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Snapshots in pocket-ACE?

aetm — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:37:10 GMT

Did you create the instance with policies that allow snapshot manipulation?
I don't have a USB device to test with, but normal ACE package should have the option for snapshots, policies permitting...

Vmware ace package created in 6.5 in combination workstation 5.5

aetm — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:45:00 GMT

Hi John,

Workstation and ACE packages can only coexist on the same machine when they are of the same version.

So.. Workstation 6.5.3 + ACE Player 2.5.3 =ok
Workstation 6.5.2 + ACE Player 2.5.2 = ok
Workstation 7 + ACE Player 2.6 = ok
etc

So it'll need to be decided which base to use. I would not recommend Workstation 5.5 as the base as that product's support has reached its end of life, so if there would be any problems your end users would be at their own.

Modify published ACE VMs

gholzer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:49:02 GMT

Hello,

I have about 25 PCs in my department. All these PCs have a local copy of the same ACE VM. This ACE VM is updated once a month.

So when the VM is out of date I deactivate this VM in the Management Server. Now all the 25 PCs need the updated Version of the ACE VM.

At the moment the users manually copy the new ACE VM from a network share to their local computer. When all users are doing this the same time the performace is pretty slow

-> Is there a way to automate this task, perhaps at night? So that the useres allways have the most recent VM without any manual installation?
(I know about the silent Installation for the ACE Package, but how do I get the Package on the PC?)

Thanks for help!

ACE futile performance test?

burdweiser — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:11:07 GMT

I mainly wanted to see if I could build an ACE session that would perform really well. Some guys at work are building one and it has been running like garbage. I'm the VMware guy on the team, but I don't have access to anything just yet (new job). My suggestions have lead them in the right direction, but I don't think things are where they need to be. Ohh, I meant to refer to PCoIP in the VM View world, as being able to have a better display.

So I tested a Windows 7 ACE session at home. I've been playing Far Cry and watching HD movies with no problem. I didn't even strip anything out of the default Windows 7 load. I'm thinking of making a youtube video, just for a demo. ACE is getting some really bad reviews at this new gig, so I need to show them what it can do. Of course I realize many other factors can be involved in different deployment scenarios (network latency, host resources, sea monsters, solar flares, ect...). What I'm testing with is pretty high end, but possible.

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hunting for docs

JohnBons — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:11:58 GMT

You already have read the pubs?
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/ace_pubs.html

John
vmred.nl

Creating a package from an installed package

jrobiso2 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:23:01 GMT

Perhaps you can use the vmware-acetool to "clone" the instance to an un-ACEified vm, then open that new clone in Workstation and make it into a new ACE.

Do a "vmware-acetool /?" and look for the CloneToVM option. You will need the Recovery Key.

Remote desktop to host machine

turvey — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:48:15 GMT

Hi All,

I have vmware ace running on my host machine and have setup a couple of virtual images to run on the machine. I am now remote desktoping to the host machine from another site and I am able to start the Virtual machine up. However when I try to input into the virtual machine it does not except input, the mouse does not work nor the keyboard. Have tryed the Ctrl G for direct input and that does not work. I am able to move the Ace screen around, communicate with the vmware player menu and even take a snapshot of the machine. It is just the actual virtual OS machine I cannot use.
Am I missing a setting or is it not possible to use a virtual machine when remoting to the host machine via remote desktop?

Thanks in advance,

Turvey

Authorization Service not running.

dishu2511 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:25:48 GMT

cheers bro nw its running fine,
bt bro i did'nt alterd the settings in my services thn how come the servies automatically disabled?

Modify data but Protect for extraction

Irduna — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:16:32 GMT

Hi.

We want to send a virtual machine to one supplier in an USB disk, to let him edit some confidential data. We want to let read and modify this data, and eventually print, but to restrict copy or extract from hard disk.

Supplier won't have access to our network.

Can ACE protect virtual machine for this scenario? is this totally secure?

Thanks very much

Regards

Irduna

How is ACE creating the Sysprep folder

JamesVan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:19:22 GMT

When deploying customized ACE a Sysprep folder is appearing in the %systemroot%. I created my own sysprep directory there, but the ACE deployment installer appears to create its own virtual sysprep directory, so it does not see mine.

How do I customize the sysprep that the ACE deployment uses so it contains my OEM files?

Can VMware Ace player help in building a limited trial period use vm?

JamesVan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:44:29 GMT

Yes, it is possible. Best method is to use Workstation 6.5 to generate the ACE deployment package. Use policies to put a time limit on the package. You can set it to 'expire' after a certain date.

Customization fails during deployment - need file from SP3 CD

JamesVan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:03:27 GMT

I have the sysprep files loaded in the correct location, but when I try to deploy the ACE using customization I get a 'Files Needed' dialouge box asking for the path to agt0407.dll on the SP3 CD. The copy from path is '\sysprep\i386'. I browse to that folder, but it is empty.

What is happening here? I did not have this problem with XP SP2.

VMware ACE enhanced virtual keyboard error

neilj-vmtn — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:16:43 GMT

I'm seeing the same problem but have also seen it happen after the VM has been used for some time.

Does anyone know what causes this or if there is a known, permanent fix?

Thanks,
Neil.

Error while opening the ACE: The master copy of this virtual machine has been corrupted.

dlupisella — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:01:55 GMT

So the issue is that I believe a sync was not complete when the user removed the USB drive causing it to corrupt the ACE. Is there anything that can be done to recover the contents of the ACE? It is running Windows XP SP3 (guest) and the host OS is also Windows XP SP3. I am attaching the log contents when I try to run the ACE.

