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Hi Joe: Is VIX 1.6 installed on the box that Virtuozo is on ? Is 10.10.10.10 the same box as the Virtuozo box?  If not then the location of datastores.xml and inventory.xml need to be shares ( \\10.10.10.10\c$\etc\etc.xml)

My thought is to register a web plugin with the Vcenter server, that would be a web page with a list of links for your .NET plugins.  Each admin would have the web plugin and then they could click links on the page to install individual .NET plugins.

Sorry, I didn't get a email notification about your post. So your vmware 2.0 box is linux? Can you send me the event log from the box running virtuozo service?  I haven't done much testing backing up from a linux box, but it did work with samba installed. Send it to chris at sync-io d0t net.

VIX 1.6.2 needs to be installed on the machine running the Virtuozo service. It does not need to be on every VM host. It must be 1.6.2. Post your configuration (Right click top node and select export configuration) and any event logs (enable event logging by checking 'Write to Eventlog' and 'Debug' in the Local Service Options).

In the VM options screen, do you see all the disks ? Have you selected each one and set it's properties? Can you post the contents of the VM folder with the file sizes? Also, what is the disk type? Chris

Hi. Looking at your config, host 192.168.0.232 has the ignore checkbox checked. Also, go into the service settings and check Debug and Write to EventLog. Debug has to be checked for the service to write to the eventlog.

Did you google your error message holmes? http://www.untouchable.net/news/63-ivs2ogl.html Are you using the Server Console from 1.0? In 2.0 you can use the builtin web server or vsphere client. btw, this looks outdated: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-control-vmware-server-using-web-port-8333.html use this: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-2401

Currently the only way to have multiple schedules would be to manipulate the registry manually and restart the virtuozo service after you do so. Otherwise I would have to rewrite a good portion of the software for which I don't have time right now. I could also put the source on codeplex if you feel like doing it yourself. But manipulating the registry could work pretty good. I don't have a config in front of me so if you want to send me yours: chris@sync-io.net I could tell you what needs to be done. Basically HKLM\software\vix_virtuozo\StartTime takes a daily backup start time in 24 hr format (00:00 - 23:59). Then the other subkeys contain the hosts and guests, each one having an 'ignore' flag. Lets say you have 1 host and 5 guests. You want to back each guest on a different schedule. So you export the registry key 5 times. Modify each reg file's start time to the time you want. Then set the ignore flag on the 4 guests you don't want backed up. Create 5 scheduled tasks. Each task would : 1. import the registry file for the specific guest, 2. restart the virtuozo service. When virtuozo restarts it will read the registry, take the new start time. When that time comes it will start the backup process and it will see that 4 out of the 5 guests are ignored so it will only back up 1 guest. Each guests copy progress is also written to the registry so you can use that to time your scheduled tasks. You don't want the virtuozo service restarting during the middle of a backup. Makes sense? So your issue is that the backup runs for 24 hours straight? The guest or the host is taken down temporarily? Can you send me the event log for a couple cycles along with your config? (events are only written when 'write to event log' and 'debug' are checked). - chris

Can you run the UI app as administrator (right-click, Run As...). Does that help? Can you verify your paths with page 13 of Readme.pdf? What does the 'Test' button tell you? Are you installing the backup service on the VMware Server Host or a remote PC?

Hi. Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. I haven't received an email notification of your post and haven't checked the forum. Ok. So you got VIX and the app installed. Launch the UI, right-click on "local vix_virtuozo_service" and click export configuration. Post it here. Also, in Service Edit Options, check 'Write To EventLog' and check 'Debug'. Set your backup time to a minute ahead, and click OK. Then restart the Virtuozo service. After the backup completes export your Vix_Virtuozo event log and post it here. I will take a look and advise.