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Destination does not support 64-bit guests.

Joskin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:51:01 GMT

Hi all

I am trying to P2V a linux box (redhat 5 64-bit xeon cpu) to ESX 4.0 running on vmware workstation 7.0( Windows 2003 64 bit xeon cpu)

Cpu VT are enabled on both guests and destination server, with a cold start.

When i start to convert, it stop at the destination tab with the error : Destination does not support 64-bit guests.

In the log i can see : 37 ~~2009-11-24 16:04:09.531 'App' 4864 error~~ Destination does not support 64-bit guests.

I am able to create a Virtual machine on esx with the template for a Redhat 5 64-bit .

I have read all the posts talking about that problem on this forum. Is there something else to configure than the VT configuration in bios? Maybe a special configuration of the ESX virtual machine in vmware workstation?

Thanks for your help.

Olivier.

windows 2003 keep on rebooting

laieh — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:02:56 GMT

Hi,

I have install win2k3 on ESX 4, after vmware tools install and windows patches update. The next reboot after I login to windows then the VM just poweroff it self. Anyone can help

MSCS Failed Verification - Cant find HBAs

degustator — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:02:59 GMT

I also confurm that the problem appears when trying to validate Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster made of VMs on vSphere 4.0 including Update 1. The type of virtual HBA (LSI Logic SAS vs. VMware Paravirtual) and SCSI Bus Sharing (Virtual vs. Physical) is totally irrelevant to reproduction of this problem.

Cloning a VM with IIS installed.

k1DBLITZ — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:37:20 GMT

"how does IIS know that it needs to change those accounts?"

It doesn't need to change the accounts.

Latest Google Chrome OS VMware VMDK Image File Available for Download and Testing

enmingteo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:44:55 GMT

Youtube Video of Google Chrome OS (ChromiumOS) in Action on VMware Workstation and Sun VirtualBox as a Virtual Machine

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSkszmeFcYg

Download my latest build of the Google Chrome OS (Chromium OS) VMware virtual machine VMDK image file from the following URL:

http://enmingteo.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/latest-google-chrome-os-download-guaranteed-to-work/

The latest build is enming.teo-24Nov2009-0528.

There are bugs in my previous build of chromiumos (Chrome browser-related). It is not fully functional. You should not use my previous build as seen in the following Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icl59WmC56I

The current build works on Xen properly. You should download the latest image.

It is very easy to convert a VMDK image file to a Xen HVM domU image file if you want Google Chrome OS to work in a Xen environment as a fully virtualized guest operating system.

This is the guarantee that my latest build of chromiumos VMware virtual machine vmdk image will work with Xen (conversion required), VMware Workstation & Player, and Sun VirtualBox.

Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
http://enmingteo.wordpress.com

Event ID 2012 on Win2K8 guest

pelletierr — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:58:54 GMT

This issue is still unresolved. We tried to migrate our network card to the VMxNet driver. Different virtualized card, different driver, same problem.

Linux VM fails to start or slow start when I add more than one CPU

CMCC — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:17:55 GMT

I mean 4 sixcore CPU, not 2...

Windows host with 2 physical adapters and 2 VMs

AWo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:10:56 GMT

tadcs schrieb:
I've installed a second physical network adapter on the host
to activate my network on my PC (only one PC on my network).

It's not clear to me what you want to achieve by this configuration.

Postr "ipconfig /all" from the host and "ifconfig -a" from both guests.

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Problem with Nic after changing to vmxnet on w2k3

Emmermacher — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:52:29 GMT

Hello AWo

Thanks for your answer. I will try it tomorrow. I'll give a short message then...

Best regards from Hannover, Germany.

Dirk

Setup Windows Server 2008 Cluster in VMWare 4

sysprobs — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:33:39 GMT

I have configured and tested Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 clusters in VMware workstation 6.5 and 7. Both server operating systems required SCSI-3 persistent reservation disks for failover cluster. to do this in VMware you have to install Free NAS program called FreeNAS. Read more on installing FreeNAS and configuring for windows 2008 and R2 cluster here.

