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Re: >2TB Disks
# Extent descriptionRW 2930266584 FLAT "\\.\PhysicalDrive8" 0RW 2930266584 FLAT "\\.\PhysicalDrive8" 0 That doesn't look right, however if it works that's all that matters.
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Re: hostd not running on startup / 503 Server Unavailable / 503 Service...
Hi, I looked at the two links that you had provided. For the first one, I did try resetting the System Configuration from dcui and when the ESXi host rebooted, it came back up with what appeared to be...
View ArticleRe: Ubuntu Auto-Generate Password
The problem is that there is no support for 12.04 Guest Customization in vCloud. http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/compatibility-guide/guest-os-customization-metrics.pdf I'm running into this myself, and...
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Re: HP ML 350e G8 / Smart Array B120i
Thank You Andreas Your help is greatly appreciated. Yes, I was using the stock VMware ISO for my install. I have never had to go to a custom image before. I have built a couple of these over the...
View ArticleRe: USB ports not functional in View local mode
Well.. as long as it is remote you can do whatever you want to do, same as the RDP option you mentioned (or maybe better ). But whenever you transfer it to you PC/laptop as local copy, the usb function...
View ArticleMemory configuration and possibly related vmware crashing
First question I have for the experienced vmware vsphere users is how to correctly configure memory as I've read the manual until Im blue in the face but still dont understand it very well! I have a...
View ArticleRe: >2TB Disks
I'm no .vmdk expert, but it looks rather wrong to me too. Won't that send reads and writes for sector 2930266584 of the virtual disk to sector 0 of \\.\PhysicalDrive8, accessing (or clobbering)...
View ArticleRe: Trying to upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1 I get this error "vmware cannot create...
I created a new .locker on my Datastore1 but it still tells me I do not have enough space. There is about a TB free. It uses that long cryptic name in the path (I would copy the path name but this...
View ArticleRe: CPU features for 5.0.1
Thank you both. It seems that that is the issue. I guess it's time for an update. Probably easier to get a new tower, than to get a new motherboard & cpu. Any recommendations for my research?...
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Re: >2TB Disks
Thanks, dariusd. I've found that what doesn't look right just may work perfectly in VMware. My inital objective was to vurtualize an image file mounted as a physical disk. Your point about...
View ArticleInstalling Browser-Appliance 10.0 in VMware Player
Hi, I'm new to using vmware and I'm having difficulty installing Firefox's Browser-Appliance 10.0 into VMware Player. The problem is when I go to create a virtual machine and try to give a pathway...
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Shrinking Disk not releasing host space
I'm using VMware 5.0.2 and decided to clean up my Windows 7 disk, defragment it, then shrink it to free up some disk space on the host. This is a process I've done successfully many times before using...
View ArticleRe: win 7 on vmware fusion
thank you I followed the tread as well as i could and things looked ok until i closed fusion and restarted it.vmware fusion came up but was showing win 7 x64 as powered on, but it would not runafter...
View ArticleScripting interface
I need to pre-provision AD groups in vCAC enterprise groups section as part of silent install. How can I do this ? Is the an API reference or command line interface thanks
View ArticleRe: How are guests supposed to discover their assigned IP address when using...
After more research: I was confused before because I missed this: To use Static IP Pool you *MUST* enable Guest Customization. While Ubuntu 12.04 is not listed as supported as near as I can tell it...
View ArticleManager service silent install
Where can I find full reference to msi parameters that the installers accept ? i managed to reverse engineer several, but still missing parameters to use custom log file locations for DCAC,website and...
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Hi, I am using VMware converter 5.0. I have vCenter and ESXi 5.0.Before I was converting all online VMs into local HDD successfully.Even all VMs are converting fine except one machine that is Exchange...
View ArticleRe: Ubuntu Auto-Generate Password
So on more attempts at this myself I was able to get all the Guest Customization features working for 12.04. One problem I had is knowing when customizations where going to be applied. Changing the...
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