Reproducible crash of virtual machine: Shared folder file access
In some cases I click on shared files and the virtual machine instantly crashes with A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. BAD_POOL_CALLER If...
View ArticleMinimum Privileges to Clone
I am setting up Roles in vCenter 5 and one of the roles needs to be able to clone. What are the minimum permissions necessary for cloning a VM?
View ArticleNeed to rollback from Player 4 to Player 3...
So I've spent the good part of a week converting all my old MS Virtual PC's to vmWare. Each had it's own set of issues but I got through it (even if that meant building the machine from scratch again)....
View ArticleProbably simple, How do I autodiscover MBeans?
Hello everybody, I am using hyperic-HQ version 4.6.6. I just started trying to get hyperic working at my place of business and am having issues with JMX/MBean autodiscovery. Our environement has java...
View ArticleCannot create Virtual Disk larger than 512gb even with 8mb block size
Hi all. I have a bit of a problem I have just added a new datastore to our IBM blade S. I have set it up within vSphere as a datastore (1.5tb) with a block size of 8mb however when I go to one of our...
View ArticleOnboard NICs not showing up?
We've loaded up the HP vSphere 5 U1 .iso image on a DL380G8 server. The servers have 4x1GbE onboard interfaces and a single PCI dual port 10GbE adapter. What I wanted to acheive was to put the...
View ArticleICS between guests - guest to guest ICS
Hello, I would like to create a virtual network between guests using ICS. I can, most likely, do this with hardware, but it will take a dual NIC card per VM that I would like to pass the net thru. I...
View ArticleInformation missing in Virtual Machine logfile
Dear All, I had posted an earlier question on why I am failing to collect log files from ESXi on the following discussion thread: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2064720#2064720 It turned out to...
View ArticleNo LabManagerSOAPinterface
I'm new to the API and want to learn it throught the API guide. But I cannot even create this object in C# with the web service reference. LabManagerSoap.LabManagerSOAPinterface binding = new...
View Articlesftp copy from esxi 3.5 to esxi 5.0 works, sort of...
I can use scp to copy from the esxi 3.5 box to the 5.0 box, but it is too slooow. I wanted to try sftp. So, here what is happening. Note, I can sftp, get authenticated, and copy to any folder other...
View ArticleCopy/Paste not working between View client and Mac 10.7.4
We are running View 5.0 and all agents on the vm's are version 5. Our Macbooks are running OSX 10.7.4 and we cannot copy text between MS Word on the vm and MS word on the Mac. I thought 1.4 was...
View ArticleProgrammatically doing the vmdirectpath
Hi, I was trying to find how to do the vmdirectpath (ie releasing the device from host and then assigning it to the guest as pass-thru device) programmatically. However, after searching a long time the...
View Articleloadgen may not have completed cleanly
Hi experts, I tried to run a 4-tile vmmark test. When I tried a short run, everything ending normally. Then, I changed the run time to 10800 and I got loadgen may not have completed cleanly error.and I...
View ArticleCannot Prepare Host in Lab Manager 3.0
Hi all. Having an issue I can't seem to figure out. Our Lab Manager host dies a few weeks ago due to HD failures. I had to rebuild the box using ESX 3.5 U2. Once that was done, I added it to our...
View ArticleDell SAS 5/E HBA with Dell LTO4 Tape drive
I am somewhat new to hardware passthrough in VMware, it's not a simple as Hyper-V. Here is my situation; I have a new Dell T720 with an older SAS 5/e hba and and older LTO4 tape drive. I am running...
View ArticleESXi - Debian and expanded Max. harddrive space
When we created the Debian 6.0.5 as a VM in ESXi 5 we set it to a maximum HD size eg. 50Gb - now I have a problem as I need to increase the max. expandable size to 100Gb. Is it enough to just adjust...
View ArticleKiosk Mode Can't delete user
I created a user using the VDMADMIN -Q command based on the MAC address. I need to delete the account but each time I try I get an error that It can't find the SID for the domain. I even tried using...
View ArticleControl an ESXi server with vSphere client over the internet?
I work for a company that manage a number of servers, most of which run ESXi. There are times when the VM's that run on them are unresponsive, or crash. When this happens we often have no choice but to...
View ArticleMigrated a VM to local disk on host, now theres 2 copies of it!
I need to shuffle my VM's around to upgrade an array, so I moved some VMs that were only used as source VMs for linked VMs in my desktop pools - could this have something to do with the VM being a VM...
View ArticleVMWare Fusion 3.14- Trying to install VMWare tools on Ubuntu 12.04
Hello, Today, i was trying to install ubuntu in a virtual machine. Everything went fine and it installed perfectly. It restarted and now i'm stuck here: http://i.imgur.com/zbQQp.png Please tell me...
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