SQL server 2005 performance issues

gerasimatos — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:37:02 GMT

Using the correct HAL, reservation are set at 50% of the CPU allocation, no limits set for high level. No power savings features enabled in the BIOS. SAN stats are as follows. DAVG/cmd is low, B06 is the server and DAVG/cmd is reporting 4.81

2 system - 3 - - - - - 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
6 helper - 26 - - - - - 0 0 0 0.00 2.39 2.39 0.00 0.00 0.00 17.62 0.01
10 console - 1 - - - - - 0 0 0 0.00 13.92 0.00 13.92 0.00 0.09 0.07 0.01
21 vmware-vmkauthd - 1 - - - - - 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
22 B03 Production - 4 - - - - - 0 0 0 0.00 7.36 0.40 6.96 0.01 0.03 7.74 0.01
25 B08 Production - 3 - - - - - 0 0 0 0.00 0.99 0.00 0.99 0.00 0.01 0.88 0.02
26 Exchange Produc - 5 - - - - - 0 0 0 0.00 8.15 0.00 8.15 0.00 0.12 2.96 0.01
27 B06 Production - 4 - - - - - 0 0 0 0.00 1.59 0.40 1.19 0.00 0.01 4.81 0.00

BackupExec & Solaris 10 VM issue

rappleby — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:03:08 GMT

Hi,

I am having exactly the same issue but with BackupExec 12.5, using Solaris 10 64bit.

Any solution?

regards,
Rob

Possible to extend C:(system drive) when deploying VM from template?

Texiwill — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:52:46 GMT

Hello,

If you have vCenter with sysprep installed or VMware Converter then yes you can change the size of the C partition during a clone. I actually prefer Converter for this action as everything is within one tool.

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operating system not found - centos

mhaziem — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:48:59 GMT

Section for VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, pid=556, version=4.0.1, build=build-161434, option=Release
(converter.task.TaskInfo) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
key = "task-17",
task = 'converter.task.Task:task-17',
name = "Convert",
descriptionId = "Convert.P2V",
userName = "Administrator",
source = "202.190.32.12",
target = "202.190.32.35/lansium.mardi.my",
state = "running",
cancelled = false,
cancelable = true,
data = <unset>,
error = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
result = <unset>,
progress = 63,
estimatedTimeRemaining = 555,
transferRate = 16591,
queueTime = "2009-11-23T13:02:56.421875Z",
startTime = "2009-11-23T13:02:56.59375Z",
completeTime = <unset>,
eventChainId = 324,
vcTask = <unset>,
logBundleInfo = (converter.DiagnosticManager.TaskLogBundleInfo) null,
}
~~2009-11-23 21:19:07.031 01176 verbose 'ConverterImpl'~~ PropertyCollector::WaitForUpdates801
(vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.UpdateSet) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
version = "801",
filterSet = (vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.FilterUpdate) [
(vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.FilterUpdate) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
filter = 'vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.Filter:session7DEC0A2C-7BEC-478F-A8AB-E1E0B682C423DCF1C7DD-F238-40BA-90B7-BDC2E7A23FA6',
objectSet = (vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.ObjectUpdate) [
(vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.ObjectUpdate) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
kind = "modify",
obj = 'converter.task.Task:task-17',
changeSet = (vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.Change) [
(vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.Change) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
name = "info",
op = "assign",
val = (converter.task.TaskInfo) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
key = "task-17",
task = 'converter.task.Task:task-17',
name = "Convert",
descriptionId = "Convert.P2V",
userName = "Administrator",
source = "202.190.32.12",
target = "202.190.32.35/lansium.mardi.my",
state = "running",
cancelled = false,
cancelable = true,
data = <unset>,
error = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
result = <unset>,
progress = 63,
estimatedTimeRemaining = 555,
transferRate = 24010,
queueTime = "2009-11-23T13:02:56.421875Z",
startTime = "2009-11-23T13:02:56.59375Z",
completeTime = <unset>,
eventChainId = 324,
vcTask = <unset>,
logBundleInfo = (converter.DiagnosticManager.TaskLogBundleInfo) null,

above are the error that i got.100% p2v done.not able to reconfigure centos on virtual machine

vmxnet3 compatibility w/rhel4 32-bit

sl33pyhead — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:22:23 GMT

The docs may suggest otherwise, but I am running a RHEL4 guest under ESXi 4.0 and vmxnet3 loads and works fine.

uname -a
Linux test.local 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

ethtool -i eth0
driver: vmxnet3
version: 1.0.1.0-NAPI
firmware-version: N/A
bus-info: 0000:03:00.0

dmesg | grep eth0
eth0: intr type 1, mode 0, 1 vectors allocated
eth0: NIC Link is Up 10000 Mbps
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

Enjoy!

-DKS

Message was edited for formatting

Processors to run 64 bit Guest OS

Anton V Zhbankov — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:56:46 GMT

You've selected the most recent and powerful Xeon with all the cool features.

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Four Ways to resize System partition. Im I missing another ?

spotdog — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:10:45 GMT

I come across a page that has step by step tutorial how to resize vmware virtual partition. http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/resize-vmware-virtual-disk-tutorial.htm

I have checked that this sw is free for home users.

