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PSOD after U1 upgrade by updatemanager

Oletho — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:16:01 GMT

Update manager install timed out during remediate of the first host that I tried to update.

Now I get a PSOD on the first part of boot sequence, right after scheduler is loaded. The server can boot into troubleshooting mode, but I have not had the time to investigate yet.

Any suggestions before I try another host?

Server: HP BL495c G5

Ole Thomsen

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

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

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

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

mbonsack — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:08:44 GMT

I know there's another post on this topic but for the life of me I can't find it. I'm having the same problem -- running VMs cause the CPU to spike to 100% and they all run dog slow. Others report good success with Karmic. Any hints?

Thanks, -mark

EDIT The thread I was referring to is in the locked beta forum: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/238765

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.

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?

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

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

VMware Data Recovery Plugin Won't Install

leesmith — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:22:11 GMT

I am trying to install the VMware Data Recovery Plugin on the an XP SP3 machine that is running teh vSphere Client version 4.0.0 Build 162856. I run the VMwareDataRecoveryPlugin.msi file and I get the message "VMware VSphere Client is required for installation". Obvioulsy the client is installed, but for some reason it doesn't think so. Anyone else run into this? I have installed the plugin on several other PCs so I know it works. There is something different in this case and I can't figure out what.

Thanks in advance for the help.

ESX stopped respoding to management functions

clydef — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:55:22 GMT

All.

I have a ESX3.5 U2 that has stopped responding to management functions.

The VI client attached directly hangs trying to build the VM servers list in the left hand pane as does the web browser.
The VI client talking to the database cannot start a VM without timing out and shows 0% CPU and memory in the summary page.

I've stopped and started the management services without any luck. We migrated to V4 about two weeks ago without any issues and we have another server that runs the ESX3.5 U2 thats fine.

Any ideas.

Thanks

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

tj1234 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:13:35 GMT

I attached a screen shot png file. I'm wondering if i did something wrong? It hasn't finished "logging in" for hours.

I think I wish there were just a way to do this using my external hard drive. I exported my old machine using vmware converter, but I get an error, when I try to import it. I have attached that screen shot, also. I had downloaded vmware converter last week, before fusion 3 was released, and used that to put it on the external hard drive. I wonder if it's simply that it's not compatible with fusion 3.

I really don't care how I do it, I just want to get my PC on my Mac.

note: I have XP Professional SP3 on my pc, and snow leopard on my mac.

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

dirkce — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:58:31 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.

Thanks!

D945gclf2 (Atom 330) and ESXi 4

coco86 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:03:53 GMT

Has anyone tried this? I 've read that the network card (realtek) doesn't work in 3.5, but can't find anything about 4.0.
This is just for a small lab/test environment.

Thanks!

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?

ESXi 4 on Dell PE2950

mvimercati — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:52:37 GMT

Hi all,

i've a DELL PE2950 running ESXi 3.5. I want to upgrade to ESXi 4.

Looking at the available downloads, I saw a specific version customized for DELL HW.

What are the benefits of this version? Is it suggested for my HW?

Is this updated as frequently as the 'base' version ?

thanks, regards

Marco

p2v to local usb drive

tdubb123 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:32:19 GMT

I am running stanadlone converter 4.0.1 how do I p2v a runing physical machine to a local usb disk? I cannot p2v to a datastore because of slow network issues.

Unable to backup Virtual Machine from VDR

Ace007 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:59:10 GMT

Hello.

I am trying to take backup for Window XP virtual machine in VDR, from vsphere client. the destination is network share with full permissions and plenty of free space.

The error message in the logs. = Failed to create snapshot for XP, error -3941 ( create snapshot failed)

Please help. Thanks in Advance.

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

xplicit — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:26:25 GMT

I try to run vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463 on Ubuntu 9.04 server 64-bit edition and get the following message:

-bash: ./vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463: No such file or directory

but the file exists

ls -l ./vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463
-rwxr-xr-x 1 testadmin testadmin 3808 2009-11-21 22:22 ./vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463

md5sum vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463
7ddd81c1e1e51db8b3c21c853105ebc9 vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463

The same program works fine on the Ubuntu 9.04 desktop 32 bit version.

How can it be fixed?

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?

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.

Update Manager update VMFS Datastore ?

tomtom1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:58:34 GMT

Hi, can update manager udpate vmfs datastore ?

Thanks

Tom

how many nics and scsi adapter a VM can have ?

tomtom1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:35:23 GMT

Hi, can some one please tell me how many how many nics and scsi adapter a VM can have ?

Thanks

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

jsb10221 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:56:31 GMT

It prompts for a floppy disk during the xp install process. How can I build my own Xp version build disk so I can build and XP VM? I only have 1 floppy drive and its in the ESX Host. If I knew where to put the controller drivers, I would be ok.

Or any ideas on how to get this Xp build working?

CPUID utility vs processors listed in Systems Compatibility Guide

LyleRyan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:41:07 GMT

In the Systems Compatibility Guide HCL, some servers like the Dell PowerEdge 1850 are listed as supporting 4.0 if they have a "Prestonia/Gallatin" Xenon, but only support 3.5 if they have a "70xx" Xenon.

In looking to buy some old hardware for a testbed, I'm wondering how to tell a "Gallatin" from a "70xx" (for instance).

If the system passes the "cpuid" utility with a last line of "Supports 64-bit VMware" = Yes, does that mean I'm in the clear? Or would the "Brand String" output of the utility give the pedigree (the README doesn't show it doing this)?

Thanks in advance.....Lyle

VCB & Symantec Exchange 2007 Agent

ramiatvmtn — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:01:00 GMT

Hello,

we are in the stage of deciding to purchase vSphere Suite for our organization but have some doubt regarding VCB.

Currently we have Exchagne 2007 MB server on a physical server and we are using Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 with Exchagne Agent for Backup. This Agent allows individual Mailbox restore for each user (as shown in attached).

Now I've heard alot about VCB benefits and if am not wrong with VCB i do not need to install seperate Agents on each VM for Backup software to do its job rather VCB presents the VM snapshot and backup software will then do the backup, am i right?

most importantly here now is will i still be able to do individual mailbox restore with VCB only? or do i need the exchagne agent still? this particular picture of how to get this individual mailbox restore working is not clear to me and how VCB works and around which needed component is not clear at all. Could someone just tell me how to achieve Exchagne or even Active Directorly single Object / Mailbox restore with VCB AND/OR Symantec requred agents.

so basically do i need VCB + Symantec Exchange Agent or just VCB or VCB and somethnig else?

Lastly, is it possible to have VCB and Symantec Server on same physical server? any problem?

Thanks in advance.

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!

Unused portion of Memory & CPU

Eire09 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:10:49 GMT

Hi Guys,
Is the following correct:

If a virtual machine does not use all of its CPU Reservation the unused portion will be available for other virtual machines. (FALSE)

If a virtual machine does not use all of its Memory Reservation the unused portion will be available for other virtual machines. (TRUE)

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.

data cannot be read or written / vmdk failed

chuckomoss — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:30:18 GMT

Greetings,

My host is a MB Pro with OS X - 10.5.8, the guest is Windows XP - SP3, VMWare Fusion 2.0.6 and I'm looking for help with two areas, 1) Challenges creating a reliable backup VM 2) What could cause the vmdk file to crash.

This morning and last night when trying to copy my VMware Fusion file to an external hard drive as a backup copy, I recieved the following message, "Finder cannot complete the operation because some data cannot be read or written."

