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How to Plan Luns for Exchange 2007 Virtulization

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

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

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

Regards

vShield VM availability

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

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

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

Thanks in advance

Memory Freeze Up

XUSN — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:09:30 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks!

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

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

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

More than one USB device at the same time

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

Hi Community,

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

Here is it:

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

Thx for your help in advance.

Best regards,

Chris

Unable to access internet after upgrading to 3.0 and Windows 7

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

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

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

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

Any ideas?

Thx

does it work?

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

Has anyone been able to make VMware function ?

Shared writable mmap detection

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

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

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

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

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

Shared writable mmap detection

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

Hello,

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

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

crashing means, that exceptions not being handled properly.

sigh

Need a powershell script to collect esx patch info

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

Hi,

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

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

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

$servers=”server0″,”server1″

$account=”root”
$password=”password”

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

$server=$_}

Thanks in advance!

Recent Applications

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

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

Windows 7 Media Center performance?

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

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

- Henrik

Update Manager plugin not registering with client

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

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

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

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

~Aaron Patten

Major Unity Problem

Bernd Nowak — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:44:55 GMT

Hi all,
I have a Windows 7 64 Bit host with 8 GB RAM, Intel Quad Q9300, Nvidia 8800 GTS and VMware Workstation 7.0.0 build-203739.
I setup a Windows XP SP3 VM with Vmware Tools installed.
If I choose Unity via View/Unity vmware workstation is minimized and I see the Unity start menu integration and can access the installed programs there. However if I launch a program from there it's not displayed on the host.
If I restore VMWare workstation and exit unity mode the program is opened in the VM. I have uninstalled several times and cleaned the registry, deleted C:\ProgramData VMware directories but no matter what I do unity don't work.
I have found a thread dating a long time back with users having the same problem but no solution. No event log entries when I try to launch a program through unity.
Attached is the UI log. I found only these errors but my search haven't lead me anywhere

Nov 21 21:20:50.954: vmui-4040| CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectPipe failed
Nov 21 21:20:50.954: vmui-4040| CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed
Nov 21 21:20:50.954: vmui-4040| Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed
Nov 21 21:20:50.954: vmui-4040| Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to read vmware-authd port number: Cannot connect to VMX: F:\Vmware\XPVmwareTools\XP Vmware Tools.vmx

So maybe someone can help ? Or someone from VMware ?

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

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

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

PtoV Network Traffic

gregtaylor — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:27:43 GMT

Does anyone know the precise way network traffic is generated when you
PtoV a server? There is obviously traffic to the VMWare console as
there must be to the SAN disks. We are seeing excessive traffic on our
data network and PtoV is taking 90 minutes on a relatively small server. The problem is that we have 3 computer rooms (hence the virtualisation project) and I suspect we are generating a lot of network traffic on the backbone. I wonder if there is some way we can use VLANs to try to
speed up the PtoV and still leave the main data network fairly lighly used.

Greg

cannot upgrade ESX4 to ESX 4 Update1

vmwaredownload — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:29:15 GMT

Hi,

After upgrading Vcenter 4 to vCenter 4 Update1 and putting the ESX 4 Update 1 iso into the Update Manager repository
i created a baseline..when trying to remdiate my ESX 4 hosts, im gettin the following error:

Upgrade is not supported from host version 4.0.0 build 175625 to release version 4.0.0 update 1
Build 208167

and

Vmware not detecting host vista network adapters

sukumar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:28:56 GMT

Hi all,

Recently I got my dell laptop1420 with built in windows vista. I installed vmware workstation ACE edition 6.0.4 build-93057. As a guest OS I selected linux redhat(fedora 8). when I try to power on my guest os (Linux) it had given "eth0 device is down". When I try to bridge manually using vmware network editor, I found strange thing.. "automatically choose an available physical network adapter to bridge to VMnet0" option is entirly disabled. even
for addition it is not showing any network adapters.

from last one month I am trying to solve this problem. But I am not able to solve this issue. Please some one kindly provide any suggetion to resolve this issue.

Details about the system
Vmware workstation ACE edition version: 6.0.4 build 93057.
host os: windows vista
guest os: fedora 8
network adapter: Broadcom netlink fast ethernet
intel wireless adapter

Thanks and regards,
Sukumar

VM's at Recovery takes longer times to power on after recovery

Funtoosh — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:06:21 GMT

We had performed DR failover this weekend using SRM1.0.1 /NetAPP ISCIS LUN/41VM/4 ESX host running 3.5 1999xx at the recovery site. Everything came backonline as I have defined but here is my trouble began.

We had 4 ESX host into cluster and I power off all the VM. When I tried to power on it was taking huge time than normal. I then remove all the cluster and tried to power on individual VM on each of the esx host and still it was talking longer time. Not sure nothing changed. Enough resources but this process was talking longer time. Is it normal when you try to power on VM on snapped lun takes longer time?
I found following error message in the vmkernal ,not sure how much it was relevant though

Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.728 cpu0:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 2 4ad6e5d9 6b885ba3 1f003e01 a0dc5829 4 1 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu0:1024)StorageMonitor: 196: vmhba2:0:17:0 status = 2/0 0x3 0x27 0x0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)FS3: 4702: Writing HB addr 3ede00: I/O error
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)WARNING: FS3: 3406: Failed with bad000a
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 1 4ad6e5b2 11252b 1f00e7b1 a0dc5829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)WARNING: Fil3: 1787: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1 4ad6e5b2 11252b 1f00e7b1 a0dc5829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 2 4ad6e5b2 11252b 1f00e7b1 a0dc5829 4 1 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu0:1024)StorageMonitor: 196: vmhba2:0:19:0 status = 2/0 0x3 0x27 0x0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)FS3: 4702: Writing HB addr 3ede00: I/O error
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)WARNING: FS3: 3406: Failed with bad000a
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 1 4ad6e625 782c12f6 1f00630a a0dc5829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)WARNING: Fil3: 1787: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1 4ad6e625 782c12f6 1f00630a a0dc5829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 2 4ad6e625 782c12f6 1f00630a a0dc5829 4 1 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.230 cpu2:1301)VSCSI: 4060: Creating Virtual Device for world 1302 vscsi0:0 (handle 8222)
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.362 cpu0:1301)World: vm 1304: 901: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 44
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.363 cpu0:1304)World: vm 1305: 901: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 44
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.363 cpu0:1304)World: vm 1306: 901: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 44
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.364 cpu2:1302)Init: 1057: Received INIT from world 1302
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.468 cpu1:1304)World: vm 1307: 901: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 44
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.471 cpu1:1303)Init: 1057: Received INIT from world 1303

I was still able to power on VM

Website unavailabe???

DSTAVERT — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:02:47 GMT

Is it just me or have others experienced the communities timeout quite regularly?

How can I check the status of my upgrade serial number?

bmwdk — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:02:25 GMT

I ordered Fusion 2 (with free upgrade to Fusion 3) from Amazon on October 7, 2009. I mailed in the requied forms to get a Fusion 3 serial number on Oct 31,2009. I have not heard anything back, and when I check the serial number page with the Fusion 2 serial number, I get the following messgae:

The serial number you entered is not yet processed.
Please allow 2 weeks to update our systems if you mailed in your form.
If you have not mailed your upgrade eligibilty form, Please follow the
instructions below.

I has been 3 weeks since I sent in the the forms and my trial serial number has 4 days left, so I am getting desperate. I tried to open a support ticket on the web a week ago, but did not hear anything back, not even a ticket number as promised on the web site.

So back to my original question, does anybody have an idea of how I can find out the status?

is there a way to remove the top tool bar ?

mclavey — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:54:10 GMT

I am evaulating VMware ...very new to it ..... I have not read all the manuals and docks.... I am on a laptop

running win 7 as a guest the resulting window is so small ... with scroll bars on the side and bottom .

Is there a way to remove the top "VMware" tool bar so the window can be large enough to make it usable?

ESXi 4 locks up every couple days

lowburb — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:19:06 GMT

I am running a whitebox and when I first got it up and running, it was running flawless for weeks. It eventually started locking up and becoming absolutely unresponsive. I can't ping the host IP, I can't log in with VClient, and I can't even get the console to respond to keyboard inputs.

I first thought that I had too many VM's running on it, so I looked at the historical performance graphs in VCenter Server (Eval Version) and it was all low usage of everything (RAM, CPU, Disk). I have upto 5 VM's running (4 2008 64bit and 1 XP 32bit). I started moving the VM's to a VMServer and had it down to 1 VM on the ESXi host. I dont know if I was impatiant but it seemed to run fine for 5+ days so I started moving VM's back to ESXi one by one (using the free converter). It seemed to run fine for a bit, and now it's back to locking up about once every day or two. It had at one time gotten where it was locking up multiple times per day.

My next step was I thought maybe having the two network ports plugged in, something was getting confused as to which interface was used for management without actually doing any additional configuration on the Vswitch. Although I setup the one NIC as the management interface, I figured I try unplugging the second NIC. It's still locking up

I found one other thread about the same type of symptoms, but that persons problems seem to be locking up every couple of hours, at a minimum. I'll go anywehre from 12 hours to 2-3/4 days. My VM's are not resource intensive by any means. I have an AD server with one user, two Exchange servers with one mailbox, and an XP machine doing some media sharing to my network

My hardware is as follows:

Supermicro C2SEA
Xeon X3360
8GB RAM (if someone wants to know specifically what, I can find out)
Intel Pro gigabit PCIx NIC
LSI 3Ware 9690 Raid card
***5 1TB HDD's in raid5 with two volumes configured on that raid to split it in half
***I had to use the update host utility to install the 3ware drivers from their website
***I have all VM's installed on one of the two volumes, the second volume is empty
74GB 10kRPM WD HDD - this is where ESXi is installed, nothing else is on this datastore

I have not done anything much different than default when setting up ESXi or the guests or the network. I have also not done anything for resource allocation because I have not taken the time to learn how to set that up correctly yet. I also have the host attached to an eval version of VCenter Server.

