Re: How do I install Fedora 18 on VMware Workstation 9 for Windows?
Appreciate the feedback @geeehbee. I tested today on a completely separate machine with a new install and can confirm that disabling 3D acceleration allows Fedora 18 to run. You need to do the manual...
View ArticlePatch for WS8 and linux kernel 3.6.10
Has anyone put up a patch for this combination? Thanks, Lewis
View ArticleRe: Network question for new Vsphere 5.1 Datacenter
Hi, we have the Enterprise license (not Enterprise+), so no distributed switch. I would use teaming with ip hash and etherchannels on the cisco side for the client network.For vmotion, ISCSI and NFS...
View ArticleEmail alerts when Dynamic Threshold is broken?
Is there a way in the standard or custom ui to alert when a dynamic threshold is broken for longer than x number of minutes?
View ArticleDisk I/O Estimated Capacity for VM way off
So found this interesting today, noticed that one of my VM's the Disk I/O Estimated Capacity is way off of what is even remotely possible. What would cause something like this? edit:Is there a way to...
View ArticleLocation based printing; occasionally a printer is not assigned
We have 50 new HP T310 zero clients running the newest version of the Teradici firmware located in a library. When first deployed about a month ago we were running View 5.1.1 and using location based...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 5 on Lion hosting Mountain Lion. Drag/drop files possible?
Hi: Talked to tech support. Turns out it's actually not supported on Lion hosting ML. They are working on it.
View Articlenetwork poor performance on guest esxi 5
Hi All,Iam creating a lab environment with nest esxi serversI have installed a esxi 5 on a physical machine and two VMs esxi 5.0.Everything installed correctly, but Iam having poor performance on the...
View ArticlevSPHERE 5.1 FARM Migration
Hi. I need to move an existing VMWARE 5.1 infrastructure to a new one. What is the best approcah with minimum downtime? The current vSPHERE 5.1 infrastructure details are:4 x ESXi 5.11 x vCenter...
View ArticleScratchy / Abnormal Sound Card Sound from XP Guest on Windows 8 Pro Host...
I encountered an issue with distorted sound coming from a Windows XP x32 guest using a Windows 8 Pro x64 host under Workstation 9.0.1 build-894247. It wasn't an issue under the Windows 7 OS I upgraded...
View ArticleRe: Entry destroyed exception
Hi, I am yet to get authorization to share production configuration, But as a developer pretty eager to learn the GFE way of solving this issue. I forsee that same siutation could happen when entries...
View ArticleHost cant ping guest and vice versa
Hi, I have 2 physical machines on my network:WH - Windows host, IP: 192.168.85.104L - Linux box, IP: 192.168.85.48 I created 2 Windows VM's on WH and put them into bridge mode:WGA - Windows Guest A,...
View ArticleTransaction and ALLOW_PERSISTENT_TRANSACTIONS
Hi, There is not much documentation available about ALLOW_PERSISTENT_TRANSACTIONS. Is it safe to use? can't we use persistence and transaction together? What is the impact if...
View Articleesxcli comand Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure via host ssh shell
My host dropped out of vcenter again, firewall crash suspected, but the comand is just not comming up. ~ # esxcli network firewall getConnect to localhost failed: Connection failure I have seen this...
View ArticleRe: network poor performance on guest esxi 5
What kind of hardware do you have? Are you using virtualized HV? I have more questions, but maybe you could post vmware.log files for one of the ESXi VMs and one of the nested VMs.
View ArticleActivating Windows XP after transferring into a VM
Hello, I recently converted my old computer with Windows XP using VMware vCenter Converter into a VM. When I booted the system (in VMware of course), it asked me to activate Windows, but every time I...
View ArticleRe: Activating Windows XP after transferring into a VM
Is the clock set correctly? See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306153.
View ArticleRe: Activating Windows XP after transferring into a VM
I verified the clock in safe mode, the clock is exactly the same as on my main computer. Now, I verified the Internet does not work on this VM. It is set to NAT, but it still dosen't work. Now the...
View ArticleRe: Windows 95 VM "Windows protection error"
Super! For some reasons I had put Windows 7 as guest OS. As soon as I put in Win 95, I was able to boot into the regular Win 95, no longer the Safe Mode. This final stroke puts an end to more than...
View ArticleRe: Activating Windows XP after transferring into a VM
Can you post the vmware.log file for this VM?
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