1.fileName = "QNX641_1-0-000002.vmdk"

ide0:1.redo = ""

annotation = "This is the latest QNX VM, as of 2009-11-06.|0D|0AIt has the following:|0D|0A-QNX SDP 6.4.1|0D|0A-MME 1.2 (Aviage)|0D|0A|0D|0A- Ran out of disk space on IDE 0:0 (2GB)|0D|0A[ ] Trying to copy everything to IDE0:1 (8GB) and run from there.|0D|0A"

ide0:0.mode = "undoable"

Here's what got me to this point:

Create VM as Other, with 2GB hard disk (IDE 0:0 PM /dev/hd0).
Install QNX 6.4.1
Needed more space, so created a second hard disk 8GB (IDE 0:1 PS /dev/hd1).
Using QNX, create partition, format, install boot loader, etc.
Change BIOS to boot from the 8GB hard disk (Primary Slave)
QNX boots fine.
Now, I wanted to delete the first hard disk since it's no longer needed. Powered down the VM. Took a snapshot. Tried to remove the disk. Got an error message (forgot what it was). Exit VMware Worksation. Open VMware Workstation. Try to open my QNX VM... I get the error described in this message's Subject heading.

I have attached a .zip of most of the files in my VM directory (except the disks).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Alain.

Windows Server 2003 guests - TCP Reset problems

mid-range — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:34:47 GMT

I don't know if this is the correct forum or not, but here goes:

Have any of you experienced this defect?

We have found what we believe to be a defect with the Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition OS.

Problem: TCP Resets

Our monitoring specialist along with our Cisco CCIE have determined that we have servers that are "machine gunning" out 3 rapid TCP resets at a time randomly.

After a lot of testing we have found the following:

On clean builds:

Server 2003 Standard Edition SP1 no problem
Server 2003 Standard Edition SP2 no problem
Server 2003 Standard Edition SP2 fully patched tcp reset problem

This appears to be a true defect.

We have numerous (a LOT) of our servers that have this issue right now.

It would seem logical that an update post SP2 is causing this, and it is a real problem.

See attached pic.

Thanks,

Michael

Calculate Data Transfer for a VM

mbleske — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:16:01 GMT

How would I go about getting statistics on the total data transfered to/from a VM? Specifically for an individual Port Group or even on a per network interface level.

Cannot install Windows 7 x64 Pro (student version upgrade) in a new VM

pmcarrion — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:22:22 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to install Windows 7 x64 Pro (student version upgrade) in a new VW using Easy Install but I get the following error in the VM after it starts copying Windows files:

TO USE THE PRODUCT KEY YOU ENTERED, START THE INSTALLATION ON A COMPUTER THAT IS RUNNING A GENUINE VERSION OF WINDOWS.

I have contacted Digital River and Microsoft and they say the Product Key is working fine.

Anyone else having this issue? Any workarounds? How can I perform a clean install if I don't want to upgrade a Win XP VW?

Please help.

Thanks,

Percy

Non-functioning KMS (Server 2003) after P2V conversion

jawerjksdpgfjlmascouawf — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:50:20 GMT

I did a local-based conversion from on an old Dell 2450 to ESXi yesterday. Since the change in visible hardware is obviously significant enough and caused the KMS to spit out "KMS license expired or hardware out of tolerance" as a message whenever I do "slmgr.vbs -dlv," this required re-activation of the KMS via "slmgr.vbs -ato." However, now whenever I do "slmgr.vbs -dlv" it tells me that the status is "licensed" but there's no current client activation count. When I have Vista clients try to connect to the server, the clients get a message that KMS can't be reached. A packet trace clearly reveals that connection to TCP 1688 is made and that RPC transactions are taking place. There's apparently something wrong with the KMS.

Has anyone else had this issue? I really don't want to have to go through a KMS license key reinstall since I can't seem to locate ours.

iSCSI issue

tonybunce — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:32:58 GMT

We have been testing out iSCSI on a ESX4 host and have noticed a problem.

At this point we do NOT have any host running off of iSCSI. There are two host that are on the iSCSI datastore but they are powered OFF.

If we power off our iSCSI target (an openfiler server) all of the VMs on the server appear to hang for at least few seconds up to a minute at a time at least twice an hour. We aren't sure if they are actually hanging or if the networking just stops working. During that time period we can't run esxtop because the service console also stops responding. We have not been logged into the console directly when it happens to prove if the entire host is hanging or just the network stack. As soon as we turn our iSCSI server back on everything goes back to normal. The problem started when we started testing iSCSI and we can't reproduce the issue when our iSCSI server is live.

