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PSOD after U1 upgrade by updatemanager

peter.holmstrom — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:00:49 GMT

The G6 that worked fine when i updated them via Update Manager wasnt updated at all before the Update 1, just newly installed .. ESX 16*.. the G5 that had the problem had all the updates before Update 1.. ESX 17*..
Havent had any time to look anything more at the problem due to some other problems last night.
Going back and i think ill be reinstalling all the G5's insted.

ESX server on VMWare Workstation

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:00:05 GMT

Have a look at:
http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2007/07/you-got-your-es.html
http://www.petri.co.il/running-vmware-esx-and-esxi-in-workstation-on-your-desktop-pc.htm

Andre

VCP Certification material

Jain — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:53:10 GMT

Refer below link

http://vmetc.com/2009/09/14/quick-list-of-vcp-4-study-links-posts/

http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/vcp-vsphere-upgrade-study-notes/

If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points for "Correct" or "Helpful". Thanks!!!

How to Plan Luns for Exchange 2007 Virtulization

DSRSAS — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:57:02 GMT

I have have a question regarding the planning of the LUNs if I need to virtulizar Exchange MBX, HUB/CAS and Edge server roles. Do make a single LUN and assign it to all ESX host and create a seprate VMDK for each server or do I make a seprate luns for each role and asign to the esx host.

I short I need to know more about the planning of Raid and luns in Storage

Regards

Workstation 7 on Ubuntu 9.10 host -- VMs run dog slow

Neilly — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:56:16 GMT

I have tested this on two computers and one exhibits high utilization and the other does not. Although the one that does have the high cpu utilization does settle down to normal levels after a few minutes. Here is a brief summary of the Good and the Bad:
Good Guy:
AMD Opteron 165 (dual core) cpu 1.8GHz OC'd to 2.48GHz
ASUS A8N-SLI mobo
3GB RAM
nVidia 7950 GPU
openSUSE 11.2 (upgraded from 11.1)
- KDE 4.3.3
- ReiserFS
- two Seagate 320GB hdd in a software raid 0 array
- kernel-desktop

Bad Guy:
Lenovo T61 Laptop
Intel Core2 Duo CPU 2.2GHz
3GB RAM
nVidia 140M workstation-class video card
openSUSE 11.2 (clean install)
- KDE 4.3.1
- ext4 mounted with noatime,nodiratime,barrier=0,data=writeback, also readahead is set to 4096KB
- 120GB hdd
- kernel-desktop

The guest vm's on both systems are the same (identical copies) : Windows XP sp3. The vm hardware is the same : 1GB RAM, 1 vCPU. Seeing that some are reporting issues with the # of vCPU's I tested on the GoodGuy with 2 vCPU's to see if I could make it behave badly. I it did not get worse, it did not get better either which is fine.

So I'll need to do some further testing to see if I can make the GoodGuy bad or the BadGuy good . Towards that end I am going to format a spare hdd in my GoodGuy system with the ext4 filesystem to see if it possible that ext4 is causing an issue. Also I will reinstall openSUSE on the laptop with ext3. This should help, depending on the outcomes, to narrow the problem down to either the filesystem (ext4) or the brand of cpu (amd good, intel bad). Both of my cpu's have the virtiualization support and it is enabled as well.

Another test - should anyone else care to test it - is in regards to the kernel. There are some that are indicating it may be an issue with the kernel and the scheduler. It occurs to me that it may also be the timer as the kernel-desktop that is available with openSUSE changes the timer from 250Hz (used in openSUSE 11.1 and prior) to 1000Hz. The purpose of the change (option really) is to provide a more responsive single-user desktop experience vs the prior setting. Fortunately openSUSE also ships with the server oriented kernel (250Hz) so it is easy to test this hypothesis. I have no idea if other distro's are doing the same thing....

I'll let you how it goes.

Cheers,

Ron

page is redirected to https can not browse pages

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:55:28 GMT

ESX/ESXi use the https... but only for his management IP.
Each VM has his own IP... so be sure that your NAT is on VM IP.
Also test the redirection directly from the VM with lynx or similar text browser to see if locally it works.

Andre

Data Recovery: restore while source VM is gone

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:29:48 GMT

In the restore tab of VDR you must see all the restore point... also for deleted VM.
But remember retention policies... you can loose your restore point after their expire.

Andre

vShield VM availability

Iwan Rahabok — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:18:32 GMT

Since the vShield VM sits in between the "Protected VMs" and "outside network", what happens if the vShield VM goes down? Do the "Protected VMs" lose access to outside world?

Does a planned maintenance of the vShield VM require downtime of the vShield VM? Planned maintenance here means updating the VM with latest patch or updates.

Thanks in advance

fix network card on copied VM image

tongueroo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:11:46 GMT

resolved.

VMware Data Recovery Plugin Won't Install

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:59:15 GMT

Which version of the plugin are you using?
Have you tried to reinstall the vSphere client?

Andre

ESX stopped respoding to management functions

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:49:57 GMT

Your system is in HCL?

