Installing VMWare Tools for Win2k12
Aloha, I am having trouble getting Tools to install under 2k12. It's hard to determine exactly what happens exactly, but it appears that once I trigger the install it goes into limboland. It never...
View ArticleNeed help urgently - viClient timeout when adding Storage
I have 2 new Dell servers with 1.8TB storage. I have done the following- plugged in 2 network cables and enabled both ports as NIC management ports (Server has 4 ports)- Join domain, set relavent...
View ArticleP2V Hot migration
I performed hot migration of ubunut server, that is working good, but stops network connection after 2 or 3 mins. If I restart network services(/etc/init.d/networking restart), and it again starts...
View ArticleESX 3.0.1 - Linux Guests go ReadOnly
Hello, My hopes for the 3.0.1 release solving this problem have been dashed. Per the suggestion of Vmware support, we ripped out our Qlogic HBAs and went w/ software iSCSI and upgraded our 3.0.0...
View ArticleVMWare backup
Hi, I am a total newby to VMWare. I have question which I know will can be answered quickly. I am an ISP, and I host 4 servers with an ISP that uses VMWare. I need to put 80gb data on one of the...
View ArticleVHD Size Inconsistencies
My virtual disk is set to a max of 290 GB. In VM Settings > Hard Disk the current size is listed as 232 GB. The size on the host disk (Windows 7) is likewise 232 GB. However, inside the VM (Windows...
View ArticleVMware Tools in CentOS 6 on ESXi 4.1
I have utilized Google to try to find my answer, but looking through several pages hasn't really gotten me to where I want to be. Hopefully I can get resolution and Google picks up on it. I am looking...
View ArticleSymmpi and Disk errors filling system log
All - In the past months I have issue with one particular Guest machine which is our Fileserver with RDMs for their File Share. ESX 3 and VC 2.0.2. Only this vm give the problem in entire...
View ArticleSolaris 10 (u10 and u11) Java Patches hang in VMware workstation 8
I have been asking on the Oracle Sun site this same question, but being that I am doing this in VMware Oracle may be dismissing it as a VM thing. I have a clean install of both Solaris 10u10 and 10u11,...
View ArticleAttach VMDK to Server 2012 vm
Hi, We're playing around with Server 2012 and we want to explore the Dedupe function. We have an existing Server 2008 R2 VMware machine with two hard drives (one OS and one file store) and I want to...
View ArticleVmware tools compilation - esxi 4.1.0 260247
Hello, I am trying to compile vmware tools on a VM.I have my own kernel from kernel.org, I am currently running 3.3.0. (I don't use packages). I deploy on this VM the kernel headers package, but when I...
View ArticleSQL 2000 error while migrating to ESXi 5.1
While moving virtual machines from ESXi 4.1 hypervisors to ESXi 5.1 we discovered that SQL 2000 database services would not start on 5.1 hosts. This issue appeared on several versions of SQL 2000...
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VM blank Console screen.
Dear team, I have one vms, this vms have 2 hdd, following is the hdd config hdd1 : 65 GBhdd2 : 100 GB on hdd1 windows2k3 os is installed and hdd2 is contains data. i just want os hdd1 backup. so what...
View ArticleRHEL 5.7 32bit OS on 64bit cpu/kernel (ESXi 5.1)
I've converted a linux vm (RHEL 5.7 32bit) from Oracle VM to VMware using the conversion tool. After the conversion, I had to install the non-xen kernel to fix the kernel panic, did this by via the...
View ArticleSet-VMGuestNetworkInterface : Cannot bind parameter 'VmGuestNetworkInterface'
Hi, I am New to VMWareI had created VM's from template.All these newly created VM's having the same system name & IP address(static)I have to set uniq IPaddres for these VM's .I am executing below...
View ArticleInstalling VMware tools during VM build
Hi All, I have a sles11sp2 64bit based customised virtual machine targeted to run on ESXi5.0 and greater. The vm is built in an automated fashion using susestudio. It does not have a cdrom drive.I want...
View ArticleEmployee activity monitoring software vs virtual machine, debate with a friend.
My friend has a really good IT job. He was given a laptop by his company and was told up front that they do randomly collect the laptops for auditing of activity and usage. He is a really smart...
View ArticleWinxp maximums
Dear team, I just want to is there any limit in WINXP VM, for eg we can only add 3gb memory or all vhdds size will not be more than 250gb. can u plz help me with the maximums/limitation of winxp vm....
View ArticleMy raw partition is now looking like a vmdk
MY host system has a 256GB hd. I added a second 160gb hd and created a VM mapped to the 160gb hd. A couple of days ago I noticed that my available disk space on my host system was dropping dramtically....
View ArticleSteps to Degrate VM Hardware version 8 to 7 and ship it to remote location...
Dear Team, We have one VM which runs on ESXi 5 host, i just want to know will I able to run the same on ESX4.1 Host. in other words i want to say, will i able to run vm version 8 vm on ESX4.1 if i...
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