I have looked through the logs and nothing shows up. It doesnt even recognize the fact that it's become unresponsive. The only way to pull it out of this "state" is by doing a hard reset. I also lose all connectivity to the VM guests too.

If anyone has any ideas, maybe I missed something or there is a known issue with one of the pieces of hardware I am using, I'd greatly appreciate any guidance.

Datastores Disappeared!

manfriday — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:06:23 GMT

Yikes.

So, yesterday I upgrade my vcenter server to version 4 update 1.

I log in and it is upgradeing the vpxa agents on my hosts.

two of the hosts work fine. one fails.

I cant seem to get the agent to install, and the host shows up as "disconnected"

connecting it wont work.

All of the VM's are running, so I decide to wait until the weekened (we are a 9-5 shop) to reboot that host.

I reboot the host this morning, and the agent installs fine.

However all of the VM's on that host are "inaccessible"

I look and see that the datastores are all gone.

The LUNS appear OK in the iSCSI software controller.

SO, I go to another host to add the offline VM's to a working box.. I right click the datastore and click 'browse'

I get a message saying something along the lines of "datastore1 \ does not exist"

then all the datastores from THAT host disappear.

Any ideas?

SSD performance with VMWare Workstation over SATA

Ericinboston — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:01:59 GMT

Hi all,

I have been reading rave reviews about the Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M160G2XXX 2.5" 160GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD) drive especially regarding its performance over SATA drives.

I use a laptop (Lenovo W500) and currently use 7200 RPM SATA drives. I run VMWare Workstation a lot and am looking for performance improvements that possibly the above SSD will provide.

Here are a few performance questions/topics that hopefully you can help me with:

Typically the best way to have good VMWare performance (other than CPU and RAM) is to be sure to store/run the VM images themselves from another internal, non-USB drive. Meaning, you power up your pc and VMWare Workstation is installed in c:\program files yet your actual VMs are stored in d:\vmfiles or something...this way the 2nd hard drive is free from Windows' normal disk i/o nonsense. Therefore, I can imagine improving drive performance by 1 of 2 options:

1)Install the Intel SSD drive as my 2nd drive...the c drive (where Windows is installed) will still be a SATA 7200 RPM drive.
2)Install the Intel SSD drive as BOTH my drives...therefore, a definite performance gain because I am no longer using traditional non-SSD drives

My big question is: Do you think #1 will give me a performance increase in my daily use of VMWare or will I really need to go with option #2? I'm not a super VMWare expert but I believe all VM disk i/o is done on the drive where the VM files are stored (in my case, the D drive)...and therefore, theoretically #1 would give me a performance increase if I am correct. But, a part of me says that VMWare Workstation's inner workings (not the VM) is utilizing the Windows Page File that is stored on the C drive...so if I do #1, I won't get as much of a performance gain as doing #2.

I hope my question makes sense.

Again, my use case is all around Windows (XP or 7 or 2008 Server) as the host and VMWare Workstation 6 or 7...the W500 laptop currently has 4gig of RAM and will likely go to 8GB soon...and the CPU is a 2.53GHz dual core Intel. The VMs run ok now, but after reading about the Intel SSD being faster than many RAID configurations, I just had to come here and ask around. I am aware of the traditional methods of increasing system and VM performance, but until recently, drive performance was the last frontier to be improved.

Thanks so much in advance for your help!

-Eric

Keyspan serial to usb adaptors configuration question.

tdhcsc — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:59:12 GMT

I'm currently using Parallels( older version ) and am thinking of switching to 'Fusion'.

We use our Macintosh on our cruising sailboat as a navigation computer. Most of the navigation programs are PC based.

We are trying to configure two Keyspan serial to usb adaptors for sending and receiving high frequency email over the ham radio. I'm really having trouble configuring both Keyspan adaptors to work at the same time. ( one has to go from the computer to a digital translator (Pactor modem) connected to the hf radio and a second cable goes directly from the computer to the HF radio to control the radio frequency settings. I've been working on getting this to work for about 6 hours and have started to wonder if switching to Fusion will solve the problem. (don't like hitting my head against a wall)

So, the question is,, Is it easy to configure 2 Keyspan serial to usb adaptors to work with Fusion? I have the working on the Macintosh side but setting it up with Parallels and then XP is driving me crazy.

If Fusion is an easier way to go and I could set it up reasonably easily I'll put my money down and switch in a heartbeat.

thanks.

Problem in Capturing CVF6.6 - Cannot Debug

mltx — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:14:48 GMT

I am capturing CVF6.6 (Compaq Visual Fortran v6.6) with Thinapp 4.0.4 and the captured app can complile a Fortran 90 code and run the compiled executable.

BUT the captured app cannot debug. The problem is that it cannot open the compiled exe file with the error message shown in attached file.

Any suggestions and ideas will be highly appreciated.

mltx

Virtualbox VDI file to Vmware

iceman3 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:17:57 GMT

I'm using Virtualbox 2.1.4
and want to convert a VDI file to load it in Vmware (vmplayer 3.0.0
build-197124 on Vista Home Premium).

I think we can change the vdi-Format to vmdk with a tool provided by virtualbox.

VBoxManage clonehd /vboxdata/old.vdi /vmwaredata/new.vmdk -format VMDK
Its also possible to get the vmdk file by this :

qemu-img.exe convert -O vmdk hdd.vdi hdd.vmdk
But this does not generate the vmx file . How to get that ?

Just for information ,the vmware converter 4.0.1 says that the supported backup images or third-party virtual machines are:

Microsoft VirtualServer 2005
Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 or 2007
Parallels Desktop 2.5, 3.0 or 4.0 for Mac
VMware Consolidated Backup
Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 6.5, 7.0, 8.0
Symantec LiveState Recovery 3/6
Norton Ghost versions from 9 to 14
Acronis True Image Backup
ShadowProtect Desktop, Server, SBS,
IT, etc versions from 2.0 to 3.2

Vmware tools for Windows 2000 and Linux

iceman3 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:15:48 GMT

I'm using Vmware (vmplayer 3.0.0 build-197124 on Vista Home Premium). Where can I download the Vmware tools for Windows 2000 ? vmplayerautomatically downloads from the internet but I want to install it on multiple machine.

is the vdiskmanager-bug fixed in VMserver 2.0.2 ?

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:55:13 GMT

VMserver 2.0.1 has a bug in vdiskmanager like in Workstation 6.5.0 - 6.5.2

if you try a command like
vmware-vdiskmanager -r blablabla-000001.vmdk -t 0 consolidated.vmdk
it gives an error message "can't work on partial chains"

This command is required to consolidate vmdks with one or more snapshots into a new vmdk.
Is this fixed in VMserver 2.0.2 ?
In Workstation 6.5.3 or 7.0.0 this is already fixed ...

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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

Enable trusted execution

aRandomPerson — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:09:43 GMT

I have a Dell Optiplex 755, I updated my BIOS settings to Enabled Trusted Execution, VT enabled and virtualization enabled. Now my machine will boot to a blinking cursor. I am unable to get back to the BIOS? Is there a way to resolve this?

menu application fusion don't appear

domnath888 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:35:23 GMT

hi
i have juste installed fusion for mac and i dont view application menu ????

Computers can't logon to domain after rebalancing

kovals — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:37:17 GMT

We are facing some weird problem after rebalancing virtual machines - at the end of the process the machines can't logon to the domain (Windows error message - can't find domain). Manually logon to each machine and re-join it to the domain solves the problem, but, well, you know...

Any idea? We are uisng version 3.5.

Thanks.

Passthrough Abit AirPace PCI-E

tompl — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:06:33 GMT

Hi,
I'm having some problems with my Abit WiFi card. I bought this specially to passthrough this device to a VM. I had to buy a PCI-E card, because i have one device in PCI slot, and i couldnt passthrough second PCI device to other VM.

The situation looks like this:
1. Abit AirPace works fine only when is connected directly (without ESXI server) to OS(checked on Windows XP and Linux).
2. After passthrough this device either to a Windows/Linux VM, i can install it but i cant find any networks (led on that device shines normal). In Abit airpace software in statistics i see that all TX packets are dropped.
I also tried to make a ad-hoc network, and try to connect from my laptop but it doesnt see this network.

Is there any chance to make it working properly?

Regards,
tompl

Virtual Machine does not start up

sixtus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:57:48 GMT

HI there,
After the OSX Leopard 10.5.7 to Snow Leopard 10.6.0 OSX upgrade, my Virtual machine does not start-up
On any attempt to launch Windows XP virtual machine, this error is reported : "NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora/devices/mainmem/mainMemHosted.c:1967"

Can You help me to solve the problem without reinstalling VMware Fusion?
If I have to reinstall Fusion and/or Windows XP, how can I do to not lose all my windows applications currently installed?

I 'm using the 1.1 (62753) VMWare Fusion version
Is it compatible with Snow Leopard?
I attach the log file created during startup process.

thanks a lot

vmserver 2.02-203138 and 2x Xeon X5570

ophth1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:53:36 GMT

hi!
We've installed vmserver2 onto a windows 2008 enterprise Server R2 with 2x Xeon CPU X5570 and 48 GB RAM.
Installation showed no problem. However, looking in the VMserver interface, only 1 Xeon CPU and only 8 cores are listed!
Does anyone has an idea how to make vmserver find the other xeon cpu?
Thanks!!!!

p.s.: ESXi is not an option for different reasons at our machine...

VMWare Server 1 - I deleted the snapshot, now getting error

ShawnG101 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:39:44 GMT

Sorry about posting this VMware Server 1 post here.

I made a huge mistake and I am hoping I would recover the data out of this.
There was space problem due the snapshot and I accidentally hit Shift+Delete (which normally I rarely do) on the snapshot folder.
I realize that there is incremental data in the snapshot folder.
Now, when I start the guest VM, I get the error "Cannot open the disk <.........vmdk> or one of the snapshot disk depends on it.Reason" Failed to lock the file.

The host as well as the guest are Windows Servers. Windows 2003.

Please help if there is a way out of this.

MEM_ALLOC bug

marcosestevesbarbosa — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:09:38 GMT

I'm have a problem: When i click to create a new virtual machine in VMware Workstation 7, crash and occur this error in console:

MEM_ALLOC /build/mts/release/bora-203739/bora/lib/unicode/unicodeSimpleBase.c:793

Any ideas? Thanks

Windows 7 (guest) network adapter does not work (VMPlayer 3 with Fedora12 host) despite *NdisDeviceType fix

MihaiSapteCai — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:55:11 GMT

I found that others had problems with Vista's identification and fixed it via the Registry with *NdisDeviceType. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be sufficient for Windows 7 - it solves the identification problem (stops complaining about "Nework not identified"), but it still does not seem to get an IP address from the VMWare Player.

VMWare Player was configured to use NAT (was unable to bridge). Any ideas are welcomed!

:edit: command line in Windows 7 %ipconfig /renew

fails saying that DHCP server does not answer - it seems that (finally) Windows7 tries to get the IP address, but the VMWare DHCP server does not oblige.

Thanks,

Mihai

error durring javaserver workload result collection

simonpha — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:16:28 GMT

Hi I've run into this problem with the javaserver workload when completing the workload run. I receive the following error in STAX. It seems to me that the workload completes correctly but when trying to do the result collection it errors out.

20091119-18:55:02 Start JobID: 2, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local, Function: Main, Args: { 'CONFIGFILE' : r'C:\vmmark\VMMARK.CONFIG' }, JobName: smalltest1
20091119-18:55:02 Info Holding block: main
20091119-18:55:02 Info Received RELEASE BLOCK main request
20091119-18:55:02 Info Releasing block: main
20091119-18:55:13 Start Testcase: VMmark Setup
20091119-18:55:36 Stop Testcase: VMmark Setup, ElapsedTime: 00:00:23
20091119-18:55:36 Start Testcase: VMmark Wkld Setup
20091119-18:57:54 Stop Testcase: VMmark Wkld Setup, ElapsedTime: 00:02:18
20091119-18:57:54 Start Testcase: VMmark Run Tiles
20091119-19:53:24 Stop Testcase: VMmark Run Tiles, ElapsedTime: 00:55:30
20091119-19:53:24 Start Testcase: VMmark Results Collection
20091119-19:53:25 Error STAXPythonEvaluationError signal raised. Terminating job.

===== XML Information =====

File: c:\vmmark\xml\javaserver_functions.xml, Machine: local
Line 322: Error in element type "call".

===== Python Error Information =====

com.ibm.staf.service.stax.STAXPythonEvaluationException:

Python object evaluation failed for:
'Info: COPY FILE C:\javaserver_%u.stdout TOFILE %s%sjavaserver_%u.stdout' % (tileserver, gResultsDir[0], gFsep, tileserver)

Traceback (innermost last):
File "<pyEval string>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for __int__: javaserver0
===== Call Stack for STAX Thread 1 =====

[
function: Main (Line: 106, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
sequence: 16/22 (Line: 128, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
testcase: VMmark Results Collection (Line: 507, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
sequence: 1/2 (Line: 508, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
iterate: 1/5 0 tilelist (Line: 510, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
sequence: 1/1 (Line: 511, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
iterate: 2/6 JavaServer gWORKLOADLIST (Line: 513, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
sequence: 2/2 (Line: 514, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
function: GetResultsJavaServer (Line: 227, File: c:\vmmark\xml\javaserver_functions.xml, Machine: local)
sequence: 8/12 (Line: 234, File: c:\vmmark\xml\javaserver_functions.xml, Machine: local)
]
20091119-19:53:25 Info Terminating block: main
20091119-19:53:25 Stop Testcase: VMmark Results Collection, ElapsedTime: 00:00:01
20091119-19:53:25 Status Testcase: VMmark Run Tiles, Pass: 1, Fail: 0, ElapsedTime: 00:55:30, NumStarts: 1
20091119-19:53:25 Status Testcase: VMmark Setup, Pass: 1, Fail: 0, ElapsedTime: 00:00:23, NumStarts: 1
20091119-19:53:25 Status Testcase: VMmark Wkld Setup, Pass: 1, Fail: 0, ElapsedTime: 00:02:18, NumStarts: 1
20091119-19:53:25 Status Testcase Totals: Tests: 3, Pass: 3, Fail: 0
20091119-19:53:25 Status Job Result: None
20091119-19:53:26 Stop JobID: 2

Anyone have any idea what this may be?

Thanks in advance

VMware SRM 1.0 : failed to configure Array managers in SRM in secure mode.

justyouguess — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:39:41 GMT

In My VMware SRM setup. We are trying to do bidirectional SRM. Like Site I and SIte II will act as Protected and recovery site vice versa in failover. But it seems to me that when I keep my ESX Host which has solution enabler installed & windows SRM host which also has ENMC solution enabler installed ( Symclient). When I use non-secure mode to configure arraymanagers, I am able to add/configure array managers but when I chose secure mode it gives me error that Management system error while configuring array manager ( pls. see attached screenshot for details).

To change secure mode on ESX solution enabler host as well as windows Solution enbaler ( which I eventually installed on SRM host itself), I do as below.

On ESX solution enabler host: /var/symapi/config/options...changing secure mode to nonsecure and vice varsa.

On windows solution enabler host: C:\Program Files\EMC\SYMAPI\config\netcnfg ...changing secure mode to nonsecure and vice varsa.

But when I chose secure mode to configure array manager, it is giving me error as specified in screenshot, with non-secure mode. Array managers get configured.

Now I am confused what is wrong with secure mode in my setup ?

httpd.vmware will not start

Leftie59 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:22:50 GMT

A fresh build of CentOS 5.3 with server 2.0.2 and VMware-mui-1.0.6.

When I start httpd.vmware "service httpd.vmware start" it replays ok

When I check if it is running "service httpd.vmware status" it replays it is not running.

I have checked the /var/log/message and there is no error messages.

Can you give me an idea where to look for any message that may be generated?

If I need to get this running by Monday to avoid a major storm at work.

Thanks in advance, Mark

vmware server2 not working with kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r8

sk8harddiefast — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:38:52 GMT

george@gentoo bin # ./vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines failed
Stopping VMware management services:
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
VMware Server Host Agent failed
Stopping VMware services:
VMware Authentication Daemon done
Virtual machine monitor done

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? yes yes

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8'

WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
from include/linux/module.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_module.h:27,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:26:
include/linux/mmzone.h:18:26: error: linux/bounds.h: No such file or directory
include/linux/mmzone.h:256:5: warning: "MAX_NR_ZONES" is not defined
In file included from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
from include/linux/module.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_module.h:27,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:26:
include/linux/mmzone.h:290: error: 'MAX_NR_ZONES' undeclared here (not in a function)
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:31:
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'
include/linux/poll.h:67: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_page.h:23,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:33:
include/linux/mm.h:446:63: warning: "NR_PAGEFLAGS" is not defined
include/linux/mm.h:494:62: warning: "NR_PAGEFLAGS" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU':
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriver_Ioctl':
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'euid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'egid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only~~ Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-products" and
"http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-tools".

Execution aborted.

View 4 downloads are now available

cburry — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:36:27 GMT

View 4 downloads are now available.

vmware server2 not working with kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r8

sk8harddiefast — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:35:35 GMT

Activating OS via providing key in wizard vs when using the OS

BladeR1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:07:18 GMT

Hi,

I was just wondering, when setting up a VM and providing the OS ISO file in the wizard, is there any difference or implication to not providing the serial key at this stage but then activating the OS when it's installed and you're using it?

In my case, this is Windows Server 2008 R2.

VMware converter standalone

Formatter — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:20:46 GMT

So is there a new converter coming out that will convert 2008 R2??? since the esxi 4 u1 is out now and supports 2008 R2. Stanalone that is.

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (mks) Inception 0x0000005 (access violation)

Sonoben — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:13:16 GMT

had this error come up after Lenovo x200 tablet went into sleep. Log and dmp attached. any thoughts?

Storage space used by VMs linked to a template

krdeepak75 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:52:46 GMT

We find that the storage space for VMs linked to a template grows pretty fast when users do things like application installs, copy builds, source control updates etc. I understand that for such large writes we should avoid cloning.

Can we do following to limit the growth rate of the delta disk?

Suppose we create a template with base OS installed. Now a user creates a configuration off the base template and deploys the VM in Lab Manager. The user then adds a new virtual hard disk (this disk is not on the template), configures this disk (say to E: drive) and does all large write activity on E:. I understand that all of E: will be consumed from the shared storage pool all at once. But after that will the delta disks grow at the same rate as it would if E: was configured in the base template?

View provisioning error: Customization operation timed out

marcelorizzo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:39:51 GMT

I am trouble getting pass the custumization while provisioning VMs.
It keeps timing out with the following error: Customization operation timed out

I am new to View so any help with be appreciated.

Cheers,
Marcelo Rizzo

2009-11-20 14:06:57,714 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:06:57,714 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: 9171b31d-83cb-4085-b5b5-9e37a3884261
2009-11-20 14:06:57,714 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones locked clones.
RequestId: 0907146b-17b6-49bc-a564-579f8928b953
CloneId[0]: 9171b31d-83cb-4085-b5b5-9e37a3884261

2009-11-20 14:06:57,714 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:06:57,714 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - DestroySviClones called for 1 SVI clones. Request id: 0907146b-17b6-49bc-a564-579f8928b953, force: False. CloneIds: 9171b31d-83cb-4085-b5b5-9e37a3884261.
2009-11-20 14:06:58,120 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The session is not authenticated.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.FindByUuid(ManagedObjectReference _this, ManagedObjectReference datacenter, String uuid, Boolean vmSearch)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.c__DisplayClassc.<GetVmMoId>b__b()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:06:58,464 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VimClientConnection - Unable either to logout from url: https://172.20.20.115:443/sdk with username: monterey\administrator or to dispose the connection.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The session is not authenticated.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.Logout(ManagedObjectReference _this)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VimClientConnection.Disconnect()
2009-11-20 14:06:58,464 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Unable to free up the vc connection.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The session is not authenticated.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.Logout(ManagedObjectReference _this)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VimClientConnection.Disconnect()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.HandleVimException(Exception e)
2009-11-20 14:06:58,464 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Reconnect called to create a new connection to VC https://172.20.20.115:443/sdk and user monterey\administrator.
2009-11-20 14:06:58,839 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Successfuly connected to the VC server at: https://172.20.20.115:443/sdk with user: monterey\administrator
2009-11-20 14:07:01,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: 9171b31d-83cb-4085-b5b5-9e37a3884261
2009-11-20 14:07:01,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones released clones.
RequestId: 0907146b-17b6-49bc-a564-579f8928b953
CloneId[0]: 9171b31d-83cb-4085-b5b5-9e37a3884261

2009-11-20 14:07:01,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:07:01,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:07:05,136 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:07:05,136 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: e5ddbb45-817e-451e-a558-e813bcbe25e0
2009-11-20 14:07:05,136 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones locked clones.
RequestId: 29fe7e83-f634-4925-a06e-2cd136400310
CloneId[0]: e5ddbb45-817e-451e-a558-e813bcbe25e0

2009-11-20 14:07:05,136 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:07:05,136 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - DestroySviClones called for 1 SVI clones. Request id: 29fe7e83-f634-4925-a06e-2cd136400310, force: False. CloneIds: e5ddbb45-817e-451e-a558-e813bcbe25e0.
2009-11-20 14:07:07,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: e5ddbb45-817e-451e-a558-e813bcbe25e0
2009-11-20 14:07:07,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones released clones.
RequestId: 29fe7e83-f634-4925-a06e-2cd136400310
CloneId[0]: e5ddbb45-817e-451e-a558-e813bcbe25e0

2009-11-20 14:07:07,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:07:07,245 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:09:22,145 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:09:22,145 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: 780050af-97f0-4f98-8e42-0fbf42b412d2
2009-11-20 14:09:22,145 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones locked clones.
RequestId: 349b0359-6bab-4a35-9055-53305e15bccd
CloneId[0]: 780050af-97f0-4f98-8e42-0fbf42b412d2

2009-11-20 14:09:22,145 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:09:22,145 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - DestroySviClones called for 1 SVI clones. Request id: 349b0359-6bab-4a35-9055-53305e15bccd, force: False. CloneIds: 780050af-97f0-4f98-8e42-0fbf42b412d2.
2009-11-20 14:09:24,130 | 5 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:09:24,130 | 5 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: 9a3a8323-4abe-4a75-99b4-6388d2a918db
2009-11-20 14:09:24,130 | 5 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones locked clones.
RequestId: 09a96cec-b39a-4f38-a8e8-c0817d7a0756
CloneId[0]: 9a3a8323-4abe-4a75-99b4-6388d2a918db

2009-11-20 14:09:24,130 | 5 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:09:24,130 | 5 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - DestroySviClones called for 1 SVI clones. Request id: 09a96cec-b39a-4f38-a8e8-c0817d7a0756, force: False. CloneIds: 9a3a8323-4abe-4a75-99b4-6388d2a918db.
2009-11-20 14:09:24,426 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:09:24,926 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: 780050af-97f0-4f98-8e42-0fbf42b412d2
2009-11-20 14:09:24,926 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones released clones.
RequestId: 349b0359-6bab-4a35-9055-53305e15bccd
CloneId[0]: 780050af-97f0-4f98-8e42-0fbf42b412d2

2009-11-20 14:09:24,926 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:09:24,926 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:09:29,676 | WFE thread 2 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: 9a3a8323-4abe-4a75-99b4-6388d2a918db
2009-11-20 14:09:29,676 | WFE thread 2 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Operation DestroySviClones released clones.
RequestId: 09a96cec-b39a-4f38-a8e8-c0817d7a0756
CloneId[0]: 9a3a8323-4abe-4a75-99b4-6388d2a918db

