VMware Communities: Message List

Re: PSOD after U1 upgrade by updatemanager

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

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

Re: ESX server on VMWare Workstation

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

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

Andre

Re: VCP Certification material

Jain — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:53:10 GMT

Refer below link

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

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

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

How to Plan Luns for Exchange 2007 Virtulization

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

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

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

Regards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'll let you how it goes.

Cheers,

Ron

Re: page is redirected to https can not browse pages

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

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

Andre

Re: VCP Certification material

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:51:32 GMT

Official documentation:
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vs_pages/vsp_pubs_esx40_u1_vc40_u1.html

The official Blueprint is available at:
http://mylearn.vmware.com/lcms/mL_faq/2726/VCPonvSphere4ExamBlueprint.pdf

Some version with study notes:
http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/vcp-vsphere-upgrade-study-notes/
http://professionalvmware.com/category/vcp/
http://www.vreference.com/downloads/...4-notes1.0.pdf
Review of VCP4 exam

Andre

Re: PSOD after U1 upgrade by updatemanager

uzimmermann — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:48:44 GMT

Ok, I made some progress on my own, not due to help from VMware support.

As shown above the esxupdate was hanging after the clean up glibc. strace showed it waiting in a FUTEX. Killing esxupdate and trying to rescan the host from Update Manager would do the same. I deleted the /var/lib/rpm/__db* files, and ran rpm --rebuilddb. I then ran by hand

/usr/sbin/vmkmod-install.sh
/usr/sbin/cim-install.sh
esxcfg-boot -b

Now scanning the host from Update Manager returns all patches are applied and rebooting the host does not lead to a PSOD.

Re: Data Recovery: restore while source VM is gone

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

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

Andre

page is redirected to https can not browse pages

nobbywfc — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:22:34 GMT

Installed ESXi4 recently and vSphere client was installed to Windows7. After installation, I also installed Fedora12 and Apache 86_64 2.2.13-4 as well as other httpd related daemon/servers. The browser does not browse correct page like http://www.foo.com and instead it redirects to https://www.foo.com. Consetquently I can not see my page in the internet. This might relate to ESXi's usage of port 443 and in any case I like to know how I can resolve this trouble.

vShield VM availability

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

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

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

Thanks in advance

VCP Certification material

kaashifVTech — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:13:02 GMT

Hello,

I just have finished my VSphere Install and Configure training, and want to clear VCp4 certification instantly. I need to know about the documents which I should read and from where I can get these

thanks

Kaashif

Re: fix network card on copied VM image

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

resolved.

Re: fix network card on copied VM image

tongueroo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:11:29 GMT

Figured this out. Had to change the mac address of the network card.

Re: PSOD after U1 upgrade by updatemanager

uzimmermann — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:01:30 GMT

Sigh .. VMware really needs better trained people in support. After 32 minutes waiting for a live tech, the person I got is completly clueless. Wants to just go and kill the still running esxupdate without really know what it will do, including a reboot, which I am pretty sure in the current state will lead to the same PSOD.

Re: VMware Data Recovery Plugin Won't Install

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

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

Andre

Re: ESX stopped respoding to management functions

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

Your system is in HCL?

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

Andre

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

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

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

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

etung — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:37:16 GMT

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

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

Re: PSOD after U1 upgrade by updatemanager

uzimmermann — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:25:54 GMT

Same problem here. BL460c g6, update timed out. Reboot caused PSOD. Had to reinstall from scratch. Second system has the same problem. After 15 minutes times out. esxupdate.log shows this in the last few lines:

