Old Windows 2000 (!) guest
I have an old Windows 2000 Server guest VM.I need to enlarge a 200 GB virtual HD.I enlarged the virtual HD but I am unable to enalrge the partition, ad diskpart does not allow resizing a basic...
View ArticleVsphere 5.5 error installing on windows 8.1
Hello I'm trying to install vsphere 5.5 on a Windows 8.1 laptop and im getting an error J# second edition 3221225485. in the update there is no J# 2.0 present what can i do ? Thanks
View ArticleHow to clone a virtual machine and preserve original network setting ?
Hi guys, I have a issue with cloing Windows/Linux virtual machines, after clone, the network setting from the original VM will be lost in the target VM, and the NIC interface name will usually be...
View ArticleI want to use VMware Virtual machine on Win 7, how is it done?
I have finally gotten "Windows Virtual PC" s/w to work on my PC that has Win 7 64bit OS installed and running.But I'm not to happy with the way it runs and what to use VMware software in place of the...
View ArticleMigration impossible on Web Client but works on vSphere Client
Dear all, for a few days now, I'm expiriencing a very strange issue, I have no clue about anymore. Maybe somebody here knows a solution. I have two VMs, one Ubuntu 14 LTS and one Debian 8 Linux, that...
View ArticleWindows 10 VM
Hi All,Just a simple question. Basically, I'm going to be purchasing VMWare Fusion for my iMac and I'm wondering about the best way to obtain a Windows 10 image. I've been told to get the 'Buy Windows...
View ArticleVMWare Tools Not Installing due to "The VMWare Tools should only be installed...
I am using VMWare Fusion 7.1.3 with a Windows 7 x64. I have done literally anything online that mentions this error and I still cannot download the VMWare tools. Every time I change something or try, I...
View ArticleAn error occurred while taking a snapshot: msg.snapshot.error-QUIESCINGERROR.
Hello everyone I have a vm with CentOS operating system, which is backed up once a week and every time to get backed, the vm is restarts and the error is "An error occurred while taking a snapshot:...
View ArticleWhat is "Guest Authentication (vgauth)" and "Common Agent (caf)"?
What do these (vgauth and caf) do exactly? We recently upgraded to ESXi 6.0 and when I update VMware Tools on a Linux VM I am asked "Do you want to enable Guest Authentication (vgauth)? Enabling...
View ArticleVMware Tools fails to uninstall anything but says that the uninstall was...
Win 7 Enterprise x32Creating an image.Get to the point of uninstalling tools to move it to physical hardware.Uninstall from Programs and Features The expected behaviour is that all the drivers are...
View ArticleEsxi 5.5 teaming + guest windows teaming
Hi,i have a 2x1gb nic teaming at host level on esxi 5.5. The guest vm is a windows 2012 r2. I would make a nic teaming at windows level for better speed perfomance. In these case the potential...
View ArticleAuto Update Windows Templets
Hello Is there a way to update many (over 40 templets, whit different OS) Windows templets at the same time? Alle the templets are in the same vCenter. Thanks.
View ArticleMoving Windows Active Directory Server between hosts
I have two identical hosts running ESXi 5.5. Same Hardware. No vMotion.I want to move Windows 2012 R2 Active Directory (Back up) VM server from one ESXi host to another.There are no changes during the...
View ArticleVMware Workstation 12 and Virtual Studio Shell 2010 problem
I have an issue with my laptop Lenovo ThinkPad W550s. Every time I start at the same time Virtual machine provided by VMware Workstation 12 and Virtual Studio Shell 2010 my computer freeze and I need...
View ArticleVMware tools 10.0.6 + Causing Office Process issues on Horizon VMs?
Hi all For a while I've been seeing issues with Outlook having duplicate ghost processes and 'access denied' when trying to close I made this thread on reddit and another user confirmed he had this and...
View Article「新規セキュリティID(SID)の生成」選択時のログの出力場所
はじめて投稿します。仮想環境について勉強中の身です。表題の件についてご教示ください。 テンプレートのデプロイ時のカスタマイズウィザードを選択した際に、「新規セキュリティID(SID)の生成」を有効時に実行されるsysprepを、ログで確認しようと考えております。 そこで、「新規セキュリティID(SID)の生成」有効のデプロイ実行後に、vCenterサーバのシステムログをvSphere Client...
View Article"mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=ffff8834466f5ac0)" on all Guest...
Hi Folks, We have a couple of Dell R930 Servers (768 GB RAM, 72 Cores and 3 TB SSD in RAID 1+0) and we are running VmWare ESXi Version 6.0 Update 2.0. We use these servers for scale testing of our...
View ArticleHow to split one physical NIC into two NICs without Virtualization?
How to split one physical NIC into two NICs to accommodate two separate networks? I have one physical NIC and have a need for two different network connections: one static ip connection and one dhcp on...
View ArticlevCenter 6.0:option "revert to the current snapshot" is active but there are...
Hello there.There are vCenter 6.0 and ESXi 5.0 which is managed by this vCenter. And I`ve found such non-critical issue: option "revert to the current snapshot" is active in the vm context menu, but...
View Article100% CPU usage by Windows 7 guest
Hello, A Windows 7 Pro SP1 guest running on VMware Workstation 12 Player (12.1.1 build-3770994) shows continuously a 100% use of one core, even while idle. This happens independently of how many cores...
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