Sep 25 00:42:59.468: player| Log for VMware Player pid=2112 version=2.5.3 build=build-185404 option=Release
Sep 25 00:42:59.468: player| Host codepage=windows-1252 encoding=windows-1252
Sep 25 00:42:59.468: player| VMware Player: VMware virtual machine player
Sep 25 00:42:59.468: player| Command line: "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmplayer.exe" "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro.vmx"
Sep 25 00:42:59.515: player| Could not open registry path: Software\Thinprint, ret = 2
Sep 25 00:42:59.734: player| HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.
Sep 25 00:42:59.734: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostDisks: \\.\PhysicalDrive3 is neither SCSI nor IDE. Error: The device is not ready
Sep 25 00:42:59.734: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostDisks: \\.\PhysicalDrive4 is neither SCSI nor IDE. Error: The device is not ready
Sep 25 00:42:59.734: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostDisks: \\.\PhysicalDrive5 is neither SCSI nor IDE. Error: The device is not ready
Sep 25 00:42:59.859: player| HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1.
Sep 25 00:42:59.859: player| HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.
Sep 25 00:43:00.546: player| Foundry Init: setting up global state (0 threads)
Sep 25 00:43:00.546: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: Use Preference. vixLogLevel = 0
Sep 25 00:43:00.546: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixDebugPanicOnVixAssert = 0
Sep 25 00:43:00.546: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogRefcountOnFinalRelease = 0
Sep 25 00:43:00.546: player| LOCALE windows-1252 -> NULL User=409 System=409
Sep 25 00:43:00.546: player| VixHost_ConnectEx: version -1, hostType 3, hostName (null), hostPort 0, options 515
Sep 25 00:43:00.718: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=1
Sep 25 00:43:00.734: player| REM-USB: Initializing 'Generic' backend
Sep 25 00:43:00.750: player| USBGW: Connected to HCMON version 3.1
Sep 25 00:43:00.781: player| Opening ACE instance.
Sep 25 00:43:00.968: player| Roaming VM init: master 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:00.968: player| Roaming VM init: shadow 'C:\Documents and Settings\testing\Local Settings\Application Data\VMware\Roaming VM cache\520b284e38f5aa6f-c6ed29dbb5342b15\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:00.968: player| Speed test: Beginning test (500 ms) for E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM
Sep 25 00:43:02.750: player| Speed test: 65536 bytes written in 1775 msec
Sep 25 00:43:02.750: player| Speed test: 36 KBps
Sep 25 00:43:02.750: player| Speed test: Beginning test (1000 ms) for E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM
Sep 25 00:43:03.765: player| Speed test: 3866624 bytes written in 1001 msec
Sep 25 00:43:03.765: player| Speed test: 3772 KBps
Sep 25 00:43:03.859: player| Roaming VM init: master 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:03.859: player| Roaming VM init: shadow 'C:\Documents and Settings\testing\Local Settings\Application Data\VMware\Roaming VM cache\520b284e38f5aa6f-c6ed29dbb5342b15\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:04.203: player| Roaming VM init: master 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:04.203: player| Roaming VM init: shadow 'C:\Documents and Settings\testing\Local Settings\Application Data\VMware\Roaming VM cache\520b284e38f5aa6f-c6ed29dbb5342b15\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:04.437: player| Roaming VM init: master 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:04.437: player| Roaming VM init: shadow 'C:\Documents and Settings\testing\Local Settings\Application Data\VMware\Roaming VM cache\520b284e38f5aa6f-c6ed29dbb5342b15\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:04.937: player| PolicyCheckEmbeddedLicenseInternal: Found valid embedded license.
Sep 25 00:43:04.984: player| VmdbCtxCheckOneof: One-of: /vm/#670885733a13daba/mvm/policyState/val/policySet/authentication/auth/ password none
Sep 25 00:43:04.984: player| VmdbCtxCheckOneof: One-of: /vm/#670885733a13daba/mvm/policyState/val/policySet/authentication/auth/ password none
Sep 25 00:43:04.984: player| VmdbCtxCheckOneof: One-of: /vm/#670885733a13daba/mvm/policyState/val/policySet/authentication/auth/ password none
Sep 25 00:43:05.125: player| Roaming VM init: master 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:05.125: player| Roaming VM init: shadow 'C:\Documents and Settings\testing\Local Settings\Application Data\VMware\Roaming VM cache\520b284e38f5aa6f-c6ed29dbb5342b15\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| DISKLIB-SPARSE: "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002-s003.vmdk" : failed to open (15): Failed to load header.
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| DISKLIB-LINK : "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk' with flags 0x15 (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to enum 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk' : 15
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| SNAPSHOT: ConfigInfoExpandDisksInt: Failed to enumerate the disks for 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk'.
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| SNAPSHOT: ConfigInfoExpandDisksInt: Unable to find all files for 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk'
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoExpandDisks: Error 7
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoExpand: Error 7
Sep 25 00:43:05.703: player| VE_VVEF: Failed to get suspend files.
Sep 25 00:43:05.703: player| PolicyValidateMVMEncryption: waiting for roaming VM to cache
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| DISKLIB-SPARSE: "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002-s003.vmdk" : failed to open (15): Failed to load header.
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| DISKLIB-LINK : "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk' with flags 0x15 (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to enum 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk' : 15
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| SNAPSHOT: ConfigInfoExpandDisksInt: Failed to enumerate the disks for 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk'.
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| SNAPSHOT: ConfigInfoExpandDisksInt: Unable to find all files for 'WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk'
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoExpandDisks: Error 7
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoExpand: Error 7
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| ConfigInfoExpand failed: A needed file was not found (7)
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| RoamingVM: Failed to point disks to parent
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| VMHSVMLoadConfig failed: The master copy of this virtual machine has been corrupted
Sep 25 00:43:05.984: player| Cmd /host2/#_client/util/vm/cmd/##9c/op/manageVM/ failed: The master copy of this virtual machine has been corrupted
Sep 25 00:43:06.000: player| VMDlg::ShowDialog: Error while opening the ACE: The master copy of this virtual machine has been corrupted.
Sep 25 00:43:06.078: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: action=0
Sep 25 00:43:06.078: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: Ungrab MKS
Sep 25 00:43:08.968: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0

I am attaching a screenshot of the contents of my USB drive so you can see the vmdk's that are on it. If you can help me recover the contents on the ACE I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance for any help!

how to update Ace policy manually

laddison — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:59:25 GMT

I am running ACE 2.52 and want to be able to run the ace image, if connected to any ethernet network, wireless and with a 3G card. When the ace image starts, it looks for the server and finds the policy with ethernet and wireless fine. IT does not run the policy when the 3G card is connected and wireless and ethernet is not available. Quite a bit of these laptops will use 3G connection versus ethernet or wireless. I am also launching the image so they are not able to go back to the host.

