How to deal with Windows KMS activation ?
Good morning, I have a question regarding Windows VM activation. Currently we have a working KMS server, i want to know how to activate other Windows VM automatically during VM deployment and guest OS...
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Unable to find "monitor_control.virtual_rdtsc" and other string lines in .vmx...
Hi,I am using VMWare Workstation 12 player and have created a windows 7 virtual machine in my windows 10 laptop to use a website which does not support windows 10. By bad luck, this website is still...
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Software developer needs to convert files from VMware virtual drive back to...
I am a developer with a legacy program running from dos under Windows for managing veterinary clinics. One user needed a new machine so he hired another hardware seller/software guy and he convert...
View ArticleHow to enable multiple monitors with fixed resolution in ESXi6?
We have following requirements for several projects.Old SCADA system running on W3K+SQL2000, having several WinXP clients with up to 4 Monitors.The application is not scaleable and requires a fixed...
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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
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How 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...
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Migration 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...
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Windows 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...
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VMWare 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...
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An 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:...
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What 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...
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VMware 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...
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Auto 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...
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VMware 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 ArticleWinXP VM will not start if I assign it more than 512KB of RAM
I P2V'd a Physical XM Pro machine that had 1GB of physical RAM installed. I am using Fusion 8 on a mac mini (El Capitan) with 16GB of RAM to play the XP Pro VM but it will not start if I assign it any...
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...
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