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FileStream Error

July 5, 2012, 9:06 am
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We’re using a a script that adds RDM disks to a VM by reading in a csv file to match the array serial numbers to the naa IDs presented to the hosts. The script is run using an enterprise job scheduler. The script works fine when run manually (either directly from Powershell or through the job scheduler app but when run automatically, the job will fail with the following error:

 

The OS handle's position is not what FileStream expected. Do not use a handle simultaneously in one FileStream and in Win32 code or another FileStream. This may cause data loss.

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [out-lineoutput], IOException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.IOException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.OutLineOutputCommand

 

Most of the time, it will map some of the RDMs before it throws the error.

I was just wondering if anyone has seen this before.

I've contacted MS Support, VMware Support & the Job Scheduler support. No luck there yet.

 

Lee Holmes discusses this error on his site here which many other sites refer back to.

http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2008/07/30/workaround-the-os-handles-position-is-not-what-filestream-expected/

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4.1.3 update - no usb or network

July 5, 2012, 9:43 am
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As with 2 other current posters, since I've updated to the lastest patch, I am unable to connect USB devices to my VM.  Additionally, I have lost network connectivity.

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SpeechQ m*modal/MedQuist install fails

July 5, 2012, 9:52 am
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Trying to install SpeechQ from m*modal/MedQuist on a Windows XP SP3 VM in VMware Player 4.

The installer will not complete, also fails on Windows 7.

 

Anyone have experience with this software?

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VMware view to Windows 7 Enterprise to Linux VM "The desktop is closing." hang

July 5, 2012, 11:01 am
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I have VMware View Client

4.6.0 build-366101

host runs Windows 7 Enterprise 6.1.7600

 

I connect to a VM running Windwos.  I connect from the Windows VM to

a Linux VM.  I do what I need to do on the Linux vm.  Then I iconify the VMware

View process.  The next day, I bring back up VMware View.  It says

"The desktop is closing."  Only it never closes and it never exits.  Below is what it

looks like.  Any suggestions?

 

Thanks,

 

--Seth

 

closing.png

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VMWare Player 4.0.4 doesn't start after a Kernel update

July 5, 2012, 11:09 am
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French below

 

Hi everybody,

I'v updated my Opensuse 11.4 kernel few days ago.

I'v tryed to compile my (old) 4.0.3 VMWare Player and it's failed... So I'v download the new version of VMWare (4.0.4)

I can install it without any problems

But when I try to launch the VMWare Player it's doesn't start and I can see this error message :

 

process 11620: Attempt to remove filter function 0xac192fb0 user data 0xb7bd5b28, but no such filter has been added
D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace

I've try both as user and root, same error message...

Have you encountered something similar ?

Any ideas ?

 

Thank you very much for help

Best regards

Philippe

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Pour ceux qui parlent en Français... C'est plus zézé pour moi...

 

J'ai effectué hier la MAJ du Kernel (je suis sous 11.4)
J'ai voulu recompiler ma machine virtuelle (VMWare  player 4.0.3) ... ça l'a pas fait avec un message d'erreur que j'avais  déjà eu mais que j'avais ignoré en passant à la version supérieure...  (d'accord, je sais c'est pas très élégant... mais ça a marché)
Je me dit je vais faire pareil car VMWare player avait une MAJ vers la 4.0.4 ...
Cette dernière s'installe correctement, sans message d'erreur mais lorsque je veux la lancer j’obtiens le message ci-dessous :

process 11620: Attempt to remove filter function 0xac192fb0 user data 0xb7bd5b28, but no such filter has been added
D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace

Bien entendu j'ai testé en "user" et en "root"... même message

J'ai un peu cherché sur le forum de VMWare et j'ai rien trouvé ...

 

Quelqu'un a une idée ?

 

 

Merci d'avance

 

Bonne journée

 

Philippe

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copy paste in home view launch

July 5, 2012, 11:45 am
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I am not getting clipboard copy paste in a textfield when the plugin is launched from home view.

 

I got the same result when I tried with following xml -

<scriptConfiguration version="1.0.0">
  <key>com.symantec.google-search</key>
  <description>VI Extensibility Demo : Google-search </description>
<multiVCsupported>false</multiVCsupported>
<supportNonSecureCommunication>true</supportNonSecureCommunication>
  <extension parent="HomeView.Applications">
    <title locale="en">Google-search</title>
    <url display="modalwindow">http://www.google.com</url>
  </extension>
</scriptConfiguration>

 

 

What do I need to do to enable copy paste from clipboard in a textfield for plugin UI launched from home view?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

 

Regards,

geeta

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How to detect the app is running on a ESX server but not a VMWare Workstation?

July 5, 2012, 11:48 am
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Hello, I have a C++ application in which I want to detect it's currently running on a ESX server but not a VMWare workstation or any other VM. Is there a way to do it in C/C++ code? Thanks in advance!

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Large vm backup (12TB) - Vmware Vmdirectpath, Networker, Virtual Switch

July 5, 2012, 12:15 pm
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I would like to hear from anyone with real experience, success or failure.

