VMware Communities : Unanswered Threads - Virtual Appliances

Openfiler 2.3 Appliance is driving me nuts!

Newb449 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:23:40 GMT

What should seem simple is turning out to be an all day affair

I downloaded the openfiler appliance for vmware (32 bit) and imported it into my vmware workstation. I added another fully provisioned 20GB vmdk to the appliance. Openfiler can see the second disk but I can’t do anything with it. When I click on Volumes I see the message “no existing physical volumes were found, or all existing volumes are used. I click on the link to create a new physical volume. When I do, I see the Block Device Management Screen. I can see my second disk. When I edit I see nothing further. All the articles on the web refer to screens I don’t see. If I click Add Volume I’m back to the screen where it says I have no existing physical volumes!

I don’t understand what’s happening but it’s pretty annoying. I was hoping to use the appliance, as opposed to building one, because of its ease of use. But I can’t get it working.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Free VKernel Modeler

cchesley — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:10:50 GMT

VKernel is giving away our Capacity Modeler for free until the end of the year. All you have to do is download it from here and license it before the end of the year and it is free for you to use forever. The Modeler is similar to Capacity IQ and will allow you to run "What If Scenarios" and see the impact of adding new hosts, new vms or new configurations on your existing virtual environment.

Enjoy!!

Chris

http://www.vkernel.com

Virtual Appliance - Password protect.

EranL — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:50:47 GMT

Hi guy,

I have just export a VM machine as a Virtual Appliance and I wonder:
Is there any way I can password protect my Virtual Appliance?

Thanks,

Eran Levi

Are there any good secure browser appliances??

tlyczko — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:46:37 GMT

I've been asked to set up a secure web browsing environment for certain kinds of file transfers via bank websites.

I looked at the famous 'browser appliance,' but it is 3 years old!! and not maintained.

I looked at the Allardsoft appliance but it's more for email than for going to websites etc.

I'm awaiting more info from our CFO, I'm hoping secure FTP will work equally well.

My requirements:

1. A relatively small Linux or Unix appliance VM to which a few people can log in
2. A web browser contained therein from which these people can browse out, ship their file, and be done with it. Prefer Firefox because it's a bank site(s).
3. Must be easy to use.

I don't yet know the whole ACH process or source of the ACH files, I am awaiting more information etc.

Thank you, Tom

how to register for listing my virtual appliance on the marketplace

PCnetzwerke — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:25:09 GMT

Hello!

I am not sure what to do, but I am sure You can help me

I am author of a book dealing with network stuff. I finished the third version of a linux home server called siegfried which is now for the first time provided as a virtual machine.

I would like to put the machine on the marketplace and now want to register using one of the three possible ways:

Production Ready : Not possible because of non certified os (openSUSE 11.1)

Eval : siegfried3 is not an evaluation version. You can use it for free (GPL)

Community Contributed : Can my publisher or I register as a non commercial Independent Software Vendor? We are non commercial regarding the appliance, but not non commercial regarding the book.

Thanks a lot for Your time & have a nice day,

Martin

Can we run Nagios on Vmware player? Which is the compatible version for vmware player for Nagios?

wlchak — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:38:05 GMT

Hi All,

Im wondering if i can run Nagios on the Vmware Player? Anyone knows if this can be done & how can i go about setting up this?

I tried to download the NagiosVMA from the Virtual Applicance MarketPlace, however, download doesnt starts & i got linked back to

the original search results page. Can anyone provide the link where i can download the NagiosVMA application?

Many Thanks for your help.

Vyatta 5 - Maximum limit reached

ianz105 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:58:18 GMT

I downloaded and opened Vyatta 5 VM in VMware Workstation 6.52. This vitual appliance comes with 3 virtual network adapters. When I tried to add another one in Add Hardware Wizard, it says Maximum limit reached. Is there another way to do it? Thanks.

esxi 4.0

johndoe2009 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:52:59 GMT

We need to shut down VM then the host with ESXi 4.0 . Which APC type unit would be best and compatible with ESXi 4.0 ?

Squid3 Appliance: SARG reports

jeopardyracing — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:27:13 GMT

When I connect to the new Squid3 virtual appliance using port 8080, my SARG reports only show connections for 127.0.0.1. If I connect client browsers to it using 3128, then I get a SARG report that shows connections by IP of the system accessing the sites (which is what I need) but I lose Dansguardian filtering. Any suggestions?

Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance - Https

dweedagama — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:01:27 GMT

I am using Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance, for load balancing.

It is working properly for http requests.

But it doesn't work for Https requests.

What I want is, decrypt https requests by pen(load balancer) and send it to physical servers as http requests.

I used "pen
-l pen.log -p pen.pid -E mycert.pem lbhost:443 host1:80 host2:8" to configure pen.

But still not working. - Do I need to configure hercules to accept SSL requests?

user/passwd problems with Ubento 9.04 deskup

Yariv1 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:36:53 GMT

I installed Ubento 9.04 deskup on top of the vmware player but the username/passwd of user/user (as defined in the tech spec) does not work for me. Any idea ?

Thanks, --Yariv

One Public IP Address and IIS, Access appliance via Virtual Directory How?

KWLandry — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:14:42 GMT

Folks,

As the title explains I have one public IP Address available to me and the need to make three VIrtual Appliances available to remote teams.

My thought was to set up a virtual directory through IIS and redirect to each Apache Httpd of each VM. The url to connect to bugzilla, for example, would be http://Acme.net/bugzilla To get to our application hosted on Tomcat, it would be http://Acme.net/SqRoot, etc...., etc....

So, got a bugzilla Vappliance, installed it, got a Tomcat Vappliance, installed it. Set up IIS with a virtual directory /Bugzilla and set IIS to redirect from it to the ip address serving up Bugzilla from the Vappliance. Cranked up a browser and Voila! Greatness! Bugzilla up and running, everything working great after a change or two to some parameters regarding cookies. No problems, looking good.

But, ...... then tried it from a remote system, and well, it didn't work. The Bugzilla page shows up and you can sign in, but the credential cookie was lost in redirect hell and for every page you had to relogin to move to the next page.

Enough background for now, I think.

The question I'm asking is what is the recommended method for exposing multiple VMs through a single IP address? I thought I had a pretty good strategy but it's already running into issues. Is it possible to do well with Virtual Directories as this would really, really be nice in that we could move these around or add them with a really simple script we could set up for an intern to manage.

Thanks for any direction or suggestions anyone can provide,

KWL

Firewall Appliance?

theemax — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:14:35 GMT

I am looking for your advice and guidance. I have had a quick look around, and m0n0wall came up, but I have not had an opportunity to evaluate it.

I would like to be able to have a VM as a firewall that I can use to block/filter/open ports/IP Addresses between tiers/VLANs (4 of - Enterprise/Web/App/Database) on a virtual infrastructure.

It would be nice to be able to create/monitor some logs to use for fault finding?

Looking forward to your comments.

Thx,

--emax

config vmware-config.pl

romorio — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:18:17 GMT

To All,

I am currently working with the uda 1.4 and also i am testing with uda 2.0 beta .

I start also working with vmware. but i am looking for the configuration file created with the vmware-config.pl on linux systems

who can help me.

regards rob

Ready Test Matrix

ITKinamik — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:44:31 GMT

Hi there,

Need some help on what VMWARE means on the ready test matrix case shown bellow

2508

Virtual Resources -- Configuration File Generation.

*Unless
otherwise stipulated in the Documentation (see Test Cases 1001 through
1099), a valid configuration file generation number MUST be used if
supplied. The specific set of valid values for this number is
determined by the targeted platform class and generation.*

Thx in advance

Enis

NTOP vmware appliance - adding 2nd nic

iremembercpm — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:20:18 GMT

Has anyone scripted changes to the VM appliance ( http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/388 ) to add a 2nd nic so that your admin/GUI traffic isn't counted in the network stats that NTOP is collecting?

In my installation, had to do the following:
1) create a new vswitch to associate with the sniffer interface

2) assign a physical nic to that switch

3) add a 2nd virtuial NIC to the VM

4)configure it for promiscuous mode

5) associate it with the sniffervswitch

6) boot the ntop appliance

7) edit /var/lib/ntop/init.cfg

changing eth0 to eth1

==============

USER="ntop"
INTERFACES="eth1"
=========================

8) restart networking

9) restart ntop

VKernel Search Tool

Alp1 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:53:32 GMT

There was a post found here at: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/197453?tstart=0 where Chris talks of VKernel's updated Search Tool. I think that the query he shows is pretty effective especially since it drills into the partition storage info. I was able to take my own results into XML output, and then create graphs within Excel. The PDF output needs some tweaking, but the table layout and graphs (both Excel via XML) worked best for me. Found some other pretty useful queries too. I've pasted his original post entry below

Cheers,
-C

Original post content:

There is an excellent free tool by Vkernel that was released today that
will tell you the free space of every partition for every virtual
machine from the guest OS's perspective. This is something that i have
needed for a while!

