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  Hello

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  You cannot power on a virtual machine in a virtual machine

  I see there are some entries that I can put in the vmx file

  monitor_control.vt32 = 'TRUE '.

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  However, this does not solve my problem. Is it possible to edit a VMX VMware Server so the virtual prompt runs in a virtual machine of ESX4

  Thanks in advance

  Oli

  VMware Server 1.x does not support nested virtual machines.  Workstation 7 is the first product with the official support of virtualization nested, although other recent VMware products should work, with some constraints.  See nested running VMs.

• Sorry this application cannot run under a Virtual Machine

  How can I solve this problem. I can not choose the option of Windows 8 and activate the button of Hyper-v. I try to get a game running on windows 7.

  Sure, I can. All first, open the settings of Bitdefender, antivirus and silence him Active Virus Control. After that, I was able to play games like Dead space 3, Kane and lynch etc. That is the question on Windows 7 for the warning to error: Sorry, this application cannot run under a Virtual Machine.

• Cannot turn on new virtual machines

  Hello world

  I am running ESXi 5.1.0 (1483097) on a server Dell PowerEdge T300 with 24 GB of RAM and a couple of terabytes of HARD disk space. I have a 64 GB SSD as my default swap file location. I'm unable to turn any VMs created on this server (has only one handful of other virtual machines running on it currently, not more than 4-8GB RAM each). When I try to turn on a new virtual machine, I get the following error:

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  Has no power on the virtual machine.

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  Cannot extend the pagefile to 32768 k k 93504.

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  Hello

  you are indeed running out of space on your destination of swap - you have only 56 MB of free space on your SSD. You're also out of space for swap on datastore1 and 4. I suggest check it and delete all unnecessary data. Please note that by default without reservation, the VM creates a swap file that is equal to the size of RAM allocated to it. If the startup fails with swap on the hard drive, try quick vMotioning or cold - migrate the virtual computer to another storage. Also you could do a lot better with the free space by consolidating all your storage to a single VMFS volume.

• Script in time of latency list vm e/s and the data store the virtual machine is on

  Hello.  We have a vsphere 5.0 environment and we live a latency of IO heavy.  I'm looking for powercli script will get the latency of i/o for each virtual machine and get the data store name, to what it is now.  We will access our storage on optical fiber.  I'm trying to get a good overview of the latency of IO in a nice view in a csv file.  I found what could be a good basis to https://communities.vmware.com/thread/304827?start=0 & tstart = 0 , but I'm not sure how to get the name of the data store in the table and I think that it is written to the nfs in any case storage.  Thanks in advance for any info\advice!

  Try the next version, it includes the average latency time read/write for the virtual machine and PAHO are / s average for the virtual machine.

  Since the CSV has a row for each data store, the values for the virtual machine are repeated.

  I also added the host name

  $vmName = "VM*"
  
  $stat = "datastore.totalReadLatency.average","datastore.totalWriteLatency.average",  "datastore.numberReadAveraged.average","datastore.numberWriteAveraged.average"$entity = Get-VM -Name $vmName$start = (Get-Date).AddHours(-1)
  
  $dsTab = @{}Get-Datastore | Where {$_.Type -eq "VMFS"} | %{  $key = $_.ExtensionData.Info.Vmfs.Uuid  if(!$dsTab.ContainsKey($key)){    $dsTab.Add($key,$_.Name)  }  else{    "Datastore $($_.Name) with UUID $key already in hash table"  }}
  