I have no idea why this particular VM file cannot be copied. I was able to copy an earlier version a few weeks ago.

Additionally, I have woken up twice this month to the following message:

"Operation on file my vmware fusion path and file name.vmdk failed. If the file resides on a remote system, please make sure your network connection and the server where the disk resides are functioning properly. If the file resides on removable media, reattach the media. Choose Abort to terminate the session. Choose Continue to forward the error to the guest operating system."

When I choose > Abort, then I would get the following message:

VMFusion cannot sync with disk before abort. Disk my VM file name and path may be inconsistent.

I had to re-build my VM the last time (September) to get past the "failed" error. Since the upgrade to VMWare Fusion 2.06 (yesterday), this has not occurred, but I now cannot make the backup copy on an external hard drive.

What suggestions do you have?

Thanks in advance,

Charlie

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.

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

atakacs — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:07:52 GMT

Folks

For some reason the web management interface doesn't seem to load on my vmware server 2.01 / Ubuntu box.

Nothing really obvious in the logs except for this

Apr 20 00:07:08 xxx watchdog-webAccess: End '/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/webAccess -client -Xmx64m -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start', failure limit reached

tried to google this but I'm quite sure where to get started...

Any help would most appreciated !

Regards

alex

no login-fields at web-service, just blank

peterpilsl — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:35:50 GMT

A few days ago I ran into the following problem:

when try to logon to my vmware-server at https://myhost.com:8333 I only get a blank page but not the usual and expected login-window

I tried with firefox3 and recent opera under linux and IE7 under windows. This is not a certificate-problem, cause all certificates are installed and this never was a problem before. I tried to restart vmware-mgmt but it didnt help. I even rebooted the whole host-machine (a linux-server) but no effect.

I can connect to the vmware-server using the vmware virtual infrastructure client and all VM's are running fine. Its just that I cant use the webinterface, which I really like to use, cause its the easiest way to manage our VM's on the run.

any suggestions?

thnx a lot,

peter

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

iplaydc87 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:29:26 GMT

I have the 2009 late macbook pro with 2.26 Intel Core Duo with 4 GB DDR3 Ram (with snow leopard) and I have just purchased Fusion 3. I will be using fusion mainly for microsoft office for school. As far as performance on both my mac and fusion, is it better to use windows 7 or windows XP on Fusion? thanks.

vSphere 4u1 - any issues?

Anton V Zhbankov — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:59:33 GMT

Please post any issues with 4u1 here

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One Datastore for all ESX machines

dguilloryjr — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:28:54 GMT

well let me start with my issue... we have serveral esx servers and i have been created a folder on all my ESX servers called ISO's and that is where i have been installing all my cd's that i ISO.

so all my esx servers have this iso folder with a bunch of cd images... so i have a image of windows 2008 on all 3 esx servers

i would like to have all my cd images on 1 server and be able to let all the other esx server access that datastore to get the cd image?

any ideas?

Fusion 3, Win7 64bit super sluggish

typemismatch — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:29 GMT

I'm running on Snow Leopard, 8x Core, 10GB Ram, MacPro - 2009 Model. I have Fusion 3 and running my BootCamp x64 Windows 7 image.

It seems very sluggish, generally I'd say it was acceptable for a first release but office applications for example, I can out type the keyboard which is odd. I'm in full screen mode. I don't get this problem in non-3d mode.

thanks

Making vCenter Server 4.0 use new SSL Certificates

DSeaman — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:53:05 GMT

I'm having trouble making vCenter Server 4.0 use my new SSL certificates for vSphere Client connections. I followed the directions in the vSphere vServer Certificates PDF guide and put the new rui.crt, rui.key and rui.pfx files into this folder:

C:\Users\All Users\Application Data\vmware\VMware VirtualCenter\SSL (Windows Server 2008)

If I connect to the vCenter Server console via the FQDN with IE, it DOES use my newly issued SSL Certificate, not the self-signed one that is generated during the installation process. However, if on the vCenter server I launch the vSphere Client and attempt to logon, I get a certificate warning. If I view the certificate, it's the self-signed one created during the install process.

So part of vCenter Server is using my new SSL certificate, but not the connectivity to the vSPhere client. I didn't see any special instructions in the PDF guide to make vSPhere client work.

This is a fresh install of vCenter Server 4.0 on Server 2008 x64, not an upgrade. I've rebooted the vCenter server multiple times to ensure the old certificates were flushed from memory.

Thoughts?

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

ewestby — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:07:29 GMT

I just upgraded from VMware Fusion 2.0.6 to 3.0.0 and I must say I'm blown away by the speed improvements. There's a huge problem, though: the screen is far blurrier than it was before even though I am certain I am running in my MacBook Pro's optimal fullscreen resolution of 1440x900. It's as if the 3D acceleration isn't bothering to keep the screen crisp and clean, but only focusing on performance. The entire screen is blurry, as if I were running a resolution requiring anti-aliasing, and what's worse, there are visual artifacts everywhere: mostly horizontal and vertical lines, but also bogus shadows and patches of random color. It's essentially unusable in this state.

But fast.

Yes, I upgraded my VM's VMware Tools to the version included in 3.0.0 and rebooted both the VM and host. My system's specs are:

Host: MacBook Pro (late 2006), 2.33GHz Core2Duo, 3GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics with 256MB display RAM. Full specs here: http://support.apple.com/kb/SP24

VM: Vista Business SP2 with 1GB RAM allocated, 3D acceleration turned on. Vista now reports a Windows Experience index of 2.9: much higher than the 1.0 index I was getting under Fusion 2.0.6!

Any help would be appreciated. SURELY this isn't how 3D acceleration is supposed to work.

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

ivocal — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:05:09 GMT

There are several posts on both VMWare and Ubuntu forums about broken audio with Karmic and VMWare Fusion (2 and 3)

For the record, audio works great when Karmic is installed on my Dell laptop. Audio is broken when installed on VMWare Fusion.

Some people have suggested that removing pulseaudio is a solution to this problem. I have tried this and it does work "somewhat", but I reject it as a solution.

Here are the issues with removing pulseaudio:

You lose the System -> Preferences -> Sound controls and with it the ability to select among multiple audio devices. I need the ability to connect multiple audio devices and select among them on the fly.
If you suspend/resume then your audio is right back where it was before you removed pulseaudio, so clearly removing pulseaudio did not "fix" the problem.

Why should I have to cripple the OS audio support just so I can use it with VMWare?
Where is the update that VMWare should have pushed out already to solve this problem?
Why is VMWare silient on this problem? Where is your acknowledement of the issue and expected fix date?

Remember, Ubuntu works fine on standard hardware, but not on VMWare virtualized hardware. I would say that this makes it a VMWare problem, since you advertise that you support Ubuntu Linux. Therefore, a series of linux OS tweaks just to get partial audio support cannot be considered a "solution".

Wake up VMWare...

Windows 7

joeppe — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:23:49 GMT

I have a windows 7 VM installed under my VMware Server 2 Ubuntu Host. The install went well but after playing around for a hour or so I notice any time I try to drag a window the whole VM freezes up until I do a reset. Has anyone had similar issues? I know Windows 7 in not supported yet but I figured I would ask.

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.