During the outage time we also get gaps in our performance data. On our CPU percent graphs we see one core spike to 100% right before the gap but on the VM usage graph we don't see the spike (see attached).

Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this or how to fix the problem? We plan on turning off iSCSI but that requires a reboot of the EXS server.

32bit or 64bit guest on 64bit ESXi host with VT on or off

mackop — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:50:56 GMT

Is there any noticeable (performance) difference running:

PARAVIRTUALIZED GUEST:
1. 32bit guest on 64bit host with VT on
2. 64bit guest on 64bit host with VT on
3. 32bit guest on 64bit host with VT off
4. 64bit guest on 64bit host with VT off

COMPLETLY VIRTUALIZED GUEST:
5. 32bit guest on 64bit host with VT on
6. 64bit guest on 64bit host with VT on
7. 32bit guest on 64bit host with VT off
8. 64bit guest on 64bit host with VT off

To make comparison easier, let's make the host memory maximum 4GB
and everything running on ESXi 4.

Thank you

Dell Optiplex 760 - cann't install ESX sever 3i 3.5.0

jenefa — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:42:33 GMT

Hello All,

I am getting this error when i try to install the Sever 3i 3.5.0

Unable to find a supported device to write the VMWare server 3i 3.5.0 image to.

Please help, i have tried to change the mode of the Sata hard drive to legacy and ata

I tried adding the "nocheckCPUIDLimit" to the boot option.

But still the same error, can some shed some light on this.

Cheers

Jenefa

Fusion 3.0 Migration Assistant - Error - Help Please

BillF15219 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:19:34 GMT

I have just downloaded the VMWare Fusion 3.0 30 day trial. I have installed it on my Intel MacbookPro with the 30 day product key. No problems there. I then downloaded and installed the PC Migration Agent on my Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002 SP3 Dell XPS laptop. Both the Macbook and the Dell are in Windows Workgroup. I logged in to the Dell's Administrator account (password enabled) and turned off both the Zone Alarm firewall and the NOD32 AntiVirus. I start the VMware Fusion PC Migration Agent and immediately get my 4 digit code. On the Macbook, I have the firewall setting set to "Allow all incoming connections". File Sharing is turned on and SMB is enabled. On the Mac, I open VMware Fusion and from the "Getting Started..." screen I choose, "Convert my existing Windows computer to run as a virtual machine on this Mac". I then enter the 4-digit code from the Dell on the Mac. Enter the User Name and Password (Administrator and my admin password) and click continue. The Mac logs into the PC and gives me the Space Needed and Space Available (so it's making the connection). I click Continue, and add my Mac admin password. The Mac tells me it's calculating and after a few seconds I get the following: An Error Occurred - "An error occurred while creating the virtual machine. If you have enabled System Preferences -> Security -> Firewall, disable the firewall while migrating your PC."

I have tried this numerous times (using both the 4-digit code and the IP address) and get the same error each time. I have no idea what is wrong. I am excited to try Fusion, as I am currently a Parallels user. If anyone can be of any help, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Bill

LM4.0 --> Where is the attach local CD/Floppy to VM??

touimet — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:12:16 GMT

New installation of vCenter Lab Manager 4.0 and it appears that the VM web console is lacking the ability found in the vSphere client to attach a local CD/Floppy drive to the VM. Are we REALLY stuck with using ONLY the LM Media library thus forcing users to create ISO's of all their physical media?? And what about an easy creation of vfloppy disks that the end users can handle? This all seems backwards and screeming for a HUGE improvement.

Thanks!

Virtual and Physical DHCP Servers

scotty p — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:36:26 GMT

I have 2 domain controllers - DC1 (Physical) - DC2 (Virtual). I have a split scope for DHCP on them, however, leases are always grabbed from DC1 until it has filled up. Does this have anything to do with DC2 being virtual and possibly taking longer to respond to DHCP requests? This behavior just seems a little odd.

Thanks,
Scott

cd/dvd problems fusion v3

nealt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:55:51 GMT

1. I am unable to select autodetect with vm running or not
2. With CD connected the CD drive open button does not open drive upper drive (It is selected in preferences), Option -Button opens both of my drives.

Thanks

Windows Server 2003 horrible performance on ESX 3.5u4

mvarre — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:55:54 GMT

Hello all, i have a Server 2003 Enterprise server running on proliant DL380 G5's with dual 3.0 xeon quad core cpus, 4gb memory commited to guest. All of a sudden i've notied it is horribley slow. takes forever to do anything within on the guest. other machines on the esx hosts run fine. the cpu looks like its getting pegged on guest itself, but the VI performance graphs show that it averages around 200-300Mhz.

Pretty much all the guest settings are vanilla. I try not to customize that stuff if ever at all possible.

