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why is vmnetcfg.exe NOT included in VMplayer 3 ???

MisterAnderson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:18:26 GMT

Actually, as it turns out, the vmnetcfg.exe is included in the installer, but won't be installed. Here's a description as how to "pull" the exe out of the archive manually.

1. Run the installer with /e option. For example:
VMware-player-3.0.0-197124.exe /e .\extract
All contents will be extracted to "extract" folder.

2. Open "network.cab" and copy vmnetcfg.exe to your installation folder,
typically "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\".

PS: Don't bother copying an older version of vmnetcfg.exe from some older version of the player / workstation if you're running Windows 7 - it'll crash. (This one runs fine).

Enjoy,
Mr. Anderson

vSphere-client as a thinapp package

mikelane — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:01:02 GMT

It looks like the new vSphere Client that was released today with vSphere 4.0 Update 1 works as a thinapp (on Windows 7 at least anyway) ... would be great if VMware would release a thinapped version of the application still ...

VMXRequestReset = Access to misconfigured virtual devices

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:31:51 GMT

While booting a LiveCD in a VM I get a messagebox with the suggestions to reset the VM because of misconfigured vortual devices..
This happens during Hardware - detection of the guest ...
If this is interesting - its reproducable - no custom edits to the vmx-file - I'll post details

USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12

VMXRequestReset
Msg_Hint: msg.monitorEvent.14552 (sent)

Access to misconfigured virtual devices ***

Your guest operating system has accessed an I/O range where multi ...

USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
reset: The virtual machine is in state 3
Msg_Hint: msg.monitorEvent.14552 (sent)

Access to misconfigured virtual devices ***

Your guest operating system has accessed an I/O range where multi ...

USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
reset: The virtual machine is in state 3
Msg_Hint: msg.monitorEvent.14552 (sent)

Access to misconfigured virtual devices ***

Your guest operating system has accessed an I/O range where multi ...

USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
reset: The virtual machine is in state 3
Msg_Hint: msg.monitorEvent.14552 (sent)

Access to misconfigured virtual devices ***

Your guest operating system has accessed an I/O range where multi ...

USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
reset: The virtual machine is in state 3

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what is Internal error 28014 with View-client ?

AndreTheGiant — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:24:34 GMT

You're welcome.

Andre

is the vdiskmanager-bug fixed in VMserver 2.0.2 ?

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:34:27 GMT

For any licence police watching ...

In case they are listening .. we are trying to find workarounds for known bugs here - so just shut up or fix them yourself

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please display the full post while typing an answer

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:18:00 GMT

maybe same functionality could be acchieved by changing the existing REPLY button so that it pops up a new window

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Does remote display via VNC work with WS 7 ?

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:12:14 GMT

oh dear ... oh dear ....
you were right with the loop back
the problem was actually sitting in front of the screen
sorry

Ulli

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How can I force download of solaris.iso vmware-tools ?

continuum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:31:22 GMT

bump

discussions listing does not update itself

RDellimmagine — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:47:12 GMT

Investigating...

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

WS 6.5.1 crashes when you start a Virtualbox VM with VT-support

jmattson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:12:22 GMT

sque wrote:
kvm: unhandled exit 6
kvm_run returned -22

kvm may be able to recover from this error by doing a VMCLEAR of the current VMCS, followed by a VMPTRLD of that VMCS, followed by a VMLAUNCH. This should force the hardware to discard any cached VMCS information and re-synch from the in-memory VMCS. The VMLAUNCH cannot fail due to "corrupted VMCS."

If everything else has gone smoothly, the in-memory VMCS will actually have correct and up-to-date information when this kind of failure is observed due to an interaction with VMware products, so this sequence should work around the problem.

Since this new code sequence would only be in response to a condition which currently causes a fatal exit, there is no performance penalty involved for kvm. However, it does rely on unarchitected behavior and stacks the house of cards even higher.

The one drawback is that this attempt at recovery could result in data corruption or other problems if the in-memory VMCS truly is corrupted.

documented workarounds for the following issues are needed ...

JJoel42 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:12:19 GMT

Thanks for pulling together this summary of issues. We are looking through them and comparing your list to what has been submitted through our support channel as well as our own internal issues list. As Constantine mentioned in his post, any specifics that can be provided about these items would be helpful.

scsi0.pciSlotNumber = 160 ???

continuum — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:42:47 GMT

would this be correct for adding 4 SAS controllers ?

scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "160"

scsi1.present = "TRUE"
scsi1.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
scsi1.pciSlotNumber = "161"

scsi2.present = "TRUE"
scsi2.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
scsi2.pciSlotNumber = "162"

scsi3.present = "TRUE"
scsi3.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
scsi3.pciSlotNumber = "163"

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After installation of WS 7 hot-plug of USB-disks/ sticks no longer works in the host

continuum — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:14:35 GMT

After installation of WS 7 hot-plug of USB-disks/ sticks no longer works in the 2k3-sp2 host.
In diskmanagement those USB-disks flash up for a few seconds then the connection is lost again.

