Importing a physical machine on VMWare ESX

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• Import the virtual machine of VMWare Server 2.0

  I want to hang in VMWare Server 2.0 to ESXi 3.5, how to import my VMWare VM for ESXi?

  I installed ESXi 3.5 on my test lab server and all I see is an option to import a device and not a VM.

  This feature is still available?

  Thank you

  Yes, this feature is available, but it will take VMware Converter - this will allow you to go to your VM VMware Server ESX/ESXi.

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• Error: Running VMware ESX in a virtual machine requires the external virtual machine

  We are running ESX Vmware 5 on a virtual test in ESX 4.x environment and machine unable to start the virtual machine on Vmware ESX 5. with the following error.

  Error: -.

  Running on a virtual machine VMware ESX requires the external virtual machine is configured to run a VMware ESX guest operating system. You can not power on a virtual machine until the external virtual machine is reconfigured.

  We found after KB

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1030283

  Howerver, I'm not able to find the option

  1. Select the virtual machine that is running ESX.
  2. Go in VM > Settings.
  3. Click the Options tab.
  4. Select the General settings.
  5. Under Guest operating system , select VMware ESX.
  6. Click OK.

  We are not able to find this option in ESX 4, so we can run this VM.

  Please help urgently...

  Kind regards

  The log file looks good now.  However, it seems that ESX 4.0 is older than I remembered.  Please, add the following line to your ESX VM configuration file and try again:

  monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = TRUE

• VMworkstation used for the copy of the physical machines

  Hi all

  I had the problem with some software legacy on old hardware, and was plesently surprised when I managed the movement of any physical machine to the ESX virtual machine.

  I tested it on VMware-workstation - 6.5.1 - 126130.exe

  Everything went a lot when I wanted to test, clone, windows 2003 Server (Local host) object.

  When I tried to clone SUN solaris machine using point offered to clone through the IP address of the host, I failed.

  Even on SUN Solaris 8, SUN Solaris 10, Suse 10.1

  I am currently downolading VMWare workstation for Linux, but the question remains, can I clone physical Linux machine with VMworkstation, using files & gt; import-export option and provide the IP address of the remote to be cloned?

  Thank you

  Workstation has a built-in converter that can handle NT 4 - 2 k 3 - perhaps Vista.

  Solaris or Linux or BSD cannot be imported with the embedded version.

  For P2V Solaris or BSD, you need to import manually.

  To import the distributions RedHat and Suse and Ubuntu - try Converter 4 beta

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• Cannot start the physical machine converted to a virtual machine under ESXi 4.0

  Hi all

  I have 2 has with the material below

  Dell optiplex 755 2.4 Qcore 4 GB of RAM and 160 GB of HARD drive

  A performer with ESXi 4.0 other runs with Windows 2003.

  I tried to convert physical machine with "Vmware Vcenter converter Stand alone" 4.0.1 build 161434

  I used the tool on the source machine and by another machine on the network.

  The two process converts the physical machine to a virtual machine successfully without any errors.

  After conversion, the virtual machine cannot start, and shows only a small slider that is not flashing too.

  

  The physical machine have a single partition of 160 GB

  The space currently used on the physical machine is 26 GB.

  I reduced the size of the HARD drive to virtual computer with fix / light available in 40 GB.

  point to make here is that the ESX have only 160 GB HDD, so he will not be able to copy all 160 GB because of which I am reducing the 40 GB HARD drive

  I converted a few other physical machines with 40 GB HARD drive and they work well after the conversion.

  Any sugessions would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks in advance

  Hi Sunil,

  Let me know the drive selected in the custom option controller.

  Thank you

  Krishna

• Copy 700 GB of virtual machines directly to ESX 4.1 data store

  Hello community,

  We have a bunch of VMS (~ 700 GB total) stored on a drive of 1 TB and we would like to copy them directly into an ESX 4.1 data store (located on an EMC Clariion CX4-120).

  We do not want to transfer via the LAN - not an acceptable solution.

  However, the Console of Service of ESX 4.1 does not seem to allow USB drives be mounted (I searched the Internet, asked some contacts of VMware, doesn't seem to be implemented/supported more).

