VMware Communities: Message List

Re: Keyboard issue in using console from vSphere Client

bramvermeulen — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:00:57 GMT

I opened a case with vmware and got this response:

quoteHello Bram, We opened a bug for this case, we were able to reproduce the problem on house, I add your case to the bug and we will move the case to pending state, we will let you know in what patch this problem will be fix[/quote]

Re: ESX4i on Dell R710 has lost QLA2640 HBA Storage devices

John Balsillie — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:00:26 GMT

There are many entries in the logs, with no references to text "qla" in the hostd, messages or vCenter agent logs. There is one message in the messages log containing text "qlogic" but not at all helpful in resolving the problem.

The Qlogic adapters are seen by the hw as reference to then is displayed during post, furthermore access to the hba BIOS during post is possible. It is ESXi only that cannot see the devices.

Re-install ESXi?

John Balsillie
VCI VCP4 VCP3
Explorer IT Services Pty Ltd

Re: IPMI message handler: BMC returned incorrect response

Rubeck — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:00:13 GMT

After firmware updating the BIOS, iLO, and P410 controller my DL380G6 has been running since friday last week under full CPU load..
Still running and no messages in console... looks good until now...

/Rubeck

vmware-tools и FreeBSD 8.0

m0ps — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:57:02 GMT

Недавно зарелизили FreeBSD 8.0 (официальный анонс будет в ближайшие дни).
Есть у меня одна тестовая vm-ка с ней, пробую ставить vmware-tools - вываливается ошибка мол скрипт конфигурации не может скопировать модули из vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/binary/FreeBSD8.0-i386 в /boot/kernel. проверяю - действительно нет их там. нету даже папочки FreeBSD8.0-i386 (есть только для семерки и шестерки). хотя в в конфигурационном скрипте (vmware-config-tools.pl) при проверке установленной ветки есть проверка на восьмерку (семерку и шестерку).
ладно... есть сорци, решил скомпилить вручную и подложить в нужное место. модули vmmemctl.ko и vmxnet.ko скомпилились без проблем, а вот при компиляции vmblock.ko вываливается следующая ошибка:

vfsops.c:116: error: conflicting types for 'VMBlockVFSMount'
vfsops.c:68: error: previous declaration of 'VMBlockVFSMount' was here
vfsops.c: In function 'VMBlockVFSMount':
vfsops.c:159: error: 'AT_FDCWD' undeclared (first use in this function)
vfsops.c:159: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
vfsops.c:159: error: for each function it appears in.)
vfsops.c:190: error: too many arguments to function 'VOP_UNLOCK'
vfsops.c:212: error: too many arguments to function 'VOP_UNLOCK'
vfsops.c:220:5: error: "BSD_VERSION" is not defined
vfsops.c: At top level:
vfsops.c:257: error: conflicting types for 'VMBlockVFSUnmount'
vfsops.c:72: error: previous declaration of 'VMBlockVFSUnmount' was here
vfsops.c:291:55: error: macro "VOP_LOCK" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2
vfsops.c: In function 'VMBlockVFSUnmount':
vfsops.c:291: error: 'VOP_LOCK' undeclared (first use in this function)
vfsops.c:298: error: too many arguments to function 'VOP_UNLOCK'
vfsops.c: At top level:
vfsops.c:341: error: conflicting types for 'VMBlockVFSRoot'
vfsops.c:69: error: previous declaration of 'VMBlockVFSRoot' was here
vfsops.c:349:36: error: macro "vn_lock" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2
vfsops.c: In function 'VMBlockVFSRoot':
vfsops.c:349: error: 'vn_lock' undeclared (first use in this function)
vfsops.c: At top level:
vfsops.c:377: error: conflicting types for 'VMBlockVFSStatFS'
vfsops.c:71: error: previous declaration of 'VMBlockVFSStatFS' was here
vfsops.c:387:64: error: macro "VFS_STATFS" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2
vfsops.c: In function 'VMBlockVFSStatFS':
vfsops.c:387: error: 'VFS_STATFS' undeclared (first use in this function)
vfsops.c: At top level:
vfsops.c:427: error: conflicting types for 'VMBlockVFSSync'
vfsops.c:70: error: previous declaration of 'VMBlockVFSSync' was here

Error code 1

никто не разбирался с этим?

PS ESX4.0U1

best regards, m0ps

Re: Destination does not support 64-bit guests.

tom howarth — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:59:03 GMT

No your main problem is that you are attempting to convert a 64bit Guest to run on a Nested vSphere guest. the conversion will work if you point the converter and a phyiscal instance of ESX running of correctly configured hardware.

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Re: How to access datastore from a guest OS

tom howarth — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:57:00 GMT

To access the ISO from your Guest you will need to edit the settings of your guest to point the CD-ROM device to the ISO. to do this right click the guest and select Edit Settings. assuming the vStudio is on ESX the path will be something like /datastore_name/vStudio/path to ISO

Re: A Disk Read Error Occurred. Press Ctrl+alt+del To Restart. Windows 2000

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:56:18 GMT

Have you choose to install the VMware Tools on the VM during the conversion?
The source machine has IDE disk? The VM has SCSI disk?

Andre

Re: Windows 7 VM DOES NOT ACTIVATE FROM BOOTCAMP PARTITION

LanceFu — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:54:52 GMT

I agree with Richard. I used Fusion with Vista before, there's no activation problem. However, it's not the case with Windows 7. My Windows 7 just won't activate from bootcamp, and we couldn't even get an employee to reply and try to help us. They should warn customers about this. The selling point of VM software is that people can have the best of both world, being able to boot to bootcamp and virtualize it right inside OS X. However, apparently it doesn't work since no way to activate it in Fusion. VMware should at least try to talk to Microsoft and have the thing sort out.

View 3.1.2 - Restoring View Standard Server with existing replica server

Gdriver — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:53:46 GMT

Hi,

I have 2 View Connection broker Server (1 Standard, 1 replica) and 1 security server. The primary connection broker crashed, so I switched to the replica server. Everything works finde.

But now I want to restore the Standard server. I installed it as Standard Server again. I tried to import the data export file from the replica server but it didn´t work because "there is an existing instance...."

is there a way to add the standard server again into his old position that it gets all the data from the replica without a downtime?

Knowing ESX Details from Guest OS

KarthikeyanSundaram — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:52:31 GMT

Guys,

Is there any way to view the ESX Server/VC details from Guest operating system..

A Disk Read Error Occurred. Press Ctrl+alt+del To Restart. Windows 2000

Shingi — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:45:39 GMT

Hi.

I have Windows 2000
on physical computer. On this computer I setup VMware vCenter Converter Standalone.
I local run convert this computer. Job completed successfully. When I run this
new VM I have next on my screen:

A Disk Read Error Occurred. Press Ctrl+alt+del To Restart.

What can I do to
start VM?

P.S. Sorry for my
English:)

Re: PSOD after U1 upgrade by updatemanager

Oletho — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:49:03 GMT

There is a KB on this issue now

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1016070

Ole Thomsen

Re: Placement of Request Fails

Todor Todorov — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:48:37 GMT

Hi Steven,

It seems that you've encountered some sporadic bug of LCM - for some reason two of the database tables were not properly synchronized (NET_NETWORK_DOMAIN and LCM_INF_ELEMENT) and you have the network only in the first table and not in the second. What I can suggest to you is to delete the networks you have and try to create them again - after creating them again make sure that there're records for them in both tables (NET_NETWORK_DOMAIN and LCM_INF_ELEMENT). Can you give it a try and let me know the result? If the databases are still inconsistent you can try manually to insert the relevant record in LCM_INF_ELEMENT (the dump you sent earlier already contains one record for one of your networks so you can take a look at it)..