Is there some sort of script or command I can run to make sure the new policy gets updated from the ace management server? Or are there any suggestions to this scenario.

Troubleshooting policy scripts

marius — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:32:27 GMT

After several tests and similar errors I presume I found the solution of my specific trouble.

I post it because I hope it can help other people.

While specifying the policy script using a .vbs script you must include the name of the application you use to run the script, in my case you must enter "cscript /nologo scriptname.vbs".

/nologo is required to avoid two lines that can be interpreted as the command output.

I hope this can help...

Marius

Licensing Question

mickgreen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:21:33 GMT

Hi guys,

I am really confused about the licensing options for ACE.

I have WS6 with the ACE Option Pack - well I assume it is the ACE option pack as I cannot find any reference to it in WS!! The reason I believe I have it is because I have an option in WS to 'Enable ACE features' which lets me set the deployment settings and policies etc...

The problem I have is this....Having created a VM in workstation I wanted to deploy it to a USB drive which I had no problem doing. I then took the USB drive to another computer where the VM duly complained about not having a license.

From what I understand each device is licensed with a ACE client license not the VM itself. I also thought that if you had the ACD option pack you also have volume key licensing as part of it?? What license do I have to enter into the player to get this to work? Are any client licenses included in the VLK?

Any help is apprecated

Thanks

Limit ACE image to specific host

virtualbryan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:11:23 GMT

Excellent, thanks!

I was reading about the scripts and thought that might be the way to go. I'll try it and see what I can do.

eth0 missing in ACE package

jwgtalbot — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:00:59 GMT

I'm having the same issue - I have an open suse guest which works fine on VMware workstation 6.5.3, but on converting to a pocket ACE package the network adapter goes awol. if i enter admin mode on the ACE machine i can see that the network adapter is there and "connected" is ticked, but no network icon in the tray, or visible from the VM. Network access policy is also set to full access.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

nb:

Host: Windows XP

Guest: OpenSuse 11.1

ACE 2.5

VMware Workstation 6.5.3

Network : NAT

Thanks

James.

VMware ACE install error

BrokenEngrish — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:34:59 GMT

***update

In one package I created it actually made it through and installed successfully, but there wasn't any changes made from the previous package version.....

it just decided to work..

Anyone have any idea why this could be?

VMware ACE - Kiosk mode

ahartiga — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:30:08 GMT

The -k option is a command line switch used when launching the virtual machine.

For instance, if you create a shortcut to the VM (vmx file), and look at the Properties option, you should insert the -k after the path to the machine.

eg. "C:\Directory\Virtual Machine.vmx -k"

This will only work if you have enabled the Kiosk option for the VM.

VMware ACE Client License Evaluation...

BrokenEngrish — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:21:43 GMT

Can anyone point me in the right direction to find a VMware ACE Client License Evaluation....

Trying to run an instance on Linux and it is asking me for an ACE Client License .... so I'm looking for that in Evaluation form...

Thanks!

Use VM ACE to make a BOOTABLE USB

BrokenEngrish — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:19:55 GMT

well... we took a 8GB USB and installed a linux partition of about 1 GB...... so essentially.. there is a LINUX OS installed on the USB stick.

I tried to deploy an instance to the other parition, but the VM Player in Linux is not recognizing the .vmx files on that partition....

Also, it is giving me an ACE client license required message..... Didn't see anywhere the ace client license evaluation can be found in VMware..

Ace Deployment for Education Computer Lab

MHAV — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:41:33 GMT

Change your plan centralize, use VMware LabManager and use thinclients in your education lab instead of computers.

Regards

Michael Haverbeck

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problem with license

UKr@TP — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:43:24 GMT

Which version of the Workstation did you use 6.0 or 6.5???

I have the same problem and think you are right how it SHOULD work.

Regards,
UKr.

Deployment of Pocket ACE w/ 6.5.0 build 118166, and other Slow things....

UKr@TP — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:37:08 GMT

I deployed a 8GB ACE Client in about 30 min. to a 16GB SanDisk Cruzer stick which is FAT32 formatted.

Regards,
UKr.

Which client license with ACE 2.5 and Workstation 6.5 ?

UKr@TP — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:17:51 GMT

Hi,

what I tested now is a evaluation Volume license key and this is not working with Workstation 6.5 but with the ACE option pack in Workstation 6.0.

So it looks like that there's changed something when ACE got integrated in Workstation 6.5.

I like to get an answer from people who are using the actual Workstation 6.5 version and deploying ACE clients.

Thanks,
UKr

Stupid question, simple answer?

lelananh — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:33:54 GMT

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How to automate updates of VMplayer in ACE-Clients under Windows?

vow2 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:50:55 GMT

So looks like there is -no- other way than to remember the install msi and use this with the option /x to de-install the currend player.exe

Peter

Questions about ACE capabilities

Linjo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:28:50 GMT

Hi Shant.

Take a look at this link: (its from the online help)
http://pubs.vmware.com/ws65_ace25/ws_user/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=ws_user&file=ace_policies.21.44.html

On your second question I would suggest not to give them local admin but enough rights to do what they need,

Best regards,

Linjo

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ACE 2.5 Pocket Package slow on Win 7 RTM 64bit

joined — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:16:07 GMT

Hi to all,

why n ACE 2.5 Pocket Package that run really quick on Win XP 64 bit or Win 7 32 bit is REALLY slow on Win 7 64 bit?

Best regards...

Fabio Dell'Aria.

Convert an ACE 2.5 Pocket Package to a classic VM

joined — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:38:12 GMT

Hi to all,

just solved installing the VMWare Converter in the ACE 2.5 Pocket Package machine and created a new Virtual Machine storing it on a Shared Folder (on the main local HDD)!

All works really, really fine!