2009-11-21 21:47:40 DEBUG: cos.rpm: Cleaning up vmware-esx-iscsi
2009-11-21 21:47:40 DEBUG: cos.rpm: Cleaning up bind-utils
2009-11-21 21:47:40 DEBUG: cos.rpm: Cleaning up vmware-esx-docs
2009-11-21 21:47:40 DEBUG: cos.rpm: Cleaning up vmware-esx-drivers-scsi-mptsas
2009-11-21 21:47:41 DEBUG: cos.rpm: /usr/sbin/vmkmod-install.sh
2009-11-21 21:47:41 DEBUG: cos.rpm: Cleaning up vmware-esx-drivers-block-cciss
2009-11-21 21:47:41 DEBUG: cos.rpm: /usr/sbin/vmkmod-install.sh
2009-11-21 21:47:41 DEBUG: cos.rpm: Cleaning up vmware-esx-vmx
2009-11-21 21:47:41 DEBUG: cos.rpm: Cleaning up vmware-esx-cim
2009-11-21 21:47:41 DEBUG: cos.rpm: Cleaning up vmware-esx-backuptools
2009-11-21 21:47:41 DEBUG: cos.rpm: Cleaning up pam_passwdqc
2009-11-21 21:47:41 DEBUG: cos.rpm: Cleaning up curl
2009-11-21 21:47:41 DEBUG: cos.rpm: Cleaning up vmware-esx-drivers-ata-libata
2009-11-21 21:47:41 DEBUG: cos.rpm: /usr/sbin/vmkmod-install.sh
2009-11-21 21:47:41 DEBUG: cos.rpm: Cleaning up glibc

And it has been not moving since then. Over 35 minutes now. On hold with Vmware support for > 25 minutes now.

Re: D945gclf2 (Atom 330) and ESXi 4

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

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

Andre

ESX server on VMWare Workstation

ContactDP — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:25:39 GMT

Hi all,

I am new to this community. I have a problem with my ESX server installation and need help.
I have installed ESX3 server on VMware Workstation. Also have 2003 server vm running in the same VMware Workstation. Installation was sucessful. Both 2003 server and ESX server are in same subnet. I am able to ping the ESX server from 2003 VM, but i am not able to manage the ESX server using the webbrower console nor through SSH connection using putty. Please someone help me in this regards.

Durga Prasad

Re: ESX 4 and USB Hard Drives

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

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

Andre

Re: ESXi 4 on Dell PE2950

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

just OMSA is the difference?

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

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

Andre

Re: p2v to local usb drive

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

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

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

Andre

Re: ESX stopped respoding to management functions

clydef — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:15:17 GMT

All.

Tailing the hostd log seems to point to the following error. Cant find any reference to this specific problem on the forum.
Any help much appreciated.

~~2009-11-22 05:55:53.546 'Vimsvc' 19569584 info~~ Auth: User root
~~2009-11-22 05:55:53.546 'ha-eventmgr' 19569584 info~~ Event 4 : User root@127.0.0.1 logged in
~~2009-11-22 05:55:53.832 'App' 19303344 error~~ AdapterServer caught unexpected exception: attempt to create string with null pointer
~~2009-11-22 05:55:53.832 'Vmomi' 19303344 info~~ Activation N5Vmomi10ActivationE:0x9e40e08 : Invoke done queryConnectionInfo on ~~vim.HostSystem:ha-host~~
~~2009-11-22 05:55:53.832 'Vmomi' 19303344 info~~ Throw vmodl.fault.SystemError
~~2009-11-22 05:55:53.833 'Vmomi' 19303344 info~~ Result:
(vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
reason = "",
msg = ""
}
~~2009-11-22 05:55:53.872 'ha-eventmgr' 19569584 info~~ Event 5 : User root logged out

Re: Unable to backup Virtual Machine from VDR

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

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

Andre

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

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

Thanks,you comment points me to the solution:

on the Ubuntu 9.04 server 64 bit

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

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

on the Ubuntu 9.04 desktop 32 bit

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

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

sudo aptitude install ia32-libs

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

Re: Is Thin Provisioning via vSphere instead of View Composer Possible?

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

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

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

Andre

Memory Freeze Up

XUSN — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:09:30 GMT

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

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

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

Re: Update Manager update VMFS Datastore ?

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

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

Andre

Re: how many nics and scsi adapter a VM can have ?

