Location of the VMX file for a virtual machine

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• Need help updated the VMX file on several Virtual Machine

  All,

  Can anyone help with a problem I'm having?  Here is a brief explanation of what is happening and what we need to solve.

  Recently we found out that we need to add a line in the file VMX of several virtual machines.  In the past, I was able to do this, but would have cold start the virtual machine for the changes to take effect.  Starts cold won't be a problem, because we can program it.

  However, no one knows a way to add this line in the file VMX virtual machines in a cluster.

  Here's the line I need added:

  Devices.hotplug = "false".

  Here is a script that was used earlier (esx 3.0 days) to keep the VM tools updated on reboot.  At this point, if the virtual machine has been turned on, this change could not do through the UI.  However, this script worked to update the .vmx file and then we have cold reboots for the changes to take effect.

  Get-viserver - < Server > - < user > - < password >

  $viview = get-Cluster-name NOMCLUSTER | Get - VM | foreach-object {get-view ($_.ID)}
  $viview | {foreach-object
  $vmConfigSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools = new-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.afterPowerOn = 'True '.
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.afterResume = 'True '.
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.beforeGuestStandby = 'True '.
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.beforeGuestShutdown = 'True '.
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = "UpgradeAtPowerCycle".
  $_. ReconfigVM ($vmConfigSpec)
  }

  The exact script can be found in Disable HotPlug

• get the location of the configuration file for each virtual in a cluster

  Is there way in the cli of power for a list of the location of each file in the configuration of the virtual machines in a cluster?  or even each file configuration on data warehouses?

  Thank you

  For all the virtual machines on the VIServer (s) connected

  Get - VM | Select Name, @{N = "VM Config file"; {E = {$_.extensiondata.config.files.vmpathname}}
  Or if you just want to a single data store
  Get-Datastore | Get - VM | Select Name, @{N = "VM Config file"; {E = {$_.extensiondata.config.files.vmpathname}}
  Replace with the data store you want to run it against, for example to run it against Datastore01
  Get-Datastore Datastore01 | Get - VM | Select Name, @{N = "VM Config file"; {E = {$_.extensiondata.config.files.vmpathname}}

• You can edit vmx files on multiple virtual machines in a cluster to allow changes of setting delay start via RCLI or Toolkit VI?

  You can edit vmx files on multiple virtual machines in a cluster to allow changes of setting delay start via RCLI or Toolkit VI? How?

  SAs desire a lead time of 10 seconds through the virtual company composed of several VCs with multiple data centers and clusters.

  Known: we can edit the .vmx file and add: bios.bootDelay = "10000" this adds stunted ms 10000 (10 seconds) when starting

  Known: we may have to re-register or some other mechanism to apply the changes to the start on the VMS settings

  Has anyone tried to make a change of large company to bootDelay on VMS? Any help?

  The script below will do what you want. Have fun.

  -

• . Location of the VMX files

  I use a macbook pro 13 inch and a vmware fusion 3.0. Im trying to find the files .vmx for my virtual machine which is Windows XP. Any ideas on where it might be?

  Hello

  Welcome to the VMware community forums.

  All files of the virtual machine are in the bundle that make up your virtual machine. If you have the control, click the bundle, you can do a show info and it will show you all the files in there.

  Take a look at this document "virtual machine files" section for more information: Beginner's Guide to VMware Fusion

  --

  Wil

  _____________________________________________________

  VI-box tools & scripts wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com

• Deleting the same files of many virtual machines remotely

  Hi all

  I tried to delete the same file several virtual machines remotely using the following script PowerCLI:

  $a = Get - VM | %{
  
  foreach ($nic as $_.) Guest.Nics) {}
  Write-output $nic. IPAddress
  }
  }
  foreach ($i in $a)
  {$b = get-WmiOBJECT-query "SELECT * from CIM_DataFile where Name='C:\\test\\deleteme.exe'"-computername $i}
  $b.delete)

  }

  It works perfectly when I run the script on the host virtual machines while I am running the script PowerCLI. When I Connect-viserver to another host however and try to run the script, I get the dreaded "RPC server is unavailable error (HRESULT: 0x800706BA)" for Get-WmiObject.  Virtual machines don't have Windows Firewall and have all TCP/IP, RPC and WMI services started, so who could eliminate any possibility.

  I am also able to run other scripts that use the Get-wmiobject across all virtual machines such as scripts to change the DNS or Netbios name across many machines on different hosts.