Enquiries on Snapshots Management

continuum — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:51:42 GMT

yep - second best is to take the snapshot when the VM has been idle for a few minutes

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VMware-Tools fail after SLES10-SP3 Update

hackenhans — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:54:17 GMT

Hi,

the solution I took to solve this problem was to update the ESXi-host to Build 208167, reinstall and recompile the tools and, heurika it works.

Thanks for the support

Ferdi

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

vishy123 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:17:56 GMT

same issue discovered here

http://vmtoday.com/2009/11/vsphere-upgrade-breaks-active-directory/

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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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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Windows 7 support?

yougotiger0 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:42:34 GMT

And so it was... included that is! - Thanks.

Server 2008 x64 Memory issues - VM using all available memory for system cache

Bill.Morton — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:24:31 GMT

From From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976618 :

The memory management algorithms were updated to address this problem in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. Therefore, we do not recommend that you use the provided functions or the Microsoft Windows Dynamic Cache Service in computers that are running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.

:Basically Oops! If you are using 2008 apply the patch, otherwise use R2. I'll try to confirm that Server 2008 x64 R2 has fixed this issue.

Allocate 4 vCPU to Windows 7????

shalpern — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:33:35 GMT

It was a question, not a suggestion. Looks like we will need to purchase a quad-core desktop for this application.

I was hoping to do the opposite of what your link does.
" you create an 8 VCPU VM and set “cpuid.coresPerSocket = 2″ it will be recognized as 4 dual-core CPU’s by the OS while it’s actually utilizing 8 physical cores."

I want to create a 2 VCPU VM and set “cpuid.coresPerSocket = 2″ to allow the VM to have 4 cores. The physcial ESX hosts are dual socket, 4 core blade servers.

Thanks.

error loading operating system on VM

savantsingh — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:30:06 GMT

Use the entire disk function.

Also remember to change the disk from IDE to scsi, i dont remember where is that option but i have seen it causing issues with p2v migrations.

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Slow performance of Virtual Machine

weinstein5 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:00 GMT

Can you provide more information - like configuration of your ESX servers? COnfiguration of the VM in question? Is the VM on 3.5 configured differently?

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Connect virtual machine directly to LUN

Hittin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:49:57 GMT

Hi,

So presenting it as a physical raw device (SCSI controller with bus sharing turned on for physical RDM for that specific controller) to multiple VM's (same host or not does it matter?) should work?

Problem I have is create a directory on Windows 2003 x64 Enterprise and the other VM, being Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise (same host) does not the newly created directory. If I take the drive offline and put back online, the refresh shows it. What's the story with dynamic?

The Mapping file is contained in a LUN that is on the SAN. Created on the first VM guest, then told subsequent guests to use that same LUN/map file.
The SAN is a Dell MD3000i with the latest firmware that states support for 2k8R2.

Is LUN/file sharing really this difficult? If some, what is the point of sharing a map file if it doesn't keep locks etc.. up to date in realtime?

thanks

vmware-tools-config build modules for different kernel?

agapelogos — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:40:06 GMT

I've attached another automated script for building vmware modules. This one gives you a list of kernels to choose from.

Install issue - XP Pro on ESXi 3.5

mtooze — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:29:14 GMT

Hello everyone. I've been pouring over the forums and can't quite find the answer I'm looking for. I'm trying to install XP Pro on ESXi 3.5.

Here's where I'm at.

Placed XP ISO on the datastore
Placed the Buslogic and LSI .flp on the datastore
Created a VM selecting LSO as the controller
Atatched the .flp to the floppy drive
Mounted XP iso and booted to CD
Hit F6 and select the LSI driver it presented
Format disc, then says it making a list of files to copy and an error pops up saying it can't find the .sys files that are on the floppy. I didn't disconnect it. I hot ESC to continue and it lists all the files on the floppy, but it can't copy them.

Any idea what the problem is? Thanks.

ESRI ArcGIS As A VM

MaxxTek — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:34:04 GMT

I am just getting ready to setup ArcGIS on a virtual machine. Did you implement multiple virtual CPUS?

vmtool install problem!

Texiwill — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:16:52 GMT

Hello,

This happens anytime VMware tools is installed on a system that has a kernel not recognized by VMware-Tools, specifically if the vmware-config-tools.pl was used to compile the vmware tools.

I have the same issue on F11-x86_64, I just remove the modules and rebuild the drivers.... You may want to instead of removing, move them to a safe place, just in case the rebuild fails for some reason (i.e. gcc not installed).

Common issue.

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Connect LUN directly to Physical from Virtual Machine

Texiwill — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:28:43 GMT

Hello,

If the LUN is on a SAN/iSCSI storage then you can present the LUN to the VM as an RDM. Copy the data, then present the LUN to a physical box.