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

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

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

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

Andre

Re: CPUID utility vs processors listed in Systems Compatibility Guide

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

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

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

Andre

Re: VCB & Symantec Exchange 2007 Agent

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

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

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

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

Re: Is Thin Provisioning via vSphere instead of View Composer Possible?

ihazanswers — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:50:28 GMT

I think if the base disk of your template was thin then the deployed
desktops would also have thin disks but I would have to check it out
to confirm.

Regards,

Mike

On Nov 21, 2009, at 11:18 PM, "hmartin" <communities-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks!

Re: VCB & Symantec Exchange 2007 Agent

ramiatvmtn — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:47:13 GMT

So basically i still need to do the same things as having Symantec Backup Exec do the regular backup (daily, weekly, incremental) of VMs as if they are physical server (which means pushing the agent to each VMs) and i need to still enable the Exchagne Agent for example on the backup server to use the features like single Mailbox restore, etc.

If above is true, then why do i need something called Symantec VI Agent?

I am also trying to install Symantec Backup Exec, VCB and vCenter on the same server with good specification. is that ok?

Thank you all so far.

Re: Unused portion of Memory & CPU

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

Thanks Scott.
Very clear explanation.

Andre

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

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

Thanks WoodyZ, that worked like a charm.

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

Re: data cannot be read or written / vmdk failed

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

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

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

What Manufacture and Model Number is the HDD?

Re: Fusion 3/Windows 7 Ultimate/multiple displays

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

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

Doug_ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:32:20 GMT

Another thread with the same issue:

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

Re: no login-fields at web-service, just blank

Doug_ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:29:24 GMT

wrong thread

Re: Fusion 3/Windows 7 Ultimate/multiple displays

plaintiger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:29:56 GMT

okay, i think i've found a workaround: it seems that designating as my main monitor the display that Windows knows as #3 will make everything work as expected. it doesn't matter which physical display is designated as #3 - i can drag Monitor #3 to whichever position i like in the Displays control panel and the setup will still work correctly - it's just that the taskbar has to appear on Monitor #3 if i don't want my cursor to keep jumping to some other monitor. so to put my main monitor in the center, as i want, i just have to designate Monitor #3 as my main display in the Displays control panel and then drag it to the center of the group. whew. at least that's solved.

now if VMWare (and/or Apple) can just make Fusion 3 perform acceptably, i should be a happy camper once again.

Re: no login-fields at web-service, just blank

Doug_ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:27:34 GMT

It looks like when I make a request such as this:

http://localhost:8222/

I get served this page: /usr/lib/vmware/hostd/docroot/index.html

Which redirects me to http://localhost:8222/ui/

This should be: /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/ui/

But that never seems to load. So I suspect that there is a problem with Apache Tomcat serving up the "ui" Java app.

I believe adding additional logging configuration to one of these files might shed some light but I'm not exactly sure how to add more logging to them:

/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/ui/WEB-INF/classes
log4j.properties

/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/conf
logging.properties

/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/lib
logging.properties

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

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

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

fix network card on copied VM image

tongueroo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:22:56 GMT

Hi guys,

So, Im having trouble getting on of my vmfusion ubuntu images to talk to the
host os (macosx).
I created these images a little differently.

There are 3 images: ubuntu1, ubuntu2, ubuntu3.
I created ubuntu1 and ubuntu3 by going through the complete install process
via the vmfusion wizard to install an os.

Here's a screenshot with the network info for all 3 VMs:
http://www.screencast.com/t/N2EzY2M3N

However, for ubuntu2, I created this VM differently. I just copied the folder
that contained all the vmfusion file for ubuntu1 and renamed the VM it from
ubuntu1 and ubuntu2. This is probably why the network identication is exactly
the same on both ubuntu1 and ubuntu2.

root@ubuntu1:~# ifconfig -a | grep 'inet6' | grep Link
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe41:f1d3/64 Scope:Link
root@ubuntu2:~# ifconfig -a | grep 'inet6' | grep Link
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe41:f1d3/64 Scope:Link
root@ubuntu3:~# ifconfig -a | grep 'inet6' | grep Link
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe50:363b/64 Scope:Link

On ubuntu2 I manually release the ip address, with "dhclient -r && dhclient",
and manually assigned it the ip address of 172.16.89.131, with "ipconfig eth0
172.16.89.131".

