VMware Communities : Unanswered Threads - VMware ACE

Will it be possiable to acticate thie "unity" automatically for a user of has the user to activate this by himself

Mandali — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:46:05 GMT

Hi ,

We are evaluating VMware ACE workstation for our infrastructure, as part of that we have tested unity manually, is there a way to make it automatically for end user.

Modify published ACE VMs

gholzer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:49:02 GMT

Hello,

I have about 25 PCs in my department. All these PCs have a local copy of the same ACE VM. This ACE VM is updated once a month.

So when the VM is out of date I deactivate this VM in the Management Server. Now all the 25 PCs need the updated Version of the ACE VM.

At the moment the users manually copy the new ACE VM from a network share to their local computer. When all users are doing this the same time the performace is pretty slow

-> Is there a way to automate this task, perhaps at night? So that the useres allways have the most recent VM without any manual installation?
(I know about the silent Installation for the ACE Package, but how do I get the Package on the PC?)

Thanks for help!

ACE futile performance test?

burdweiser — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:52:13 GMT

So I have a client that wants to use VM ACE to deploy desktops. Mainly because of it's security features. I've been working with ESX for many years, but I'm pretty new to Workstation and Ace. I get the whole concept and I've been reading through the best practice guides. I'm pretty sure the current team of guys are building the VM's incorrectly. I was hoping to run a crazy test on my own.

Does anything think it would be futile to try and run a 3D game or watch an HD movie from an ACE session?

I've got a pretty good lab at home and I was thinking of running some tests since Workstation 7 just got released. I was thinking of building a striped down Windows 7 machine. I've got a lots of RAM / CPU and a kick a$$ video card in one of my systems. I know the new PCoIP can do all of this from a thin client, but I'm gonna see what results I can get locally.

Burdweiser

VCP4 / CCNA / MCSE

Remote desktop to host machine

turvey — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:48:15 GMT

Hi All,

I have vmware ace running on my host machine and have setup a couple of virtual images to run on the machine. I am now remote desktoping to the host machine from another site and I am able to start the Virtual machine up. However when I try to input into the virtual machine it does not except input, the mouse does not work nor the keyboard. Have tryed the Ctrl G for direct input and that does not work. I am able to move the Ace screen around, communicate with the vmware player menu and even take a snapshot of the machine. It is just the actual virtual OS machine I cannot use.
Am I missing a setting or is it not possible to use a virtual machine when remoting to the host machine via remote desktop?

Thanks in advance,

Turvey

Modify data but Protect for extraction

Irduna — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:16:32 GMT

Hi.

We want to send a virtual machine to one supplier in an USB disk, to let him edit some confidential data. We want to let read and modify this data, and eventually print, but to restrict copy or extract from hard disk.

Supplier won't have access to our network.

Can ACE protect virtual machine for this scenario? is this totally secure?

Thanks very much

Regards

Irduna

How is ACE creating the Sysprep folder

JamesVan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:19:22 GMT

When deploying customized ACE a Sysprep folder is appearing in the %systemroot%. I created my own sysprep directory there, but the ACE deployment installer appears to create its own virtual sysprep directory, so it does not see mine.

How do I customize the sysprep that the ACE deployment uses so it contains my OEM files?

Customization fails during deployment - need file from SP3 CD

JamesVan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:03:27 GMT

I have the sysprep files loaded in the correct location, but when I try to deploy the ACE using customization I get a 'Files Needed' dialouge box asking for the path to agt0407.dll on the SP3 CD. The copy from path is '\sysprep\i386'. I browse to that folder, but it is empty.

What is happening here? I did not have this problem with XP SP2.

Error while opening the ACE: The master copy of this virtual machine has been corrupted.

dlupisella — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:01:55 GMT

So the issue is that I believe a sync was not complete when the user removed the USB drive causing it to corrupt the ACE. Is there anything that can be done to recover the contents of the ACE? It is running Windows XP SP3 (guest) and the host OS is also Windows XP SP3. I am attaching the log contents when I try to run the ACE.

Sep 25 00:42:59.468: player| Log for VMware Player pid=2112 version=2.5.3 build=build-185404 option=Release
Sep 25 00:42:59.468: player| Host codepage=windows-1252 encoding=windows-1252
Sep 25 00:42:59.468: player| VMware Player: VMware virtual machine player
Sep 25 00:42:59.468: player| Command line: "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmplayer.exe" "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro.vmx"
Sep 25 00:42:59.515: player| Could not open registry path: Software\Thinprint, ret = 2
Sep 25 00:42:59.734: player| HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.
Sep 25 00:42:59.734: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostDisks: \\.\PhysicalDrive3 is neither SCSI nor IDE. Error: The device is not ready
Sep 25 00:42:59.734: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostDisks: \\.\PhysicalDrive4 is neither SCSI nor IDE. Error: The device is not ready
Sep 25 00:42:59.734: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostDisks: \\.\PhysicalDrive5 is neither SCSI nor IDE. Error: The device is not ready
Sep 25 00:42:59.859: player| HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1.
Sep 25 00:42:59.859: player| HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.
Sep 25 00:43:00.546: player| Foundry Init: setting up global state (0 threads)
Sep 25 00:43:00.546: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: Use Preference. vixLogLevel = 0
Sep 25 00:43:00.546: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixDebugPanicOnVixAssert = 0
Sep 25 00:43:00.546: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogRefcountOnFinalRelease = 0
Sep 25 00:43:00.546: player| LOCALE windows-1252 -> NULL User=409 System=409
Sep 25 00:43:00.546: player| VixHost_ConnectEx: version -1, hostType 3, hostName (null), hostPort 0, options 515
Sep 25 00:43:00.718: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=1
Sep 25 00:43:00.734: player| REM-USB: Initializing 'Generic' backend
Sep 25 00:43:00.750: player| USBGW: Connected to HCMON version 3.1
Sep 25 00:43:00.781: player| Opening ACE instance.
Sep 25 00:43:00.968: player| Roaming VM init: master 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:00.968: player| Roaming VM init: shadow 'C:\Documents and Settings\testing\Local Settings\Application Data\VMware\Roaming VM cache\520b284e38f5aa6f-c6ed29dbb5342b15\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:00.968: player| Speed test: Beginning test (500 ms) for E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM
Sep 25 00:43:02.750: player| Speed test: 65536 bytes written in 1775 msec
Sep 25 00:43:02.750: player| Speed test: 36 KBps
Sep 25 00:43:02.750: player| Speed test: Beginning test (1000 ms) for E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM
Sep 25 00:43:03.765: player| Speed test: 3866624 bytes written in 1001 msec
Sep 25 00:43:03.765: player| Speed test: 3772 KBps
Sep 25 00:43:03.859: player| Roaming VM init: master 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:03.859: player| Roaming VM init: shadow 'C:\Documents and Settings\testing\Local Settings\Application Data\VMware\Roaming VM cache\520b284e38f5aa6f-c6ed29dbb5342b15\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:04.203: player| Roaming VM init: master 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:04.203: player| Roaming VM init: shadow 'C:\Documents and Settings\testing\Local Settings\Application Data\VMware\Roaming VM cache\520b284e38f5aa6f-c6ed29dbb5342b15\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:04.437: player| Roaming VM init: master 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:04.437: player| Roaming VM init: shadow 'C:\Documents and Settings\testing\Local Settings\Application Data\VMware\Roaming VM cache\520b284e38f5aa6f-c6ed29dbb5342b15\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:04.937: player| PolicyCheckEmbeddedLicenseInternal: Found valid embedded license.
Sep 25 00:43:04.984: player| VmdbCtxCheckOneof: One-of: /vm/#670885733a13daba/mvm/policyState/val/policySet/authentication/auth/ password none
Sep 25 00:43:04.984: player| VmdbCtxCheckOneof: One-of: /vm/#670885733a13daba/mvm/policyState/val/policySet/authentication/auth/ password none
Sep 25 00:43:04.984: player| VmdbCtxCheckOneof: One-of: /vm/#670885733a13daba/mvm/policyState/val/policySet/authentication/auth/ password none
Sep 25 00:43:05.125: player| Roaming VM init: master 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:05.125: player| Roaming VM init: shadow 'C:\Documents and Settings\testing\Local Settings\Application Data\VMware\Roaming VM cache\520b284e38f5aa6f-c6ed29dbb5342b15\WinXP_Pro.vmx'
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| DISKLIB-SPARSE: "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002-s003.vmdk" : failed to open (15): Failed to load header.
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| DISKLIB-LINK : "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk' with flags 0x15 (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to enum 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk' : 15
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| SNAPSHOT: ConfigInfoExpandDisksInt: Failed to enumerate the disks for 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk'.
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| SNAPSHOT: ConfigInfoExpandDisksInt: Unable to find all files for 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk'
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoExpandDisks: Error 7
Sep 25 00:43:05.515: player| SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoExpand: Error 7
Sep 25 00:43:05.703: player| VE_VVEF: Failed to get suspend files.
Sep 25 00:43:05.703: player| PolicyValidateMVMEncryption: waiting for roaming VM to cache
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| DISKLIB-SPARSE: "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002-s003.vmdk" : failed to open (15): Failed to load header.
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| DISKLIB-LINK : "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk' with flags 0x15 (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to enum 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk' : 15
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| SNAPSHOT: ConfigInfoExpandDisksInt: Failed to enumerate the disks for 'E:\VMware ACE Packages\WinXP_Pro_Portable_3\VM\WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk'.
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| SNAPSHOT: ConfigInfoExpandDisksInt: Unable to find all files for 'WinXP_Pro-000001-cl2-pending002.vmdk'
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoExpandDisks: Error 7
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoExpand: Error 7
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| ConfigInfoExpand failed: A needed file was not found (7)
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| RoamingVM: Failed to point disks to parent
Sep 25 00:43:05.921: player| VMHSVMLoadConfig failed: The master copy of this virtual machine has been corrupted
Sep 25 00:43:05.984: player| Cmd /host2/#_client/util/vm/cmd/##9c/op/manageVM/ failed: The master copy of this virtual machine has been corrupted
Sep 25 00:43:06.000: player| VMDlg::ShowDialog: Error while opening the ACE: The master copy of this virtual machine has been corrupted.
Sep 25 00:43:06.078: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: action=0
Sep 25 00:43:06.078: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: Ungrab MKS
Sep 25 00:43:08.968: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0

I am attaching a screenshot of the contents of my USB drive so you can see the vmdk's that are on it. If you can help me recover the contents on the ACE I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance for any help!

how to update Ace policy manually

laddison — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:59:25 GMT

I am running ACE 2.52 and want to be able to run the ace image, if connected to any ethernet network, wireless and with a 3G card. When the ace image starts, it looks for the server and finds the policy with ethernet and wireless fine. IT does not run the policy when the 3G card is connected and wireless and ethernet is not available. Quite a bit of these laptops will use 3G connection versus ethernet or wireless. I am also launching the image so they are not able to go back to the host.

Is there some sort of script or command I can run to make sure the new policy gets updated from the ace management server? Or are there any suggestions to this scenario.

Licensing Question

mickgreen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:21:33 GMT

Hi guys,

I am really confused about the licensing options for ACE.

I have WS6 with the ACE Option Pack - well I assume it is the ACE option pack as I cannot find any reference to it in WS!! The reason I believe I have it is because I have an option in WS to 'Enable ACE features' which lets me set the deployment settings and policies etc...

The problem I have is this....Having created a VM in workstation I wanted to deploy it to a USB drive which I had no problem doing. I then took the USB drive to another computer where the VM duly complained about not having a license.

From what I understand each device is licensed with a ACE client license not the VM itself. I also thought that if you had the ACD option pack you also have volume key licensing as part of it?? What license do I have to enter into the player to get this to work? Are any client licenses included in the VLK?

Any help is apprecated

Thanks

VMware ACE install error

BrokenEngrish — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:02:29 GMT

I am unable to finalize the install of a VMware ACE Virtual Machine ( vmware-install.pl)

it gives me this error during the install....

"Finalizing ACE... ACE finalization would result in a clock rollback. Please make sure that your clock is correctly set.

Operation failed.

This ACE was not finalized correctly undoing installation...

............

...........

Execution aborted."

Has anyone seen this error and know where to fix it?

VMware ACE Client License Evaluation...

BrokenEngrish — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:21:43 GMT

Can anyone point me in the right direction to find a VMware ACE Client License Evaluation....

Trying to run an instance on Linux and it is asking me for an ACE Client License .... so I'm looking for that in Evaluation form...

Thanks!

Use VM ACE to make a BOOTABLE USB

BrokenEngrish — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:14:20 GMT

I am looking to create a Bootable USB through VM ACE....

Basically I use VM workstation to create a virtual machine then I use VM ACE to make a pocket ACE package on a USB....

I want to be able to plug in my USB into a machine and have that machine bootup the USB and go straight into my Virtual Machine....

I have read all over the place that it can be done, but there hasn't been any links to any kind of procedures on how it's done....

Even a point in the right direction would be great.... if any of you guys can help I'd really appreciate it....

Which client license with ACE 2.5 and Workstation 6.5 ?

UKr@TP — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:22:32 GMT

Hi,

I tried to get informations about this all over the VMware homepage, but everything refers to ACE 2.0 and ACE option for Workstation 6. So nothing about the latest ACE version 2.5 what comes integrated in Workstation version 6.5.x today.

My question is can I use ACE Volume Licensing keys (VLK) in Workstation 6.5 (without a ACE Management Server) to license the ACE packages I deploy instead of buying a ACE Client licenses for each ???

Regards,
UK.

ACE 2.5 Pocket Package slow on Win 7 RTM 64bit

joined — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:16:07 GMT

Hi to all,

why n ACE 2.5 Pocket Package that run really quick on Win XP 64 bit or Win 7 32 bit is REALLY slow on Win 7 64 bit?

Best regards...

Fabio Dell'Aria.

Convert an ACE 2.5 Pocket Package to a classic VM

joined — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:16:12 GMT

Hi to all.

How I can convert an ACE 2.5 pocket package to a classic Virtual Machine?

Best regards...

Fabio Dell'Aria.

Error while opening the ACE: invalid session

bravopapa — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:54:53 GMT

VMware player gives me this message each time I try to power on an ACE package. The VM then fails to power on. The package was created on a separate host, and I'm able to use the preview feature to power it on with VMWare workstation.

Any ideas as to what is invalid about the session, or how to resolve this issue?

vmware ace creating pocket ace error

mshorrosh — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:42:04 GMT

When I click on create new pocket ace package, I'm recieving the error missing ace.dat in my documents and settings folder. Anyone have any idea what is causing this?

Encryption key security in memory

brendanw — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:00:13 GMT

I am evaluating ACE for use as a java development environment for offshore developers. The developers have full access to the source code, but in order to guard our intellectual property, must not be able to cut and paste, or transfer files outside the company network.

We are currently using RDP to machines (locked down) at a company site, but response times can be so slow as the make this unusable.

The ACE solution alternative I was considering:

1. Encrypted ACE vm containing development environment on developer PCs.
2. Restricted networking, only allowing connection to a VPN server. VPN connection requires certifcate installed in ACE vm.
3. Copy and paste to host disabled.

I see at least one potential problem which may allow the encrypted vmdk disk file to be unlocked thus allowing the source code to be transferred electronically.
The ACE/vmplayer executables will be executing as a normal user program and it seems fairly simple to write a win32 program that will dump the memory of any process, thus exposing the encryption key for the configuration file which in turn can be used to find the find the disk encryption key.

Does the vmware ace executable guard against reading of the encryption key for the configuration file and the disk encryption key by another process?

(I understand that the source code could be much more simply captured using screenshots from the host then scanned using OCR - but this could be error prone. If the key can be exposed using the above method then repeating the procedure using the gained knowledge and toolset will be rapid)

Very slow sync ACE 6.0 - improved in later versions?

jerdos8 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:00:30 GMT

Hello -

I have deployed a Vm to a 16gb usb thumb drive. This was built with ACE 6.0, and the performance of the sync is very very slow. Have there been any improvements with the later versions of ACE specifically to the sync speed?

If so, what would be the best course of action to upgrade this thumb image so that the sync performance is improved (later rev of ACE)?

Thanks for any help!

Computer naming in an ACE deployment

mgroover — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:06:07 GMT

Hey,

I'm just wondering if anyone has had any experiences around customizing the computer naming in an ACE instance? The current solution of being able to add a number of characters from the hosts computer name isn't doing it for me.

We currently have computer naming schema which is: SSSSS-T-NNNNNNN (S = SITE, T = ComputerType, N=incremented computer number)

T(Computer Type) is currently one of W(orkstation)/L(ab)/S(erver) .. What I would like to do is taking the current workstation/laptop name (example UKLON-W-0001234) and get the ACE instance to be called UKLON-V-0001234.

Any ideas if it is possible to do this during the final customization phase when the user has launched it in the VMWare Player through the VIX API?

ACE Management Installation on CentOS 5.3

midwestmex — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:00:55 GMT

Greetings,

I'm trying a first installation of VMware ACE Management Server on a fresh installation of CentOS. I'm using the RHEL4 RPM package off the website and I'm running into an issue starting apache. Here is the error I'm receiveing:

Starting httpd: Thu May 21 10:58:49 2009 warn module ldap_module is already loaded, skipping
httpd: Syntax error on line 210 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax
error on line 7 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/acesc.conf: API module structure
`xmlrpc_module' in file /var/lib/vmware/acesc/lib/mod_xmlrpc.so is
garbled - perhaps this is not an Apache module DSO?

Any suggestions on moving forward? I'm rather new to VM so apologize for being green behind the ears. Thanks.

How do I create a Live CD/ PE Connection to ACE ?

bdmeyersc — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:23:55 GMT

I have been asked to come up with a method to connect to our ACE server.

ACE runs fine, currently we authenticate via RSA Tokens.

What I would like to do is, provide end users a USB Flash Drive that they can boot their home PC to, it will run something like UBCD4WIN, Barts PE, or actually, any Live CD type environment. This is all easy enough. What I would like some idea's for is overcoming these requirements without reinventing the wheel:

Java is installed
Webstart is installed
Once the Live CD is launched it immediately launches the browser
Change the default home page of the browser to point to our server.
When the user exits the browser/ACE environment, the USB Booted Live CD Environment reboots the machine.

Has anyone done anything like this, or aware of a good Live CD / PE environment that would be a good starting point for this?

I would just hate to spend a lot of time building my own only to find out their is already some sort of project working on this I could join.

Thanks for any help,

--Bruce D. Meyer

Update:

Reading around, I found 'Pocket Ace' It seems that this actually runs a stored image from the thumb drive, and doesn't actually connect to an ACE server. Or is it possible to have Pocket Ace connect to and run from the ACE server ?

I also thought about VMPlayer. Perhaps their is a solution to this using VMPlayer... Just thinking out loud...

VMware ACE Starter kit 30-day evaluation

momantai — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:03:30 GMT

Does the 30-day evaluation version of the ACE starter kit support "Pocket ACE packages" ?

The page "http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=1000645&sliceId=1" states the following:

"Note: If you have a Volume License for Workstation 6
ACE Option Pack, you will not see this prompt because the Volume
License embeds client licenses in the package. You do not need to enter
separate licenses for any ACE client, in this case."

However, no matter what I try, the client's VMplayer always comes up it is running on a public free license but requires a "VMplayer ACE license key".....

Disappearing icon for network access status.

MrHutz — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:17:32 GMT

Having a similar issue on 3 host systems with ACE VMs loaded.

The tray icon which shows the status of the network access policy has disappeared from the host system. Some of these users have been having network connectivity issues at remote sites and are unable to identify if the access policy is being applied incorrectly. When ACE is started, the VM does display the correct network access information. The hosts are running a mixture of Windows XP Pro SP2 and SP3. The loaded ACE version is 2.5.1, build 126130.

Is there a way to force the icon to appear on the host?

VMware ACE Management Server on Debian

dave92082 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:42:41 GMT

I have downloaded the ACE management server virtual appliance and noticed that it is running under Debian. This is all great for our environment, however when I go to download the ACE Management server application to integrate into our existing debian environment, the only packages available are for SLES and RHEL. Is there are debian package available, or are the files tar.gz'd anwhere to download and set up into an existing debain environment?

Memory restriction in ACE managed images?

malcolml — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:38:20 GMT

Hi All,

Can anyone confirm for me whether it is possible to set an upper limit on the memory that an ACE managed vmware image can access. For example, suppose I have a host with 8GB memory, can I restrict the memory allocation of individual virtual machines to, say, 2GB each?

Many thanks,

malcolm

ACE - Create a package from a VM fails with error

tweyell — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:22:09 GMT

Hi,

I am new to ACE and I have a question.

I created a ACE Server on Windows in my Workstation. I also created a other Windows Machine and enabled ACE for this VM. I changed some propeties e.x. the date of expire and created a package. This works perfect. The VM was able to start and so on.

Then I created a new package from the same VM. This package was not able to start. I get the following error:

"Error while opening the ACE: Access to this ACE is blocked. This ACE was not installed properly or it has been corrupted."

Can you give me some information about this? Is it only possible to create one package from one VM?

Thanks,

Thomas

How to use USB HDD as a boot hard drive?

senglory — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:56:15 GMT

VMWare Workstation ACE v6.0.4-93057

I set USB HDD as a bootable hard disk in my WinXP-based machine. But when I start from CD inside of it it tells me that there's no HDD. How to fix this problem?

Is it possible to start an ACE instance as a service on Windows Vista without logging in to the host?

wwward — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:44:44 GMT

My design calls for a kiosk mode ACE instance to start on a Windows Vista host without requiring the user to logon to the Windows Vista host.

For security policy compliance, I cannot leave the Vista host logged on, or automatically logged on.

Ideally, I would have the ACE instance launch as a service, and then take over the display as a kiosk - the user would then logon to the instance as if it was natively running on the computer. This is to accommodate a legacy desktop platform while we comply with a mandate to deploy Vista.

Slow startup after installing packages

marius — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:48:27 GMT

Some users report that their PCs (mainly notebooks) have a slow startup (up to ten minutes) after installing an ACE pachage.

If they remove their ACE package the startup performances returns normal.

If they reinstall the ACE package the startup returns slow.

How can we troubleshoot and solve this issue?

Regards

Marius

ACE Host Network Access Policy

daza35 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:57:13 GMT

Am looking at deploying ACE for temp workers in our company. From the manuals I understand that if you use a network access policy to restrict Host access on the Internal network (but allow guest) this is still active even when the ACE instrance is not running on the host.

Does the network access policy expire if you have the ACE instance set to expire, or do you have to uninstall the ACE instance (and or VMPlayer) to disbale the Network Access policy ?

thanks

Workstation/ACE performance on AMD desktop/laptop processors

arjaysam1 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:01:13 GMT

I would be interested in hearing other people's experience with Workstation/ACE (newer builds) on AMD dual-core desktop and/or laptop processors. In another thread I have been describing my trials and tribulations with WS6.5/ACE package creation of Vista builds on an HP laptop with an AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-82 (2.2GHz) CPU. In a word, ACE fails on the package build consistently with what appears to be a timeout issue inside Vista during package creation. The package creation works perfectly when the files are transferred to a Core Duo machine ( a "slow" Core Duo at 1.6GHz). Both host machines are running Vista as the host O/S. In the case of the laptop the whole process has been tried under Vista Buisness 32bit as well as 64bit and results have been identical -- a dismal failure.

The Turion machine seems reasonably speedy in all other aspects and XP builds inside ACE package just fine. I know Core Duo's tend to be faster and better performing than Turion dual-cores but it seems silly to me that a 1.6GHz Core Duo is THAT much faster than the AMD running at 2.2GHz. And if anyone from VMware is looking at this it would be nice to know if there are known "issues" with using Turion machines.

3D acceleration (not software)

scylla — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:45:49 GMT

Hello,

I've been told that it is possible to use real 3D acceleration (not software) with ACE by making the local 3D video card on the host available to the virtual machine.

Is this true, if so, were is it documented (specs, howto's ,etc).

We want to be able to use CAD software and not be limited by performance issues created by 3D acceleration functionalities simulated through a software abstraction.

Thanks.

Migrate from Ace 2.0 to Ace 2.5

KrisBroux — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:12:43 GMT

Hi, has anyone done this update/upgrade already?
Are there things to lookout for. Can the server be upgraded or is it best to install an new Ace 2.5 server.

How does this affect current users. They use an ace image with vm-player on laptops.

Vista package creation in WS6.5/ACE

arjaysam1 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:59:19 GMT

Here is a simple question to all: has anyone succeeded in creating an ACE Vista package in the latest version of WS 6.5/ACE using the ACE deployment settings? If so, can you please doucment how you got there? I keep bombing out in the mini-setup phase when I run preview. It looks like some sort of sysprep info is missing but I have no idea how to provide it or even get to the sysprep files the deployment process creates.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Microsoft licensing

maxou2 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:39:31 GMT

Hi,

the same old question again but it seems that nobody has an answer ( Microsft first ).

The question is about the licensing of the MS product ( first of all the os ) that we want to virtualize in an ACE environment. To be more specific we have a certain number of clients with Vista OEM license ( downgraded to XP ) and we want to use an ACE environment to run legacy and other programs in a separate environment ( guest OS Windows 2000 ). These environments will be active as the same time. All the virtualization is local - on lthe client - no server . Keeping in mind that our company has a select Volume License the question is what Microsoft license schemas are suitable for this scenario? ( Microsoft sugggested SA and EA but this seems to be a persuasive position... )

Anybody face the same problem?

Thanks for your help

Certificate did not verify

chewblocka — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:31:48 GMT

I'm trying to evaluate ACE. I have the ACE server running and my workstation with ACE pack running great. I created a simple ACE instance to try and deploy on my linux laptop. However, when I try and run it I get an error that the "certificate did not verify". I did upload an SSL certificate and did not use the self signed one (and it's a wildcard certificate). However, I'm not sure this is the issue. First off, the errors I saw in the log file looked like this....

Oct 22 10:50:38.315: vmplayer| Error loading libxmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3: libxmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
Oct 22 10:50:38.316: vmplayer| Error loading /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/lib
xmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Oct 22 10:50:38.324: vmplayer| Error loading libxmlrpc_client.so.3: libxmlrpc_client.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or dir
ectory
Oct 22 10:50:38.324: vmplayer| Error loading /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc_client.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc_client.so.3: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlr
pc_client.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc_client.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Oct 22 10:50:38.334: vmplayer| Error loading libxmlrpc_util.so.3: libxmlrpc_util.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directo
ry
Oct 22 10:50:38.334: vmplayer| Error loading /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc_util.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc_util.so.3: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc_u
til.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc_util.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Oct 22 10:50:38.343: vmplayer| Error loading libxmlrpc.so.3: libxmlrpc.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Oct 22 10:50:38.344: vmplayer| Error loading /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc.so.3-i386/libxmlrpc.so.3: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc.so.3-i386/l
ibxmlrpc.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

None of the directories in the /usr/lib/vmware/lib had the '-i386' on the name so I created a bunch of symbolic links. However, that didn't fix the error and here's what the log says now...

Oct 22 11:18:39.046: vmplayer| Opening ACE instance.
Oct 22 11:18:39.349: vmplayer| ACESCLIB: AceSC.SessionOpen failed SSL certificate verfication (Curl failed to perform HTTP POST request. curl
_easy_perform() says: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
Oct 22 11:18:39.349: vmplayer| error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed).ACESCLIB: Error in xmlrpc op
eration (-504): Curl failed to perform HTTP POST request. curl_easy_perform() says: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. D
etails:
Oct 22 11:18:39.350: vmplayer| error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
Oct 22 11:18:39.353: vmplayer| Cmd /host2/#_client/util/vm/cmd/##a8/op/manageVM/ failed: Certificate did not verify.

It's very hard to evaluate with errors like this.

How to install vmware esx 3.5 on vmware ACE?

rah_jad — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:00:49 GMT

Is this possible to install vmware esx 3.5 on vmware ACE or VMware Workstation 6.5.0? If yes? How to install it.

ACE Policy Update fails

meh — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:28:33 GMT

I have an ACE package that was deployed several weeks ago, which we just identified a bug in one of the files deployed as an ACE Resource. I have fixed the bug and was planning to create a policy update package that I would deploy to correct the issue (the ACE Resource folder has its integrity verified by ACE, so we cannot simply replace the files in question).

However, when I install the policy update package, the install works perfectly fine, but when I go to start the ACE instance, I get the error message "Error while opening the ACE: Error while loading this ACE's policies." This is using VMware ACE 2.0.3 if that make any difference. Also, I am NOT using the ACE Management Server.

If anyone has any suggestions to what is causing this issue and how to resolve it, that input would be greatly appreciated. Also, if there is another way to update the ACE Resources that VMWare ACE will accept (without rejecting the changed files), that would be great to know.

Thanks!

ACE 2.5 documentation

marius — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:44:33 GMT

I installed ACE 2.5 and I am creating packages.
Where can I locate detailed documentation about the meaning and the effects of policy settings?
The VMware Workstation manual does not provide in-depth information...
Regards
Marius

ACE client licensing

marius — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:08:00 GMT

I am in trouble about client licensing.
If I purchase a 1 year license and I distribuite to a given user (let's say User1) a pachage including a VM that will expire in 60 days, at the end of the 60 days can I use the same client license to distribute another package to a different user (let's say User2)?
I looked at the web sitwe but I was unable to find an answer to this trouble.
Regards
Marius

Creating a single file package for download

djsvmware — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:39:53 GMT

I would like the resultant package to be a single file that the user can download. Is there a built-in way to support this.

I know I could create a self-extractor to do this - but it then requires 2 complete copies of the package on the target machine - one in the sfx and one extracted. Then the actual setup instance will be twice as big as either package. So if I have a 500 MB package, 2 GB will be required to install it and if the user does not clean up the extract files, they will still eat up the unnecessary 500 MB.

Thanks,

VMware ACE setup

Brownestone — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:38:47 GMT

Hi,

I am new to ACE and would like to set it up in a test lab to evaluate it. However I was wondering if I could get a kick start regarding this.

I have Workstation, Management Server 2.5.0 exe and Management Server Appliance downloaded now but where do I need to install these files. The Management server is obviously needed to manage the ACEs however are both of them needed? And workstation is needed to build the ACEs but can this be ran on the same VM as the management server?

Coexistance issues

marius — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:04:16 GMT

I plan to use ACE to distribuite application demos.
I can limit my packages to run in a Windows environment, but what is expected to happen if the target host:

already have VMware Player installed
already have VMware Workstation installed
already have VMware server installed
already have VirtualPC installed
already have VirtualBOX installed?

I want to make my packages available to as many hosts as it is possible, but how can I avoid creating problems to the existing implementations?
Regards
Marius

Script samples

marius — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:40:04 GMT

Where can I locate samples of script used by ACE?
Regards
Marius

Limiting ACE to run a VM only on a specific host

marius — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:48:07 GMT

Is there a way to configure ACE so that a specific VM can be run only on a specific host, based on the BIOS id, the Serial Number, the MAC address or any other HW specific data?

In other word, is it possible to creare an ACE VM suitable to be opened and/or run ONLY on a given physical PC?

If a solution exists, is it possible to easily create different copies of the same VM, each one associated to a specific host?

Possible solutions based on otjer VMware products are welcome as well...

Regards

Marius

network sharing problem

fan0o — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:20:45 GMT

i have 4 physical NICs on my machine two are physically bridged with ace vmware workstation guest machine and two are attached with host machine.... 1nic on host and 1 nic on guest machine are configured to broadband DSL and 1 nic on host and 1 nic on guest are sharing local network.... i have proxy servers configured on both host and guest.... proxy works perfect on both host and guest machines but what i want is that when i connect to proxy server either host or guest from a client computer it should use its respective DSL connection right now what is happening is that even i connect to host or guest only one DSL is being used at a time...i want when i connect to guest proxy the guest DSL should respond and when i connect to host proxy the host DSL should respond where right now only one DSL entertain my request when i try to connection from a client computer

i have DSL configured correctly on host and guest machine and local network is also working fine ping is successfully working on host and guest machine

thank you for your time

qualified for the Kingston Data Traveler 400 4GB USB Flash Drive

erichzanellato — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:16:11 GMT

I got from Vmware the email " qualified for the Kingston Data Traveler 400 4GB USB Flash Drive ", but I can't respond to the ace25beta <ace25beta@vmware.com>

I Got the following message:

"Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:
Beta-Program-dl-mgr@vmware.com
Your message wasn't delivered because of security policies. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator.
Sent by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 "

any Idea?
let me know
thanks
Erich

Ubuntu webserver on VMware

Algoritmus — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:01:55 GMT

Dear Gurus,Girls and Guys !

I am new in VMware and Linux.

That is what I'd like to do:

Host OP: Vista

Gest: Ubuntu on virtual machine with Apache web server

Target: Reach webpage on webserver from outside.I'm behind a router.

What is done:

Vista with VMware: OK

Ubuntu on gest: OK

Apache OK

Port forward set OK

From host my webpage is reachable OK

From gest my webpage is reachable OK

If I write my dyndns name into the browser they cant find anything....

What's wrong ?

Thanks a lot

Attila

Rerun Sysprep on VMWare Client Machines

ChristopherK — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:22:47 GMT

Due to a problem with a domain controller, ~40 VMWare client (using ACE) have fallen off of our domain. Instead of logging into each one locally and having an administrator readd the clients to the domain, I'd like to have it rerun through the sysprep that it does when it first launches on a new client machine. I'm a bit new to ACE, can anyone tell me if it's possible to have it run through that again after it's already been in use?

Licensing issues

marius — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:34:41 GMT

Maybe I should rather ask this question to Microsoft, but I hope that somebody already found a possible solution...

I am considering using ACE to ditribute a pre-configured VM to let customer use an evaluate a custom application for a limited amount of time. From the technical point of view I think it works.

However, the virtual machine must use a Microsoft Windows operating system (Windows XP or Windows Server 2003). How can I legally distribute such virtual machine without violating Microsoft licensing? I know that Microsoft allows using demo versions of some operating systems, but I don't think I can redistribute them using tools like ACE.

Have anybody faced a similar problem and found a legal solution?

If I find a legal solution from the Microsoft point of view, what kind of ACE license shoud I pourchase from the VMware point of view?

Regards

Marius

ACE serving component?

Zirnstein — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:01:02 GMT

Hi to all VMware experts!

I've a question regarding ACE Management Server. In the administrator's manual a component "ACE serving component" is mentioned to analyse/read the event log DB. What component is this? I haven't found anything about this component on the VMware website and nothing using search in the internet.

Friendly Regards

Holger

ACE session minimizes

JasonHarvey — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:38:00 GMT

Is there a quick setting to change it so the ACE session does not minimize to the toolbar of the host after 10 minutes or so of not being used?

ACE package policies

JasonHarvey — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:30:26 GMT

This is probably a simple question. I am wondering if a package can have policies based off Active Directory group membership or do you have to create a separate package. For instance usb device access, network quarantine, etc. If this is possible, how do you set it up in 2.5

Logs of ACE Managment Server

k-75 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:23:11 GMT

Logging Page of ACE Managment Server contains settings for Logs. I am set these settings.

Where to look to these Logs of ACE Managment Server for analysis?

ACE on a "Live CD"

gaace — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:17:29 GMT

Is it possible to take an Ace Image and put it on a CD/DVD so it boots automatically on insert?

ACE Hot Fix when Master no longer exist

JamesVan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:24:30 GMT

Hello all. I had created an ACE package early last year and deployed to only a couple of people. Later in the year I created a new one that is now our standard. One of the original users now has a new PC and copied over his ACE package. He did not upgrade to the new one first. Now I need to apply a hot fix to get it running on the new computer (copy protection is enabled). I no longer have the origanal master. Is there anyway to create a hot fix for the copy protection without the orginal ACE master?

Player embedded with Deployed ACE

nbomont — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:00:49 GMT

I've been testing a ACE desktop , deployed to a usb stick. Does anyone know if it is possible to put the vmware player directly in the package? If yes, how? I tried but in the documention it is written that the player has to be installed before being able to start the VM. Pehasps I will test to make a thinapp package for vm player, I will see if it works.

The probleme is for example, in Cyber Café, I presume I will not be able t install the player.

Thanks

Cloning ACE Masters

ESZ — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:35:10 GMT

After cloning an ACE master I seem to get the message that "ID in use on server" with the new machine, if I allow the new clone to overwrite the ID then the original machine give "Invalid session" error and won't start. Basically, I have several variations which I wanted all to be active in the field at the same time, but I don't want to start from scratch each time. I guess I confused on why cloning would not create an ACE master with a new unique ID, or am I missing something fundamental here.....

Ace Resource file is too big can not create the package. Ace resource files can not exceed 4GB

Cryptik — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:39:05 GMT

I have run into a problem when packaging my ACE. My ACE is 15GB and I would preferably like to split the package into 2 on 2 dual layer DVD's. I don't think it should be a problem since the dvds are 8.5GB each. When I try to create my package and use a custom setting to create two 8.5GB or 8500mb DVDs the creation fails and reports the above error.

The strange thing is if I select to split the file up to into 3x 4.7GB conventional DVD sizes over 3 DVDs there is no error. If I select 1 network image, again no error. Each of those two cases the ACE resource files have been split into small 1GB-3GB files. Where as when I try to create 2x 8.5GB images for dual layer DVDs instead the system try's to create one large ace resource file instead a number of small ones. Is there something in the package setup I need to do or this a limitation of the software?

Thanks

Ace VMCI vulnerability

thedugan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:46:55 GMT

For anyone running version 2.0 - 2.0.3 what are you doing about this VMCI vulnerability.

Is it a real risk?
How did you test or how do you test to see if you have machines at risk?
If you have this enabled can you disable or just delete files on the host machines or do you have to upgrade to 2.0.4?

i need to assign administrative right for current user (host) on guest machine

lourh — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:38:51 GMT

Hi,

I need to assign administrative rights automatically ( will be member of local administrators) to user connected on host machine. using ACE instance cuostmization for vista instance, the guest must be memeber of domain and the current user must (also member for a domain) will be also a member of local administrators group.

which script will be launched and when can execute it to perform this action?

Thanks

ACE Player Silent Install via USB

jalalabadass — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:19:03 GMT

I've been evaluating Workstation ACE Edition 6 as a way for users to access our VPN from their home computers using a USB flash drive. There are a couple problems I need to solve regarding the ease of use for end users:

*ACE Player installation needs to be silent/unattended (if not then ACE is a no go because it needs to be super easy)

*Upon shutdown the player asks the user if he/she would like to sync back to the USB flash drive. I need this answered automatically so the user doesn't even see this prompt.

So the user inserts USB flash drive, Player installs if it is not already, VM launches and on its own, user shuts down guest when finished and the Player closes without any prompts. Is this possible?

Thanks,

Workstation ACE package install folder

themadhatter — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:15:36 GMT

All,

Got a problem, wondering if anyone can help?

We are using VMWare Workstaion ACE v6.0.2 to create virtual machines. Our naming convention is Image 1 v1.0 etc, but we have been releasing subsequent versions, for example Image 1 v1.1 in packages that we then stick on DVD and take to the host machines.

We have noticed that the default package install path is still that of the original master image Image 1 v1.0, instead of the path that relates to the updated package version.

Is there anyway to change this? I cannot see anything in the package policy settings.

Many thanks in advance.

themadhatter

ACE Management certificate problem

clausp — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:31:27 GMT

Hi,

Due to various reasons our ACE Management Server was completely reloaded. There was no backup of the server. The database is remote so this exists. After reinstalling it we have the following problem.

When deploying new ace instances we get the error: "Error while opening ACE: Certificate did not verify"

We have tried to generate a new resource package, without luck - We have tried to create new self-signed certificates (and then a new resource package), without luck

Found a hit saying that we should check time and date on the Management server... time was fine

Any ideas?

The error log from one of the ace instances looks like this:

May 23 11:23:46.596: player| Log for VMware Player pid=2456 version=2.0.2 build=build-59824 option=ReleaseMay

23 11:23:46.596: player| Hostname=<censored>

May 23 11:23:46.596: player| VMware Player: VMware virtual machine player

May 23 11:23:46.596: player| Command line: "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\vmplayer.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware ACE\XP-ACE\XP-ACE.vmx"

May 23 11:23:46.596: player| Could not open registry path: Software\Thinprint, ret = 2

May 23 11:23:46.737: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostDisks: CreateFile \\.\PhysicalDrive0 failed: Access is deniedMay 23 11:23:46.752: player| HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1.May 23 11:23:46.752: player| HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.

May 23 11:23:47.409: player| Foundry Init: setting up global state (0 threads)May 23 11:23:47.409: player| Foundry Init: version 3, hostType 1, hostName (null), hostPort 0, options 0x203

May 23 11:23:47.659: player| Opening ACE instance.

May 23 11:23:49.518: player| ACESCLIB: Error in xmlrpc operation (-504): Curl failed to perform HTTP POST request. curl_easy_perform() says: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:

May 23 11:23:49.518: player| error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

May 23 11:23:49.518: player| Cmd /host2/#_client/util/vm/cmd/##5f/op/manageVM/ failed: Certificate did not verify

May 23 11:23:49.534: player| VMDlg::ShowDialog: Error while opening the ACE: Certificate did not verify.

ACE Management Reload

micathconf — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:46:37 GMT

I recently lost my SAN and had to reload from scratch. The ACE Management Server backup was unusable so I had to load it fresh.

I'm trying to get the policies for my ACE Client (Workstation) to push back to the new ACE server and am getting the error:

"Could Not Load Policies from Server"

I can add new ACE policies to the server but not old ones. I've tried disabling and re-enabling the ACE feature to no avail. I've looked around in the file system on the ACE Management server looking for the policies but haven't found them. I'm using the pre-wrapped Management VM that VMWare provides on an ESX 3.5 host machine.

Seems like there should be a way to wipe the information that ties my ACE instance to the old Management server but I'm coming up short on how.

Thanks,
Ryan

Snapshots in ACE

smmmmqog — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:21:00 GMT

Hello all,

Been using VMWare Workstation and Player for a couple years but this is my first post here. Forgive me if it's a dumb one.

For a couple years we've been making VM's in Workstation 5.x, putting them on clients where we ran them in VM Player. After a small amount of customization on the local client we would take a permanent snapshot by reaching across the network with Workstation. This made the snapshot accessible only to IT staff and not to the end user.

Now I am upgrading to Workstation 6 ACE edition, with the ACE version of the player on the clients and it appears that I cannot do the same thing. When I sit at my VMware Workstation and try to reach across to the client I get the error message:

Could not open virtual machine: "path/name etc"
This is a Workstation ACE Edition virtual machine. Please open it in VMware Player.

Does this mean it is no longer possible for me to take a snapshot on each client from my Workstation? If that's the case, how can I take final, permanent snapshots on each client that are untouchable by the end-users?

Many thanks,
Ray

ACE 2.0 Remote domain join using microsoft vpn client

RobMawdesley — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:07:42 GMT

I'm trying to join an ace instance remotely to a domain uisng the built in microsoft vpn client.

On the ace master I have created a vpn connection without username and password (available to all users)

on the line for the vpn command i use:

rasdial.exe temp SA_ACEVPN "%password%" /Domain:domainname

temp - name of the vpn to logon (does not prompt for username and password or user windows integrated creditionals)

SA_ACEVPN - Just to logon the domain for vpn

"%password%" - do i need the speech mark's

can i enter the command above like this or do i need to enter this in a .bat file. If I put this in a .bat file can I still %password% inthe bat file

Pocket Ace VM Life Expectancy

mark.kempe — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:05 GMT

Hello

I am looking at moving my vm to a 32Gb Flash drive. I have read that the life expectancy of a flash drive is around 10,000 writes to a block. What is the average life expectancy of a vista vm on a USB drive? At 10,000 writes, you would think a vm would only last around a week or so under normal operations before it started failing. Is a USB drive really a feasable solution for a vm?

Your opinions are greatly apreciated.

Mark

Can't run Pocket ACE

David Guest — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:38:57 GMT

When I try to run my Pocket ACE I get a message that there is a synchronizatin error that It can't write to the synchronization cache.

How can I recover my pocket ace from this condition.

Thank you

Most frustrating: ACE instance cannot access network

mltx — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:47:10 GMT

I have been successful in using ACE 1.x to create ACE Packagees which are restricted to connect certain assigned IP addresses e.g.

69.77.67.32/255.255.255.0

But now when I tried to use VMware 6.0.3 ACE Edition to create an ACE Package, I was puzzled by the policies interface and terms changed. There are more options than before. I followed my past settings in filling the Network Access, but when I try it by using "Preview in Player", it cannot access the IP I assigned. However, if I sellected "Allow all other addresses" in "Ruleset Editor - ACE Instacne in Everywhere", it works (but not I want).

I feel I was stucked somewhere around "Ruleset Editor - ACE Instacne in Everywhere", but have strugled a lot without any luck.

Anybody may have any ideas? Thank you in advance.

Bad system call (core dumped)

supercell — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:42:16 GMT

SETUP:

Host: Windows Vista Ultimate

Guest: FreeBSD 7.0

Perl 5.8.8 installed

ISSUE:

Installing vmware-tools from installation instructions (VMWare). All goes well until I reach: "Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by invoking the following command: "/usr/local/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want this program to invoke the command for you now? yes I choose the default.

This configuration program is to be executed in a virtual machine.

Execution aborted. (I am logged in as su -)

Bad system call (dore dumped)

Any advice would be great!

supercell

setting recovery key ...??

neo@vmworld — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:29:35 GMT

What is the concept of setting the 'recovery key' in Acess Control while Editing the policies for the ACE master.

And what doest it mean that:-- "existing public key" or " Create New Recovery Key".

Practically, I tried to do it. Created new Recovery Key, Set the path, but After deploying ace master, while Launching it, giving error message.

"Error running your ACE power on hook policy script. An internal erroe was encountered while your ACE's policy script."

What to do with "SunSXDE108.vmx.lck" folder after successful Solaris shutdown?

mattad — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:13:34 GMT

I started and shutdown successfully Solaris Express in ACE v6.0.3

However sometimes (not always) a folder "SunSXDE108.vmx.lck" with a lock files remains in the VM directory.

Why?

How do I get rid of this folder (and file(s) inside)? Can I simply delete the stuff?

Matt

Vista Ultimate (host), FreeBSD 7.0 (guest) ./vmware-install.pl error

supercell — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:18:26 GMT

Curious as to why this is occurring (see attachment).

FreeBSD 6.3 freezes during bootup (Guest): VMware Workstation ACE Edition 6.0.3 build-80004 (Vista Ultimate)

supercell — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:34:41 GMT

Well I thought that it was just FreeBSD 7.0 that was the reason behind the freeze during bootup. FreeBSD 6.3 does the same thing! Is FreeBSD compatible with VMware Workstation ACE Edition 6.0.3 build-80004 (Vista Ultimate)? Again, it installs just fine. It is the initial bootup that will not work. Any advice?

Thanks!

VMWare Ace 1.0 6.0.3 build-80004 FreeBSD 7.0

supercell — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:10:38 GMT

Is FreeBSD compatible as a guest with Ace 1.0 6.0.3 build-80004? When I installed 7.0 it installed perfectly. When I started it for the first time, during boot up it just hung.

Not able to run ACE Instances

xyz1234 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:17:21 GMT

we are getting following error while trying to run ACE instance from other PC in the newtork:Error while opening the ACE: This ACE has been unable to contact its ACE Management Server. Check your network connection and try again, or contact your ACE administrator.

VMWare workstation ACE edition and ACE Management server are installed on my PC. i am accessing my PC from remote pc to access package and running setup.exe .

If i install ACE instance on my pc itself it works fine! windows firewall service is stopped on both the PC's. any idea where i am going wrong?

ACE, Encryption Keys and Memory

pbd — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:21:59 GMT

Hello,

I'm looking at ACE as a method to decrease the level of trust required of a host machine. A couple of simple:

Keys: Is it possible to supercede the encryption keys issued with new keys either generated by VMware or oneself?

Memory: From what I understand when the Player/Server/Ace VMM releases memory to the host it is 'cleared' - how much trust can be placed in this? Second do ACE apps generate a .vmem file to swap data from VM memory and release to the host? Can this be mitigated/avoided? An encryption key (say Vista's BitLocker) in use within a guest would reside in clear in memory when in use - if swapped to the host this could compromised (I have no idea of tools that would but can see it happening). The Ideal configuration would be where the only data 'leaving' the VM would consist of network traffic, and the contents of VMDK files.

Video resolution / Color Depth

rbmadison — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:15:20 GMT

We have a application that requires a specific resolution and color depth in order to accurately display images for medical diagnosis. Displaying these images requires minimum video card requirements. These images are very detailed and even if it's a pixel off that would be bad. If we run this application in a VM as an ACE package is the resolution and color depth as accurate as if it was running directly on the hardware? If there is any possibility that the resolution or colors are not accurate then we will stick with hardware. Are there any documents that describe how VMWare deals with different resolutions and color depths in the host and VM?

Thanks

Ace Guest names not appearing in Ace Management Server

kill bill — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:28:02 GMT

I have the latest addition of Vmware Ace 6.0 build XXXX. My Ace Management server displays the package name and IP

Address, but it fails to populate the actual Ace name. These Ace instances that have been deployed have not been joined

to the domain, but instead have been left in "Workgroup." When I deploy an Ace instance I run sysinternals to change

the SID and name the computer. When I go to my Ace Management Server I can see an IP address, but I cannot see

the name generated from sysinternals. When I look at the properties of the ACE VM I can see the name in the guest.

Could someone tell me why this is so?

Mouse ungrab problem

morrow — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:42:00 GMT

I have a similar problem, but I can't figure out how to make a new post...

I have VMware Workstation ACE 6.0.2 and I have a mouse problem. I have installed XP Pro SP2 and I installed the VMware Tools. Before VMware tools was installed my mouse stayed locked in the window until I pressed Ctrl+Alt...this was good. After tools it did the automatic grab/ungrab thing. I went to Edit>Preferences>Input and I unchecked the bottom 3 boxes, so it would stop auto grab/ungrab. It seemed to work fine, but if I drag my mouse to the very right edge or very bottom edge of the window, the mouse can get ungrabbed! It seems like some sort of bug...

How can I force my mouse to stay locked in the window? It was fine before VMware tools were installed...I even unchecked the mouse driver during the install!

I need it to stay grabbed so I can play older games.

ACE on NB Lenovo T61

ferdis — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:17:09 GMT

After VM starts on ACE 2.0.2, HostPC turn to blue screen in appr. 1 minute.
Host is Windows XP Prof. SP2. VM is WinXP Prof SP2. It shows the same behaviour with VM MSDOS 6.22 without network configured.

Error is only on Lenovo T61 (model: 6458-CT0, tested on two pieces).
It is not reported on other models.

Logs and picture of blue screen included.

VmWare ACE network policies and a VPN

jerwin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:30:06 GMT

I am currently testing VmWare ACE network policies to figure out how I should configure them, and I'm stumbling in terms of getting the firewall settings to allow the exact communcations I want out of the Ace instance while locking down everything else. I used the "quick setup" feature of the network policy to set things up. I allowed all host trafiic, and then blocked all guest trafiic except for local dns, dhcp, etc... then locked down to only allow access to the guest on all ports/protocols via the vpn endpoint IP address, 3 specific websites and the LAN address range for the private side of the VPN.

Using this firewall ruleset, I was able to connect to the VPN, but unable to acquire an IP address via DHCP on the LAN on the other side of the VPN. It just hung on "acquiring IP address". This does work with a fully open network policy, so the question is what I need to open up that I haven't, or what different approaches I need to take to get this to work the way I want. Here are some screen shots of the current policies.

thanks,

Revert to reimage snapshot on reboot rather than poweroff?

prenticet — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:13:09 GMT

Greetings,

2 questions -

1.I know it's possible to revert to reimage snapshot on power-off, or you can set your disks to independent-nonpersistent, which also requires power off. Is there any way to have that happen on just a reboot?

We are running a 36 computer public internet lounge in a library. Base pcs are all Dell optiplex 740's with XP sp2 OS. We are running ACE 2.0.2 on top with an XP sp2 guest OS.

The ACE product is currently set to run as the shell of the base machine, and all security is managed via group policy and the library time management software. There is built-in functionality to reboot when a user's session is done, and at this point, I'd like it to come up with a fresh image, no user settings saved after each session.

My only other option seems to be to write a script using wmi to manage starting and restarting the ace so I can implement the reverting feature, whi, in my mind, is another layer of complexity to worry about maintaining.

2. the revert to reimage snapshop is a property of vmplayer, we are locking the users out of the player menu. is there a way to script/centrally manage that setting, or do I physically have to set it on each computer before restricting the menu?

Thanks for your help,

Taylor

VmWare Tools time sync settings mismatch

Maarek — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:57:48 GMT

I have time synchronization disabled in vmware tools (windows XP) in my ACE master, but after creating and installing the package, time synchronization is enabled.

If I disable package protection, package .vmx file contains the following keys

tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
time.synchronize.tools.enable = "1"
time.synchronize.tools.startup = "1"

even if my ACE master .vmxa file is set as follows:

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.tools.enable = "0"
time.synchronize.tools.startup = "0"

Is there a way to avoid this behavior or, at worse, a way to configure vmware tools at first boot using a script?

Thanks.

Problems applying Hotfix

Alan.t — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:12:46 GMT

I have received a hot fix request for a machine that has expired. I am able to open the hotfix.vmhr and successfully create the new hotfix.vmhf with a future expiration date using ACE.

On the machine with the expirerd VM, double clicking on this hotfix file prompts whether i would like to apply the hotfix, but when saying yes the next screen says "Could not apply the Hotfix.... ...Failed to update the {machinename}.

I am using VMware Workstation ACE Edition 6.0.0 (Build45731) on Server 2000

If anyone can help me with this, i would really appreciate it - I desperately need to get this working.

Many thanks

Alan

Network adapters in VMware ACE player

gusa — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:51:39 GMT

I have create an Ubuntu VM -- it all work fine if I run the VM in VMware workstation ACE edition

But.. When I create a ACE master from the working VM, the Network card is not found. Ubuntu reports that eth0 is not found! This happens when I test the new master in VMware workstation ACE edition when I test the package in the Player

Any suggestions?

Gus

Update ACE Guest Instance keeping Data Disk

FlorianLenz — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:34:59 GMT

Does anyone know, how to create an ACE Update package, that allows you to keep the content of a second virtual hard disk (e.g. a data disk) when you install the update package?

Basic Installation
C:\ System
D:\ Data

Update:
C:\System (new and updated applications)
D:\ Data (use the existing disk if available)

Can't connect to Inet

Ghlavac — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:01:35 GMT

Using WinXp

And VmWare Workstation ACE edition

On host comp its running through 192.168.1.3

The connection I have setup for vmware is 192.168.1.7 (Two ethernet ports)

My question is how exactly can I set this up to connect through .7 and work?

Sorry for this question, but just new to Vmware and need to get this workin..

Does pocket ace ONLY work with workstation?

noffie — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:31:51 GMT

If I were to buy vmware server 3i and would like to incorporate the Pocket ACE utilty with it.. would that work? Or does Pocket ACE only works with VM created by wmware WORKSTATION only?

I would like to be able to create VMs through the cheapest version of VMware server (even the free one) and save the settings on a USB drive and then recreate that VM on a remote machine. Would that machine need to have a ACE client?

'Would really appreciate some insight!

Workstation 6.0 ACE Edition Memory Graphics

Kris.H — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:38:15 GMT

I'm trying to create a virtual with more than the default 16 mb of graphics memory. It seems even though I set svga.vramSize = "33554432" in the .vmx it will not give me more than 16mb. Anyone got any ideas?

Here's my vmx file:

config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "6"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
memsize = "512"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "Windows XP Professional.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "E:"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.autodetect = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ehci.present = "TRUE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
svga.autodetect = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
mks.keyboardFilter = "allow"
displayName = "Windows XP Professional"
guestOS = "winxppro"
nvram = "Windows XP Professional.nvram"
deploymentPlatform = "windows"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
tools.upgrade.policy = "useGlobal"

svga.vramSize = "67108864"

ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE"
floppy0.fileName = "A:"
extendedConfigFile = "Windows XP Professional.vmxf"

numvcpus = "2"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
chipset.useAcpiBattery = "TRUE"
chipset.useApmBattery = "TRUE"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "TRUE"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.key = "KzYgEjUWJDcqPBARJR4tGjosEjAfIhY4Di8qHxczIggPDQAsIzYqKyUdGSoHKhYAFzkoGR4qHAUfGwUBCxswKx0bBTQpKxUsNR4MAy4tExw2EwYJOg0vMTEzAy45FwEwKToqBjg9OBQ8JAYlPh0cAzonOQU0EQUgCyY0HjQXEQI="

ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d c6 92 61 7d d2 0e-f5 68 49 71 b5 7c 9f 9a"
uuid.bios = "56 4d c6 92 61 7d d2 0e-f5 68 49 71 b5 7c 9f 9a"
ide0:0.redo = ""
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "33"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:7c:9f:9a"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"

Change number of processors in ACE instance

Hellrazor — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:35:40 GMT

I've got a standalone ACE instance (no management server) that I need to change the number of virtual processors from 1 to 2. Administrator mode only allows me to change certain things (memory, CDROM, floppy, etc). The contents of the Processor page are gray. If you power down the VM ACE closes.

Does anyone know if it's possible to change the number of virtual processors for an ACE instance?

Running a VM from a USB stick

Sangokan — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:31:08 GMT

Hi,

I work in IT and plan to go on holidays for three weeks soon. I would like not to take my laptop but instead having just a USB stick containing a VM i could run in an Internet cafe.

Is this possible with ACE? I have never used it.

ACE Management server - What to watch

clausp — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:04:32 GMT

Hi,

We are doing a VMWare ACE installation, and I am trying to find out what to monitor on the ACE Management Server to make sure it is running. Which service, events etc.
Have you seen some doc that describe this - Any experiences??

Thanks

Import virtual machine error

DAV69 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:29:55 GMT

When we import a deployed ace virtual machine in WMware Workstation we have the follow error:

"Unable to determine guest operating system"

any idea?

thanks Davide

PS: We want import in Wmware Workstation a deployed ACE virtual machine (modified by user) to make a clone and after a new ace master.

Pocket ACE Question

dast136 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:03:43 GMT

When I plug a Pocket ACE USB device into a PC it attempts to reinstall another instance of VMPlayer versus just running off of the drive.

I even attempted to configure a seperate instance of VMPlayer in order to run the VM environment.

Did I miss a step because once you complete the package setup I only see two options and neither one works in correcting this behavior.

Thanks,

dast136

Booting from USB thumbdrive to a thin client VM

benny.hauk — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:50:33 GMT

Licensing costs are increasing in my evaluation of Pocket ACE (WinXP, Symantec, ACE client, Altiris client, etc, etc, etc) and it was just brought to my attention today that perhaps we could have a VM on a thumbdrive that basically was a winterm VM that could connect to our terminal servers via VPN. The scenario that I see is that someone walks up to any PC anywhere, plugs in the thumbdrive we provide them and an RDP session opens up in which they authenticate to our VPN device. Once they authenticate it opens a remote desktop to our terminal servers.

This solution would be excellent since we already have the licenses for the connectivity into terminal services. However, I don't see Windows CE, for example, on any supported list of Guest operating systems.

Can someone help me think through this solution? I think Virtual PC supports Windows CE and if that's the case, then all the protections that ACE provides, I suppose we could supply simply by properly locking down terminal services. In other words, this solution might mean we don't necessarily gain much from using ACE and Microsoft's Virtual PC would be just as effective (perhaps without the centralized management that ACE Mgmt Server provides).

One downside to this is that the host PC the user was on would have to have Internet access, but that's sort of how we intended to use ACE anyway (for remote and onsite access, both cases would necessitate some sort of network connectivity anyway).

Any thoughts? Solutions? Vendors providing this already as a canned solution? I haven't heard of anyone doing this, but it sounds so simple that I'm not sure why. By the way, we don't have Citrix, just Terminal Services so the whole idea of providing remote access to applications via Citrix published applications (via a web browser) isn't an option for us - this would presumably be the simpliest solution.

Thanks!
Benny

Activation and authentication (Domain local groups?)

vmakn — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:49:48 GMT

Hello,

when creating a Master and using Policies in Workstation ACE Edition the Access Control Policy offers Activation and authentication via Users or groups.

Is it possible to use domain local groups to control the access or is it only possible to use global groups ?

Thank you.