Here is a link to the virtual applaince: SearchMyVM

Sandbox for changes to virtual enviromment

cchesley — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:35:39 GMT

There is a virtual appliance by Vkernel that will allow users to model their current environment (both configuration and performance) as well as modeling hosts and VM's that you do not have yet and will show you the impact to any changes you plan on making. They show the impact on current bottlenecks, top consumers as well as the impact on how many more VM's you can fit.

I have been able to model what adding 100 more desktops would do to the memory, CPU and storage on my current cluster and hosts. I then went in and saw if 1 more host or 2 hosts would be good enough to run these additional MV's.

Here is a link to the appliance: Vkernel Modeler

Chris

Hercules Appliance Session

umeyer100 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:19:12 GMT

Hi,

we have installes the new view Version with 2 ConnectionServer (one is a replica Server). Now i will setup a high available cluster with hercules. I installes this and it works with the cluster ipaddress. Now i disconnected one Connectionserver and the session was closed. Now the user must relogin to the Server and it works. Is there a way to autmatic reconnect to the other connectionserver without abourt the session???

Regards

Uwe

Download link broken: Virtual Appliance Marketplace: Subversion and WebSVN on Ubuntu Server: Vendor: SuperJason: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/519:

VirtualBix — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:35:31 GMT

I'd really like to download this virtual appliance to see if it can solve my current problem. But the download link is broken. Is there anything i can do?

I'm unable to restart VMWare on a Windows XP machine that has been running our Subversion server in a VM. I'm seeing

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it..

Any suggestions?

proper settings of config.version and virtualHW.version?

ahl0003 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:41:45 GMT

I'm trying to create a virtual appliance that will run both under ESX and on the hosted products (in particular Fusion). The problem I'm having is that I can seem to determine the right values for config.version and virtualHW.version that both cause the VM to work on different VMware products and provide me a predictable attach point for the various disks and ethernet devices.

More generally, is there some resource that defines how the settings for those values map to released products, and what features in the VMX file are enabled in each version? I realize this is an unbelievably rudamentary question, but I haven't been able to find the appropriate documentation.

Thanks.

Adam

VM appliance for accessing internet

stef35 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:41:07 GMT

Hello All

I am a bit lost with all of these appliances

Could anyone tells me simply which appliance to use to access internet with firewall and antivirus already installed?

Thank you for your help

PS: i have the same question for editing muzik

How is Sieve Firewall used by Virtual Infrastructure or LabManager ?

randybird — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:38:11 GMT

I have downloaded Sieve Firewall (including virtual machine and program files).

I want to use it in my Lab Manager environment. But either of VMware server and workstation can't be installed in Virtual Machine. So I couldn't deploy Sieve Firewall in my virtual machine.

Then I don't know how to use the Sieve Firewall image with Lab Manager.

Has anyone ever experienced this ?

Thanks in advance!

Uploading FC 4 Vmware image

FedoraCore4 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:47:12 GMT

Hello,

I had hard time finding a vm image for Fedora Core 4, so I ended up creating the image myself using ISO images ( all the 4 disks ).

Some of my other classmates also find this image very useful and I am sure tehre will be several others who would be interested in this.

I am wondering if there is a way for me to upload this image is some publicly serverd location?? Can we uplaod images here on VMWare website?

I appreciate any help you can give me here.

Cheers

managing a LAMP appliance

lurk skywalker — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:33:29 GMT

i would like to find an appliance i could manage without having to
resort to command line or configuration files. i am comfortable with
h-sphere and cpanel, and don't want to learn a new tool/interface.

is
it possible to use a control panel like to the ones above to manage the
LAMP appliance? or is there another LAMP appliance for vmware 2.0 that
has a built in control panel?

thanks in advance!

#####
Windows Server 2003 R2 32bit
VMware Server 2
Virtual Appliances LAMP 1.0.180
#####

Newbie needs help on Solaris 10 with VxVM appliance (http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1160)

r00t999 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:14:25 GMT

URGENTLY NEED HELP ON THE FOLLOWING:

Symptom: Cannot rebuild rootdg after vxunroot on this appliance

==================================================

Would any kind soul please help me (newbie to Solaris & vxVM) with this ?

Background:

After removing all data disk groups, disks & rootmirror, offline c1t0d0, now I
am left with 1 single rootdg with 1 single disk c1t0d0 (rootdisk).

I then remove these disks (non c1t0d0) from the virtual machine (.vmx).

I then ran vxunroot to disable vxvm.

The VM is now left with root & swap partitions mounted on c1t0d0
and can be booted successfully using /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 as root & /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 as swap.

I've found that the rootdg is now LOST.

I cannot re-enable vxvm, recreate rootdg and re-run vxroot again for c1t0d0s2 again.

Problem:

I cannot run vxdisksetup , vxinit to re-create rootdg again:

vxdisksetup says: "Disk is in Use" (even after vxdiskunsetup)

(arguments: vxdisksetup -if c1t0d0 publen=6197248 privlen=73724 puboffset=0 privoffset=4
format=sliced privslice=4 pubslice=3)

vxinit says: "Disk already initialized" (even after vxdiskunsetup)

(arguments: vxdisk init c1t0d0 publen=6197248 privlen=73724 puboffset=0 privoffset=4
format=sliced privslice=4 pubslice=3)

[ already tried Updating vtoc with s3 & s4 info on partition table and re-run vxdisksetup/vxdisk init:
no luck ]

Is this behaviour normal ?

Q1. Is there any solution to re-create rootdg for c1t0d0s2 and run vxroot again ?

Q2. Is this behavior the same on real (non-VM) Sun Hardware ?

Please, by all means redirect these questions to any Sun-Veritas forums for any answers if you think this is suitable/appropriate.

Sorry if I am missing anything obvious.

Many Thanks

UDA

Pdblues2231 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:30:35 GMT

I am trying to install win XP pro and I get error 21 INF file corrupt or missing...I have checked for nic drivers and they seem to be ok. Does anyone have an idea of what could be causing this?

How to create a Virtual Appliance with fixed MAC address?

stanzerl — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:26:12 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to create a virtual appliance with a fixed MAC address for the first ethernet device.
Regarding the ovf specs this is done with <rasd:Address>, but it seems that the ESX ignores this option at the import.

Is this right or I'm missing something?

Thanks
Wolfgang

Reboot the host during Installation EDA

Hemijimi — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:04:43 GMT

I have a fairly large environment (130 hosts and growing) and I am using EDA for my ESX server installs. I have everything the way I want it except for one thing. During the installation I need to reboot the server when the script is complete in order to finish the memory change for the Service Console.

ISCSI Software Initiator Config

credfern — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:11:20 GMT

I have an iscsi setup with one server and an array. I followed along with the ISCSI Configuration Guide, but I still can't see my LUNS from the hosts in the VI Client??

VMware Certified vs. VMware ready

jcldg — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:40:41 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone tell me what is the difference between those two logos?

I have to write an article (in French) on our local newspaper and I cannot find any good and clear explanation about the meaning of these logos.

Thanks for your help.

Ultimate Deployment Appliance

vmkillies — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:54:36 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to deploy ESX3.5 on workstation 6 using the UDA tool.

I have installed workstation 6 on physical server and created the share folder on Base physical machine only.

I choose the option of creating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for creating the ESX 3.5. The machine when boots up gets connected to the UDA machine running on workstation.

but getting this screen before the actual installation can start and selecting any of the option is not helping me to install the ESX3.5 version as VM.

Citrix Secure Gateway - DMZ - ESX Server

wobiru — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:05:52 GMT

Hallo,

i have two esx server in my lan. Now i have to install a new citrix secure gateway with webinterface in my DMZ. At the moment the Webinterface and the Citrix Secure Gateway run on a physical server in the DMZ.

And now my questions:

1. Can i install these two components on my ESX Server as a virtual machine?

2. How many physical NICs i must have? One,two or three for configuring the dmz.

3. How is the best configuration (phys. / virtual switch) ? Now, the ESX Server runs with an ip-adress 192.168.1.x

If anyone a example configuration, that would be fine!

