Re: Hardware for setting up a Virtual Lab at home
Following are my near-final decisions. Please post your views- The Host – OS would be Windows 7, 64 – Bit There would be 2 ESXi hosts and multiple VMs (read, at least 10 including a Domain Controller,...
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yea multiple times just hangs, at this point its just dead stick.
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Re: Partition Alignment
Your URL is malformed so here is the link copied directly from your blog! Have a look at: Partition alignment in VMware vSphere 5, a DeepDrive, Part-1 Also have a look at: Partition alignment in...
View ArticleRe: Recovery a VM
From the log files it looks like your VM has tree virtual disks and two of them - located on different datastores - have the same file name. This may be the cause of the issue!?Please run the following...
View ArticleVim API - get notification about host
Hello, We use vSphere 5.1 with VIM API.It is possible receive notification from ESXi or vCenter about VM power off ?I don't want pull machine activity in loop. Thanks,Daniel
View ArticleRe: Activating Windows XP after transferring into a VM
Garirry wrote: My network USB is disconnected from my VM, and I cannot use bridged connection in my VM because it dosen't work with Wi-Fi USB. As I said before, I want to know if the problem is in my...
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Using EFI firmware in Linux guest
HI Community, I'm using Fusion 5.0.2 and I try to create a Linux guest (Debian 6) on a EFI based VM. I added the line firmware = "efi" in the vmx configuration file of the guest and got an EFI prompt...
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Hi Andre! THX for Help!I found the error, the driectory PTS-Datenbank1 was renamed.... i can start the vm :-)The vm run sicne 1,5 year without an error .. THX very much for an idea! Peter....
View Articlerunning script from vSphere CLI
All, I never had an issue running the script on 4.1. I am trying to run it on my 5.1 lab and I get the following error error: this script only supports vSphere "4.0.0 4.1.0 5.0.0" or greater!
View ArticleRe: Use VM machine from Fusion 1.1.2 in VMWare 5
Generally speaking the answer it yes a Virtual Machine created in a previous version of VMware Fusion will work in a later version of VMware Fusion. One issue that comes to mind is the UNC Path for...
View ArticleRe: How to list virtual machines with related vmdk files
Hello, biokovo- You could use the standard Get-VM and Get-HardDisk cmdlets to find names of VMDKs associated with VMs. Or, another, far faster way, would be to use everyone's favorite: Get-View....
View ArticleRe: Activating Windows XP after transferring into a VM
I tried to use Safe Mode with Networking but it forces me to activate Windows.However, Safe Mode with Command Prompt does not work with Internet. It is set to NAT but I don't know if there is...
View ArticleRe: running script from vSphere CLI
Without knowing what the script uses to do a version check, it's hard to help. I assume it uses a function which may have changed and now doesn't return the expected result anymore!? Can you provide...
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Re: Activating Windows XP after transferring into a VM
Seems VMware Player does mess with USB WiFi Adapters - I'm not only not getting a connection on the guest, but I also get multi-second ping times between the host and my own router
View ArticleRe: network poor performance on guest esxi 5
lucasmv wrote: Thanks for reply,I am running on inter core i7 3770, with hardware virtualization enabled on bios.Follow the attachment two vmware logs, vmware_esxi.log is the vmware log for one esxi...
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VMware Workstation 9 collides with Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013
After a lot of testing (restore from backups, clean install, e.t.c) i found that the cause of all crashes and problems is a conflict between Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013 and Vmware Workstation 9, it...
View ArticleRe: running script from vSphere CLI
Apologies, I was referrering to the vmwarevSphereHealthCheck.pl script. I have always used it in 4.1 with no issues.
View ArticleRe: Guest crashes with error vcpu-0:VMM fault 14: src=MONITOR or vcpu-0:VMM...
I found the fault, it was a software collision between Vmware Workstation (Player) with Intel Code Composer XE 2013.Thank you for taking look at the post.
View ArticleRe: keep disk as thin move VM to another datastore by powering off
It is here now, I forgot to put " in the last of command and pressed enter after that it is here as attached in picture. Any idea how to go back ? thanks,
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