change the settings of the virtual machine through configuration files?

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• [Beginner] How to change the virtual machine name

  Hello

  How can I change the name of a Virtual Machine - I want to say the name that appears in VMPlayer (or VMWare Fusion) as it has recently used Virtual Machines. I tried to change the name of the vmx file but this does not affect the name of the virtual machine displayed in VMPlayer.

  Thank you very much.

  TomasBar wrote:

  How can I change the name of a Virtual Machine - I want to say the name that appears in VMPlayer (or VMWare Fusion) as it has recently used Virtual Machines.

  VMware Fusion 3.x and 2.x but not 1.x, you can click on and change the name of the virtual machine in the Virtual Machine library on the right side, just under the display area.

  For VMware Player you need to edit the "displayName ="parameter in the configuration file .vmx and of VMware Player virtual machine must be closed when you perform this operation."

• Automate the deployment of iso on the virtual machine and configuration following the

  I need to:

  1. create a virtual machine with a certain configuration

  2 specify an iso file to be connected to the power on.

  3. the need to have access to the console after plugging on.

  I know that #1 and #2 are possible using the CLI. I need to know if #3 is possible.

  
  

  I need to deploy a custom on the virtual computer operating system and must have access to the console to use options in the CLI of the target VM.

  
  

  
  

  TIA
  

  When you say that access to the console after poweron, do you mean open the console automatically? If this is the case, then you can use the Open-VMConsoleWindow cmdlet. It will automatically open the console of the virtual machine in WebClient.

  If you want to automatically run commands inside the virtual machine then use Invoke-VMScript cmdlet.

  Please let me know if this is what you're looking for or something else.

• How to change the virtual machine after clone

  I'm a beginner to learn vm.

  Now, I already cloned a new existing virtual machine in a virtual machine.

  Then, I want to change it.

  (1) change the name

  (2) change the number of the processor

  (3) change the size of the memory

  (4) change the size of the disk

  How to do?

  I use c# API. I put something when clone?

  Thanks for any help!

  Hello

  You can clone the virtual computer to a model first and then deploy it to this model. For customizing the properties of guest operating system, you can use sysprep (from Microsoft) or customization Spesification Manager (from VMware vCenter Server). Of course, you can also configure it manually change settings menu (from vSphere Client).

• Fill in the description field of the virtual machine through VCO with Notes?

  I read in several positions, it should be possible to give a description using the notes (or __Notes) property

  However if I try to do from within VCO when installing a virtual machine using

  var Updateproperties = new Properties ();

  updateProperties.put ("Notes", "Your field new description here");

  I get the "unknown field" error

  What I'm missing or doing wrong.

  Thanks in advance

  problem solved. I had to use "provider-__Notes.

• Change the amount of vCPU in vCD deletes the virtual machine network connection in vCenter

  
  It is a problem of crazy that we discovered, and I wanted to know if anyone had seen him.

  First of all, we miss the following software versions:

  vCD: 5.1.1.867405

  vCenter: 5.0.0 Build 913577

  ESXi: 5.0.0 build 1024429

  If you go to vCloud Director and change the material properties of an existing virtual machine (Powered off) any change in the amount of vCPU (to something new), inside of vCenter status of the network will change to the port group Standard (inactive) none.

  
  Even if, before making the change, the virtual machine is connected to a distributed port group, and works well.

  We now display an SR to VMware, but sometimes it is worth running this by the community to see if other people have already seen or indeed want to test on their deployment.

  
  Thanks in advance

  We have solved the problem now.

  The reason why that we faced this problem is because we used the wrong order in the API.

  You must ensure that you use the undeploy command when you work with the vCD API otherwise you end up with a disconnected network card.

• VMX together in the Virtual Machine

  Hello

  is it possible to change the settings in the on the virtual machine's .vmx file?

  I want to mount a CD Image by a Linux shell script. So is it possible (via vmware-tools), to mount a CD Image, it's possible to start after starting?

  The only command I have found, has been for the time synchronization:

  VMware-guestd - cmd "synctime vmx.set_option 1-0.

  Perhaps, there is also a command to set CD players?

  Thank you very much and sorry for my English

  Hello

  Set up a server PXEBoot and the script moved to use it. It does not need to go through the complexity that you try to use when PXEboot is supported and will do exactly what you want.