Thanks for all

Wolfgang

B-Hive Conductor/Aperature

HCC — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:33:14 GMT

Hi,

I tried downloading the installing the B-Hive Conductor/Aperature Virtual Appliance 2.0 beta. I can connect to it and I tried to add Web Cluster and DB Clusters and Server however it does not seem to be registering anything. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I am running this on ESX3.5 and I followed the instructions for ESX however it does not seem to get recording any data. Has anyone downloaded this to try ?

Thanks

Problems with UDA network Communication?

tjw82 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:13:16 GMT

I am having an issue getting the UDA 1.4 appliance to see the network outside of the virtual switch. I tried installing a NIC driver, but the rpmbuild package is not installed. I need some help getting this appliance online so my DHCP server can see it. Does anyone know where Ican find the RPM Build package

Thanks,

tjw82

Installing JAVA in Alfresco Community Edition Appliance

gatorback — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:00:36 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/325

I am evaluating the Alfresco Community Edition

"Java: To get around redistribution limitations, you will need to go to java.sun.com and download the standard full JDK, version 1.5.0_06. If you install it to a non-default location (/usr/java), you will need to update the path of the JAVA_HOME variable in the /etc/profile and /etc/init.d/alfresco files."

Is there a command line instruction that I would issue (as root) within the VM? Is there a test that I can perform to verify that JAVA was installed correctly? I have tried pointing my web browser at the host machine, however, I think JAVA installation must be performed first.

Any constructive hints, suggestions, are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Ubuntu 8.04 Virtual appliance: Unable to log into Ubuntu as "user"

sleavitt — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:48:24 GMT

Hi everyone, especially folks at chrysaor.info,

I downloaded the appliance linked from this page: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1224

I'm trying to use it on a MacOS 10 Tiger system with Fusion 1.1.3 installed. The VM runs fine

Unfortunately, when I enter user as the string (provided by chrysaor in the description for this appliance) for login and password on the Ubuntu desktop, it doesn't accept it.

Has anyone else tried this VM and logged in at the Ubuntu desktop?

Thanks,

Scott

"start extraction from previous volume"?

nancyh — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:38:24 GMT

I downloaded the MS 2003 SP2 server appliance WIN2K3R2EE.part2.rar since it looks like part1.exe is just a different pack of the same files. When I try to unrar part2 I get the message "WARNING: You need to start extraction from a previous volume to unpack Win2k3R2EE.vhd". Does this mean I need to download - and somehow unpack - Win2K3R2EE.part1.exe?

I'm using OpenSuse 10.3 as a host machine.

thanks

nancy

Xtravirt Virtual SAN Appliance

mittell — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:25:01 GMT

Apologies for the cross posting, the Xtravirt Virtual SAN appliance is now available in the appliances directory.

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1267

Cheers,

Alex

Ubuntu 8 (VM) share folder with Vista SP1 (OS)

ypetiot — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:55:20 GMT

Hi everybody,

Here's my setup:

The one that works:

OS = Windows XP SP2
VMWare Player 2.03
Ubuntu 8.04 Heron as a Virtual Appliance downloaded

The one that doesn't work

OS = Windows Vista SP1
VMWare Workstation 6
Ubuntu 8.04 Heron as a Virtual Appliance downloaded

I want to share files between my OS and my VM. I've got only one hard-disk and one partition (C:). So I want to map a network drive from my VM Ubuntu to my OS Windows:

In Ubuntu > Places menu > Connect to Server... > Windows share: @IP of my Windows OS, share folder with Everyone permissions set up on the Windows shared folder.
Type the correct username and password.
It maps correctly on both OS. Now the difference is:

-> I can create new files and folders with XP as OS
-> I cannot create anything with Vista as OS: it is grayed-out.

There must be a setting on Vista to enable a real share using NTFS permissions. Where and how?

I also installed ntfs-3g on Ubuntu in just in case it could help, but no change.

Hope you can help.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Thanks

internet access with Fedora 8 appliance

Mr SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:18:24 GMT

How do I toubleshoot internet access with the Fedora 8 appliance? I cannot access any sites.

Error Message when trying to load an image

mmcmahon — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:39:10 GMT

I have set up the UDA but I am getting an error message when trying to load the image /template. It tells me that it can not find the proper path. Unable to retrieve It will state http://192.168.20.1//'esx/esx301/vmware/base/Netstg2.img. Where is it getting the IP// from? If I click on the error and attempt to change it, it still does not work. I can browse to the file through a local web browser.