  Any comments would be greatly appreciated and please feel free to comment if you know maybe other ways which can delete files on multiple virtual machines in any other way.  Installation PowerCLI to run the script locally on each host would be a laborious process to do.

  Thank you very much!

  Best regards

  To solve the problem with the quotes, you can use double quotes inside the string. Like this:

  «del "«c:\documents and settings\text.exe»»»

  Or you can use for the string single quotes and double quotes inside:

  "del"c:\documents and settings\text.exe"

• Disable the clichés for individual virtual machines?

  Hi all

  Is it possible to disable support for snapshot for individual virtual machines, perhaps via a parameter for it?  Or is the closest answer you to put all its virtual disks in independent mode?  Try to see how to better meet the requirements that certain suppliers impose that the VM/device does not catch instant and thought that the best solution is to disable the feature for the specific VM (s) only.  Thank you!

  You can watch the snapshot.maxSnapshots configuration setting. See KB 1031280 for more information.

• 'Disable the alarm action' for a virtual machine

  Hello

  I want to disable all actions for a virtual machine alarm, while I have to disable FT to clone a virtual machine. My script are ready for cloning but I have a solution to disable the actions of alarm for a virtual machine via PowerCLI to can´t. Someone knows a solution for PowerCLI 5.1R1?

  Thank you

  Michael

  -Entity parameter requires an inventory of PowerCLI as value object and does not have the names. You can try it like this:

  Get-AlarmActionState-entity (Get-VM-name VMTEST1) - Recurse: $false

• How to get the moref vCenter for a virtual machine

  I use with the vCloud orchestrator plugin.  I would like to understand how I can access the moref for a virtual machine identifier (as see vcenter) that is contained in a vCloud VAPP.

  Thank you

  Here is something I wrote to do. It uses the query service.

  Note that to be able to do, you need your plugin vCD to be connected to the org of system and use the administrator credentials.

  var vcdHost = vm.getHost();
  var vApp = vm.parent;
  
  var vms = new Array();
  var queryService = vcdHost.getQueryService();
  
  expression = new VclExpression(VclQueryAdminVMField.CONTAINER, vApp.getReference().href, VclExpressionType.EQUALS);
  filter = new VclFilter(expression);
  params = new VclQueryParams();
  params.setFilter(filter);
  
  var resultSet = queryService.queryRecords(VclQueryRecordType.ADMINVM, params);
  while (resultSet != null) {
      var records = resultSet.getRecords(new VclQueryResultAdminVMRecord());
      System.log(records.length + " VM records found");
      for each (var record in records) {
          if (record.name == vm.name) {
              return record.moref;
              }
  
      }
      resultSet = resultSet.getNextPage();
  }
  return null;
  

  Christophe.

• How to get the list of files for a virtual machine?

  Hello

  Virtual machines can have their files distributed on several issues (even through several data warehouses).

  PowerCLI gives us an easy way to retrieve the data warehouse associated with a virtual (Get-data store) machine, but it doesn't seem to be a built-in method to get the list of all records where a given virtual machine stores all its files. Or maybe I'm just blind ;-)

  Can anyone offer an overview on how to achieve this?

  Thank you

  No, that sounds like a good idea to copy/back up virtual machines.

  I adapted the script. She now returns one row for each unique record

  foreach($vm in Get-VM){
    $folders = $vm.ExtensionData.LayoutEx.File | %{$_.Name.Split('/')[0]} | Sort-Object -Unique  $folders | Select @{N="VM";E={$vm.Name}},@{N="Folder";E={$_}}
  }
  

• Run the script file from a virtual machine

  Hello

  I have a script (c:\script.ps1) I want to run on a virtual machine. Can someone tell me how to do?

  When I want to run the single command on vm I follow these steps:

  > > $cred = get-Credential

  > > Invoke-VMScript - win1 VM - GuestCredential $cred - ScriptText "dir".

  but I don't know how to put the script in a variable so that I can place it after the parameter - ScriptText.

  PS Script is not on the virtual machine, it's on the computer I have installed PowerCLI.

  LucD thanks for help

  I managed to do this way:

  $script = Get-Content - Path C:\script.ps1 | Out-string

  Invoke-VMScript - win1 VM - GuestCredential $cred - $script ScriptText

  without out-String I received the error "failed to convert System.Object [] to the System.String type.