Thanks to all for all the useful suggestions!

Error while opening the ACE: invalid session

bravopapa — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:35:05 GMT

Well problem is partially solved.

In my case at least: "Error while opening the ACE: invalid session" is a message that vmware player gives when there is no DNS server entries in the host IP configuration. I was using a hosts file to resolve the name of my ace management server in a test environment, apparently player doesn't work with a hosts file for this purpose.

Now that the instance can properly resolve the hostname of the management server to an IP, I get the following error (which is what I expected):

"Error while opening the ACE: Cannot find a valid license to run this ACE. Please enter a serial number or contact your ACE administrator."

So I've read about 10 posts, and the ACE manual, and everone says that I should enter the ACE volume license key into the VMWare workstation installation where I created the package. VMWARE WORKSTATION WILL NOT ACCEPT THE SERIAL NUMBER. So either I'm doing something wrong, or there's something wrong with the S/N. I've tried entering both the licenses labeled: "VMWare volume licensing key - Additive licenses", and "VMware Workstation ACE Option Pack for Windows, Promotion" I try to cut & paste these into the "help > enter serial number" dialogue in vmware workstation, and every time it says: "The serial number entered did not match any licenses."

Any suggestions?

Very slow sync ACE 6.0 - improved in later versions?

jerdos8 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:02:58 GMT

yes, sorry, the ace clients.

Is there a way to convert existing ace 2.0 clients to 2.5?

Thanks

ACE Instance Customization fails with SP3

takaokumagai — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:51:42 GMT

I've also got this issue on xpsp3.

After I disable the adapter, it'll be asked to authorize driver of it.

I just tried to shutdown on the process of create package (while waiting) , then success making package and no need to aothorize driver.

I'm not sure this method, but maybe this issue came from VPN driver.

vmware ace creating pocket ace error

mshorrosh — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:42:04 GMT

When I click on create new pocket ace package, I'm recieving the error missing ace.dat in my documents and settings folder. Anyone have any idea what is causing this?

vmware pocket ace - getting license prompt when I plug the USB device into another machine

RDPetruska — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:37:44 GMT

Thread moved to ACE forum.

A simple question - What does ACE stand for?

JamesVan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:11:30 GMT

Thanks RDPetruska

You are correct. It was right in front of me the whole time. In the Workstation User's Manual under 'Learning the Basics of VMware ACE'. It's odd that the definition exist in the Workstation user manual, but not in the ACE Mangement Server Admin Manual.

Encryption key security in memory

brendanw — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:00:13 GMT

I am evaluating ACE for use as a java development environment for offshore developers. The developers have full access to the source code, but in order to guard our intellectual property, must not be able to cut and paste, or transfer files outside the company network.

We are currently using RDP to machines (locked down) at a company site, but response times can be so slow as the make this unusable.

The ACE solution alternative I was considering:

1. Encrypted ACE vm containing development environment on developer PCs.
2. Restricted networking, only allowing connection to a VPN server. VPN connection requires certifcate installed in ACE vm.
3. Copy and paste to host disabled.

I see at least one potential problem which may allow the encrypted vmdk disk file to be unlocked thus allowing the source code to be transferred electronically.
The ACE/vmplayer executables will be executing as a normal user program and it seems fairly simple to write a win32 program that will dump the memory of any process, thus exposing the encryption key for the configuration file which in turn can be used to find the find the disk encryption key.

Does the vmware ace executable guard against reading of the encryption key for the configuration file and the disk encryption key by another process?

(I understand that the source code could be much more simply captured using screenshots from the host then scanned using OCR - but this could be error prone. If the key can be exposed using the above method then repeating the procedure using the gained knowledge and toolset will be rapid)

Computer naming in an ACE deployment

mgroover — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:06:07 GMT

Hey,

I'm just wondering if anyone has had any experiences around customizing the computer naming in an ACE instance? The current solution of being able to add a number of characters from the hosts computer name isn't doing it for me.

We currently have computer naming schema which is: SSSSS-T-NNNNNNN (S = SITE, T = ComputerType, N=incremented computer number)

T(Computer Type) is currently one of W(orkstation)/L(ab)/S(erver) .. What I would like to do is taking the current workstation/laptop name (example UKLON-W-0001234) and get the ACE instance to be called UKLON-V-0001234.

Any ideas if it is possible to do this during the final customization phase when the user has launched it in the VMWare Player through the VIX API?

Vmware Ace SN error

mitgiraffe — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:45:24 GMT

Has there been any resolution to this problem?

I'm supporting several hundered ACE clients deployed across the USA, and we have received several identical calls. We are currently working to build an updated package, and would like to see this issue resolved before we start upgrading our deployed ACE instances.

All the ACE instances are installed on Windows XP systems (no pocket ACE), we are using volume license keys.

ACE Management Installation on CentOS 5.3

midwestmex — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:36:54 GMT

I fixed this by downgrading to CentOS 4.7

apparently ACE isn't supported for CentOS 5.3

Running multiple ACE desktops

jbruelasdgo — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:10:51 GMT

please be careful to make an assessment on the resources you would need to run your virtual machines simultaneously (specially RAM)

regards

Jose Ruelas

How do I create a Live CD/ PE Connection to ACE ?

bdmeyersc — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:18:59 GMT

Hi Jose,

You are correct. I am trying to figure out how to get VMware View so it is preloaded onto a live cd (any OS)

Currently, I have a USB4WIN USb Flash drive that the machine boots to, loads IE in Terminal mode, goes to the ACE server, and fails while trying to load VMware View. I have worked pas the security problem of the unsigned appelet. But the LiveCD I am using doesn't have the Windows Installer service installed, so of course the VMware View Client can't be installed.

I could try and create a plugin, but thought I would ask first to see if anyone else has already done this.

--Bruce D. Meyer

Is it possible to Create 1 ACE package containing 2 operating systems?

TroyAus — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:09:21 GMT

Thanks for all replies. Looks like I will have to go down the dual boot mode within 1 VM. Otherwise it is a double hit on the licenses used on the Server. The new ACE 2 licensing isn't the most friendly about, but I do love being able to deactivate & reactivate sessions etc.

