Commands to start and stop a virtual machine hosted by VMware player

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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)

  2. If open the image in VMWare Player if he invites asking them 'have you copied"/"Moved"the virtual machine? Can I avoid this?

  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)

  Zipper the VM directory should work correctly, it will just extract somewhere on their machine to run it.

  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?

  It's a pretty loaded question.  Obviously, it must be run the Intel instruction set and have a Player version available for their OS.  I ran with success of virtual machines on a laptop Centrino 1.6 GHz single core, but startup performance left a little to be desired.  I think that a minimum of 1 GB of memory for a host running XP or Linux, probably at least 2 GB for one of the more recent Windows operating systems.  More memory would be better, but it will probably work with what I suggested.  Of course, player must be installed on these hosts.  Then make sure that the parameter memory your VM is as small as you can reasonably do.

  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.

• Start and stop Virtual Machines with the system

  Hello

  In a server cluster @vcenter HA/DRS 5.1, I enabled start and stop virtual machines with the system option but after I checked two days later, he is off again somehow. What makes this option off? I had a power failure in the datacenter. vCenter server has not been upward. I started all of the ESXi servers manually then went all VMs account is declining. I want that they start automatically when server ESXi upward.

  Thanks in advance,

  Thank you. This option is more valid than if the hosts are part of an HA Cluster license. I suspect that you configured through the traditional vSphere Client and that it is a bug with this client. If you try with the new vSphere Web Client, you will find a notice that it is disabled and there is no button "Edit".

  Concerning

• Free version of ESXi can support for configuration of start and stop virtual machines via vSphere Client?

  I have read and found some documents on ESXi.

  According to the documents, I know that ESXi free version does not support some advanced virtual machine configurations and does not support write to ESXi host permission. But when I download ESXi from vmware.com, I can't find the free version. He will always be a trial of the licensed version edition because I can always do the configuration of start and stop virtual machines via vSphere Client installation. I can also run scripts (lamw) pl in vMA to stop the ESXi host (authorization to write ok?)

  Then I confused. How can I get the really free version of ESXi? Or will the free version after 60 days of evaluation?

  Start/stop above configuration is in vSphere Client via 'Configuration'-> "start/stop VM"-> "Properties"... «-> "Allow the virtual computers start and stop automatically with the system" actions setting and stop virtual machines can be configured to "comments"turn off computer"or"Suspend".» Can any body tell me if it's supported by ESXi free edition?

  Is the free version of vSphere Client too? Because when I use the vSphere Client, he told me that I have 60 days of evaluation. This confused me again. I think that vSphere Client is always free, am I right?

  Any suggestion or advice is much appreciated.  ^_

  Micky

  Configuration of start and stop virtual machines is available with the free version and licensed, with the free version you would be configured everything via vSphere Client, where as with a licensed version, you can optionally use scripts to configure it and also issue restarts/stops using scripts.

  Second, shutdownHostViaSOAPAPICall.pl for the version licensed and free of ESX (i), this script will work in both free and licensed because it uses direct SOAP calls emulating the vSphere Client communication. Take a look at the documentation for details, but this of course is not supported by VMware.

  =========================================================================

  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009

  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

  Twitter: @lamw

  repository scripts vGhetto

  Introduction to the vMA (tips/tricks)

  Getting started with vSphere SDK for Perl

  VMware Code Central - Scripts/code samples for developers and administrators

  VMware developer community

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• Start and stop times of virtual machines

  Hello

  When there is a failure, HA will try to restart the virtual machine in another node.

  I would like to know is there a place to find the time to failure or blocking down the virtual machine and its start time in another host.

  If it is not explicitly written anywhere, what should I do for these schedules.

  Thank you

  Ali

  You can get the start time of the event of this HA issues to restart the virtual machine. There is no direct way to get downtime for each virtual machine but HA will generate an event when a host fails while you can deduct the time of the failure of the virtual machine of the timestamp of the event "failed host" (assuming that you know what the virtual machine host was on).