• Set the host name for a virtual machine

  While the vApps instantiation using a model about the same way as the sample of HellovCloud.java, I need to be able to change the host name (called the name of the computer in vCD) of the only virtual machine contained in the VAPP. I can't find examples on how to do it. Any ideas?

  Hope that this helps, I took it out some code that we use (SDK). NET - this is not an exact copy of the labour code, but must be what it takes to get there.

  String modifierText = "1234";

  With complete API v1.5 may need to change this kind of object to Vm

  VAPP vm = GETTHECHILDFROMTHEAPP (VAPP. GetChildrenVms());

  If (vm. GetGuestCustomizationSection()! = null)
  {
  GuestCustomizationSectionType guestSection is vm. GetGuestCustomizationSection();
  int len = guestSection.ComputerName.Length;
  If (len > 10) len = 10;
  guestSection.ComputerName = guestSection.ComputerName.Substring (0, len) + modifierText;
  Try
  {
  VM. UpdateSection (guestSection);
  }
  catch (VCloudException ex)
  {
  Exception thrown by 1.5 hosts: VCloudException
  (The parameter is not supported in the current context: AdminPassword)
  bug workaround
  If (Message.Contains ("AdminPassword") e.g.)
  {
  AdminPassword value NULL and try again
  guestSection.AdminPassword = null;
  VM. UpdateSection (guestSection);
  } else {}
  throw;
  }
  }
  }

• Setting Options such as Hotplug for all virtual machines

  Hello!

  I have about 5 esxi hosts 5 and about 50 virtual machines

  Unfortunately I forgot to select some options like activate the plug-in memory and cpu hot

  I have 2 questions

  1 can I do this without turning off the machine

  2. How do I make a few options like this (or for example another option as vmtools update during the feeding cycle) for all virtual machines in my environment

  It's too much time to go to all virtual machines and turn them off and turn on these options

  Thank you very much

  These features must be enabled before the virtual machine is running.  So, you will need to turn them off and then use something like powercli to enable the features and turn them back on.

  Here is an example on how to do it with powercli: http://ict-freak.nl/2009/10/05/powercli-enabledisable-the-vm-hot-add-features/

  -KjB

• Affinity processor for a virtual machine

  I have a lot of CPU 8 on which I have installed ESX 3.5 U3. I also created a virtual machine Windows 2003 Server SP2 with 2 CPU is assigned to the.

  I'm trying to set the processor affinity for this virtual machine to use 2 of my physical processors. I see now on the tab Advanced CPU, I am able to select all available 8 physics of the processor. So now I'm a bit confused regarding if VMware allows scaling of my machine virtual to use all 8 CPU when my virtual machine is only 2 CPU?

  Now if the above is true, and I am to be allowed to set the affinity of the virtual machine to the all 8 CPU, then why is this maximum limit of the processor for a virtual machine is only 4? A stupid question probably but I'm really confused?  :|

  Hi confused,

  Yes, the user interface is a bit confusing. As RParker said, basically what you are doing when you assign the processor affinity are to identify the nuclei on which the vCPU is eligible to run on. At no time will be the VM scheduled to be run on carrots than what there vCPUs, so he will never have access to a capacity more than expected.

  The processor affinity is one of those features that's been around since 'the beginning' and its utility is really a bit blurred. I've heard of cases where users were running Citrix workloads configured with 2 vCPU and assigned the processor affinity for each virtual computer with the result of improving the performance. I wonder this because I never saw myself, and have a decent knowledge of how works the vmkernel Scheduler, it make much sense.

  I would encourage you (and anyone else reading this) essentially forget that the processor affinity is an option. Use it can cause significant performance degradation (if, for example, you pin a VM through two nodes NUMA, rather than keep vCPUs all in the same node) and break features (VMotion, DRS and who knows what else in the future).

  Ken Cline

  VMware vExpert 2009

  VMware communities user moderator

  Blogs about: http://KensVirtualReality.wordpress.com/

• Reload the Configuration of the virtual computer after changing the VMX file

  Hello

  If I make changes to a file on a virtual machine's .vmx in vCenter 5.5 is automatically valid configuration for the engine power vm off? I made some changes earlier and it seemed to be the case, but one of the steps that I see in some of the documents is to reload the configuration of the vm, so it can be used appropriately. So this happens automatically or not?

  Hello

  If she turned off the virtual computer, then during power on, changes to take effect.

  Concerning

  Mohammed