  Get-Stat -Entity $entity -Stat $stat -Start $start |Group-Object -Property {$_.Entity.Name} | %{  $vmName = $_.Values[0]  $VMReadLatency = $_.Group |    where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.totalReadLatency.average"} |    Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |    Select -ExpandProperty Average  $VMWriteLatency = $_.Group |    where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.totalWriteLatency.average"} |    Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |    Select -ExpandProperty Average  $VMReadIOPSAverage = $_.Group |    where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.numberReadAveraged.average"} |    Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |    Select -ExpandProperty Average  $VMWriteIOPSAverage = $_.Group |    where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.numberWriteAveraged.average"} |    Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |    Select -ExpandProperty Average  $_.Group | Group-Object -Property Instance | %{    New-Object PSObject -Property @{      VM = $vmName      Host = $_.Group[0].Entity.Host.Name      Datastore = $dsTab[$($_.Values[0])]      Start = $start      DSReadLatencyAvg = [math]::Round(($_.Group |           where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.totalReadLatency.average"} |          Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |          Select -ExpandProperty Average),2)      DSWriteLatencyAvg = [math]::Round(($_.Group |           where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.totalWriteLatency.average"} |          Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |          Select -ExpandProperty Average),2)      VMReadLatencyAvg = [math]::Round($VMReadLatency,2)      VMWriteLatencyAvg = [math]::Round($VMWriteLatency,2)      VMReadIOPSAvg = [math]::Round($VMReadIOPSAverage,2)      VMWriteIOPSAvg = [math]::Round($VMWriteIOPSAverage,2)    }  }} | Export-Csv c:\report.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

• Cannot start the unique virtual machine after you have patched ESXi to 4.1.0 800830

  I patched a standalone ESXi host yesterday, leading a successful ESXi 4.1.0 800830 upgrade.

  The majority of my virtual machines started very well but it fails to start with the following error (as the specified file does not exist (?)). As I've not met it before, and I'm running out of time, anyone would offer nuggets of wisdom while I continue to trawl the web / these forums for a response?

  

  Thank you

  Carl

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• Students cannot "connect/disconnect the virtual machine's CD/DVD devices.

  I will start with this context (and apologies for the wall o ' text): I'm a newbie.  I took the course VMware local community college offers [VMware ESXI Server Enterprise (CIS197)], but I've not yet certified. And I don't have a real experience, except what I have taught myself so far.

  I recently accepted a position of learning associated with the College (think: glorified lab tech). I was tasked to work with stuff from VMware in the laboratory (among other things such as Cisco and Juniper equipment). There is no pass-down information like the previous left the position four months ago.

  We have a single host running ESXi 348481 4.1.0. "We have vCenter Server (5.5.0, 1312298), running on Windows Server (2008 R2, Enterprise Edition).  Access host and vCenter through two different IP, addresses using the vSphere client (either 5.5 or 4.1, using a single application - depends to know if I connect to the host or vCenter).

  At that time, the host is using local storage only (we have plans to change this, but it will take time).  The host is not a production on its own server, because it does not have a school systems.  He does, however, run a number of virtual machines in the lab, students use (Linux, Microsoft, Web design, etc.).  So, right now, I can't take it down.

  I was tasked to create a number of virtual machines that students can use to make the basic labs of Microsoft Windows 7.  So far, I have:
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  -Creating VMs, deploy one per student, I have a gold model vcenter.
  -Creation of roles to limit the access of students to just their VM attributed, which they access via client vSphere.
  -Created a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller that is also a DHCP server.
  -Created a virtual network, which is accessible only by the Windows 7 virtual machines and is not visible outside the vSphere environment (if I said this right - he does not see the Internet or school network).

  So far, it's all good.

  However, I need to be able to allow students the ability to edit the ISO file on which their VM points in order to complete some laboratories. I guess they would use the button "connect/disconnect the virtual machine's CD/DVD devices" on the taskbar (or console window). It does not work.
  I searched a lot and found that others have had the same problem.  However, all of the solutions I've tried so far have failed.  When they click 'Connect to ISO image on the data... store. "they get an error message means nothing to me,"an internal error has occurred in the vSphere Client. Details: Object Reference not set to an instance of an object. Contact VMware support if necessary.
  The role that I use for students has these settings:
  -Data store > Browse the data store
  -Virtual Machine > Configuration > change the settings of the device
  -Virtual Machine > Configuration > settings
  -A bouquet under the virtual machine > Configuration >
  -Configure CD media
  -Console interaction
  -Connection of the device
  -On
  -Power off
  -(and more, which I don't believe are important to the question)
  -State > create the snapshot
  -State > go back to the snapshot

  I tried "Virtual Machine > Configuration > add existing disk", "Virtual Machine > Configuration > add new disk" and "Virtual Machine > Configuration > add or remove an instrument" with no luck.