2009-11-20 14:09:29,676 | WFE thread 2 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for VcConfigEntry with ids: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:09:29,676 | WFE thread 2 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for AdConfigEntry with ids: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:10:08,799 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:10:08,878 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - CreateSviClones was called for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa, for 1 clones.
2009-11-20 14:10:08,878 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Received a request to create 1 clones for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa. Filed as request id d4dc883b-36a9-48bd-a974-f9830ffacbff
2009-11-20 14:10:08,878 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:10:08,878 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:10:08,987 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - Created an UfaInitializeDiskAction with total disks 1.
2009-11-20 14:10:09,003 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: 0b3500d8-a0f5-413b-b275-15dffbd460ad
2009-11-20 14:10:11,627 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateLinkedCloneVcAction - Linked Clone created with dsPath: vm4:storage1 temp-lc-9f4c2e72-b894-4d5c-a695-/temp-lc-9f4c2e72-b894-4d5c-a695-.vmx
2009-11-20 14:10:13,002 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.RegisterVmVcAction - Linked Clone created with VM MoId: vm-184
2009-11-20 14:11:13,031 | 7 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:12:13,044 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:13:13,057 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:14:13,070 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:15:13,098 | 7 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:16:13,111 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:17:13,124 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:18:13,121 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:19:13,150 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:20:13,147 | 6 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The task was canceled by a user.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.WaitForUpdates(ManagedObjectReference _this, String version)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.PropertyCollectorUpdateTracker.c__DisplayClass5.<VcWaitForUpdates>b__4()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke()
2009-11-20 14:20:34,725 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateCloneAction - Clone created with VM MoId: vm-186
2009-11-20 14:20:36,849 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateSnapshotAction - Snapshot created with VM MoId: snapshot-188
2009-11-20 14:20:39,209 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateLinkedCloneVcAction - Linked Clone created with dsPath: vm4:storage1 source-lc-ec326597-1ff5-4ed4-af2/source-lc-ec326597-1ff5-4ed4-af2.vmx
2009-11-20 14:20:40,287 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.RegisterVmVcAction - Linked Clone created with VM MoId: vm-189
2009-11-20 14:20:52,692 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateLinkedCloneVcAction - Linked Clone created with dsPath: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1.vmx
2009-11-20 14:20:53,708 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.RegisterVmVcAction - Linked Clone created with VM MoId: vm-191
2009-11-20 14:20:59,098 | WFE thread 8 | INFO | ServiceCore.ActiveDirectory.AdUtil - New computer account has been created successfully.
2009-11-20 14:21:01,348 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Getting NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-191
2009-11-20 14:21:01,442 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Recevied the NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-191 from VC.
2009-11-20 14:21:01,442 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: issuing disk connection request to UFA service for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:02,505 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: partitioning the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:02,551 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: formatting the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:08,520 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating2 files on the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:08,520 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000023000000\simvol.dat
2009-11-20 14:21:08,535 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000023000000\sim.dat
2009-11-20 14:21:08,551 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: finish init disk operation for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902 successfully.
2009-11-20 14:21:09,832 | UFA thread 5 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - UfaInitializeDiskAction: finished init disk: vm4:storage1 prod1/prod1-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk.
2009-11-20 14:21:09,848 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: 0b3500d8-a0f5-413b-b275-15dffbd460ad
2009-11-20 14:21:09,848 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:21:09,848 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:21:09,848 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:21:14,035 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:21:14,113 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - CreateSviClones was called for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa, for 1 clones.
2009-11-20 14:21:14,113 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Received a request to create 1 clones for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa. Filed as request id 5bddefdf-952b-4e74-b96e-8156ffcb8d3e
2009-11-20 14:21:14,113 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:21:14,113 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:21:14,223 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - Created an UfaInitializeDiskAction with total disks 1.
2009-11-20 14:21:14,223 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: 6c4cc2b2-47e3-41f4-aadd-585cd06124f6
2009-11-20 14:21:16,738 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateLinkedCloneVcAction - Linked Clone created with dsPath: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2.vmx
2009-11-20 14:21:18,082 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.RegisterVmVcAction - Linked Clone created with VM MoId: vm-193
2009-11-20 14:21:23,394 | WFE thread 9 | INFO | ServiceCore.ActiveDirectory.AdUtil - New computer account has been created successfully.
2009-11-20 14:21:26,535 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Getting NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-193
2009-11-20 14:21:26,535 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Recevied the NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-193 from VC.
2009-11-20 14:21:26,535 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: issuing disk connection request to UFA service for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:26,863 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: partitioning the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:26,957 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: formatting the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:33,925 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating2 files on the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:21:33,925 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000024000000\simvol.dat
2009-11-20 14:21:33,941 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000024000000\sim.dat
2009-11-20 14:21:33,956 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: finish init disk operation for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902 successfully.
2009-11-20 14:21:35,394 | UFA thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - UfaInitializeDiskAction: finished init disk: vm4:storage1 prod2/prod2-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk.
2009-11-20 14:21:35,409 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: 6c4cc2b2-47e3-41f4-aadd-585cd06124f6
2009-11-20 14:21:35,409 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:21:35,409 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:21:35,409 | WFE thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:55:14,334 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:55:14,444 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - CreateSviClones was called for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa, for 1 clones.
2009-11-20 14:55:14,444 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Received a request to create 1 clones for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa. Filed as request id 3c6cb2d8-f2b7-43ff-9b44-36fec1714303
2009-11-20 14:55:14,444 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:55:14,444 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:55:14,834 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Vc operation failed.
VMware.Sim.CommonLib.Exception.SimVcConnectionException: Error in the application.
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.RetrieveProperties(PropertyFilterSpec[] specs)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.c__DisplayClass37.<GetObjectProperties>b__36()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcMethod`1.Invoke()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.VcExceptionHandler`1.Invoke(), Machine Name: MTRY-MARCELO, Timestamp: 11/20/2009 10:55:14 PM, App Domain Name: SviWebService.exe, Thread Identity: , Windows Identity: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3, detail information: VC session timed-out during RetrieveProperties call, Configuration ID: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:55:14,834 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VimClientConnection - Unable either to logout from url: https://172.20.20.115:443/sdk with username: monterey\administrator or to dispose the connection.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The session is not authenticated.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.Logout(ManagedObjectReference _this)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VimClientConnection.Disconnect()
2009-11-20 14:55:14,834 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Unable to free up the vc connection.
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The session is not authenticated.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VimApi.InternalVimService.Logout(ManagedObjectReference _this)
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VimClientConnection.Disconnect()
at VMware.Sim.CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25.HandleVimException(Exception e)
2009-11-20 14:55:14,834 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Reconnect called to create a new connection to VC https://172.20.20.115:443/sdk and user monterey\administrator.
2009-11-20 14:55:14,866 | 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Successfuly connected to the VC server at: https://172.20.20.115:443/sdk with user: monterey\administrator
2009-11-20 14:55:14,959 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - Created an UfaInitializeDiskAction with total disks 1.
2009-11-20 14:55:14,959 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: 9eb91c52-0bb7-4a14-b494-6b92f09f3e29
2009-11-20 14:55:17,569 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateLinkedCloneVcAction - Linked Clone created with dsPath: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4.vmx
2009-11-20 14:55:18,553 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.RegisterVmVcAction - Linked Clone created with VM MoId: vm-195
2009-11-20 14:55:23,881 | WFE thread 6 | INFO | ServiceCore.ActiveDirectory.AdUtil - New computer account has been created successfully.
2009-11-20 14:55:26,412 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Getting NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-195
2009-11-20 14:55:26,428 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Recevied the NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-195 from VC.
2009-11-20 14:55:26,428 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: issuing disk connection request to UFA service for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:55:27,100 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: partitioning the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:55:27,162 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: formatting the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:55:33,584 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating2 files on the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:55:33,584 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000025000000\simvol.dat
2009-11-20 14:55:33,599 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000025000000\sim.dat
2009-11-20 14:55:33,615 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: finish init disk operation for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902 successfully.
2009-11-20 14:55:34,834 | UFA thread 2 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - UfaInitializeDiskAction: finished init disk: vm4:storage1 prod4/prod4-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk.
2009-11-20 14:55:34,849 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: 9eb91c52-0bb7-4a14-b494-6b92f09f3e29
2009-11-20 14:55:34,849 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:55:34,849 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:55:34,849 | WFE thread 7 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:55:39,911 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:55:39,990 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - CreateSviClones was called for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa, for 1 clones.
2009-11-20 14:55:39,990 | 3 | INFO | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - Received a request to create 1 clones for deployment group 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa. Filed as request id ab5dcbf9-ee9d-4852-a9ae-b4d96f33871b
2009-11-20 14:55:39,990 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:55:39,990 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A lock is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98
2009-11-20 14:55:40,099 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - Created an UfaInitializeDiskAction with total disks 1.
2009-11-20 14:55:40,099 | 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple lock are required for SimClone with ids: d37c7206-16e1-46aa-b33f-559a72dfe0bc
2009-11-20 14:55:42,568 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.CreateLinkedCloneVcAction - Linked Clone created with dsPath: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3.vmx
2009-11-20 14:55:43,818 | VC thread | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.RegisterVmVcAction - Linked Clone created with VM MoId: vm-197
2009-11-20 14:55:54,083 | WFE thread 4 | INFO | ServiceCore.ActiveDirectory.AdUtil - New computer account has been created successfully.
2009-11-20 14:55:56,567 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Getting NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-197
2009-11-20 14:55:56,567 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.VcSubsystem.VcSubsystem25 - Recevied the NFC ticket for disk 2001 in vm vm-197 from VC.
2009-11-20 14:55:56,567 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: issuing disk connection request to UFA service for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:55:56,989 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: partitioning the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:55:57,020 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: formatting the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:56:03,426 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating2 files on the disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902
2009-11-20 14:56:03,426 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000026000000\simvol.dat
2009-11-20 14:56:03,442 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: start creating file: \\.\vstor2-ufa-7B000000007E00000000000026000000\sim.dat
2009-11-20 14:56:03,457 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaWorkItem - UFA: finish init disk operation for disk: datastore: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk, host: 172.20.20.53, port: 902 successfully.
2009-11-20 14:56:04,754 | UFA thread 3 | INFO | ServiceCore.Action.UfaInitializeDiskAction - UfaInitializeDiskAction: finished init disk: vm4:storage1 prod3/prod3-vdm-user-disk-D.vmdk.
2009-11-20 14:56:04,770 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - Multiple releases are reuiqred for SimClone with ids: d37c7206-16e1-46aa-b33f-559a72dfe0bc
2009-11-20 14:56:04,770 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for DeploymentGroup with id: 801003ff-85b3-40cf-86d1-ce2de82858aa
2009-11-20 14:56:04,770 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for AdConfigEntry with id: 37f5857c-f395-4de0-a716-8176ee25e06c
2009-11-20 14:56:04,770 | WFE thread 1 | INFO | ServiceCore.LockManager.LockManager - A release is requested for VcConfigEntry with id: acea8e36-a62c-4f96-891f-1c94dfcd9f98

Success installing drivers for iSight from a Snow Leopard DVD in Fusion 3.0.0 XP VM?

avanpelt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:16:54 GMT

Hi, all.

I want to use my built in iSight in my XP SP3 VM for the first time. When I connected the iSight to the VM, I got the message from Fusion that I should install the Boot Camp drivers for the iSight. Fair enough. . .

I popped in my Snow Leopard DVD and immediately two options popped up relating to sharing my CD/DVD drive with a MacBook Air or remotely installing Snow Leopard on a MacBook Air. I've got a MacBook Pro, so I could care less about the MBA.

No problem, I thought. I browsed the Snow Leopard DVD to the "Boot Camp" folder and double-clicked "setup.exe". I get error almost immediately from the Windows Installer which says that the installer encountered errors before Boot Camp could be configured.

OK, I thought. . .I'll just use the New Hardware Wizard in XP and when it prompts me to locate the driver, I'll point it to the \Boot Camp\Drivers location on the disc. No go. . .no drivers found.

Has anyone had any success installing the iSight driver off a Snow Leopard DVD since upgrading to Fusion 3.0.0?

Thanks for your help!

Clicks with Intuos 3 pen go to "wrong" window

MacNephDoc — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:49:48 GMT

Environment: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit VM running within Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) on a 2008 dual Quad Core 2.8 GHz Mac Pro.

I'm running (via Citrix Server over the internet) a Java Machine version of a large health care entity's electronic health record. I use a Wacom Intuos 3 graphics tablet for screen navigation. Sometimes when I click the Intous pen on a clickable region of the Java application, the click is sensed not by the clickable region of the foreground window in the VM, but rather by a window in the background (whatever native Mac application lies in the background window. Bringing the VM to foreground focus again and clicking with the Intuos pen in exactly the same spot works as intended.

I've installed the latest (Oct '09) versions of the Mac and Windows Wacom drivers into the Mac OS and Windows OS (VM) respectively. The drivers are said to be Snow Leopard and Windows 7 compatible, respectively.

I've not tried clicking at the same VM window regions with a USB mouse, but I can do that.

I see that there have been discussions about problems with Wacom tablets and VMWare fusion, but I haven't seen discussions that describe problems such as I'm describing. Are these known issues? Is there anything you'd like me to do to clarify my problems to the VMWare community?

Thanks so much,

Change the name of the Windows Server

brenko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:46:35 GMT

In our lab environment we changed the actual server name (windows 2003) from Lab1 to Lab2, and after a reboot we were unable to access the vCenter server using "localhost". Since this was in the lab, we simply reinstalled after playing with the Data Connections and having no success.

If anyone knows of a standard procedure for doing this it wouild be appreaciated if you could share your insight.

Ben

The System Very slow

nilsonchagas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:58:06 GMT

My DELL PowerEdge R410, 4GB RAM, 250GB HD RAID, 2 vms (W2K3) and CentOS.

But very slow.

I saw in inicialization VMWare Authentication Daemon Fail, Is it the problem?

Anybody recomends VMware ESXi??

ifdown broke VMWare

mpg187 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:27:40 GMT

I issued an ifdown command in my Fedora VM and now my Fedora and Ubuntu
VMs can't connect to the internet. (I have two adapters, a hostonly and
a bridged).

How do I get it to work? I restarted both the host and guest OSes and it still doesn't work.

PS: Windows 7 64 Bit host.

