Windows 10
With Windows 10 there are a bunch of new features. I have been looking around but I haven't found anything yet concerning the feature credential guard. Based off of the information I am finding, I...
View ArticleVMWARE Tools WARNING: Failed to get size of IP buffer / Failed to get nic info
Good morning,i have a problem with a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Server virtual machine on ESX 5.5 Enviroment.Every about 30 days thisserver brings out the following warnings related to VMware Tools, in this...
View ArticleSometimes VMware tool service is not running on Windows 2012 R2 guest VM on...
Hi, all: I encounter this issue:Sometimes VMware tool service is not running on W2K12R2 guest VM.If I restart the VM, the VMware tool service can run normally. I deployed 144 VMs but only a few numbers...
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VMware security advisory VMSA-2016-0001 relating to "shared Folders"
SO, I just received this advisory from VMware in my inbox, and I don't quite understand how this is related to ESXi. I'm aware of shared folders when working in VM workstation and fusion, I've done...
View ArticleCan anyone suggest me the vmware logs analysing tools??
HI , Manually It is very difficult to read the entire log so please suggest me the good vmware log analysing tools to save my time and for quick solution. Thanks,Rajesh
View ArticleESX + Linux guest + USB = ?
Hi,my organization is in process of purchasing ESX - just finished evaluating the product and we really liked its functionality, so before years end will definitely buy licenses, but here is our...
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vShield 5.5.4.1 cpu usage
We have recently deployed the vShield 5.5.4.1 manager, and we are seeing serious cpu usage. This is causing alarms about twice an hour.vShield Manager Warning VMware Backbone CPU Usage 1/12/2016...
View ArticleHello I'm Keith
I have a situation that I'm not sure how to fix. I used a W2K8R2 shell and built I RHEL 5.10 Server using a DISA Kick start disk. When I go to install VMware tool the guest system that is being...
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Hostname not found
hey guysi tried to install backtrack 5 r3 gnome 64-bit on vmware 12 pro and i completed all the steps till installing ubuntu center. for intalling ubuntu software center i entered the command apt-get...
View ArticleMS Clustering and SCSI bus sharing
We have set up MS clustering across 2 ESX servers according to the VMware documentation and everything seems to be working fine. The one thing we cannot do, however, is take snapshots of the VMs...
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WDDM Driver issue starting with 8.15.1.32
Hello, This is more of a heads up article than a request for help. We have had several customer reports for our application that after upgrading VMware tools they began experiencing crashes when...
View ArticleHow to install vmhgfs along side open-vm-tools
So I've noticed that with latest versions of vmplayer and workstaion throw up a warning and say we should use open-vm-tools. On ubuntu 14.04 this does not include a shared file system driver. I've...
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Windows GuestOS disable write cache
Hi, I am trying to disable the write cache in Windows 2012 R2. Every time I change the setting to "Quick Removal" and reboot the server it gets reset back to the better performance. On a Physical...
View Article1 VMware Host 1 Virtual Machines(Win2k12) - Give VM all Resources of Host
Currently I have multiple VMware hosts, one of these hosts we want to be able to use all the resources available on the host to the VM. Specs of Host:Lenovo RD4402 x Intel Xeon E5-2430 v2144GB Memory6...
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BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 49s! [vmtoolsd]
The issue is with a crash of vmtoolsd on SUSE (3.0.101-0.7.23-default #1 SMP Tue Aug 19 15:56:19 UTC 2014 (26d8f4e)). Let me know if there might be other diagnostic info else where on the system to...
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32 bit VMWare installer says I need a 64 bit CPU
Hello all, I have an older computer that I am trying to install VMWare on. It uses Lubuntu with Wily Werewolf 15.10. I selected the VMWare 10.0 32-bit installer for linux and downloaded the file...
View ArticleHow to have working network eth0 with vmxnet3 without VMtools ?
Hi, How to have working network eth0 with vmxnet3 without VMtools ?Meaning , after VM machine was created , and network interfaceWas configured , there is no network response.Ping to IP configured on...
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RHEL 6 VM frozen in quiesced snapshot creation for backup purposes
Hi everyone. My RHEL 6.1 virtual machines running on ESXi hosts 5.1.0 get frozen when the backup procedure tries to get a quiesced snapshot. I have to reset the virtual machines from VMware console....
View ArticleVMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
hello there, pls i'm new to using vmware. i am getting this error trying to starting up virtual machine i av created "Failed to lock the file Cannot open the disk...
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