Adding a Fax Modem to VMWare Workstation 9.
I am currently running windows 7 as my host machine and VMware Workstation 9 running windows XP as my virtual machine. I am having trouble installing my modem to work on my virtual machine. I...
View ArticlevCenter server corrupted
Still new to the virtual world. I have put in a call to our 3rd part vendor who installed our vCenter. But, I was wondering if someone could guide me in the right direction. We had a power outage...
View ArticleIntermittent Freezing in both Mac OS and Windows With Fusion 5.0.x
Hi, I'm running a MacBook Pro with Retina display. I'm running Windows 7 x64 via Fusion. Mutiple times a day the host OS or Windows will freeze for about 5 seconds. I find that if I turn off Aero or...
View ArticleInstalling vmware tools in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64-Bit
Hi, I would simply like to install vmware tools in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64-Bit VM from a RPM. I don't want to install kernel files and gcc at all, so compiling is out unless I absolutely have...
View ArticleImporting from Parallels
I want to try VMware Fusion to see if it addresses an issue I have with an app under Parallels but I have a concern. In some reading it looks like the Parallels image is rendered unusable to go back to...
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Provisioned Space Not Equal to Actually Provisioned Space
Hey All, I have an odd issue with some NFS Datastores in my Environment not reporting the correct Provisioned Space on the Summary Tab of the Datastore. I have 2 of my datastores showing the...
View ArticleCome utilizzare con Fusion una partizione BootCamp presente su un hard disk...
Salve a tutti, recentemente ho installato in un MacBook Pro 2008 (4,1) un SSD e ho spostato il vecchio hard disk al posto del masterizzatore DVD, come ho scritto in questo forum: Re: Dischi SSD:...
View ArticleWireless Problems with VMWare Workstation 9
Hello I am running VMWare Workstation 9 on my laptop with a wireless LAN, I have just noticed a problem, everything works fine in the VM's connecting to the internet and collecting email etc. However...
View ArticleVMware Workstation running on ReFS
Did anyone try to run VMware Workstation 9 installed on Windows 2012 Server with new ReFS file system? Can someone share theirs experience?
View Articleproblem when registering new vcenter
hi,i need some help with my vcops.i have two vcenters, both are physical machines, i register the first vcenter in Vcops and then when i try to register the other one he says that the UUID from the...
View ArticleCreate requestable services in vCAC
Hello folks, So far, we have created a few blueprints to help provision VM's but I'm not sure we can create blueprints for requesting services. Ex: a blueprint for a service such as email (for a new...
View ArticleVMWare Workstation 9.0.2 painfully slow
I am attempting to run a virtual machine of a Windows Server 2003 image using the latest version of VMWare Workstation. When I power on the vm it boots up fairly quickly and I am at the login screen...
View ArticleVMWARE-VCOPS-EVENT-MIB
Deployed vCOPS 5.6 and loaded updated VMWARE-VCOPS-EVENT-MIB on 3rd party monitoring tool. Setup SNMP but only seeing events for Linux virtual machines coming over to 3rd party monitoring tool. Any...
View ArticleScreen motion delay when multitasking
I have a VDI setup with 125 users.I have 2 hosts with AMD Optron Process - 16 CPUs with 2.29 GHZMemory is 256 GB RAM. I have 2 pools allocation , 2GB and 3GB. As such there are no performance problems...
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differences between HW numbers and vmdk versions??
Where can I find something explaining the differences between hardware versions -- particularly HW version 8 and higher?? Does vSphere 5.1 and higher have a different vmdk version than 5.0?? I know...
View ArticleManual vMotion bypasses DRS Anti-Affinity rules
hi, just a really basic one... i know DRS is based on the idea that it looks at the cluster resources and then places vms.... BUT, if you set up an anti-affinity rule to say VM1 can not be kept on the...
View ArticleVM running on two hosts after hung vmotion
Hello, I started a VMotion of a VM from host A to host B. The request got hung at 65% for several hours. I restarted the VCenter service, relogged in to vsphere. The process was no longer running but...
View ArticleRemoving Unwanted Hardware from VM, while powered on. -issues
So while trying to work/modify scripts that already exist; to identify and "remediate if possible" unwanted hardware (Serial, USB, etc...) If found some gotcha type issues. *Previous scripts also based...
View ArticleCant perform Guest Windows Update
Hi there. I am having problems on a ESXi 5.1 host running Windows 2008 R2 guest O/S in that the windows update fails with the error message "An error occurred while checking for new updates for you...
View ArticleIs this network configuration makes sense ?
Hello, I have the following set up in an isolated cluster and would like to know your input in the network configuration according to the screenshots given. Thanks for your help
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