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

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

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

"Procedure

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

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

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

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

Brian B,

unable to open file

sjlukacs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:15:06 GMT

hello one and all,

i have osx snow leopard 10.6.2 and vmware fusion 3.0. i installed win7x64 under my osx "lucas" login on my win7 harddrive on my mac pro. vmware and win7 work fine under my osx login. however,when my girl "brooke" logs into her osx account and tries to open the win7 she gets,

"Unable to open file "/Volumes/Win7/ Windows 7 x64.vmwarevm/Windows 7 x64-000002.vmdk": Insufficient permission to access file."

so i logged in under myself, which i am an osx admin and gave full permission to brooke for the above file and the win7 partitition. however, brooke can not still use the vmware and the same message comes up. please point me in the direction of where to fix this. thank you in advance.

lucas

Suggestions/Best Practises for Moving a 1.5TB RAID to Virtual Disk

EddieA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:11:59 GMT

OK, I'm giving up on the idea of trying to make my 1.5TB RAID show up as either a passthru device, or an RDM, as nothing I've found/tried seems to work. So, I'm thinking of using the RAID as a DataStore and moving the current contents of my RAID to Virtual disks, stored in that DataStore. So, what's the consenus of the best way to set this up.

It's configured as a RAID 5, and currently, the whole 1.5TB is defined as a single Physical Volume, and I've carved out, so far, 6 Logical Volumes, with 1 or 2 more planned in the near future. So, do I either:

Define the complete RAID as a single disk, and contine to use LVM.

Define each Logical Volume as an individual Virtual disk. I know I can still "expand" these, if needed, using the supplied tools.

Or, yet again, do I go down the route of installing a NAS Appliance, in ESXi, and use that to control the data. If so, then the same 2 questions asked above are still relevent, but in a different context.

Any input and/or suggestions would be gratefully received.

Cheers,

Eddie

what's wrong with the bridged network option?

dagobert39duck — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:06:05 GMT

I have an intel iMac with 2.5 GB RAM running Snow Leopard, I recently installed VMware Fusion 3.0 and installed both Windows 7 and OpenSuse as guest operating systems. Everything seems to work fine when I use the NAT option for networking. Whenever I try to use a bridged network neither internet nor communication between the mac and either of the 2 guests is possible (I only run one guest at the time). The system seems to create an "unknown public network" which impedes all communication.

Does anybody know what could be the cause of this?

Thanks in advance.

VMware Tools failed install with Fusion 3.0 (install package error)

chambo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:58:42 GMT

Get "This installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package."

It mounts the Tools drive, but fails when launched. I've tried installing directly from the .exe file.

Please advise. Thanks.

Help Request - XXX com.vmware.vc.stats.StatsInsertErrorEvent.category not found error

PaulLeclair — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:32:57 GMT

Hi all,
I just completed a fresh installation of vSphere 4 on a 2003 server with SQL 2005. I went through all of the database steps (running each sql script in the order per the documentation). I've successfully installed vSphere on the server and have been able to attach all of my ESX 4 hosts. The database permissions are good (using full control to the VCDB and UMDB). The servers are licensed off the Enterprise licenses.

Here's the issue I'm facing. When I view performance stats on the hosts, I the form layout of the charts, but no data inside of the charts. The performance charts for the realtime views look okay, but nothing historical is saving.

I've looked at the SQL database and there is no data in the dbo.vpx_hist_stat, stat1, stat2, stat3 or stat4 tables. I've looked at the dbo.vpx_stat_config and stat_counter and there's no data there either. I thougtht maybe that it was a sql permissions issue, but I've reset the datasource to use the SA account, but still nothing goes in.

Everytime I open up the performance tab in the VIC, I get the following error in the event log on the vic:

Type Time Description
XXX com.vmware.vc.stats.StatsInsertErrorEvent.category not found XXX11/20/2009 1:20:00 PM event.com.vmware.vc.stats.StatsInsertErrorEvent.fullFormat (com.vmware.vc.stats.StatsInsertErrorEvent)

I thought I'd start here and see if anyone can help me before digging further.

Thanks!
Paul

ResourcePool.updateConfig failure in /var/log/vmware/hostd.log

tascheHyaene — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:25:46 GMT

Good afteroon,

I'm running a two-node ESX 3.5 cluster with vCenter 2.5. The cluster is running fine, and I recently started scouring logs looking for anything peculiar, just in case.

On one of the nodes, about every 10 minutes or so, two processes start and end in quick secession:

From /var/log/vmware/hostd.log:

~~2009-11-20 12:56:31.962 'TaskManager' 23034800 info~~ Task Created : haTask-ha-root-pool-vim.ResourcePool.updateConfig-270185
~~2009-11-20 12:56:31.962 'TaskManager' 23034800 info~~ Task Completed : haTask-ha-root-pool-vim.ResourcePool.updateConfig-270185
~~2009-11-20 12:56:32.032 'TaskManager' 21621680 info~~ Task Created : haTask-ha-root-pool-vim.ResourcePool.updateConfig-270186
~~2009-11-20 12:56:32.032 'TaskManager' 21621680 info~~ Task Completed : haTask-ha-root-pool-vim.ResourcePool.updateConfig-270186

After doing a vmware-vim-cmd vimsvc/task list, the output informs me that the process isn't running or the process never existed.

But like clockwork, about 10 minutes after the two tasks complete, I receive the following, again from /var/log/vmware/hostd.log:

~~2009-11-20 13:06:32.128 'PropertyCollector' 21621680 warning~~ GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-ha-root-pool-vim.ResourcePool.updateConfig-270185
~~2009-11-20 13:06:32.129 'PropertyCollector' 21621680 warning~~ GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask-ha-root-pool-vim.ResourcePool.updateConfig-270186

Am I correct in assuming that 270185 and 270186 are references to specific processes?

If so, then why is the process ending and then reporting 10 minutes later that GetPropertyProvider failed? I'm guessing that the ESX box is trying to update the config on one or more resource pools, but why is it failing and should I be concerned?

The Internets and the google did not provide many tasty conclusive morsels in regards to this warning/failure and everything on both ESX boxes is running ok. I just want to make sure that this isn't part of something larger or will become part of something larger later on down the line.

Any opinions/questions/insights would be heartily welcomed.

Conversion fails on starting second disk

robertwhaler — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:01 GMT

I am having an issue when converting a windows 2003 SP2 server using VConverter standalone version 4. If I just conver the C:\ drive it converts fine, but the instant I include the D:\ drive, or try to adjust the size down, it fails. Can anybody see what might be going on, as I haven't been able to figure it out in looking at the logs.

Thanks
Steve

Can't open files in the Virtual Machine from Mac OS.

surfdust — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:01:40 GMT

I need to be able to use apps on my mac to open files that are in the virtual Machine (win xp pro). I can open files on the Mac from my VM but just not the other way around. I've followed the instructions for choosing to open in host application from within the VM but it didn't work and through an error. Shouldn't there be a way to share the files on the VM so that files can be opened and worked on from within Mac.

Please help if you know how to do this. Thanks.

Licensing Question on vcenter

ximox — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:03 GMT

Hi All,
A friend showed me vcenter server and i really liked the features. I'd be interested in purchasing vcenter/vsphere (version TBD) but want to clarify some licensing questions.
We currently have a few 32bit hosts on Esx 3.5 and a couple of 64 bit hosts on Esx 4.
Each License for vcenter foundation allows me to add up to 3 hosts, so if I got 2 licenses I'd have up to 6 hosts or is there something else to consider?
These can be a combination of 4 & 3.5 hosts?
If I add 3.5 hosts do I need to have a licensing server just for that purpose? If yes does generating the ESX3.5 license files to put on the licensing server (while now its just a key you get at download) have an extra cost?

Thanks,
Antonio

Vmware Converter .sv2i to vmdk with commandline

AndyP2009 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:54:59 GMT

How can I use the converter on Windows command line.
I try to convert a .sv2i file into a vmdk file.

With the graphical interface works.
Does this also work in the command line?

Kind regards

Andy

Licensing Single ESXi 4 server, vSphere Client and VMware Go web interface

homerun — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:51:24 GMT

I have questions about free single server licensing of ESXi 4 if just using the vSphere Client (not vSphere Center) and using VMware Go. I will also write about my experience licensing ESXi to provide some contribution to those finding this post while searching about licensing.

My questions first.
(1) Can multiple installations of vSphere Client be used with a single ESXi 4 server without licensing issues. I just converted a single ESXi 4 out of evaluation mode by assigning a license key using the vSphere Client. Later I will be moving the server to the production environment. When I do so, the vSphere Client software will have to be installed on another Windows OS. Will the 2nd instance of vSphere Client connect to ESXi 4 without additional licensing requirements.

(2) I cannot figure out how to use VMware GO Beta to manage the ESXi server. Is it an additional download? Is it the http://server_ip_address link which I used, for instance, to download the vSphere Client?

Many of you reading this may be new to VMware, as I am, and testing ESXi 4 server and decide to use it permanently. After installing ESX and the vSphere Client, you will continue getting license expiration warnings when starting vSphere client. In order to license it free, click on the "Upgrade your ESX host license" link in that warning box. A browser will start and take you to the VMware Vsphere web page. Login using the account you previously created, probably when you first downloaded ESX. Hover your mouse over the "Products" tab and then select the "VMware ESXi" link. Then click the Download link. Then click the "Continue" button. At this point, I could see my license key. Copy your key your clipboard.

Then, finish starting the vSphere Client by closing the license warning box. Make sure the ESX Server is selected, not any of the vm's. Click the "Configuration" tab, then "Licensing Features", then "Edit", and then assign your license key. You can toggle back to evaluation mode. If I had know this 40 days ago, I would have licensed it then. However, then I was concerned I would permanently loose some features which, as it turned out, I didn't need with single ESX server management. Having come back to the issue 40 days later, I had forgotten much of what I had read in the installation manual.

I called VMware Sales several times and created a web form question. The sales people are mostly geared to Enterprise Sales, and some apparently are not aware of what I just explained. Also, they responded slowly in one case and not at all three times. At the time I contacted sales, I assumed I would be paying for a single server vSphere Client license, but apparently it is free to use with one ESX server, explaining sale's nonresponsiveness. For some reason, I had assumed it would cost about $250, which seems reasonable to me.