Unfortunately, I still cannot talk to the ubuntu2 from the host os with ping:

From the host os I can only ping ubuntu1 and ubuntu3, but not ubuntu2.
tung@walle:~ $ ping -c 2 172.16.89.130
PING 172.16.89.130 (172.16.89.130): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.16.89.130: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.285 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.89.130: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.400 ms

172.16.89.130 ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.285/0.343/0.400/0.057 ms
tung@walle:~ $ ping -c 2 172.16.89.136
PING 172.16.89.136 (172.16.89.136): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.16.89.136: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=7.601 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.89.136: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.344 ms

172.16.89.136 ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.344/3.973/7.601/3.628 ms
tung@walle:~ $ ping -c 2 172.16.89.131
PING 172.16.89.131 (172.16.89.131): 56 data bytes
^C # Ctrl-C because this hangs

172.16.89.131 ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
tung@walle:~ $

Anyone have any suggestions? I know that I can also just do a clean install
by going through the vmfusion wizard but it would be nice if I could just fix
the network card.

Tung

Re: vSphere 4u1 - any issues?

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

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

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

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

Re: One Datastore for all ESX machines

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

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

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

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

All done...

Re: Fusion 3, Win7 64bit super sluggish

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

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

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

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

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

Re: data cannot be read or written / vmdk failed

chuckomoss — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:07:13 GMT

Woody,

I completed the Low Level test you recommended.

I was able to run the sector count using fdisk /dev/disk0 and got a sector count of the following:

chuck-moss-osx-2:~ chuck_moss$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 976773168 sectors

Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec start - size

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 1 - 976773167 <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 - 0 unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 - 0 unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 - 0 unused

Now when i use the dd command I get:

chuck-moss-osx-2:~ chuck_moss$ sudo dd if=/dev/disk0 of=/dev/null bs=512
dd: /dev/disk0: Input/output error
200310296+0 records in
200310296+0 records out
102558871552 bytes transferred in 5731.109756 secs (17895116 bytes/sec)
chuck-moss-osx-2:~ chuck_moss$

To me it seems that I have a disk error.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Charlie

Re: Making vCenter Server 4.0 use new SSL Certificates

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

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

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

4chrisheuer — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:03:10 GMT

OK Folks. I found a solution. Or at least, it seems to be working right now finally (10 hours to go to migrate)

Here is what I did.

- install fusion
- install pc migration asst on pc
- fail to login, fail to move past gathering info, fail to connect yada yada

So I thought maybe Bonjour problem. So I clicked the ? icon in the vmware fusion migration setup screen and I found out I had to change some sharing options in the system preferences panel. I did that. Same problem.

So I went to PC and installed latest Bonjour fresh. Same problem.

I then unistalled Migration Asst from my PC (btw, win xp sp3) - it crashed. Started again on reboot with migration asst. Quit that, uninstalled by add/remove programs.

Restarted computer. Downloaded latest pc migration asst. Installed again fresh. Turned off all anti-virus. Restarted PC (important). Started migration asst on pc. Started vmware migration.

I then had the same login failure problem with the account not getting past the 'cant log you in' invalid credentials screen. So I created another admin user account on the PC. I then went to the migration asst in VMWare and entered those credentials (important - this was not the user currently actively logged in to the PC - it was a separate account)

I now have the migration moving, and its moving faster then the estimate on the screen.

Cross your fingers (and try this and let me know if it works)

Chris

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Windows 7

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

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

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

Fusion 3/Windows 7 Ultimate/multiple displays

plaintiger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:33:03 GMT

with much trial and tribulation and repeated downloading and installing of monitor drivers, i can get all three of my monitors working at 1680x1050 in Windows 7 Ultimate under Fusion 3, but every time i do anything - open a window, click, whatever - my cursor jumps to my rightmost monitor (which is neither designated as #1 nor set as my main display).

is this a Fusion problem or a Snow Leopard + Fusion problem or a Windows 7 problem or what? my 3-monitor setup works fine until i get into Fusion 3 and Windows 7; it worked perfectly under Snow Leopard + Fusion 2 + XP Pro as well.

i guess my next step should be to test in XP under Fusion 3...i'll do that and report my findings...

