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please display the full post while typing an answer

continuum — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:05:53 GMT

please display the full post while typing an answer - it is a pain to always be forced to open the original post in a second browser tab just to see the full context.
This is the only forum that only displays one post while answering

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When you're done . . .

DSTAVERT — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:14 GMT

There are often times that a user is stuck with a setup or configuration issue and a simple diagram would be a huge help in getting the idea across. It would be really nice to have something like http://www.gliffy.com/ or perhaps better http://www.onlinesketchpad.com to actually create and embed a simple drawing. Again no hurry. When you're done the other stuff.

What happened to forum?!!

Anton V Zhbankov — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:06:38 GMT

~~First of all, it's a complete mess in Firefox.~~

I can not even browse selected forums list without scrolling the screen. When I tried to post this new discussion I had to scroll through ALL the possible forums. Hey, did you hire 7-year old web developer?

What the hell did you do to forum?!

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Eric wrote: removed improper word from thread title

discussions listing does not update itself

continuum — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:29:54 GMT

2 hours ago I posted to a thread in vmplayer-section - the new post directly updated the listing in "my discussions"
But so far it does not appear in the discussion listing of vmpl;ayer-section.
This also happens on other sections ....

Its very irritating that you can not view your own answer - only if calling it from "my discussions it can be displayed.

A browser refresh does NOT help

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Please make the thread posting area wider!

AWo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:52:29 GMT

In the old forum you were able to look at most sentences without the sentence being wrapped to the next line. In the new version the editor/text area (I don't know how to call it exactly) got smaller and the text is harder to read due to the wraps.

AWo
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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,

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Can no longer edit documents?

jmattson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:12:31 GMT

When I try to publish edits to my documents, I get:

System Error

The form has already been processed or no token was supplied, please try again.

Is there a workaround?

My Communities link

dprabhakaran — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:59:58 GMT

Hello,
In the old web site there use to be link called "My Communities", which lists the communities I am interested in/subscribed for. But I did not see that link with the new web site. Can any one please let me know where the link is?

Thanks & Regards
Diwakar

Advanced Search function now has What, Where, When but is missing Who!

WoodyZ — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:19:37 GMT

Before the web site was upgraded, when using Advanced Search function, one could also search by Who or Author (I can't remember now how it was labeled) and this was very handy. What are the chances of getting that feature back?

Question Status

fixitchris — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:14:21 GMT

Why is this question marked answered when 1 answer and 2 possible answers are still available?
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/164229?tstart=0

How do you stop getting email notifications from discussions?

Eire09 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:37:25 GMT

Hi,
I keep getting emails from discussions created by other members. How do I stop getting notifications?

I selected Receive Email notifications a few days ago and then selected STOP email notifications but they still keep coming

Access denied?!?!?!

AWo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:14:03 GMT

Hello,

when I click on a post posted in the "Security & vShield Zones" forum from the "VMTN" view I get a nice image telling me I have no access. That is not a browser message but a nice VMware community graphic.

When I enter "VMTN > General > Security & vShield Zones" I can enter that forum and open the posts.

AWo
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Problem with pageination and firefox

maxel — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:00:54 GMT

With FF 3.5.5 there is a problem with the pageination display.After clearing the cache is it'sgone for a moment but then it happens again. Look at the attached picture tosee what i mean

No longer able to view the vSphere parent and child topic discussions

temancini — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:29:24 GMT

Before the forum update you were able to access the vSphere community and see all the child community discussions. Now this is no longer possible and can only see the first page or the child topics individually.

Also, it seems that it gets slower to navigate and render pages with every update. This latest one is horribly slow.

There are many 3rd party db vendors that do an admirable job with management, navigation and usefulness of a db. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to investigate obtaining a for-purpose product rather then reinventing the wheel at every update.

Missing bookmarks in vSphere communities

vlho — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:25:23 GMT

Hi web developers,

bookmarks (Discussions, Document, etc.) are missing in communities VMware vSphere.
Please, take look at attached images for comparision with communities VMware Infrastructure.

Thanks.

Notification of PMs

oreeh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:43:47 GMT

I don't receive email notifications of PMs anymore (yes I've checked the settings).
That wouldn't bother me much but I can't see any visual hints either.

Would it be possible to at least restore one of those?

Oliver

Shortened logins on forum

Anton V Zhbankov — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:19:38 GMT

Robert, when logins are shortened in threads at least it can be understood, although it looks reallly bad - after all we have not really long logins.

But what the hell is THIS? I see 600 pixels to right after last letter.

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

continuum — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:30:14 GMT

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

I usually had this in "my communities" - and today I only found it again because it was listed in my recent posts.

Why should a new user search for this under the vCenter section ?

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Planet V12N RSS feed is broken

BenConrad — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:57:02 GMT

Is anybody having any issues viewing the Planet V12N Master RSS feed from Firefox 3.5.4? I was not getting updates, removed it and then re-added and not it's not working. Seems to work fine via Google Reader.

Ben

in IE 6 "all communities" dropdown is not clickable

continuum — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:58:10 GMT

in IE 6 that comes with a fresh 2003 setup the "all communities" dropdown does not work.
It drops down right but when you then move the mouse down to click any link the dropdown disappears.

So the forum is unusable - I used firefox to post this - no way to do it with IE 6 right now.

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Cannot tell what replies are marked correct or helpful.

WoodyZ — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:35:54 GMT

I do not know if this has been this way since the web site was upgraded or just today however at this point in time the threads are not showing which replies are marked as correct or helpful when it's obvious from what is available at the top of the thread that some replies have been marked.

What is THAT?????

AWo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:00:11 GMT

I'm lucky that I found the Communities Feedback forums at least after I found where to post soemthing. Well hidden !

1. Why does the VMTN looks like that (see attached screenshot), now ?
2. Why are the Top Memeber counts reset?
3. Why have you changed something (at least) I got used to and where (at least) I could work fast end efficient with ?
4. (At least) I Can't see which answer was tagged as helpful or correct anymore.

From trying around in that new forum I find that not easy to use.

I want to have the old one back !!!!!

AWo
VCP / VMware vEXPERT 2009
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Edited by AWo

Forum software is stupid, waht you type is NOT what you get

mrezny — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:21:59 GMT

I frequented this forum in the 1.x days as I worked out the kinks and made multitudes of feature requests. I pretty much stopped using it after realizing that VMware doesn't care once they have your money and really could care less about improving support for anything other than a Windows guest used in the way they imagine a 'simple' Mc useer to do so.

Now that 3.0 is out and riddled with bugs, I came here to see if anyone else had issues and it appears they certainly did. So, i post some replies that are mostly a "me too" of sorts and keep my eyes open. As threads were responded to, I noticed something very odd. The pots I made don't look the same as when I typed them. Evey time I hit return to separate paragraphs, it sows one blank line between them. When I view my posts later, sometimes there is one line bewtween, but sometimes there is none and sometimes there are two! Its not even consistent within a single post!

This post has a few paragraphs in hopes of showing iit off separate from any Fusion related content. VMware seems on a mission to bust everything the touch lately, even the forum software. Seriously, how hard can it be to NOT mangle some simple text?

Bonus fun, I've noticed that the spacing between lines within each paragraph is not consistent. Sometimes its tight, sometimes really loose. Also varies between paragraphs within a single post. Incompetence abound!

mis-rendered vmware.com with Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and firefox (latest)

fletch00 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:33:22 GMT

Curious if anyone else is seeing misrendered webpages on http://www.vmware.com with snow leopard mac os x 10.6.1 and firefox?

makes the website un-navigable

looks fine on different windows desktops

VCP

Hide this message

Anton V Zhbankov — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:42:13 GMT

Robert, can you hide this message completely, please!

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New Layout

K-MaC — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:35:45 GMT

Hello VMware communties team. First off, I wanted to say congrats on the sucessful launch of the new layout. It will take some getting used to but I think it looks nice.

I have a question. I can no longer see a VMware icon displayed beside users who are VMware employees when they post in threads. Is this something that has been changed or simply an error? The icon appears when you are looking at a community and a VMware employee has started a thread.

Cheers

Kevin

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

continuum — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:54:06 GMT

posting code-samples is a pain - especially the # which is often used in vmware-config-files renders badly.
please please add a working code button to one of the editors - every other forum-software I use has it

here is an example

Disk DescriptorFile

version=1
CID=7341dd22
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="vmfs"

Extent description

RW 16777216 VMFS "test-flat.vmdk"

The Disk Data Base

#DDB

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.toolsVersion = "0"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "1044"
ddb.geometry.heads = "255"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"

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Moderators ... need to move thread

ROM13 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:41:05 GMT

Hello,

First of all, please excuse my english
I just need to have a thread moved to another place (no more deal with HA, in my opinion), it seems that there's no other way to do it than posting here... except private spamming every moderator (i promise i never did it )

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/238626?tstart=0

from VMware Communities > VMTN > VMware vSphere™ > Availability: HA & FT
to VMware Communities > VMTN > VMware vSphere™ > VMware ESX™ 4

Thanks a lot !

Place a text box to all VMTN forums suggest users to search "Google & VMTN" first before posting questions????

azn2kew — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:11:14 GMT

I'm sure everyone supporting the forums tend to be frustrated when users keep posting repeated questions that are easy to get through "Google" or VMTN search features. Can you recommend to place a text box on top of every VMTN forums so encourage them to do a quick search on "Google/VMTN" first before posting questions? Its a big wasted of forum resources and repetitive supports that I've found 60% of the questions can be answer via search. Or place a warning during user registration process, recommend to maximize search options before postings!!!

We would like to see more technical related questions that are informative and attract more discussions.

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

Regards,

Stefan Nguyen
VMware vExpert 2009
iGeek Systems Inc.
VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

Download Timeout Problem

howard-t-m — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:32:25 GMT

Hi,

I recently tried to download an evaluation copy of ESX 4. In order to download it the system requires me to be logged in. After an hour the system logs me out and the download gets terminated. I tried a Free Download Manager and entered my login creditials into it but that did not work either. Does anyone know if there is a way to keep from being logged out during downloads?

Thanks.

vmware converter download email not being sent

pers0n — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:30:56 GMT

I've checked my spam box, its not coming. I clicked on the link to resend the activation its not coming. why do i have to jump through all these hoops to get the download!

Email Notifications

fixitchris — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:40:21 GMT

Ever since the new 'developer forums' my email notifications are not working right. They seem to be ok for threads that I create, but when I reply to another user's thread I don't always get a notification. I am using a @yahoo email address.

Thanks
Chris

Issues with the website

PayamDamghani — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:08:55 GMT

Seem like no emails are going out and could not download anything? Whats going on?

link to Workstation 7 beta community is gone / locked

continuum — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:57:44 GMT

Looks like the link to Workstation 7 beta community has been removed and the section is locked. What does that mean ?

Will WS 7 be released 28.10.09 as a german vendor said ?

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support beyond the forum - how do you handle it ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ulli

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Spam in Private Messages

ChipMcK — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:58:21 GMT

Refer to http://communities.vmware.com/message/1398160

[meta] How to report PM spam

jonathan.hayward — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:03:27 GMT

To:jonathan.hayward

From:Jovitababyy

Sent:Oct 25, 2009

Subject:Private Message: Hello

Hello Dear,
How are you,hope fine,
My name is Jovita I was impressed when I saw your profile here
at(communities.vmware.com)despite you are in here for an add. and I
believe we can have long term relationship. Please I will like you to
email me back here at (Jovitaj39@yahoo.com) so I can tell you more
about myself ok.
Awaiting for your lovely response
Miss Jovita.

I received the above as a PM. How do I report PM spam? Could the powers that be make a button to report inappropriate PM's?

Thanks,

Jonathan Hayward

Current On-Line Moderators

Troy Clavell — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:18:53 GMT

Just a thought. Maybe on the home page you can add something that lists the currently logged in and active Forum Moderators?

Unable to download ESXI4.0 - Page Not Found

adza — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:10:59 GMT

Good Morning,

I am trying to download ESXi 4 from vmware, but each time I try to click on the CONTINUE button I get a 'Page Not Found' error.

I have tried 2 different browsers, and have logged onto two different accounts and have the same problem.

Just wondering if there's a problem with the server at the moment, or if anyone else is having problems?

Cheers

Adam

The VMware Server 2 community does not exist!

guyrleech — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:00:27 GMT

If I go to http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server2 then I get "System Error: The specified community does not exist". This is the URL used from the "My/All Communities" dropdown and the navigation on the right hand side when you are in the Server community. I can see all of the posts in the upper level Server community but can't see just what is in Server 2. Been like this for a couple of days now. Server 1 is the same too.

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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The Poor performance of this site in general

markzz — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:10:50 GMT

Hi there all.

I'm posting this question on the weekend as this seems the time when this site performs the best.

Yes I know it's the weekend, I'm at home I should be digging the gardens. The kids are hammering the Optus cable currently, but I can type on this forum without a 20 charactor lag..

Of course being in Australia I can't be sure there isn't a performance issue somewhere between me and VMWare's servers in the US, but hey I don't have this issue on the Microsoft Site or Citrix Site.

Above and beyond everything else this lacking performance must to the unenlightened appear that VMWare's site just doesn't perform well, likely due to the fact that it's vitalized on VMWare!

Come on guys. This is your forward facing/customer facing environment. Give it some resources, get some end to end monitoring in place. I understand this is not a critical business application which generates income directly, but indirectly it must sway the unenlightened peoples opinions.

Thanks for listening to my gripe

Regards

The unenlightened.

Spoke too soon the lags back..

What happened to VMWare Server forums?

Hichhiker — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:22:33 GMT

The forums disappeared - still see them in Google cache, but they do not seem to be available online anymore.

Have Server users been excommunicated?

-HH

Edit: Guess I should have checked the forum first, there is another thread about this here

Message was edited by: Hichhiker

Ibm license metric tool

rosswilliamson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:53:07 GMT

Has anyone ever had any issues with installing this product on thier vm host or had any issues after it was installed

STP data analysis using STP navigator

sujsada — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:03:24 GMT

Can anyone help me to analyse the STP data using STP navigator for checkin the performance?

Search Sort by doesn't seem to work

petedr — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:50:59 GMT

Hello,

I was checking to see if there is any known issue with the Sort function within the search ability or is it something I am doing incorrectly

When I do a Search on a keyword the results shown and the Sort By defaults to 'Revelance'. That works fine.

Then if I switched the Sort By to something else 'Date, Subject etc' nothing happens. In the past the page would refresh when the Sort By was changed.

Does it work differently now or is this an issue

Thanks,

www.phdvirtual.com, makers of esXpress

changing email address in communities profile doesnt change it in the account

pers0n — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:00:11 GMT

this site wont even let you change it in your account its set as read-only? I had to create a whole new account

Unusable slow yet again

wila — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:59:43 GMT

Yes it happened again.

Over the past few days, the forums slowed down and now it again takes minutes for any page to return.
This looks BAD and makes the site so (insert favorite curse word here) unusable.

I hate this forum software platform and I'm sure i'm not the only one here.
Of course we will have to wait until the evening due to the timezone differences before someone is even capable of looking into the problem, which makes it even worse. Where's the global aspect of that? Europe is not important?

Sorry for the rant, but it makes one so tired.

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VMTN Problems: hidden messages and email notification lost

AndreTheGiant — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:44:52 GMT

In the last days there is a problem with email notification, as already written in:
Email Notifications
Unusable slow yet again

But today there is also the problem with some posts that are not visible.
This problem is very similar with the "cluster problem" of some week ago:
http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/communities/2009/09/15/vmware-communities-site-error-report-sept-15-2009

Andre

New Vmware account... and can't get community name moved ?

Zyberrunner — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:25:10 GMT

Hi

I have been a member of the community since 2003.

I started on a new job july 1. and wanted to change my email address for the vmware account i had.
But that is no longer possible. Because of problems with the database. So they ( Costumer Service ) asked me to
create a new acount. OK that worked well. and they moved my licenses from one account to the other. PERFECT.

But now i don't have my community name anymore. So again i asked Costumer service and the forwarded my mail to ~~community_mgr@vmware.com~~
They say that this is the only one who can do this. This is now 3 month since i first time requested this and still NOTHING is happening. I have mailed 10 times
but apperently they do not want to fix this or there are no one reading this email .

What is going on ?? no one can help me move my community name to the new account.??

Br
Lars

Last Post Time Issue

K-MaC — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:46:09 GMT

Hello all. I was wondering if anyone else is having issues with threads not being displayed in chronological order? Normally on any given day I'll notice a post or two out of place. However, today all the posts within the main VMTN section appear from all different times and some from different days.

Cheers

Kevin

Can't create new Communities account

khaneric — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:04:06 GMT

Hey Guys i'm having many many problems with the community section. The problem is that i have two VMware accounts because one was autocreated for me when i was signed up for the workstation 7 beta. This account which i'm posting with now was unused for a while cause I didn't know the password and haven't worked for the company in two years. I got the recovered from a friend at my old company and now it's good but i'm still having issues.

So i either need to have my two accounts combined or have the ability to create a new username under my other account. Everytime I try to create a new community user i get an error message saying "If you are new to VMware Communities, please enter a unique username. Otherwise, please contact community_mgr@vmware.com to update your membership."

To say that it's not a unique username is weird because I have tried everything including random letters and numbers and it hasn't let me create an account. I've contacted that email 4 times with no responce so hopefully I can get some help here.

Thanks,

Eric

whats wrong - can't post in beta-section

continuum — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:31:07 GMT

I tried to post to this
http://communities.vmware.com/post!reply.jspa?messageID=1363839
5 or 6 times now - with breaks inbetween.
I always get the same error

System Error

We're sorry but a serious error has occurred in the system.

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VMTN is absolutely unusable - it has never been so slow

continuum — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:20:49 GMT

VMTN is absolutely unusable - it has never been so slow. I have load times for a page of about 5 minutes- yes minutes - not seconds.
When I post something I very likely get the the Serious Error - message.

Sorry - can't do any serious work with this conditions

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How to follow the user response in RSS feed

vcpguy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:06:58 GMT

Hi,

I am using google reader to get all th feeds. I am wondering now can I setup this from vmtn? I want to follow few users like AndreTheGiant, Dave. The idea is what ever these guys post gets in my Google Reader.

I tried going to the users profile and selected Member RSS feed on the right of the screen but this is not showing me all the posts that the user made.

Any ideas ?

Thanks

Somethings wrong? Kicked out of a thread.

AWo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:18:04 GMT

I participated in a thread and after a while:

I don't see it in my personal discussion list
I see 15 answers in the community overview (Workstation) but only 5 when I open the thread
My posts are gone in this particuoar thread

The thread (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/231566?tstart=0):

What it looks like:

AWo
VCP / VMware vEXPERT 2009

I rent firewood out ***

Cannot create a community ID by updating VMware Online Profile

dg16238 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:10:51 GMT

I am a VMware employee and I have a customer that is unable to update his profile with a community ID. It continues to reject anything that he uses and he finally sent an email to the community manager alias to get some help. It's been a week and he hasn't received a response.

He wants to get this activated as soon as possible.

Can someone help him?

Thanks

VMTN down?

Troy Clavell — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:37:48 GMT

getting this error when try to access http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn. Looks as though I can get to all other discussion forums just fine.

Firefox 3.5.2:

System Error
We're sorry but a serious error has occurred in the system.

IE7:
The website cannot display the page

A life savior for VMWare forums with a slow/unreliable Internet connection

birdie — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:05:57 GMT

Broken VMWare HTTP/forum software does two awful things:

1) It always prepends all documents being output from the server with these headers:

Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache

Pragma: no-cache

2) ~~It doesn't support gzip compression.~~ Thanks!!

Problem N1 can be solved in Firefox by using "Better cache" extension.

In Always-cache list add the only option "*" for all domains.
In Never-cache list add "text/html" for all domains.

In Settings you should have "BetterCache enabled" and "Never-cache list works as ignore list" enabled.

Enjoy.

Downloads and Trial downloads should not be so hard to get

s0m30n3 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:34:56 GMT

Why do we have to fill out all these massive forms to get a download? Man I almost switched to VirtualBox because it's becoming to much a hassle to update my programs (vmware converter, vmware player, vmware server), plus I wanted to try out some of the trials.

VMTN: Create preference to view thread posts in reverse order

MattG — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:46:18 GMT

Allow thread posts to be reviewed in reverse order. So when I click on a thread I would see the last post first and the first post last.

This is a feature that is standard on most BB systems.

-MattG

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make the "Start a discussion" link bigger and a button

pers0n — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:01:28 GMT

ok, last complaint (for awhile), it took me a few minutes (no joke) to find out where to post on here, come on please make it easier

Possible bug?? -- click to edit a reply and jump to Communities home page?!?!??

tlyczko — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:03:29 GMT

I wanted to edit one of my replies, I got jumped to the Communities home page.
I wanted to edit my thread, I got jumped to the Communities home page.
Does this happen to other people too??
I'm using FF 3.5.2.
Thank you, Tom

VMware Communities search bar addon for Firefox - where to download?

bernd2nd — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:46:38 GMT

Please point me to the Firefox searchbar addon for VMware Communitites.

In my old firefox 2 i had a this searchbar addon and it was very useful.

Thank you in advance

Shareholder Community

justinfielding — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:34:33 GMT

I would like to see a section of VMware Communities dedicated to shareholder discussion of proposals put forward for voting at the annual meeting. There is currently no means available for shareholders to openly discuss these proposals and director recommendations.

Long usernames

etung — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:36:51 GMT

Formatting in How to disable Windows Program shortcuts (and any top-level page listing that thread) is a bit off because WhyDontYouUseAjaxToCheckIfTheUsernameIsInUse is too long, though I'm not sure what a good solution would be. I think that user may also have a gripe about the username selection process.

Help system

AWo — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:27:27 GMT

Is the "quick tour" the only help system available, now? I remember that there was a more detailed help available in the old forum, wasn't it?

AWo

usabilty of the VAM-section is a joke

continuum — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:59:48 GMT

Usabilty of the VAM-section is a joke ...

I just tried to download this VM
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/va/236283/download

after 30 minutes of clicking through stupid and ever repeating pages I gave up

why for Zarquons sake do I have to re-register and answer question you already should have answered hundreds of times ???

Ulli

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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

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

continuum — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:13:37 GMT

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

Nowadays the knowhow to handle this problems is the same among all platforms.
Today this posts are scattered all over the place and it is next to impossible to find the knowhow in time when you really have an urgent issue.

Ulli

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description of vmx-parameters: http://sanbarrow.com/vmx.html
VMware-liveCD: http://sanbarrow.com/moa.html

Re: IE8 causes Advanced to sit on top Log out

jozsef — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:28:24 GMT

Just thought you should know that when using IE8 and logged in the "Advanced" link in the top right of the screen sits on top of the "Log out" link.

Does not cause operational issues but it is a bit annoying. Clicking the Compatability button in IE8 fixes the spacing problem.

Regards

Joe

Firefox redirect loop again

AUPhil — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:51:33 GMT

As of 23-JUN-2009 23:49 UTC, the forums are giving me the "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete." On Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11

Unfortunately, the forums still work with IE7.

Phil

please disable upload of bitmaps for screenshots

continuum — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:44:57 GMT

please disable upload of bitmaps for screenshots - this site is slow enough - having to wait for large bitmaps which also could have been posted as *.jpg or *.png is anoying for users with slow connection
thanks

Ulli

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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

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

continuum — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:17:51 GMT

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

It is a anoying waste of time to read through long posts when 10 % of the content is wasted on all various flavours of points-begging.
Maybe if we have an automated line for this nonsense its easier to ignore this ....

Ulli

here is a funny example - 50 % of the posts are wasted for points fishing
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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

Points Taken Away?

Troy Clavell — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:24:39 GMT

I was at 19,960 this morning and after the points roll I am at 19,355. Is this a bug in the points calculation? I was hoping to attain Guru Status today....

Receive email notifications or RSS, both broken!

rcardona2k — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:57:01 GMT

One of the reasons I left this community last year was the brokenness of the system. I was recently invited to a new desktop products beta program and I can't seem to enable Receiving email notifications on the whole forum, yes I want this traffic. Every time I reload the forum discussion the option is toggled back to not receive email. So I thought I would try the RSS feeds but I'm asked to authenticate by my RSS reader (Netnewswire for OS X) and my community login is not accepted, so I'm stuck. Yes, I'm typing my login correctly.

I want to re-establish faith in these forums but I need a little help here. If need to use Google Reader or some other platform-independent reader, just point me that way too.

Thanks in advance!

The form has already been processed or no token was supplied, please try again.

etung — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:06:32 GMT

I'm trying to edit Frequently Asked Questions about VMware Fusion to include information about the recent Fusion update, but each time (3 so far) I save, I get a system error "The form has already been processed or no token was supplied, please try again."

Firefox 3.0.8, OS X 10.5.6. I've tried logging out and logging back in. I have not yet tried a different browser or restarting Firefox.

Missing document diff option

etung — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:32:33 GMT

There used to be an option to diff versions of documents (either in plain text or marked up), a magnifying glass icon near the version number of documents. I don't see this anymore, at least on Resizing Virtual Disks With Step by Step Instructions and A Power User's Guide to VMware Fusion (haven't checked others). Looking at the source code, there's still a reference to "Click to view document history", which is what I remember, so it's not completely gone - could be bad css, could be a missing content for the "a" tag.

Messages that violate the Terms of Use?

JuneK5 — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:22:46 GMT

Where would I report a private message that violates the terms of conduct?

I received this as a private message from user juliata00 as my first contact from the VMWare community:

"Hello
My name is Juliet,a very
young and beautiful girl from africa,well i saw your profile on this
site (communities.vmware.com)and i love it,i will like us to be
together,so please contact me back on my email address below

(juliangel@ymail.com)

With your own email,so as to enable us have a direct contact with each
other,at the same time i will show you my picture for you to know more
about me.

Thanks for your understanding
Hope to hear from you soonest
Yours
Juliet
"

It doesn't give me much confidence in the community standards<G>

I'll try forwarding it to Security@vmware.com

June

bridged network now not working-vmnet0 and noconnection drop down box appears always preventing connection to net on windows-help!

andymal — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:12:04 GMT

hi, i am a newbie here so can anyone help me.
i have a problem like a member dave had, re his bridge network not working, and vmnet0 appearing in a box saying not connected.ethernet0, etc. i travel overseas as well and find it impossible to ever get windows thru vm ware in hotels,thru their cable, now i am getting this issue with my bridge network at home as well. i need windows for work and trading apps. and this is killing me at present on both fronts.
i could not get any definitive answers scrolling thru the site, so has anyone got an answer to get rid of either of these problems?
thank you.
andy

VMWare desktop solution assistance

clrlogic — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:11:00 GMT

I'm new to VMWare and would like suggestions on how to best solve our problem.

We're wanting to create a type of sandbox envorinment on our employee workstations seperate from their main desktop but on the same physical box. We were thinking of just putting VMWare player on each physical machine and then a few administrators would have VMWare workstation installed on their machines so they have the ability to create virtual machines and move them to the employees computers as needed. This solution presents some problems, such as manageability. So I'm open for any type of suggestion and I also envision an easier/better way to accomplish this task.

My Questions:

1. Can VMWare player run virtual machines located on a iSCSI SAN across the network? Just thinking of this so we wouldn't have to store the VM's on each emplyees workstation.

2. Is there a way to manage these VM's centrally without ESX/ESXi hosts/Vcenter server?

3. Could VMWare view assist us in our solution?

4. The part I really liked about Vcenter server is when you create a clone you can customize that clone with a new pc name, windows key, new SID, and other things. We do plan on going virtual with ESX hosts eventually so purchasing the Vcenter server is an option but is it still usefull in creating the VM's without ESX hosts since they aren't virtualizing their servers yet?

I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read my topic and giving any feedback. Any suggestion not related to the specific questions I've asked would be welcomed as well. If you have any follow up questions I will be monitoring this post as often as I can.

Again, thank you.

Houston, TX Virtualization Forum Labs

BadSanta — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:25:46 GMT

My experience at the Houston, TX virtualization event by VMware on 5/19/2009 was dissapointing. I am a technical guy and my primary reason for attendance was the vSphere lab. Unfortunately, the lab disk array (EMC) equipment was broken, and so only 2/3 of the lab stations were working, and we got started way too late to effectively cover the material. I feel a better job could have been done verifying that the lab worked properly.

All of the VMware folks in attendance did an outstanding job, and the speaker was excellent in continuing the presentation without any labs running.

I would suggest to VMware to either get better lab equipment, or allow enough time between cities to have a full day to setup and test the lab.

Email Notifications

K-MaC — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:07:02 GMT

Hello all. Is anyone else having an issue with the email notification flag? I have set the flag for multiple threads today and I am not receiving emails. In fact when I check my notification list it does not contain any of the notifications that I have set today. The only thread from today that is listed in my notications is a thread that I posted in. I noticed that if I turn notifications on in a thread and the refresh the page that the notification is cleared.

Cheers

Kevin

Rename community account profile

wingnut76 — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:00:39 GMT

I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this, but I don't see anywhere else to go. I'd like to rename my profile to something else. I don't see that option in editing profile. How can I do this?

FreeMarker template error

etung — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:43:23 GMT

I was attempting to insert an image (note: not attach, which works) into my post (Re: USB controller / I can't even see it) and got the following error. I've tried both Safari 3.2.1 and Firefox 3.0.9, both on OS X 10.5.6.

=====

FreeMarker template error!

Expression contentResource is undefined on line 727, column 95 in template/global/image-picker.ftl.
The problematic instruction:

==> if (contentResource.imageCount >= imageManager.maxImagesPerObject) http://on line 727, column 89 in template/global/image-picker.ftl

Java backtrace for programmers:

freemarker.core.InvalidReferenceException: Expression contentResource is undefined on line 727, column 95 in template/global/image-picker.ftl.
at freemarker.core.TemplateObject.assertNonNull(TemplateObject.java:124)
at freemarker.core.TemplateObject.invalidTypeException(TemplateObject.java:134)
at freemarker.core.Dot._getAsTemplateModel(Dot.java:78)
at freemarker.core.Expression.getAsTemplateModel(Expression.java:89)
at freemarker.core.ComparisonExpression.isTrue(ComparisonExpression.java:111)
at freemarker.core.ParentheticalExpression.isTrue(ParentheticalExpression.java:66)
at freemarker.core.ConditionalBlock.accept(ConditionalBlock.java:77)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.Environment.process(Environment.java:176)
at freemarker.template.Template.process(Template.java:232)
at com.opensymphony.webwork.views.freemarker.FreemarkerResult.doExecute(FreemarkerResult.java:153)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.FreemarkerResult.doExecute(FreemarkerResult.java:134)
at com.opensymphony.webwork.dispatcher.WebWorkResultSupport.execute(WebWorkResultSupport.java:143)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.executeResult(DefaultActionInvocation.java:313)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:208)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.ValidationInterceptor.doIntercept(ValidationInterceptor.java:115)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.MethodFilterInterceptor.intercept(MethodFilterInterceptor.java:86)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.JiveObjectLoaderInterceptor.intercept(JiveObjectLoaderInterceptor.java:55)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.opensymphony.webwork.interceptor.FileUploadInterceptor.intercept(FileUploadInterceptor.java:233)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.I18nInterceptor.intercept(I18nInterceptor.java:151)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.jivesoftware.community.action.LocaleInterceptor.intercept(LocaleInterceptor.java:66)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.JiveIOCInterceptor.intercept(JiveIOCInterceptor.java:719)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.AuthInterceptor.intercept(AuthInterceptor.java:92)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.JiveLoginInterceptor.intercept(JiveLoginInterceptor.java:42)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.ExceptionMappingInterceptor.intercept(ExceptionMappingInterceptor.java:186)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.ModuleCheckInterceptor.intercept(ModuleCheckInterceptor.java:49)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionProxy.execute(DefaultActionProxy.java:116)
at com.opensymphony.webwork.dispatcher.DispatcherUtils.serviceAction(DispatcherUtils.java:225)
at com.opensymphony.webwork.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.doFilter(FilterDispatcher.java:202)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.JiveFilterDispatcher.doFilter(JiveFilterDispatcher.java:53)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.filter.SetResponseCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetResponseCharacterEncodingFilter.java:62)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:39)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.JiveActionContextCleanUp.doFilter(JiveActionContextCleanUp.java:46)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.filter.JiveDynamicResponseHeaderFilter.doFilter(JiveDynamicResponseHeaderFilter.java:70)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.filter.JiveCompressionFilter.doFilter(JiveCompressionFilter.java:99)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.filter.SetRequestCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetRequestCharacterEncodingFilter.java:76)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.directwebremoting.servlet.DwrWebContextFilter.doFilter(DwrWebContextFilter.java:91)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.filter.MaintenanceFilter.doFilter(MaintenanceFilter.java:81)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.jivesoftware.community.upgrade.UpgradeFilter.doFilter(UpgradeFilter.java:45)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.jivesoftware.base.plugin.PluginFilter.doFilter(PluginFilter.java:77)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.jivesoftware.community.web.filter.ApplicationInitializedFilter.doFilter(ApplicationInitializedFilter.java:95)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.jivesoftware.base.database.dao.DAOContextCleanUpFilter.doFilter(DAOContextCleanUpFilter.java:32)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:563)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:563)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:263)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:584)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

auto log off means post is history

wila — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:46:02 GMT

This happens almost daily to me.. and this time I forgot to "Select ALL" -> "Copy to clipboard"... you hit post and the system has logged you off...
You can't go back... using the back button means your content will be wiped by the "great" javascript functionality... logging in also means... your post is now in the bit bucket.
"Do it again Sam", your time and effort is now wasted.

Why on earth do we have to live with this &^%#&%$#$ .... rant over... but I strongly dislike this particular feature, it's not acceptable that we have to copy our text to the clipboard in order to not loose it time after time... not acceptable at all.. OK, time to "select all""copy""post"

--
Wil
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Visit the new VMware developers wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com

communities forum break-up

IB_IT — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:18:11 GMT

Hey all,

Am I the only one who doesn't like the new layout of the VMWare Community tech forums? In years past, I had bookmarked the main forum for VMWare's virtual infrastruture products...this included ESX and Virtual Center in one location so I could see with one click what everyone was talking about in both products. Now, they have it separated out so I may miss what vCenter forums are posting if I constantly am looking under "vmware infrastructure".

I suppose I could just bookmark the main VMTN link, but then I am looking at ALL posts for ALL products...most of which do not concern me.

Can I suggest that you create a separate branch for enterprise virtualization products (or whatever name is appropriate). Then under that branch, you list ESX and vCenter products so people who are only interested in these products can just bookmark the parent branch and see all posts for ESX and vCenter in one location.

Anyone else agree with this?

Problems with Forums Account

JDLangdon — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:15:50 GMT

I just logged into the forums using the http://communities.vmware.com/home.jspa url and noticed that my last login date is Oct 24, 2008. Then I noticed that my points are at 1819 which means I haven't accumulated any points new since about that time either. Is there some way or some one who can verify that my account/profile is functioning correctly?

________________________________
Jason D. Langdon

Last Login Time Not Showing Correct Time

Roanry — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:39:52 GMT

Why does it show that I last logged in now months ago?

I log off, clear cookies, history, try from IE / Crome / FireFox and still no luck.

Any ideas?

"The form has already been processed or no token was supplied"

phxrider — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:40:21 GMT

What is the deal with this error? I suddenly cannot update my article, have tried on 2 different computers, Linux and Windows so I think it's safe to rule out configuration issues on my end.

Blog posts to Twitter?

lbourque — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:35:46 GMT

Any chance we can tie our VMTN Blogs to post to our twitter accounts??

Problem with links posting

Anton V Zhbankov — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:02:55 GMT

Hello,

Just got a problem - tried to post a direct link to HCL pre-filled search, but there are [ and ] symbols in the link, which are used as control symbols. So the whole link becomes unusable, either i add it as text, or press "Make a link".

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?action=search&deviceCategory=io&productId=1&advancedORbasic=advanced&maxDisplayRows=50&key=&release ]=15&datePosted=-1&ioTypeId[=6&vid=&did=&svid=&ssid=

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http://blog.vadmin.ru

VMware Capacity Assessment Tool - Not getting all the info from Linux

MARTINHARRIS — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:24:04 GMT

We are assessing 25 Redhat Servers using the VMware Capacity Assessment Tool and are failing to grab the information about disk size, disk I/O, disk MB per second. We have I/O stat and VMware stat installed and running on each server.

Has anyone had any experience or problems with Linux server stats with the vmware tool?

Sorting search results by date doesn't work

jmattson — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:56:47 GMT

For months now, if I try to sort search results by date, I get redirected to a 'temporary maintenance' page. Can this be fixed?

RSS question about new posts

R-Sommer — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:52:31 GMT

Hi,

I'm testing to use a rss reader for this forum here, so I install RSSOwl and added a few forums. This works fine, but only for new threads. That means, if a new reply for an existing thread was posted, it could be seen on the web but not in RSSOwl. Is this a normal behaviour on an rss reader or is ths a failure of RSSOwl? If the last option, which rss reader is recommend?

TIA
Roland

After two years of posting, searching.....A question....Can we logically split the communities?

williambishop — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:15:15 GMT

It's been nagging at me, moreso in the last year, since the explosion of growth has made it nigh on impossible to find anything.

Why are the forums not split up more logically?

For instance, if I look for a storage related question, where do I look?

If it's a network question, where do I look?

You can bet it's going to be scattered all over creation....because there is no home. I can understand the logic of not doing it, I've been on forums and boards for nearly two decades now. Too many sub topics leads to isolation. But this only applies to small and medium boards. We've WAY outgrown that, so would it be possible to split things up more rationally? The search engine is a lot more fun when it's not the ONLY way to find something, when you've exhausted the tree and your answer is not where it's expected.

Anyway, I love vmware, it's literally made my career. But the forums still need work. I can live with sluggish, but I spend an insane amount of time trying to find something that I could find much more easily on other forums (perfect layout? linuxquestions.org).

Can I get an amen?!?!?!

Sorry, I give up

R-Sommer — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:29:31 GMT

I tried using this forums and spent my time with answering questions, but using this forum makes me tedious. It's too slow, identifying new post(s) within a thread is circuitous and following threads I'm attended to is circuitous too.

So I'm leaving, but please inform me, once you have a better system (NNTP is still the best for me).

Bye

Major delays in the email notifications?

khughes — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:52:07 GMT

Is it just me or are the email notifications coming out like an hour+ late from when someone posts? Also when I do get one I get them in bundles like 3-4 at a time all way past when things were actually posted.

Kyle

Unread message filter in 'Discussions' in 'My Content'

Leafy911 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:12:51 GMT

Is there a possibility of a filter for unread messages in 'Discussions'?

I have been involved with a few discussions and if one of the older messages gets updated then I don't always know about unless I go through all my messages.

I can imagine this can be quite involving for some of our busier members, so is it possible to have a filter so we can just view new messages or a counter to tell us how many unread messages?

Regards
Leafy911

(Dont forget you recieve points when you award points)

Cannot Create A New Blog

Roanry — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:37:07 GMT

Ok i know this might sound stupid but the system for generating a new blog is not working. I have gone now to three different browsers, entered in all the correct information and when I hit the button to create the blog it error's out 100% of the time.

The error it throws is that you need to enter a description. Trust me a description has been entered. I copied and pasted to word to ensure I was under the 255 char limit and it still fails. I even tried just entering in a single char up to a few dozen and still same error.

I would really love to create a new blog and if anyone can help here I would greatly apprecaite it.

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E-Mail notifications for threads

AWo — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:56:19 GMT

In the past when I look at my personal E-Mail notification for threads I'm participating in, I could easily delete older entries as they were sorted and tagged with the age of the last activity, let's say "2 month" for example.
Today I only see the dates and they don't seem to be sorted after the last activity. That makes it more work to go through and discard old, inactive threads.

Is it possible to get the old view back?

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AWo
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Link VMTN accounts with VMwold.com accounts

Roanry — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:27:17 GMT

Why have two separate accounts for each area?

One would think that if you are an active user on the VMTN that it would only make sense to participate in the vmworld.com forum?

I just think allow users to get credit for the "VMware" as a whole participation.

just my .02