Having worked with Hyper-V and tried to work with Linux XEN, I am very impressed with ESX. ESX handles Linux distro clients much better than Hyper-V.

I hope I save others valuable time. Also please don't forget I have several questions.

Thanks,

RH

P.S. If you toggle back to Evaluation Mode, as I did to write this post, the license key information is lost, and you'll have to add it again. It appears it relicensed ok with the same license key, which would indicate that it may be ok to use more than one vSphere Client.

VM Fusion Using Twice As Much Disk Space As Allocated Drives?

emarsh — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:30 GMT

I've got an XT vm setup to for about 30gb of virtual disk space, but it's taking about 65gb on my drive. Is this normal? Is there a way to reduce the amount of disk that's being used?

There are a number of vmdks in my vm's folder. Are they all necessary?

Thanks,

Eric

dilbert
dilbert.vmdk
dilbert-000005.vmdk
dilbert-000003.vmdk
dilbert-000001.vmdk
dilbert-000004.vmdk
dilbert-Snapshot8.vmem
dilbert-Snapshot253.vmem
dilbert-Snapshot472.vmem
dilbert-Snapshot493.vmem
dilbert.vmem
dilbert-000002.vmdk
dilbert.vmss
dilbert-Snapshot8.vmsn
dilbert-Snapshot253.vmsn
dilbert-Snapshot472.vmsn
dilbert-Snapshot493.vmsn
dilbert-000006.vmdk
vmware.log
vmware-1.log
vmware-0.log
vmware-2.log
dilbert.vmxf
nvram
dilbert.vmx
dilbert.vmsd
Applications
dilbert.vmx.lck

low memory usage numbers in performance charts

dnetz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:32:12 GMT

Hi,

I've noticed that the percent average of memory usage for my cluster is way below its actual value, it's currently showing "0,02%" as latest, max/min and average for the past week. The hosts presents a decent value and the cluster consumed, overhead and total values are fine too. The rollup jobs on the SQL servers are running fine according to SQL Agent. The only thing I can think of is that I created a new cluster a while ago with EVC turned on, migrated all machines to it, deleted the old cluster and reused the name, which might have confused the statistics?

Thanks in advance,
Daniel

Allocate 4 vCPU to Windows 7????

shalpern — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:30:35 GMT

We are getting a stats program that can run on Xp/Win7 x64. It really needs a Quad core CPU to run efectively, but the OS only allows for 2 physcal processors. Is there a way to make it look like the virtual machine has 4 vCPU?

TIA

vCenter reports no utilization on server, but VMs still run. Can't snapshot.

cajx — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:18:05 GMT

I have the distinct feeling rebooting the ESXi server will fix this, but right now we have seen/are seeing this:

1. vCenter reported it couldn't talk to blade 1 in our IBM blade center. But VMs never went down.

2.There are no active errors showing in vCenter for the blade.

3. Under the Virtual machines Tab, it shows Host CPU and Host mem and Guest Mem as zeros... it sees no activity.

4. Vmware snapshots (note, these are initiated by the n-series/netapp storage) fail with errors such as:

2009-11-20 00:15:25,830 WARN - VMware Task "CreateSnapshot_Task" for
entity "server1.domain.COM" failed with the following error: The
operation is not allowed in the current state.
2009-11-20 00:15:25,830
ERROR - VM "server1.domain.COM" will not be backed up since vmware snapshot create operation failed.

and

The operation is not allowed in the current state, under the Tasks and Events tab.

I'm just noting what we are seeing/doing. After we contact IBM support, we are just going to try to Vmotion the VMs off the weird blade and reboot it.

Our system is composed of IBM n-series storage (IBM branded NetApp), an IBM H chassis (BladeCenter-H), several blades HS22 (Type 7870), and Cisco ethernet switches.We use NFS for the storage. We still have a very very light load on this whole system because we keep seeing random bugs like this.

Are these just typical vCenter type bugs not to worry about? Reboot and you are fine type stuff, sort of like things you typically see in the windows world? Or something more sinister is lurking?

vcpu-0| TOOLS call to unity.launchmenu.open failed.

VicL — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:32:48 GMT

Hello Folks;

I am running a MacBook Pro/ OSX 10.5.8/ Fusion 3 with a Win7 guest.

I am having much problem getting the Menu bar application to load my windows application list, or to respond to the keyboard shortcut assigned to it.

The only piece of information I have is this from my VMWare log:

vcpu-0| TOOLS call to unity.launchmenu.open failed.

Any ideas?

Thank you,
vic

VM Performance Hostory Migration - Possible?

CapiZikus — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:28:10 GMT

All,

We're planning to create a new vCenter4 with a new 2008 DB, new DC name and add ESXs server to this new environment.

The current ESXs are managing by VC3.5 and don't want to use the current DB due to performance issue (we think this might to do with corrupt data in the DB, but not 100% sure).

We know how to migrate the Esxs from old VC to new vCenter4, however one of the requirment of the task is the new vCenter is should able to show/report statistic of all VMs which we not sure a best practise to do this.

I'm thinking of migrage the DB to 2008 first then upgrade the current VC to vCenter4, then add a new vCenter to co-manage the ESXs then depromote the old VC(the one that just upgraded from VC3.5).

I will then create a brand new DB and run backup-restore from the old DB (the one just upgrade from 2003), then point a new vCenter4 to the brand new 2008 DB

Is this a best way to do?

Thanks

Best P2V software

arturka — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:21:54 GMT

Currently I'm looking around for P2V software with some special features:

has to support Win2k hot block based migration with synchronization after first main migration

This is what I've found:

vConverter4 - I'm going to check it
Platespin8.1.1 - is supporting Win2K but I had a lot of problems with this tool when i was trying to use on Win2K as source servers
Vmware converter - supporting live migration of Win2k but without synchronization

Double take Move - doesn't support Win2K

Does anyone know any other software ?

Best Regards

Artur

Anyone get a returns on Fusion 3?

tatt2ed — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:10:31 GMT

If so how?

As with so many here I am utterly dismayed that VMWare released Fusion 3. As some one already said Fusion 2 was solid and I had recommended to many people. I was working with getting my old PC into a VMware. OH BOY did that not work and waste several hours.

The "Migrate your PC" via Fusion 3 was a dismal failure. It couldn't connect and I did manage to find a thread yesterday with 3 pages of other having the same issues.

The Convertor for Windows doesn't seem work with XP.

I installed the VMware tools on my Windows 7 installation and it slowed it down to where I can barely use it. Media player no longer works ....

I use to be a major supporter of VMware products.

Patches could not be installed

HaM1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:02 GMT

Dear all,

I have aproblem regarding the Office patches MS09-21, MS09-27, MS09-60 and MS09-62. I'm not able to install these patches via the Update Manger. (All patches for Office 2007)

He is telling me that they are not supported?

Does anyone have the same problem?

Thanks and best regards

Sebastian

vmware not installing

akashj — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:54:20 GMT

i want to install vmware workstation 7 on win 7 home premium ..

earlier i was facing issue with incorrect cab file so i again downloaded the setup..and now when i am running it it says "setup has detected VMware software runnin on this machine. please power off all virtual machines and close all vmware applications before continuing"

I dont have any vmware app running as i uninstalled vmware 6.5 and after that ran the windows cleanup utility

any help ?

Apple keyboard drivers in 3 with Windows 7 64 bit.

jonoslack — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:44:17 GMT

Hi There
I don't seem to be able to get the proper (UK) keyboard installed in Windows 7 64bit on fusion 3
If I try and install from the boot camp section of the SL installation DVD:
applekeyboardinstaller
I get the message:
You have to run the 64 bit version of DPinst.exe on this machine.

Is there another way of getting my \ etc. in the right place!
thanks in advance

Mouse focus problem

klui2k1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:16:03 GMT

Hello:

I'm using Player 2.5.3 build-185404 hosted on Server 2003 with a config.version 8/virtualHW.version 7 VM running XP SP3. The VM has VMWare Tools 7.8.5 build-156735 installed.

I run dual monitors and the VM is on a secondary monitor maximized. Whenever I close a window on my main monitor and focus automatically shifts to VMWare Player, my cursor moves away from the main monitor and back to the secondary.

This behavior never occurred under Player 2.0.5 build-109488 and config.version 8/virtualHW.version 3 before I used Converter 4.0.1 build-161434 to upgrade.

How can I change the mouse driver to have the old behavior?

Drivers:
HID-compliant mouse driver: 5.1.2600.0 Instance id: HID\VID_0E0F&PID_0003&MI_00\8&3460D90F&0&0000
HID-compliant mouse driver: 5.1.2600.0 Instance id: HID\VID_0E0F&PID_0003&MI_01\8&BF62B46&0&0000
VMware Pointing Device driver: 12.4.0.2 Instance id: ACPI\PNP0F13\4&5289E18&0

I noticed there is a new usb device for mouse that was not there before in the vmx file.
usb:0.deviceType = "mouse"

The old VM only has VMware Pointing Device driver: 12.0.0.0. Could I possibly remove the mouse entry in the vmx and revert to the old behavior? There's also:
usb:1.deviceType = "hub"

Thanks

Java 1.6_10 Update in ThinaApp Turn Off

doofkopf — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:14:42 GMT

Hello,

I have the Problem that the java Update Check Box is turned on in the Java Pakage.

I use THinapp Version 4.0.

When i Capture i turne the Box Out. -> I copy the Package to another PC an the Update checkbox turned on in the Package.

Can anyone Help me to find the Registry Keys ore the Files wich have thif Information. +

So I cane change the Isolation Mode....

Best regards

Error loading operating system

OlivierParis — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:03:54 GMT

Hello,

I'm new to VmWare and I've installed VmWare ESXi 4 on a physical server and connect a datastore on a Netapp appliance (FAS2050) via iSCSI.