...okay, i'm reporting my findings: it seems to have something to do with Windows 7 because - performance aside - the setup's still working perfectly in XP Pro under Fusion 3. (i have the same complaints everybody else seems to have regarding Fusion 3's performance - didn't i read that Fusion 3 performs better than Fusion 2?? isn't that part of the reason i forked over money for this?? unless i'm imagining that claim, i deserve my money back.)

now: does anybody know how to make a three-display setup work correctly in Windows 7 Ultimate running under Fusion 3 running under Snow Leopard? that is, without the cursor jumping to places it shouldn't jump to and such? i don't expect decent performance until Fusion 3 is updated. which i think VMWare owes it to us to do sometime, oh, say, tomorrow.

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

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

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

Re: vSphere 4u1 - any issues?

DSeaman — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:25:20 GMT

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

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

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

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

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MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

More than one USB device at the same time

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

Hi Community,

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

Here is it:

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

Thx for your help in advance.

Best regards,

Chris

ESX 4 and USB Hard Drives

wilhelmnetworks — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:24:28 GMT

Hi,

This is probably more of a general Linux question, but here's the deal...

I've connected an external 1TB USB HDD to an ESX host to move certian files off site from time to time. Connect the drive, mount to a predefined mount point, copy, umount, move drive off site. This works fine.

My issue is that I would like to script the actions, but every time I connect the USB drive it is assigned a different file in the /dev folder. First connect, the drive is /dev/sdc. second, /dev/sdd, then /dev/sde and so on.

How can I fix this so that the USB drive is always assigned the same file under /dev? Is this possible? I'm not a scripting expert (nor am I a Linux expert) by any means, so possibly there is a way to mount the drive to the mount point no matter what the drive is under /dev?

Re: Windows 7 unable to connect to the internet

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

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

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

weinstein5 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:18:30 GMT

THis document might help - http://pubs.vmware.com/guestnotes/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=guestnotes&file=guestos_winxp.html

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Is Thin Provisioning via vSphere instead of View Composer Possible?

hmartin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:17:47 GMT

With View 3, we used linked clones in order to get thin provisioned disks. However, for a number of reasons, Recompose just doesn't work for us. I'm wondering if View 4, along with vSphere 4.0 Update 1, will allow me to deploy "full clones" that have thin disks (courtesy of vSphere).

I know it's possible to do this with vSphere alone, but does anyone know whether this will work (or not work) with View - either with View-based 'individual desktops' or, preferably, with automated desktop pools?

Re: how many nics and scsi adapter a VM can have ?

weinstein5 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:15:57 GMT

Depends on the version you are running - ESX 3.x you can have a total of 5 virtual NIC or virtual SCSI cards - with no more than 4 of either virtual SCSI or NIC - for ESX 4.x you can have upto 4 virtual SCSI cards and up to 10 virtual NICs

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Re: Windows 7 unable to connect to the internet

jrzshor — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:09:34 GMT

after doing many things to get this to work I finally remembered how it is really easy to connect to the internet.

with windows closed (pun) go to Vitual Machine-setings-network and create another NAT (wireless connection for me). that's it. start windows and a driver is loaded and you should be up pretty quickly.

Re: Correct Install/upgrade Procedure with View4

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

Have you checked out the View4 upgrade guide?

Re: p2v to local usb drive

Rumple — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:09:25 GMT

Converters P2V's to an ESX server or possibly vmware server, I can't remember.
If you need to goto a nother disk and then sneakernet the image to the ESX network you need to use something else like symantec backupexec system recovery or acronis to generate that image and convert the image.

First I would check to see if it will P2V to vmware server...then just configure a laptop local to the server network running vmware server and then take laptop to esx server network and convert again...