I get the same error when using a base template.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Matt

2 CentOS VM images are unable to ping each other.

kkgadu — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:34:54 GMT

I work in a Third Party Access VPN environment. I have 2 machines running in Windows XP, in which I have installed VMWare Player. I start the CentOS VM image after connecting to VPN. (CentOS is built on Red Hat Linux)

The problem I have is that a VM image in one machine is unable to ping / telnet the VM image in the other machine.

As part of my project requirements, I need to setup WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets) which mandates that the 2 VM images should make a TCP/ IP connection to each other.

I can elaborate by the following example:

My machine1 has an IP address of the format 10.156.78.aaa

When I connect to VPN, the IP address becomes 10.4.xxx.yyy

When I load the CentOS VM image in VPN, the IP address of the image is of the format 192.168.134.zzz

Similarly my second machine has an IP address 10.156.78.bbb

When I connect to VPN, the IP address becomes 10.4.xxx.r

When I load the CentOS VM image in VPN, the IP address of the image is of the format 192.168.6.ttt

If I open any terminal window in any image and try to ping the other image, I get the message "Request timed Out"

However, the VPN IP addresses (10.4.xxx.y and 10.4.xxx.r) are each able to ping each other. The problem is only with the image.

Can any one help me in this ?

ESX deployment appliance v0.90

brugh — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:24:31 GMT

http://vmware.com/appliances/directory/1216

ESX Deployment Appliance (EDA) is a small and easy to use appliance
that makes deploying ESX servers a breeze. It has a very intuitive
web-interface that can configure and deploy dozens of ESX servers in
minutes. It has a script-builder that will allow any admin to create
%post-scripts that will do most anything one needs to get the ESX hosts
up and running! Even if deploying with RDP/Altiris or the UDA, this
script-builder can help setting those up very quickly.

Need Help or Suggestions

FrozenPixel — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:36:39 GMT

My first post and desperate. I currently run a Debian server that acts the Domain Controller for over 25 XP users. My servers been crashing and I'm fighting getting the thing to be stable. Because I was unable to update the kernel its caught between upgrades but we feel its hardware failure thats causing all the issues.

Anyway I'm not a linux guru by any means and installed a temporary system with Debian and VMWare Server (i had never heard of it and was suggested to install it). It's all up and running and installed a virtual Debian but can't get it to work. Does anyone know if there is an appliance available either Etch or Ubuntu that has been setup to allow XP clients to connect. I'm just desperate and need a solution ASAP to get our system at least stable while I poke away at the server.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

My appliance listing does not feature in search results?

arrowdot — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:02:03 GMT

Hello

I hope this is the correct forum to ask this question. Please accept my appologies if inappropriate. I'd like to find out why a listed appliance does not feature when searched for - maybe I missed a step?

Here is some detail:

On Monday I listed a new appliance (http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1212) under 'community constributed'. It is an OpenVPN appliance. When I search for OpenVPN or even ArrowDot (the appliance name), the appliance does not appear in the results list. The appliance can be found however when clicking on Networking and sorting by create date, so it is listed.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks

Wally.

VMware + VPN + Internet link

udayabhaskar — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:08:17 GMT

Hi,

I have a scenario at my office. The scenario is that we have client whose users sit at our office and connect to VPN and access the VMware virtual machine over the INternet link which are hosted on VMWARE ESX 3.0 Box at the client office.

Each user has one VM assigned on his name. Some of them have 512MB RAM, some of them 1GB RAM and some of them have 2GB RAM on their VMs So we are planning to upgarde the RAMs on all the VMs to 2GB. The query I am having is how does it effect the internet link bandwidth usage. What I meant is that by increasing the RAM on VMs does it have affect on the Internet link bandwidth. If its get affected how it happens?

Applications which they use are located at the client end.

Could any of you clarify on this.

Number of cpus in virtual appliance

wagde — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:05:57 GMT

Hi,

I'm creating my own virtual appliance, which is based on linux 2.4 kernel. As you know, this kernel has two variations. SMP and UNP.

I created my Virtual Appliance with 2 vCPUs and installed an smp variation of the OS (in this case the also unp OS kernel is installed too). But changing the number of vCPU from 2 to 1 is not goo, it has a BIG performance pentaly, and I think I saw that it's not supported by VMware.

So I wanted to know what can I do ?

