Problem in installing guest operating system (Linux) on VMware

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  Hello gurus - I have one of the most unusual questions, I ran into a few time.   Here it is:

  I have a guest w2008R2 OS - installed in a 5.1 version of VM 7 vSpherer - which has an Emulex LPe 12002-E 8 GB dual HBA port is assigned to the as 2 PCI (1 device per port) via DirectPath devices

  The guest operating system has an application that performs backup tests.   WWPN of the HBA is zoned in the fabric and declared in the interface of Compellent Storage Center and everything is good here. the application creates a replay of a volume, mount it as a drive, read all the blocks, then dismantles and moves then repeat the process with what ever additional volumes should be safeguarded.   It is so cool I have do this with a VM right and not a physical host?  (would be cool if I had work NPIV but that's another story, not with technology HBA vendor support...)

  So, what's the problem?   Well, the bed the mounted disk backup will work extremely slow as slow as 5MB\sec flow, then during any other activity takes place on the system the flow jumps up to 150MB\sec all of a sudden and will continue to run fast for a long time and finish jobs on time with each work taking a little more than an hour.  But when the slow going the same work (all jobs are the same, they are simply by reading all the blocks of a bunch of 200 GB volumes and wrote a set of NULL value, do not forget this is just test) takes up to 10 hours to complete.

  I think that what is the culprit?   POWER MANAGEMENT.

  I have just about each performance counter and the journal of events known to man and I don't see anything abnormal on the table, ESXi virtual machine, nothing.  But what I see in the newspapers is any kind of activity that could happen in a transparent manner to save energy.

  FACTS on this case:

  -Reservation of memory is defined (it must be for directpath otherwise, you can't power on the virtual machine)

  -Booking CPU - has not been defined before an hour ago, I gave her just a small reserve for this rule, so I do not know if this will help alleviate the slow flow, or have an effect on what I think is a question of power (unit linked) management

  -windows power management is set to high performance never-ever - but not until an hour there doesn't I changed advanced settings for USB Disabled------turned off.  PCI peripheral energy saving setting was already off.  Which is in contradiction with my theory.  But maybe, just maybe, something is broken somewhere, or could be a bug... blah blah blah

  -the HBA, Emulex, as it appears in Device Manager in the guest OS doesn't have a power management tab to disable the feature, I don't see that the adapter VMXNET3 had this tab, and I turn off the power save setting to be conservative, do not think that it was the culprit, but as there is no real data running through the NIC.  The data is simply to be read from the disk mounted, not copied on any wire Ethernet.  never the less, in the Emulex properties is a Details tab and a selection of power data, and performance data indicate you what power mode, the device is, as well as feeding supported systems.  D0: full power, but D3, which shows as supported by the device, is an energy saving mode.   I could not yet attend the setting at the time of slow activity, my good intention as soon as possible. He is currently shooting in D0, full power.

  This is so what I have to offer on this, I hope that its just...   If I'm missing something, or if others have experienced this massive loss of unknown flow without reason and have resolutions, please share.

  If there is a way for me to disable power on the Emulex HBA management inform you please, I don't mind if I stop to enter the firmware, if that was even possible.  But if possible I would disable it immediately before any new tests are executed.

  The root cause of this issue has never been identified by VMware support which for me is a question of ugly.  Reservation of CPU for the VM using directpath IO with HBA installed in it corrected the problem.  I'd be leary with direct path IO.

• VMWARE Newbie - installation problems with the guest operating system

  I heard a lot about the use of VMWARE for a long time so I downloaded and then installed ESXI 3.5 on a test area.  I installed the client and have been able to create a new virtual machine.  However, I run into some difficulty with installing a guest operating system.  All the pdf that I could find have suggested that simply by putting a CD in the server's drive and then turn on the virtual machine would start the my guest operating system installation process.  Unfortunately, my VM doesn't seem to see my CDRom and tent drive a start-up network, followed by a brief wait for the message 'Operating system not found' timeout.

  Can someone please help me find a way to create a new guest OS on my VM so that I can.

  1. understand the process

  2 start testing.

  Thank you in advance.