Regards,
Todor

Re: DNS outage: impact on ESX cluster

tom howarth — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:47:27 GMT

Troy has basically covered the bases, As a standard I tend to populate /etc/hosts with the names of all ESX hosts, License server and vCenter servers.

Re: ESXi installation options

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:46:39 GMT

It's up to you...
There are pro and cons on both solution.

IMHO I prefer the diskless option. And could be very interesting and probably also the best solution when some server will be shipped with a dual (mirrored) SD card.

See also:
Re: What are your thoughts on installing ESXi on flash versus local storage

Andre

Re: Windows 2008 R2

tom howarth — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:44:34 GMT

No Windows 2008 R2 is not supported on VI 3.5 U4 ( it may get support if and when U5 is released), that said you can install it. but my advice would be to Test Test Test, there may be issues with the OS.

For your infomation vSphere 4.0 U1 fully supports Windows 2008 R2

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Re: Bridge problem Vmware server 2.0 host Ubuntu guest Windows xp

brianvigh — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:44:09 GMT

Thanks for the answer.

There are no MAC restrictions and no firewall.
nslookup gives this
Server: disdc.d-i-s.local
Address: 192.168.16.50

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.l.google.com
Addresses: 74.125.77.99, 74.125.77.104, 74.125.77.147
Aliases: www.google.com

But the problem is not to get it on the network. The internet works.
But the problem is that the other computers on the network can't access the Guest.
Not even when using ping.
The guest has the ip 192.168.16.111 and runs windows xp with the vlance adapter.
and i am setting on a laptop on 192.168.16.177

Re: Dell Open Manage

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:42:33 GMT

Yes, but you must use OMSA 6.1 (choose the Linux version).
For the installation procedure see:
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/installing_dell_openmanage_on_esx.pdf

Andre

Re: VMware Fusion 2.0.6 is really slow...get your act together VMware

ChipMcK — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:41:26 GMT

You can try VirtualBox by Sun; it is free. Site: http://www.virtualbox.org/

Dell Open Manage

Maximil2000 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:41:05 GMT

Is ESX 4.0 supported?
Can I install OMSA on it?

Thanks,
Max

ESXi installation options

Maximil2000 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:39:30 GMT

Is better to install ESXi on a local storage (for example 2 HD configured in RAID1) or a SD card/USB stick?

Max

Re: vCenter Privileges by Role

tom howarth — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:38:57 GMT

Post moved to the vCenter sub-forum

Re: IPMI message handler: BMC returned incorrect response

pkk — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:38:29 GMT

It looks like the message on the DL580G5 has magically disappeared. I've not seen it for a week now.
Here is what I did:
Cleared the IML (on iLO2)
Cleared the Event Log on (iLO2)
Reset the Hosts Health Status Sensors in vCenter.
Logged in to the Console using both F1 and F2 (to remove message from console)
I don't now if this was the fix or if the problem will return.
On the BL460G6 they still appear, but for the last couple of days only when hitting F2 instead of F1 at the console. I'll try to update the iLO2 FW from 1.78 to 1.80 as you have successfully done.

Brg, Per Kristian

Re: esxi shutdown script for ups monitoring

helux — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:37:11 GMT

hello,

i did some improvements.... like max loop count.... and script parameters.... no parameter = shutdown but also parameter for reboot and shutdown vms only. handy for maintenance mode.

Re: Destination does not support 64-bit guests.

Joskin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:28:36 GMT

The main problem is that i have to convert the physical machine to a virtual machine with Vmware converter. And the destination of this converter can only be an ESX server. I am right?

Thank you for your help guys.

Olivier.

Re: Changed IP on ESX, HA fail

peaj — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:27:19 GMT

Hello guys..!!

Think we are on track in this case. Doing a vmkping from one of the host, indicate that it is trying to reach the hosts on the old IP. How to correct this ?? Is the last post from Troy the answer?

I'm not good at Linux. I logged in at one of the host using Putty. Typed: nano /etc/opt/vmware/aam but no file to edit.

RAID-5 ON VMWARE ESXI

Bhagwan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:18:05 GMT

Hello,

I have installed VMware esxi 4.0 on HP ML 115 G5 server with single 80
HDD and configured raid-5 with 3*160 HDD. Now I am not able to see raid-5
volume in VMware esxi server. When I am trying to add datastorage in
configure windows there are showing all raid-5 HDD individual Please let me
know how I can configure datastorage on esxi server with raid-5.

Thanks,

Bhagwan Solanki

Re: RAID-5 ON VMWARE ESXI

Dave.Mishchenko — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:21:48 GMT

Welcome to the VMware Community forums. Your server has a software RAID controller (Intel ICH*R or nVidia MCP) which is not a true hardware RAID controller. The drivers with ESX(i) don't support software RAID for such controllers thus the best you get is a bunch of individual disks.

Dave
VMware Communities User Moderator

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Re: VMotion between different Intel CPU types

krowczynski — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:16:45 GMT

Attached a screen for you.

MCP, VCP

Re: Where is the Change Log of VMware Server 2?

Jackobli — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:15:59 GMT

Are you looking for the release notes?
http://www.vmware.com/support/server2/doc/releasenotes_vmserver202.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/server2/doc/releasenotes_vmserver201.html

Re: VMotion between different Intel CPU types

krowczynski — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:15:17 GMT

Attached a screen for you.

MCP, VCP

Re: VMotion between different Intel CPU types

krowczynski — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:13:57 GMT

Attached a screen for you.

MCP, VCP

Re: VMotion between different Intel CPU types

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:10:12 GMT

To enable EVC without downtime (you cannot simple enable on a existing and working cluster) follow this guide:
http://malaysiavm.com/blog/how-to-enable-evc-on-esx-35/

Andre

Re: Problem with Nic after changing to vmxnet on w2k3

Emmermacher — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:09:56 GMT

Hello AWo.

I try it again this morning. The hidden Nic was uninstalled an the server restarted (After take a snapshot). The server starts without problem.

So I think, this problem was solved.

Next I will increase the vmdk file. The systempartion contains to much files...

...Our work will never ends.

Best regards from Hannover, Germany.

Dirk

Re: Major Virtualiztion Events August 2007 - Present

K-MaC — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:09:23 GMT

Will do. As for that site i've found a couple of those calendars. Unfortunately, the oldest data I've been able to find in them is from November 8th 2008. I'll start up a list when I get to work tomorrow.

Cheers

Kevin

Re: Vsphere Client & Windows 7

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:06:42 GMT

For download the product have a look at:
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_4/4

If you have ESXi you can also try to use Host Update to manage the upgrade (but I haven't tested yet).
Or if you have vCenter + VUM you can simple use update manager (and remember to upgrade your vCenter)

Andre

compact virtual machine

djockheck — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:04:27 GMT

Hi!

I just defragmentent my virtual xp machine. Then I saw that the virtual machine now uses much more diskspace on my host. Is there a way to reduce space consumption of my virtual box?

ciao

Detlef

Re: VMotion between different Intel CPU types

vmurari — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:02:20 GMT

With EVC enabled, you should not seen any problem vmotioning VMs with same CPU types.

Re: Keyboard issue in using console from vSphere Client

nourish — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:01:47 GMT

Same issue on Windows XP SP3, vSphere Client 4.0.0. Downloaded the latest build (208111), reinstalled the client - exactly the same behaviour. Whenever I leave the Console tab open and switch to another window, keyboard input keeps getting into the virtual machine console in the vSphere Client window. I figured out there are only two things I can do:

Switch to a turned-off virtual machine before switching to another window
Press Ctrl-Alt-Del and then Escape to regain the control of the keyboard

Both are crazy things to do being forced to do them a hundred times a day.

What can be done about that?

Re: Problema lentezza di rete

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:59:18 GMT

Non sono sicuro che Windows Server 2008 R2 sia già supportato da VMware Server come host.
Puoi provare ad installarlo su un Windows Server 2003 e vedere se le prestazioni cambiano.

Andrea

Re: Confusione sulle varie versioni e soluzioni

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:55:53 GMT

1. esxi di base

Diciamo che è quello gratuito e senza feature a pagamento (a meno di comprare una versione di ESXi enterprise, per esempio)... il vmkernel però di fatto è lo stesso di ESX.

2. sopra c'è da installarci il vsphere (sempre sul server fisico dove c'è l'esxi immagino)

No... vSphere = ESX 4 (o ESXi 4) + vCenter Server 4 + VUM + Converter
Una volta si chiamava Virtual Infrastructure... ma è solo il nome di una famiglia di prodotti... di cui sicuamente almeno ESX o ESXi ci sono.

Quello che è opzionale, ma molto utile e indispensabile per alcune feature, è il vCenter Server con i sui plugin.
Va installato in un server Windows che può essere anche virtuale (se non voglio sprecare un altro server).

3. poi il view connection center, mi sembra di capire che per demo si crea una VM con un win server 2003 (il 2008 no ??) e si installa lì il view connection center
4. e poi, finalmente, il view manager

View Connector o View Manager sono la stessa cosa... Ti consiglio di installarlo su un Windows Server 2003 (a 32 bit).
Poi c'è il View Composer che lo installi sul vCenter Server.

Per tutta la parte di View segui la documentazione che trovi su:
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/view_pubs.html

Andrea

Re: Windows 2008 R2 + ESX4 + vCenter Client Console = FREEZE

TimKleen — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:49:03 GMT

I guess I need to explain a little more. I was working with VM tech support today about this exact issue. What we found out was that the Drivers for the SVGA (locked up on me on one system but not a second one....) and the WDDM_video (I decided to use this one and all is working great, no black screens) were not being copied to C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\Drivers. They were being place @ C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers. This has been passed onto the developers and will be passed around to the other tech centers so when users who call in can get their issues resolved and get the driver loaded.

The drivers were inclulded but are being copied to the wrong place. Which one you want to use is up to you.

Tim

Re: Cannot see Health Status in vSphere 4

amitdebnath — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:50:13 GMT

When I connected through vServer, I was not able to see health status.

But when I directly connected the host through VSphere client , I was able to see the health status.

I got the info from VMware tech support.

Thanks.

Re: ESX server on VMWare Workstation

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:50:02 GMT

What's the error on /var... ?
Use ESXi that has a memory footprint a little smaller.

Andre

Re: Normal VMDK size for RDMs?

bazza52 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:49:53 GMT

That's what I thought also that it should be quite small and just a pointer, not hundreds of meg.

Re: Major Virtualiztion Events August 2007 - Present

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:47:29 GMT

I could be interesting. Post your final result.

PS: you can start from some on-line calendars like this: http://www.dabcc.com/events.aspx

Andre

Re: Normal VMDK size for RDMs?

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:42:56 GMT

For RDM disk (virtual or physical) the vmdk file is just a proxy.
I do not know the exactly size but it is very small and (I think) that it does not depend by the LUN size (cause is just a pointer to a LUN).

Andre

Re: VCB restore using Convertor Standlone fails for larg(ish) VCBs.

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:39:31 GMT

We are tyring to restore our VCBs to another ESX4i server in a DR/DEV environment test.

Are you doing a remote restore?
Have you tried to first copy the files to a Windows system in the DR and then run the Converter from this machine?

Andre

Re: instalar tarjeta de red en un esx imposible ping

mokymura — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:37:54 GMT

Hola

Si lo mas facil seria añadir las 2 tarjetas de red al vswif0:

usr/sbin/esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -L vmnic0
/usr/sbin/esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -L vmnic1

Saludos

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Normal VMDK size for RDMs?

bazza52 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:31:40 GMT

Hi All

I am trying to find some info on what the normal size of the VMDK file should be for an RDM in physical mode. On a couple of servers I am noticing that it seems to be 0.002% of the RDM size - eg. a 500GB RDM has a 250MB VMDK. We are using a HDS USP for storage.

Thanks

Re: copy-datastoreitem

LucD — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:30:57 GMT

Ok, I should have been more precise. It was there (sort of) but it wasn't really usable

Some remarks:
1) It's important to know the difference between vmstores: (all connected vcenters) and vmstore: (the last connected vcenter)
2) If you have folders in the root of your vcenter or between your datacenter and the datastore(s), they have to be included in the path
3) The path elements are case-sensitive. Although the vSphere client apparently is not (try creating a 'folder' and a 'Folder' for example)
4) Use the Copy-DatastoreItem cmdlet (instead of Copy-Item) when the source and/or the destination is a datastore

Would you care to elaborate on the "still not ready for general purpose" ?
Why do the release notes mention "Files cannot be copied in or out the Datastore Provider" under Datastore Provider in the Known Issues ?

Re: Connecting 2 different subnet on single ESXi with 2 Onboard NIC

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:27:30 GMT

You need an extern firewall/router, or you can also a virtual appliance to manage your DMZ.
ESX does not provide routing/natting functions.

Andre

Re: Windows 2003EE x64 и ESX4

michigun — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:22:53 GMT

спросит на форуме intel, фигли я VT включил а мнепоказывают что он не работает.
указать в качестве типа гостя 32 битную ОС, на самом деле поставить 64 битную и попробовать влкючить.
взять esx(i)последней версии.

http://www.vm4.ru/
http://wiki.vm4.ru/

Re: ESX server on VMWare Workstation

ContactDP — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:20:11 GMT

I followed the steps mentioned in the links provided and installed ESX 3.5 server in VMware workstation. It takes long time to boot after installation. After long time, it boots to the screen where it says " To manage esx server console use browser" or Press Alt F1.

At this poing the server is pinging from other VM, but not able to manage the server through IE, its says page cannot be displayed nor able to telnet or nor able to connect using putty.

Also, when i press Alt F1, it does not take me to the console screen, it just sits at process /var/.......

Please help me how to manage the ESX server from this point and how to go to esx console.

Durga Prasad

Re: VCB restore using Convertor Standlone fails for larg(ish) VCBs.

MattMarcos — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:18:33 GMT

Thanks for the info. I d/l vcb again for another install today and noticed the new version. By now though the NFS storage is all good so I'll leave it as it is.

Will test this new VCB package.

Cheers,

Matt.

Re: Upgrade from vSphere GA to U1 hanging with "rpmdb: unable to lock mutex: Invalid argument"

yezdi — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:18:05 GMT

Do you have HP management agent installed on ESX4.0? if so this upgrade issue is expected.
See the thread http://communities.vmware.com/message/1422939#1422939 and KB http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1016070

At this stage don't reboot your host, it may lead the host to a PSOD. Try this workaround http://communities.vmware.com/message/1423133#1423133

:+: VCP,RHCE,EMCPA.

Re: Vsphere Client & Windows 7

peter.holmstrom — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:14:09 GMT

Yes, allways use the vSphere Client that you have installed in your env.

NFS file locks not closing.

MattMarcos — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:12:34 GMT

Gday, storage for our dev ESX4i host is an old dl380 running 2008 server with NFS role. Works a treat. Have noticed though recently that the *.lck files that are generated when a VM is turned on don't go away. If I turn off the VM I can't turn it back on without manually deleting the *.lck files. Once I delete them, no problems.

Is there an NFS setting to control the file locking stuff?

cheers,

Matt.

Sydney VMUG.... What happened?

andreleibovici — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:12:15 GMT

Fellow Sydney siders... what happened to the Sydney Vmware User Group?

Perhaps it's time to start organising the sessions again! I'm keen to help to coordinate and resource the sessions.

Anybody reading this?

Cheers,

Andre Leibovici

http://virtualcloud.wordpress.com

Re: Can not install VMware Workstation on host any XP64 bit

dpuett — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:12:00 GMT

I ran XP 64 with WM WKS 6.5 for a year or so. VM WKS 7 installed as well.

As mentioned earlier, driver support is spotty because it is AS2003, but since I only really needed ethernet and video, and I was able to pass every other USB device to the VM, it was a perfect host environment.

I have no idea why the installation on your machine fails, but I can verify that it will install on XP 64.

Major Virtualiztion Events August 2007 - Present

K-MaC — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:06:10 GMT

Hello all. My boss has asked me to put together a spreadsheet of the Major Virtualization events by Citrix, Microsoft and VMware from the August 2007 to present, and plot these events against the stock prices of the companies. I've obtained the stock data already. If possible it would contain things like Citrix Synergy, VMworld, Microsofts release of Hyper-V R1/R2 and major virtualization product releases from each vendor. I figured someone may have something similar. If not I'll create a list myself. If anyone else is interested in the spreadsheet let me know and I'll attach it here after I finish.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Kevin

Re: How to upload and access ISO image of Windows Base OS

chorgeas — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:04:38 GMT

1. You can copy Windows 2008 Server ISO in VMware Studio using winscp.exe or Filezilla.exe third party tool.

2. You can copy the ISO file from ESX server to VMware Studio using scp command.
scp Windows.iso root@VMwareStudioIP:/opt/vmware/www/ISV/ISO/

Following is the path in VMware Studio, where you suppose to copy the ISO file.
/opt/vmware/www/ISV/ISO/

Alternet way is, if you have NFS server in your environment then copy Windows 2008 Server ISO in NFS server and mount the NFS server in VMware Studio and softlink the ISO as follows. This way you can save the Studio's disk space.

mkdir /ISO-Server/
mount -t nfs IPNFSServer:/ISO_SERVER /ISO-Server/
cd /opt/vmware/www/ISV/ISO/
ln -s /ISO-Server/Windows.iso .

After that while building VA, VMware Studio will pickup the ISO automatically from this path.

Re: password question

Michblit — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:01:22 GMT

Hi Woody, I reread just to make sure I know what I'll be doing..... I do have a couple of questions.

Re: How can I change the vSphere's default http&https port :80 &443 to others for safty reason ?

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:57:01 GMT

For change the port on the ESX side follow this KB (it can works also on ESX 4)
Changing or blocking the default ports 80 (http) and 443 (https) on ESX 3.x
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007289

On ESXi I do not know with is the right file.

Andre

Re: password question

Michblit — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:51:22 GMT

Well Woody I think I understand everything you wrote, I should dl the link and install (run ?) it. The other link is just for getting instructions for how to do this? If this is correct then I will go there first to see if I understand it first. Once again Woody thank you sooo much for responding......just one more thing I am thankful for !!!!

Michelle

Re: VDR restoration horror stories

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:44:09 GMT

VDR could be one possible solution for a B2D solution. Deduplication and incremental backup are nice.
But you can use also other solution for B2T, for example VCB (in this case it will be a B2D2T) or 3th part products.

Andre

Unable to boot ESX 4 "Failed to load VMKernel"

amitdebnath — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:40:14 GMT

Hi,

I tried to install ESX 4 on my server. But since it does not have a VGA port , I tried with scripted installation with PXE.

The script is just fine. I have tested that with other server.

But it did not work for this particular server. It possibly failed at loading VMkernel (Can't see the logs).

So I installed ESX 4 on another machine and placed the hard disk containing ESX on my server and tried to boot with that.

But it failed at "loading VMkernel".

Any idea how to get rid of this mess?

I am puting the logs :

# cat messages.log
sysboot: vmnix ...
sysboot: Mounting Kernel File Systems
sysboot: Executing 'mount -t proc /proc /proc'
sysboot: Executing 'mount -t sysfs /sys /sys'
sysboot: Executing 'mkdir /dev/pts'
sysboot: Executing 'mount -t devpts /dev/pts /dev/pts'
sysboot: Quieting COS Kernel
sysboot: Executing 'echo -n 0 4 1 7 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk'
sysboot: Creating Device Nodes
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/console c 5 1'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/zero c 1 5'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/ram b 1 1'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/systty c 4 0'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/tty0 c 4 0'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/tty1 c 4 1'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/loop1 b 7 1'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/tty2 c 4 2'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/loop2 b 7 2'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/tty3 c 4 3'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/loop3 b 7 3'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/tty4 c 4 4'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/loop4 b 7 4'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/tty5 c 4 5'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/loop5 b 7 5'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/tty6 c 4 6'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/loop6 b 7 6'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/tty7 c 4 7'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/loop7 b 7 7'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/mem c 1 1'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/psaux c 10 1'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/ptmx c 5 2'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/random c 1 8'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/tty c 5 0'
sysboot: Executing 'mknod /dev/vmkcall c 10 167'
Loading Linux Module ': /usr/lib/vmware/modules/vmnixmod.ko '
sysboot: Executing 'vmkloader -c /vmkernel/vmkLoadSeed = 182649285 /usr/lib/vmware/vmkernel'
Failed to load vmkernel: Failure 0xbad0001
Using /usr/lib/vmware/vmkernel
0: 0x0:0x0
1: .interp 0x34c001c8:0xf
2: .hash 0x1d8:0x2c
3: .dynsym 0x208:0x90
4: .dynstr 0x298:0x20
5: .rela.dyn 0x2b8:0x7f4e8
6: .text 0x418034c00000:0x29a558
7: .rodata 0x418034e9a560:0x7c845
8: .eh_frame 0x418034f16da8:0x59dd8
9: .data.rel.ro 0x418034f70d80:0x53ba
10: .dynamic 0x418034f76140:0xf0
11: .got.plt 0x418034f76230:0x18
12: .data 0x417ff4c07000:0x51590
13: .bss 0x417ff4c59000:0x10e3588
14: .comment 0x34c00000:0x24a2
15: .shstrtab 0x0:0x8e
16: .symtab 0x0:0x57e70
17: .strtab 0x0:0x46113
sysboot: Failed to load VMKernel
sysboot: 00.vmnix returned critical failure
sysboot: Executing 'chvt 1'
/ #

And the boot log from /var/log:

0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id0x18 lapic_id0x17 disabled)
http:// 0.000000 ACPI: Found 24 LAPIC entries
http:// 0.000000 ACPI: IOAPIC (id0x00 address0xfec00000 gsi_base[0])
http:// 0.000000 IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 0, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
http:// 0.000000 ACPI: Found 1 LAPIC entries
http:// 0.000000 Null mpf; faking mpf
http:// 0.000000 hand building mp type 5
http:// 0.000000 ISA/PCI bus type with no IRQ information... falling back to ELCR
http:// 0.000000 Using ELCR to identify PCI interrupts
http:// 0.000000 Processors: 1
http:// 0.000000 Setting APIC routing to flat
http:// 0.000000 Nosave address range: 000000000009b000 - 00000000000a0000
http:// 0.000000 Nosave address range: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000
http:// 0.000000 Nosave address range: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
http:// 0.000000 Allocating PCI resources starting at d4000000 (gap: d0000000:2ed1c000)
http:// 0.000000 Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 74700
http:// 0.000000 Kernel command line: ro root=UUID=00648da5-5a02-40c4-af38-cdaded4920f1 mem=300M quiet console=ttyS0,9600n8
http:// 0.000000 Initializing CPU#0
http:// 0.000000 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 16384 bytes)
http:// 0.000000 Using PIT for base-timer
http:// 84.509769 time.c: Using 1.193182 MHz WALL PIT GTOD PIT/TSC timer.
http:// 84.509771 time.c: Detected 2133.492 MHz processor.
http:// 84.509796 Console: colour dummy device 80x25
http:// 84.509899 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
http:// 84.510041 Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
http:// 84.511168 Memory: 278936k/307200k available (2049k kernel code, 27504k reserved, 897k data, 164k init)
http:// 84.659459 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4269.52 BogoMIPS (lpj=21347608)
http:// 84.659479 Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
http:// 84.659481 SELinux: Initializing.
http:// 84.659487 SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
http:// 84.659491 selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
http:// 84.659493 Capability LSM initialized as secondary
http:// 84.659501 Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
http:// 84.659564 CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
http:// 84.659566 CPU: L2 cache: 256K
http:// 84.659567 CPU: L3 cache: 8192K
http:// 84.659569 using mwait in idle threads.
http:// 84.659581 CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
http:// 84.659585 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5518 @ 2.13GHz stepping 05
http:// 84.659674 ExtINT not setup in hardware but reported by MP table
http:// 84.659762 Using IO-APIC 0
http:// 84.659926 unmask_IO_APIC_irq 0 called
http:// 84.759840 checking if image is initramfs... it is
http:// 86.221849 Freeing initrd memory: 18692k freed
http:// 86.225350 NET: Registered protocol family 16
http:// 86.225412 PCI: Using configuration type 1
http:// 86.225564 SCSI subsystem initialized
http:// 86.225586 PCI: Probing PCI hardware
http:// 86.225588 PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
http:// 86.227766 PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
http:// 86.234861 PCI: Discovered peer bus fe
http:// 86.235881 PCI: Discovered peer bus ff
http:// 86.236869 PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH ~~8086/3a16~~ at 0000:00:1f.0
http:// 86.236886 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:0, int pin:0 irq 16 vector 169 apic 124-0.
http:// 86.236889 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:00.0[A] -> IRQ 16
http:// 86.236894 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:1, int pin:0 irq 17 vector 177 apic 124-1.
http:// 86.236896 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:01.0[A] -> IRQ 17
http:// 86.236902 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:2, int pin:0 irq 18 vector 185 apic 124-2.
http:// 86.236904 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:02.0[A] -> IRQ 18
http:// 86.236910 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:3, int pin:0 irq 19 vector 193 apic 124-3.
http:// 86.236911 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:03.0[A] -> IRQ 19
http:// 86.236917 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:4, int pin:0 irq 20 vector 201 apic 124-4.
http:// 86.236919 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:04.0[A] -> IRQ 20
http:// 86.236925 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:5, int pin:0 irq 21 vector 209 apic 124-5.
http:// 86.236927 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:05.0[A] -> IRQ 21
http:// 86.236932 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:6, int pin:0 irq 22 vector 217 apic 124-6.
http:// 86.236934 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:06.0[A] -> IRQ 22
http:// 86.236940 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:7, int pin:0 irq 23 vector 225 apic 124-7.
http:// 86.236941 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:07.0[A] -> IRQ 23
http:// 86.236947 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:8, int pin:0 irq 24 vector 233 apic 124-8.
http:// 86.236949 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:08.0[A] -> IRQ 24
http:// 86.236954 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:9, int pin:0 irq 25 vector 50 apic 124-9.
http:// 86.236956 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:09.0[A] -> IRQ 25
http:// 86.236962 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:10, int pin:0 irq 26 vector 58 apic 124-10.
http:// 86.236964 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> IRQ 26
http:// 86.236973 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:22, int pin:0 irq 27 vector 66 apic 124-11.
http:// 86.236975 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:16.0[A] -> IRQ 27
http:// 86.236980 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:22, int pin:1 irq 28 vector 74 apic 124-12.
http:// 86.236982 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:16.1 -> IRQ 28
http:// 86.236988 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:22, int pin:2 irq 29 vector 82 apic 124-13.
http:// 86.236990 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:16.2[C] -> IRQ 29
http:// 86.236995 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:22, int pin:3 irq 30 vector 90 apic 124-14.
http:// 86.236997 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:16.3[D] -> IRQ 30
http:// 86.237001 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:16.4[A] -> IRQ 27
http:// 86.237004 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:16.5 -> IRQ 28
http:// 86.237008 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:16.6[C] -> IRQ 29
http:// 86.237011 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:16.7[D] -> IRQ 30
http:// 86.237017 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:25, int pin:0 irq 31 vector 98 apic 124-15.
http:// 86.237019 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:19.0[A] -> IRQ 31
http:// 86.237026 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:26, int pin:0 irq 32 vector 106 apic 124-16.
http:// 86.237028 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1a.0[A] -> IRQ 32
http:// 86.237034 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:26, int pin:1 irq 33 vector 114 apic 124-17.
http:// 86.237036 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1a.1 -> IRQ 33
http:// 86.237042 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:26, int pin:2 irq 34 vector 122 apic 124-18.
http:// 86.237044 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1a.7[C] -> IRQ 34
http:// 86.237051 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:29, int pin:0 irq 35 vector 130 apic 124-19.
http:// 86.237052 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> IRQ 35
http:// 86.237059 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:29, int pin:1 irq 36 vector 138 apic 124-20.
http:// 86.237061 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1d.1 -> IRQ 36
http:// 86.237065 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> IRQ 35
http:// 86.237074 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:31, int pin:1 irq 37 vector 146 apic 124-21.
http:// 86.237076 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1f.2 -> IRQ 37
http:// 86.237083 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:0, slot:31, int pin:2 irq 38 vector 154 apic 124-22.
http:// 86.237085 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1f.3[C] -> IRQ 38
http:// 86.237090 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1f.5 -> IRQ 37
http:// 86.237096 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:1, slot:0, int pin:0 irq 39 vector 162 apic 124-23.
http:// 86.237098 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:01:00.0[A] -> IRQ 39
http:// 86.237105 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:1, slot:0, int pin:1 irq 40 vector 170 apic 124-24.
http:// 86.237106 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:01:00.1 -> IRQ 40
http:// 86.237112 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:4, slot:0, int pin:0 irq 41 vector 178 apic 124-25.
http:// 86.237114 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:04:00.0[A] -> IRQ 41
http:// 86.237120 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:4, slot:0, int pin:1 irq 42 vector 186 apic 124-26.
http:// 86.237122 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:04:00.1 -> IRQ 42
http:// 86.237128 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:7, slot:0, int pin:0 irq 43 vector 194 apic 124-27.
http:// 86.237130 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:07:00.0[A] -> IRQ 43
http:// 86.237137 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:8, slot:0, int pin:0 irq 44 vector 202 apic 124-28.
http:// 86.237138 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:08:00.0[A] -> IRQ 44
http:// 86.237145 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:8, slot:0, int pin:1 irq 45 vector 210 apic 124-29.
http:// 86.237147 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:08:00.1 -> IRQ 45
http:// 86.237153 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:9, slot:0, int pin:0 irq 46 vector 218 apic 124-30.
http:// 86.237155 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:09:00.0[A] -> IRQ 46
http:// 86.237161 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:10, slot:0, int pin:0 irq 47 vector 226 apic 124-31.
http:// 86.237163 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:0a:00.0[A] -> IRQ 47
http:// 86.237170 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:10, slot:0, int pin:1 irq 48 vector 234 apic 124-32.
http:// 86.237172 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:0a:00.1 -> IRQ 48
http:// 86.237178 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:11, slot:0, int pin:0 irq 49 vector 51 apic 124-33.
http:// 86.237180 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:0b:00.0[A] -> IRQ 49
http:// 86.237186 PCI -> IRQ mapping bus:11, slot:0, int pin:1 irq 50 vector 59 apic 124-34.
http:// 86.237188 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:0b:00.1 -> IRQ 50
http:// 86.237552 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
http:// 86.237555 IO window: e000-efff
http:// 86.237558 MEM window: fb900000-fbafffff
http:// 86.237561 PREFETCH window: disabled.
http:// 86.237564 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
http:// 86.237565 IO window: disabled.
http:// 86.237568 MEM window: disabled.
http:// 86.237571 PREFETCH window: disabled.
http:// 86.237574 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.0
http:// 86.237576 IO window: d000-dfff
http:// 86.237580 MEM window: fb500000-fb8fffff
http:// 86.237582 PREFETCH window: fef00000-feffffff
http:// 86.237586 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:04.0
http:// 86.237587 IO window: disabled.
http:// 86.237590 MEM window: disabled.
http:// 86.237592 PREFETCH window: disabled.
http:// 86.237595 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:05.0
http:// 86.237597 IO window: c000-cfff
http:// 86.237601 MEM window: fbe00000-fbefffff
http:// 86.237603 PREFETCH window: disabled.
http:// 86.237607 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:06.0
http:// 86.237609 IO window: b000-bfff
http:// 86.237612 MEM window: fbd00000-fbdfffff
http:// 86.237614 PREFETCH window: disabled.
http:// 86.237618 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:07.0
http:// 86.237620 IO window: a000-afff
http:// 86.237623 MEM window: fb200000-fb4fffff
http:// 86.237626 PREFETCH window: disabled.
http:// 86.237629 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:08.0
http:// 86.237631 IO window: 9000-9fff
http:// 86.237634 MEM window: fbc00000-fbcfffff
http:// 86.237637 PREFETCH window: disabled.
http:// 86.237640 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:09.0
http:// 86.237642 IO window: 8000-8fff
http:// 86.237645 MEM window: fbb00000-fbbfffff
http:// 86.237648 PREFETCH window: disabled.
http:// 86.237651 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:0a.0
http:// 86.237652 IO window: disabled.
http:// 86.237655 MEM window: disabled.
http:// 86.237657 PREFETCH window: disabled.
http:// 86.237661 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
http:// 86.237662 IO window: disabled.
http:// 86.237665 MEM window: disabled.
http:// 86.237668 PREFETCH window: disabled.
http:// 86.237685 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
http:// 86.237699 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
http:// 86.237713 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
http:// 86.237727 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
http:// 86.237741 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64
http:// 86.237755 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
http:// 86.237768 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64
http:// 86.237782 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:08.0 to 64
http:// 86.237795 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:09.0 to 64
http:// 86.237809 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
http:// 86.237819 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
http:// 86.237832 NET: Registered protocol family 2
http:// 86.316103 IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
http:// 86.316151 TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
http:// 86.316182 TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
http:// 86.316197 TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192)
http:// 86.316199 TCP reno registered
http:// 86.316839 audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
http:// 86.316845 type=2000 audit(1259161090.820:1): initialized
http:// 86.316876 Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
http:// 86.316925 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
http:// 86.316933 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
http:// 86.316956 squashfs: version 3.2-alpha (2006/12/12) Phillip Lougher
http:// 86.316975 fuse init (API version 7.7)
http:// 86.317021 SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
http:// 86.375979 Initializing Cryptographic API
http:// 86.375990 alg: No test for crc32c (crc32c-generic)
http:// 86.375991 ksign: Installing public key data
http:// 86.375993 Loading keyring
http:// 86.375994 io scheduler noop registered
http:// 86.375999 io scheduler anticipatory registered
http:// 86.376002 io scheduler deadline registered
http:// 86.376008 io scheduler cfq registered (default)
http:// 86.436449 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
http:// 86.436484 assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
http:// 86.436486 Allocate Port Service~~0000:00:01.0:pcie00~~
http:// 86.436522 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
http:// 86.436557 assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
http:// 86.436561 Allocate Port Service~~0000:00:02.0:pcie00~~
http:// 86.436592 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
http:// 86.436628 assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
http:// 86.436630 Allocate Port Service~~0000:00:03.0:pcie00~~
http:// 86.436662 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
http:// 86.436697 assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
http:// 86.436699 Allocate Port Service~~0000:00:04.0:pcie00~~
http:// 86.436732 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64
http:// 86.436767 assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
http:// 86.436769 Allocate Port Service~~0000:00:05.0:pcie00~~
http:// 86.436800 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
http:// 86.436835 assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
http:// 86.436838 Allocate Port Service~~0000:00:06.0:pcie00~~
http:// 86.436869 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64
http:// 86.436905 assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
http:// 86.436907 Allocate Port Service~~0000:00:07.0:pcie00~~
http:// 86.436942 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:08.0 to 64
http:// 86.436977 assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
http:// 86.436979 Allocate Port Service~~0000:00:08.0:pcie00~~
http:// 86.437013 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:09.0 to 64
http:// 86.437048 assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
http:// 86.437050 Allocate Port Service~~0000:00:09.0:pcie00~~
http:// 86.437082 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
http:// 86.437117 assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
http:// 86.437120 Allocate Port Service~~0000:00:0a.0:pcie00~~
http:// 86.437341 pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
http:// 86.438688 Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
http:// 86.438690 Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
http:// 86.438719 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
http:// 86.438821 serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
http:// 86.438918 serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
http:// 86.439646 RAMDISK driver initialized: 1 RAM disks of 307200K size 1024 blocksize
http:// 86.439826 loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
http:// 86.439889 Linux video capture interface: v2.00
http:// 86.440791 i8042.c: No controller found.
http:// 86.488566 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
http:// 86.488645 TCP bic registered
http:// 86.488646 Initializing IPsec netlink socket
http:// 86.488654 NET: Registered protocol family 1
http:// 86.488658 NET: Registered protocol family 17
http:// 86.488683 Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed
http:// 86.488747 mask_IO_APIC_irq 4 called

Regards,

Amit

Re: password question

WoodyZ — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:26:51 GMT

Michblit wrote: Hi Woody, I am so glad that you made a reply. Do you remember working with me a couple of weeks ago to fix my password problem?

