BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 49s! [vmtoolsd]
The issue is with a crash of vmtoolsd on SUSE (3.0.101-0.7.23-default #1 SMP Tue Aug 19 15:56:19 UTC 2014 (26d8f4e)). Let me know if there might be other diagnostic info else where on the system to...
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View ArticleHow to have working network eth0 with vmxnet3 without VMtools ?
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View Articlenumber of Vmotion done on a VM
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View ArticleVMware Tools 10.0.0.5 Issues
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View Articleworkstation pro v12 won't run more than 5 guests???
Greetings, I run Ubuntu 12.04-LTS on a laptop on Workstation v9, works great, but I'm overloading the laptop. I bought a new office PC with enough power, disk, and memory to run this half of the world...
View ArticleSupport and Compatibilty VMware Tools against Windows Server 2008 R2 and...
Hi VMware, We are in the process of migrating to WS 2K8R2 and WS2K12R2.I am seeking information like support and Compatibility of VMware Tools against Win Server 2008R2 and Win Server...
View ArticleRHEL 7.2 and open-vm-tools
Hi, We are running RHEL 7.2 virtual machines with open-vm-tools-9.10.2-4.el7.x86_64. When quiescing is triggered by snapshot, it fails with freezing filesystem error: Jan 25 20:02:03 vmp-sat6-01...
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View ArticleUpgrade of vmware tools fails from 9.10.5-1 to 10.0.5
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View Articlevmware tools failed
Hi,I have installated a Virtual machin with windows 2012 R2 on platform esxi 6.0 When try setup vmware tools , i receive the following messagge: setup cannot continue. the microsoft runtime dll...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 Ping "General Failure"
Hi, I am seeing an issue with Windows Server 2008 R2 and wonder if anyone has any idea's? At random the ping response will report "General Failure" when pinging a remote host. Pinging...
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Hi All, I have a question about USB storage usage with VMWare Fusion running from MacOS. I have created a simple virtual machine with Win10 installed on it. The virtual machine itself is created and...
View ArticleUsb 3 External Disk
Hi, it's possible to conect a usb 3 external disk to a ESXi host directly and mount the drive? The idea is transfer iso's images to the datastore, because my network swith is too slow, and i want to...
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