  Elisha

• Stop and restart the virtual machines in the remote server

  I need to close virtual machines running guests 4 1 ESX from a remote server (IBM System i).

  The remote server in fact control the storage used by ESX and VM OS, so I'll have to scripts running on the remote server that:

  Stop the virtual machine

  Performs maintenance

  Reboot the virtual machine

  I tried to understand the big picture of the reading discussions here, but I'm still confused.

  VMA is to provide the best way for the virtual machines of withdrawal from a script running on a remote server?

  Scripts can I use SSH to connect to the vSphere environment to run scripts or issue the command?

  Thank you.

  vCLI (really its vSphere SDK for Perl), PowerCLI, VI Java, etc are all vSphere SDK to correct and they are a of the client-side bindings different scripts and programming languages which bind to the vSphere API. When I say 'API', I mean using one of these SDK is you use the vSphere API to perform the work.

  The SDK is initiated on the remote server, this can be windows, linux, etc as long as it supports one of these boxes to tools. In general, for admins, you will use either vCLI (vSphere SDK for Perl) that supports Linux and Windows, or if you are more windows-oriented, you can use PowerCLI.

  Documentation has been referenced in my first post, please take some time the documents because they provide much more detail on the use cases for each + a lot of examples with orders. Yet once, there no involved SSH if you use the vSphere API. As I told, vMA is a virtual appliance, you can download and start using if you do not want to install vCLI or PowerCLI on a remote system, this is assuming that you are comfortable in a Linux environment. If you're not, then I highly recommend using PowerCLI, who will need a remote server for Windows.

  Here are a few started getting additional resources:

  vSphere SDK for Perl + vMA:

  Getting started with vSphere SDK for Perl

  Introduction to the vMA (tips/tricks)

  PowerCLI:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/developer/windowstoolkit/

  http://www.virtu-al.NET/2009/11/10/PowerCLI-where-do-i-start/

  =========================================================================

  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009

  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

  Twitter: @lamw

  repository scripts vGhetto

  Introduction to the vMA (tips/tricks)

  Getting started with vSphere SDK for Perl

  VMware Code Central - Scripts/code samples for developers and administrators

  VMware developer community

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• I get an error "the disk hard virtual parent is in a saved state. Discard the saved state or stop the virtual machine and try again. "during the installation of XP mode.

  I have Win7 Pro SP1 x 64.  I downloaded WindowsXPMode_en - us.exe (from Microsoft downloads) and run it.  The installation seems to work OK (I've specified a different location for the parent virtual hard disk file).  Then, installation happening and I provide the information requested (name of user and password for the XP Mode), updates Windows and OK to the issue of sharing.  The installation program then reports the following error:

  The disk hard virtual parent is in a saved state.  Discard the saved state or stop the virtual machine and try again.

  I get the error even if I try manually configure XP Mode (use the Setup Wizard).  I downloaded the installer XPMode (3 times) and reinstalled several times, always with the same result.  If it helps, I can't locate anywhere .vsv file.

  Any idea what's going on?

  Original title: XP Mode Setup error

  Hi smithnr10,

   

   

  You must post your question in the TechNet forums because it caters to an audience of it professionals.

  To do this, you must consult the link-

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7itprovirt/threads

   

  Hope this helps!

• Script in VMWare Server to stop, save and reboot the virtual machine

  Hello!

  I want to create a script from windows vista Pro (which is my vmware server host) this judgment of a virtual machine before you save it and restart the virtual machine after.

  Does anyone know how to do this? This is my first script, so I don't know how to start...

  I saw this link:

  http://www.Petri.co.il/virtual_script_startup_shutdown_vmware_servers.htm

  But it seems to be for VMware Server 1.X because I can't found the vmware-cmd in the server vmware 2.0 folder.

  Thanks for your help!

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• Stop the virtual machine

  I'm looking for a script to stop vm...

  Script works fine, but I have a few Questions or details

  $csv = import-csv C:\xxx.csv

  Foreach ($line in $csv)

  {

  Write-Host “====================================================================”

  Write-Host "$line treatment".

  $vminfo = get-view-Id ($line.vm) USER.USER

  Write-Host "checking the VMware Tools on $line... »

  # If we have the VMware tools installed

  If ($vminfo.config.Tools.ToolsVersion - eq 0)

  {

  Write-Host "($line.vm) don't have vmware tools installed, strong power this one.

  # Hard power off.

  Stop-VM ($line.vm)-confirm: $false

  }

  on the other

  {

  write-host "I'll try to stop $vm.

  # Turn off with elegance

  Get - VM ($line.vm) | Stop-VMGuest-confirm: $false | Out-Null

  }

  }

  1. my code below what I'm missing / or hurt?

  $vminfo = get-view-Id ($line.vm) USER.USER

  Write-Host "checking the VMware Tools on $line... »

  2. Tools a lot of combination

  Tools installed - but not running

  tools not install

  Are that both will have to stop-vm?

  3.

  I got a simple code, it will cover the tools stuff?

  $vm = Get-VM
  $vm | where {$_. Comments . State -eq "Running"} | Shutdown-VMGuest -confirm:$false
  $vm | where {$_. Comments . State -eq "NotRunning"} | Stop-VM -Confirm:$false

  
  

  4. I want to stop 50 virtual machines simultaneously, how the

  
  

  Your script seems to be ok.

  When the VMware tools are installed you can do a gracefull shutdown (Stop-VMGuest) within the guest where OS the obligation for the VMware tools.

  The next option is to stop the virtual machine (VM-Stop), with what would be the power button on a physical computer.

  No phasing out of the BONES and a potential risk on the corruption of the OS.

  With switch RunAsync that the cmdlet returns immediately, it will not wait until the underlying vSphere method is complete.

  The method will continue, but in the background.

  You should check these tasks to background (Get-task), to monitor the successful completion.

  To manage VMS in batches of 25 and wait 60 seconds between batches, you could do something like that

  $vms = get - VM

  $step = 25

  $start = 0

  for ($loop = 0; $loop - the ([math]: ceiling ($vms.)) Step Count / $)-1); $loop ++) {}

  $vms [$start... ($Start+$Step-1)] | where {$_.} Guest.State - eq "Running"} | Stop-VMGuest-confirm: $false - RunAsync

  $vms [$start... ($Start+$Step-1)] | where {$_.} Guest.State - eq "Keep"} | Stop-VM-confirm: $false - RunAsync

  sleep 60

  $start += $step

  }

• My Mac Mini is extremely slow and any video will start but soon stops and intermittently starts and stop immediately. What is the reason?

  My Mac Mini (end 2012) 2.5 ghz memory 8 GB Yosemite 10.10.5 is extremely slow. I read a few articles on communities, but unable to solve the problem. I plan to upgrade memory soon. In addition, a video game doesn't quite work. It starts and stops in 5 seconds and restarts it for a few seconds and stops completely. An advisor to fix the problem will be appreciated.

  When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is particularly bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.

  These must be run as administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

  Run the Console application in one of the following ways:

  ☞ Enter the first letters of his name in a Spotlight search. Select from the results (it should be at the top).

  ☞ In the Finder, select go utilities ▹ of menu bar or press the combination of keys shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

  ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

  The title of the Console window should be all Messages. If it isn't, select

  SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ all Messages

  in the list of logs on the left. If you don't see this list, select

  List of newspapers seen ▹ display

  in the menu at the top of the screen bar.

  Each message in the journal begins with the date and time when it was entered. Highlight date back to the time you noted above.

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• Records of Vista Media Center starts and stops at the wrong time

  I use Windows Vista Home Premium, SP1 and that you may have noticed that when I schedule recordings for some a particular channel, Media Center starts 2 minutes beforehand and ends 2 minutes in advance.  This affects only shows record from my local affiliate Fox - all other shows for other strings start and stop at the appropriate time.