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

bobvilla — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:32:05 GMT

Hi, I've moved from OSX to windows 7 with my new laptop and I have installed VMware player 3 to virtualize Ubuntu. The vmware install went fine and the Ubuntu Virtual OS install 1st failed with options then succeeded with defaults. However, I could not get internet access in Ubuntu (setup with NAT, not Bridge) and when checking in Win7 realized that that connection was up but the internet connection was blocked. VMware added 2 "adapters" to my Network Connections panel, VMware Network Adapter (VMA) VMnet1 and VMA VMnet8. Win7 connected the VMware network but placed the "Unknown Network" in the public zone and won't let me make adjustments. Disabling the 2 VMware Network Adapter entries restores the internet connection for win7.

I made an entry for VMware Player in the MS Firewall.

I tried enabling connection sharing under the Win7 network adapter settings.

Any idea what's going on?

on a side note: Is VMware server 2 a cycle behind VMware Player 3 or are the version numbers incomparable? Is performance comparable? I'm looking at the server edition because I might try dual booting Win7 and a Ubuntu and would like to have virtualization access as well from Win7. I got used to this in OSX with Windows XP using parallels.

Thanks

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

Windows 7 unable to connect to the internet

damaze — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:20:58 GMT

I am running the trial of Fusion 3 while I am waiting for my free upgrade. I am running Windows 7 64 bit and I am getting the message "Windows did not detect any networking hardware".

I have installed VMWare tools and done just about everything I have found online and in the knowledgebase. Please help me out. My Mac is connected to my network but I cannot get the virtual machine connected.

Please help. I have tried NAT and Bridged options with no luck. This was working when I had Win XP Pro loaded with Fusion 3.

Thank You

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

VMware - FIX FUSION 3 - NOW!!!!!!

francis.carden — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:17:56 GMT

I LOVED FUSION 2.0 - I ranted about it to 100's of people. Best thing since sliced bread is what I used to say.

Now I upgraded to Fusion 3 and it's TERRIBLE. Performance is a joke. I use this in my daily work and if I'm lucky it still works. I can't rely on it now for my demonstrations. Shame. Shame. Shame.

Being a user of Fusion 2 since it was released, I can say I rated the s/w as a 9 or 10 for enterprise use. Now I rate it as a 3.

I will be doing a Video this weekend of how bad it is and will post it online. Since no one from VMware seems to bother to read these forums or comment. I suggest they see what people said about united Airlines when THEY didn't listen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

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

Wyse WTOS & View 4

joegarrett — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:45:05 GMT

I'd like to know what version of Wyse WTOS will be required to support a connection to View 4.

I had an idication from a Wyse tech that 6.5 (which is in beta) would be needed. The tech also said they didn't expect WTOS 6.5 to be released until the end of the year (raise red flag here), but they couldn't be sure about that.

Thanks, Joe

Player v3.0 under Fedora 12 as HOST

waby38 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:48:36 GMT

Hi,

I've just tried to use the latest Player v3.0 under my fresh installation of Fedora 12

Installation is ok, and compilation of kernel module is also fine.

=> I've cross check this operation using : "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all" , and my kernel is "2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE"

Now, if I start vmplayer, then I got the main screen for less than 1 second, and after disappear / crash without any message

Using strace, I able to see that SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) append just after reading some stuff from "/usr/lib/vmware/resources/mozilla-root-certs.crt"

Is there any bad experience for Fedora 12 users ?

Using the previous Fedora 11, everything was fine with this Player v3.0!!

Any tips ??

Space character in Remote Name

GHelbig — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:07:00 GMT

I am trying to use VMWare Shared Folders so the guest can access files on the host.

The problem is that there is a space character in the name:

Status Local Remote Network

Z: \\.host\Shared Folders VMware Shared Folders

The application (the only application that's running in the guest, and the application that is 100% of the reason for wanting to use VMWare) can NOT tolerate a space character in the path.

How do I get rid of that space character? The one between the 'd' and the 'F' in 'Shared Folders'.

Again, changing the application is not an option. The only reason
for deploying VMWare is that we need to run exactly this application.

IBM Bladeserver P2V

cef2lion — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:24:49 GMT

I have an IBM Blade server with a HS21 8853 blade I'm trying to convert using the coldclone.iso. The blade has local LSI drives for its Windows 2003 OS. I thought back in January I had built a 3.0.3 CD with the LSI drivers and tested it. I just didn't convert at that time. I tried to boot the CD today. It starts the vmware load screen across the bottom of the screen and then says please wait. 15 minutes went by and then it blue screened. I have a 4.0.1 from awhile ago without the LSI drivers. I tried that and got the long delay so I canceled it. I downloaded the lastest vsphere 4.1 coldclone I can try next. I'm not understanding why the CD will not boot. I just converted a HS20 8843blade the other day with the older version 4.0.1 cold clone I had without issue.

Any thoughts?

Craig

My VMware workstation is very slow!!

pdsouto — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:08:20 GMT

I am running a software called SAP ECC 6.0 through the VMware Workstation and the software is installed in my computer, but the performance is very lousy. Even the mouse arrow moves slowly into the VMs window. My notebook is good, I have an intel processor 2.53hz, 4gb RAM, HD (7200 rpm).
Does anybody know how i can speed this softaware up????

My OS is windows 7 (64), and i am running windows server 2003 in the VM.

Thanks

How to have custom resolution in Linux guest consoles?

Nazgulled — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:38:35 GMT

Hi,

I've always used VMware but had to move to VirtualBox because a strange problem in VMware Workstation 6.5 that none was able to help me fix it. I'm currently trying VMware Workstation 7 and it seems that old problem is gone and I'm using it succesfully.

However, there are some features in VirtualBox that I really liked and I can't seem to find a way to do the same thing in VMware. One of those was setting custom resolution. For instance, I could configure up to 4 (or 5, can't remember) custom resolutions in XML configuration file for the specific VM, like, 1280x705. Then, on the Linux guest, I was able to see that mode listed in the supported modes by the framebuffer. And I was able to easily use that mode.

But note, I don't want this custom resolution to be the max resolution, that one (and what I've set for max resolution in the VM settings) I want it to be 1280x800.

How can I do the same with VMware Workstation? Is it even possible?

Support for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 on ESX 3.5

dfehse — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:11:13 GMT

Hi,

maybe I'm just too stupid to find this information, but will there any official support for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 on the ESX Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 Plattform?

Thx for any feedback

Daniel Fehse

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

echi111 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:01:16 GMT

I just bought and installed Fusion in my Macbook. I created a VM for Windows XP. How could I save thsi VM so I can copy it to my Windows 7 or Linux PC and use VMWare player to run the VM?

Thanks very much.

Eric

Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 install error on VMWare Wkstn 7

Nidhin9 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:33:18 GMT

I tried installing Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 from an integrated CD (known to be working, tried it on real machines). Text mode of setup fails at the point prior to showing EULA. I am posting a screen cap. Any one had a similar problem? Windows Server 2003 Standard Gold worked perfect. A syspreped image of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2 too worked well (Ghosted from image to Disk).

does it work?

mclavey — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:39:28 GMT

Has anyone been able to make VMware function ?

Physical Devices to Guests

saphetiger — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:52:39 GMT

I currently run Ubuntu 8.04 with all manor of guests. I am actually interested in switching this around so that the Host OS would be Windows, and my guest would be linux.

