topic Re: VMware Workstation 16.2.0 and .scoreboard files. What it is? in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions

VMware Workstation 16.2.0 and .scoreboard files. What it is?

Arcanan — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:34:21 GMT

After latest update I see a few new files beside useal guest file? It is something new?

vm.scoreboard

vm-1.scoreboard

vm-2.scoreboard

etc.

HOST: Windows 10 Pro 21H1

GUEST: Windows 10 Pro 21H1

Is there a way to disable it?

Re: VMware Workstation 16.2.0 and .scoreboard files. What it is?

kasper — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 01:40:06 GMT

Scoreboard:

vmware zero competition 1

Re: VMware Workstation 16.2.0 and .scoreboard files. What it is?

mercede7 — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 04:40:37 GMT

Yes, VMware is now competing and maintaining its own scoreboard against VirtualBox and others. as you can see currently

vmware 0, Others: 2

Re: VMware Workstation 16.2.0 and .scoreboard files. What it is?

DaveP — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:49:45 GMT

It's some sort of stats file generated by the VMX process. It can be disabled by adding this to the guest VMX file:

vmx.scoreboard.enabled = "FALSE"

Re: VMware Workstation 16.2.0 and .scoreboard files. What it is?

stumit — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 11:36:40 GMT

You can read about it's use here. Used in VMware vRealize for monitoring virtualization across an enterprise.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations/8.4/com.vmware.vcom.core.doc/GUID-3F9EED74-6794-4852-8DF5-EB4FF51D6DF3.html

I deleted the scoreboard files, made the addition to .vmx as proposed by @DaveP and re-ran the vm. No more scoreboard files.

Re: VMware Workstation 16.2.0 and .scoreboard files. What it is?

roydfreeman — Tue, 09 May 2023 06:36:21 GMT

Do you have a link to a specific documentation page? Looks like that link is just the zip file for all vRealize documentation. Do you have a more specific reference please?

Re: VMware Workstation 16.2.0 and .scoreboard files. What it is?

RebeccaG — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 22:52:43 GMT

You'll find references to scoreboard in the PDFs:

vrealize-operations-manager-84-config-guide.pdf

vrealize-operations-manager-84-help.pdf

which are included in the .zip referenced above, https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations/8.4/com.vmware.vcom.core.doc/GUID-3F9EED74-6794-4852-8DF5-EB4FF51D6DF3.html.