Appreicate the info.

ACE Policy Management

andy_confidential — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:28:27 GMT

Did you ever get an answer to this question?

I am also looking for clarification regarding which ACE policies are available in Pocket ACE packages. The user manual only says that "host and snapshot" policies are not available.

Thanks.

No network settings in player

marius — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:24:15 GMT

It works!

Many thanks

Marius

Could not join domain. Error: 1355

Texiwill — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:46:01 GMT

Hello,

Moved to the VMware Ace Forum.

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ACE Hardware Requirements - For a Training Lab setup

therealgordon — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:12:16 GMT

Why do you want to use ACE for that? If you want to host 10 VMs simultaneously on the same host and the students are to connect to that VMs from their clients, you'd better use VMware ESX/ESXi or VMware Server. For this you need as much ressources as required for the applications you mentioned. You should also plan enough harddisk space to store VM templates, installation images and eventually for creating more than one application version for an VM.The harddisk space also depends on the used guest OS.

CPU: One quadcore CPU has enough power to handle all VMs.

RAM: You should summarize the required RAM für each application, multiply it by 10 and add 20 to 30% as spare RAM.

If you plan to provide high availablity you have to use two ESX servers, of course. A downtime could end a training session very appruptly, doesn't it?

2nd scenario: If you plan to use ACE instances on the students clients and you only want to use the server to create/provide the ACE packages.

For this you only need:

hard disk space on the for the VMs, the ACE packages and the installation images for the OS and applications
enough RAM to start the VMs for functional testing (not for all VMs at the same time)
a dual core CPU for good ACE package creation performance
maybe a fast network connection for downloading the packages to the students clients.

Regards

Holger

Training Lab Setup

joe1600 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:16:36 GMT

hiii

try using vmware server 2.0 or vmware workstan 6.5.2 to setup ur lab...,like r using the class for software training or os based networking

please consider awarding points if u found this helful or correct ..thanks......

regards

Joe

ACE Starter Kit and VMplayer license

jbruelasdgo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:25:39 GMT

it sound like you would need a VDI solution (VMware View)

jose

VMware ACE Starter kit 30-day evaluation

momantai — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:02:47 GMT

I solved my problem. It was caused by the fact that I had a non-ACE
version of Workstation running before I tried ACE. I had to uninstall
this first, because the new version seems to run with the old license
key even if I input the new code. I suppose the uninstall procedure
also removes license-code entries from the registery, but entering a
new key via "Help>Enter Serial Number..." does not.

Paul

Advice on using ACE for mulitple package deployments

JVMirror — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:57:48 GMT

Thank you for the feedback. It gives me already an idea how I should work.

Thx.

Disappearing icon for network access status.

MrHutz — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:17:32 GMT

Having a similar issue on 3 host systems with ACE VMs loaded.

The tray icon which shows the status of the network access policy has disappeared from the host system. Some of these users have been having network connectivity issues at remote sites and are unable to identify if the access policy is being applied incorrectly. When ACE is started, the VM does display the correct network access information. The hosts are running a mixture of Windows XP Pro SP2 and SP3. The loaded ACE version is 2.5.1, build 126130.

Is there a way to force the icon to appear on the host?

ACE client no longer able to connect to domain

KellyLogan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:47:34 GMT

The clean, new install worked. I was able to re-install Workstation as well. It replaced the vmplayer that the ACE client used, but once I modified the ACE shortcut to point to the new vmplayer.exe, I was all set.

Maybe the Workstation install only adds the VMnet connects if it can't use Bridged.

Where to read the Host Machine name

crankle — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:25:21 GMT

just joined the community, saw this posting. i came across the same question last summer, figured it out by visitng this page:

{font:Arial}{size:10pt}http://pubs.vmware.com/ws6_ace2/ws/tools_guestd_string_gsx.html{size}{font}

Like the other mentioned, basically you just have to use a host-guest script to pass the hostname across to your guest. How to do that is by assigning the machine.id to the %computername% (if this is windows host), then you can use /usr/sbin/vmware-guestd --cmd `machine.id.get` to see the host's machine.id on your linux guest. To retrieve the hostname of your windows host on a windows machine is to use

If you are using a linux host and window guest, assign machine.id to `hostname` then pass it via the ace resources which is packaged into a vm when you publish it. then again use

i'm not the best writer, but just thought to post it hopefully it helps someone out there

VMware ACE Management Server on Debian

dave92082 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:16:50 GMT

I have been looking into it some more, I'll post my findings shortly.

Ace serial number when evaluating workstation

therealgordon — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:28:01 GMT

With Workstation version 6 you were able to start a created ACe package for testing directly on the Workstation with the ACE Option. Installing the ACe package an starting the ACE instance on another PC required an so-called ACE client license. I haven't tried to start an ACE instance created with a workstation 6.5 using an evaluation license.

So you need the following:

1. VMware Workstation with ACE Option Pack (the ACE options are activated by typing in an ACE license key

2. Number of ACE client licenses according to the number of users that are to use ACE instances

3. A license for the management server (if you want to use it to manage the deployed ACE clients from a central administration console)

There are the following ACE kist: ACE starter kit, ACE standard kit, ACE enterprise kit

The Standard and enterprise kits contain a number of volume licenses.

VMware ACE no longer starts

JosephB3 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:47:51 GMT

Updates to the latest version of VMware ACE / Player did not work. The images still did not start beyond drawing the initial outline border.

However - The problem has been resolved !

We found that the host computers were mapped to company intra-net printers across four geographical locations. When the mapped printers were deleted from both host computers, except for a primary local office printer, both VMware ACE images returned to normal operation.

We have concluded that there is a deficiency within the VMware ACE start-up relating to printers linked to the host computer, not the application within the image. This is because neither image was allowed to use printers. Thus we did not expect the host mapping to be of any influence. Obviously we're glad that the product is usable, but wonder if other VMware ACE start-up issues could be related to similiar host configurations.