This worked without problems in the beta.

Suggestions welcome ...

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VMplayer 3 is artificially crippled for no apparent reason

oreeh — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:22:30 GMT

I moved your post back to the Product & Feature Suggestions forum.

Oliver Reeh
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please provide vmware-tools iso-files as direct downloads

continuum — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:23:46 GMT

please provide vmware-tools iso-files as direct public downloads

This has always been a problem in the past - users had to download other products where the iso-files were included or used obscure torrent-files ....
Now with the new Workstation it is even worse - the automatical download of the tools isos simply does not work as promised.
The buildin feature to detect updated isos does not even detect when the last download failed and so they often state that everything is uptodate even when some of the isos are missing.
To test this - delete one of the iso-files and then click update.

So why is it a problem to make the iso-files available as public downloads - hopefully unobscured - meaning not wrapped in msi-files or tarballs

Nobody can want that the users again start to download this iso-files from the torrent-network ...

Ulli

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how shall a new user find the Converter-forum ???

continuum — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:59:55 GMT

I like the idea of just having a single suggestions forum

Yes - I agree - this gives us at least the illusion that someone at VMware may be reading it.

When we post suggestions to the product forums they often are invisible after a few hours.

I've also moved it to http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/general/product where it will get better visibility.

I seriously doubt that - I guess ....community/vmtn/suggestions would be the best place.
This shows the users "we are listening and we take your input seriously"

Ulli

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in IE 6 "all communities" dropdown is not clickable

RDellimmagine — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:32:44 GMT

We're investigating this. Thanks, Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

please add a "code" button to any of the editors

RDellimmagine — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:20:32 GMT

Yes, you are correct. The usability for the workaround I provided is poor (although it does work well). The poor usability is why we're working on a better solution. Thanks for the feedback. - Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Slow default : prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "50"

jameslin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:02:28 GMT

continuum wrote:
I wonder why the new version per default uses
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "50"

The default has been "Allow some virtual machine memory to be swapped" for a long time (I just tried with Workstation 5.5.x on Windows).

in config.ini and does not print this to the config.ini ?

I don't understand what you mean.

BUG + workaround: can not do a fresh install on Windows

continuum — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:32:29 GMT

Rob - I have seen this on 32bit and 64bit hosts. But as it seems to happen in a few cases only I have not found a pattern.

Hlin - you already looked at this - we discussed this in the beat-section already - I just did not know the workaround then

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BUG + workaround: can not do a fresh install on Windows

continuum — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:00:48 GMT

BUG + workaround: can not do a fresh install on Windows

I thought I was the only one getting this but I just saw the first post of another user running into the same thing ....
This problem has been seen on 2k3-32bit and Windows 7 - 64bit and may occur with Workstation7 and VMplayer3

When trying to do a fresh installation the setup fails with non-helpful message "The MSI fails" - this only applies to fresh install - not upgrades.

WORKAROUND:

this is a stupid bug in the installer - it does not even consider that you are not upgrading but doing a fresh install.
The setup then tries to uninstall a non-existing earlier version.
It tries to find this non-existing earlier installation but gives up as it does not find anything ...

So you must run the installer with a special command line to tell it that you are really planning to do a fresh install and that uninstalling older versions really is neither necessary nor wanted.

VMware-player-3.0.0-203739.exe /z "action"="install"

Ulli
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FEATURE REQUEST : print reasonable message if Hyper-V is installed

continuum — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:11:27 GMT

if WS 7 is installed on a host with Hyper-V installed it prints an error message that is not helpful.
Please instead mention "does not work with Hyper-V on the same system

20091029162251:ERROR** CCheckForMSHyperVOperation::Execute: MS Hyper-V was found on the system

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Bug: new snapshot-timer feature is mis-labelled as "Autoprotect"

kriemer — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:54:37 GMT

Ulli,

Setting > Options Tab > Snapshots > Select "Take a new snapshot" (When Powering Off)

Beween this option and the self limiting "AutoProtect" I'll take "AutoProect" (if I could).

Regards

Bug: 203739 kills network-icons in systray - keeping state of bridged network settings still defunct

continuum — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:17:14 GMT

Is this really the 7.0.0. final version ?

