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• Running MS Virtual Server 2005 on XP Guest OS ESXi 4.1

  I'm trying to run some microsoft Server 2008 training VM lab files that were designed to run on Windows XP and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.

  The specs of my computer Dell Precision 490 are as below:

  -8 GB DDR2 RAM

  -2 x 80 GB 10 000 RPM hard drives

  -2 x E5160 Xeon 3 GHz processor

  -VT turned on in the BIOS

  I installed ESXi 4.1 U1 for Dell computers and the installation was successful.  Then I downloaded the vSphere Client and proceeded to create a client Windows XP SP3 OS with 3 GB of RAM and 2 carrots.  The prompt of Windows XP works perfectly well.  So I installed .NET framework and MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise on the computer.

  Then I configure microsoft VM Labs.  The MS VM charger starts very well. However, when I start up a virtual computer in Virtual Server, it takes a long time for her to POST and see after the POST to BIOS screen just blanks out eventually and I waited 1/2 hour and never completed startup.

  My question is if ESXi 4.1 supports another product of the virtual machine running in a guest OS?  Is there any configuration change, that I need to do to get this Setup working?

  I also tried to do the same thing on XenServer 5.6 SP2 and it freezes completely the guest operating system XP when I start up a virtual computer in Virtual Server 2005.  I also tried these files before on a portable Windows XP x 86 with Core2Duo T7100 and 3 GB of RAM DDR-667 with VT turned on in the BIOS, loaded fine laboratories and the performance was reasonable.

  Thanks for any help.

  To run nested virtual machines, you must configure the external VM to use hardware-assisted virtualization.  The execution mode by default for 32-bit Windows XP on some platforms is binary translation.  Please change the execution mode privileged for your guests 'VT - x or AMD - V' XP 'VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/IVR,"depending on your platform.  See also VMs of nested running.

• Running Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 on a virtual computer

  Hi, I wonder can run a Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 MS on a virtual machine? OR I need to have a physical server to test?

  Thank you

  I don't know the answer to your question - but I have a question for your - why would you do that?

  If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points marking the answer correct or useful

• Installation of QPM 4.1 on Virtual server

  Hello

  Is it possible to run QPM 4.1 on a virtual server Windows 2003?

  ThanX

  Hi Neil,

  Answer - Yes.

  Reference http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/ciscoworks_qos_policy_manager/4.1/installation/guide/windows/KIint.html#wp1127196

  Concerning

  Derek Clothier

• WebLogic 12 c on Solaris 10 virtual server

  I installed WebLogic 12 c on Solaris 10 virtual server.

  The server has 64 GB of RAM. and about 35 GB of swap space.

  When I try to increase the size of the segment of the managed server in weblogic than the segment size, it didn't start and tell me cannot allocate memory.

  I don't know why, he goes to the memory swap, although there is enough space on the RAM.

  I tried at my end and I see something similar to what you see. I think that the behavior works as expected.

  If you run prstat t see you RSS which is the real memory used.

  -bash - $3.2 prstat t

  NPROC USERNAME SWAP RSS MEMORY TIME CPU

  20G of oracle 19 904 M 1.4 05:13:40 % 0.0%

  1 smmsp K 3152 M 11 0.0% 0:02:07 0.0%

  1 M M 92 106, 0.2% 02:58:46 noaccess 0,0%

  6 demon 8824K 11M 0.0% 0:03:07 0.0%

  30 root 112M 125M 0.2% 0:38:07 0.0%

  SWAP is all the memory your process will use, in my case, my pile is 20 GB, and the memory used is 904 M.

  When your process will really need more memory RSS will increase.

  Vmstat shows memory free as much as you're ok

  for example

  -bash-3, $ 2 vmstat

  kthr memory page faults cpu disk

  r b o swap free re mf pi po fr sr s0 s1 s2 s3 in sy cs us sy id

  0 0 0 3 53843968 43066624 10 21 9 3 3 0 0 2 0-34 2123, 1614 1525 0 0 100

  43 GB in my case.

  References:

  https://docs.Oracle.com/CD/E19253-01/816-5166/prstat-1M/index.html

  https://docs.Oracle.com/CD/E19253-01/816-5165/PMAP-1/index.html

  Best regards

  Luz

• Activation of Windows still necessary even if the virtual server on the same hardware to restore

  Hello, I hope someone can answer this.

  Our virtual machine running vmware server ESX 3i 3.5.0 has 2 hard drives, datastore1 and datastore2.   All of our virtual servers are stored in datastore2.   Our hard disk with the datastore2 crashed and he had to be replaced.    We have backups of our virtual servers in datastore2 virtual appliance.

  To solve the problem, we replaced the hard drive crashed and then restored by using the virtual appliance backups, once restored, we noticed that the Windows 2008 requires that the activation of the licenses.

  My question is why does windows need activation when we restored the virtual server for the same hardware? The only thing that has changed is the hard drive.

  Thanks for any help on this issue.

  Export/import unfortunately OVFs does not have an option (at least I'm not aware) to maintain these settings. What you can do - when exporting the virtual machine as an OVF - also download the machine virtual . VMX and .vmxf files. After re - import the OVF, remove it the ESXi host inventory, download the two * .vmx files and add the virtual machine to inventory. -Once asked if you copied or moved the VM on the first power-select "I moved it.

  André

• Virtual Server disabled NIC.

  I have a virtual server running MS Server 2003 running on ESXi 4.1. I stopped the VM and has increased the memory allocated to this topic. When I pulled up, the network adapters are disabled both and it wouldn't let me reactivate their. I right click and select 'Enable' and he would say 'enabling', and then go straight for people with reduced mobility. I had to stop it, decrease the memory to the original amount and restart it to network cards work.

  It's a virtual machine that has been converted into a physical box to a virtual with Vmware Converter Standalone Client.

  Anyone else have this problem or know a solution?

  Edit and add the new network adapter, which should solve your problem.

• Advantages/disadvantages of moving data to a virtual server Vcenter

  What are the advantages/disadvantages of the passage of our database of Vcenter 2.5 on the physical server to our virtual server to SQL 2005?

  Thank you

  the only con I can think of is that your VCDB breaks down, the fact vCenter.  However, as a virtual machine running your VCDB isn't a bad thing.  After all, you can take advantage of the DRS/HA.  One thing I would do is create a rule of DRS, if you run vCenter as a virtual machine, to keep the VCDB and vCenter VM together but also to set a priority of restarting at the top for two virtual machines.

  .. .and of course make sure that you back up your VCDB and perform adequate maintenance

• vCenter is virtual server - how to upgrade ESX host?

  Our vCenter server is a virtual server.  I've been thinking how to run update manager on the host ESX, vCenter is sitting on.   The only thing I can think of is to use the VMware Converter stand alone app and move the vCenter server to another ESX host and then start vCenter / Manager Update on the new ESX host to update the original ESX host.

  Is there an easier way?

  you have a shared storage?  If so, go to the host computer running the vCenter VM on, turned off, make a note of the data store that it is, remove the inventory, go to another host, browse the data store, find the vmx file, right-click "add to the inventory.

  .. .or you can use VMware Converter to move the VM vCenter.  Another way would be to turn off the VM vCenter and do the upgrade using the CLI interface.

  Post edited by: Troy Clavell - missed a step (out of stock)

• Creating a virtual server connected to the outside world

  I currently have a server running on a fedora 12 VM Workstation VM. I want to access the server from outside of the virtual machine, but for a reason, even not the host computer will have access to the virtual server. Is it possible to route the network cards so that when someone outside the VM workstation tries to access the server VM, they can just go directly on the server instead of getting blocked by network adapters?

  Set up networks bridged and point it at your card of ethernet connected to the internet. If you have a router with NAT (like 99.9% of office configurations), you will need to forward individual ports if you want to be exposed to the public internet. If you are happy to expose it only within your local network, you don't have to redirect ports.

  Using network bridge, the virtual machine has its own IP address, whether on the public internet (in the case of no NAT) or on your local network (in the case of NAT). The scope of the IP address assigned is exactly her same as that assigned to the host computer - so if the host has an Internet IP, you need to configure one, or to have assigned via a DHCP server for your virtual machine as well. OTOH, if your host is behind a NAT, it probably has a DHCP server that puts an IP address in the range of 192.168.x.x for your virtual machine, automatically.

• How can I determine if a virtual server using PowerCLI (powershell)

  Hello

  I'm looking for a way to use PowerCLI to check if a Windows Server is virtual or physical.  What I want to do is the following.  When I apply the patches to Windows I want to run a powershell script to check if the server is virtual or physical.  If the server is a virtual server so I would like to take a snapshot of the server and then apply patches.

  Any help appreciated,

  Dean

  Dean,

  You can use the cmdlet Get - VM PowerCLI to check if the server virtual or physical. If the server is virtual the cmdlet returns an object. If the server is physical the cmdlet will give an error and returns nothing. Something like:

  $vm = Get-VM YourVmName
  If ($vm) {
    New-Snapshot -VM $vm -Name "Before Patch"
  }
  

  Robert

• How can I transfer a file from the operating system to a backup of the production running VM virtual machine?

  Problem:  After I do a backup one using ghettoVCB on a local VMFS volume, I have a virtual machine that I can start something happened to that running.  However, sometimes I just need a file from the OS level, which means that I would need to start to get them, but then I have an IP address conflict.  I can't imagine a way to have the NICs turned off and still be able to move the file.  If I change the IP addresses, the software that I need to create the file that I need to transfer no longer works because, although there no need of constant connectivity to the seller, it is locked to the public IP address.

  Material:  I have two 4 ESXi hosts to work, each with local VMFS volumes.  They share a private vlan common and a vlan common public.  They each ssh, ftp, wput, wget, and rsync available.  I have a Windows 2003 Server VM which also hosts a NFS and the VI client and other VMWare tools.  It also has private and public interfaces as do virtual machines that would be to make and receive the OS files.

  Question:  How can I transfer a file from the operating system to a backup of the production running VM virtual machine?

  Thank you!

  Yes Mr President, make sure you set the network on this virtual machine to be connected to the 'Internal' vswitch, you set up before turning the power on to the virtual machine.

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• Configure the virtual server to 2003 to use two physical network adapters on the host

  I have a virtual server (Server 2003) that I'm trying to point two virtual NETWORK card to two different physical NICS on the host computer.  The two network adapters on the host are on separate networks, and I can't get virtual network cards to connect properly.

  I use VMWARE Server 2 with the virtual network manager.  All good instructions would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  Run the virtual network Editor.  Disable the automatic bypass.  Then, specify which of your physical NIC to the bridge to VMnet0 and specify the other physical NETWORK adapter on one of the switches (2-7, 9) unused VMnet.  In the settings of your virtual machine, select a virtual NETWORK adapter to be filled, and a 2nd we use custom connection and specify what VMnet switch to use (the one you filled the 2nd NETWORK card physical to).

• VMware Converter 4.0 and Virtual Server 2005 R2 VM

  I downloaded the new VMware Converter (Version 4.0.0) because he had promised for the merger as a target.

  I have the image of Sharepoint 2007 VIrtual demonstration of Microsoft Server which works OK using Virtual Server.

  The converter seems to be a valid VMware image on the PC where I run the converter.

  I copy the VMware HD image created on my external Mac (OS X 10.5.6 Fusion 2.0.1) and merge it opens but there are questions.

  1 fusion think that the virtual machine is an 'other' OS rather than Microsoft Server 2003 Enterprise, which is what the VM from virtual server. Therefore, I can not install VMware tools on the virtual computer.

  2. If I change the type of operating system in the interface of Fusion Server 2003 Enterprise settings and that seems ok. Then, I am able to install tools in VMware Fusion.

  3. after the required reboot to complete the installation of the tools, the VM comes back BUT the mouse pointer is no longer visible. The virtual machine makes it unusable at this point.

  I remember posting on this forum awhile at the time where I realized first that the virtual server instance could be opened with a PC version of the workstation and I remember reading while the mouse pointer is a problem.

  So is there anything, I can do to get the Fusion tools installed AND have a working mouse pointer?

  Any help appreciated.

  Jim

  Yes, it is removed from the control panel and you can try on virtual machine converted however, it may not work.  As before you convert you can do anyway that you presented.  I like to make a copy and use it as I want to do some other preprocessing and then I just remove it when I'm done leaving the original intact, but whatever way works for you is fine.

• Don't know which one to use, virtual server or ESXi

  I have a couple of Windows server running on IBM e series.  They do not work with heavy loads so I thought to bring together them.  I used Virtual Server 1 x front on my desk and loved so I thought to use it, but now that ESXi is available I want to understand if this is a better option.

  I know that ESXi will run the VM faster and uses fewer resources, but from what I read, it seems that it is not as easy to manage.  Everyone notes that the console is difficult to transition to?  Furthermore, what about backups?  For example, if I want to make a snapshot I can run and copy off in my NAS box, but it seems that you cannot directly access the VM ESXi files.  Is this correct?

  Thank you

  Steve

  For example, if I want to make a snapshot I can run and copy off in my NAS box, but it seems that you cannot directly access the VM ESXi files. