Backing up a virtual computer running on vmWare player

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• How would recreate the pagefile to a Windows 2008 virtual computer running on a host ESX 3i?

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  I'm not necessarily happy that this solution because it does not really help understand me what underlying the problem actually was, but I guess I can live with that.  The reason why I have not tried it earlier, is that I was afraid the vmdk would be replaced and I wanted to keep the existing information.  However, someone I work with was certain that they had done before, and that she maintained the pre-existing data, even in this older version, so I finally tried.

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  Matt

  mattad wrote:

  First question: the complete *.vmdk loaded into memory/swap space or only the part that is currently required?

  The vmdk is not loaded into memory, because it is the drive of the virtual machine.

  *. VMDK size seems so NO indicator for the actual amount of used memory / swap.

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  Open the Task Manager and find a task vmware - vmx.exe or vmware-vmx - debug.exe.

  The swap file should be used if you have chosen to allow that VMware Workstation is authorized to Exchange. The file where swaps to door expansion .vmem Workstation. Search folder of comments.

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  . Encoding = "windows-1252".
  config.version = '8 '.
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  maxvcpus = "4".
  scsi0. Present = 'TRUE '.
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  pciBridge0.present = 'TRUE '.
  pciBridge4.present = 'TRUE '.
  pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
  pciBridge4.functions = '8 '.
  pciBridge5.present = 'TRUE '.
  pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
  pciBridge5.functions = '8 '.
  pciBridge6.present = 'TRUE '.
  pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
  pciBridge6.functions = '8 '.
  pciBridge7.present = 'TRUE '.
  pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
  pciBridge7.functions = '8 '.
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  roamingVM.exitBehavior = 'go '.
  displayName = "VMware ESXi-4.
  guestOS = "vmkernel".
  NVRAM = "VMware ESXi - 4.nvram.
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  extendedConfigFile = "VMware ESXi - 4.vmxf.

  After changing the vmx file or reboot the virtual machine to inventory or leave VMware Player and restart it.

  (The vmx file above was created with VMware Workstation 7.)

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• How to convert a Machine of VMWare ESXi 4.0 to run on VMWare Player

  Hi Experts

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  Kurt Walters

  Hello Kurt.

  I just have a question about my machine converted, is there a best practice or a better way to convert a VM Machine.

  It is really not a good practice. The most important part of the conversion is the correct selection of the controller (as you did) and disk size/commissioning type. The other settings depend on what you want to achieve. After conversion, review the settings of the virtual machine to ensure that everything is as it should be for example (guest operating system, controller, network,...)

  You can also download the latest version of VMware Converter 4.3 which is supported for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7.

  Thank you very much for your help is was extremely useful and appreciated.

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• Share the virtual machine created in VMWare Player

  Hi all

  I created a virtual machine Ubuntu based using VMWare Player. The goal of this virtual machine is so it can be used for demonstrations on our societies SaaS based appliction. So basically the image works fine now, I have a few questions:

  1. what format should I send them the virtual machine? (i.e. can I just compress the virtual machine directory)

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  3. it will work on their equipment?

  Any help appreciated.

  See you soon

  I can help you with your questions;

  1. what format should I send them the virtual machine? (i.e. can I just compress the virtual machine directory)

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  2. If open the image in VMWare Player it will ask asking them

  "You copied" / "Moved" the virtual machine? Can I avoid

  This?

  To the best of my knowledge, you can't avoid it, and they should probably answer "copied" in the situation you describe.

  3. it will work on their equipment?

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  I have provided virtual machines by providing copies of the record, and they worked very well.  In my case, I created my VMs on my Mac with Fusion, but then run it with Fusion or player.

• identification of the virtual computer running on local storage

  I am trying to identify virtual machines that are on local disks on specific esx hosts, but can't seem to find the right combination or references that map the.  I'm ready to use all means available to help identifiening, console, vcli linux commands etc.  Any help or pointers appriciated.

  Thank you

  Right now, I don't think there is a way to get the parameter of the BIOS with the SDK boot drive.  The other question is do you want the diskette or the OS Disk/Partition?  For the OS Partition/disk, you will need to query the GuestOS through VIX or any other interface and then that correlate with the SCSI Disk Device in your virtual inventory.

  If you just need the boot drive, you can make the assumption that it is SCSI 0:0.  It would change only by the intervention of the user manual via the BIOS of the virtual machine (F2 at startup).  This assumption is not guaranteed, but it is likely be accurate, most of the time.  I vaguely remember some talk around adding functionality to control the order of boot devices in BIOS of the virtual machine with automation.  If it is added, it would be possible to detect and change the order of boot through a script or a program.

  Something like the following would let you determine the location of the device node and vmdk file:

  use strict;

  use warnings;

  use VMware::VIRuntime;

  OPTS::parse();

  OPTS::Validate();

  Util::Connect();

  My $vm_views = Vim::find_entity_views (view_type-online 'VirtualMachine',

  Properties-online ['name', 'config.hardware.device']);

  my $vm foreach (@{$vm_views}) {}

  My $vmname = $vm-> name;

  My $vm_devices = $vm-> {'config.hardware.device'};

  my $vm_disk foreach (grep $_-> isa ('VirtualDisk'), @{$vm_devices}) {}

  My $controller_key = eval {$vm_disk-> controllerKey};

  My $unit_number = eval {$vm_disk-> unitNumber};

  My $controller_bus_number = get_controller_bus_number (controller_key => $controller_key,)

  vm_devices-online $vm_devices);

  My $vm_disk_file_name = eval {$vm_disk-> support-> fileName};

  My $vm_disk_label = eval {$vm_disk->-> label deviceInfo};

  My $vm_device_node = sprintf ("SCSI (" %s: %s %s) ", $controller_bus_number,)")

  ($unit_number, $vm_disk_label);

  printf ("%s: %s, %s\n", $vmname, $vm_device_node, $vm_disk_file_name);

  }

  }

  void get_controller_bus_number {}

  my (% args) = @_;

  My $controller_key = delete ($args {controller_key});

  My $vm_devices = delete ($args {vm_devices});

  my @controllers = grep $_-> key eq $controller_key, @{$vm_devices};

  # Must be only a controller since it is a key value in the VI SDK

  My $bus_number = eval {$controllers [0]-> busNumber};

  Return $bus_number;

  }

  Perl vm - scsinode.pl - username = administrator - server = 172.16.110.10

  Test: SCSI (0:0) hard drive 1, Test/Test.vmdk [datastore1]

  Test: SCSI (1:0) hard drive 2, Test/Test_1.vmdk [datastore1]

  In my output test, I would like to make the assumption that 1 the hard drive is the boot disk based on the SCSI Bus and the logical units (0:0).  If you correlate this back at the sight of the GuestOS of disks, it would be the same values of Bus SCSI and logical unit.

  You will notice that this basically recreates the same string that you would see in "Change settings" on a virtual machine by looking at its labels to disk through the user interface of vCenter.