So if the guest cpu is pegged, but its barely touching the host cpu counters, what could be going on here? I've had this vm up for abou 2 years without problems (as far as i know).

creating vm

calvin75 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:32:52 GMT

I am using the traditional VDI model, close to what is used for the server infrastructure. I need to create 300 VM's Is there a way do this in an automated way and still use individual mappings? (Not using automated pools).

Thanks for your attention to this!

V3 - extensive hard disk activity inside VM's after booting - SOLVED

dlhotka — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:40:46 GMT

All of my VM's have extensive disk access (blue drive icon) after booting - this lasts several minutes, and task manager doesn't show much, but the VM is slow until it stops. This is new behavior with Fusion 3. Anyone else seeing this?

ESXi4 server on RAID array

bxtux007 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:57:48 GMT

hello everyone,

i am going to setup an esxi4 server as an test center in our company.

the basic setup work fine - i installed the server on an usb memory
stick and i can connect to the server with the vsphere client.

for the datastore i planned a level 1 raid system of 2 250 gb disk. on
computer statup the disk where recognized as level 1 raid (fasttrax
controller output "raid1 1x2 250gb").

the problem is that i can't create one datastore with these 2 disks. i
always see two independend disk. the same problem during the setup
progress - there i can choose between the 2 disks an the usb memory
stick.

for testing i setup one disk as an datastore an created a virtual
machine with 10gb on it. the capacy of these disk degrees the capacy of
the other doesn't. so i think there a independend.

Has anyone a tipp or trick for me or can tell me what i'm doing wrong ?

thanks for your help, best regards

mormen007

design exam result

nik-O — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:21:48 GMT

Hi there,

i took the design exam today, but i experienced some strange things.

First of all, some operation were missing on some drag and drop parts,afterwards some strange questions on how change hardware without downtime ... with some bug answers too ....

then i did not have extra time as i'm a french guy .... with all that english text and scenarios i had to read 5 or 6 times.

and the last but not the least, how can i have the results just at the end of the exam?? A VMware examinator was hidden in the computer to evaluate the second part "viso" design?

so my score was 290 and the passing score is 300. So without 2 or 3 bugged question i guess i could pass it, but how is the design part evaluated? automatically?

i think this exam is very weird compared to the enterprise level, although i think the design exam is easier than the enterprise level. That's why i'm wondering how could i failed as i pass the enterprise with one try:)

In conclusion, i hope the design part has been taken into account as i don't want to retake this exam!!!

thank you for reading

Is it possible to enable jumbo frames on vmxnet3 under Solaris 10?

rhodesj — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:27:22 GMT

Solaris 10 10/09 running on ESX4. VMware tools are installed. ifconfig vmxnet3s0 mtu <value> only works for mtu values of 1500 or less. /kernel/drv/vmxnet3s.conf gives no hints related to jumbo frames.

I've come up empty searching the net. Ideas?

Fusion 3.0 Making my Images crash and Freezing my Mac OS 10.5.8

johncummins — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:21:28 GMT

Ever since I upgraded from Fusion 2.06 to 3.0, Fusion has stopped
responding several times (1-2 times per day). I have been unable to do
a Force Quit and had to reboot my Mac. This resulted in my images getting
correupted, Windows saying that the system file is corrupt and I should
try to do a repair.

This has happend multiple times with a Windows 2003 EE R2 64-bit image (created with an earlier version of Workstation), that I upgraded to the latest version before using and installing VMWare Tools. The image has 1 CPU and 1 GB of RAM assigned to it. I also had this problem with a Win XP image with 1 CPU and 1280 RAM. This one ran fine with Fusion 2.06 but also crashed under 3.0.

I am running Leopard 10.5.8 with all the latest patches. My Hardware is

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,2
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.93 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP52.008E.B05
SMC Version (system): 1.42f4
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

Any tips would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance

Problemas con el Cliente VDM View "cuadros negros"

Warrenjc — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:38:40 GMT

hola todos

Tengo el siguiente problema yo tengo mis usuarios accesando sus respectivas maquinas virtuales por medio de un servidor de VDM estoy usando las version VDM View tando el cliente, agente y el broker

los usuarios utilizan wyse como terminales para accesar sus respectivas maquinas y tengo problemas con estos modelos (X90l , X90e)

por ejemplo una vez que el usuario tiene la sesion activa le empiezan aparecer como cuadros negros en diferentes partes de la pantalla y esto solo me pasa con el cliente de VDM por ejemplo con remote desktop no me pasa eso, pero quiero utilizar el cliente de VDM para todos los usuarios pero no se como hacer para que no aparezcan esos cuadros negros

adjunto pantallazos con imagines

gracias a todos