  I checked the system clock with the start times of the shows and both are correct.  In fact, I saw one day Media Center started to record for a show that did not begin until 08:00 at 19:58 (according to the system time).  I had my TV on at the same time and was able to verify that the program in question had not yet begun, so the flow of the internet was sychned with the dissemination of local transmission.

  It's very frustrating because I miss the end of some shows and cannot always extend registration ends because I'm ordering another channel, the next hour.

  I have the same problem with the FOX network...

  -1 make sure your clock automaticly sets in the internet and update once by pressing the link (which makes that he can see the time server)...

  There are two ways you can go with this:

  -If your departure time is correct, then just go to the Planner and choose the program (or series) you are trying to install, select the recording settings (or adjustment of series) or advanced setting... There is an option to "stop recording" 1 min, 2 min, 3 min, 5 min, until 2 hours after the recording is finished... I have mine set to 5 minutes after, and she fixed it...

  -If the starting time is disabled (as mine is), to enter ERM and manuver to tasks > settings > TV > recorder > recorder defaults

  This is where you define all the flaws of the recorder, find "Start when possible" and "Stop when possible", 4 min value (max allows MCE)... Save and exit, restart the machine too...

  You should be good to go...

  PS, I just read the last sentence in your post, you must only have a tv tuner card in your machine (I have two, and that's the reason why I bought two), so you can always have a problem when recording two different channels (back to back on the same channel should work okay).

• PowerCLI start and stop ssh and necessary permissions vcenter

  We will use VMA PowerCLI for start and stop SSH via vcenter for guests ESXi 4.1. We do what we're going to start ssh, security nessus scan performance and then stop ssh. We are very pleased with the commands of VMA PowerCLI for this and I've seen a number of articles on this topic. What we have done is create a specific AD user, we will use by PowerCLI to connect to vCenter and perform the beginning and stopy of SSH. I want to do is to restrict this user with a specific in vCenter privilege so that this user can only start and stop SSH. Is there a specific privilege in vCenter I can create a role for and assign it to that user.

  Yes, the host and then Config

• script to stop the virtual machine

  I am writing a script to stop all the virtual machine as follows:

  1. The list of the VM

  VMLIST ='/ usr/bin/vmrun list '

  for a virtual machine in '$VMLIST '.

  do

  echo '$VM '.

  1. stop the virtual machine

  / usr/bin/vmrun stop '$VM' trysoft

  sleep 2

  fact

  But he failed, the news of the error:

  / root/vmware/Windows NT / Windows NT.vmx

  Error: Could not open the virtual machine: unknown suffixNT/Windows NT.vmx file

  the feedback by the command "echo $VM" is the correct path, but why it says file unknown?

  Please refer to the attachment.

  See if that helps...

  vmlist ='/ usr/bin/vmrun list '

  printf "$vmlist" | egrep '\.vmx$ ' | while reading vm; echo '$vm '.

  / usr/bin/vmrun stop soft "$vm".

  sleep 2; fact

• Any script to start and stop essbase on Unix?

  I am trying to automate the starting and stop all services in a batch scripts. but my essbase is UNIX. I don't have much exp on Unix. can someone help me please to who?

  If you are closing services, you can use maxl like I said of the windows machine.

  To call a script at startup of windows, then you will need to study a little more maybe cygwin openssh, Rexec, telnet... Google is your friend.

  See you soon

  John
  http://John-Goodwin.blogspot.com/

• Batch file to start and stop

  Hi all
  
  Can we create a batch file to start and stop services. I need to start all as shared services, essbase, eas, planning, webanlysis and financial information and also the need to stop using the windows batch file. (Windows 2003 server... using service pack 1). Any help would be appreciated.
  
  Thank you

  Yes replacing the beginning with a stop will stop them. I would like to add the command to sleep between them to give them time to stop or start. It takes more time, but I had less problems if I did that, I found