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  When you try to install the software (Cyberlink) and drivers for my new LG Blu - Ray Burner (model BE14NU40), I get an error message saying that the software is ONLY for LG brand drives.  This seems odd, since it's what I have.  When I checked the Device Manager in Windows 8 I've seen that for some reason, VMWare changes the identity of the optical drive to a NEC for some reason any... which prevents the software and drivers from loading.

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  Thank you...

  They probably had you to what is covered by: Troubleshooting USB devices using USB (1025256) molten oddities

• Unable to connect local CD/DVD drive (error VMware)

  I've been avoiding this problem for a few days, but now I just need to fix this... Whenever I try to connect a local CD drive for the guest OS to VMware, I get this error:

  

  Can someone please help me get this resolved?

  This worked before? Did you install all the applications such as CD burning applications?

  The correct drive letter appears in the settings of the virtual CD-ROM machine for physical training?

  To make sure that it is not a question etc authorisation, try to disable UAC, no S/W protection and start VMware Workstation by using "Run as Administrator".

  You can also try to do is to remove the CD drive on the host device manager and allow the host to re - discover it. Maybe it makes a difference!

  André

• Port Trunk on Vmware EXSi 5?

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  We have vShpere Essentials more here with EXSi 5. I want to trunk 4 times of the network ports for each host. Then on Vmware, we can choose what VLAN belongs to the Virtual Machine.

  I think I know how to configure the Cisco switch. Series 4 ports in a trunk and puts all 4 ports in a channel group. I don't know how to configure Vmware. Someone has links to blogs with guides step by step please?

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  Thanks for your help. I'll test this tomorrow (if I have time). I guess it's just a trunk mode standard switchport - nothing special on the cisco switch otherwise?

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  Yes, that's correct.

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• Boot from USB devices or local drives in VMWare

  I have a 4 Gb WinXP SP3 bootable USB Thumb Drive and wanted to try to boot into VMWare Workstation 7. I can add it to the readers of VMWare, and its listed connected between removable devices, when a virtual machine starts, but he won't start him, just goes straight to a CD ISO (if connected) or a network (which is not available) boot disk. In VMWare machine BIOS there is no option key USB Boot-Portable devices, and it is not listed among the drives in the BIOS. Despite I can boot from it on a real PC from USB HD. Which can be a problem and how to fix it?

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• Drive on vmware workstation error 7

  Hi friends,

  I installed the trial version on my desktop and using the new feature of ESX4 installation.

  After 19% it jump - rises an error message indicating related media as I installed it in my 500 GB sata drive.

  Please find the attached image and vmware logs

  Please do the neeful

  Shankar

  Hello

  Looks like you experience a hardware failure on your SATA drive.

  In the newspaper:

  Oct 31 11:06:18.875: vmx| VMXAIOMGR: Retry on read "I:\Virtual Machines\ESX1\ESX1.vmdk" : Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
  Oct 31 11:06:18.984: vmx| VMXAIOMGR: system : err=5890 errCode=23 freeSpace=60898979840
  Oct 31 11:06:18.984: vmx| VMXAIOMGR: "I:\Virtual Machines\ESX1\ESX1.vmdk" : read s=3592192 n=8192 ne=2, fai=0
  Oct 31 11:06:18.984: vmx| VMXAIOMGR:             v[0]=3135000:4096
  Oct 31 11:06:18.984: vmx| VMXAIOMGR:             v[1]=3133000:4096
  Oct 31 11:06:24.906: vmx| VMXAIOMGR: Retry on read "I:\Virtual Machines\ESX1\ESX1.vmdk" : Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
  

  A CRC error only usually comes up when there is some property damage, not saying not that he can't be anything else, but most likely your drive is running out and I would like to make a backup of everything of value on this drive of 500 GB special as soon as possible.

  As for the ESX VM, I suspect it will work fine when you try to install it on another disk.

  Hope this helps,

  --

  Wil

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• I have 2 drives in VMware Fusion showing

  Hi LL! As you say, I'm a Newbie on Mac. I am on Mac OS x Leopard and had to score because my account program does not come under Mac. Fusion is ideal for the gain of startup time and re-start in and out of Windows & Mac, so after that purchase version 2 and install it, I received notification that the 2.0.1 version was available so I downloaded this upgrade. The problem is that I now have 2 VMware Fusion drives that appear on my system (Version 2.0) and Version 2.0.1 the merger shows application Version 2.0.

  I had to uninstall version 2.0 before you download the new version? Or can I remove one of the disks that shows? I searched this error, but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone help?

  It seems that what you're saying, is that you put together two different versions of Fusion .dmg file to Disk Image you downloaded and now on your desktop, you will need icons who say VMware Fusion.

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• Can not see 1 TB Sata Drive in VMWare ESXi 5.1

  Hello.

  I have a HP ML350 G6 server which currently has two RAID 1 arrays. The first table consists of two 300 GIG forms large factor readers and the second table consists of two 450 GIG disks.

  I just added a single SATA 1 TB drive on the server but I do not see it in my client of ESXi. Is what I'm trying to do possible? I can add a disk of 1 TB to this mixture, or maybe I need to delete one of the tables or in a control card memory cache? I'm working on a ML350 G8 at home and I have three paintings on it but not able to create the third table without a controller card cache for the controller smart array P420i. I wonder if this is the case here.

  I have attached a screenshot of my storage and what I see when I try to add a data store.

  Am I missing something here?

  Thanks for any help or comments.

  Mike Gallery

  Haven't you set up the new HARD drive on the RAID (e.g. as a JBOD) controller, which is presenting as a logical volume to ESXi?

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• replaceable drives a VMware ESXi host running hot?

  In theory, it is completely safe delete a failing hard drive to a RAID 5 array that support the connection to hot. But is this supported in ESXi 4.1? Can I license the company to this supported?

  I just need the assurance that it's safe swap a failed drive in a RAID 5 array on a physical server supported hot when it runs always ESXi 4.1 without having to shut it down.

  Thank you!

  In theory, it is completely safe delete a failing hard drive to a RAID 5 array that support the connection to hot. But is this supported in ESXi 4.1? Can I license the company to this supported?

  Hello

  Yes, it is safe to remove if your controller supports hot, your ESXi has nothing to support because your RAID controller is responsible to rebuild your RAID disk faulty no ESXi.

  See you soon
  Artur
  

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• Free space on drive C:\ vmware 12.0.1 build-3160714 lost

  Lost free disk space, actually on the disk files to 35 GB and GB 105 employees, which is the reason why? Snapshot y no.

  vmware12.0.1 build-3160714

  I recommend that to start troubleshooting by run TreeSize Free to preview.

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• VMware Workstation 10 bug: DVD SATA drive does not start if we disable the floppy drive in the VMware BIOS

  Hello

  I use VMware Workstation 10, and I found a bug:

  With the all-new virtual machine (for example with Windows 8 x 64), if I choose a hard SATA and SATA DVD drive in VMware and I have to disable the floppy drive in the VMware BIOS, Windows 8 (or Windows 7) ISO does not start.

  If I come back in the BIOS to enable the floppy drive once again, my ISO boot.

  If I use the DVD IDE drive in VMware options, no problem if I disable the floppy drive.

  With "EFI mode", no bugs.

  Please, can you solve this problem? Thank you

  Hi freebeing,

  Thank you for reporting this issue.  We have reproduced it is internal and work on it.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• Which QLOGIC FC driver apply? By VMware or Qlogic?

  i´d as know what version of driver its best to apply in my VMware 4.0 UP1.

  In HCL, I found this information:

  ESX / ESXi 4.0 U1

  qla2xxx version 821.k1.43vmw

  Inbox

  And in the qlogic website:

  CF-FCoE (x 86 / x 64) 841.k1.16.2 - 1vmw FC-FCoE driver for VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0.x and 4.1.

  Now my question is, what driver is better to apply?

  Here I have a problem with my SAN, and I need to update all the drivers, firmwares.

  Thank you

  Unless versions (3.x or 4.x) host is compatible with the storage systems, then Yes, converter or export/iport as OVF would be an option. Instead of converter, you can also consider using a tool like of Veeam FastSCP to simply copy the virtual machine files, this way the UUID and the MAC addresses of the virtual machine would remain unchanged.

  André

• CD/DVD drive will not appear on VMWare Fusion.