My question is as follows:
I see that in VMware Workstation, there is an option to provide the guest with a physical device. Before I go and wipe out my installation I need to know if it is posible to grant access to a non ntfs formatted device in the Windows version? I would really hate for my boss to spend the money and then find out that that all of our important files on our EXT3 partition can't be accessed from a Linux Guest. Due to the volume and type of information stored, it is not feasible or desirable to migrate this over to an NTFS partition, as we want our Linux OS to be hosting it for sure.

3D Acceleration in Linux Guest?

nepthar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:18:56 GMT

Alright, I've been googling and searching through support forums for about an hour now and I figured I'd just post.

I'm looking for a way to enable 3D acceleration in a linux guest (specifically ubuntu 9.10). I've found two possibilities

1. Gallium Drivers
2. VMGL

I've tried to compile/install both of them, but due to my lack of experience, failed. My question is this:

Is there any user-friendly way to enable openGL acceleration in VMware Player with a linux guest?

Thanks for any assistance.

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

russjar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:47:27 GMT

Hi all,

I tried to upgrade to workstation 7 this morning and tried to apply my VCP serial number however the serial was not accepted.

What is the story here? Our VCP keys don't work on workstation 7?

Thanks in advance....

VCP,MCSE NT4/W2k/W2k3, MCSA W2k3

Enquiries on Snapshots Management

crescendas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:19:43 GMT

I have multiple snapshots. I assume these will slowdown my system right?

Removing snapshots take a long time and I often receive Operation timed out when removing snapshots. What will be the fastest way to remove multiple snapshots?

Delete the oldest or newest first?
Does suspending or shutting down the VM helps?
Will taking or removing snapshot when VM is booting up or shutting down cause any damage?

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

Thanks,

Boon Hong.

View + Windows 7

HansdeJongh — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:22:40 GMT

Hello,

I have installed view 4.0.
Builded a vm with windows 7
Installed the view agent (and de svga driver)
Configured everything.

When i start the view client everything goes fine, i can select the vm and connect to it.
But the screen just stays black, (i get the view client topbar) and after a couple of seconds the client is completly closed with no error what so ever.

My client os is also windows 7.

here are my logfiles:

debug-2009-11-21-153541

(this is from the guest os i`m trying to connect too)
19:13:08,263 DEBUG <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> ws_vmx Rpci: Sending request='machine.id.get '
19:13:08,263 DEBUG <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> ws_vmx Rpci: Sent request='machine.id.get ', reply='vdi.broker.itemDn=cn=874a0ff0-19f3-4cf1-912f-79bf16e2df19,ou=servers,dc=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int;vdi.broker.disconnecttimeout=0;vdi.broker.msMode=OFF;vdi.broker.brokerPublicKey=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;vdi.broker.agentPrivateKey=MIIBSwIBADCCASwGByqGSM44BAEwggEfAoGBAP1/U4EddRIpUt9KnC7s5Of2EbdSPO9EAMMeP4C2USZpRV1AIlH7WT2NWPq/xfW6MPbLm1Vs14E7gB00b/JmYLdrmVClpJ+f6AR7ECLCT7up1/63xhv4O1fnxqimFQ8E+4P208UewwI1VBNaFpEy9nXzrith1yrv8iIDGZ3RSAHHAhUAl2BQjxUjC8yykrmCouuEC/BYHPUCgYEA9+GghdabPd7LvKtcNrhXuXmUr7v6OuqC+VdMCz0HgmdRWVeOutRZT+ZxBxCBgLRJFnEj6EwoFhO3zwkyjMim4TwWeotUfI0o4KOuHiuzpnWRbqN/C/ohNWLx+2J6ASQ7zKTxvqhRkImog9/hWuWfBpKLZl6Ae1UlZAFMO/7PSSoEFgIUSDnJsMDzk5kgSe0tB5PAhH7nEjo=;vdi.broker.poolDn=cn=test,ou=server groups,dc=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int;vdi.broker.useSvi=0;vdi.broker.brokers=xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.local ;vdi.broker.singleuse=0;vdi.broker.agentIdentity=agent/874a0ff0-19f3-4cf1-912f-79bf16e2df19', len=1460, status=1
19:13:13,794 DEBUG <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> wsnm_desktop DesktopManager got a ListSessions message
19:13:13,794 DEBUG <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> wsnm_desktop pcoip::IsPreloading = 0.
19:13:13,841 DEBUG <Thread-241> ComponentResponse Reponse directed to:ID:/127.0.0.1/5215446752968566314/607/0
19:13:13,841 DEBUG <Thread-241> ComponentResponse Message is <?xml version="1.0"?>
<TERMINALRESPONSE><ID>-79b2dacf:125177d3b34:-7ed7</ID><SERVERDN>cn=874a0ff0-19f3-4cf1-912f-79bf16e2df19,ou=servers,dc=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int</SERVERDN><SERVERPOOLDN>cn=test,ou=server groups,dc=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int</SERVERPOOLDN><SERVERDNSNAME>xxxxxxPC01.xxxxxx.local</SERVERDNSNAME><DYNAMICIPADDRESS>192.168.99.188</DYNAMICIPADDRESS><PLATFORM>WINDOWS</PLATFORM><OSVERMAJOR>6</OSVERMAJOR><OSVERMINOR>1</OSVERMINOR><AGENTREADY>true</AGENTREADY><PROTOCOL><NAME>RDP</NAME><PORT>3389</PORT><STATUS>ready</STATUS></PROTOCOL><PROTOCOL><NAME>PCOIP</NAME><PORT>0</PORT><STATUS>negotiate</STATUS></PROTOCOL><ACCEPTINGCONNECTIONS>true</ACCEPTINGCONNECTIONS><ERROR-CODE>AGENT_ERR_OK</ERROR-CODE><STARTTIME>1258820346</STARTTIME><MAXSESSIONS>1</MAXSESSIONS><SESSIONCOUNT>0</SESSIONCOUNT><PENDINGSESSIONCOUNT>0</PENDINGSESSIONCOUNT><CONNECTEDSESSIONCOUNT>0</CONNECTEDSESSIONCOUNT><DISCONNECTEDSESSIONCOUNT>0</DISCONNECTEDSESSIONCOUNT><TERMINALSERVICESENABLED>false</TERMINALSERVICESENABLED><LISTENERS><LISTENER>FRAMEWORKCHANNEL:32111</LISTENER></LISTENERS><LISTENERS><LISTENER>MMR:9427</LISTENER></LISTENERS><DOMAIN><NAME>xxxxxx</NAME></DOMAIN><DOMAIN><NAME>xxxxxxPC01</NAME></DOMAIN></TERMINALRESPONSE>
19:13:13,841 DEBUG <theTopicMessageResponder> TopicMessageResponder Reponse message ready.
19:13:13,841 DEBUG <theTopicMessageResponder> TopicMessageResponder Response sent.
19:13:13,841 DEBUG <theTopicMessageResponder> TopicMessageResponder Waiting for response message.
19:13:43,856 DEBUG <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> wsnm_desktop DesktopManager got a ListSessions message
19:13:43,872 DEBUG <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> wsnm_desktop pcoip::IsPreloading = 0.
19:13:43,919 DEBUG <Thread-242> ComponentResponse Reponse directed to:ID:/127.0.0.1/5215446752968566314/609/0
19:13:43,919 DEBUG <Thread-242> ComponentResponse Message is <?xml version="1.0"?>
<TERMINALRESPONSE><ID>-79b2dacf:125177d3b34:-7ed6</ID><SERVERDN>cn=874a0ff0-19f3-4cf1-912f-79bf16e2df19,ou=servers,dc=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int</SERVERDN><SERVERPOOLDN>cn=test,ou=server groups,dc=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int</SERVERPOOLDN><SERVERDNSNAME>xxxxxxPC01.xxxxxx.local</SERVERDNSNAME><DYNAMICIPADDRESS>192.168.99.188</DYNAMICIPADDRESS><PLATFORM>WINDOWS</PLATFORM><OSVERMAJOR>6</OSVERMAJOR><OSVERMINOR>1</OSVERMINOR><AGENTREADY>true</AGENTREADY><PROTOCOL><NAME>RDP</NAME><PORT>3389</PORT><STATUS>ready</STATUS></PROTOCOL><PROTOCOL><NAME>PCOIP</NAME><PORT>0</PORT><STATUS>negotiate</STATUS></PROTOCOL><ACCEPTINGCONNECTIONS>true</ACCEPTINGCONNECTIONS><ERROR-CODE>AGENT_ERR_OK</ERROR-CODE><STARTTIME>1258820346</STARTTIME><MAXSESSIONS>1</MAXSESSIONS><SESSIONCOUNT>0</SESSIONCOUNT><PENDINGSESSIONCOUNT>0</PENDINGSESSIONCOUNT><CONNECTEDSESSIONCOUNT>0</CONNECTEDSESSIONCOUNT><DISCONNECTEDSESSIONCOUNT>0</DISCONNECTEDSESSIONCOUNT><TERMINALSERVICESENABLED>false</TERMINALSERVICESENABLED><LISTENERS><LISTENER>FRAMEWORKCHANNEL:32111</LISTENER></LISTENERS><LISTENERS><LISTENER>MMR:9427</LISTENER></LISTENERS><DOMAIN><NAME>xxxxxx</NAME></DOMAIN><DOMAIN><NAME>xxxxxxPC01</NAME></DOMAIN></TERMINALRESPONSE>
19:13:43,919 DEBUG <theTopicMessageResponder> TopicMessageResponder Reponse message ready.
19:13:43,919 DEBUG <theTopicMessageResponder> TopicMessageResponder Response sent.
19:13:43,919 DEBUG <theTopicMessageResponder> TopicMessageResponder Waiting for response message.

log-2009-11-21.txt

19:11:29,247 INFO <Main Thread> wsnm_desktop Session CANCEL: id=1, user (null)\(null), client=(null)
19:11:50,388 WARN <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> wsnm_desktop Needed to disconnect existing PCoIP connection during StartProtocol {SESSION:41F0E728B24951132323B42122226D9B;094A7A92BD0A537DFE8B720030904F72}
19:11:51,247 INFO <3540> pcoip_server_win32 Program 'pcoip_server_win32 - PCoIP Server' started, version=3,0,0,2421:soft_pcoip_rc1, pid=2996, buildtype=release
19:11:54,669 INFO <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> MessageFrameWork Client/agent channel pending wssm to start

view client logs:

19:11:55,014 DEBUG <MessageChannel ReceiveThread> MessageFrameWork MessageFrameWork Worker Shutdown OnChannelDelete, Name=UIManager1
19:11:55,014 DEBUG <MessageChannel ReceiveThread> MessageFrameWork MessageFrameWork Worker Shutdown OnChannelDelete, Name=wswc1
19:11:55,015 DEBUG <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> MessageFrameWork System: Broadcast of ChannelEvent - RemoteChannelEvent
19:11:55,014 DEBUG <MessageChannel ReceiveThread> MessageFrameWork Closed incoming SharedMemory channel from machine desktophdj, user desktophdj\Hans de Jongh

Regards,

hans

BSOD during Workstation 7 upgrade

StephenH0 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:23:01 GMT

Host is Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.

Have Workstation 6.5.3. Ran
Workstation 7 install (the full version). Prompted to uninstall 6.5.3.
Then restarted. During install, got a 2203 error on some unix tools.
Install proceeded to complete. Reran Workstation 7 install (this time
use the run as administrator option, obviously I am already an
administrator) and chose repair. Got a blue screen. Restarted machine.
Lost keyboard. Could not login. Issue same as
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/242401;jsessionid=25AB81AD07A1428B246E60B6BA218BAC?tstart=15.

Rebooted
machine using Windows 7 disc and repaired machine by restoring to a
previous system restore point. Ran program Workstation 6.5.3. Got an
error. (So the system restore was not able to restore everything, I
guess.) Ran Workstation 6.5.3 install and chose repair option. Got
BSOD. Restarted machine. Lost keyboard.

Rebooted machine using
Windows 7 disc and repaired machine by restoring to a previous system
restore point. Uninstalled Workstation 6.5.3. Restarted machine. Ran
Workstation 6.5.3 install. Got BSOD. I didn't copy down the BSOD
previously but this time it says page_fault_in_nonpaged_area.

Restored
machine using Acronis True Image. Now I am afraid to touch my existing
working Workstation 6.5.3 installation. Please advise. Thanks.

Workstation Installer Hang 6.5.3 and Workaround

BitOBear — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:24:35 GMT

I just encountered a hang installing Workstation on Ubuntu Karmic.

Symptom: you are running a an install using 6.5.3 bundle and you get to "Configuring VMWare Player" and then everything stops indefinitely.

Cause: the installer runs vmware-modconfig-console which produces enough output with some kernels that the python engine deadlocks is command piplining during the compile.

Technical Details: It is always dangerous for a linux/unix program to use the pipe-based "run a sub-command" library calls if it isn't ready to read all the output in one thread while waiting for the command to complete in another. Normally such commands should either be reading the result text or redirecting that result text to /dev/null. The naieve version just runs the command and waits for the result. But if the result text is larger than the system pipe buffer size, the command will block while trying to send its output, and the command never finishes. With the command waiting for the parent to read the data, and the parent waiting for the command to finish, the whole shebang just comes to a stop.

Why this is happening: The current driver patches for the 2.6.31 kernels produce a lot of warning messages about the symbols _MSVC_VER and __FREE_BSD__ being not defined. This never happened before, and whoever wrote the installer never tried it against a long stream of output. So with the new warning stream the compile and the installer deadlock as above.

Workaround: There are three phases to the work around; It is necessary to catch and kill the compile step; this, in turn would cause the installer to back out the installation, so you have to stop that from happening; then you have to compile the modules manually.

Steps:

1) open two command windows.

2) become root in one of those windows. i.e. "su -". (If you havn't set your root password in Ubuntu use "sudo su -" and your login password)

3) in the root-ed window run "while true; do killall -9 vmware-modconfig-console; sleep 1; done" this wil try, once each second, to kill the module compile step. Ignore the stream of not-found messages.

4) in the non-root window run the install with sudo and the --ignore-errors argument; i.e. "sudo ./VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.i386.bundle --ignore-errors". This will take a little longer than usual because of the continuous killall above, don't sweat it.

5) once the installer finishes go back to the root window and do a control-C to stop the kill loop.

6) In the root window run "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all" to install the modules.

Caveats and Tips:

a) Once you have a hung installer session you have to kill the python command that is running the installer. Think of that as a step-0 if it comes up. 8-)

b) If the installer still hangs, the kill loop may not be fast enough; start over but leave the 'sleep 1;' out of the kill loop. It will slow down the install even more, but it is more likely to catch the command in time.

ASIDE: It woudl be nice if the installer had a don't compile the modules step...

Hopefully the installer will be fixed soon.

