Force automatic startup of virtual machines

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• BAT file automatically launch several virtual machines

  I try to use the automatic VMware.exe software from starting my VMs (three) when restarting my Windows desktop computer.

  I have created a. BAT file creating three lines of code in the startup of the host folder.

  Each line is similar to:

  "C:\Program Files (x86\vmware\vmare workstation\VMWare.exe"-x "c:\users\admin\Documents\Virtual Machines\vm1\vm1.vmx".

  Each line calls the next VM to start.

  My problem is that the batch file runs the first line (i.e. - start the first virtual machine) but will not progress to the second and third lines (so from the second and third VM)

  Each line of code works perfectly if entered manually and individually in the command RUN in the host.

  What I'm missing here?
  
  

  Hi WoodZ and jmtella

  A big THANK you.  The vmRun command was the answer.

  The attached file renamed as StartVM.bat works for me...

  I welcome your critical comment

  See you soon,.

  Michael

• G50 - 70 Wireless does not not at startup and virtual machine

  Hello

  IM here.im again faced a problem in wireless.i can not access my lenovo g50 - 70 bluetooth, wifi at startup (live cd) and in virtual machine.please help its really annoying...

  Hi Angad,

  Welcome to Lenovo Community!

  According to the request, we understand that you are facing problem with wireless does not not on your laptop G50-70.

  If Device Manager check the wireless device is detected, also check in the BIOS if the WIFI is enabled.

  Check if there is no exclamatory mark in wireless devices.

  Also check if there is software installed access connection.

  I hope this helps. Post back if the problem persists!

  Best regards

  Ashwin.S

• Automatically power on virtual machines

  I came this morning and all our virtual machines have been turned off. We had a power outage during the night, but the servers and the SAN is attached to a UPS system and they were on when I arrived. I don't know why virtual machines powered off, perhaps servers do you have and then returned when the power was restored? Virtual machines should automatically power on when the host is turned on or is it something that needs to be configured?

  Thank you.

  If it is a stand-alone host, not in a HA cluster, you can set options for start/stop. Go to the Configuration tab on the host computer and the virtual machine start/stop.  In the upper right corner, click the properties link.

• Returns automatically instant at the start of the virtual machine

  Hi all

  I configured my ESX Server to automatically launch a virtual computer to booting the ESX Server. How can I configure a specific snapshot in ESX server to automatically restore the virtual machine?

  Thank you

  Concerning

  
  Davide

  VSphere Center, it is not possible, but if you know the condition when vm should go back to the snapshot, you can use vSphere powercli.

• Is there a way to force out XP in a virtual machine?

  I bought a new iMac last week and Apple Store people transferred my files from the old machine, except for the Boot Camp partition. I decided to give up Boot Camp and install Windows XP in Fusion that I did successfully but has no transfer or re - install my programs or data because Apple has informed me that I had a bad hard drive Seagate, which was recalled. The tech came today and swapped out and I restored from a backup time machine, with the intention of re - install XP. Thought that I had excluded the virtual machine from the Time Machine backup so I was a bit surprised when he showed up after the restoration. I was able to reboot the virtual machine VMWare Fusion in XP and installed Norton AV and Quicken however when I tried to install MS Works (while legacy software) Windows froze and don't re - start, does not close and I have this strange little window that does not close.

  

  Any ideas?

  In case you want to force shut down a virtual machine, you can use this methord:

  Go to menu Fusion, Virtual Machine, and then you will see "Shut Down" (it's soft closing down like stopping a virtual machine safely). Then hold down the option key, you will see changed in "Force shutdown", it's a power off of closing down. Use this when your VM is hang.

• Automatic shutdown of the virtual machines in the Update Manager

  Is it possible to automatically stop the virtual machines as part of the Update Manager?  We have our virtual machines configured for auto power off/start with the host.  But when we apply a lot of patching ESX using the Update Manager, he waits for us to stop manually before putting the host in maintenance mode.

  Any way to automate that? Thank you!

  But when we apply a lot of patching ESX using the Update Manager, he waits for us to stop manually before putting the host in maintenance mode.

  Lol WHA each fails to accomplish is ESX is an enterprise product, it must be used with vMotion.  If the Update Manager is designed to make this easy and pain free, so if you have the shared storage, your VM will migrate to another host, maintenance is done, and the virtual machine back.

  ESX is essentially a hands on environment.  I know everyone can't afford a SAN, but ESX caters to these large enterprise systems that do not have SAN.

  By making a patch, so we are now toward the Windows stand alone everyday server where you have done EACH server, or do it manually power off / closure of EACH virtual machine is EVEN easier to do this 1 by 1 on EACH physical host.

  Consider so it cannot be the best option, it isn't that hard to select ALL VM under tension and click "shut down guest.  Besides that if you plan for a breakdown, you can stop the VM remotely (if windows) by using a shutdown script.

  There are a lot of options to do this, but there is no stopping the VM before update, you must do it manually.

• Virtual MACHINE starts in EFI environment after crash

  Hello world

  I'm breaking my head on something that looks like a bug to me.

  A few weeks ago, the ESXi host on that I was running VMs crushed (power fail) and after powering back and from virtual machines on this stand-alone host, one of the virtual machines did not start correctly.

  This machine virtual runs Windows Server 2012 and booted up this time in the EFI environment.

  After some research, the EFI configuration is gone. When opening the Boot Manager Maintenance upward and choose 'Start configuration Options', no options are listed. When you add a new boot option and using the backup function, the settings are lost instantly. When comparing the parameters with any other SMV 2012 I have running, Miss me a lot of configuration such as startup options and some driver options.

  These two options will not save after closing the menu for adding these options. When you choose 'Start from a file' I can start the virtual computer by using the 'VOLUME LABEL\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi No.' file. After the virtual machine restarts, it will be to the EFI environment.

  It is very difficult to find information about the EFI BIOS so I hope anyone here have experience with it.

  I even tried to restore the VM about 2 weeks before the accident, but even with the files of the virtual machine will start in EFI environment with no settings at all. So maybe the problem caused earlier; very weird! Also not to be able to save the new settings in the environment EFI seems very strange to me.

  Thanks for the replies! =)

  Hi René,.

  Hmmm... There is something of very, very wrong with this file NVRAM.  Looks like that the power failure has corrupted the file NVRAM in a way that confuses the firmware irreparably.  I consider this new next week (next year!) when I'm back in the office and will introduce an internal bug report if I find something that we can make it more robust.

  Although I generally recommend it not for VMS EFI, in your situation, your best course of action is probably the virtual computer power off, remove the file .nvram to the directory of the virtual machine (or rename it to something else, if you want to be extra careful), and power then it powered.  A fresh .nvram file will automatically create the virtual machine starts.  For the most part, reasonably normal Windows installations, the virtual machine must then be started automatically in the operating system installed.

  (For the benefit of other readers of the forum who may come across this thread, I repeat: do not delete a virtual machine EFI NVRAM memory, unless you understand the consequences!)  "It seems that there is rather than remove the NVRAM in this particular situation and very few others.)

  Please let me know if that gets things going again!

  And I'm going to one of our regulars of the forum, WoodyZ, avoid having to make his regular situation comment: If you haven't already done so, you can consider investing in an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to keep your system running through power cuts or to allow at least a normal instead of a hardware failure stop.

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• Migration of virtual machines to vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 6.0

  As the title eludes to, we are standing up a new physics 6.0 Server vCenter Server and need to migrate virtual machines of 4.1 6.0 guest hosts.  I'd love to take the time to create a script that does the following; However, before heading down this path, I wanted to do a ping of the group to see if someone has done something like this before or have pointers to scripts that perform some of these actions already.  Some background and concept:

  • Running 4.1.
  • A new physical Center of vCenter 6.0 will be deployed side-by-side with 4.1.
  • The existing configuration of vSphere HA allows for 1-2 guests down without impact to the virtual machines.
  • The two environment and will be Cisco N1KV, SAN access shared for the same data storages.
  • A new vCenter will be lifted.
  • A single host is identified and VMs evacuated to the remaining hosts.
  • This host will be in maintenance mode, removed from the cluster and close.
  • A clean install of ESXi 6 will be done and set up spec.
  • N1KV will be deployed.

  To digress on the details at the moment... Now markets PowerCLI desired.  This idea is ad hoc and on the fly, so as I write this.

  • identify all the virtual machines associated with a specific data store - will need to work with the local client to schedule downtime for virtual machines
  • Stop the virtual machine
  • Remove the VM of the vCenter 4.1 inventory
  • to connect to vCenter 6.0
  • Add the virtual machine to the vCenter 6.0 inventory (and once we have passed the first host in the new cluster, automatically place the virtual machine by using the DRS)
  • Reconfigure the vmnic with the new Cisco 1000V dvs (will be the same name on both sides, but has a different ID)
  • pull in the keys and the values to a CSV and advancedsetting set to harden
  • Turn on the virtual machine
  • Perhaps a test of ping for the NETWORK card to check connectivity

  The order in which the steps are performed can be switched around, as long as the desired end result is the same: migration effectively virtual machines between two disparate solutions with single medium sharing as a data store.  In which I realize will always be VMFS3.  New data stores VMFS-5 is another task for another time.

  Thank you for your time, suggestions, links, etc...

  @LucD - hi.

  These steps are quite possible with PowerCLI.

  See the script after skeleton, he probably needs some adjustments to fit your environment and requirements

  $dsName = "xyz".

  $vm = get - VM - $dsName data store

  Stop-VMGuest - VM $vm - confirm: $false

  Remove-VM - $vm VM - confirm: $false

  Disconnect-VIServer-Server vc41 - confirm: $false

  $vc6 = Connect-VIServer-Server vc6

  $newVM = $vm | New-VM - DiskPath $_. ExtensionData.Config.Files.VmPathName - confirm: $false

  # Suppose a CSV file with

  # Key, value

  # key1, value1

  # key2, value2

  $advSettings = import-Csv - UseCulture advSettings.csv

  {foreach ($obj in $newVM)

  $advSettings | %{

  Get-AdvancedSetting - $obj entity - name $_. Key |

  Game-AdvancedSetting - value of $_. Value - confirm: $false

  }

  }

  Start-VM - $newVM VM - confirm: $false

  $newVM |

  Select Name,

  @{N = "Available"; E = {Test-Connection - ComputerName $_.} Guest.HostName - County 1 - Quiet}}

• Multiple virtual machines are with merging different accounts...