Things get slightly more complex if you do not have a SAN, iSCSI storage..... Can you give us a little more detail?

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Inability to extend boot partition of win2003 on GSX 3.0.1 client server

mattabah — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:08:11 GMT

Hello great pals,
I have a problem on how to increase the boot/system partition of all my win2003 vm Clients, all seating on a win2000 VMWARE GSX 3.0.1 Host Server.
I have Eight (8) Guest servers: 4 running Win2000 and the other 4 on Win2003. I used Vmware-Vdiskmanager.exe to entend both Boot/System and Data partions of all the win2000 client boxes, as well as all the data(E:\) partitions on all the win2003 client boxes. My Challenge/difficulty is on the Boot/Windows system partition of all the win2003 client servers. After growinging their respective sizes, I used diskpart.exe to extend but.....to my surprise, Disk Mangement able to recognise the newly increased size but Windows could not see the newly increased sizes. It shows/sees it as they were.
From online support and researches, I have used gparted-livecd-0.3.4-10 and KNOPPIX_V5.0.1CD-2006-06-01-EN, while booting with them from cd-rom. When booted and executed, they see these extended sizes. Yet nothing is really effected. See attached images. Could someone kindly help out on how to makje windows see the new increment?

Regards.
Matt Abah.

Windows 7 not Booting after installing vmware tools

Ace007 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:40:06 GMT

Hello,

thanks for your reply, i will try.

Windows 2000 SP4 doesn't show more than 1 CPU in Task Manager

Paulo_souza — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:56:38 GMT

God night for all....

Thanks Wimo you've set it.

Fax Modem with MS Server 2008

Texiwill — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:38:53 GMT

Hello,

Moved to Virtual Machine and Guest OS forum.

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Backups VMs while they are running?

mpg187 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:57:05 GMT

Can I still back them up while they are running in VM Ware Server? I don't follow what you mean by create a list of files, you mean the files with the folder where the VM is stored (Mainly the VMX and VMDK)

Dual boot

asatoran — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:24:35 GMT

Yes, you do have a point. I can simply make two virtual machines but then I would have to deal with two separate machines, which translates to more used resources of host computer. I know it sounds pointless lol, but still. At least I want to learn how to do it. For some reason, I can't imagine how it could be done, espcially when physical partition is involved...or is it?

In one sense, you still have "two separate machines" with a dual-boot computer. More like a conjoined twin since both use the same hard drive. But one of the twins is always asleep when the other is awake.

I' d put it to you this way: the two OS' have access to the same (virtual) drive. If one mucks up, it could take out both OS'. With separate VMs, the OS' are isolated from each other. It's not like you can really use both OS' at the same time in a dual boot anyway. (They just share a hard drive.) But you can run two separate VMs at the same time. Running just one single-boot VM doesn't use more RAM or CPU than a dual-boot VM. (Only one OS is running in the VM.) The only resource that gets used up more is HD space. But that's relatively easy to fix with a larger HD. If you can't increase your internal HD space, running a VM from an external HD is perfectly fine. (I do this all the time on my laptops.)

And then trying to do all that to a physical partition is just that much more complex. Just about any multi-boot scenario is possible. It just depends on your skill level. Realize that if that is your only physical drive, if one of your guest OS' mucks up, it could now take out your host OS. It's fine to try it for educational purposes. But this last scenario sounds to me the most dangerous and I would not recommended it except on a "spare" machine that you're willing to completely wipe out in a worst case situation. Even dual-booting a VM without a physical partition, fine for educational purposes. I'd even recommend doing that just to experience what Continuum is saying. But I wouldn't use that for my "daily" workstation.

Just some food for thought.

When the Windows 2000 Advance Server guest OS is assigned two CPU, but just one CPU is seen in the task manager?

Texiwill — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:56:36 GMT

Maximum No. of Virtual CPU's recommended

gmreddy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:44:55 GMT

Thanks for all.

how to autoload guest on reboot?

AWo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:47:21 GMT

That depends on the VMware product you use.

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Connect a VM to external storage?

weinstein5 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:26:14 GMT

Welcome to the Forums - Yes you can leave the data where it is at - what you will need to do is create a Raw Device Mapping (RDM) - this will allow the VM to redirect its disk access to the SAN LUN -

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Cloning issue a Windows 2008 VM ID.

digitaex — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:00:09 GMT

Thanks, I will try the registry first and then maybe the application.

vmware tools for windows 2008 R2

Texiwill — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:35:00 GMT

Hello,

Moved to Virtual Machine and Guest OS forum.

VMware provides updates quarterly so one should be coming out, not sure if it will include 2008R2 yet or not.

Best regards,
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WinRegKeys enabled when using VMachine?

Scissor — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:32:21 GMT

Just curious why you want to block only VMware virtual machines from your "specific portal"? What difference does it make to your "portal" if the visiting machine is physical or virtual? If you do want to detect virtual machines, don't forget about other virtualization platforms then such as Virtual PC, Xen, Parallels, etc...

P2V error please help

josemiguelcasado — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:03:56 GMT

I have had these kind of problems when importing from ESX 2.5 to vSphere. As V2V migration is not supported by converter 4 (from 2.5 to 4), I had to convert using P2V option with vCenter Converter Enterprise.

After trying to close all sesions whith net use on sourceVM and vSphere many times, restarting vCenter Service or vCenter Converter service, I found the answer.

My solution: Restart vCenter server. After that, migrations where fine.

Regards from Spain.

best practise on iSCSI initiator Multipath inside a VM

Texiwill — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:14:23 GMT

Hello,

To gain this usefulness you would need to have 2 vNICs each connecting through different portgroups to different pNICS attached hopefully to different vSwitches. Also, remember, any IO you throw through the vSwitch impacts all VMs on that vSwitch and the entire host.

You gain redundancy by having multiple pNICs per vSwitch.... In either case I would have a vNIC just for iSCSI traffic if you go this route. Hopefully on an entirely different network than your non-iSCSI systems.

Personally with ESX 4 and MPP capabilities plust load balancing, etc. Plus the iSCSI improvements, I would let ESX handle it instead of trying to manage it withing the VM and ESX.

Best regards,
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Anyone try Windows 2008 R2 in ESX 4 yet?

Gintonic — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:07:58 GMT

I have the same problem with 2008 R2 on ESXi 4

Microsoft NLB

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:58:31 GMT

Are you using unicast or multicast.
Have you see this document?
http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/1072

Andre

Annoying "move" verses "copy" question

jasimon9 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:41:50 GMT

Understood - makes great sense. Perhaps they could put an "asterisk" for those who want to know the difference.

Rename might be simply part of the evolving of the VMs.

Thanks.

iSCSI Connectivity

dwisby — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:52:26 GMT

So, when commvault reports that 'no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it' on an attemt to run the cvping to the iscsi IP on the ESX host, which server is actively refusing the connection( the exs host with the iscsi settings or the VM guest with no iscsi settings). I would tend to think since we are trying to communicate with the iSCSI IP on the ESX host that this would be the device that is actively refusing the request. If that is the case then it may be that upper level ports setup in the firewall need to be addressed in the ESX Host. However I do not know how this is accomplished.
It appears that it is an ACL issue, and now I just have to find out where this should set.

Thanks for your assistance.
David

Performance on VDI (Windows XP Virtual Machines)

DFN — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:27:26 GMT

Would it be possible for you to detail the exact things you tweaked?

Reahat 5 - CD/DVD Creator NOT working ESXi

pjooi8 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:00 GMT

OK. Thank you very much.

Run away `top` in RHEL5 virtual machine

MKguy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:59:42 GMT

As mentioned in http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/microsite.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1006427&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1, the divider kernel option is not required for 5.4.

on a HP ProLiant DL380 G4.

The 360/380 Proliant G4 series is not supported on ESX4.

1. Can you check %RDY in esxtop for that VM (if it is higher than ~5)?
2. How many vCPUs does the VM have assigned and what HW Version did you create it with?
3. Are there CPU reservations/limits or is a CPU affinity set for that VM?
4. Does a normal install of 5.4 have this issue too?

Mouse pointer is missing after VMware tools installed

Bones3876 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:30:43 GMT

Might be a bit late but just for info:

If you have issues with the Mouse pointer being missing after VMware tools installed

http://communities.vmware.com/message/419558

Then try installing the vmware tools then using the keyboard navigate to device manager and select:
Mice & Other pointing devices, right click VMware Pointing Device & select properties,
Selected Advanced Settings tab, change Wheel Detaction to disabled.
Click OK and reboot.

This worked for me fine.

Virtualizing PACS Solution - AMICAS, VI3.5U4, DS4800.

mnasir — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:52:58 GMT

We successfully deployed AMICAS PACS 6.0 on VMware ESX platform. Case study will be coming out shortly. I will post the link when it is available.