Does it have a FQDN?
The output of hostname command give a name that is pingable?

Andre

"Logging in to your PC and gathering information." goes FOREVER, in migration assistant

Macaroni — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:40:28 GMT

Holy crud, I thought I was persistent until I read your post - well done, but unfortunately it will be three days before I get near my hardware again to try your work-around.
Thanks for sharing...

Can Fusion do x64 Windows on a late 2009 Mac Mini?

etung — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:37:16 GMT

I'm looking for a solution to create and run images of Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise Edition and OS X Server 10.5 for small scale software testing.
Can I do this on a late 2009 Apple Mac Mini with VMWare Fusion 3?
I've heard that there are firmware limitations on this device that prevent 64-bit operation.

It should work, the only Intel Macs which can't run 64-bit guests are the original Core Solo/Duo Macs from 2006. Can you be more specific about the "firmware limitations"?

D945gclf2 (Atom 330) and ESXi 4

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:26:38 GMT

You can try to install ESXi 4 on a USB key, just to see if it can work.
The installation is quite fast.

Andre

ESX 4 and USB Hard Drives

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:24:55 GMT

I suppose that you are use a ext2/ext3 filesystem, cause FAT has the limit of the file size.
In this case you can use mount with the UUID or the VOLUME mode.
For the UUID mode just have a look at your /etc/fstab file.

Andre

ESXi 4 on Dell PE2950

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:20:48 GMT

just OMSA is the difference?

Yes... and is disable by default.
Maybe also some additionational driver, but I'm not sure.

I agree with the idea to use the "vanilla" version.
But also the Dell custom version can be handled with VUM and receive the update.

Andre

p2v to local usb drive

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:16:28 GMT

You can choose to convert in VMware Workstation/Server format.
In this case you can save the conversion to a local disk.

Then you have to make a V2V from this format to ESX format in order to import your VM.

Andre

Unable to backup Virtual Machine from VDR

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:13:53 GMT

Free space is ok.
VMware Tools are installed?
Can you manually create a snapshot of your VM?

Andre

vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463 does not run on Ubuntu 9.04 server 64bit

xplicit — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:13:37 GMT

Thanks,you comment points me to the solution:

on the Ubuntu 9.04 server 64 bit

file vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463
vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel
80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for
GNU/Linux 2.0.0, stripped

ldd vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463
not a dynamic executable

on the Ubuntu 9.04 desktop 32 bit

ldd /usr/bin/vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f9d000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e24000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f9e000)

So, it cannot find some libraries.I installed 32bit libraries on the 64-bit host

sudo aptitude install ia32-libs

and now vmware-guest64check runs on the 64-bit version of Ubuntu too

Is Thin Provisioning via vSphere instead of View Composer Possible?

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:12:23 GMT

Note that thin provision is just have dynamic disk (to a max size).
Linked clone is have a golden image and build several VM from there with only the delta files.

You cannot create linked clone directly from vSphere GUI, but there are a lot of script to do it.
See, for example, lamw's script at:
Re: Differential VMDKs on VMFS (vSphere 4)

Andre

Memory Freeze Up

XUSN — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:09:30 GMT

I've seen posts of different variations of the same theme, but they haven't worked for me. I use VM to support XP on my Mac. It recently froze because I was out of memory. I discovered that I have ~ 60Gb of segmented files:

Windows XP Professional - s001.vmdk
Windows XP Professional - s002.vmdk
Etc. up to 034

How do I delete the dupes or other data embedded in these separate files to clean up memory. I know it is VM Fushion related and not underlying XP data. Thanks.

Update Manager update VMFS Datastore ?

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:03:52 GMT

The vSphere client can be automatically upgraded during the first connection to a new version.
The vCenter Server software must be updated manually.
The VMFS can be leave as is if you have a VI 3.5 version (but probably also if you have a 3.0 version).

Andre

how many nics and scsi adapter a VM can have ?

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:01:11 GMT

Unable to load scsi drivers for a VM XP build...

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:59:33 GMT

If you use a virtual SCSI controller you have to follow weinstein5's link.
If you have vSphere you can also choose to use a virtual IDE controller, to resolv this problem.

Andre

CPUID utility vs processors listed in Systems Compatibility Guide

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:55:11 GMT

I haven't tested yet ESX 4.0 on a old PE 1850 (with old CPU).
But I've tested serveral system with old 64 bit CPU.
See for example: Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade

In this case, if CPU is 64 bit capable, then vSphere will run.
But without Intel VT you loose some functions like EVC in cluster.
Obviously no new feature like VMDirectPath, VMware FT, ...

Andre

VCB & Symantec Exchange 2007 Agent

Rumple — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:52:30 GMT

The Symantec VI Agent is what enabled you to do the Image level backups of the Virtual Machines. Without that agent, you are not able to get copies of the vmdk files backed up.

Think of it like the physical world. If you purchase symantec backupexec system recovery or Acronis...you are gonig to get snapshots of your server (including all files at that point in time...but anything like Exchange will not have its logs truncated and will be crash consistant backups.

