After Fusion 3 install, cannot install Windows 7. Just freezes.
I have had this issue for about a week now and have tried almost everything (except the correct answer). I am running Mac OSX 10.7.2 lion on a Two 2.66 GHz Dual-core Intel Xeon. Here is what happens:...
View ArticleRe: Wait operator on Linked Clones Script.
You can try to wait till the is finished as follows...$taskMoRef = $sourceVM.CloneVM_Task( $cloneFolder, $cloneName, $cloneSpec ) $task = Get-View $taskMoRefwhile("running","queued" -contains...
View ArticleRe: ITScript to disable Java update notifications
We are planning on releasing this script next week. Thank you, Mike
View ArticleRe: "Upgrading" from vSphere Hypervisor (free) to Essentials Kit edition
hmmm. So sounds like if it's Essential Kit 4 that we won't need any downtime but it will require a vCenter Mangement server? I ask because we really don't care about the Mgmt server at this stage and...
View ArticleRe: VSA multi-site cluster
Don't think it will work: 1) VSA servers and VC must all be in the same local subnet2) VSA uses synchronous RAID 1 replication between VSA servers. I doubt that will work between New York and London....
View ArticleHow to register a plugin using the vCenter Extension vService
I'm having some trouble getting this to work and I was hoping that someone could tell me if I'm going about this the wrong way. I'm using vCenter 5.0 running on Windows 2008 and a Centos VM that was...
View ArticleChanging MTU on vSwitch and not being able to connect via Client
Hi, I changed the MTU on vSwitch from 1500 to 1400 and now I cannot connect to the server using vsphere client. The error is: Connection error The request failed because the remote server 'Server IP...
View ArticleRe: Creating a new TTY in ESXi 4.1
Hi.... I'm not sure if it helps, but I was in the same situation. I was trying to PXE install ESXi (v5.0 in my case) via kickstart and I wanted to have the user presented with some initial questions on...
View ArticleRe: Changing MTU on vSwitch and not being able to connect via Client
Welcome to the Community - Why do you need to change rhe MTU? Does it work again w=if you changed the MTU back? If you need to change the MTU than you will also tomodify the physical switch...
View ArticleHow to do a powerOn operation via the rest API
I am having some issues trying to powerOn a Vapp. The powerOn operation makes the VM go from "Powered Off" to "Partially Powered Off"... Trying to figure out via the API how to make it really START...
View ArticleRe: Changing MTU on vSwitch and not being able to connect via Client
Honestly it was a mistake resulting from inadequate knowledge. The original problem is that on my server, windows 2003 VMs cannot browse microsoft.com but can browse any other site. yet windows 2008...
View ArticleRe: "Management traffic" option for port?
Good to know. Fortunately, I am not using the same subnet for vMotion. But if using a single subnet, perhaps it would be a good idea to separate the traffic using VLAN tagging. Seems like that should...
View ArticleRe: Determine the IP used? Issues with VMWare Workstation/Fusion, PGP...
Use ipconfig (on Windows) or ifconfig (on Linux) in the guest to figure out what IP address is assigned to the VM?
View ArticleRe: Upgrading VMware View 4.6 to 5.0
At our shop we are using 4.5 and 4.6 clients to connect to a 4.6 Win7 (4.6 agent), sometimes the 4.5 clients fail but when upgraded to 4.6 all is usually okay.
View ArticleRe: Determine the IP used? Issues with VMWare Workstation/Fusion, PGP...
Unfortunately, I can't login to the guest OS. Host is running Windows 7 Professional (or my Mac), guest is running the PGP server, which is a variant of linux. No local logins (only SSH or web)
View ArticleRe: Determine the IP used? Issues with VMWare Workstation/Fusion, PGP...
cant you use the 10.x.x.x address via ssh or http: ? or use a Linux livecd and edit the config files directly ...
View ArticleRe: vcpu-0:VMM fault 13: src=MONITOR rip=0xfffffffffc2bddcd...
yes - that is normal vdiskmanager -R often reports failed repair attempts as a success you should try to start the VM and read the vmware.log - thats the only way to check the result
View ArticleRe: Fusion 4.1 on an external HD?
Thanks for your help, but I'm still missing something. I installed fusion on the Macbook, activated the license, and then tried to drag it (the app) to the external disk. I get this error message: "The...
View ArticleVMTools on a ubuntu 10.04 vm, Fusion 4.1.1. MacBook Pro running Lion?
I seelected the option under "Virtual Maching" in he main VMware Fusion task bar (term?) to "Reinstall VMware Tools". A virtual DVD (term?) named "VMware Tools" was mounted. That DVD contains two...
View ArticleRe: Stumped by data structure expected by ->ReconfigVM_Task()
For when I return to this page looking for clues, apparently the error: "Cannot serialize deviceChange as VirtualDeviceConfigSpec" means that it wants to see the data fed to the deviceChange key in the...
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