Is there a VMware VM that can be play/run in macOS and Windows 7?

tom howarth — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:05:12 GMT

As Weinstin5 says, you will actually require two products, VMware Fusion for you Mac, and Workstation, Player or Server for your Windows machine.

if you have a copyof Fusion for your Mac, there is no need to buy Workstation, just download VMware Player as this will runmac created VM's

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My virtual machine can not start up

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Cannot setup NMI watchdog; calibrate_APIC_clock: the APIC timer may be wrong; sda: assuming drive cache: write through

mackop — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:46:00 GMT

I am using ESXi 4 and as a guest CentOS 5.4 x86_64. I have captured screen while guest OS was booting (the screen is attached).
Are the messages caused by running CentOS as virtual machine? Can I fix them or should I worry?
1) Cannot setup NMI watchdog
2) WARNING calibrate_APIC_clock: the APIC timer may be wrong.
3) sda: assuming drive cache: write through
....

WinXP VM installation, can't find hard disk ...

Texiwill — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:02:58 GMT

VMWare Clone will not Boot INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

continuum — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:35:02 GMT

other Converter versions call this "configure machine"

when reconfiguring use BUSLOGIC setting - LSIlogic and IDE settings are unreliable
select virtual hardware version 4 - version 7 does not work most of the time

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Sysprep to be updated in the future to skip SID generation

khughes — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:45:56 GMT

Interesting article, RIP newSID

Kyle

ps- Hi Brian

Set up Tape Drive (Overland 2000E)

Dave.Mishchenko — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:47:55 GMT

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Keyboard not getting released from guest.

wdamon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:01:05 GMT

It appears by reading some past and present post this was a problem in version 3 which was fixed by a patch and it is now a problem in vSphere. Does anyone know if VMWare support is familiar with the problem? I am not sure if they monitor the forums so that is why I ask.

A url link to a similiar posting: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1396751

Thanks!

ACPI Multiprocessor issue?

oreeh — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:55:00 GMT

A HAL mismatch leads to numerous problems, most of them visible as degraded performance / high utilization.
So yes, that probably is your problem.

How to Automate Installation of VMware Tools for Linux Guests?

Texiwill — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:31:28 GMT

Hello,

Check out http://communities.vmware.com/thread/185899?tstart=0 as a starting point.

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Windows 2008 Multicast NLB

msemon1 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:00:28 GMT

We had issues with NLB not just with Exchange. Currrently using a load balancing virtual appliance with no problems. There are a number of solutions you can find with a search of the forums.

Mike

WinXP - host memory usage

roc.ker — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:25:21 GMT

VDI ESX

PSHARE/MB: 197 shared, 2 common: 195 saving

Server ESX (W2k3 servers)

PSHARE/MB: 25486 shared, 3308 common: 22178 saving

I recently open ticket on vmware support and uploaded vm-support dump.

Networking problem with Suse Linux

schoeffel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:00:39 GMT

Edward,

as you suggested I uninstalled Vmware tools and converted the VM again. Trying to install VMware tools in vSphere ended up with the same error during configuration.

There is a difference though: the newly converted machine now has no more network devices.

Thanks

Stephan

Snapshot and time sync

AWo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:58:14 GMT

I'm not sure if that is possible. You can set a date and time or an offset in the .vmx file, but that would lead to haveing always the same date/time or always the same offset to the actual time.

Use this additinal parameters to the one you already have: "rtc.startTime" or "rtc.diff" in seconds since 01-01-1970 00:00.

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Login is black on Virtual Machine

tom howarth — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:41:44 GMT

Matthew

have a read of my blog post on this very self same issue "The Black Screen of Death"

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Snapshots and independent disks

eagleh — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:33:40 GMT

Same problem here. I swear I was able to do snapshot when I had RDMs (virtual/independent/persistent). No longer work all of sudden. I have to either power it off or uncheck "snapshot virtual machine's memory". Anybody shed a light on this?

ESXI 4.0 and Windows Server 2008 instalation

shadowrifty — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:38:16 GMT

and you would be correct sir. i ran stupid check real quick, and found that somebody mislabeld the discs. I feel silly, been working on this for almost 2 hours. ever have one of those days. well thanks for responding.

Windows 2008 R2

Troy Clavell — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:45:42 GMT

I don't know if it will work, but it's not supported.

ESX4 has experimental support for x64 W2K8R2
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility

ESX 4.0 - Windows 7 hangs at 'Starting Windows' - with workaround

mikep — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:29:36 GMT

Another workaround that looks quite promising (tested under ESX 4.0):
After starting Windows 7 run the following command on an elevated command prompt:

bcdedit /set {current} bootux disabled

This will switch off the boot animation and display a black screen (or garbage)... no more hangs since then.

ethtool errors on Linux VM (rhel5.1)

bomahony — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:27:42 GMT

One of the things i noticed while waiting on an answer to this is the fact that my test network is running V2 and the live network is running V1. We have planned to update to V4 so once this has been authorised, and we go ahead with the downtime, i will then try changing the NICs, if it hasnt been resolved.