You need to have an application level backup solution to get valid and consistent Exchange, SQL, Oracle, Active Directory (basically database type products) backups.

CentOS 5.3 x64 & Server 2.0.x web access instability and guest vm crashes

lamune — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:48:42 GMT

Hi all, I have two machines that are not identical but very similar: Phenom II processor, Gigabyte motherboard, 4-6GB RAM. Both are running CentOS 5.3 x64 and VMWare Server 2.0.1/2. Current kernel installed is 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.

The web interface has become very unstable. It simply stops communicating at random times, usually when you do some change (change media on a virtual drive, change focus of one VM to another, etc) Consoles will close unexpectedly, hangs forever "loading" info into the various frames

Restarting vmware-mgmt services will usually bring things back. Sometimes it does not (blank page, logged in but "no access to console", starts up with with numerous "the server response included one or more errors" dialog boxes where the detail is "an object was not found")

Most disturbingly, the VM's themselves will sometimes just stop running. The guests are Windows Server 2003/2008 64 bit. One of the machines has a Windows 7 VM which oddly enough despite not being officially supported is the most stable. Running the other guests with the Windows 7 VM shut down doesn't change the behavior either.

These machines were much more stable before a massive yum upgrade of 150 or so packages. I have no idea which one it may have been, but I did boot up in the older kernels to see if there was any change, and there was not. I also tried 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 versions of Server with no change.

My real question isn't so much as "how do I fix this" but more of "where do I look to find out what's wrong"

1- How do I debug the web interface issues? (what are good logs to look at, etc)

2- How do I figure out why a VM suddenly terminates? (logs to look at there, etc)

Thanks!

Unused portion of Memory & CPU

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:45:29 GMT

Thanks Scott.
Very clear explanation.

Andre

VM not freeing up space from Windows 7 deleted files (windows.old)

jmcrtp — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:44:57 GMT

Thanks WoodyZ, that worked like a charm.

Is there a reason that the delete function doesn't seem to clear the data? Also I notice from within programs when opening or saving files I can't seem to use the shared folders on the mac. Is this an initial limitation or is this feature not going to work the same as in fusion 2.0? Even when I make a shortcut from my documents in the windows 7 folder inside the VM to a shared folder on the mac and try to go through the shortcut it fails. Windows says it is unavailable, but I can see it at the same time in windows explorer. Is this a vmware issue or a problem with my setup of windows 7?

data cannot be read or written / vmdk failed

WoodyZ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:36:17 GMT

chuckomoss wrote: To me it seems that I have a disk error. Thoughts?

The HDD has bad sector(s) since dd was not able to read all 976773168 sectors!

What Manufacture and Model Number is the HDD?

Fusion 3/Windows 7 Ultimate/multiple displays

plaintiger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:34:14 GMT

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Web interface doesn't load - what's up ?

Doug_ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:32:20 GMT

Another thread with the same issue:

no login-fields at web-service, just blank
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1422899

no login-fields at web-service, just blank

Doug_ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:29:24 GMT

wrong thread

Better Performance with XP or Windows 7? SUGGESTIONS PLZ!!!

iplaydc87 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:25:27 GMT

do you think I would notice a big difference in the performance of my mac from using the 512mb RAM with XP compared to 1 GB for windows 7?

vSphere 4u1 - any issues?

DSeaman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:19:07 GMT

Updating the VUM SSL certificates is still broke with U1, but I found a way around the problem. Basically you de-install VUM and re-install it with your custom SSL certificates and it appears to work.

Full details are at:
http://derek858.blogspot.com/2009/11/vcenter-update-manager-40-ssl.html

VMware fixed the thumbprint problem with vCenter in U1, but didn't bother to fix VUM.

One Datastore for all ESX machines

Rumple — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:10:42 GMT

Personally I don't use anything directly attached to the ESX environment because i client side attach to ISO or mount the ISO on my workstation and attach to the drive using the VIC.

All my ISO's sit out on a shared drive (doesn't even have to by anthing better then a USB drive attached to a workstation

Open the console, connect cdrom and browse to the share and pick my iso...

All done...

Fusion 3, Win7 64bit super sluggish

jmstacey — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:09:15 GMT

Here are a couple short screen captures of the sluggishness I'm encountering:

VMW3 Desktop Dragging Demo
Notice the severe delay of the selection box as I'm resizing it on the desktop. CPU usage in both host and guest are not maxed out.

VMW3 Visual Studio 2010 Beta Demo
This video demonstrates sluggishness in the latest beta of Visual Studio.

Both videos are rather low quality and reduced framerate and do not fully capture the truly poor experience.

Making vCenter Server 4.0 use new SSL Certificates

DSeaman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:04:14 GMT

I've also developed procedures to update the VUM SSL certificate with vCenter 4.0 Update 1. You can find the details at my blog:
http://derek858.blogspot.com/2009/11/vcenter-update-manager-40-ssl.html

Vista Business much faster under Fusion 3.0.0, but also blurry and full of artifacts

jmstacey — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:00:56 GMT

I've also noticed the blurry issue. Visual Studio 2010 Beta is particularly bad, and it's not just the title bar--everything is horribly unclear.

