Re: ESXi 5.1 Partition Table Layout (& Increasing diagnostic partition size)?
Building on my prior comments/findings, this KB suggests an option of allocating a SAN volume that can be shared by multiple hosts for writing core dumps:VMware KB: Host not configured with core dump...
View ArticleRe: VM Deployment with customization, parallel
Luc, it is the script you collaborated with the OP to get working. ############################################################ Mark Jones 2/20/2012# Version...
View ArticleTrying to use VIX coupled with BlackBerry 10 simulator
I've got the basics down, I am using .NET managed wrappers around VIX to boot my BlackBerry 10 emulator. However, there's no 'Guest Tools', so I'm very limited in what I can do. Basically, I need to...
View ArticleRe: Windows 7 Games
Hi, The reason for the error is you are trying to ThinApp a 64 bit application that is not supported at the moment. Please try packaging 32 bit application, preferably on a 32 bit OS.
View ArticleRe: How to script changing IP and hostname on 600 Windows 2008 R2 (64bit) VM's
I receive that returned within PowerShell ISE. Regarding the other part of my needs is to find a command that can assign a new hostname to each server. I saw that you asked if the VM's have Powershell...
View ArticleRe: Trying to use VIX coupled with BlackBerry 10 simulator
Short of porting open-vm-tools to the emulator (not a clue how hard that could be), I suspect VIX isn't going to help much. You may be able to use some MKS based tool to do the screen capture. Maybe...
View ArticleRe: VM Deployment with customization, parallel
Did you check the logs in the guest (the ones I mentioned earlier in this thread) ?Perhaps these can make it clearer what exactly is happening during the customisation.
View ArticleRe: How to script changing IP and hostname on 600 Windows 2008 R2 (64bit) VM's
No problem, then we have to fall back on the WMI method.With Invoke-VMScript execute the following in the guest OS.$newName = "NewName"$compSys = Get-WmiObject -Class...
View ArticleRe: Trying to use VIX coupled with BlackBerry 10 simulator
That's pretty disheartening but I certainly don't have the skill level or the time table to port open-vm-tools. BB10 is Linux based so to the right person I'm sure it's not nearly as much of a bear as...
View ArticleRe: VM Deployment with customization, parallel
No logs. I get zero errors in output as that script stands, if I comment out the remove component, and check the custspec it creates for each one, the parameters are correct, nothing ever gets passed...
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Re: 5.0 to 5.1 via iso
Well that was simple... I was thinking this was going to be difficult..
View ArticleRe: VM Deployment with customization, parallel
I mean these logs inside the guestc:\windows\temp\vmware-imc\*c:\windows\setup-act.logc:\windows\setup-err.logc:\windows\debug\*The customization will start when the VM is powered on, that's the...
View ArticleRe: Would someone please let me know where I can get access to the VCenter...
If you are still evaluating the product and need some more time, contact your VMware partner or a VMware sales representative and ask them for time limited evaluation licenses which you can apply to...
View ArticleCorrupted esxupdate.conf file, ESXi 4.0, please help.
I just got Update Manager installed in my vCenter 5.1 install. I have a few 5.0 esxi and a single esxi 4.0. I was trying to stage updates to the 4.0 host, but the small 500MB /var/tmp/cache (on /...
View ArticleGuest OS Quiescing - is Grayed out
Hi All, I am trying to enable vSphere Replication (VR) on windows VM ( server 2012), everything works fine but Guest OS Quiescing is grayed out. Vcenter and VR in Base and DR is version 5.1.1. Any...
View ArticleRe: VM Deployment with customization, parallel
Luc, how can I get my output to show in HTML or proper formatting? I tried copying as HTML but it doesn't seem to work like it used to
View ArticleCan I share a datastore between vcenter and a non-vcenter ESXI host?
Is it dangerous to grant a "free edition" licensed ESXI host access to an iSCSI LUN that is used by a VCENTER environment, if the ESXI versions match? Can the free edition store and run virtual...
View ArticleVirgo Server Error
Hello, So I'm not sure why I'm getting these errors when my Virgo Server starts running. Am I missing some files? I never had this issue yesterday....
View ArticleRe: Poor performance compared to desktop with VMware View 5.2
Atlantis is a good product.. Here is a nice CPU ready cheat sheetCPU Ready Revisted - Quick Reference Charts - VMtoday
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