Getting RDP not PCoIP with View 4

guyrleech — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:51:02 GMT

I've installed the View 4 Agent into an XP SP3, fully windows updated, VM with VDM_VC_MANAGED_Agent=0 specified since I am not (yet) using vCenter with View 4 and with the PCoIP server installation option selected. Also installed v4 Connection Server into a W2K3 x86 VM and created an individual desktop with this XP VM with PCoIP set as the default protocol. All VMs hosted on ESX 4u1.

When I connect, as a non-admin domain user, I get an RDP, not PCoIP, connection as confirmed by the connection server's "Active Sessions" and a qwinsta in the View session. This is with the View 4 client (without offline) installed on a Vista SP2 x86 machine.

I can't see anything obviously wrong in the logs on the client.

Anybody got any ideas how I can get PCoIP going or is this not allowed unless using vCenter, although I can't quite see why that would be?

Message was edited by: guyrleech

Previously I was connecting via IE8 so I've just tried with the client directly, ensuring I select PCoIP as the protocol, and it is now shows the connection as "wdcon" when I run qwinsta whereas when I was getting RDP it said "rdpwd" and says I am on the console, not an rdp winstation.

The connection server is also now showing me as having a PCoIP connection so this looks like it might be a limitation of coming in via a browser rather than directly through the client.

Sound broken with Ubuntu 9.10 guest

jeffbarish — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:30:10 GMT

Under VMware Workstation 6.5.3, sound does not work with Ubuntu 9.10 as a guest. I have seen reports of sound not working for Ubuntu 9.10 as a guest under Fusion 3.0.0 (e.g., in this thread nosoundinfusion), but I though it worth mentioning that the same problem arises with Workstation 6.5.3. Uninstalling pulseaudio (as suggested in that thread) helps, but I find that the sound is still jerky. Anyone know whether Ubuntu 9.10 works under Workstation 7? Anyone know whether VMware will fix 6.5.3 even though 7 is out?

Guest OS (XP) hangs, causing host to 100% cpu

Druggo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:42:42 GMT

Hi,

I am using Ubuntu 8.10 (2.6.27-9-generic) 64bit on a Macbook 5,1with the version Workstation 6.5.1 build-126130

after using my guest for a while, it completely freezes, with the only resolution being kill -9 on the vmware-vmx pid,

i have read some posts about disabling copy-paste & drag-n-drop, i have tried that, but with no luck :/

this is what i get in the logfile:

Dec 03 12:09:09.292: vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
Dec 03 12:09:09.292: vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
Dec 03 12:09:22.761: vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
Dec 03 12:09:24.281: vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
Dec 03 12:09:24.281: vmx| GuestRpc: app toolbox's second ping timeout; assuming app is down
Dec 03 12:09:24.281: vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
Dec 03 12:09:24.281: vmx| GuestRpc: app toolbox-dnd's second ping timeout; assuming app is down

Please help...

Content missing

wila — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:21:27 GMT

Hi,

On a regular bases, the content for the specific thread doesn't appear to load.
Firefox 3.5.5 on Windows XP SP3

See screen shot.
After forcing the page to reload one or multiple times, the content finally shows up.
Am I the only one here with this problem... or is someone else seeing the same thing?

thanks,

--
Wil
_____________________________________________________
VI-Toolkit & scripts wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com

Can't run a 64-bit guest on VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64

lacmello — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:30:55 GMT

Hello,

I Installed the distribution
VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.tar.gz on a 64-bit Debian 5.03. CPU is a Xeon 5420. However, when I try to run a 64-bit guest
(Tried with Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 2003), the guest says the CPU is not compatible with 64-bit mode.

I ran the VMware-guest64check-6.0.0-45731 and it gives me:

debian:~# ./VMware-guest64check-6.0.0-45731
This host is capable of running a 64-bit guest operating system under this
VMware product.

So, it's not a problem with the hardware in itself. Of course, when creating the virtual machine I selected the guest OS type as the 64-bit version.

Any ideas?

Luciano Mello

VM 7 hangs and wont launch XP workstations created with VM Workstation 6.0

NV7456 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:01:17 GMT

Afternoon

Just purchased VM Workstation 7.0, and it wont launch my XP workstations created with VM Workstation 6.0.

Is there a tool I have to run ?

Thanks Much

Jim

downWhenAddrMisMatch - What does it do? How does it relate to NLB?

xmaveric — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:32:10 GMT

I'm working with Microsoft Premium support to set up a NLB cluster for 2 Win2003 R2 Enterprise terminal servers. Both machines are VMs. I've got the NLB cluster set up correctly, but I can't ping the cluster IP. Microsoft asked me to move these two machines off of our Layer 3 switch (a Dell 6224) and onto a Layer 2 switch because they said NLB won't work properly on L3.

I did that, but still can't ping the cluster IP from another machine on the same subnet. The next thing they want me to do is set this flag "ethernet0.downWhenAddrMisMatch=TRUE. So my questions for the VMWare community are...

1. What does this setting do and why is it required for NLB to work properly.

2. Is there a way to set it in the GUI or do I need to edit the .VMX file of the VM?

3. Can the setting be changed while the server is running?

4. Is the setting on the VM itself or in the vSwitch?

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

vmproteau — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:28:20 GMT

I have recenetly upgraded ESX 3.5.0 (build 163429) to ESX 4.0 (build 175625) I am beginning VMware Tools and then Virtual Hardware upgrades from V4 to V7.

I'm aware that a new vNIC is created and the setting copied over from the old. It also appears it renames the vNIC as a result. All appear normal behavior for the upgrade. However, I see another anamoly that I'm unsure is expected behavior. If not expected what am I doing to cause this:

Every Windows guest I have upgraded VMware Tools on Viirtual Hardware on works fine technically but, when I go into the TCP/IP properties of the new vNIC and then just click "OK" to get out, I get this dialog box (NIC TCP-IP message.jpg attached).

I understand this is a result of the old "Ghost vNIC" and I understand how to remove it to eliminate the message but, if this isn't normal, I'd like to find out what I'm doing to cause this and if it can be avoided. If specific to my environment or upgrade process, I'd like to understand more before proceeding.

Removing files associated with removed virtual machine

martinpg2001 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:13:31 GMT

Hi, I am running ESXi 3.5 and using VMware Infrastructure Client 2.5. Using VIC, I created a Virtual Machine called ChromeVirtual on a datastore called Disk 3 and allocated 20GB to it. Later, I decided I did not want this VM, and so using the VIC UI, I removed the virtual machine. However, I discovered that this did not release the 20GB of space on Disk 3, and I cannot work out how to safely reclaim this space.

From what I have read, it looks as though I should have selected Delete Virtual Machine, rather than just Remove. But now the VM is not displayed in the VIC UI, I do not have the option of deleting it!

I tried logging into the ESXi server, and at the command line, I can see that there is still a directory called ChromeVirtual in /vmfs/volumes/Disk 3.Is it OK to just manually delete this directory or is this likely to break something? Is there a right way to recover space in a datastore after removing a VM?