Here's a screenshot: http://jonsview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/VMW3-VS-Blurry-Demo.png
Notice the tabs towards the bottom. It's not a bad screenshot, it's actually that bad.

Edit: I've got an Nvidia card: 256mb 8600M GT (MBP mid-2007).

Ubuntu 9.10 + VMWare Fusion 3.0.0 -- BROKEN AUDIO -- VMWare? Are you there?

Student Driver — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:55:17 GMT

I just fired up my Fedora Core 12 VM; it appears to play MP3s just fine, and it uses pulseaudio as well. So, I have to wonder what's so different about Ubuntu's implementation that makes it so sketchy on my Dell Mini 9 and inside the VMware products.

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

Windows 7

virshu — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:52:22 GMT

10 months later, Windows 7 is now GA, but I still have the same problem. I am running VMWare Server 2.0.2 on a Vista 64bit host. I have Win2003, Win2008, Win2008R2, Fedora 10 and 11 (not all at the same time :D) . Anyway, Windows 7 installation ran without any problems. There are no visible errors when using; however, every few minutes the guest just freezes. I can see some suspicious messages in the log.

Anyway, I gave up... I was building it as a development machine; so I just rebuilt it as another Win2008R2. I am not even sure if Windows 7 as client is supported... it isn't in the list of OSes when I create a new VM...

Can't get Web Interface to come up after Successful install on Fresh Windows 2003 Server

LewisJ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:45:25 GMT

I have installed and reinstalled VMWare Server 2 on Windows Server 2003 SP2. I cannot get the Web Page to display. I have tried to use the loopback address 127.0.0.1 using the ports as well as the name of the server on https and http. I have looked at the services and it seems the VMWare Authorization Service will not start. I have gone as far as re-installing windows. I have looked at the install log and it seems nothing unusual except for the services that won't start. I have completed this install around 20 times. I have changed the port numbers to other ports like 443 and 80, 8080, and I tried the defaults. I have also checked my host file. My server name resolves fine though. I did a netstat -a and it seems that the server is not listening on these ports. I have also tried disabling my firewall period to see if there was a problem. I am not getting anywhere. Please help.

Win7 + VMware Player - install of VMware NetAdapters disables Win7 internet access

Student Driver — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:36:56 GMT

I typically don't recommend dual booting as it takes time and kills access to one OS (not to mention the convenience of moving your VMs from host to host). As for your networking issue, you should have at least 3 adapters in there: 1 physical connection (WiFi, ethernet, whatever) and then the two VMware networks. Your host should be using the regular network connection, but can connect to the VMs if they are on VMnet 8 with the approriate IP. You shouldn't need Internet Connection Sharing enabled if the VM is connected via NAT or Bridged modes, as those share the currently "hot" network connection the host is using.

Are you saying that your host can't go online, but your VM is able to? It looks like you might have tried making adjustments that, in the end, weren't necessary. Do you recall all the steps you took while trying to get this working?

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

More than one USB device at the same time

ChrisVe — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:32:01 GMT

Hi Community,

i would like to find an easy answer for a easy question.

Here is it:

Is it possible to use more than one USB device with VMWare Server 2? If no, is there an VMWare product which has this feature?

Thx for your help in advance.

Best regards,

Chris

Windows 7 unable to connect to the internet

rcardona2k — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:18:41 GMT

The common fix for this to power down your virtual machine and delete the Network Adapter from Virtual Machine > Settings > Network Adapter > . Then re-add it with the in the upper left. The virtual adapter is the wrong type and re-adding it will fix the proper adapter type.

Correct Install/upgrade Procedure with View4

kjohnston — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:09:31 GMT

Have you checked out the View4 upgrade guide?

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

henrik7 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:27:18 GMT

Interesting, you make a statement without evidence: ". . . and frankly having MS "Security Essentials" is tantamount to having practically nothing protecting you" yet you demand evidence from others?

I suspect no evidence will suffice.

http://tinyurl.com/m5z3kh

// henrik

Unable to access internet after upgrading to 3.0 and Windows 7

terra72 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:08:32 GMT

I've gone through the complete upgrade of VM Fusion (to 3.0) and Windows (from XP to 7) and while it wasn't without issues (mainly memory), I finally got it to work. And it works extremely well, much faster than VMF2/XP, with one important exception: I cannot connect to the internet over my wifi network.

I've tried all the different network settings in VMware Fusion, and it consistently tells me that I am connected (Virtual Machine // Network Adaptors // Settings). However, when I try to actually access the net, it can't find the network and none of the 'troubleshooting' tools help me.

I'm a little frustrated as Windows 7 actually works really well in VMware Fusion 3.0 with the exception noted above.

Any ideas?

Thx

Wyse WTOS & View 4

OUScotty — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:00:51 GMT

My sales rep for the Oklahoma Texas region told me the same thing, but then later in a conference call last week one of Wyse's engineers told me that they are doubtful they will be able to upgrade the firmware.

I honestly seem to think that's BS. The V10L is their bread and butter product, I'd find it very hard to believe it won't run PCoIP when other companies like 10zig will have day 1 support of View with their ThinOS's

Player v3.0 under Fedora 12 as HOST

MihaiSapteCai — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:50:15 GMT

Did you figure a way around it? I tried to re-enable the certificate while vmplayer is running and it crashes as soon as I try to install the vmware-tools.

The problem is that without the tools I can't seem to get the network to work in Windows 7. This sucks.

Space character in Remote Name

Zevi — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:48:12 GMT

Steve,

Thanks you! That was exactly what I was looking for -- how to rename the "Shared Folder" without the space. I actually renamed it "Shared_Folder", and all is well now.

Thanks again,
Zevi

IBM Bladeserver P2V

Stevester — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:47:11 GMT

Good Evening,

Is it possible you can tell me which LSI drivers you injected into the image. I injected the vmware LSI driver but its not working

My VMware workstation is very slow!!

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:40:44 GMT

as Scissor already asked for it is necessary to see the vmware.log - you may need to adjust config.ini and the vmx-file.
For suggestions we need to see the log

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How to have custom resolution in Linux guest consoles?

Nazgulled — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:39:36 GMT

I think it goes something like this:

We have a virtual graphics card, both in VBox and VMware. These graphics cards support some combination of resolutions and depth colors but they are not truly variable (just like a regular graphics card). They are only variable if VMware tools are installed and running properly on X (talking about linux of course).

What VBox does is simply add a new resolution to the supported resolutions in that virtual graphics card and that's it. The system will recognize that custom resolution as another resolution supported by the graphics card and you can choose to use it just like any other resolution.

Support for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 on ESX 3.5

steveanderson3 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:38:05 GMT

My point is that the actual hypervisor kernel in 3.5 is 32-bit. VMware isn't all that forthcoming about it, but the kernel itself is 32-bit. That is one of the great things about 4.0, the hypervisor is now 64-bit. It's correct that vmware does support 64-bit guests on 3.5. My statement about me recommending it or not was not based on a compatibility matrix, it was just my opinion.

By the way, 4.0 update 1 is out, and it does now fully support 2008 r2 and Windows 7. I've not seen an update regarding 3.5 support yet for these OS's

How do I save a VM so I can run VMware player in otherplatform

echi111 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:32:50 GMT

This works. And I can copy to Windows 7. Thanks very much.

Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 install error on VMWare Wkstn 7

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:23:20 GMT

I cant use use IDE drives fearing performance hit.

there is no performance hit - on the contrary - IDE disks are more stable on heavy loads than SCSI

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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

does it work?

mclavey — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:23:07 GMT

I found a command that does work:

sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation

Physical Devices to Guests

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:20:30 GMT

Yes - you can assign an existing ext3 partition to a Linux guest when running Workstation on a Windows host

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3D Acceleration in Linux Guest?

saphetiger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:14:50 GMT

http://thefinalzone.blogspot.com/2009/09/gnome-shell-useless-with-nouveau-driver.html
http://www.kirsle.net/blog.html?id=66
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell
The first two links are random posts from people (one of whom was running linux on vmware) runnling linux without 3D acceleration trying to run the new
Gnome-Shell. The last is from the project itself, which states that they intend to make Gnome-Shell the default interface in GNOME-3.0 and that it will be a compositing manager (which to me implies 3d capability).

It should be noted, so I don't get flamed or anything, that gnome says that it will keep support for it's 2.x branch (which does not require 3D) for as long as they feel they need to. I would assume that in the absence of 3d support in commercial environments, that this (using the 2.x branch) may be what RHEL and Novell decide to do for the time being.

VCP W'station Key not working on W'station 7

Student Driver — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:14:28 GMT

Well, yes and no I suppose. I'm certified with Red Hat and Microsoft and don't receive free operating systems or maintenance from them, so getting the current version at the time of their flagship workstation product is a gift. I would also treat it as such, and if needed just upgrade it. Otherwise, they have ESXi and Player that are both free if money is an issue. However, I wouldn't presume that being a VCP would guarantee a lifetime subscription to their workstation product.

Now, when I was a Micrsoft MVP I got a free MSDN subscription, but there was ongoing work that I did to keep it. Maybe they'll consider doing the same for furm members (or do they already)?

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

Enquiries on Snapshots Management

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:12:23 GMT

on hosted platforms the fastest way to remove all existing snapshots for a vmdk is to use vmware-vdiskmanager -r option
to do this the VM must be powered down.

on ESX I guess the fastest way to remove all snapshots in a single operation is to use ghost32 from a PE LiveCD or dd with a Linux LiveCD.
both procedures require manual editing the VM and only work if the original system is powered off and rebooted into a LiveCD.

Does suspending or shutting down the VM helps?

Shutting down the VM sure will help - assuming you use snapshot-manager

#Will taking or removing snapshot when VM is booting up or shutting down cause any damage?

IMHO taking a snapshot while the VM is booting or shutting down is a really bad idea.

I also notice that my first snapshot do not have a "play" icon. What does this mean?

Hot snapshots have a "play icon" - cold snapshots don't

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View + Windows 7

WhipeOut — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:08:48 GMT

I ran a test with Win 7 Ultimate x86 just to see the difference.
Default installation of the OS
VMware Tools
Member of domain
Installed the Agent without Offline support.
SVGA driver version: VMware SVGA 3D (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) Version 7.14.1.32 (22.09.2009)

Connected without problems from a Win7 x64 platform

BSOD during Workstation 7 upgrade

Student Driver — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:07:47 GMT

Strange, I suppose I should update my Acronis as I have the RTM of 2010. Also, System Restore only recovers various areas of the installation, but not all of it; it isn't a complete snapshot and recovery like Acronis is.

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

Workstation Installer Hang 6.5.3 and Workaround

martyfelker — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:57:38 GMT

Incredible! Thank you so much. Following the instructions to the letter I installed WS 6.5.3 on karmic 64-bit kernel 2.6.31-15!

Marty Felker

Getting RDP not PCoIP with View 4

WhipeOut — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:54:32 GMT

The Architecture Planning Guide states the following about the View with PCoIP:

PCoIP has the following limitations:

You cannot use the virtual printing feature with PCoIP.
Using smart cards is not supported if you use PCoIP.
Users who access their virtual desktops with View Portal cannot use PCoIP.

View Portal = View's Web Portal for accessing Virtual Desktops.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/view40_architecture_planning.pdf

Sound broken with Ubuntu 9.10 guest

Student Driver — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:46:18 GMT

"Sound does not work." Does that mean, as it's written, that there's simply no sound at all?

I'm using WS7 with 9.10, and sound works OK but it isn't smooth. I've had many issues in the past with pulseaudio on direct hardware, so I've never been terribly impressed with it. I can't play an MP3 smoothly on it using the laptop in my specs, but it sounds almost exactly the same as when I had 9.04 Netbook Remix on my Dell Mini 9. On the Mini 9, I removed pulseaudio and the sound was perfect. Not sure what I'm going to do with 9.10 yet, as the OS works wonderfully for what I want to do and I can hear regular sounds without much issue.

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

Guest OS (XP) hangs, causing host to 100% cpu

virshu — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:41:23 GMT

I was getting all these errors (vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out. and vmx| GuestRpc: app toolbox's second ping timeout; assuming app is down) and constant freezing... I noticed some questionable references to USB devices; so I disabled USB controller - and it seems to be working fine.

I don't need USB devices (webcam, tuner, etc) - so it may not be a solution...

I have VMWare Server 2.0.2, with Vista 64-bit host, and Windows 7 64-bit guest

Content missing

wila — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:38:08 GMT

Sigh, right now I have to refresh EVERY page on the forum 6 times before I get to see the details..
It is extremely annoying. This is the case for just forums threads, for documents, etcetera..
It doesn't happen for thread lists, but that's about it.

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Can't run a 64-bit guest on VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64

wila — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:34:45 GMT

Hi,

Even if the CPU is 64 bits capable and running a 64 bits host OS, you still need to enable the VT-extensions in the BIOS and then cold boot your server.
With cold boot I mean, take the power off your server and reboot it, just a plain restart isn't enough to change this setting.
For more info on this see: D-8978

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VM 7 hangs and wont launch XP workstations created with VM Workstation 6.0

wila — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:26:12 GMT

Hi,

Welcome to the VMware community forums.
No, you won't have to run a tool to migrate the virtual machine in order to be able to boot them.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "it won't launch" as it could mean a number of things.
Please attach the vmware.log file found in the folder of one of the virtual machines it doesn't want to run.

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downWhenAddrMisMatch - What does it do? How does it relate to NLB?

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:22:40 GMT

Haven't seen this entry since years ... this may be outdated ???

ethernet0.downWhenAddrMismatch = "TRUE"
this prevents MAC spoofing when that is the correct term ?
The VM boots with a MAC address configured in the vmx-file.
If the VM then tries to change this MAC VMware will disable this nic

ethernet0.downWhenAddrMismatch = "false"
this allows the VM to change the MAC to a different value than configured in the vmx-file after boot

If you are interested in related settings read my site
http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-network-advanced.html

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"Ghost vNIC" VMWare Tools and Virtuasl Hardware V4 to V7 upgrade.

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:09:02 GMT

as far as I know you will get a phantom nic when this conditions match:

1. the nic uses a static IP + the mac-address changes
2. the nic uses a static IP + the driver or the PCI-slot changes

case 1 can be avoided when you take care while migrating

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Removing files associated with removed virtual machine

martinpg2001 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:03:18 GMT

Hi - in the fine tradition of answering one's own questions... just recording an answer if anyone has the same problem.

It turns out that in the VIC UI, the Configuration tab of the host UI, will let you browse to the datastore, and in the Datastore Browse window, you can delete files.