I upgraded from ws 7 rc to 203739 on a 2k3-sp2 host - language set to EN
1. after uninstallation the installer failed to autostart itself again - it had to be relaunched manually
2. complete network settings were reset to defaults - all bridged network settings were reset to "automatic bridging" - I have two nics - so "automatic bridging" by design produces unpredictable behaviour
3. I usually have icons for every nic in my systray - to me this is a must have - the update removed this icons and I now can no longer enable them again

edit: last issue solved - new installer needs 3 instead of the expected 2 reboots

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link to Workstation 7 beta community is gone / locked

RDellimmagine — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:57:18 GMT

VMware Workstation 7 is now available.

Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

support beyond the forum - how do you handle it ?

continuum — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:56:46 GMT

I don't know if this applies to anyone else ... anyway maybe we can find a way that suits all ...

What do you do if a problem can not be fixed with a short answer in a post and the user asks you if you can fix the issue via a remote-login ?

I specialize in vmdk and snapshot problems and in most of the cases this problems really require more work than a short reply.
So occasionally I agree to fix the issue via a remote-login. This happens more and more often since ESX 4 appeared.

In maybe 33 % of those cases the users are nice and keep their promise to make a donation or post a success report.
In the other cases the users make me regret having helped them at all.

Worst example so far : I spend a whole saturday night recovering data from a user-mistake on ESX 4 - the user promised to donate 1000 dollars.
When the work was done I never heard from that guy again.

Last case was yesterday night - all in all I spend maybe 2 hours on a deleted snapshot - 30 minutes via a remote-login.
The work was successful and the user promised to make a donation ... which of course never arrived.

Obviously a lot of frustration is building up ...
If it goes on like this I guess I will soon stop to invest more than 5 - 10 minutes for a users problems - just to avoid this feeling of beeing cheated.

Do you have similar experiences ? - if yes - how do you handle such cases ?

What do you do if you see a post and you know that you could fix the problem if you spend maybe a full hour on it - do you spend the time ?

Ulli

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POLL: how should Workstation handle the vmware-tools iso-files - please vote

josmer — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:35:13 GMT

#1 and #3

funny issue : WS successfully suspends a VM that was already powered off

kingneutron — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:37:27 GMT

--I think I know why, cuz this happens with my older physical machines running Linux (both Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.) APM / ACPI is not really turning off the Guest; if you open up the Vmware Console for a Linux guest in this state, you should see the last set of system messages - including " system halted - power down ". But the VM does not power **all the way off** by itself. Frustrating to have to hit the power button manually when it Used To Just Freaking Work(TM) with APM.

./. If you have appreciated my response, please remember to apply Helpful/Correct points. TIA

Message was edited by: kingneutron

feature request: specify path for mainmem file - Windows host

continuum — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:50:44 GMT

A Windows host configured with
mainmem.useNamedFile = "true"
creates a random named file to backup the vRAM like
564dc2f6-5ed5-3f05-c3af-56bd0a654654.vmem

It looks like this file is not used to store the vRAM when the VM is suspended.
So it would be nice if we could change the path to this temporary file.

On a 32bit Windowshost with more than 4 Gb RAM we could then create a ramdisk inside the RAM that can not be addressed by the host.
It would be also useful when we run VMs from very slow USB-disks or USB-sticks and could put the temporary memory file to a faster local disk.

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nested VMs running in a ESXi-VM suddenly very slow ...

continuum — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:52:47 GMT

Does this happen for all nested guests?

It happens for all guests that boot from CD - I tried Knoppix, Gparted ,several BartPEs and Windows-setup-isos.
After reading your reply I tried with a VM that boots from vmdk and strangely here it is ok ?

For the guests that start from CD I tried all options - with a ISO-file in the datastore, local device and client-device - it made no difference.
I always get the same lines in the vmware.log

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can renaming a file or a directory on VMFS delete the file ?

Gostev — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:31:43 GMT

I did some testing last night and was unable to confirm any issues around ESXi 4 and FastSCP 3.0.1.266. I can see and copy all files, including -flat.vmdk files. Renaming folders is not causing any deletions either. Make sure you have the latest FastSCP release (3.0.1 build 266 released on July 7th) - as previous versions of FastSCP do not support vSphere at all...

[solved] keep network settings still does not work

jokke — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:18:54 GMT

I am the one who made that attempted documentation of vnetlib.

It (vnetlib.exe) seems like an easy enough and handy tool to use, once you're familiar with it.

May I ask you one question though;

How can we install the VMware USB Client Driver (vmusb) with vnetlib?

It is possible with rundll32 and drv_ctl, but that is not at all a very clean way..

Joakim

"uninstall existing older version" check fails

continuum — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:30:49 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion but it causes the same behaviour.
See logfiles attached

I guess this is some over eager check in the installer. Earlier versions from WS 6.0.0 up to build 169612 install without issues on the very same platform.
For now I can install manually

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Anybody else doing Coldclones via iSCSI ?

chalans — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:48:05 GMT

Hello,

I doing some coldclone or vmotion some VMs via ISCSI yes.

The performance are related to your network infrastructure and the use of advances nics (rdma) or iscsi card.

You can find many test doc and performance gaph about iscsi VS SAN comparaison near here.

Hope that help you a bit...

Greeting

Stéphane

whats wrong - can't post in beta-section

continuum — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:44:03 GMT

yep - - sorry if you were bored after the first versions

today I can see my post as well - yesterday none of my attemps to post was visible

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VMFS-driver for Windows

fixitchris — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:10:18 GMT

very impressive work fluidops!

VMTN is absolutely unusable - it has never been so slow

Gerrit.Lehr — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:39:09 GMT

No problem here either.

Kind Regards,
Gerrit Lehr

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Feature request: create ESX compatible snapshots

continuum — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:42:28 GMT

Feature request: create ESX compatible snapshots

Workstation can already work with complete disk-chains created in ESX. (basedisk + attached snapshots)
AFter using such a chain in Workstation it can be ported back to ESX and it still works.

It would be nice if we also could create ESX-compatible snapshots in Workstation.

I would prefer if this option can be specified as a vmx-parameter - rather than as a GUI-option

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bugNr = 171951

jmattson — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:42:48 GMT

Are things any better with the latest build?

ESX 4i does not remember root password during a reboot

continuum — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:07:17 GMT

I have not tested all that - but the issue appears even on completely fresh fat-partitions at first boot after creation. I also tried with dos-partitions created by Windows and by Linux - doesn't make a difference.

and you have DEFINITELY run dosfsck -v /dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:*x *on your partitions?

Yes - I tried that - no results.
But other than that the ESXi runs nice - I can create VMs and run them - management with the vsphere-client also works nice.

Actually this is a scenario that normally does not appear.
Everyone who wants a ESXi-stick for stationary use would use an out-of-the-box stick or a installation to disk and not a build like I use

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must have tools for a Linux VMware admin ?

McStarfighter — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:22:47 GMT

Forget it. I don't mean the Windows package from Mono, I mean the Linux-Mono. And the Lin-Mono doesn't communicate with Wine for camouflage itself as DOTNET. The Linux-Mono only will run for linux applications like some of the newer GNOME apps ...

Some new useful apps: fsarchiver (http://www.fsarchiver.org) for saving nearly any filesystem and partition as a tarball; sfdisk (http://linux.die.net/man/8/sfdisk) for saving and restoring partition tables; the NoMachine NX Client; partimage (http://www.partimage.org) for disk imaging at the disc block level; PeaZip (http://peazip.sourceforge.net) a graphical archive manager (IMHO very good).

vSphere-client on a LiveCD

continuum — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:27:36 GMT

added support for new Workstation 6.5.3

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please change default bios.bootDelay

birdie — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:55:55 GMT

Unless I'm completely blind, I cannot find any data on that option:

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws65/doc/releasenotes_ws652.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws65/doc/releasenotes_ws651.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws65/doc/releasenotes_ws650.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/releasenotes_ws5.html

Do you stake?

official statement wanted : physical disk feature with NT 6 is broken

almi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:04:44 GMT

I guess it's not stylish to admit that something might be wrong... But i agree, an answer or solution would be greatly appreciated...

Linux and Windows-version with the same license ?

birdie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:11:55 GMT

Since no one from VMWare has commented on this question yet, I take the liberty of being quite sure that from now on Win/Lin VMWare versions will share the same license.

I can conclude that from the simple fact that all previous betas and releases had different licenses, and their licenses were not interchangeable.

So, if I'm correct with my assumption, once you've purchased VMWare WS 7, you can use it on any platform, be it Linux or Windows.

Sometimes guest without vmware-tools are unusable

wila — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:43:24 GMT

Ulli,

I don't think it gets loaded if the device isn't there.
Maybe you have to setup an alternative xorg.conf (/etc/X11 folder) not 100% sure without checking it.

But you can verify yourself by running (as root) lsmod | grep vmmouse

--
Wil
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Recover a NTFS volume messed up by a ESX-storage rescan

ConstantinV — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:27:12 GMT

If you have any troubles and you are user of Starwind - use can always communicate with our support for getting help.

Starwind Software Developer

Installation on Linux fails

AndreTheGiant — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:02:59 GMT

You're welcome.