  Best regards
  Edward L. Haletky
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• Creation of the virtual machine on a cluster using the vmcreate.pl script

  Hello

  I checked a few posts on this forum on how to create the virtual machine through vmcreate.pl, but responses was not so clear to me...

  These are the topics I've read:

  Create a VM on the Cluster instance

  How to configure the managed object HostSystem

  So, I would like to create a virtual machine on a Cluster, and not on a specific host. The vmcreate.pl script would have done the job? Or should I change it?

  In the topic = > VM create instance on Cluster I did not quite get, what I need to change...

  That's what I do:

  vmcreate.pl - server 'ESX NAME' - username "LOGIN" - password 'PASS' filename - vmcreate.xml - schema vmcreate.xsd

  
  

  Result:

  Creation of the 'myTestMachine ': VM error

  SOAP fault:

  -----------

  Error string: InvalidArgument

  The fault detail: InvalidArgument

  Here are the values of the XML file:

  < name > myTestMachine < / name >

  blah < Home > < / Host >

  blah < Center > < / Center >

  > Guest Id < Linioch < / comment-Id >

  blah < Datastore > < / Datastore >

  < > 2048 Disksize < / Disksize >

  > 256 MB memory < < / memory >

  < processor number > 1 < / number processor >

  < Nic-network > < / Nic-network >

  < Nic-Poweron > 1 < / Nic-Poweron >

  The values are correct the cause I checked the other perl scripts.

  Thanks in advance for your help

  Michal

  Thanks to xyz222 for the user and post Re: instance of VM to create the Cluster

  I was able at the end of the problem. So simple... The value of the in the xml file should be for example "rhel6_64Guest" and not a random word... that's all!

  sudo./vmcreate.pl--serveur SERVER - LOGIN - password PASS - filename... username/SampleData/vmcreate.xml - schema... /Schema/vmcreate.xsd

  Successfully created the virtual machine: 'teeest2' under host HOST_NAME

• The virtual machine files

  Hello;

  Just noticed that in my data store, there are several folders to a single virtual machine, e.g. VM-Marketing, it also has Marketing_1-VM and VM-Marketing_2.

  When I go on the 'change settings' of this virtual machine, in the hardware tab, and on the hard drive, it's going to [datastore] VM-Marketing_2/VM - Marketing.vmdk.

  Then in the General Options in the 'Options' tab, the Configuration of the VM tab is [datastore] VM-Marketing_2/VM - Marketing.vmx

  It seems that my VM it working in the VM-Marketing_2 file in the data store, what about the other two?, this virtual machine, it is quite heavy, it has a 80 GB HARD drive and I have 3 of them if total 240 GB, so can I remove them?, is there something I can do atin the VCenter?

  The content of this files are:

  VM-Marketing.

  -rw - 1 root root G 80, 11 October 2010 VM-Marketing - flat hard
  -rw - 1 root root 8.5 K 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.nvram
  -rw - 1 root root 480 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 0 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmsd
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.1 K 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmx
  -rw - 1 root root 268 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmxf
  -rw - r - r - 1 root root vmware.log K 85, 11 October 2010

  VM-Marketing_1 /.

  -rw - 1 root root G 80, 11 October 2010 VM-Marketing - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 8.5 K 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.nvram

  -rw - 1 root root 480 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 0 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmsd

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.0 K 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmx

  -rw - 1 root root 268 11 October 2010 VM - Marketing.vmxf

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 70K 11 October 2010 vmware - 1.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 73K 11 October 2010 vmware - 2.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root vmware.log 73K 11 October 2010

  VM-Marketing_2 /.

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 17 37 Sep 12:37 VM-Marketing - 4db56dd6.hlog

  -rw - 1 root root 6.0 G Sep 19 08:16 VM-Marketing - 4db56dd6.vswp

  -rw - 1 root root 5.1 M Sep 19 08:16 VM-Marketing - ctk.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 80G 19 Sep 13:59 VM-Marketing - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 8.5 K 19 Sep 08:17 VM - Marketing.nvram

  -rw - 1 root root 568 Sep 19 08:17 VM - Marketing.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 13 Sep 07:27 VM 1.4 K - Marketing.vmsd

  root - rwxr-xr-x 1 root 3.4 K 19 Sep 13:19 VM - Marketing.vmx

  -rw - 1 root root 268 Sep 19 13:19 VM - Marketing.vmxf

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 245K 7 September 08:52 vmware - 20.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 155K 17 Sep 12:32 vmware - 21.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 133K 17 Sep 12:37 vmware - 22.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 128K Sep 19 07:52 vmware - 23.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 61K 19 Sep 07:56 vmware - 24.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 61K 19 Sep 07:58 25.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 90K 19 Sep 13:20 vmware.log

  Thanks for your time...