  Possible solutions:

  1) we installed a W2K8 R2 physical server that has access to the San, but apparently, there is no reading + writing drivers for Windows (data warehouses) VMFS volumes

  2) perhaps to reinstall this physical box with a Linux who read + write drivers for VMFS volumes?

  3) reinstall the physical box with VMware ESX 3.x Service Console allows installation of USB drive? But it will be able to see the data created by ESX 4.1 stores?

  Thank you for your valuable contributions.

  Cyril

  No probs Cyril - easy to use - you should be fine!

• VMware ESX Vmware Workstation

  Hello everyone:

  I have a question, I created 4 virtual machine in Vmware ESX using Vmware Infrastructure Client, I can open this virtual machine with Vmware Workstation?, what is the tool for this task? Thanks for your help.

  Good bye.

  Fernando.

  Yes - you can do it - here I do not use any tools at all - just copy to the desktop

  the method is to use the converter though

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• Migrate the physical Machine

  Hello

  How can I migrate a physical machine in vmware server 2 on CentOS 5.

  Thank you.

  I think he should choose 'VMware virtual machine' as a type of destination.

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  Post edited by: janlib

  Sorry, I had to edit my post some time - I tried to explain two different types of P2V

• Cannot import Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware ESXi 4.

  Hi team,

  I use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to import certain Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware ESXi 4, using another Windows Server 2008 R2 as the machine Agent Converter. Well, the agent connects to the Windows VM source very well (I used the net use command to create a line of conduct...), perhaps no chance to connect to the computer target VMware ESxi 4 and make the converter doesn't work...

  Following is the error message:

  "Unable to connect to the host specified" from the converter agent machine. " It is perhaps because the host is not available on the network, there is a problem with the network configuration or management on this host services do not react. Check all components of converter to be able to connect.

  So, my question is; is it possible to create a work around (like the net use Windows command above) to make possible the connection of the converter Agent on Linux VMware ESXi 4 machine Windows machine, to directly import the virtual machines of Windows Hyper-V to Linux VMware?

  Thanks in advance,

  It's even easier than that

  Use this: http://www.winimage.com/

  Which will convert *.vhd *.vmdk, so you don't need to do all this... Of course, another way is to start the machines, leaving them on Hyper-V and go through the network and process virtual machine as physical machines and do a P2V on the network...

• VMware 6.5.5 cannot import the virtual machine that uses 2GB "disks of split.

  Hello

  I'm using VMware Workstation 6.5.5 under Win XP. I tried to import a virtual machine that was created by using the option 'Split' virtual disks into files of 2 GB. The import fails and presents a pop-up: ' Conversion Assistant/cannot determine the guest operating system. The log file includes the line "could not find the disk cofortcol3v01 - cl1.vmdk. This file does not exist of course, there are more files cofortcol3v01-cl1 - s001.vmdk, cofortcol3v01-cl1 - s002.vmdk and so on. The machine virtual original (cofortcol3v01) has been created under VMware Workstation 5.1, and it does not under Workstation 6.5.5.

  Is this a known problem in the conversion utility? Is there a work around for this problem?

  Thank you.

  -Phil Anzel

  FYI... VMware Workstation peut import a Virtual Machine that uses twoGbMaxExtentSparse discs.

  The log file includes the line "could not find the disk cofortcol3v01 - cl1.vmdk. This file does not exist of course, rather there are files cofortcol3v01-cl1 - s001.vmdk, cofortcol3v01-cl1 - s002.vmdk and so on. The machine virtual original (cofortcol3v01) has been created under VMware Workstation 5.1, and it does not under Workstation 6.5.5.

  Is this a known problem in the conversion utility? Is there a work around for this problem?

  The problem is that you're missing the "disk DescriptorFile", "cofortcol3v01 - cl1.vmdk" and which is why it's a failure and not a limitation of the Conversion utility.

  Also if you actually had a Virtual Machine created in VMware Workstation 5.1 you can simply run directly under VMware Workstation 6.5.5 without having to run the import command.

  Anyway, if you have a backup that you can recover the file "cofortcol3v01 - cl1.vmdk" then you should be fine and if you have not then a new can be created.  If you can archive (compress) files vmware*.log (usually 4 of them) in a single zip file archive and tied him to a post in response, then one of us will create a new file "cofortcol3v01 - cl1.vmdk", based on the information contained in files vmware.log for you, if you don't know how to do it yourself.

• Restrict the movement of files to physical machine to the Virtual Office (vmware view)

  Hi all

  I have a question, I am using virtual desktop with vmware view. I'm on a physical machine using this machine that I log on to the virtual machine using office remotely. (vmware view). My question is that I don't want the users of the physical machine to copy and paste the files of the virtual machine and vice versa.

  When I open virtual desktop, go to my computer, I see drive c (virtual machine disk) and then share the disks of the physical machine. When I click on them, they open and then I am able to copy all files in this shared folder on the virtual desktop. I want to restrict any idea how could I go about this. Help, please.

  Arun N

  Using RDP?

  In this case, you can use GPO (virtual desktop) to disable drive sharing.

  André

• Conversion of a file VMWare on a physical Machine?

  VMWare Workstation capableof turning Machine virtual VMWare in a machine on a hard drive that will not need VMware to run more?

  I know that a physical machine can be converted into an image of Virtual Machine with the converter, but I was wondering if you could turn a Virtual Machine in physics

  I've seen the VMWare converter before but never used.

  Is it possible, or rectified a VMware machine always stay as a VMware machine and does not have the features easy to transfer to a real machine?

  Hello. Please see the following page for more information on what you want to do.

  http://www.VMware.com/support/V2P/index.html

  If you found this information useful, please give points and mark the wire responded.

  See you soon

  Kevin

• Import of existing virtual machines to VMware server

  My company has several virtual machines created with VMware Server 2.0.  We want to do a proof of concept for virtualization in production using ESXi environment.  Instead to install guest OS on a new machine of ESXi freash, is it possible to import a virtual machine created in VMware Server 2.0?  This should earn a quite some time.  Also, if possible, ESXi accesses a UBS device to copy the files of the virtual machine locally, that is, a USB HDD?  If this is not the case, can use us the VM converter to move to ESXi?

  Thanks for your help.

  RC

  Check the converter.  Probably the easiest option.

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/VMware_Converter_manual303.PDF

• Convert a physical machine in image

  Hello

  I'm currently looking for a solution where I have a few physical machines to Windows 2003. I need to make an image of the machines on a USB drive and then import the image on a VMWare ESXi server on another physical location later.

  VMWare converter can only convert directly to an ESX (i) server and not to an image.

  Are other solutions that could solve my problem?

  Thanks in advance.

  You can use the stand-alone converter to do.

  1. Select the Source Machine

  2. Select destination Type > VMware Workstation or VMware virtual machine

  3. Select the VMware VMware Workstation 8.0 = product

  4. Select a location for the virtual machine > Browse > YOUR USB DEVICE

  After this procedure, in another physical location, rerun the converter

  1. Select the Machine Source = VMware Workstation or VMware virtual machine

  2 search for a virtual machine image or source > Browse > YOUR USB DEVICE

  3 destination > choice your e.

  Good luck

• VMware ESX and slow syscalls

  We have 2 physical machines in the company. Both have the same HW configuration, running the same processor:

  Intel (r) CPU of XEON E5420 @ 2.50 GHz

  One is a regular linux, and on a second we ESX, version 4.

  In the ESX we have linux, which should be almost identical with the linux on the first machine.

  The version of the kernel is: (a little old for these days, but the necessary cause of the old project)

  Linux x 2.4.21 - 53.ELhugemem #1 SMP Wed Nov 14 03:46:17 UTC 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

  The problem is that virtualized linux runs slower. I have read, that the load is about 8%, which is something I could live with. But the drop in performance can be seen by the naked eye.

  I did 2 test programs:

  First of all was just some important work in user space (e.g. giant loop and count numbers). Here, the performance reduction is about 8-10%, which is fine.