Should I create two VAs ? one unp and smp ?

Is changing the number of CPU is supported ?

Does another VAs have the same problem ?

Thanx

Wagde

PDF Server Acrophobia

Shayro — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:57:38 GMT

thwere is anyone thats now how it works? i mean i star the virtual machine and qhen the procces is finish nothing happens , the server has IP, i can ping the server (10.0.0.1) but i can not open if i make the appliance is from Rbuilder (rpath) the page for the escript is http://acrophobia.sourceforge.net/index.php?page_name=readme.html i already folows the intructions from that page , someone have a manual ? it dosent have like other a web interface to manage the server

HEEEllp Please!!

Acrophobia PDF Server

Shayro — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:18:13 GMT

I recently download the VM "Acrophobia PDF Server" and run ok from the beginin to the end , but how you add a pdf printer? is no manual , im already read the web page http://acrophobia.sourceforge.net/index.php?page_name=readme.html and already try to reach the server on is IP

but nothin came, but i can ping the ip and responses came ok , i login as root and type ifconfig and i see that the ip is ok, another similar appliance is YAFPC but thi one have a web page configuration but is not free, can someone helpe here whit Acrophobia.

Accessing vmdk files of other VMs from a virtual appliance

pranags — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:05:22 GMT

Hi
Is it possible to access the vmdk files of other virtual machines from a virtual appiance?

Thanks,
Prasad.

IBM DB2 Express-C 9.5 Virtual Appliance

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:37 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1166

A virtual appliance with DB2 Express-C 9.5 installed on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server environment.

vmSight Product Suite 3.0

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:36 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1120

Provides reporting and analytics on all activity in the virtual network.

NexentaStor

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:35 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1114

Enterprise class storage appliance

Kerio MailServer

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:34 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1098

Secure groupware server for small and medium sized organizations

STARFACE PBX

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:33 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1091

STARFACE PBX is the ultimate Voice-over-IP software for small and medium-sized companies.

CoP.Track

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:32 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1090

Project managing with multi project functionality, resource management and gantt-diagramm

Datajoy CMS

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:31 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1088

An extremly easy-to-use CMS with a strong permission system.

esXpress v3 Virtual Backup Appliance

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:25 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1087

esXpress Virtual Backup Appliance is the only "no hardware proxy required" backup solution for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.

McAfee Secure Internet Gateway VMtrial

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:24 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1085

Email and Web security appliance - blocks spam, phishing, viruses, malicious web sites and more.

Akorri BalancePoint Virtual Appliance Demo

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:23 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1084

BalancePoint helps VMware customers fix performance issues, avoid future problems, and optimize server and storage capacity

Business Objects Crystal Decisions Standard Virtual Appliance

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:21 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1030

The business intelligence solution designed for mid-size companies.

IBM Proventia Network Mail Security System (MS1002-VM)

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:18 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1023

Protection, spam control, and compliance analysis modules for the messaging infrastructure.

BEA WebLogic Server Virtual Edition Launcher Appliance

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:16 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/996

The WLS-VE launcher VA simplifies the process of installing, configuring, and evaluating BEA WebLogic Server Virtual Edition

FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:14 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/989

Continuous availability and complete protection of physical and virtual machines

Catbird V-Agent for VMware ESX Server 3

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:13 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/953

Catbird’s virtual agent,V-Agent™, is the industry’s first and only comprehensive security solution for virtual infrastructure.

StillSecure Cobia, a Unified Network Platform™

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:13 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/952

Cobia, a Unified Network Platform™, delivers critical network and security functions through a flexible delivery platform

InBoxer Anti-Risk Appliance

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:11 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/932

Virtual appliance for email archiving, electronic discovery, content monitoring, compliance, and policy management.

VKernel -- World's first VMware certified virtual appliance for Capacity and Chargeback

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:10 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/881

Meter VMware ESX Server resources: Resource Pools, Clusters...generate Chargeback reports

Raritan CommandCenter NOC

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:09 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/878

Network discovery, system monitoring, traffic analysis and IDS. Integrates NetFlow, SNMP, WMI and more for complete IT mgmt.