  Welcome to the community - VM when is created ESX, it will use the name of the default computer name of directory where the virtual machine and its files will be stored - if a directory with that name already exists, it increments the directory with _1, _2 etc - so I am betting by the same VMs na, e were created before the one you have currently in production - Maybe the intention had been to delete these virtual machines, but when they have been deleted, rather than by selecting delete from the disk - remove inventory has been selected which will keep the directory structure.

• Start the Virtual Machine and stop Option

  Hi all

  I would like to know how to change the Virtual Machine start and stop through PowerCLI Options.

  I would like to change the default start time, the default close delay with a script, but I am not able to do...

  Someone knows how to do?

  Thanks for your help!

  Sorry, it's just realized that you wanted to say.

  See the Set-VMHostStartPolicy and Set-VMStartPolicy cmdlets.

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• VMX and newspapers for the Virtual Machine

  Hi guys

  I had a virtual machine that is running but view vcenter is inaccessible

  

  take a look at the data store that I see the Virtual Machine lack .vmx file and saves the files, so I already schedule maintenance for my client windows, but I just want to be sure about:

  -Stop VM

  -Remove the inventory

  -create a new virtual machine and add the existing virtual drive

  -Power on VM, everything should be good

  

  Basically follow this KB

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1002294

  Or should I be worried about the consistency of VMDK?

  Thank you very much

  > Or should I be worried about the consistency of VMDK?

  Less consistency, but more info on missing hard of header/descriptor files! It seems that someone tried to delete files of the virtual machine from the store data, but because of the locks on files that only some files have been deleted. According to the used backup application, you may be able to recover the missing files in the backup. If not, you can for example follow VMware KB: Re-create a missing virtual machine disk descriptor file, or create a new virtual machine in a laboratory environment (with the same disc size, configuration and the name) and allows to download the .vmx and hard descriptor WinSCP example files. If you have enough disk space in the lab, creating thin configured virtual disks and then change the file descriptor (remove ddb.thinProvisioned = '1')

  André

• Upgrade the virtual machine

  How Upgrade VM? Can someone tell you the detailed steps please? If it's via the Update Manager, please tell the detailed steps.

  How to change the virtual machine without using the Update Manager?

  Thank you

  Prashant

  Thread moved to the ESXi community

• script to remove all the virtual machines in a folder or a group resource

  Someone at - it a script that will find all the virtual machines within a file or a group of resources and then delete the virtual machines?

  If you're dealing with a specific resource pool or a folder, you can use these.

  $vmlist = get-folder -name "TEST2"  | get-vm
  $vmlist = get-resourcepool -name TestServers | get-vm
  

  And then send it to something like this

  $vmlist | ForEach {
       If ($_.PowerState  -eq "PoweredOn")
            {
            Stop-VM -VM $_.Name -Confirm:$False
            }
       Remove-VM -VM $_.Name -Confirm:$False      }
  

  Also to find files of type VM

  get-folder -name | where {$_.IsChildTypeVM -eq "True"}
  

  Do you need to search the children files or resource pools as well?

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• You cannot use vSphere client to change the settings of the virtual machine v10 or more

  Hello

  I just downloaded new version of Kali Linux to do some tests with my free version of ESXi update 5.5 2, the problem is that I can't change the settings of the virtual machine in vSphere Client.

  It's so good because of the independence of Web OS Client vSphere but what about the free version? Everyone knows you need a vCenter running successfully and a license for the vSphere Web Client.

  There is no free version of VMWare vCenter.

  Nice day.

  http://www.vmwarearena.com/2014/09/vSphere-client-5-5-Update-2-edit-hardware-version-10-VMS-using-vSphere-client.html

• Changing the settings of Cluster SWAP without the virtual machine downtime

  Hi all

  My question refers to the vSphere 5.0 version.

  I need to change the settings of my VMware Cluster swap file.

  It is set to "store the swap file in the data specified by the host store.

  I want to change it to "store the file in the same directory as the virtual machine.

  Can I do this without the VM downtime?

  Kind regards

  Martin

  You can change the setting in the cluster without affecting your running virtual machines, but virtual machines will not use this new setting until they have been rolled power.