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

WoodyZ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:02:55 GMT

All you need to do is just create a new Windows 7 Virtual Machine and as you walk through the New Virtual Machine Assistant just leave the Windows Product Key blank on the Easy Install sheet and continue forward.

Then after you've installed VMware Tools just follow the steps in Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media to Activate Windows.

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

rcardona2k — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:54:35 GMT

My XP VM has 512 MB and my Win7 x64 VM has 1 GB on a mid-2009 MBP with 4 GB of RAM. The 7 VM is noticeably faster for certain operations although like I said before Office isn't one of the apps that maxes out performance needs. My Outlook inbox has about 40,000 messages and it runs great on 7.

Re: vSphere 4u1 - any issues?

Jain — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:30:18 GMT

this http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1013013 bug should have fixed.

Re: VMware - FIX FUSION 3 - NOW!!!!!!

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

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

I suspect no evidence will suffice.

http://tinyurl.com/m5z3kh

// henrik

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

jmcrtp — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:26:16 GMT

I have a windows 7 upgrade I bought, and I also have the install disk but windows 7 makes me upgrade from vista 64-bit. Basically I install vista 64-bit and end up with an 8 GB or so VM. Then I do the upgrade to windows 7 and with my windows.old folder I am at around 20GB. I need to get this down to 10GB or less. I can delete the entire windows.old folder with or without using recycle bin functionality. I can shutdown and/or suspend multiple times. Windows 7 sees that it has a 40GB partition and it is using about 10GB of it. The problem is that my VM is still 20GB on my mac. No matter what I seem to do I can't delete this data. I would love to just install windows 7 cleanly but it won't let me since I have an upgrade, it makes me actually upgrade from vista. It won't allow me to upgrade from XP or even use that installer since XP is 32 bit. I don't have any data on the VM I just want to end up with a fresh windows 7 64-bit VM with no data on it, but that only takes up 8-10GB on the mac (or less).

I have also tried the VM cleanup and it does not help at all. VMware fusion 3.0 is not getting the memo from windows that these files were in fact deleted. Is anyone else having this issue?

I'm running VMWare fusion 3.0.0 (204229) on Mac OS X 10.6.2 on a Macbook pro system, 8GB RAM, 256GB Solid State HD.

I have tried to delete these files many times by reinstalling windows from scratch, then I started to backup the VM and try to delete the files using different methods (with recycle bin, no recycle bin, etc.) and I am never able to get VMware to clean up the VM.

Unable to access internet after upgrading to 3.0 and Windows 7

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

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

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

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

Any ideas?

Thx

Re: Wyse WTOS & View 4

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

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

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

Re: VMware - FIX FUSION 3 - NOW!!!!!!

marcelol — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:59:41 GMT

Any evidence to the contrary ? If I install this, and I lost something critical are you going to recompense me for my loss ? Of course not, don't be silly.

Hello ? I've to date, installed 2 different Anti-virus softwares in this VM, and in both cases, the same issue arises. I think that there's something funny going on in VMF 3 weighs heavier towards my point than to the contrary. If I indulge the notion, and install MSES, and it takes a nose dive, will that be sufficient to demonstrate that there's something quirky going on when you upgrade a VM from 2 to 3 ? Notice that no one's suggested I install the McAfee Anti-virus that came with VMF into this VM, I find that interestingly curious.

Also, as I've asked before, what does VMF require MacFuse for ?

Correct Install/upgrade Procedure with View4

kfanta — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:52:05 GMT

With View 4 released I am trying to find information on how to best proceed in moving to Vsphere and View 4. We are currently running esx 3.5 u4 and Vcenter 2.5 and View 3.012 with view connection brokers. We have some linked clones that I don't want to break. I would like to do a clean install of Vsphere on the hosts. In what order would you suggest I update things and View4 needs Vsphere however I don't want to break my clones.

Ideas or thoughts would be great.

Thanks,

Ken

Re: VMware - FIX FUSION 3 - NOW!!!!!!

davidb2 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:50:27 GMT

marcelol wrote:

. . . and frankly having MS "Security Essentials" is tantamount to having practically nothing protecting you

Any evidence to back this up?