 

We have a single Vmware 5.0 host with a large amount of storage on a single Linux virtual server, currently around 2TB and could go up to 12TB.  Other VMs too, but this is the big one.  I'm trying to come up with a backup mechanism, keeping cost down, but which will do the job.   The users are processing satellite image data, using various FOSS software.   They can stand extended backup and restore windows -- e.g., if it takes 10-20 hours to do a full backup on the weekend, that would be OK.  File/directory level restores will be the norm, and if that takes a few hours, that'sl OK, too.  The 12 TB is an internal RAID 5 LUN with an Adaptec controller & 7 x 2TB 7200rpm SAS disks.

 

Since I need file-level recovery, VADP type backups don't support that for all OSes and filesystems.  So, I'm considering a conventional setup  with a Networker 7.6sp3 or newer client on the Linux VM and another VM will be the storage node.  The Storage Node will use VmDirectPath to connect to a tape system (like a Quantum Superloader 3) with a SAS 6Gbps LTO5 tape drive.  16 LTO5 tapes at 3TB per tape should handle a full backup.  The client &  storage node will communicate over the VMware virtual switch, internal to the Vmware host.  We already have Networker here, & I can use the existing Backup Server to conrol this subsystem.

 

2 Major concerns:

 

Doing some searching & reading, it seems there might be problems with VmDirectPath access between the storage note & system.  If anyone has any direct experience & can tell me something that does or  does not work, I would appreciate it.

 

And, I'm banking on very high performance for the network traffic between the client and storage node, since it will never hit a wire,  but be entirely on the virtual switch inside the Vmware Esxi 5.0 host.  Vmware says that's supposed to be rather higher bandwidth than a physical Gigabit Ethernet switch.  Seems plausible, I'm hopeful.  But I could be wrong/disappointed.

 

I can use an existing tape autoloader to test with,  Just need to get a SAS HBA (PciE) -- any recommendations or warnings?

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Backup Exec broke a VM

July 5, 2012, 12:37 pm
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Hello all, im having a slight issue with the backup of one of our VMs (2k8r2 VM on esxi4.1 host)

backupexec 2010 seems to have created over 100 vmdk files which i assume are the snapshots it takes prior to a backup. Snapshot manager says it doesnt have any snapshots so i cannot commit any changes. now my issues arise because the files referanced inside he vmx files (VM-NAME-00000073.vmdk, VM-NAME_1-00000074.vmdk) dont exist in the datastore so im guessing it has actually removed these.

The files that do exist in the datastore are the origional vmdk files (VM-Name.vmdk, vm-name_1.vmdk and vm-name_2.vmdk) aswell as a lot of random 00000x , _1-00000x , _2-00000x all with a ctk.vmdk file.

I have got the server to boot by re-referencing the original vmdk files in the vmx file, however this doesnt commit any changes made since the 16th June since thats when this issue appears to have started.


i was going to try download the entire folder from the datastore as a flat backup and then referance the latest made files for each disk. these are only a few mb in size (not sure how snapshots work yet but im guessing it looks at the base disk and then put the snapshot ontop?) then create a snapshot and commit all changes. I know theres a similar post further down the forum but i wanted to post and get some ideas if im going in the right direction before i start.


Any advice or experience welcome

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Changing NIC Adapter Type

July 5, 2012, 1:22 pm
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Hello, I was attempting to change the adapter type of the NIC using the .NET SDK.  To be more clear, I was trying to create a new NIC on a new VM using the SDK.  However, I do not see an adapter type option.  Please let me know if it is named something different or how I would go about doing through either the REST API or the .NET SDK.  Thanks.

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Running a Full Clone on a separate machine

July 5, 2012, 1:47 pm
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Hello all,

  A complete newbie here trying to run a Clone (full) I made working.  So here is the deal:

 

  I currently have a server that has Windows 7 running that has VMware Workstation 8 installed.  In the VMWare Workstation, I have a Windows 2008 VM.  What I am trying to do is do a full clone of that that Windows 2008 VM and then in turn run it locally on my machine.

 

  On my own local machine, I have a working Windows 7 (exactly as the same as the one in my server) running in a VirtualBox since my local machine runs Fedora.  I also have the same exact VMWare Workstation installed in the Windows 7 VM.  However, after I import the full clone from the server to my local machine and try to to run the cloned image, all I see is VMware logo for a few second, and then the screen shuts down.  There is no error message that pops up - nothing.  Nothing gets loaded.

 

  I read around the forums and haven't been able to find the solution.  I have been trying to mess with the .vmx configuration thinking I need to change some configurations from the server to my local machine, but I haven't had any luck.

 

  Any help eould be greatly appreicated - I have been stuck on this for days.  Thanks!