How to prevent starting a foreign VMware Image on ACE Host-System ?

therealgordon — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:30:30 GMT

I've tested the deployment of an ACE package with those parameters. That's the behaviour I need. Thank you for the hint.

How to Defrag an ACE Virtual Disk??

therealgordon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:49:28 GMT

Hi Gerry,

in addition to defragmentation inside the VM you should defragment the vDisk before you package an ACE Client. If this best practice comes too late for the VM you mention than you should consider this for future packages. The second way to "defragment" a ACE vDisk is to activate the ACE option to go back to the VM state of the ACE package --> "Policies/Runtime Preferences/Always discard chnages". This is an option for Pocket ACE Clients.You also could active the snapshot feature. Of course this alternative is only useful for VMs that don't store working data (e.g. for show cases, demos , trainings, ...)

Memory restriction in ACE managed images?

malcolml — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:07:02 GMT

Thanks for your reply. The documentation I have read was a bit ambiguous on this point. It suggested to me that you could limit the end user's ability to change the memory settings or not. If you restricted the ability of the user to change memory allocation, then they would not see the slider in the player (under VMWare Player --- Troubleshoot --- Change Memory Allocation).

Thanks for clarifying.

Malcolm

Need advice on setting up training room

mnmorris — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:33:33 GMT

In your case the simplest solution is the VDI approached mentioned earlier.

Create a template for each classes workstation.
You can then use the powershell add-ins and a text file to clone workstations from the template.
The student would either use a thin client or pc to connect to the rdp session on the image.

My 2 cents anyway

How can I expand an existing disk drive?

Gerry.Deutsch — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:05:28 GMT

Thanks for the input. Yep I pretty much concluded that I can't expand the disk drive on an exisitng ACE once it is deployed. I created a new ACE package and let the drive grow to 200 GB even though initially it only needs 22 GB. Thanks for the responses from everyone.

Ace player error - The computer does not have enough available space on the disk...

therealgordon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:27:01 GMT

Hi Orphius,

did you deploy Pocket ACE packages? Using Pocket ACE you have the option to synchonize or not. This is possible to adress the use case for Pockate ACE - to transport the ACE VM on a mobile device such as an usb stick. As long as you don't synchonize all changes are stored on the PC ACE is installed on. Unfortunately the synchonization can take vey long (15-30 minutes or longer). So you have to give it some time to end successfully. Normally during synchronization a bar is shown to indicate the process. But in my experience in some cases it take already long to get to this screen.

If you don't want to move the ACE VM to other devices should deactivate the synchronization feature when creating the ACE package.

therealgrodon

Problem while connecting two virtual machines in different hosts

therealgordon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:12:35 GMT

Hi davidcol,

to 1) Do you have a firewall activeted on the first machine. If so, do you have allowed pings to the machine?

to 2) Is the VMware Bridge Protocol for the Network Interface Card of the second machine activated? If not, active it.

therealgordon

VM move has caused installed software to lose its license

therealgordon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:07:47 GMT

Hi gkin,

in case that your problem isn't solved. If you use VMware ACE for runnning VMs you have to consider that ACE licenses are bound to the device the ACE package is installed first. If you you a Pocket ACE VM you have to license the master. Otherwise you would have to input the license each time you move the VM to another device.

therealgordon

Ace Package and VPN Client

therealgordon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:01:41 GMT

Hi bouncer_98,

did you solve your problem in the meantime. If not, is your VPN client offivially compatible with Windows Vista? Which VPN client do you use?

Ace User serial number does not work

jchamcham — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:53:43 GMT

The most common reason that I've seen for this is that customers are given serial numbers that should be input on the admin side in workstation, and not in player where the ACE virtual machine is run.

Expiration control for VMware ACE.

kodaks — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:34:26 GMT

Thanks very much

Administrative rights ?

RDPetruska — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:07:09 GMT

Virtualization software requires device drivers and services to be installed on the host OS, which always requires administrative rights.

The one alternative you have is to use a Live CD and boot the PC from that - see Ulli's MOA project.

Awful ACE Player Error: Error While opening the ACE: This virtual machine is partially synchronized...

continuum — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:45:59 GMT

Do you think it would be worth submitting this to vmware as an ACE support case to see if they can do anything with it?

Pretty good question.
If you file a support case please let us know the results.

Thanks Ulli

___________________________________

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VMware-liveCD: http://sanbarrow.com/moa.html

Error while opening the ACE

the-waves — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:21:17 GMT

Hi there,

Is there any more information on how this was resolved?

ACE - Create a package from a VM fails with error

tweyell — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:22:09 GMT

Hi,

I am new to ACE and I have a question.

I created a ACE Server on Windows in my Workstation. I also created a other Windows Machine and enabled ACE for this VM. I changed some propeties e.x. the date of expire and created a package. This works perfect. The VM was able to start and so on.

Then I created a new package from the same VM. This package was not able to start. I get the following error:

"Error while opening the ACE: Access to this ACE is blocked. This ACE was not installed properly or it has been corrupted."

Can you give me some information about this? Is it only possible to create one package from one VM?

Thanks,

Thomas

VMware ACE Player - Has anyone had success with ACE and VMCI / VIX or similar?

mitgiraffe — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:57:44 GMT

As EvilONE asked, does anyone have any input on API's/utilities that can be used in conjunction with VMWare ACE for management purposes? These could be incredibly useful, especially for more interesting implementations than simply securing employee desktops...

How to use USB HDD as a boot hard drive?

senglory — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:56:15 GMT

VMWare Workstation ACE v6.0.4-93057

I set USB HDD as a bootable hard disk in my WinXP-based machine. But when I start from CD inside of it it tells me that there's no HDD. How to fix this problem?

Is it possible to start an ACE instance as a service on Windows Vista without logging in to the host?

wwward — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:23:04 GMT

I was able to have the VMWare Player launch as a service, but it was only able to interact with the display after a user logged in.

I would like to be able to do this without the local user login.

Ace 2.0 Dual Monitor Support

JJoel42 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:26:23 GMT

We recognize that multiple monitor configurations have become pervasive and support for it in VMPlayer is a top requested feature. I have asked our development team to scope the effort required to implement this capability and I can't make any promises, but I would like to see this feature included in VMPlayer in the near future!