  Recently I have not been able to use the CD/DVD-ROM drive on vmware fusion. I try to connect the physical device by clicking on the image of the CD rom at the bottom right, select Connect by car, but when I put in a CD, nothing happens.

  When I go into "My computer" the drive icon is not present.

  I tried all settings in Fusion as changes (move to "Reader of CD/DVD physical specify" instead of "Automatically detect physical CD/DVD drive") but still no luck.

  I can't find any help on this issue. Help, please.

  Take a look on: CD/DVD not recognized in the virtual machine

• With BSD and DummyNet VMWare image

  Hello

  I installed VMware EXSi 5.0 and now, I'm trying to install VMware image VMWare with BSD and already implemented-DummyNet in place (I got the file from this http://codefromthe70s.org/dummynet.aspxblog).

  I followed these steps:

  1. create a new virtual machine

  With the operating system invited: Free BSD (64-bit)

  2. go to the data to Configuration/Storage/travel store and download the file (image VMWare with BSD and DummyNet) already implemented - FreeBSDDisk.vmdk

  

  3. right click on the virtual machine and change the settings

  4. choose the 1 CD/DVD drive

  5 locate the ISO data store file

  

  6. connect a power on

  At the end of installation, I got this error:

  

  Please, someone knows what's going on?

  Thanks a lot for your help.

  http://CodeFromThe70s.org/dummynet.aspx

  The file you have a vmdk or VHD, not a CDrom ISO.

  When you create your virtual computer, on the hard disk configuration, should have selected "Use an existing virtual disk" rather than create a new one.

  You can still do this now, by removing the hard disk already present in your virtual machine and adding a new.

  For the new disc, select the option 'Use current' and browse the data store for your downloaded vmdk.

  It is best to remove the old drive, close the "Edit settings" to apply the change, reopen "change settings" and add the new disk.

  This way you are sure that the new drive is added with 0,0 SCSI id and becomes the first disk of your virtual computer.

  But that VMDK file is probably not ESX (i) compatible.

  If it is a single file, it is intended for workstation or player, not vSphere.

  You can convert it to a format compatible with the command, vmkfstools (on the local or remote shell, or remote cli ESXi).

  Another option to convert, is to create a virtual machine in Vmware player, using your VMDK and then use the free standalone Vmware Converter to migrate you ESXi host.

• VMWare ESXI latest version (downloaded today) with HP Proliant ML150G5 E5405

  Hi al!

  It's my server HP

  http://h10010.www1.HP.com/wwpc/it/it/SM/WF06b/15351-15351-241434-3328424-3328424-3580609-3670454.html

  I add 2 GB of RAM original HP + 2HD 250 GB HOT SWAP HP.

  So I installed 2 drives in RAID 1 (using the tools LSI & lt; F8 & gt; starting the BIOS to handle the exchangeable hard drive hot).

  I tried to install the latest version of VmWare EXSi to test virtualization... installation go right until the end.

  But... after 1 minute the start of my vmware server screen are ready (the screen where you can press the FX for customization etc...). Pink .the screen display!

  The content of this screnn is:

  ***********************************************+

  VMWARE ESX SERVER 3i Releasebuild:123629

  Exception type 14 worldwide 2429:sfcbd @ 0x6738a7

  Frame = 0 x 4028 ds = 0 x 4028 fs = 0 x 4000000 qs = 0 x 0

  EAX = 0x4c89898 ebx = 0 x 0 ecx = 0x4bdf054 edx = 0 x 11

  EBP = 0x3ff7bc0 esi = 0x4bdf02c edi = 0x295a err = 0 eflags = 0 x 10002

  etc... ETV...

  VMK uptime: 0:00:01:14:409 TSC:148376637858

  From coredump on disc using slot 1 of 1... 98766665432110 positive dump Disk.

  Debugger is listening on the serial port...

  Press ESC to enter the local debugger

  **************************************************+

  You know what's the problem?

  TNX for any suggest...

  Welcome to the VMware community forums.  The discussion has been moved to the ESXi forum

  Dave Mishchenko

  VMware communities user moderator

  Are you using the HP or generic installation CD?  You can also try this to see if the GROUP is eliminated - http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/disable_CIM_on_startup.php.