Andre

VMware as a tool for forensic investigations ....

continuum — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:56:19 GMT

Looks interesting but then i stopped reading here ...

.VMEM - A backup of the virtual machine's paging file which only exists if the VM is running or has crashed

.VMSN - These are VMware snapshot files, named by the name of a snapshot. A VMSN file stores the state of the virtual machine when the snapshot was created.

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Any news when rawdisk access for Vista, 2k8 or Windows 7 will work again ?

McStarfighter — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:04:59 GMT

But IMHO a official solution from VMware would be better.

So: Any news?

Error-message not useful - installation on Bluewhite 64 Linux

continuum — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:16:06 GMT

Ok - manually running

/etc/rc.d/init/vmware
did it

Thanks Birdie

if you answer again you get your well deserved points

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What is the newest Converter version that can do Cold Clones ?

continuum — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:24:46 GMT

Instructions ...
http://sanbarrow.com/converter4.html

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vmxnet3 in Workstation

continuum — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:23:52 GMT

did you know that you can use the 10 Gbps virtual nic vmxnet3 in Workstation ?

very likely unsupported and surely badly tested ...
may not work with anything else but Win 2000 server, Win 2003 and MOA 2.4 ... don't know
see http://sanbarrow.com/vmxnet3.html

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Stupid question : why doesn't datastorebrowser tell the truth ?

kjb007 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:36:20 GMT

I've found this to be rather annoying myself. One minute all is working, and you only see a name.vmdk, then things sort of break, and now there are two files, but then why didn't I see both there before? Am I missing something here? Either show them both, or don't.

-KjB
VMware vExpert

passwordfile for vmware-vdiskmanager ?

continuum — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:37:00 GMT

that doc must be out-dated - it does not even have the new create type 6 option.
Maybe it does not work with ESXi ?
I tried with full path ...

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Regression: second floppy drive no longer works

continuum — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:06:45 GMT

update: thanks birdie

the second floppy must be enabled in the virtual BIOS

when was this changed ???

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only one floppy-drive possible ?

continuum — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:03:53 GMT

Birdie - you are right - since when is this necessary ?

Ulli

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usabilty of the VAM-section is a joke

continuum — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:02:39 GMT

Hi Robert

thanks for looking into it

Ulli

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What about a section for "vmdk and snapshot problems" ?

continuum — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:47:02 GMT

Today I found several completely wrong answers to posts about disk-repair or recovery.
Maybe the quality will improve if we had those questions in a single section

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Please explain function of the VMware Authorization Service

birdie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:51:11 GMT

Is there a Bugzilla or other tracking server where bugs can be searched/reported?

There's an internal bugzilla or something like that but it's only for VMWare contractors/employees.

Create a new thread and you may hope that it'll be noticed by someone from VMWare and he/she will file an internal bugreport on your behalf.

If you own VMWare you can file a request directly via the support form on vmware.com website.

VMneteditor for Windows doesn't make sense

21mxvm — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:12:41 GMT

I believe that several of the participants in this forum are in agreement that 'uncertainty' in the actions of Workstation/Player/Server are undesirable in the actions of 'automatic' functions. For many uses I'm confident that the existing functionality does fulfill a need to be able to run (an appliance for example) without learning a lot about how to configure a virtual network configuration. That said, I echo the earlier commentary that the existing functions have to continue to support that class of users and those who need more sophisticated functions can then move on to the tools needed to work in specific environments with complex configurations.

As an example of a conflict between existing VM Network Configurations and VM guest usage let me pick on a simple sysadmin example:

Testing new DHCP server codes from isc.org (such as needed by the Vulnerability announced today as CVE-2009-0692 , VU#410676 )

After acquiring/configuring/compiling/linking the code the test environment(s) may include a 'host only' local network test, compatibility with existing dhcpd servers, and a test using 'bridged' networking. (And more testing prior to promotion to production...)

The VMWare (Workstation/Player/Server/Lab) network configurations to do this are non-trivial (including testing DHCP functionality that may not be part of the VMWare vmnetdhcp functionality) and currently may require direct modification of the vmnetdhcp.conf/dhcpd.conf file (environment dependent). As such, some of the non-trivial concerns to perform this normal sys-admin activity are addressed in Chapter 15 "Advanced Virtual Networking" of the Workstation Tech manual and I'm all for adding examples (like testing DNS or DHCP) for training or documentation purposes (in the appropriate reference/training materials).Even so, mapping from the current functionality of the VMneteditor and documentation to what needs to be done can be unnecessarily obscure and tedius.

I agree with the voices here in the forum that these functions aren't 'everyday' for many people using Workstation/Player/Server for many functions. And it is reasonable that a hugely complex documentation/code effort isn't used to meet the needs of only a very small minority of the Community. That said, it seems equally reasonable either to document some specific situations that sys-admins run into (such as having to deal with DHCP broadcast packet propagation rules when using vmware dhcp and/or DHCP servers in bridged vmnetwork configurations or for dhclient usage) or to provide a 'wizard' to assist in configuring the virtual network environment. Space makes it difficult to be both concise and clear here, and I'll be glad to amplify in another post if asked.

Development, testing, and production release of dns, key servers, ldap, radius, and many other network driven service functions have similar (differing in both specifics and number of sites affected) needs. The increasing sophistication of vm guest functionality and embedding into complex service-based environments with network fault tolerance, dynamic reconfiguration, and adaptive resource allocations will require the 'developer knobs' and 'operational automation' to mature along with these applications. Starting with the Workstation/player/server functionality seems a good level to try this out prior to impacting the production-driven esx/Sphere environments.

how can the sidebar be hidden ?

pavel-a — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:46:51 GMT

Have you tried on other hosts? I've seen exactly this behavior (=bug) with v 6.5.1 and it returned to the norm by itself, few days later. Bugs are like this...

can't disable Autofit

continuum — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:26:30 GMT

once Autofit is enabled I can't disable it anymore - this is very anoying if you have a lot of open tabs

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Please re-release ancient P2V-assistant as a free download

DLeid — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:18:48 GMT

I would also think that would be a good idea.

How about it?

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Need recommendations for notebooks that can run ESX inside Workstation

VladN — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:56:38 GMT

from waht I understand, vShpere will run just fune inside of VMware Fusion.

Yes it will. vSphere Lab on VMware Fusion

VI-client and vSphere-client side by side

continuum — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:57:54 GMT

Looks like this works nicely ...
Install Vi-client somewhere. Install vSphere-client somewhere else.
Then copy both directories to a machine with a fresh install of dotnet2.
You do not need dotnet3

So far I did not notice any problems.
I wonder why vSphere-client comes with dotnet3 ???

Ulli

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is there a documentation for commandline options ?

continuum — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:30:07 GMT

But it's not out of the question for the future!

That would be great - please consider it for a future release
Thanks
Ulli

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Re-attach a GUI to a VM running in background impossible

magic-man — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:06:45 GMT

continuum wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised if you stopped this service

- how did you guess that ? - I guess I have to work on my reputation here

Of course you are right - but in my case loading vmauthd does not work for this - I guess this has to do with the thing
that I do not have a regular user-account - I use Workstation with the SYSTEM account.

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Hahahah I was wondering when that one would get you Ulli.... I found it out in the first 10 minutes when I tried to run headless with 5 VMs and get back to them without vmrun... I re-enabled vm-authd and all worked fine... Guess I am like you in some ways, If I don't think I am using something at the moment, I shut it off... Gotta save that 9 megs of ram... Never know when the 32 gigs will run out. And for the record, yes I HAVE completely rewritten entire DLLS just to save 5 milliseconds an hour.. Rational: Hey, its MY 5 milliseconds!

Bill

please disable upload of bitmaps for screenshots

continuum — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:10:44 GMT

Thanks Robert

Ulli

Can we have a automatically added "begging for points" line added to all posts ?

depping — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:52:09 GMT

I wish all users would just asign the points... that's what they are there for. Or even better just a simple thank you reply and letting you know they solved the problem would also be great.

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Feature request : run in vmplayer as an option for the sidebar

continuum — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:30:14 GMT

vmware-authd rings a bell - thanks - I'll look into it

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How to download the vmware-tools manually and prepare for offline use

bobby32wf — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:40:12 GMT

Went back and uninstalled the Tech Preview to try to reproduce the installation issue I experienced first time round. On tools download I get the following vmsetup.<timestamp>.log:

20090616212205:INFO =================================================================
20090616212205:INFO Begin
20090616212205:INFO =================================================================
20090616212205:INFO wWinMain:InitCommonControls
20090616212205:INFO wWinMain:AfxEnableControlContainer
20090616212205:INFO wWinMain:Setting cwd
20090616212205:INFO wWinMain:Creating new package manager
20090616212205:INFO wWinMain:Check for existing installer
20090616212205:INFO wWinMain:Creating new configuration file
20090616212205:INFO wWinMain:Creating and do command
20090616212205:ERROR** An invalid temporary directory was detected, path: 'C:\Users\BOBBYK~1\AppData\Local\Temp\'
20090616212205:INFO wWinMain:Checking exceptions [5]
20090616212205:INFO wWinMain:Handle error
20090616212205:INFO HandleError: Handling error: [5] lang 1033
20090616212205:ERROR** HandleError: Encountered fatal error id: 5
20090616212205:ERROR** HandleError: Message: Path C:\Users\BOBBYK~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ was not found
20090616212205:INFO wWinMain:Finished processing command
20090616212205:INFO =================================================================
20090616212205:INFO End
20090616212205:INFO =================================================================