Cannot remove vmware-2966.log: Device or resource busy

Maarthen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:17:41 GMT

Hi,

If all else fails, you can check this procedure;

1) storage vmote the vm with the locked file to another LUN. the locked file(s) will be left behind. but the vm creates new logs on the destination lun so they can be deleted.

2) follow the vmkfstools -d procedure in the following link to find the macaddress of the esx host that's locking the file: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=10051&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=27804725&stateId=0%200%2027806824

3) The macaddress found in the procedure above needs to be checked with all the nic macaddresses of all your esx hosts. What I did is fill a text file with the ouput of a filtered ifconfig command via plink.(plink is a tool to link your windows command prompt with a putty session)

plink root@esx101 ifconfig | findstr /i hwaddr >> macaddresses.txt

i filled the txt file with all esx servers so now i can check wich macaddress relates to wich host. (you'll need to add the hostnames yourselve in the txt file)

4) finally and this step needs to be imroved if you ask me is to put the esx host found in step 3 in maintenance mode. next is reboot the host and exit maintenance mode.

5) THE LOG FILE CAN BE DELETED!

RE: I Need an Expert Opinion

shara555 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:57:37 GMT

Hi There,

Could someone "please advise" as to an expert opinion as to what might be happening as well as a possible solution to the following issue. Each time that I reinstall my os or purchase a new computer with Windows (xp, live 7, vista), I notice the following and at random:

1. Under admin tools, computer management, disk management, the service that connects initially is the logical disk service. However, once I run updates for either Norton or Windows Updates, the service converts to "virtual disk services". I am concerned because I am constantly crashing due to inadequate drivers.

2. I also notice that each time this happens that the software distribution folder under windows has a new update service WSUS, which is a totally separate application that you can install on Windows Server 2008 that automates the updates process for windows update for server 2008. Correct? Please note that I am running workstations without virtualization as they are new or repurposed and not servers.

3. Also, I find a unique key in the registry under Windows CE Services and Windows CE RNDIS whereby a smart phone and a pocket pc is enabled with a value of "2". Additionally, there is a URL listed under source 1386 for x:Ms-Windows-source1386/asms/. If I go to the system root, I am able to find 1386 in Windows with about a trillion files in it.

4. Although, I am very familiar with virtual hosting and troubleshooting guest os's from a pure administration standpoint, as well as the development of virtual appliances, I would like a 2nd opinion as to "what to do" and "how to handle" this situation as it continues to crash my workstations.

5. All things aside, could someone please tell me "how" to avoid this "virtual" hell as I am tired of installing and reinstalling after updates run? All responses and opinions are greatly appreciated.

Shara

can I use SCSI passthru to pass a local SCSI partition to a VM?

Texiwill — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:19:11 GMT

Hello,

Moved to the virtual machine and guest os forum.

Yes there is a way to do this, it is considered a RAW disk within the VM. I blogged about how to do this using vmkfstools to make the RAW disk and then attached it to a VM. You may be able to do this by using a SCSI Generic Device, which is how you would do it by hand.

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Decrease the Provisioned Size of a VM in VS4

rodenis — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:05:37 GMT

Hi,

You can use VMware Converter to reduce the size of the hdisk of a VM.

Good luck!

scsi controllers - LSI Logic v Bus Logic

AndreTheGiant — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:21:50 GMT

1. When you select a Typical build when created a new VM is the scsi controller LSI or Bus Logic?

It depends by the OS that you choose.
Old Windows use Buslogic, new one use LSI Logic

2. What are the benefits of using LSI over Bus & vice versa?
See: Virtual SCSI Adapter type

Andre

Solaris 10 with ESX4

michael.custance — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:27:57 GMT

Thanks for that, Guest Compatability guide PDF must be out of date

vmTool for Solaris.

Texiwill — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:19:02 GMT

Hello,

Moved to virtual machine and guest os forum.

vmxnet3 does require hardware v7, but also all vmxnet3 drivers for hardware v7 should have the same abilities.

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increase disk size of a partition

AndreTheGiant — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:04:22 GMT

Would extpart still work for increasing a particular partition size in a single virtual disk?

Extpart (but also diskpart) require free space after the end of the partition that you want extend.

For non system disk you can use Dynamic Disk (the RAID software of Windows) to extend with non-contiguous space but I do not suggest this way.
As written before, in this case, the best solution is use VMware Converter.

Andre

Can't communicate with other virtual machines when firewall is on.

Anton V Zhbankov — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:13:33 GMT

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Has anyone noticed mac os x can run in vmware workstation i have it running on my laptop which has windows 7 ultimate x64

Texiwill — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:54:06 GMT

Hello,

While it may be possible to do this, it is in violation of Apple's current EULA. You may want to give it a read as it states you can not virtualize Mac OS on non-Mac hardware or something similar to that. On top of this it limits WHAT version of MacOS you can virtualize.