Jason Joel
Product Manager - Desktop Clients

Blue Screen with Vista Host

Azadk — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:47:37 GMT

Guys, I guess I've figured out the problem.

One of minor changes I had done during these 2-3 days, was configuring an incoming connecting (for VPNs) on my host.

After removing it, now VMware works fine again!

I've no idea why this might be relevant, but anyway this or a similiar slotting may work for you too.

Azad

recommend 16 flash drive for pocket ACE

Crawfy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:32:30 GMT

Ive tried the SanDIsk Ultra Cruzer Titanium and the Kingston HyperX. The HyperX has blistering read speeds (up to 30MB/s) with write speeds of 20MB/s. The SanDIsk is slightly slower (15MB/s read, 9MB/s write) but is more versatile as it is U3 compatible. You won't get this error message using either of these two USB sticks.

Andy

Slow Performance on Flash Drive

SteinAune — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:31:04 GMT

You can't drive a Porsche on DISEL.

IM quite new to Vmware

and working a lot with testing on different levels.

I am falling in love with the VMW software that in fact already I can see is saving me time!!! and €.

Regarding USB (flash Drive) - You need to run on a fast drive - and that is €.

I'm Using/testing SanDisk Extreme Cruzer Contur. = Read 25 MB/s Write 18 MB/s

(price 60@ 16 GB) IT WORKS LIKE A Porsche on Rocket fuel

There are faster USB Flash drives - and the price is falling fast se an test http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9079967&pageNumber=2#chart2

waiting for an order of a new 250 GB SSD USB !! - that i will love - one week i hope !

Slow startup after installing packages

marius — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:48:27 GMT

Some users report that their PCs (mainly notebooks) have a slow startup (up to ten minutes) after installing an ACE pachage.

If they remove their ACE package the startup performances returns normal.

If they reinstall the ACE package the startup returns slow.

How can we troubleshoot and solve this issue?

Regards

Marius

ACE Host Network Access Policy

daza35 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:57:13 GMT

Am looking at deploying ACE for temp workers in our company. From the manuals I understand that if you use a network access policy to restrict Host access on the Internal network (but allow guest) this is still active even when the ACE instrance is not running on the host.

Does the network access policy expire if you have the ACE instance set to expire, or do you have to uninstall the ACE instance (and or VMPlayer) to disbale the Network Access policy ?

thanks

Workstation/ACE performance on AMD desktop/laptop processors

arjaysam1 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:07:45 GMT

Worksation itself works just peachy and even runs Vista VM's, it's the speed of the ACE that is an issue so I don't think BIOS is an issue. Yes, I know laptop drives are slow, I use an eSATA drive with the laptop for VM work. And, yes, the Core Duo machine is a desktop.

Thanks for your reply, it is appreciated.

Vista package creation fails in Ace 2.5 build 118166

dork_lord — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:05:00 GMT

I doubt it is anything AMD specific. It probably is just a speed issue. The instance customization process doesn't do anything Core Duo (nor Intel) specific. It simply powers on the VM and runs sysprep in the guest. How long does your laptop take to boot up Vista, log in, and start all the services (though only VMware Tools matters). WS assumes that most hw should be able to do this in under 5 mins. It sounds like your laptop had no issues doing instance customization with XP. So it could just be a matter of Vista being more of a resource hog.

3D acceleration (not software)

scylla — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:01:50 GMT

Yes, I've seen that... and it's quite impressive. However, there are limitations:

support for Windows XP guests only (not Vista)
it still seems to emulate through software certain 3D features (shading, etc)

I would like to know if it is possible to make the physical hardware (video card) available to the virtual machine. This way, I would also be able to get 3D hardware acceleration in Vista and Linux guests..

VMWare ACE player on Mac OSX

RDPetruska — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:34:26 GMT

No, since the VMware Player currently only exists for Windows and Linux hosts.

Centrally managing ACE VMs (not instances)

eickst — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:27:02 GMT

Well for lack of a better option I am going to place them on a network share. Not the sexiest solution but as long as it works....

Pocket ACE "Successfully" Deployed Without a Configuration (.vmx) File

Lopaka43 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:09:26 GMT

Dear Dork_Lord,

I got my Pocket ACE package to work on my home laptop.

I will try a different computer at work to see if I run into the same deal.

Thanks very much for your help with this.

Bob

Help Getting Error: This virtual machine cannot be packaged because.......

justnice — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:58:14 GMT

yes it worked changed HW to ver.6.5. Great Thanks

VMware Ace PACk and Vm ware Workstation

Yattong — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:57:03 GMT

Hey,

I think this may help you
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_ace2_manual.pdf

and other helpful docs
www.vmware.com/support/pubs/ace_pubs.html

If you found this or any other answer useful please consider the use of the Helpful or correct buttons to award points
~y

Migrate from Ace 2.0 to Ace 2.5

KrisBroux — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:12:43 GMT

Hi, has anyone done this update/upgrade already?
Are there things to lookout for. Can the server be upgraded or is it best to install an new Ace 2.5 server.

How does this affect current users. They use an ace image with vm-player on laptops.

Vista package creation in WS6.5/ACE

arjaysam1 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:59:19 GMT

Here is a simple question to all: has anyone succeeded in creating an ACE Vista package in the latest version of WS 6.5/ACE using the ACE deployment settings? If so, can you please doucment how you got there? I keep bombing out in the mini-setup phase when I run preview. It looks like some sort of sysprep info is missing but I have no idea how to provide it or even get to the sysprep files the deployment process creates.

Thanks for any suggestions.

ACE bare-metals install

Maoriboy — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:00:51 GMT

Hi Jocelyn,

The company i work for is getting alot of interest from our clients around "OS on a USB stick" or VMware pocket ACE. Some of our larger clients have a need to be portable (as with most organisations i'm sure) and the challenge we face at the moment is how do we provide a solution that fits their requirements without doubling up on licensing costs or in the case of Pocket ACE allowing our customers to be truly portable without the need to install the VMware player on the host machine. There are a number of value add proposition we can put forward to clients by utilising this type of functionality but the most ideal revolves around disaster recovery.