  If you have installed of course the VI Client to create the VM, and you insert the CD into the ESXi host? You can go to change settings on the virtual machine, click the CD/DVD and select the option use the host device. Also ensure the connection to turn on is checked.  When you turn on the virtual machine, it should see the CD that you inserted in your ESXi host. Once you get the operating system to load, you can configure to allow remote desktop connections and access the VM as a traditional physical machine, rather than relying on the console of the VI Client view.

• Intall the guest operating system updates or VMware Tools first?

  I have the OS (Windows 2000 Professional), which comes with all the major updates to release all the way until 2010. Goes for the installation order, do I install the first updates (requires Direct X 9.0 c as well), or the first VMware tools?

  
  

  Thank you for all responses.

  I'm not aware of a formal recommendation. I usually install VMware Tools after the installation of the guest OS and never encountered any problems with this approach to date.

  André

• Free virtualization software takes supported Windows 7 as operating system host and Windows Server 2003 as a guest operating system?

  People,

  Hello. I need to install the Windows 7 host virtualization software, and then install Windows Server 2003 as a guest operating system.

  VMware Workstation supports Windows 7 as operating system host and Windows Server 2003 as a guest operating system, but it's not free download.

  People know that supports virtualization software free Windows 7 as operating system host and Windows Server 2003 as the operating system invited?

  Thanks in advance.

  As I said in your previous post, VMWare Player is a free download and does not support Win7 as host and Win2k3 as a guest.  VMWare Player is also included with VMWare Workstation, you can imply that most of the time something that supports VMWare Workstation as a guest operating system is also a guests supported for the reader.

  And unlike previous versions, player 3 includes the ability to create virtual machines base.  For many people, especially those who are starting just in virtualization, player is sufficient.

  VMWare Workstation, although not free, can be installed as a 30 day trial.  After the trial, you can not start your virtual machines in my computer, but because the player is included in the installation, you can still run your virtual machines in the drive without having to uninstall anything.  So just install Workstation.  After the trial expires, if you wish that the advanced features of the workstation, then buy it.  If not, just continue to use the drive.

• Is it possible to install multiple copies of Windows 7 in Virtualbox as guest operating system

  Hello

  My laptop runs on Linux OS, I installed VirtualBox. Now, I would like to install multiple copies of Windows 7 on VirtualBox as a guest operating system.

  Is this possible?

  My activation will expire after 3 installations?

  What are the limits in this situation?

  Microsoft treats several facilities in VirtualBox (as guest operating system) as a single installation instance? I think that the hardware (motherboard) is used as a fingerprint to detect changes in the systems, but as the material is going to be the same custom installation will be treated as a single instance?

  Help, please...

  Thank you

  one

  Hello

  There are not 3 installs with 1 license

  A Windows license is for a single installation, and this includes in Virtual Machines.

  See you soon.

• Player VM and Oracle Ent. Linux as a guest operating system disorders

  My VM Player is version 3.0.0.

  The host is Windows XP SP3, disconnected from the outside world, a static address on VM 2 192.168.192.2 adapter firewall disabled.

  Guest operating system is Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 - it has a static address 192.168.192.72. Both machines have DNS server, and default gateway.

  The client is running Oracle 10 g, oracle emctl provides db console on port 1158 and listener SQL expects the requests on port 1521

  windows back can ping 192.168.192.72 - and linux can ping 192.168.192.2. Windows: back ftp can connect to linux server on the standard port 21 ftp and windows IE can see properly http://192.168.192.72/ -> default page for linux apache (on the standard port 80)

  Here is the problem: Windows I can't establish connection on one of the ports of this: 1158, 1521-> as a result, I can not connect to sqlplus or no other customers oracle to work. Oralce works very well within the Linux prompt: emctl dbconsole opens correctly, sqlplus connect very well.

  Pls help

  Your config is exactly what I've been running for a while.

  You have probably not open ports in the firewall linux.

  Here are the commands to add port 1158.

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• Trouble installing the guest operating system

  All,

  Having trouble installing the guest operating system - Windows XP SP3. I followed the directions of the booklet that I try to boot from a local image and a CD. I can't able to get into the setup of the BIOS to start the virtual machine when you press F8. I am currently on a decentralized network that starts his BONES from a PXE server. When I turn on my VM, its shows the boot process than my actual desktop. I tried many configurations, but still problems. All instight would be useful. Thank you.

  Welcome to the forums!

  To enter the VMWare guest BIOS press F2, no F8.

