Re: Home Lab
For the deployment part consider the http://www.demitasse.co.nz/wordpress2/autolab/Wonderful for DCA exam, but valuable for each lab building.
View ArticleRe: Upgrade to 5.1 Web Client loose vCenter Server
Seems that you have not registered a domain user or a group during the upgrade of the vCenter. The screen where you need to remove administrators and add domain/group or domain/user. Refer to the...
View ArticleRe: Unable to power on VM with two VMDKs
Yes, definitely it is not added to any other VM. Regards,S.Karthik
View ArticleRe: vCenter server error lookup service
Ah sorry i got the error while installing inventory service
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Re: Installation of VMware Inventory service (vSphere 5.1) failed with error
hi i had the same errormyy fqdn resolutionis correct i use database integred SQLthanks
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Bug - Workstation - Disk Shrink with Snapshot
In workstation 9.0.2, when I try shrink a VM's Disk while it has a snapshot it lies and says "Disk Shrink Complete!". However the disk does not shrink.After deleting the snapshot and then shrinking the...
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Will the Windows 8 Pen flicks work in VMware 10 Unity Mode?
The Pen Flicks are gestures, to help you easier to copy, paste, scroll etc, they are very important gestures for everyone that is using a Wacom Pen. Are they forwarded from the Host Windows 8 to the...
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Re: Moving in and out of VM with TeamViewer?
I saw "iMac" in the opening of your question and skimmed past the part where you said "on a Windows machine", sorry, the Windows translation of Ctrl+ (or Ctrl+Command) is as you've found out...
View ArticleRe: Workstation - Make VMs Run better inside a RAMDISK
A few thoughts. Although I agree that a RAM disk is probably the fastest way to run a VM, I personally decided to use an SSD for some obvious reasons, e.g. less risk, no copying required, less...
View ArticleRe: Workstation - Power On > Select Boot Device
You may want to add e.g. bios.bootDelay = "5000" (see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004129) to the VM's .vmx file to increase the time you have to press ESC for the boot menu or F2 for the BIOS. With...
View ArticleRe: Workstation - Better Disk Resizing
Although this would be nice, it's rather an issue with the guest OS than VMware's capabilities. Think about it. What you request would require VMware to know all the different partition types and file...
View ArticleRe: Workstation - Make VMs Run better inside a RAMDISK
Thanks for the helpful info!I'll definitely try the mainMem.freeSpaceCheck = "FALSE". The VM won't change much after the snapshot.Geez VMWare has ridiculously bad and unhelpful error messages. I...
View ArticleRe: Workstation - Overwrite Snapshot
Please read http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180 which explains how snapshots work in VMware products. Basically they work as a chain, where each chain link is in use. André
View ArticleRe: Workstation - Better Disk Resizing
Well, VMWare already knows a bit about guest partitions. It allows you to mount a NTFS partition, and allows you to shrink the partition (while the VM is powered off).Just supporting NTFS and FAT32...
View ArticleMouse invisibly sticks itself - Linux host & guest (FOUND AN OVERRIDE)
(Update June 15)I have finally found an override: after installation of VMware tools, you can change the guest OS settings in VM Settings -> Options -> General to recognize it as Windows 7\8,...
View ArticleRe: Workstation - Power On > Select Boot Device
Hi Andre, you didn't get the point of my post.
View ArticleRe: task on a vm
Please provide some details. What are you trying to do and what do you see (error/warning messages)?You may also want to attach the VM's .vmx file as well as its latest vmware.log to a reply post to...
View ArticleRe: Workstation - Overwrite Snapshot
Hi Andre, It doesn't matter how they work.What matters is what users want to do.The interface should not be designed according to the machine, the interface should be made according to the user. Doing...
View ArticleRe: task on a vm
Dear Andre,Many thanks for reply. I have one VM, what ever task i perform on the same, everytime it gives another task already in progress, then i have to restart esx management service then i can...
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