Thanks you for any help. Martin

Historical performance using VI tool kit

Rajeev S — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:06:07 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to generate the Mem & CPU performance of the VM's. Attached is the script, It should create a .Net datatable at the end and should be displayed as a output. The script is executed without any error, but the output is not getting displayed.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Shared writable mmap detection

devzero — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:26:30 GMT

Please consider adding detection for special filesystem capabilities and avoid crashing of vmware, especially when support for shared writeable mmap is missing.

i have seen TONS of reports for this on the web (blogs etc) and quite some fuse filesystem mention the needed workaround "usenamedfile=false".

this could be handled automatically and vmware wouldn`t need to crash and the user wouldn`t need to pull his hair out to find the reason for that.

also have a look at:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/61875
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/243672

Shared writable mmap detection

devzero — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:18:06 GMT

Hello,

after about 10 years of development of hosted products, it`s hard to believe that recent linux version of vmware player crashes/segfaults when a vmdk is stored on a filesytem without shared writeable mmap support, as it is the case with FUSE based filesystems very often. i`d wonder if workstation 7 is different here....

what is so hard to add a detection routine ?
and why does player crash at all here?

crashing means, that exceptions not being handled properly.

sigh

Need a powershell script to collect esx patch info

Sureshadmin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:16:45 GMT

Hi,

Iam looking for a powershell script which collects result of "esxupdate query" for all esx host version 3.5 in the Virtual center version 2.5 and exports to CSV file.

It should take input as virtual center and collect all the ESX host info, log in to esx hosts, run esxupdate query and update the csv file with results.

I got the basic code from other script. i have pasted it below. This just collects the results for esx server given and need to alter the code for requirement as given above.

$servers=”server0″,”server1″

$account=”root”
$password=”password”

$servers | % { $a=plink -pw $password $account@$_ “esxupdate query”

$server=$_}

Thanks in advance!

Recent Applications

rianquinn — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:14:23 GMT

Is there a "defaults" terminal command for turning off the Recent Applications that are shown in VMWare Fusion 3's Windows menu. If not why? That seems like a pretty standard thing to turn off.

Performance Issues Windows 7 Host and Guest

DonRule — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:03:28 GMT

I have a HP Media center machine with a quad-core AMD Phenom with 3 GIG of RAM
Windows Ultra 64bit as host and guest
Started the VM at 1 gig and bumped up to 1.2 then 1.5 with no improvement
The VM is running on a physically separate drive from C:\

The CPU meter in the VM is 100% most of the time, any simple operation takes seconds to initiate and a long time to run.
I try putting the VM in full screen mode and it seems that the frame goes to full screen and then falls back to partial mode.

I am trying to use Visual Studio 2010 but not having any fun at all.

Am I just too low in memory?
I saw a configuration setting that implies that I will only be using one CPU - is this the limit for the Player?
Would an upgrade to Workstation help?

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Don Rule

Windows 7 Media Center performance?

henrik7 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:05:41 GMT

I have a MacBook Pro (latest) 2.5Ghz with 4GB and under Windows 7 (Fusion 3.0, 1cpu, 1GB), the Media Center or Media Payer works but performance for HD videos recorded on a Media Center TV is choppy. I am curios if others have gotten the Media Center to display recorded TV smoothly or if this is simple a limitation of Fusion 3.0. Anyone?

- Henrik

Mouse only in 640x480

karls0 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:29:38 GMT

I have created a new virt machine with WinXPpro on my newly installed Sidux 64-bit host. First thing I did was installing VMware-Tools.

Inside the VM the mouse only works correctly inside a box of approx. 640x480 pixels in the upper left corner of the screen. When I leave this region the arrow-pointer changes to a black hand-pointer at that boundary and doesn work as expected.After a few clicks it works once, but thats no way to work!

Please help asap!

regards

Karl

Did Update 1 take care of these items?

Saadat — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:05:28 GMT

Hi,

Did vSphere update 1 solve these issues?

1- vmxnet3 NIC Card does not show any performance chart. VMware support told me that they will release the patch with update 1, but I didn't see anything in release notes regarding this.

2- Will Fault Tolerance support vmxnet3 ? I don't want to go back to vmxnet enhanced. (Change of MAC Address)

3- Does Fault Tolerance support more than 1 vCPU?

4- Do we have vCore in CPU (like VMware workstation 7) or still vCPU. There was a beta going on with changing the vCPUs to cores.

I haven't got a chance to read the update 1 documentation, but I am really looking for these answers.

Thanks,

Ernest

block level and file level transfer

Jdsony5 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:55:54 GMT

Hello guys,

whats the difference between file level transfer and
block level transfer? i just know that Fiber Channel SAN and iSCSI use
block level transfer and NAS uses file level but i don't the exact
differences between them. i googled but in vain. i was not happy with
what i got on google. any suggestions please

cheers

How to detach Command key from Windows menu?

Snorkledorf — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:16:09 GMT

I'm running XP SP3 under Fusion v3.0.0 (204229), latest VMWare Tools etc.

My goal is to disable the binding of the Mac Command key to the client Windows menu, and I've been totally unsuccessful doing it.

I experienced a brief surge of hope when I realized there was a key mapping preference that bound the two together in Fusion v3's preferences. (Was it there in v2? Anyway I just noticed it now.) But no matter if I change it to a different key, disable it, delete it outright (my current state), or even disable Key Mappings altogether, the two are still stubbornly linked together. I really like the binding of e.g Command-C to ctrl-c so I don't have to completely rewire my brain. On the other hand, I also have 25 years of Mac experience telling my thumb that pressing the Command key a little early does nothing in particular, so the Windows menu keeps popping up "on its own." This is one binding I would love to be able to get rid of.

Is there anything else I should try?

ESXi SSL Certificate breaks vCenter agent install

DSeaman — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:02:10 GMT

We have an internal Microsoft 2008 CA and created a SSL certificate for our ESXi 4.0 host, using the OpenSSL instructions. We got the SSL certificates uploaded to the ESXi host, and the web interface on the ESXi host is accessible and is protected with our issued certificate. However, when we try to add the host to vCenter 4.0 it gets to 80% (checking that vCenter agent is running...) and dies with:

Cannot install the vCenter agent service. Agent is not running.

If I reset the ESXi host configuration and configure it exactly the same but keeping the self-signed certificates, all is well. The common name of the SSL certificate is the FQDN of the ESXi host, and it's registered in DNS. In vCenter we are adding the host using the FQDN.

If I'm sneaky and add the host to vCenter with the self-signed certs then upload our custom SSL certs, it tries to re-install the agent and dies at 80%.

Thoughts?

Disadvantages with running VMware Workstation (7) on a Xeon rack server?

VMwareRules — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:41:23 GMT

Hello,

On my company we are planning to run VMware Workstation (7) on a Xeon based rack server (the next generation Xeon, i.e. Beckton/Nehalem-EX, with 8 cores, planned to be released in Q1 2010), and then access all these virtual machine guests (Windows based, both of the server and desktop kind/flavor) by separate direct Remote Desktop connections to them.

I have had a very hard time trying to find out if there are any (big or small) disadvantages with this approach?

We don't want to use Vmware Server for this, because its features (e.g. regarding snapshots) are inferior to those of VMware Workstation, and neither do we want to use ESXi, because we still want to run Windows as host OS on the server.

Is VMware Workstation our best choice then, and will there be any noticable disadvantages? I think it feels like there's one product missing in VMware's portfolio, i.e. namely a server product with all the features of VMware Workstation, which still runs on top of another host OS, what am I missing?

Anyway, again, the main question is:
Is this plan of ours stupid, and in that case how should we better solve it? Is there really any advantage using VMware Server instead of VMware Workstation in this situation, and in that case more exactly what?