 

-Ben

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Is there a way to disable specific datastore paths via powercli

July 5, 2012, 3:08 pm
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Hi! I am new to powercli and am in need of a way to disable specific paths for datastores in our ESX environment for some maintenance on our fabric. (I know - multipathing and all that but there is a reason we need to disable the paths and too long of an explanation to go into here). What command can I do that with? I would think it would be set-scsilunpath but cannot find how to do it. I know the ports (i.e. the SanID column in the output of get-scsilun -vmhost esx06-1.domainname.com -canonicalname "naa.*" | get-scsilunpath) that I need to disable. I just cant seem to find the command that actually disables the path for a datastore.

 

Sorry for the newbie question, but I have spent an hour looking in the forums and have not found anything close to an answer.

 

Thanks!

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PXE boot

July 5, 2012, 5:00 pm
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We need to create a Windows 2008 R2 VM using PXE boot.   I set the VM settings to boot from the "Network..." and then powered the VM up.   I thought that's all I needed to do so long as the ESX4i host was configured VT enabled and that the PXE server was up and running on our network.   As the VM booted, it stopped with PXE install exited.   I guess I missed something.  What else do I need to perform a PXE Boot of a VM?

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ESX 4.1 installation - no storage found

July 5, 2012, 5:03 pm
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Hi

 

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

 

Bought a Gigabyte motherboard machine with a 2Tb hard drive a while back, ESX 4.1 installed no problems and have been using it in a test lab for about 2 months. Decided to wipe the harddrive using Killdisk the othr day and re-install ESX 4.1, but when installing I get to the storage page and no storage is found.

 

tried loading Win 7 followed by Ubuntu and both find the storage fine. Have tried using Paragon partion software and even did another Seagate Seatools low level format (about 12 hours) and still ESX refuses to load. ESXi loads on the storage no problems.

 

Do I need to add a driver for the controller/motherboard?

 

Any suggestions appreiated as it is driving me mad.

 

Cheers

 

T

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Weblogic performance 50% slower on a VM?

July 5, 2012, 5:04 pm
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Hi,
We recently deployed Oracle Weblogic 10.3.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 64 bit Virtual Machine with JRockit 2.2-7-148152-1.6.0 and have been experiencing slow page loads/response while testing using HP Loadrunner with 50+ users.
While testing the exact same configuration (Used "dd" over the network to perform V2P) on a physical server HP DL380 G7 we have been seeing upto 50% response increase.
The Virtual Machine specs have varied from 2 vCPUs/4 GB of RAM to 8 vCPUs/32GB of RAM.  There is no resources contention as this VM has been the only one on the ESX server.
There are no resource contention anywhere and everything from Network, Storage, vDS, Settings on physical server (BIOS, Power management) has been checked and double checked.
We currently have VMware, Oracle and Red Hat looking at this but maybe someone out there has already implemented this successfully with no issues?
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No VMWare Servr Process = Cant Login

July 5, 2012, 6:25 pm
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VMWare Server 2.0

Windows 7 64bit

 

This has been running fine for weeks, but just today, I cannot log in and there is no vmware process running. Checked services and all services are running. See screenshot attached. Did a restart to no avail. Anyone seen this before? Thanks.

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Enable RDP only thin clients to run on Default PCoIP View VDIs

July 5, 2012, 7:28 pm
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I found out that when I set the default protocol in the View Connection Manager to be PCoIP instead of RDP, some thin-clients and view clients cannot log in to their virtual desktop. They get a visual or screen initialization error.

 

I then realise that the older were only RDP based and there was no "Protocol" auto switching.

I had to set the Pool to run default RDP.

 

I also tried using a "thinapp" verion of the view client and some times it goes into a blank screen when I force a RDP connection.

If I try the default PCoIP settings it always worked.

 

Is there a way to set to detect the client's protocol, such that if PCoIP fails, use RDP ?

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Tool to clear database logs

July 5, 2012, 7:37 pm
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I do realise that VMware uses a database to store logs for both the ESX(i) and View solutions.

However, I do not really understand the steps to clear these logs.

 

For both ESX(i) & VDI we have :

- events

- alarms

- tasks lists

- error logs

 

Is there a tool to help clear these logs ?

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Critical : Service VIMPBSM failed check

July 5, 2012, 8:13 pm
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Hallo All,

 

Thanks for your help before

 

In this morning I receive a alert from my vCenter Server Hearbeat 6.4. The Error is :

 

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Red Alert: Application Error. This happened at Fri Jul 06 09:19:31 ICT 2012 on the PRIMARY AAAAA while Active. Further information if available: Service VIMPBSM has failed three times. Application management framework will not attempt to recover it again.

 

I try to search but not find any document for this error. Please your help

 


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Howto vm8 with 2 monitors

July 5, 2012, 9:35 pm
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Hi,

 

I use VM8.04 with Ubuntu Lucid 10.04x64 as a host with Asus 550TX video card. I just got a second monitor. In Linux (the host) I set the mode as TwinView.

 

I need to have the second monitor operational in Windows 7. I searched and couldn't find any document thread on how to configure the host so that VM would recognize the second monitor and the VM would span the 2 monitor. I want to use Lightroom with the library on one screen and the detailed view/loupe on the second screen.

 

Any suggestion/pointers?

 

Thanks

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