  I have a partition, Bootcamp with Win XP SP3. Fusion (2.0.4) is configured to run a machine virtual of Bootcamp. When we go to Fusion from an account other than the account used to set up the merger, it is always built a new virtual machine and applications to reinstall VMWare Tools.

  I don't know if this is related to the fact that each user has now several virtual machines listed in the merge Panel, some black, some grey. Some of these virtual machines start and the one who would start applications the VMWare Tools install.

  Could be a permissions problem? If so, what folders/files should be given permission for different users? Thank you.

  OS 10.5.7 (Nvidia graphics)

  MacPro 2008

  Normal file according to the Virtual Machines have a glance at the 'Sharing of Virtual Machines between users' section of the VMware Fusion A Beginner's Guide.

  For the execution of the partition Boot Camp in a Virtual Machine, it is a bit different because where the virtual Boot Camp Machine score is and cannot be moved as normal file based on Virtual Machines.  The location of each are covered in the first part of the document of A Beginner's Guide to VMware Fusion .

  So it's normal and EXPECTED that the library Virtual Machine to each user account will be filled with a virtual Boot Camp Machine partition and will be treated as if it has not been run before the first time it is run under a particular user account.

  There are a few options however none are configured via the GUI only merger and one, must be given full access to the files of one user home needed to give permissions for a given partition Boot Camp Virtual Machine instance that everyone would then use and would disable the ability to merge to automatically assign the Boot Camp partition entry on each virtual Machine library Virtual Machine user account from the user account and then just manually complete virtual of the user account of the user account library of machine with Boot Camp target partition shared Virtual Machine.

  By changing the name of the rawdiskCreator-vmware in a Terminal (/ Applications/Utilities/Terminal) copy of the file and paste the following command, as is, and then press enter and type your password, and then press Enter and the Boot Camp partition appears is no longer automatically on the Virtual Machine library automatically under a newly created user account. and the opportunity to delete the automatically populated user account entry existing Virtual Machine library.

  sudo mv "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-rawdiskCreator" "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-rawdiskCreator.bak"
  

  Post edited by: WoodyZ - updated the last paragraph in order to clarify what is expected after renamed it vmware-rawdiskCreator.

• From virtual machine automatically at startup of the host

  Hello

  I'm trying to find how to start a virtual machine automatically at startup of the ESXi host.  I think I did in ESX 3.5, but have so far been unable to find a similar feature in ESXi.

  Is this possible in ESXi?

  Thank you!

  I do not use ESXi, but if you go to the Configuration of your ESXi host and then virtual Mahcine start/stop tab is a box of properties in the right corner?  If so, like ESX, this is where to put it

• Start the virtual machine automatically at startup?

  Is it possible to start a virtual machine automatically when I run vmware workstation?

  Thanks in advance.

  Peter!

  of course - to create a desktop shortcut to a vmx file and double-click it to start it

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  VMX-settings- VMware-liveCD - VM-infirmary

• Put a host in maintenance - it will automatically move virtual machines?

  Dear all,

  We have a cluster with 4 guests and we would now like to upgrade each 5.50 to 6.0 ESXi ESXi host. I understand that we need to put the host in maintenance mode. He will automatically move virtual machines to other hosts? I read DRS is necessary. I see that our guests are permitted for Vmotion and HA. We have standard Vsphere license.

  This means in our case, I would need to move manually first of all VMs before the host can go into maintenance mode? In the case where the Vsphere will make work, the virtual machines automatically distributing to 3 other hosts according to the resources available?

  Thank you

  Edy

  This means in our case, I would need to move manually first of all VMs before the host can go into maintenance mode?

  Yes, since the Standard edition doesn't include DRS, you must manually move virtual machines to other hosts.

  In the case where the Vsphere will make work, the virtual machines automatically distributing to 3 other hosts according to the resources available?

  Yes, this would be the case with the DRS in place.

  André

• Virtual MACHINE starts automatically after a power outage of the entire site?

  Hello

  We use ESXi 5.5.

  If there is a power for the datacenter failure, ESXi hosts must be restarted when power is resumed.

  We wonder if VMs will be launched automatically to the top?   If not, this means that we must allow the "starting the Virtual Machine / stop option.

  If we put a number of virtual machines in "automatically start", such as VM1, VM2, VM3 on ESXi Server one, VM4 VM5 ESXi Server b.   Virtual machines are migrated between ESXi servers and how they can keep the boot sequence?

  Your opinion is requested.

  Dear Tony,

  I ask you to create a vApp and configure accordingly on your vCenter boot order.

  https://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-55/index.jsp#com.VMware.vSphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-0FAB05D4-22F7-4665-B42A-0FA4B360B398.html

  See you soon,.

  Billon Manogaran

• 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.