This looks very similar to the log I got on initial installation, which I managed to workaround by specifying -T E:\Temp on the installer command line (for more details see the post ~~m-1286184~~). Don't think there's an easy way to do the same with the tools download, but it looks like there may be an issue with my having a space in my Windows username...

Will this be reported in the ui log? If so, any idea where I can find it?

Cheers.

Can we have a popup that warns whenAutoprotect is enabled ?

continuum — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:48:12 GMT

attached is a slightly missconfigured VM. Just put the vmx-file in a new dir and run for a while. It demonstrates the issue.
Screenshot was taken after running fastdiskfiller.vmx for about 2 minutes.
Don't use on a systemdisk or be prepared for troubles

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Nice - pause feature

LeoL — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:03:35 GMT

Add me to the list of people who appreciate this!
Thanks

A toolbar button would complete my pleasure. I would suggest useing the current pause icon for this function and have a new one for suspend.

Leo

Autoprotect feature needs to be fixed

continuum — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:36:18 GMT

Please consider to display autosnapshots per default - because a snapshot is a snapshot is a snapshot - isn't it ?

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ddb.longContentID = "487b4b18f2bf3648d238effb455cc268"

continuum — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:00:21 GMT

ddb.longContentID = "487b4b18f2bf3648d238effb455cc268"

can someone explain what this line in a vmdk is used for ?

thanks Ulli

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Do you have any plans for WS 7 i ?

continuum — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:50:09 GMT

Wow - I am really impressed - WS7i really rocks - it feels really fast - especially if I use vmplayer to run VMs.

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vmnetBridge.dll not found during setup

hlin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:13:09 GMT

Thanks for the info!

New VM wizard

JJoel42 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:20:11 GMT

Thanks guys. I now understand the issue.

Did you know that the VMware-flagship can directly modify ESX 4 snapshots ?

continuum — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:01:16 GMT

Did you know that the VMware-flagship can directly modify ESX 4 snapshots ?

Maybe someone wants to add files or change network-settings with an offline ESX 4 VM that has snapshots ... maybe do offline malware-scans - whatever ...
Anyway - it works. Just load the snapshot plus basedisk as an existing vmdk into a Workstation 6.5.2 VM and use it - maybe best with a LiveCD ...

Just tried it.
Power down running ESX 4 VM with snapshots.
Download with datastorebrowser to a local host.
Add complete snapshot-chain to an existing Workstation-VM
Run Workstation and write to snapshot.
Power down Workstation VM.
Upload only snapshot-delta.vmdk.
Power on ESX 4 VM.
Changes are there - no complaints from ESX 4

Caveat: be carefull - only change and upload *-delta.vmdk.
Don't mess with descriptors

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Why are MAC addresses for vmnet1 and vmnet8 hardcoded ???

continuum — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:22:02 GMT

Thats not correct - see attached screenshot

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new ColdClone CD setup 2.4.1

continuum — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:00:59 GMT

here is a 8 minutes video that shows you how to create and use this CD.
It is very boring because most of the work is automated.

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nested nested VMs

jokke — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:11:24 GMT

Cool, maybe it reaches the welcome screen by Christmas..

Joakim

ESX4 i inside Workstation 6.5.2

continuum — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:06:32 GMT

What is you desktop system? I suppose that you are using a x64 OS?

No - on my 64bit machine I use BartPE as operating system

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Kon-boot

continuum — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:35:22 GMT

Maybe something to do with the way ESX reads ISos ? - did you try the floppy as well ?
Here with Workstation I just tried with Ubuntu 9.0.4 and it worked like a charm.

 ubuntu login : kon-usr
# whoami
root

no password - no questions

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Operating system not supported

continuum — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:10:33 GMT

You mean like this

 Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[http://HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent|http://HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]

[http://HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform|http://HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform]
".NET CLR 1.1.4322"=""
".NET CLR 2.0.50727"=""
".NET CLR 3.0.04506.648"=""
"UA-Language"="JavaScript"
"Platform"="Windows NT 5.1"
"Version"="MSIE 6.0"
"Compatible"="Compatible"

Not sure about syntax for the last one ?

