get external VMname inside the VM
Hello,Is there a way via vmware-tools (or something else) do determine from inside a VM how it is called in the vcenter ?
View Articleis recomendations to scalable vCPU count for new VM?
When I create every new VM for general purpose Apps (often not known HW geometry previously), I'm ask myself - how many vCPU should I create and how it must be balanced - more to sockets or to cores?...
View Articleesxi host hang on nfs client loaded successfully
Could any one please help as one of esxi host(5.0) host is showing hung on nfs client loaded successfully.
View ArticleERROR MSG - NETWORK BRIDGE ON DEVICE VMNET0 IS NOT RUNNING
Hi. I am attempting to start VMWare which runs as a guest Linux system under Windows 10. I have started it without any incidents in the past but I'm now seeing an error msg - 'The network bridge on...
View Articlehow can I reset my forgotten Windows 7 password?
hell. One of my clients recently asked me if I could help reset windows password in an older laptop as they've forgotten, they didn't want to reinstall the system, they wanted the files off the...
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Workstation Pro 12 - DS4 controller pair but does not connect to Ubuntu 14 VM
Please, someone could give me a light in how to solve it.I am having this issue and it has been interesting because it simply does not work. I tried the standard procedure that is configuring the VM to...
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VMware Workstation VM->Removable Devices ->
Hello I want to ask...how to make VM take internet right away Network Adapter(Atheros) and no through the windows like ethernet....My friend tell me to go to thisdirectory(VM->Removable Devices...
View ArticleScript for virtual disk mapping information
Hello Everyone, In order to get mapping of virtual disks allocated to a virtual machine and disks visible in the Linux OS, I’ve written attached script.Please feel free to use it as per your...
View ArticleCustomization Fedora 25
Hi Community, Recently I've been customizing Linux virtual machines using customization wizard. The customization doesn't seem to work for Fedora 24 or Fedora 25. Other *nix flavors are being...
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Error message after attaching Host profile
Hi, I have 3 identical physical servers, They all should have the same network connections and datastores attached. I added two more hosts (esxi 6.5) to the only one that was alone in the clusterand...
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what are the offset hours value for timezone settings of OScustomizationspec?
Here's a link to the oscustomizationspec that lists all the possible timezone values from 0-300. I want to provide a list to my users to select the timezone they want when building a new VM but...
View ArticleVMtools start -> Eventlog Error SideBySide 33 (vmtray.dll, dndcp.dll)
Hello, as soon as the VMWare Tools.exe starts (when a user logs on), 2 SideBySide errors appear in the eventlog. I can reproduce that, by killing and opening the vmtools.exe.The events occur every...
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Server 2016 Hyper-V host in vsphere fails to boot
I am trying to create a virtual hyper-v host in my vsphere lab.I have created the Server 2016 standard VM and then added the Hyper-V role.The install completes but on the reboot after the install...
View ArticleSetup Is Starting Windows
So,I want to install Windows XP on VMWare Workstation 12,But the setup hangs at "Setup is starting Windows....",I need help,Because i'll have a trip tomorrow and i need to use VMWare to use the games...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Replication
Hello, We have a Dell virtual server running ESXI for our virtual servers. The datastore is on that local machine. Recently, we purchased another virtual server with the same specs for redundancy....
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Queue Length counter on guest Windows 2012 R2
Hi.I have noticed that Server Work Queue\Queue Length counter value is always 0 (zero).Whatever I do, it doesn't reacts.Does this performance counter works correctly in guest OS? Or should I enable it...
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vSphere 5.5 does not show any information of VMs on Virtual machines tab.
Hi vExpert, I'm using free ESXi host and vSphere client to manage hosts. I encountered the error that vSphere 5.5 does not show any information of VMs on Virtual machines tab as image:The resources of...
View ArticleReclaim hard drive space after virtual server removed?
Thru the vcenter, I removed a virtual server and the hard drive space is still being used. What do I do to reclaim the hard drive space? Many Thanks -H
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The apt key was expired since 2017-07-25
Hello, The apt key for http://packages.vmware.com/packages/ubuntu was expired since 2 days. pub 1024D/04BBAA7B 2010-09-08 [expired: 2017-07-25]uid VMware, Inc. -- Linux Packaging DSA...
View ArticleError while opening virtual machine. VMX file is corrupt.
I run a virtual machine with an Ubuntu OS since some years thanks to VMware Workstation Player 12. This morning I emptied the Download folder of my Windows 7 system, unaware of the fact that it housed...
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