Re: keep disk as thin move VM to another datastore by powering off
Wirh spaces in the datastore name run e.g.:vmkfstools -i "/vmfs/volumes/EVA Storage 2/PRTG_NM/PRTG.vmdk" -d thin "/vmfs/volumes/SAN-Fata-Storage/PRTG_NM/PRTG_NM.vmdk"André
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''When you boot into safe mode, can you look at the device manager and see if Windows has detected the virtual NIC and installed a driver for it?'' Yes it does. Right now I tought to use Safe Mode with...
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I assume you already checked whether the missing flat file still exists in the VM's old location!?Are there any Veeam log files which contain hints on what happened? André
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Veeam Error:19.01.2013 19:42:38 :: Change host Error: Invalid datastore path '[Systems] PTS-Datenbank1_1/PTS-Datenbank1.vmx'. the file exists on the datastore ...
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I have been playing around with this for a while and have also just had some pretty good and simple results. Originally I was running a 5.0 ESXi install and got an XFX 5450 and a VTX 7750 running with...
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"[Systems] PTS-Datenbank1_1"Is this the path of the source or target datastore? What's the name of the other datastore?the file exists on the datastore ...Please post a list of all files (ls -lisa)...
View ArticleRe: Activating Windows XP after transferring into a VM
Garirry wrote: I cannot do this because I use a USB adapter to get Wi-Fi, and I must install a program. I tried installing the program in a working XP virtual machine and I cannot install this...
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ls -lisa: [root@ESX-Server2 PTS-Datenbank1_1]# ls -lisatotal 95004544 286 64 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3080 Jan 20 13:30 . 258 1024 drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 1680...
View ArticleRe: VMWare Workstation 9 Shared VMs Permissions - Administrator disappeared
Enable Windows's hidden Administrator account in cmd: "net user administrator /active:yes". I was able to log in and access permissions by doing that. Even reinstalling vmware workstation didn't work.
View ArticleRe: Не могу понять как с хоста добраться до виртуальной машины
На первой же картинке ответ: vSwitch не имеет ни одного физического адаптера...
View ArticleRe: Activating Windows XP after transferring into a VM
My network USB is disconnected from my VM, and I cannot use bridged connection in my VM because it dosen't work with Wi-Fi USB. As I said before, I want to know if the problem is in my Internet...
View ArticleRe: Hardware for setting up a Virtual Lab at home
Following are my near-final decisions. Please post your views- The Host – OS would be Windows 7, 64 – Bit There would be 2 ESXi hosts and multiple VMs (read, at least 10 including a Domain Controller,...
View ArticleRe: esxcli comand Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure via host...
yea multiple times just hangs, at this point its just dead stick.
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Re: Partition Alignment
Your URL is malformed so here is the link copied directly from your blog! Have a look at: Partition alignment in VMware vSphere 5, a DeepDrive, Part-1 Also have a look at: Partition alignment in...
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From the log files it looks like your VM has tree virtual disks and two of them - located on different datastores - have the same file name. This may be the cause of the issue!?Please run the following...
View ArticleVim API - get notification about host
Hello, We use vSphere 5.1 with VIM API.It is possible receive notification from ESXi or vCenter about VM power off ?I don't want pull machine activity in loop. Thanks,Daniel
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Garirry wrote: My network USB is disconnected from my VM, and I cannot use bridged connection in my VM because it dosen't work with Wi-Fi USB. As I said before, I want to know if the problem is in my...
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Using EFI firmware in Linux guest
HI Community, I'm using Fusion 5.0.2 and I try to create a Linux guest (Debian 6) on a EFI based VM. I added the line firmware = "efi" in the vmx configuration file of the guest and got an EFI prompt...
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Hi Andre! THX for Help!I found the error, the driectory PTS-Datenbank1 was renamed.... i can start the vm :-)The vm run sicne 1,5 year without an error .. THX very much for an idea! Peter....
View Articlerunning script from vSphere CLI
All, I never had an issue running the script on 4.1. I am trying to run it on my 5.1 lab and I get the following error error: this script only supports vSphere "4.0.0 4.1.0 5.0.0" or greater!
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