Thank you - very useful.
I'll ask the friendly MOA tester to try as soon as he's back to work

Grrr - I wish I could simply test this myself
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boot into ColdClone Converter from iSCSI

continuum — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:08:14 GMT

this is interesting stuff - storing the diskimage via iSCSI to a local SAN in one step is possible ...
that is nice for machines that neither have a CD or USB ....

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esx-tools-015

continuum — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:52:37 GMT

updated to version 3.5 u4

http://sanbarrow.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=5546#5546

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When will there be a download for ESXi 3.5u4 ?

lamw — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:22:42 GMT

It's available now, take a look at this post: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1221239#1221239

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Converter Feedback Survey

jasoncllsystems — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:18:30 GMT

What is the URL link?

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How do I setup ESXi in a dualboot with Linux ?

cmacmillan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:14:32 GMT

This has been asked:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/161775

The BIOS boot menu seems to be the most effective way. If it reorders the drives, that might keep ESXi from "using" your Linux disk. But then again, why not just PXE_boot the ESXi???

http://www.chriswolf.com/?p=182

Or, add your disk, dd the "big" image from the ESXi ISO to the new drive and modify grub accordingly. The boot partition on ESXi appears to be hd(x,3), so you'll need to chainload syslinux from the grub loader:

map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
root (hd1,3)
chainloader +1

Make that a menu option in grub and enjoy... (by the way, tested this from an ESXi VM running openSuse/grub - yes, booting ESXi from syslinux, chained through grub on ESXi - good stuff...).

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Can't start Unity with error: vmauthd is not running

jokke — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:56:52 GMT

and "sc sdshow......." will return DACL's in the format of SDDL (Security Descriptor Definition Language).

You've been warned.

Joakim

Is it possible to allocate more than 1600 MB of vRAM in real RAM per VM ?

kingneutron — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:33:00 GMT

--You might have more luck with a 64-bit Host (saaaaay, a Linux host? )

//good to see you're still around, ol' buddy

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Please document the "black screen bug" for VMserver - win32 console

LoTech — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:10:36 GMT

I have VMWARE SERVER 2.X running on a Vista host and received the black screen console bug as well. I did find a work around to get it running again. I went into windows services and restarted the "VMware Authorization Service" service. After restarting the service the remote console came up and i was able to work with it again. The funny thing is that restarting the pc will not fix it even though the service is restarted with the reboot. I had to manually restart the service after windows was fully loaded to get the console to respond again. I hope this post will help others that are in the same position and are experiencing the black screen bug with a Windows host and VMWARE's Remote Console.

Thanks,

Josh

Can anybody use Knoppix or Helix or other Linux-liveCDs in 6.5 ?

rwattuab — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:13:15 GMT

I am experiencing this same issue and it's driven me crazy enough to go searching for posts. That's when I found this thread. I was using 6.5.0 and just upgraded to 6.5.1 in hopes that this would fix the issue, but it did not. I'm really surprised that VMware have not tried to issue a fix for this.

For the record, I'm experiencing what appears to be a severe mouse offset within any "live" version of Linux (i.e., GParted, Ubuntu, etc.). The mouse pointer will not coincide with the location on the screen. I don't remember ever having this issue before I upgrade to 6.5.x, so it leads me to believe it is tied to VMware and not Linux.

Please offer a solution and/or fix VMware!

dead link : VMware View Client with Offline Desktop

continuum — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:46:01 GMT

ignore it - the link is just unreliable

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Happy birthday Rob

RDPetruska — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:36:05 GMT

Thanks Ulli - for the wishes and for the virtual beer!

No big party... just a quiet celebration at home. Already did special dinner out the previous week, and did gifts from my kids over the weekend.

How to setup vmnet8 on Windows 7 hosts

continuum — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:43:26 GMT

just stumbled over a howto
http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1818-How-to-get-VMWare-Workstation-6.5-Guest-VM-NAT-working-with-a-Windows-7-Build-7000-host.html

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Do you get mails like this one too ?

tom howarth — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:50:45 GMT

Typical, therein is the true coward. Ulli do you have the mail log for that, you may be able to trace it, however chances are it will be from some internet cafe. I know it is hard but ignore it, the mailer is a pathetic lowlife peice of scum, with no brains, or courage. .

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When ACE is no option ... Kiosk-mode

continuum — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:47:02 GMT

just to keep you up to date
http://sanbarrow.com/moa24/videos/kiosk/kiosk.html

added splash-screen, progressbar
disabled unnecessary messages from VMplayer - now CTRL+ALT+DEL is directly accepted by the guest
closed one (last ?) possible way to escape the VM by editing vmplayer-menu

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