Leostream Connection Broker

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:09 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/833

Connection Broker for both physical and virtual machines, with thin client and SSL VPN integration

Ingres Icebreaker 2006 Release 2

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:07 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/832

The Ingres 2006 Relational Database Management System integrated with the Linux Operating System

Intelica IP Inspect Virtual Appliance

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:05 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/813

IP Monitoring, intrusion detection and forensic analysis appliance with full packet recording, session analysis and traffic repo

IBM File/Print/Web/DB2 Stack for Novell SLES 10

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:04 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/812

IBM DB2 Express and WebSphere Community Edition running on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

Socialtext Virtual (Wiki)

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:03 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/799

Socialtext wikis are designed for any group that wants to accelerate team communications, collaboration and knowledge sharing

MediaWiki JumpBox

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:02 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/783

MediaWiki is a powerful wiki engine that can be running within minutes thanks to the simplicity of the JumpBox platform

Wordpress Blogging JumpBox

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:01 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/782

Wordpress is the leading open source blogging platform which can be running within minutes inside the JumpBox platform

Debian Etch 4.0r3 - Installation minimale

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:09:00 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1179

Debian Etch 4.0 Installation de base - French - Française.

Merbuntu (1.0)

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:59 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1178

Merb (0.9.0) framework on an Ubuntu Gutsy Server (7.10)

Mandriva Linux 2008.1 Beta 2 KDE

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:58 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1177

Mandriva Linux 2008.1 Beta 2

JumpBox for PmWiki 2.1.27

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:57 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1175

PmWiki is a simple yet powerful Wiki system with an easy to use interface. PmWiki 2.1.27 is included.

JumpBox for Cacti 0.8.7b

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:56 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1174

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool. Cacti 0.8.7b is included.

JumpBox for phpBB 3.0.0

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:55 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1173

phpBB is the most widely used Open Source discussion forum system. phpBB 3.0.0 is included.

JumpBox for TikiWIki 1.9.8.3

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:54 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1172

TikiWiki is your Groupware/Content Management System solution for building compelling web sites. TikiWiki 1.9.8.3 is included.

JumpBox for MoinMoin 1.6.1

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:54 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1171

MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users. MoinMoin 1.6.1 is included.

Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 4 - vmplanet

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:53 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1170

Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 4

CrunchBang Linux - bagvapp

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:52 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1169

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy based with OpenBox 3.4.4.1 WM and VMwareTools 6.0.2-59824 installed

JanusVM

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:51 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1168

Internet Privacy Appliance :: Encrypts your Internet traffic, hides your IP address, and is easy to setup.

Mandriva Linux 2008.1 Beta 1 KDE - vmplanet

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:50 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1167

Mandriva Linux 2008.1 Beta 1 KDE

Shift Linux 0.6.2 - bagvapp

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:47 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1163

Ubuntu Gutsy based with Gnome 2.20.1 - VMwareTools 6.0.2-59824 installed

Mandriva 2008.1 b1 - bagvapp

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:47 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1162

Mandriva Linux (aka Ophrys) featuring KDE 3.5.8/4.0 and VMwareTools 6.0.2-59824 installed

Ubuntu 6.06.2 Server (Dapper Drake)

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:44 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1157

Ubuntu 6.06.2 Server, standard install

openSUSE 11.0 alpha1 - bagvapp

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:43 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1156

Unique rebuild with KDE 3.5.8 and 4.0 desktops and the latest VMwareTools installed.

Instant SqueezeCenter 7.0 VM (b2.1)

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:43 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1155

A VM using Instant SqueezeCenter, a pre-packaged installer of Slim Device's SqueezeCenter jukebox software.

EnSpeed Liferay Enterprise Portal - with Full GUI Administration. No Unix Cmdline necessary

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:42 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1154

EnSpeed Liferay Enterprise Portal - With Full Web Administration GUI; No Unix command line necessary

Zenwalk 5.0 - bagvapp

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:40 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1152

Slackware based with Xfce - Latest VMwareTools 6.0.2-59824

French Ubuntu 7.10 JeOS LAMP - Linux + Lighttpd + Mysql + Php

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:39 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1151

French Ubuntu 7.10 JeOS LAMP - Linux + Lighttpd + Mysql + Php

French Ubuntu 7.10 JeOS Base

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:38 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1150

French Ubuntu 7.10 JeOS Base

SME Server 7.3

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:38 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1149

SME Server is a leading distribution for small and medium enterprises.

CensorNet 3.3r6

VMTN Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:37 GMT

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1148

Powerful web content filtering, email filtering & internet safety software. Protecting businesses, schools & libraries worldwide