Ideally what we would like to do is:

Create an instance of the clients OS
Put it on a USB pen drive
Which allows the user to plug the drive into any machine around the world (without installing the player on the host) and be up and running
Even better, be able to boot the virtual instance straight from the USB stick without the need to start a guest OS. Now that would be a great value proposition.

While VDI is certainly an option, some of our global customers have offices in very remote geographical locations with very small bandwidth (dial up - at best) which has its own headaches when the connections between these locations and the datacentre goes down.

Add the clients executives to the mix and now you have a bunch of people that love going out and buying the latest and greatest laptops\tablets on the market and want them to be integrated into the environment (even though we point them to their own security policies which predicates any new devices must go through test and certification first!) But then again you don't really want to be telling the CEO of one of your biggest clients you can't meet his demands. To take it one step further, lets say their device gets nailed with a virus and the guest OS wont start at all and they are in another country preparing for a vital business presentation so the chances of getting a replacement device to them in time to present will be very slim.

If we could throw everything they need on a USB pen drive and ship it out on the next flight, the user can be up in running in no time and when they return we can rebuild the machine.

Anyway, i'm sure there are many other scenarios out there where the ability to run a virtual instance without installing the player would come in handy, just my five cents....Thanks Al

Microsoft licensing

maxou2 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:39:31 GMT

Hi,

the same old question again but it seems that nobody has an answer ( Microsft first ).

The question is about the licensing of the MS product ( first of all the os ) that we want to virtualize in an ACE environment. To be more specific we have a certain number of clients with Vista OEM license ( downgraded to XP ) and we want to use an ACE environment to run legacy and other programs in a separate environment ( guest OS Windows 2000 ). These environments will be active as the same time. All the virtualization is local - on lthe client - no server . Keeping in mind that our company has a select Volume License the question is what Microsoft license schemas are suitable for this scenario? ( Microsoft sugggested SA and EA but this seems to be a persuasive position... )

Anybody face the same problem?

Thanks for your help

VMWare ACE Trial VLK Woes

toddja00 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:06:39 GMT

Hi Jad,

That makes way more sense now. Thanks so much for your response.

Todd.

Certificate did not verify

chewblocka — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:31:48 GMT

I'm trying to evaluate ACE. I have the ACE server running and my workstation with ACE pack running great. I created a simple ACE instance to try and deploy on my linux laptop. However, when I try and run it I get an error that the "certificate did not verify". I did upload an SSL certificate and did not use the self signed one (and it's a wildcard certificate). However, I'm not sure this is the issue. First off, the errors I saw in the log file looked like this....

Oct 22 10:50:38.315: vmplayer| Error loading libxmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3: libxmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
Oct 22 10:50:38.316: vmplayer| Error loading /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/lib
xmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Oct 22 10:50:38.324: vmplayer| Error loading libxmlrpc_client.so.3: libxmlrpc_client.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or dir
ectory
Oct 22 10:50:38.324: vmplayer| Error loading /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc_client.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc_client.so.3: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlr
pc_client.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc_client.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Oct 22 10:50:38.334: vmplayer| Error loading libxmlrpc_util.so.3: libxmlrpc_util.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directo
ry
Oct 22 10:50:38.334: vmplayer| Error loading /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc_util.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc_util.so.3: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc_u
til.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc_util.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Oct 22 10:50:38.343: vmplayer| Error loading libxmlrpc.so.3: libxmlrpc.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Oct 22 10:50:38.344: vmplayer| Error loading /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc.so.3: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc.so.3-i386/l
ibxmlrpc.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

None of the directories in the /usr/lib/vmware/lib had the '-i386' on the name so I created a bunch of symbolic links. However, that didn't fix the error and here's what the log says now...

Oct 22 11:18:39.046: vmplayer| Opening ACE instance.
Oct 22 11:18:39.349: vmplayer| ACESCLIB: AceSC.SessionOpen failed SSL certificate verfication (Curl failed to perform HTTP POST request. curl
_easy_perform() says: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
Oct 22 11:18:39.349: vmplayer| error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed).ACESCLIB: Error in xmlrpc op
eration (-504): Curl failed to perform HTTP POST request. curl_easy_perform() says: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. D
etails:
Oct 22 11:18:39.350: vmplayer| error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
Oct 22 11:18:39.353: vmplayer| Cmd /host2/#_client/util/vm/cmd/##a8/op/manageVM/ failed: Certificate did not verify.

It's very hard to evaluate with errors like this.

How to install vmware esx 3.5 on vmware ACE?

rah_jad — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:00:49 GMT

Is this possible to install vmware esx 3.5 on vmware ACE or VMware Workstation 6.5.0? If yes? How to install it.

ACE instance Customization Issue

christophroeti — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:12:42 GMT

I have exactly the same error. If I open vmware.log in the folder where the package runs, it states:

Oct 20 15:46:42.992: vcpu-0| Instance customization is done with errors. Failed in state: dj_net_join_domain. Status returned: 5. Description of failure: Could not join domain, and named seems qualified. Error: 87.
Oct 20 15:46:42.992: vcpu-0| PolicyImcHandleFailure: Instance Customization failed. Reason: 5, state: dj_net_join_domain, description: Could not join domain, and named seems qualified. Error: 87.
Oct 20 15:46:47.117: vcpu-0| Msg_Post: Error
Oct 20 15:46:47.117: vcpu-0| http://msg.policyImgCust.TranslateError Instance customization failed. Please contact your administrator or retry instance customization by powering on the ACE.----------------------------------------

All the info provided in the instance customization step is right, but it dows not work...

By the way, when i first started to customize the vm, the app told me that the passwords for the join domain and for the local admin will be set during the package creation step. When I started the package building process, it failed because of the missing passwords. As I went back the fields for the passwords for both the join domain and local admin where visible!!! I entered those info, and - the packaged builing process works by miracle!!!