  Either by the way, the root account can do all these things, but no other account can - not even a game as an administrator account.

  I've seen mention I have apply the role in the data store.  It is perhaps part of the problem. I can't see the data store when I am connected to the host (wellll, I can, if I click on the host name, then on the Summary tab - but roles do not apply at this stage).  I see is 'Inventory' (which has virtual machines and Pools of resources), 'Rôles' and 'log files '.

  I can see the data store when logged in vCenter. Roles of students, however, are defined on the host computer. If I clone the role of users in vCenter and change this role cloned to have "permissions" that those who are on the host computer and then apply it to the data store, it still does not work.

  So, after all this (which I hope I've included all the necessary information), what can I do to allow the students to change ISO to which they are connected?

  Of course, if I left something, or if someone has a question, please ask.  I want to get this resolved as soon as I can.

  It turns out that I finally found the solution to the problem.

  What 'fixed', it is sufficient to vSphere Web Client to vCenter, which then allowed us to use Single Sign-On (SSO).  This, in turn, allowed us to define users and roles in vCenter (rather than having set them up directly on the host computer) which have then been applied to the VMS of students and also to the data store.

  Now, they can (de-) connect their ISOs at will.

  I find it interesting that vSphere Client (application) shows the users (and the things that they have access to), but it won't let you set of users.

• Extend a datastore in vCenter with virtual machines running

  We have expanded our Volume and unit number logic on our NetApp SATA VMStore from 2 TB to 4 TB, we now want to expand in vCenter, I'm ok to do this within office hours, while VMS are running on the data store?

  Going via configuration - storage - etc etc...

  It should be good. Off-peak hours are preferable, because you must make playback etc.

  This will not affect the virtual machine running inside.

  Unless there is a particular requirement, why not go with 2 TB Lun? I mean add another 2 TB logical unit number rather than add a measure?

• Cannot start a suspended virtual machine - impossible to find. VDMK

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  Unfortunately, it seems that the 7 VM window is one of the hard data files ("Windows 7 - s010.vmdk") which I assume has a size between 1 and 2 GB missing! Please see if it's available in your backup.

  If this is not the case and you need to access the files on the virtual disk, create a new virtual machine, copy one of the newly created - s00x.vmdk files to the package Windows 7 VM and rename it to "Windows 7 - s010.vmdk. With this fact, or create a snapshot, and then try to turn on the computer virtual or not power on at all, but attach the virtual disk of the virtual machine to another / helper VM as a second drive to be able to access the files you need.

  André

• Cannot depend on the virtual machine after reboot

  Hello world

  Thanks for reading this post.

  My version VM ESXI4.1.0, 348481.

  Here's my problem:

  One day my VM was hanged, and I tried to restart.

  After the reboot, it can be turn on. And I tried to remove the inventory and to recreate the virtual machine.

  However, I can't find the. VMX file in the data store.

  So I tried to create a new virtual machine and put the files in this folder, but it can also work.

  Please see the capture screen, (http://clip2net.com/s/2aNUG)

  Could someone give me guidance and advice how to solve?

  Thank you very much.

  According to the latest vmware.log file, you have tried to access one of the files base/flat with a wrong header file (40 GB)! This hopefully not bad data on the virtual disk. In any case, I've recreated the missing files (see attachment), so you should be able to redo the work of the virtual machine. Because the vmware.log file did not help, I've recreated the instant chain according to the timestamps of the delta file.

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  André

• VMware workstation and ReadyNAS to store the virtual machine

  Hello

  I just bought a Netgear Readynas box for home (Readnas RND2000 XRAID SIN) and it seems like a big box to keep a backup of my critical data and flow data and video music.

  Now that will take about 100 GB in space and I'll always have weird to play with 400 GB and it made me think if I host all my test VM I created using VMware workstation, for the moment I use a local computer, but its lack of disk space, I tried to put the virtual computer on an external drive and performance is ok on it as well but for me , it would be ideal if I could store them on the readynas and open them through VM workstation.

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  One of the potential problems in my view is I'll be going through a wireless router with a 4 port 100 mb go and see that as a problem, it replaces a gigabit switch would make a huge difference, or would it still slow?

  I would appreciate any advice on this.

  Thank you

  I'll guess that your external hard drives are USB.  In this case my answer is Firewire.  I run several of my virtual machines to external Firewire drives very good success.  While I ran a few virtual machines from USB, USB just isn't the sustained performance of Firewire.  This is the case on my Macbook Pro and my HP Pavilion (with built-in Firewire.)

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• Merge cannot make Boot Camp virtual machine: perhaps too many places of the VM?

  I get the error message, well known in the VM library window "Bundle" & lt; pathname & gt; "" / Boot Camp/%2Fdev%2Fdisk0/Boot partition.vmware.vm Camp "is damaged and cannot be opened."   However, my problem is not solved by the solutions proposed elsewhere in this forum.

  At the bottom of this post, I listed my host config and invited desired config.

  Here is a brief history, followed by what happened when I tried the solution of WoodyZ published here.

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  Thereafter, whenever I opened the merger, I saw the message "Bundle" / Users/yangguizi/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Machines virtuelles/Camp/%2Fdev%2Fdisk0/Boot Boot Camp partition.vmware.vm "is damaged and cannot be opened.' " next to the new Boot Camp partition.

  When I highlighted this new Boot Camp partition in the VM library and you press the delete key, absolutely nothing changed, that I could see.  Right click on the list of this score showed that the menu choice 'delete' is gray.

  Then I closed the merger, and then manually moving the file to the trash "/ Users/yangguizi/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines / Boot Camp / '.

  The next time I opened the merger, a new icon for the Boot Camp partition has been displayed at the bottom, with the subtitle "Powered Off".  When I clicked on the icon start Guest, a new folder/Boot Camp / was created in the same place, and the never-ending open window showing "Vmware Fusion prepares your Boot Camp partition to run as a virtual machine.  This may take a few minutes.  This will be possible once. " Blah, blah, blah.  If the cycle turned up.

  I am at a loss what to try next.  Here are three assumptions about the problem:

  1. Fusion has been confused by the three communities during which I virtual machines.

• Fusion has been confused by the fact that I have, potentially, two virtual machines called "Boot Camp partition".  The older is actually a virtual machine hard disk external.

• When I installed XP in the Boot Camp partition, the external Firewire drive was running. Then installing Windows saw much more of partitions on which XP could in theory have been installed.  This may have confused merge somehow, even if I successfully installed XP on partition C, which was 32 GB.

Did fix you this problem?  Even if you haven't, what do you suggest me I try next?

Thank you, Yang Guizi

Host hardware: 17 "MacBook Pro; 2.33 GHz cpu; 3 GB of ram; Boot Camp 32 GB partition formatted in NTFS. external hard drive with Firewire 800 interface, partitioned in an HFS volume + and an NTFS volume.
Host software: OS X Leopard 10.5.5; running VMware Fusion 2.0.1 build 128865; Tracks of partition Boot Camp newly installed Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2.
Software comments: I would like to convert the Boot Camp XP Pro SP2 in a VMware virtual machine.        Running VMs with Kubuntu and NetBSD since the hd internal.

You can just get rid of the all/Users/lincoln/Library/Application Support / directory / Machines/virtual VMware Fusion; It should all be recreated. The virtual machine to help naos is than the pretreatment of Boot Camp. You don't want to get rid of all the of them, the only one in the specified directory. For example, there is a blank template in Applications/VMware Fusion.app whence that of your home folder.

• Could not power on VM: no space is available on the device: cannot power on the virtual machine.

  VMware esx ei, 3.5.0 123629

  Physical memory: 64 GB

  Hard drive: 1.63 TB

  7 virtual machines. 5 of them are configured with 4 GB memory and 2 of them with 2 GB of memory. I am able to power on 3 virtual machines with 4 GB of memory.