That seems to have solved my problem. Thanks, Martin

Historical performance using VI tool kit

LucD — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:52:43 GMT

No,I think your script s the standard method for getting historical performance data.
I would go for exporting the data to a CSV file, but perhaps you have a good reason to use a data table.

Shared writable mmap detection

devzero — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:26:30 GMT

Please consider adding detection for special filesystem capabilities and avoid crashing of vmware, especially when support for shared writeable mmap is missing.

i have seen TONS of reports for this on the web (blogs etc) and quite some fuse filesystem mention the needed workaround "usenamedfile=false".

this could be handled automatically and vmware wouldn`t need to crash and the user wouldn`t need to pull his hair out to find the reason for that.

also have a look at:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/61875
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/243672

Shared writable mmap detection

devzero — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:18:06 GMT

Hello,

after about 10 years of development of hosted products, it`s hard to believe that recent linux version of vmware player crashes/segfaults when a vmdk is stored on a filesytem without shared writeable mmap support, as it is the case with FUSE based filesystems very often. i`d wonder if workstation 7 is different here....

what is so hard to add a detection routine ?
and why does player crash at all here?

crashing means, that exceptions not being handled properly.

sigh

Need a powershell script to collect esx patch info

Sureshadmin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:16:45 GMT

Hi,

Iam looking for a powershell script which collects result of "esxupdate query" for all esx host version 3.5 in the Virtual center version 2.5 and exports to CSV file.

It should take input as virtual center and collect all the ESX host info, log in to esx hosts, run esxupdate query and update the csv file with results.

I got the basic code from other script. i have pasted it below. This just collects the results for esx server given and need to alter the code for requirement as given above.

$servers=”server0″,”server1″

$account=”root”
$password=”password”

$servers | % { $a=plink -pw $password $account@$_ “esxupdate query”

$server=$_}

Thanks in advance!

Recent Applications

rianquinn — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:14:23 GMT

Is there a "defaults" terminal command for turning off the Recent Applications that are shown in VMWare Fusion 3's Windows menu. If not why? That seems like a pretty standard thing to turn off.

Performance Issues Windows 7 Host and Guest

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:12:11 GMT

the vmx-file XML ?
no - it is similar to ini-format
you probably mean the vmxf - thats xml.

However, I run win 2008 server the system has only 870k not enough to do run SQL server....

870k ??? - explain please

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Windows 7 Media Center performance?

henrik7 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:05:41 GMT

I have a MacBook Pro (latest) 2.5Ghz with 4GB and under Windows 7 (Fusion 3.0, 1cpu, 1GB), the Media Center or Media Payer works but performance for HD videos recorded on a Media Center TV is choppy. I am curios if others have gotten the Media Center to display recorded TV smoothly or if this is simple a limitation of Fusion 3.0. Anyone?

- Henrik

Mouse only in 640x480

ffrydrych — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:48:45 GMT

Found this from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1298781

It worked for me.

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I found a post in another forum, this works for me now:
Added these lines to my /usr/bin/firefox
export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
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Did Update 1 take care of these items?

microkid — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:43:52 GMT

Saadat wrote:

Hi,

Did vSphere update 1 solve these issues?

1- vmxnet3 NIC Card does not show any performance chart. VMware support told me that they will release the patch with update 1, but I didn't see anything in release notes regarding this.

Yes, this is solved now. I can see vmxnet3 traffic both in the vShpere client and in VEEAM monitor.

block level and file level transfer

weinstein5 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:43:41 GMT

No worries - hope it is clear now -

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How to detach Command key from Windows menu?

Snorkledorf — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:22:16 GMT

Customer support said:

I've gone through the same steps to try and disable that and have come up with the same problem. I've filed a bug report to see if perhaps there's bug with the software or if we're doing it wrong. I'll let you know what I find out.

and

They're saying that they will be improving the functionality of this to make it easier to understand and do in a future release of Fusion. They say that currently you'd have to map the windows key to something else as it cannot be unmapped. It just has to be attached to something.

...so they're aware of the problem. I tried mapping the Windows menu to some random keystrokes to get it out of the way like the second message implies could be done, but it still came up with the Command key So I'm not entirely convinced about their second explanation (which I mentioned to them in reply).

In the meantime, futzing with the registry did stop it, though that's a very non-optimal solution for people with many VMs.

ESXi SSL Certificate breaks vCenter agent install

DSeaman — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:19:40 GMT

Doh! I found a procedure which solves the problem. Apparently the certificates a Microsoft CA issues aren't formatted exactly the way ESXi wants them. So you have to use OpenSSL to re-save the certificate before you import it to the ESXi host. Now the certificate imports and I can add the ESXi host to vCenter without it hanging at 80%.

For the full procedure, see my blog at:
http://derek858.blogspot.com/2009/11/vsphere-esxi-ssl-mystery-solved.html

I tested this with ESXi 4.0 Update 1, but it should work with plain 4.0 as U1 still died at 80% without the extra conversion step.

Disadvantages with running VMware Workstation (7) on a Xeon rack server?

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:19:28 GMT

what is the expected / wanted uptime of this planned system ?

