Not able to move from RHEL6 64 bit to RHEL5 32 bit
Hi, I have a virtual machine created on RHEL 6 64 bit OS on Esxi 4.1I want to install a RHEL 5 32 bit on this virutal machine. For that I changed the Guest OS to be RHEL 5 32 bit from the settings and...
View ArticleVMRun command line length
VMWare ESXi 4.10, Windows Server 2008 R2 server and XP based client VM's. I'm administering an application that programatically build's command lines and 'shells' them out to the server and client VM...
View ArticleReboot required after installing VMware Tools.....
Dear Team, Just want to know , Once we install VMware Tools on following OS does it require reboot to take effect. a)Rhel5 (32 bit/64bit) b) Rhel6 (32/64 bit)c) SUSE 11 (32/64) bitd) Winxp (32 /64)e)...
View ArticleMount LVM in vmdk files with the same vg name as the OS's vg
Hi, Here is the tough issue: We want to mount a vmdk file to restore some files in it. The vmdk file contains LVM filesystems. The biggest problem is that the LVM uses the same volume group (vg) as the...
View ArticleVM Performance Issue..
Dear team, One of the user reported , VM is responding very slow, please chek the same from ur end. Just need ur help from where we have to start troubleshooting.. check the VM performance chart in...
View ArticleMigrating virtual machine invalidates Windows License
I have Windows virtual machines in an existing vSphere 5 environment, which we are removing entirely from one environment and recommissioning in a new vSphere 5 environment. The migration process is...
View ArticleMount LVM in vmdk file with the same vg name as the OS's vg
Hi, Here is the tough issue: To restore system files, we need to mount a VMware vmdk file to this server under RHEL 5.8. This vmdk file was from a SnapProtect backup copy on the same system. The vmdk...
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C drive of Windows virual machine filling automatically
Hi All, I had done P2V of a Windows 2008 server using Converter 5.0. The vm is having MSSQL and Oracle databases. After i connected the vm to the network, the C drive started growing automatically. The...
View ArticleVM Windows 2003 Server very slow access thru RDP w/ VMWare Tools installed
Hello I have a VM Windows 2003 server running ok in a virtual environment of ESXi 5.0When I install VMware tools, access thru RDP to this server is very, very slow. I uninstalled VMware tools and...
View ArticleGhost Image won't load when installed to a VM
We have a bootable ghost image that we are trying to load into a newly created virtual machine on a datastore on our ESXi host. I created a new VM with Win7 64 bit as the OS. Once I started the VM, I...
View ArticleCompile problem 3.7-trunk-amd64 SMP Debian 3.7.2-0+kali6 x86_64
I am running into the same problem on kali linux 1.0.1 x64 (debian wheezy). I am running VMware Workstation 9.0.2 with VMwareTools-9.2.3-1031360.tar.gz The process I am trying is: echo cups enabled...
View ArticleClustering within a single host - external storage required?
Hi, We are developing HA environment in a single ESXi host between two VMs.My doubt is whether we can use the unused disk space available in the same ESXi host as a shared storage between the two VMs...
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unable to install windows 8
Dear Team, While creating a new vm selected OS as other 64 bit and started win8 installtion, but i m just able to see following screen , it won't proceed further....tried to create l the same on two...
View ArticleOS networking settings lost after an Image-level restore
After I restore a Windows 2008 virtual machine into vSphere from an image-level backup, the networking configuration is lost. It loses its static IP address and reverts to DHCP. Does anyone know...
View ArticleVmware converter 5.x P2V convert issues
Vmware converter 5.x took ages(2 or more days) to convert 500GB or more Physical to Virutal machine over networkafter 5% or 95 to 98% conversion fails..how to do quick conversion without fail??pls...
View ArticleCommandLine Copy VM from ESX to ESXi
Hi all-- I have an old ESX 3.5 server inherited from an acquisition and our normal Prod ESXi 5.x host. Both are gig connected but nothing else at that remote site is. I'm looking for the quickest...
View ArticleWhen to split virtual machine hard disks between different datastores
When is it recommended or beneficial to split my operating system virtual hard disk and my data virtual hard disk for a single VM among two different datastores? What are the impacts of this and what...
View ArticleClone/Copy VM while running to another datastore
Dear Users, I have searched on the internet about how to clone/copy a Virtual Machine while its running with some sort of task scheduler to a different datastore.This task must be done every day and...
View ArticleAdd GSM modem usb to vmware
Hi all, I have a host server using ESX 4.0, and a vmware machine running CentOS server on this ESX server. Now i want to added a GSM modem USB on the CentOS to send and receive SMS. Which steps i have...
View ArticleXML file to OVF format
0 I have a xml file which contains details about processor,memory,logical partition and OS to be installed on Logical partitions.I want to convert this XML file into an OVF format.The biggest...
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