Generate MAC address for an virtual network interface inside a VM hosted on...
Hi Folks, As of part of a college, i was trying out having OVS bridge inside an Ubuntu VM and adding a port on the bridge. This port is connected to eth1 of the VM. eth1 has MAC address generated by...
View ArticleDebian 8 and ESXi 6.0 : Advice about open-vm-tools
Hi I've just installed ESXi 6.0. My VMs on Debian 8 are using open-vm-tools in stable version (9.4.6).In backports the version is 10.1.5. Do you think I should use backported version ? Thanks.
View ArticleAnnotations to Tags
Hi There, Would you guys know if there is a way to make my vSphere "Annotations" into "Tags"?Thanks,Michael
View ArticleExpand volume ESXi 6.0
Hi.I've tried to expand a volume of a virtual Windows Server 2012R2 machine. The vm has only one volume (100GB).First I used the vm workstation, in properties, Utilities/expand, entered 170GB, but all...
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somehow my vm servers interchange name
My vm ware interchanges the vm name. How do I cahnge it back? I cannot use rename because the rename sql will still be sql.
View ArticleCustomizing main dns suffix with spec (on windows)
I am hitting a bit of a problem. My dns naming scheme is different from my windows domain naming shcheme. The virtual machine will typically be named aaa.company.com while it will belong to the...
View ArticleWorkstation 10 Setting Permissions on Shared VMs Getting Error
I've set up a handful of VMs to create a test domain and i'm running into an issue. In 'Select Users and Groups' i select my domain and i get a partial list of users/groups. When i try to search for an...
View ArticleMemory leak in libvmGuestLib.so in VMGuestLib_UpdateInfo()
It looks like new libvmGuestLib.so have memory leak in VMGuestLib_UpdateInfo(). Both library from Guest SDK and from VMware Tools affected. Last worked version that I tried is 9.4.10-2092844, first bad...
View ArticleHow is the default gateway configured via DHCP in VMs?
Hi all,I am working with Kali Linux and enabled DHCP. Now I have a dynamic IP address assigned of 192.168.81 and a default gateway of 192.168.81.2. What I don't understand is, how does Kali determine...
View ArticleVMware Fusion latest update incompatible with Outlook 2016
Hi Bros, I have a problem with the latest update of VMware Fusion 8.0. After the update, I cannot highlight the content of my e-mail for copy and paste in the Outlook 2016 and the font selection shows...
View Article2 Questions about IT..
Not able to understand the IT job market? I wanted to do know if Middlesex University's Network Management & Cloud Post Graduate Program, Is the program worthy of network or cloud related jobs ? Is...
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Unable to edit the VM machine settings
I have created a VM machine through Vsphere client. Now if I click on edit settings to increase the HDD space and RAM it throws an error that restricted VMware settings as shown below. Could you help...
View ArticleSystem Requirements
i want to install redhat 7 on esxi 5.5 u2 but i cant find redhat' System Requirements . min memory and cpu for redhat 7 ?
View Articlelinux install
some one installed linux atomic ( redhat 7 ) on esxi 5.5 u2 . They installed it as written in the following site. Does a virtual machine set up in this way have a disadvantage or bad perfomans or...
View ArticleLinux fdisk "No Free Sectors Available"
I have increased the size of my virtual disk from 40 to 200GB. This is ext 4 on CentOS 6.6. I'm runningfdisk -land I get this: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 214.7 GB, 214748364800 bytes255 heads, 63...
View ArticleHow Do I Emulate the Compaq Presario Model 5700T Computer In VM Ware?
Good afternoon. When I was a little boy, the greatest PC treasure I had was a Compaq Presario Windows 98 PC. It was a special premium, business model owned by my uncle. After I got off from elementary...
View ArticleMS Update Affecting VMware Tools?
I am seeing a strange occurrence with regard to vmware tools and MS Windows Updates. For one VM, I have been running NAKIVO backup software without any issues. NAKIVO used VMware snapshots as the...
View ArticleThe update is not applicable to your computer
I'm trying to run the Microsoft patch M17-010 KB 4012215 but keep getting "The update is not applicable to your computer" and I'm trying to update on our Persistent desktops. Anyone have a work around...
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cannot download web client integration plugin
Hi, I've just updated our vCenter Server Appliance to version 5.5.0 Update 3e (Appliance Version: 5.5.0.30500 Build 4180648), and everything is working perfectly so far. But when I open the vSphere...
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