  You can also add 'bios. BootDelay = 10000 "in the prompt .vmx file. This gives you more time to press F2.

  The virtual guest has a CD-ROM attached to it?

  Is it "connect to turn on?

  Is it connected to the physical machine (where the OS CD is inserted)?

  AWo

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• problems to receive a guest operating system

  Hello

  I have to be able to do a query on Windows 2003 virtual machines that use the BusLogic SCSI card.  However, I am having a problem just get the operating system of each guest.  Many guests (seems to be about 800 out of our 1200 guests) return a null value (I'd say less than 10 of them are turned off).  I tried with both the 1.0 version of the VI and also just upgraded to 1.5 to check that it has not been fixed.  Here again, I'm not 100% sure it's a problem with the Toolbox.  Anyway, that's what I've tried so far.

  First of all, I found a good virtual machine (vm1) and a bad VM (vm2).  I created two variables:

  $vm1 = Get-VM vm1name
  $vm2 = Get-VM vm2name
  

  Then I tried simply to list the property Guest.OSFullName of each virtual machine:

  $vm1.Guest.OSFullName <-- returned Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit)
  $vm2.Guest.OSFullName <-- returned nothing
  

  Other "guest" properties seem well as evidenced by the following output:

  "$vm2.Guest" returns:
  
  State          IPAddress            OSFullName
  -----          ---------            ----------
  Running        {1.2.3.4}
  

  The only other thing that I noticed (and I'm going to file a SR for the same problem when I am back in the office on Wednesday) is that if you view all virtual machines in the VI Client and guest OS type, there are a lot of things that just say 'unknown '.  I've noticed this on 2.0/3.0 and now I'm under U3 2.5 and 3.5 U3 everywhere.  If you simply to change the settings of the virtual machine and click OK (without making any changes to anything) it will fix the guest operating system 'unknown '.  If you click on the 'Options' of the section of edit VM settings tab, it shows the correct guest OS it.  However, after click on this tab by clicking OK causes an error message something to not be able to change this setting in the current state (power on).  Nevertheless, at the beginning I thought all the unknowns explained my missing Microsoft VMs, but there are more than 100 virtual machines or so that are listed as unknown, so I am always short way.

  Finally, I searched this topic on the forums and learned about the Get-VMGuest cmdlet, which I managed for ever noticed before.  So, I tried the following:

  $vm2 | Get-VMGuest
  

  And got the same results as above (shows its power status and the IP address, but any type of OS).  VM1 works very well with the above code.

  Does anyone have ideas on this?  I even buried down and use Get-View and pulls the. Property Guest.GuestFullName out and it is also empty.

  Hi Allen,.

  I've never known tools that are so far out of date that you do not get a guest operating system, but I wouldn't be surprised it. You should always be able to get out the Tools version number in any case (even if not Get-VMGuest in this version).

  There is a significant difference between these people that the prompt that signals the VMware Tools is the real guest OS. The comments you get Get - VM or Config.GuestFullName is the value that is set when creating the virtual machine. This value cannot be identical to the real host. For example, I could create a virtual machine, select Windows 2003, and then install Redhat on it. In this case, Get - VM would net the VM as a machine virtual Windows while the tools would (correctly) reported as Redhat.

  In general, use tools when you can. If you don't get given tools, it can be wrong.

• 32-bit guest operating system installed on ESXi 5 but still shows CPU 64-bit

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  But when I try to create 32-bit applications, it seems that the CPU is 64-bit

  

  Is this something that I'm not just doing?

  Thank you very much

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  The virtual machine behaves exactly like a physical machine in this regard.  Installation of a 32 bit OS does not make your CPU a 32-bit CPU.

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• What iso (HR) Centos to use when installing on VM guest operating system?

  When you install a guest operating system Centos 5.5 on a VSphere VM, I'm a bit puzzled by this what iso i386 to download & install.

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  Once the installer has spent three or four cd iso files, I opted to enter the DVD ISO... It's simply more light and to download the iso DVD because it does not worry about change iso files during installation, or have several virtual cd/dvd drives connected to a single virtual machine. It is also faster set-up, because that's what reading the single iso file, not seven.

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• Surface Pro 3 - errors when you try to start a guest operating system 64-bit

  I get the following errors setting up an Ubuntu guest operating system.