  When I try to turn on 4th VM with 2 GB of memory, I get this error message "could not power on VM: no space is available on the device: cannot power on VM.»

  I would like to know if this is the limitation of the ESX Server? How should I size the memory for VMS if I want to run every 7 virtual machines to the

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  compared to the virtual memory?

  Thank you

  Ganesh.

  Ganesh,

  Memory reservations are defined based on VM by VM.

  You can allocate more memory to the virtual machines you have in your host (it's not really a good idea to go crazy with the overcommitment of memory, but some level of excessive pressure is used in general).  Memory applied to your VM resources are shares, bookings and VMkernel Swap limits.

  Just to illustrate:

  You allocate 8 GB memory to a virtual computer.  If you take all the parameters by default, ESX will allot a 8 GB VMkernel Swap file in the base directory of your VM (it will have the extension ".vswp") this VMkernel Swap file is a safety net.  Your virtual machine, at this stage, can consume up to 8 GB of memory If physics is available from the host.  If the memory of your host is overcommitted, some of the available memory 8 GB could be allocated on 8 GB VMkernel Swap file.

  If you set a reserve of memory - 2 GB - this means that the vmkernel will still award the first 2 GB of memory used by the virtual machine to the physical memory.  This is not means that the 2 GB of memory reserved is carved off the coast and completely dedicated to the virtual machine.  This means that the vmkernel offers up to 2 GB of RAM to the VM when and if she needs to use it.  It is a guarantee that the memory will be available upon request.  Because of this guarantee of the VMkernel, VMkernel swap file only has to make sure that the 6 GB memory is satisfied (4 GB total less the 2 GB reserved), so the VMkernel Swap file is only 6 GB in size.

  Actions are a mechanism for prioritization and limits are a cap on physical memory ever allocated to the VM.

  You can set up any number of memory for the virtual machines that you want - frankly, overcommitment of memory for ESX is a very good thing, but you must be vigilant about watching your systems if approve you.  If you have 64 GB of RAM, and you only configure your virtual machines to use total 32G, then you lose 32 GB of RAM.  If you allocate, say, 96 GB of RAM (total) to your virtual machines, then you look at a 50% overcommitment.  What to watch in overcommitting memory is application performance (and more importantly - perception of the user of this performance) and also the memory ballooning and VMkernel Swapping activity.  Those who can both will be in graphics performance in VirtualCenter.  I would recommend reading the Guide to management resources for more details.

  Hope that provides an overview.

  Thank you

  -jk

• Trouble using NI USB-4065 with virtual machine VMWare

  Hello

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  If I use the frontpanel app, when I click a botton, the Group seems to work but doesn't measure anything; If I try to reboot the softpanel, it works and 'freeze' of the screen.

  If I use LabView, the VI returns an error on a maximum duration of the measure.

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  Hi John,.

  This isn't good news for my project but peronny for more information.

  You see, by SEM.

• Only don't have a permit no cd! How to install a virtual PC with virtual machine? :(

  I got a computer with windows xp Pro and I lost to a virus. And I got a windows 7 that was unused, so I installed it and now I'm wondering. Can I continue to use the Pro license (and my windows 7 had a new virus so I did reinstall windows 7 and activated it right.) But then he broke again while I did the same thing and this time she didn't so I called and I was connected with 5 people and the 5th person fixed my license for the last time for free! Thank you microsoft! ;D )? And I can't find the cd for pro! And I tend to use the license and however you can get the installation to work without the disc on the virtual machine that you have made. PS I also say that I have the license but not the disk. What should I do?  DX

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  ·         Using Windows XP on the virtual machine?

  ·         What version of Windows 7 you have installed?

  If you plan to install Windows XP separately and have the dual-boot Windows XP and Windows 7, you must have a Windows XP disc. You can see the following link for more information.

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  Windows XP Mode - Windows 7 features - Microsoft Windows

  Install and use Windows XP Mode in Windows 7
   
  Do not respond if you have any other questions.