David

Re: Player v3.0 under Fedora 12 as HOST

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

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

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

Re: Space character in Remote Name

Zevi — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:48:12 GMT

Steve,

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

Thanks again,
Zevi

Re: IBM Bladeserver P2V

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

Good Evening,

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

Re: My VMware workstation is very slow!!

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

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

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Re: How to have custom resolution in Linux guest consoles?

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

I think it goes something like this:

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

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

Re: Support for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 on ESX 3.5

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

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

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

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

iplaydc87 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:34:46 GMT

i was thinking that 7 might run faster but i would probably have to allocate 1 GB of my ram for it right? would i notice a performance decrease on my mac side from the allocation of 1 GB of my 4 available instead of the 512 mb i have allocated now?

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

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

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

Re: How to have custom resolution in Linux guest consoles?

Student Driver — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:32:25 GMT

Oh... Never really thought about it as I just secure shell into those systems most of the time anyway. Interesting question though, might be worth checking out what VirtualBox does and see if it's worth figuring out for myself. I remember fiddling around with Gentoo and the FB using custom resolutions and a different background, but that was a long time ago.

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

Re: How to have custom resolution in Linux guest consoles?

Nazgulled — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:27:20 GMT

I'm talking about the TTY consoles, there is not VMware Tools running that can resize the resolution and there is no X running. Just the plain old Linux console.

Data Recovery: restore while source VM is gone

dingding — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:26:06 GMT

how to restore a VM when source VM is not there. should i create a VM first?

Re: VMware - FIX FUSION 3 - NOW!!!!!!

marcelol — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:29:00 GMT

CONFIRMED.

Earlier, I had reported that the issue I was having with the VM throwing Disk Synchronization errors with the Host OS surrounded my upgrade from AVG 8.5 to AVG 9. ( which, by the way, Grisoft "concernedly" states should be upgraded to before the "December 1st cut off". Way to go, Grisoft. ).

After running for a little over a week WITHOUT an AV ( I restricted my access to the net to OSX-side only. That wasn't easy. ), I bit the bullet and reinstalled AVG Free 9.......Back to the same issues. Disk Synchronization errors.

So rebooting the VM, I turned off the "Resident Shield" to AVG, and it seems to run a little better.....but....I uninstalled it. Don't want the headache.

Also, I noticed that VMF installs it's own version of MacFuse. Can someone tell me what version that is ?

UPDATE: I uninstalled AVG Free 9, as I said, and replaced it with Avast Free 4.5 (or whatever the latest is), and so far so good....Surfing,fine. Visual Studio, fine. As a caveat, I did set up directory/path exceptions for it manually, then again the AVG automatic exception finder didn't work so well to begin with.

2nd Update: I reported too soon. Avast also has a resident auto scanner that builds an exception database. Stay tuned folks....

3rd Update: I'm removing Avast Free 4.5 as we speak. It's pretty apparent that having an Anti-Virus of any sort ( and frankly having MS "Security Essentials" is tantamount to having practically nothing protecting you ) interferes with the normal operation of VMF 3.

This is MOST disconcerting. As realistically, no one should have to run on any Windows machine without some sort of Anti-Virus.

Re: Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 install error on VMWare Wkstn 7

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

I cant use use IDE drives fearing performance hit.

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

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Re: does it work?

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

I found a command that does work:

sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation

Re: How to have custom resolution in Linux guest consoles?

Student Driver — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:22:34 GMT

I guess I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, as I normally resize on the fly with VMtools installed. However, what I would consider doing is looking at the specific distribution in question, and creating an appropriate X config file so I can cycle through the available resolutions. Each distribution might have different ways of managing X so I would look further into the distribution for answers, and see how VMtools integrates.

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

Re: Physical Devices to Guests

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

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

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Re: 3D Acceleration in Linux Guest?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Enquiries on Snapshots Management

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

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

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

Does suspending or shutting down the VM helps?

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

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

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

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

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

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Re: View + Windows 7

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

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

Connected without problems from a Win7 x64 platform