  This virtual machine is configured for 64-bit operating systems. However, the 64-bit mode is not possible.

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  Intel VT - x can be disabled if it has been disabled in the BIOS/firmware settings or host was not powered by bicycle since changing this setting.

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  (3) turn on the host if you have not done since the installation of VMware Workstation.

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  I've been Googling this problem since yesterday and so far, I have not come to any possible solution. Certainly, I can install the 32-bit linux flavor, but that doesn't help me when I run the installation to other 64-bit operating systems.

  I was able to resolve the issue, after most googleing. I'm always a little surprised that it works, but hey, Ubuntu is installing.

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• The VM startup slow down, delay long before the guest operating system begins startup

  Evaluation of VMWare to set up the VM for the maintenance of the software. Set up a virtual machine, install Windows 7 SP1 32-bit, everything works well. Once started, the performance is excellent.

  The symptom is that when you start the virtual machine, either starting from cold boot or suspend, there is a significant delay before the power of VMware on / start screen is displayed. Once it appears, the operating system starts starting (or the recovery of wakefulness) quickly and performance is normal after that. During the start-up period, the whole system is insensitive, host and guest operating system.

  See the extract of newspaper below to 09:54:28.619 moment where the delay occurs followed by the entry concerning 09:55:11.625 time when start continues, a delay of 43 seconds during which nothing seems to happen and the system does not respond. After that, everything is fast.

  Any ideas or suggestions?

  More info...

  VMware Player version 6.0.1 build-1379776

  Host PC: Dell Optiplex, Intel Core2 Quad Q9650 3.00 GHz ABLE to

  Installed memory: 4.00 GB (3.25 GB usable)

  Boot disk C: Intel SSD, 180GB (where the VMware is installed)

  Data disk F: Seagate 1 TB (where the virtual machine)

  SE host: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit SP1

  Guest OS: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit SP1

  excerpt from VMware.log:

  2014 02-19 T 09: 54:28.619 - 05:00 | VMX | I120: VMMEM: initial booking: 1442MB (1024MB = MainMem)

  2014 02-19 T 09: 54:28.619 - 05:00 | VMX | I120: MemSched_PowerOn: minGuestSize ball 104857 (80% size required min 131072)

  2014 02-19 T 09: 54:28.619 - 05:00 | VMX | I120: MemSched: mem reserved (in MB) min max recommended 128 2493 2493

  2014 02-19 T 09: 54:28.619 - 05:00 | VMX | I120: PShare: activated 1 1 Adaptive scanRate [16, 400]

  2014 02-19 T 09: 54:28.619 - 05:00 | VMX | I120: MemSched: mem 5159 262144 np 35890 pg 590258 anon

  2014 02-19 T 09: 55:11.625 - 05:00 | VMX | I120: MemSched: numvm 1 locked pages: num 0 max 605661

  2014 02-19 T 09: 55:11.626 - 05:00 | VMX | I120: MemSched: locked Page limit: host 638514 config 638208 dynam 613853

  2014 02-19 T 09: 55:11.626 - 05:00 | VMX | I120: MemSched: minmempct 50 minalloc 0 admitted 1

  2014 02-19 T 09: 55:11.626 - 05:00 | VMX | W110: NUMA: application of automatic dimensioning VM ignored

  configuration (.vmx) VM file:

  . Encoding = "windows-1252".

  config.version = '8 '.

  virtualHW.version = "10".

  scsi0. Present = 'TRUE '.

  scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068".

  SATA0. Present = 'TRUE '.

  memsize = "1024".

  MEM.hotadd = 'TRUE '.

  scsi0:0. Present = 'TRUE '.

  scsi0:0. FileName = "BCDEVVM.vmdk".

  SATA0:1.present = 'TRUE '.

  SATA0:1.filename = "E:".

  SATA0:1.DeviceType = "cdrom-raw"

  ethernet0. Present = 'TRUE '.

  ethernet0. ConnectionType = "bridged".

  ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000".

  ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE".

  ethernet0. AddressType = 'generated '.

  USB. Present = 'TRUE '.

  EHCI. Present = 'TRUE '.

  ehci.pciSlotNumber = "35".

  Sound.Present = 'TRUE '.

  sound.virtualDev = 'hdaudio '.

  sound.fileName = 'speakers (SoundMAX Integrated D.