Yes I do remember you and I tried calling you earlier this evening and there was no answer.

All has been fine, I haven't needed a password then suddenly I was getting the message that I needed to change my password , that it was about to expire. This totally baffled me because I thought we eliminated all that ,

No, what we did was reset the password to a blank password and because you only have one account it just logs in automatically but Vista forces a password reset every after n number of days (IIRC n is 42) and start notifying 14 days in advance.

I was just going to ignore the message. But now it's down to a 3 day warning and I started to worry that I will find myself back in the same boat I started in, no access to my Windows. You walked me through the whole password issue.....and know the settings that were made, what should I do here? I am almost wondering if I wouldn't be better off just creating a password and then creating the password reset disc in case there are future problems.

You certainly can do that however you have to create a floppy disk image and assign it to the Floppy drive that you'd have to add it to the Virtual Machine and then format it to use it and since you're technically challenged you'd probably have a hard time doing it.

What would you do ?

I would do exactly what I posted in my previously reply in this thread and I've included a direct download link for the User Manager for XP/Vista Home 2.2-RELEASE in that reply as well as a link to the XPHome tools web site and directions and a screenshot. What in my previous reply do you not understand?

Thanks Woody,
Michelle

Your welcome and sorry I haven't had time to reply earlier.

Re: Windows 2003EE x64 и ESX4

dfxz — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:26:30 GMT

Михаил есть какие нибудь идеи по поводу моей проблемы....?

Re: Can I covert an Xp installation from inside another OS

qaznqwerty — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:20:44 GMT

Ok after I install the converter on the XP on E drive and then perform the conversion and save the image in lets say D drive.

Now can I use this virtual Image, while running the Vmware player from inside both the Windows xpinstallations on C drive or E drive. What I mean here is can I run the
virtual Image of the E drive by booting inside either of the Xp installations on C or E drives.

VDR restoration horror stories

MarkIveli — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:13:25 GMT

I would like to ask the community if anyone has any horror stories regarding restorations from VDR (file and image level). We are evaluating the 1.1 appliance and my management is questioning the restore process. In our environment we have to get the backup to tape nightly which isn't that hard, so before i put my reputation on the line i was hoping that everyone might share some real world problems that they have encountered during the restoration of data.

I am a big advocate of VDR and i want to see it progress into a great appliance for sys admins. I just don't want to be burnt by it! Our initial eval has been encouraging but I haven't been able to convince my managers that de-duplication is an effective backup method and probably wont until the appliance matures.

Thanks

Re: password question

Michblit — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:11:21 GMT

Hi Woody, I am so glad that you made a reply. Do you remember working with me a couple of weeks ago to fix my password problem? All has been fine, I haven't needed a password then suddenly I was getting the message that I needed to change my password , that it was about to expire. This totally baffled me because I thought we eliminated all that , I was just going to ignore the message. But now it's down to a 3 day warning and I started to worry that I will find myself back in the same boat I started in, no access to my Windows. You walked me through the whole password issue.....and know the settings that were made, what should I do here? I am almost wondering if I wouldn't be better off just creating a password and then creating the password reset disc in case there are future problems. What would you do ?

Thanks Woody,
Michelle

Re: Viewing Wordpress sites in MAMP via vmware fusion

calicosun — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:11:07 GMT

Thank you so much for replying to my question. Is driving me nuts trying to figure out.

I 'think' I have done that bit correctly. The url link that I use in the virtual IE browser is http://xxx.xxx.xxx.x:8888/ (xxx being the IP for my OS). I can get the 'Index of.... with all the links to the websites on MAMP come up and I can view the websites that are just html/css files ie. have not yet been converted to wordpress/PHP files. The sites that have been converted to wordpress are coming up exactly as though they would if they couldn't find the css file but it is there and functioning perfectly when viewing from Firefox or Safari on my mac.

I have set the network up on vm as NAT. VMware Fusion help told me to do it as Bridged but that didn't work at all.
I have not changed anything else in the set up ie. MAMP is the same as before I installed VM (ports are 8888 and 8889) and have changed nothing in my macs system preferences.
VMware Fusion Settings/System Settings is set as shared with just documents checked.

Are you able to view both wordpress sites and non wordpress sites in your virtual pc?

Re: VCB restore using Convertor Standlone fails for larg(ish) VCBs.

Lakshmi Gayatri — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:05:22 GMT

I have this kind of setup but with VCB15U1 150805 which is working fine.

can you upgrade to latest VCB version. I am sure it will work with this converter.

Re: How can I change the vSphere's default http&https port :80 &443 to others for safty reason ?

mukheem — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:00:13 GMT

In vSphere Client go to Administration select vCenter server settings, Pop window comes select Ports in left hand side & modify port over here, but you need to reboot vCenter server for changes to take effect.

Thanx,

-M

Has anybody been able to get an upgrade from Fusion 2 bought from Amazon?

bmwdk — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:53:11 GMT

I am still waiting for my Fusion 3 serial number.

I ordered Fusion 2 (with free upgrade to Fusion 3) from Amazon on October 7, 2009.
I mailed in the required forms to:

Free Upgrade VMware Fusion 3
PO Box 360767
Milpitas, CA 95036
on Oct 31,2009.

I have not heard anything back, and when I check the serial number page with the Fusion 2 serial number, I get the following message:
The serial number you entered is not yet processed.
Please allow 2 weeks to update our systems if you mailed in your form.
If you have not mailed your upgrade eligibilty form, Please follow the
instructions below.
It has been 3+ weeks since I sent in the the forms and my trial serial number has just expired, so I am getting desperate. I tried to open a support ticket on the web a week ago, but did not hear anything back, not even a ticket number as promised on the web site. I also called the upgrade phone number this morning and left a message, and I have not received the promised callback.

Thre days ago I emailed free-upgrade@rebates-vmware.com with essentially the above message. This created a ticket and when checking it I see, that another ticket was created on 11/17 from my first try. So now I actually has two open tickets on the subject with no response.

Monday morning I called the phone number on the upgrade page and the only option I was presented with was to leave my phone number and someone would call me back. Has not happenaed yet!

So all my attempts (including an earlier message here) have met with deafening silence.

I am sorry for my long rant, but I am at my wit's end, where do I go from here?

I am usually very patient and understand that things might take a while, especially right after a new release, but as my trial serial number has just expired, I am now faced with having to downgrade to Fusion 2.