Any input and/or answers will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Vm crashed - line 63 syntax error

theflin56 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:32:20 GMT

I have read some of the line 63 syntax error post, but do not see how to fix this error. This is the second time my VM has crashed with this error. The first I just simple created a new VM. I would rather recover this one if possible due to the data that is on it. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance.

Tom

Blueprint for VCP 4

Eire09 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:16:24 GMT

Hi,
Is there a Blueprint for studying for the VCP4 exam?

If so, could someone point me in the right direction for study material.

Cheers guys.

Cannot conect to Win XP VM using Remote Desktop

bmgoldstein — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:28:01 GMT

I cannot connect to the Windows VM running on my Mac from a remote Windows PC using Remote Desktop. All windows settings have been configured to allow remoe desktop sharing of the Windows VM. The remote Windows PC is on the same wireless network in my home as the Mac running the Windows VM. I have tried connecting to the Windows VM with network NAT and Bridge settings but neither work. I have allso tried connecting using the Windows VM computer name and IP address and neither of these worked.

I can however connect to a remote Windows PC on the same wireless network using Remote Desktop on my WIndows VM on my Mac. Why am I able to use remote desktop to connect to other PCs but not to connect to it?

Any other settings I need to check?

Any adivce is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bruce

Update Manager plugin not registering with client

patten_aaron@emc.com — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:28:02 GMT

I just recently upgraded my environment from ESX 3.5 U4 with vCenter 2.5 U5 to vSphere U1. I upgraded VUM to 4.0 as well during the upgrade. Now, when I connect to vCenter with the VIClient I am unable to get the VUM plugin to become active. It shows up in the list of available plugins and when I click the install link it installs the plugin, goes to 100% and then goes right back to available status, just like it looked before the install. VUM itself seems to be running as it is download updates, but the plugin cannot be registered correctly with the client for some reason.

I have rebuilt the environment from the ground up except for my vCenter database as well as installing the client on other machines and uninstalling VUM and manually deleting the directories on the client. No dice.

If anyone has any ideas of what the logical next step would be, please drop me a line!

~Aaron Patten

Fusion 3- VM needs to be running for Disk Cleanup???

beckettb — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:34:17 GMT

While continuing to diagnose slowness issues for my Windows XP VM that I've been running since Fusion 1.x, I noted that "Disk cleanup is recommended" appeared under the VM's hard disk settings. Per the embedded help:

"Procedure

1. With the virtual machine shut down or powered off..."

So I shutdown the VM and clicked "Clean Up". It would simply say "cleaning up deleted files" and then quickly exit. This did not change the status of "disk cleanup recommended" nor did it seem to be consolidating any of the VM's myriad of VMDK files.

After searching the forums and internet, I stumbled across a single reference where someone noted that their VM had to be turned on (despite this appearing counter-intuitive and the opposite of the stated procedure) for Disk Cleanup to do anything. So I started up the VM and tried again- sure enough it proceeded to present the "Cleaning up deleted files..." dialog with a status bar that actually represented something was going on. (I guess I'll know in a few hours just what...)

Does anyone know? Is this an error in the manual as a hold over from 2.x or is this a bug? I

Brian B,

Invalid activation link, please login using the email associated with this activation

OUScotty — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:17:45 GMT

Ugh, want to start the evaluation of this product and can't because of this message. I click on the link from the email, log in using the same credentials I always have and get this message Anyone else getting this message, if so any way around it other than talking to tech support?

Virtual windows stuck while trying to shut down after an automatic windows update

ffusa — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:29:03 GMT

Virtual windows XP on my MacBook Pro was automatically updating a windows update and then attempted to shut down. It is now stuck in attempting to shut down. I cannot get it to respond. Any ideas?

Thank you.

Dan

Question about Get-View

AGFlora — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:06:47 GMT

Note:
I'm using () instead of brackets because this page doesn't like brackets.

Hi

For some reason when I use the following code:

Get-VM | Get-View | % {
$_.CustomFields("Barcode")

I get a Cannot index into a null array error.

But... if I use this code:

$Vms = Get-VM
foreach($vm in $vms) {
$Vm.CustomFields("Barcode")
}
It takes longer but it works with no errors.

Does anyone know why this is? Is there a known issue with the Get-View cmdlet?

Thanks

Moving vm server

Greggk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:02:41 GMT

Hello,
I'm trying to move a windows 2003 vm server to a new host. The new host is configured, and ready to go. Both are on x64. When I start up the vm server on the new faster host, it shows that it's loading in the console, then it just stops loading with a blue screen error.
STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} The session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000026c (0x0000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down.

And it will reboot,and go through the same thing.
I thought moving a vm server would be an easy thing, that's the reason I was trying out the vmware to begin with, in case you need to move it, you can just move it to a new hardware without issues, but now am I going to have to live with the vm server staying on an old slow server, and not being able to move it to a new faster server? Any help and or suggestions is appriecated

ESX4 Update 1 (U1) and WUDSS iSCSI Target not compatible

PhilMarsden — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:15:22 GMT

I just upgraded one of my ESX4 servers to Update 1and now all my iSCSI (software initiator) traffic times out so my ESX server is unusable.

I use a WUDSS iSCSI Target which is not on the HCL although WUDSS is used by quite a few HP Storage servers which are on the HCL

I raised an SR and they said that as WUDSS wasn't explicitly on the HCL
they couldn't help and that my best bet was to re-install my ESX Server
with the pre-update1 version of ESX.Great

Anyone else using a WUDSS based iSCSI target with Update 1 ?

Problems running some MSI's

totim — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:31:47 GMT

We are packaging our apps as MSI's using ThinApp 4.03 build 3313, then dropping the installer packages on C: and and running the installer from there. We are getting a meassage that says "The same or newer version of the "specific software (Dartfish in this case)" (VMware Thinapp) is already installed. This has also happened with SPSS 17. The weird thing is we have a base image of the machine a Dell Optiplex 745 with XP pro installed and some base apps (that could not be thinapped) like Java, iTunes, Quicktime, Flash etc. installed in the image. At first I recieved the meassage when trying to run the Dartfish MSI and the Inspiration 8 MSI, so I pushed out a new image to start over and the Inspiration 8 MSI ran fine but I still recieve the message with Dartfish and now SPSS 17. We have other machines out there running these same MSI's without a problem?? I included a snopshot of the meassage below. Has anyone seen this, if so, have you found a solution?

host only network connectivity to only one image at a time

DonPGolden — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:10:00 GMT

I am running Vista 64 with Vmware Server 2.0.2. I have two images running, both are Windows Server2008. Both images are using host only networking and both have hosts files for network identification.

The problem is that the first image to boot has network connectivity and the other does not. on image with connectivity I can ping and map drives onthe Vista host. The other one can only ping itself.

I have the firewall disabled on the two images and an exception for the VMnet1 adapter on the host.

Any suggestions.

OpenGL 2 program crashes with Fusion v3 - anyone get OpenGL 2 to work?

mjferrari — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:06:46 GMT

I participated in the v3 beta testing with a program that requires OpenGL 2 to run. During the beta, this program would crash upon starting.

I just installed the trial of v3 in the hope that this problem with OpenGL 2 has been resolved, but unfortunately I still get the same crash

Has anyone successfully run any OpenGL 2 programs/benchmarks that work under Fusion v3? My program works perfectly under Boot Camp.

Thanks.

Mike

Fusion v3.0.0 (204229)
Win XP SP3