  Sound.AutoDetect = "FALSE".

  MKS. Enable3D = 'TRUE '.

  Serial0.present = 'TRUE '.

  Serial0.FileType = "thinprint".

  pciBridge0.present = 'TRUE '.

  pciBridge4.present = 'TRUE '.

  pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

  pciBridge4.functions = '8 '.

  pciBridge5.present = 'TRUE '.

  pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

  pciBridge5.functions = '8 '.

  pciBridge6.present = 'TRUE '.

  pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

  pciBridge6.functions = '8 '.

  pciBridge7.present = 'TRUE '.

  pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

  pciBridge7.functions = '8 '.

  vmci0. Present = 'TRUE '.

  hpet0. Present = 'TRUE '.

  usb.vbluetooth.startConnected = "FALSE".

  displayName = "BCDEVVM."

  guestOS = "windows7"

  NVRAM = "BCDEVVM.nvram."

  virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted".

  gui.exitOnCLIHLT = "FALSE".

  powerType.powerOff = 'soft '.

  powerType.powerOn = 'soft '.

  powerType.suspend = 'soft '.

  powerType.reset = 'soft '.

  extendedConfigFile = "BCDEVVM.vmxf".

  gui.lastPoweredViewMode = "full screen".

  UUID. BIOS = "56 4 d d2 32 bb c9 b7 bd 3 c d2 46 59 38 e3 e6 f2"

  UUID. Location = "56 4 d d2 32 bb c9 b7 bd 3 c d2 46 59 38 e3 e6 f2"

  Replay.Supported = "FALSE".

  Replay.FileName = «»

  scsi0:0. Redo = «»

  pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17".

  pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21".

  pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22".

  pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23".

  pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24".

  scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "160".

  usb.pciSlotNumber = "32".

  ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33".

  sound.pciSlotNumber = "34".

  vmci0.pciSlotNumber = '36 '.

  SATA0.pciSlotNumber = "37".

  scsi0.sasWWID = "50 05 05 62 bb c9 b7 b0.

  ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00: 0C: 29:E6:38:E3.

  ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = '0 '.

  vmci0.ID = "1508260067".

  vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728.

  cleanShutdown = 'TRUE '.

  softPowerOff = 'TRUE '.

  USB:1.speed = '2 '.

  USB:1.present = 'TRUE '.

  USB:1.DeviceType = "hub".

  USB:1.port = "1".

  USB:1.parent = "-1".

  SATA0:1.AutoDetect = "FALSE".

  tools.syncTime = "FALSE".

  unity.wasCapable = "FALSE".

  tools.remindInstall = "FALSE".

  toolsInstallManager.updateCounter = '1 '.

  checkpoint.vmState = «»

  Monitor.virtual_mmu = "automatic".

  Monitor.virtual_exec = "automatic".

  USB:0. Present = 'TRUE '.

  USB:0. DeviceType = 'hidden '.

  USB:0.port = "0".

  USB:0.parent = "-1".

  USB. Generic.AutoConnect = "FALSE".

  serial1. Present = 'TRUE '.

  serial1. FileName = "COM1".

  floppy0. Present = "FALSE".

  Hello

  I know what you want to say as I've seen sometimes as well. But especially on older hardware or if there are problems with regard to particular resources. For example I saw this on an ESX host (yes I know product different) where there was a problem with the storage not enough providing IOPS / s.

  I saw also this on older versions of Linux (IIRC 7) workstation where the host had an Atom based CPU, there I updated to more RAM and a more recent version of the workstation and the problem disappeared.

  Then I also saw it on the 4/5 merger when my host operating system was out of memory and I tried to start another operating system to prompt anyway.

  I do not consider a normal behavior for the slow start and does not respond, it is an indication that the hypervisor is seeking some resources, but does not receive them fast enough.

  The reasons can be many. Indeed things like antivirus could be biting you if she tries to analyze all files (including virtual disks) at their opening.

  FWIW, I also understand the support response as would be expected if your host is a bit thin on the resources (for example, trying to start a VM 1 GB on a host Win7 with only 3.5 GB of RAM) and if the virtual machine runs OK after the initial startup delay, it's mostly just an annoyance.

  --

  Wil