All is working well.

Next step : Using VmWare vCenter Converter Standalone (4.0.1 build 161434), I've converted a Windows 2003 Server SP2 into a virtual machine on my ESXi server. The operation was successfull with no errors.

BUT : When I launch my virtual machine, it doesnt work and in the console, I have an error message : "Error loading operating system".

In attachment : a picture of the VM settings (automatically set byt the converter).

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

Olivier

Degraded service console network performance in ESX 4.0.... Is this fixed in ESX 4.0 Update 1?

tsadmin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:48:04 GMT

Is the degraded service console network performance problem (according to KB Article 1012159) fixed in ESX 4.0 Update 1?

Ernst

map virtual disc fail

Homeier — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:44:12 GMT

Hi Community,

VMWare WS 7

Host: Windows XP SP2

Guest: Windows any Versions

I try to map a virtual disc - an error occurs:

AppName: vixdiskmountserver.exe AppVer: 6.5.0.6401 ModName: msvcr80.dll
ModVer: 8.0.50727.3053 Offset: 000046b4

any idea?

Ralf

VM Player 3.0 Windows 7 host, XP Guest. Ultimate Race Pro won't work

pcousins — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:30:37 GMT

I know this is a bit of a long shot, but was wondering if anyone might be able to help with the following problem:
I have just installed Windows 7 Professional 64-bit on my PC. One of our favourite games - Ultimate Race Pro will not install. This was originally written for Windows 95 and DirectX 5!! It runs fine on Windows XP. So I installed VM Player 3.0, and built an XP virtual machine. Ultimate Race Pro installs fine, and runs. However, after clicking to start a race - when I guess the program starts to use the 3D graphics acceleration, the XP guest completely freezes up, and the only thing to do is shut it down. I've tried disabling DirectX in the game, disabling 3D acceleration for the VM etc, but still no luck. My next plan is to create a new virtual machine with Windows 98, but I suspect that won't work either. Anyone have any suggestions?
My PC has the following specifications:
AMD 4800e, 4GB RAM, ATI 3450 graphics card with hybrid Xfire using the gpu on the motherboard (785G).

If I can't get it to work, can anyone suggest a good multiplayer LAN game suitable for playing with my kids (i.e. not lots of killing!).
Many thanks,
Pete Cousins

Vsphere Client & Windows 7

samuk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:19:27 GMT

I get an error when i try to connect to the Vcentre server using the VI Client.

Error parsing the server "servername" "clients.xml" fil.
Login Will continue, contact your system administrator.

However connection still fails.

I am able to connect ok from the VI client from the Vcenter server itself.

3 things I am going to remember about VCDX process.

mas1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:14:11 GMT

Almost everybody who has been involved in VCDX process can admit that the process goes very slowly. And always there is a pause/waiting/delay in the process. You wait for review, authorization, results, invitation to defense, email response etc. The worst thing is that nobody knows how long you have to wait. It seems to be quite random.

In my opinion the VCDX process is premature…

VMware is a great company with excellent solutions. But I feel they have not put enough resources and time on VCDX. This is not for criticizing VMware, but a call for improved and streamlined process.

If I one day get finished with my VCDX certification process, I am going to remember 3 things:

1. Waiting
2. Waiting
3. Waiting

M

vmware workstation and cisco vpn

ajauhar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:09:25 GMT

I have a guest OS of winxp having a cisco vpn software. When I try to
connect the cisco vpn software in the guest os, the guest OS dies with
a blue screen. Guest OS is running on a bridged network connection and
uses the wireless card of the host OS.

Here the configurations

Guest OS

Win XP SP2, cisco vpn 4.8 running on a bridged network connection and uses the wireless card of the host OS.

Host OS

win xp Sp3, 2 GB RAM, broadcom LAN Card, Intel 3945G wireless card

has anyone successfully connected a cisco vpn software in the guest OS over a wireless bridged connection.is so how ?

cmd.exe copy speed limitation -> Powershell

xadox — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:06:28 GMT

We are using vcb FullVM to backup our VMs now cmd.exe has the copy speed limitation to about 1GB per minute.

Can the use of Microsoft PowerShell break this limitation?

Cant find iSCSI targets after reboot

Jimjames7 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:36:17 GMT

I have a stange problem in ESX 4.0 where, after configuring a vSwitch with a VMKernel Port, Service Console Port and VM Port and then scanning the HBA for storage devices the connected devices on a MSA2012i SAN is discovered, however after rebooting the ESX server they are then lost and a rescan does not find them.

I have found that removing the vSwitch and then re-creating it again allows the volumes on the SAN to be discovered again only to be lost again after a reboot.

I have 2 ESX 3.5 servers which are configured with the same network setup although they are in their own cluster which do not have this problem.

Has anyone got any suggestions as to why this is occuring?

Outlook 2010 Beta 2 with ThinApp 4.0.4

Thinstall2 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:54:43 GMT

As many probably have read, M$ released Office 2010 Beta 2 public a couple of days ago.

We use Exchange/Outlook 2007 in our organization but an upgrade to Exchange 2010 is ongoing.

I tried to thinapp outlook 2010 to run it sidebyside with outlook 2007.

But I just end up with a self-repair dialog immediatly after the profile has been setup.

First I thought the error could be solved by following this blog article http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2008/10/how-to-thinap-1.html adapting it to office14.

But it didn't.

I packed on a clean win xp sp3, no vmware tools or dotnet runtime etc. Anyone succeded in this?

ChromeOS in Workstation 7

Student Driver — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:16:05 GMT

You can read about it here:

http://lifehacker.com/5408932/chrome-os-virtual-machine-build-ready-for-your-testing

I thought I would go ahead and post that it works just fine on my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install with WS7. I just created an "other" Linux 32bit VM, and replaced the created virtual harddrive with the downloaded VMDK. It's a tad slow, but not bad. You have to logon to it with your GMail account. Also, they recommend bridged networking, and that's what I used.

Have fun.

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

Moving vm server

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

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

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

Workflow advice needed to get XP bootcamp Parallels to Snow Leopard Win7 Fusion Virtual?

Herojig — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:49 GMT

Hi all, first let me say that I love fusion and all my other macs are fusion3 and win7 machines - fantastic! But I have one macbook used by wife that has XP and Parallels. I want to get it to use fusion3 and win7, like her desktop has, but not sure where to begin. The mb is already upgraded to snow leopard. I understand that you have to use some MS gizmo to update her XP to Win7 and preserve her programs, settings, and data, but when you throw Fusion into the mix, I don't know where to begin...do you? thx!!!

Can't get E72 to Connect on USB

tomkeator — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:45:20 GMT

I am using XP Pro on Fusion 3.0 and can't get E72 to connect using USB. In VMF the settings are reading the unit and when I go to repair in Install Hardware the message is there are no drivers installed.

Unable to P2V Ubuntu 8.04 to esxi 3.5

sbinder — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:12:29 GMT

I'm not sure what's going on. There are 2 disks on this Ubuntu Workstation (Each 40 GB).

The Converter job gets to 49% and my Ubuntu workstation freezes. (Note: I am running converter 4 on a windows Vist Workstation)

I have tried this a couple times and the same thing happens.

Below are the diagnostics.

Anyone have any sugestions?

Disconnect/failure to refresh desktop when changing views in Fusion 3.0

AarowB — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:05:49 GMT

While running Windows 7, x64 edition, from a bootcamp partition, I will often change the view from single window to full screen and back. When doing that, icon size is distorted, you lose the windows tool bar, which makes it very difficult to function. The only time it seems to come out of that mode and reset itself is after it's been sitting for about 15-20 minutes. Shouldn't desktop proportionality be based on screen size?

Symptoms and observations:

Problem occurs when changing any aspect of the view while Windows is running.
Unable to directly click on icons (have to fish around around the screen): The UI doesn't refresh when the view is changed
All icons on desktop are still there, including start menu and toolbar, but the UI doesn't show them.
VM starts with desired view, icons, etc properly synched with UI.
VM resets to appropriate view when shutting down or restarting
Resolution and other options in control panel don't change when changing from one view to another

Anyone else having this problem?

My machine and software:
Mac: Mid-Late 2008 MacBook Pro (17"), OSX 10.6.2, 2.5ghz Core2Duo, 4gb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512mb, 17" screen with 32-bit pixel depth
Windows: BootCamp native running Windows 7 Professional

Default Shares Values Weird

knebb — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:57:25 GMT

Yohoo!

I have a ESX4 running with vCenter and a couple of VMs.

All of them are set at the CPU and memory resources to "normal". But they all have different values for this "normal". Some have 8192, some 1000 and so on. Obviously they are not all entitled to the same resources.

I set them now with the PowerCLI all to a custom level of 1,000 but my question is how I can reset the default values to the "real default" ;)?

The VMs are all created on the same physical box under ESX 3.5 (but probably different U1,..U2 and so on). And it already was on ESX 3.5.

Anyone a clue?

Cannot update WS7 preferences on XP Pro for standard user

kdshapiro — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:36:56 GMT

I purchased the WS7 upgrade from WS6. It's running on a multiboot system W7/Vista 64/XP pro SP3. The XP install went smoothly and WS7 runs fine logged in as administrator. However, modifying the preferences or editing the virtual network configuration under a user id that has standard privileges, an error message to the effect: "Need administrator privileges in order to modify ....all users\application data\vmware\config.ini" is displayed.

6.5.3 worked flawlessly running under a standard XP user, does anybody have a suggestion as what is going on?

Regards, Ken

ESXi U1 install

Josh26 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:12:30 GMT

Hi,

I have attempted to install ESX 4i U1 to two existing servers, both build 175625.
One appeared to work and is now running build 208167.

The other however appears to have not changed its build number. The Host Update Utility scans it and decides it is "up to date".

Any advise appreciated.