If you need uptimes in the range of weeks or months - use ESX or ESXi

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Errores en vpxa.log

jose_maria_gonzalez — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:50:56 GMT

Hola Sanmarfe,

El error "Failed to bind heartbeat socket. Using any IP." viene motivado por un "error" el el agente del vCenter en el ESX (vpxa). Si des-instalas el agente (de modo manual como he descrito, o de modo automático) es muy probable que el error te desaparezca del log.

Saludos,

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Founder and President of JmGVirtualConsulting.com

See http://www.JmGVirtualConsulting.com for official Vi3 and vSphere consultancy
See http://www.josemariagonzalez.es for my blog on VMware training and tips
See http://www.twitter.com/jose_m_gonzalez for some twittering
VMware vExpert 2009
Autor del Libro VMware ESX y VMware VCP Hecho Fácil

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Vm crashed - line 63 syntax error

rsehgal — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:50:36 GMT

Thanks. I have used this script successfully on a couple of VMs. Most recently had to use an older copy of the log file as the most recent one was actually corrupt too.

hda: lost interrupt

jose_maria_gonzalez — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:39:10 GMT

Hola Xacolabril,

Solo por curiosidad, has probado a poner "noapic" en las opciones de arranque del servidor ESX si tiene algún efecto positivo?

Saludos,

Jose Maria Gonzalez,
Founder and President of JmGVirtualConsulting.com

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Blueprint for VCP 4

scott28tt — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:39:31 GMT

My blog and web site both contain all the links to all the things you should need for the VCP4 exam, including the blueprint, the mock exam, my study advice, my experience of the exam.....

Scott.

Blog: http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com
Web: http://www.thinkvirtually.co.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/vmtraining and http://twitter.com/thinkvirtually

Cannot conect to Win XP VM using Remote Desktop

rcardona2k — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:28:56 GMT

First thing is always check the Windows Firewall to make sure it allows Remote Desktop access (or you could temporarily turn the firewall off). Sometimes the Remote Desktop service stops working, to fix this in the properties of My Computer under the Remote tab, toggle the "Allow users to connect" checkbox under Remote Desktop. Make sure you click Apply between changes to the checkbox, you'll want to apply once to disable, then check and re-enable with Apply. Or of course, if this setting is not checked, then click to enable it and apply.

Update Manager plugin not registering with client

patten_aaron@emc.com — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:28:02 GMT

I just recently upgraded my environment from ESX 3.5 U4 with vCenter 2.5 U5 to vSphere U1. I upgraded VUM to 4.0 as well during the upgrade. Now, when I connect to vCenter with the VIClient I am unable to get the VUM plugin to become active. It shows up in the list of available plugins and when I click the install link it installs the plugin, goes to 100% and then goes right back to available status, just like it looked before the install. VUM itself seems to be running as it is download updates, but the plugin cannot be registered correctly with the client for some reason.

I have rebuilt the environment from the ground up except for my vCenter database as well as installing the client on other machines and uninstalling VUM and manually deleting the directories on the client. No dice.

If anyone has any ideas of what the logical next step would be, please drop me a line!

~Aaron Patten

Fusion 3- VM needs to be running for Disk Cleanup???

beckettb — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:21:15 GMT

Yes, but I had already removed them (and all snapshots) from the snapshot window. It's not really the number of vmdk files I find odd but specifically what I had to do to get Cleanup to run (turn on the VM)...

Invalid activation link, please login using the email associated with this activation

MrBeatnik — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:08:58 GMT

I had the same issue.

Log out of the site.
Go to the "Start your free evaluation now" link.
Choose View 4 and login.
Now click on the "resend email" link.

A new activation email will be sent to you, which worked for me.

Virtual windows stuck while trying to shut down after an automatic windows update

rcardona2k — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:52:10 GMT

Try holding the option key down while clicking on the Virtual Machine menu, the Restart and Shutdown option will turn into Force Reset and Shutdown which will forceably reset or power off the machine.

No puedo conectar un ESX 2.5.2 Build 16390 a VCenter 2.5 U2

jose_maria_gonzalez — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:38:26 GMT

Gracias a ti eapontevm,

Ya tengo yo también interés de porque no te funciona. Al final, has podido abrir un ticket de soporte con VMware?

Saludos,

Jose Maria Gonzalez,
Founder and President of JmGVirtualConsulting.com

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Question about Get-View

AGFlora — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:36:18 GMT

Thanks

Precio licencia VMWARE Sphere

jose_maria_gonzalez — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:34:50 GMT

Hola Overon,

Muy buen punto, pero dejame que intente contestarte con otra pregunta:

Si te gastas 8.527,02 en un software de virtualizacion X, que te da un ROI (return on invesment) de menos de 3 meses, es decir, los 8.527,02 los recuperas en menos de 3 meses y tienes una reducción del 50% del TCO (total cost of ownership) en tu entorno, te resultarían caros los 8.527,02 de tu solución de virtualizacion X?

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Moving vm server

Greggk — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:26:56 GMT

Any ideas? This is still bugging me.