vSphere Client 5.1
Is there any hope of getting the 'migrate live guest to another host and (unshared) datastore' feature added to the standalone client? I really dislike having to use the flash-based web client for...
View ArticleFull screen but with minimal toolbar?
I'm a workstation 7 user thinking it's time for an upgrade so I am trying out this tech preview. So far so good. But I really dislike this huge toolbar with the menus, toolbar buttons and tabs. I...
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Nested VM - W2013 R2 and Windows 8.1
Tech Preview. Host: Windows 8.1. Guest 2013 R2 Tech Preview.. and Nested Windows 8.1 (Hyper-V Generation 2)
View ArticleFlickering screen using Fusion 5.0.3 on latest 2013 (Haswell) MacBook Air
Hi all, I just got one of the new Haswell-based MacBook Airs and have installed the latest Fusion (5.0.3) on it to run Windows 8 (x86). It installed fine but now I get a large dark area flickering on...
View ArticleStar Wars The Old Republic (SWTOR) freezes with VMWare Fusion 5
Hi! I am playing SWTOR on VMWare Fusion 5 and the game generally works well. Firstly, I overcame some initial difficulties by reverting from Windows 7 64bit to Windows XP, and installing Quicktime and...
View ArticleVirtual Disk Development Kit: config.ini & settings.ini
I am getting the following errors in vdiskmanager.log: sg_Reset:[msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit\config.ini": The system...
View ArticleNot able to get Hardisk Size.
Hi All, I am totally new to power cli. I am writing a script get the vm inventory details automation.please find the attachment of my script , i am getting error in harddisk. PowerCLI...
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Why do I get this error message when trying to open any games?
What's wrong? Can I not play any games through VMware Fusion 5?
View ArticleThe parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created
Hi we got problem with one off my virtual machine, it was strucked suddenly.i powe of the of the virtual machine and power it on . after this virtual machine is not powering on and through this...
View Articletrying to create win 7 installation using Win 8 Host but memory not enough??
I am trying to install windows 7 but it keep coming back and telling me I have not reserved enough memory...doesn't matter what I set it to the message still comes back...what Iam I doing wrong...is it...
View ArticleRun OS X 10.9 from a separate partition in a VM?
I've installed OS X 10.9 Mavericks on an external hard drive and I'd like to add that as a guest to my VMware Fusion 5 running on OS X 10.8.4. How do I add it as a new VM?
View ArticleWorkstation 9 - Slow network performance between host and guest
I am running windows 8 on the host and installed Workstaion 9 trial. Then installed windows 8.1 as a guest system. I am getting slow, really slow network between the two. If i send files to and from...
View ArticleList all IP addresses
I am trying to get all IP addresses on a vm and the associated portgroup.$vm.Guest.IPAddress I have the Vlan$vmvlan = Get-VirtualPortgroup -VM $_.Name | %{$_.VlanId} Now if there are more than 1 Vlan I...
View ArticleBest practices... How many nics?
Hey guys, We are currently in the process of adding 2 new hosts (HP BL460c G8) to our 4 hosts (HP BL460c G7) cluster. The hosts have the following configurations : - 12 cores (2x Intel Xeon 6 cores)-...
View ArticlePartition drives or indiviual drive when running virtual servers?
I'm configuring a HP DL380 G7 server. I'm not sure if I should configure 4 (1TB) hard drives with RAID 1 to have the drives showed up as two separate disks for storage. Or, I should purchase two (2TB)...
View Articleextremely high cpu ready ms
On the realtime chart over a period of 20 seconds I am seeing over 100,000ms cpu ready time. Approximately 70 view workstations all single vcpu. I am trying to understand how this is working in the...
View ArticleFailure to import CSV with ConvertFrom-Csv
I have a script that is designed to record the consumed data of all my virtual machines and create a CSV with the data. The script checks for the existence of a file with the same name as the output...
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How to prevent SQL transaction full
Hi all,Here's the story.vCenter 5.0, SQL express 2005. Last week, I changed the settings of Log history in vCenter from unlimited to keep 30 days.Then after few days vCenter crashed because the SQL...
View ArticleRecover thick vmdks from raw VMFS
In case you ever need it .... I found a procedure to extract thick vmdks from unreadable VMFS volumes that is fast enough to be useful.I only extract thick provisioned vmdks !!! The procedure only...
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