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Redhat Cluster supported with ESX3.x or VSphere?

Texiwill — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:00:38 GMT

Hello,

Yes it does work. You set up it like any other shared disk cluster. However, you need to find the appropriate fence... THat could be an issue, there is one, but people had less than stellar luck with it.

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BAD TRAP: type=8 (#df Double fault) rp=fffffffffbc311b0 addr=0

Texiwill — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:58:34 GMT

Hello,

Which VMware Product are you using? ESX, ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, Player, or Server? It makes a difference.

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Is there an alternative to Update Manager - get the latest VMWare Tools for Windows Server 2003

Troy Clavell — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:03:07 GMT

to me, i would rather run older tools on new guests, then to run newer tools on older guests. Since there are driver updates specific around 4.0 I wouldn't run 4.0 tools on VI3 guest, but that is just my preference.

install a guest os on another guest os

Dave.Mishchenko — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:54:06 GMT

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The simplest way to resize vmware disk and partition

continuum — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:31:37 GMT

any disk-resizing howto with out a FAT note - MAKE SURE YOU HAVE NO SNAPSHOTS - must be regarded as dangerous advice

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No CTRL+ALT Delete Logon screen after P2V

DannyGerman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:43:37 GMT

Hi - I have a customer with some really old physical NT 4 Terminal Servers (running Citrix Metaframe 1.8), I'm trying to virtualize them. After running a successful P2V the new VM appears to starts up successfully, go through the normal NT 4 boot process, but it never display's the logon box. Has anyone ever come across this before after P2Ving a NT4 server?

I'm using vSphere 4.0. I've tried the VMware Converter which is built into vCenter and the standalone version. Both converters report a successful conversion. I've also noticed that the VM runs at 100% CPU once it's been converted and is sitting on the blank Windows NT 4 screen waiting for the logon box to appear. I've also noticed that because it’s NT4 Terminal Server, it's using a slightly different GINA than the normal NT4 Server, maybe this has something to do with it. - Any help is appreciated. Thanks Danny

Help: redhat3u9 x64 guest os hung on VMware ESX 4 with kernel: mptbase&mptscsih error

Texiwill — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:12:41 GMT

Hello,

Correlate the issues within the VM to any issues within the vmkernel by comparing these errors to those in vmware.log for the VM as well /var/log/vmkernel. You may have issues unrelated to the VM itself.

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RepliStor and Windows Server 2008 Server

Texiwill — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:48:21 GMT

Hello,

Moved to the Virtual Machine and Guest OS forum.

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Intel e1000 NIC Team in Windows 2008 x64 guest

ArevaRnD — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:44:00 GMT

We have this same problem (see the original post above), and have not seen a solution yet. Anyone else?

We need multiple vNICs teamed at the VM level, to test our application with NIC failover and failback.

This worked great with ESX 3.5 and Windows 2003 guest VMs, but we are not able to load the Intel driver on Windows 2008 guests on ESXi 4 hosts.

Thanks for any help.

Areva R&D

kernel upgrade on linux as vm guest on esx 3.5

AWo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:16:23 GMT

rotoflex01 schrieb:
I upgraded the kernel of my red hat es 4 (vm guest on esx 3.5). Do I need to recompile or reinstall the vm driver?

Yes, you need. When you check the loaded modules and the running VMware processes there might be some or all missing. You have to runl "vmware-config.pl" again.

And how do I know if the vm driver is running properly on esx 3.5?

You mean how do you know that it is running in the guest properly, don't you? Do a "ps -e | grep vm" and a "lsmod | grep vm" and post it. We can check the loaded modules and processes.
Watch the process while running "vmware-config.pl" closely, it shows if modules couldn't be compiled.

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Can Virtual Machine Access CD-ROM on Host device from Virtual Machine OS

asatoran — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:12:55 GMT

You usually also have to toggle the connected checkbox when changing disks. Uncheck connected and click OK to "eject" the disk from the guest. Then insert the new physical disk (or select an ISO,) check connected box and click OK to "insert" the new disk to the guest.

ESXi4 loses connection

tthayer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:04:58 GMT

Sorry for the delay in replying. I had to test several things out.

The issue happens when copying large files to my Solaris VM from a Windows VM on the same hardware. It only seems to happen when transferring files via CIFS. Transferring files via SCP or an iSCSI target doesn't cause any issues at all.

Converting Dynamic (spanned) drives

weinstein5 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:17:53 GMT

You are corect - the problem is the block size not the spanned drive -

Depending on the version of the converter it should -

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