To add insult to injury I was supposed to get a $10 rebate from SmithMicro, but they claim that the paper work was not complete (not a valid serial number), even I had sent a copy of the back of the CD sleeve, seems to be their modus operandi.

Bjarne

Re: View4 GA - Not using PCoIP?

JBarsness — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:50:00 GMT

Finally connected the dots...Thanks for the advice! I was using the Portal, instead the full client - no wonder the PCoIP wasn't working. Up and running on PCoIP now - Wish the docs would explain that better... Now I just need to figure out where the full client is hiding on my client machines.

Re: cmd.exe copy speed limitation -> Powershell

Lakshmi Gayatri — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:45:59 GMT

yes, thats right.

you are welcome.

Re: password question

WoodyZ — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:40:51 GMT

Because you are using Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium you cannot do as rcardona2k has suggested because Microsoft Management Console in that version does not have the lusrmgr.msc snap-in so you need to download and install User Manager for XP/Vista Home 2.2-RELEASE from XPHome tools.

After it's installed just double-click the User Manager shortcut on the Desktop and then double-click on the target User and then check the User Cannot Change Password check box and the Password Never Expires check box.

Note: You do not need to purchase the User Manager for XP/Vista Home and you can just uninstall it after you've changed the setting.

How to disable smart card login

berky2755 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:32:19 GMT

I use a smart card for work and I have it constantly in my card reader. When I try to login to vmware server through the web gui (https://server-ip:8333), it continues to prompt me for my CAC pin. If I remove the CAC and cancel the prompt, it gives me the username/password page. I want it to give me that page even when my smart card (CAC) is inserted into my laptop.

In my server.xml file from /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/conf has the following in it:

I'm not sure what to change.

Re: password question

rcardona2k — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:32:16 GMT

The section I referenced is definitely missing from your configuration of compmgmt. There's a longer way to get to it that should work. In the Start menu, search for "mmc.exe" and run it. Under the File menu choose "Add/remove snap-in", from the Available snap-ins list, choose "Local Users and Groups". Click "Add >" to add it to the list on the right. Confirm the snap-in will manage the local computer and click Finish. Click OK to complete adding the users and groups snap-in. Under Console Root you should now have the Local Users and Groups item, which has two folders User and Groups. In the User folder find your login, double-click your login name then the options shown above should be available.

Re: Default Shares Values Weird

Deepeer — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:29:22 GMT

By default , number of cpus assigned to the VM is also taken into account . For example , if you have 3 vm's with 2 cpus assigned to each and shares are not specified ( or normal by default ) , then share value will be same . If different shares are specified , ( low , normal , high ) you will oberserve the ratio as expected .

If you assign a vm with 1 cpu and second vm with 2 cpus , one would expect vm with 2 cpus to get twice the cpu resources compared to vm with 1 cpu . Hence even if shares assigned are same ( normal in your cases ) , vm with higher number of cpus are internally assigned more shares .

User still has the option to over ride this behaviour by setting custom shares as you have done .

Re: View4 GA - Not using PCoIP?

JBarsness — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:23:37 GMT

Yes. I installed the client via the web connection to the Connection Manager, and double-checked that it is the View 4 client with all options installed except "USB Redirection" and "Log in as current user". DId I install too many pieces - is something causing it not to enable the PCoIP?

Re: Workstation 7 Trial fails to install on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise x64

dlchapman — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:20:31 GMT

If that is the case, I apologize and stand corrected. I could have swore I read that in the WS7 EULA.

You should probably choose your words a little more carefully. Calling someone's post "nonsense" is poor etiquette.

Re: Simple Network help - bridged mode?

Znelbok — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:19:59 GMT

It is Windows XP, single NIC.

I have tried with both the windows firewall on and off.

Thanks

Mick

Re: Unable to upgrade ESX4.0 to ESX4.0 U1

Meghaj — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:18:27 GMT

To resolve the issue I had to reinstall the vSphere U1 again on the host. The host had earlier a vSphere U1 candidate cleanly installed, which was conflicting with the new GA release of U1.

Thanks!

Re: View4 GA - Not using PCoIP?

wponder — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:13:00 GMT

If PCoIP is not showing up as an option on the client that indicates the necessary components have not been installed. Has the View 4 client been installed on the clients?

WP

Re: XP virtual machine stopped working ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt. PLEASE HELP

rcardona2k — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:11:26 GMT

One way to fix is to boot into the Windows Recovery console from the XP installation disc and follow Microsoft's KB article on replacing ntoskrnl.exe at Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. The option to run the recovery console is offered during the XP installation disc startup process.

Re: Windows7 Can't Install

An1cka — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:10:55 GMT

Thank you again, rcardona2k.

That blog post was very informative, but I believe it is indicated for windows users - when I right click as instructed I don't see "properties" as an option. When I double click on the .exe file I get text edit with gibberish.

I think this exact topic for Mac is what I really need, so I'm getting closer. I'll keep searching and if you have any other ideas, let me know!

Thanks again,
Anicka

Re: ESXi-4.0.0-update01.zip?? Where can I download it?

lowburb — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:07:50 GMT

I'm having the same issue. I'm using the free version and I'm trying to use ESXi-4.0.0-1.9.208167-upgrade-release.zip and when I try and update via the host update utility, I get the following error

"Failed to read the upgrade package metadata. CRC mismatch

EDIT* Sorry, i just realized this was a "wehre can I download" thread, not a "I cant update" thread

How can I change the vSphere's default http&https port :80 &443 to others for safty reason ?

realji — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:57:44 GMT

I want to modified the default http&https ports ,but nof found any config file about this ,anyonr can help me ?

Re: Fusion 3 VHD Import N/A...

rcardona2k — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:57:18 GMT

Fusion can open a Microsoft-based virtual machine based off a *.vmc machine descriptor file. If there is a VHD defined in virtual machine, Fusion will create a differencing VMDK (a snapshot), and import a VMware virtual machine referencing the VMDK file. A good example of this the Windows Server 2003 R3 virtual appliance in the VMware VMTN Appliance Market. The download description even talks about how the import process works.

Where is the Change Log of VMware Server 2?

easeit — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:46:44 GMT

Where is the Change Log of VMware Server 2?

Unidentified Network Again

Joe1948 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:42:01 GMT

I ran into this in version 6.5 and I think Continuum posted a fix by going into Group Policy and making a change then deleting the virtual network cards in the VM editor and rebootiing.I'm now running Windows 7 with Workstation 7 in bridging mode. In the editor I see no way to delete the network cards. The network does work but I see the annoying unidentified network in windows.

Joe

Re: Windows7 Can't Install

rcardona2k — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:35:04 GMT

The only programs I've seen that Microsoft distributes ISO-format media are MSDN, Technet and Volume License sites. For retail sales, Microsoft partners (outsources) this function. Another user, HughBorg707 posted about the delimma of the format the download version comes in and posted this blog posting to help:

How to Create and Make Bootable Windows 7 ISO from EXE Plus Setup1.Box and Setup2.Box Files

Re: Unable to view certain directories on console.

doepain — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:33:40 GMT

You're right about the right part of the symlink being dark blue and not light blue. I have compared this ESXi box to another and the output of "df" was different. There were a lot of mount ponts missing from the "bad" system. Question is how did that happen? ...and How do I get them back?

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