After creating VMWARE template not allocate all disk space
0down votefavorite In Vmware Vsphere 6 after creating centos 7 template with thick provision eager zeroed. Hard disk is with 50 gb but when i type df -h i can see that only 15 GB used and no disk...
View ArticleRecent performance-problems with Windows 7-VMs with single-core-configuration...
Hello, since a few weeks I have serious performance-problems with almost all of my Windows7-VMs in all my VMware-environments. There seems to be an easy solution, but I don't understand why suddenly I...
View ArticleSplit a VMDK disk hosting 2 partitions
I realize that my issue is more related to Windows that to VMware, but I hope that anybody can help anyway.I have a Windows VM with one VMDK disk hosting 2 Windows NTFS partitions.I need to split the...
View Articlevmware and Windows 95 VM, changing color to 32 bits produces the same as 256...
I am trying to run an OLD game which worked in windows 95. I have windows 95 vmware virtual machine. The game runs in 16 bit color, but can also be played in 256 colors (very bad graphics quality...
View ArticleVM System Event Error: The device has a bad block
In my Event Viewer->System logs, I spotted the following error "The device, \Device\Harddisk1, has a bad block." It has occurred several times in the last month, usually in the early morning. For...
View Articlelinux: rescan disk geometry for resized virtual disk
Since update 2, ESX 3.5 has given us the ability to add disk space and resize disks on the fly. If I add disk space, I can rescan the scsi bus, see the new disk, partition it, pvcreate, add it to...
View ArticleSimplify udev rule
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or 7, in a guest OS in the VMWare environment, not using multipaths, is there a danger to specify a simple udev rule as follows? KERNEL=="sdb1", OWNER="oracle",...
View ArticleRegarding space reclaim on thin-provision virtual disk
Hello, I have several question Regarding space reclaim on thin-provision virtual disk, can somebody help?My questions are: 1、Sometime i delete files inside virtual machine, i see theoccupiedcapacity of...
View ArticleCannot copy and paste between virtual machine and host
I am running a Windows 10 virtual machine with VMWare Fusion 8.5.0 under macOSsierra. I cannot copy and paste from the host to the virtual machine or vice versa in any application. I have checked the...
View ArticleMissing VM after removing from host inventory and a restart - ESX 4.1
Hi All I have an issue where I cannot locate a VM that was in the inventory of one of my hosts. I previously had a problem where I had to remove the VM's from one of my host inventory and restart the...
View ArticleHow to replicate vm's using sql Express Dbase
For training purposes, we need to roll out multiple vm's where a SQL Express dbase is installed.The vm is installed Windows 2012, and there's an application installed on it which uses a SQL Express...
View Articlevm performans
We have redhat 7 Linux on vCenter 5.5 u2 but on vsphere web client Guest OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit) showing and vmtools 3rd-party/Independent running.Will it be a problem for virtual...
View ArticleLinux newbie - where I can find Shared folders?
Hi! I'm user of Windows operating system. With Linux I have first experience on VMWare virtual machine.I installed VMWare Tools and configured shared folders.When I tried to find shared folders in...
View ArticleVMWare Player & Linux
I installed VMWare Player intending to install Kali Linux which is stored in Windows 10 Documents. According to the book The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing I should be able to install Kali...
View ArticleI have a Mac mini OS X Server 10.6. How can virtualize this server?
I have a Mac mini OS X Server 10.6. How can virtualize this server?
View ArticleMemory Utilization is High in a VM .
Hi I had ran through a problem in a VM memory Utilization is showing High. When i checked through Vsphere chart memory counter it only showing 2 GB usage in active status and 16 GB in the consumed...
View ArticleCannot install VMWARE Tools on FreeBSD
I have FreeBSD virtualbox installed on ESXI. FreeBSD globusv.xxx.ru 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 6 08:33:48 MSK 2013 root@xxx.ru:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/PAE i386 I cannot install...
View ArticleVSphere Client - Console not fully visible
Hi to everyone,i'm going crazy...i've change the notebook and the new one with a fresh install of windows 10 and Vsphere Client 6u2 not show me the full screen inside a console.remove and reinstall all...
View ArticleNeed to understand NUMA/vNUMA
could someone explain NUMA/vNUMA in simple words with real-time example ? Thanks,SD
View ArticleSnapshot related query-DSN.
Hi,One of My VM is running on almost 2yr old snapshot and now i want to remove this snapshot, there is only one snapshot for this VM. Will there be any issues if i directly delete it from the snapshot...
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