  Second program is syscalls - "close (0);" in the loop. And that's where this isn't enough anymore:

  Linux on real HW:

  % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall

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  99,65 0.963257 10 100002 99999 relatives

  0.001403 0.15 33 43 41 open

  0.14 0.001368 34 40 36 stat64

  0.000566 0.06 1 566 execve

  0,000027 0.00 5 5 old_mmap

  0,000007 0.00 4 2 fstat64

  0.000006 0.00 1 6 read

  0.00 0.000006 6 1 munmap

  0,000004 0.00 4 1 uname

  0.00 0.000003 3 1 brk

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  100,00 0.966647 100097 100076 total

  Real 0m4.613s

  user 0m0.760s

  sys 0m3.730s

  / code [code]

  14702 detached process

  % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall

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  77.76 17.1206772 182 100002 99999 relatives

  3.01 0.703602 703602 1 execve

  2.99 0.700382 700382 1 set_thread_area(2).)

  2.99 0.700337 700337 1 munmap

  2.99 0.700328 700328 1 uname

  2.99 0.700123 700123 1 read

  2.99 0.700108 1 700108 brk

  2.14 0.500571 100114 5 old_mmap

  1.71 0.400229 200115 2 fstat64

  0.100360 0.43 33453 3 1 open

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  100.00 23.412812 100000 100018 total

  Real 0m48.434s

  user 0m5.410s

  sys 0m40.610s

  / code [code]

  14702 detached process

  % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall

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  77.76 17.1206772 182 100002 99999 relatives

  3.01 0.703602 703602 1 execve

  2.99 0.700382 700382 1 set_thread_area(2).)

  2.99 0.700337 700337 1 munmap

  2.99 0.700328 700328 1 uname

  2.99 0.700123 700123 1 read

  2.99 0.700108 1 700108 brk

  2.14 0.500571 100114 5 old_mmap

  1.71 0.400229 200115 2 fstat64

  0.100360 0.43 33453 3 1 open

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  100.00 23.412812 100000 100018 total

  Real 0m48.434s

  user 0m5.410s

  sys 0m40.610s

  / code [code]

  14702 detached process

  % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall

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  77.76 17.1206772 182 100002 99999 relatives

  3.01 0.703602 703602 1 execve

  2.99 0.700382 700382 1 set_thread_area(2).)

  2.99 0.700337 700337 1 munmap

  2.99 0.700328 700328 1 uname

  2.99 0.700123 700123 1 read

  2.99 0.700108 1 700108 brk

  2.14 0.500571 100114 5 old_mmap

  1.71 0.400229 200115 2 fstat64

  0.100360 0.43 33453 3 1 open

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  100.00 23.412812 100000 100018 total

  Real 0m48.434s

  user 0m5.410s

  sys 0m40.610s

  / code

  Linux on ESX:

  14702 detached process

  % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall

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  77.76 17.1206772 182 100002 99999 relatives

  3.01 0.703602 703602 1 execve

  2.99 0.700382 700382 1 set_thread_area(2).)

  2.99 0.700337 700337 1 munmap

  2.99 0.700328 700328 1 uname

  2.99 0.700123 700123 1 read

  2.99 0.700108 1 700108 brk

  2.14 0.500571 100114 5 old_mmap

  1.71 0.400229 200115 2 fstat64

  0.100360 0.43 33453 3 1 open

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  100.00 23.412812 100000 100018 total

  Real 0m48.434s

  user 0m5.410s

  sys 0m40.610s

  / code

  The machine runs on ESX spent 1200% more time doing the same thing.

  Any ideas why this happens? It seems that the change of context is very expensive for a reason any.

  You are right that EPT starts with Nehalem; Core (2) has no EPT.

  As for your comment

  We run hugemem kernel because we have more than 4 GB of RAM. Thus,.

  I think to use as base hugemem kernel configuration, but the passage of

  4g / 4g to 3g / 1 g split.

  Let me first point out that other grain than hugemem (for example,

  bigsmp) can handle up to 64 GB of memory, using PAE in 32-bit

  mode.

  Novell has some verbiage here

  http://www.Novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/16262.html

  that you can use.

  I have not personally tried to pass the hugemem at 3/1 (I have not

  even know it could be done), so I can't say if this will help or

  not. But if it isn't, the kernel-bigsmp seems to meet your needs

  for memory beyond 4 GB addressability (and it is supported by VMware).

  Good luck

  OLE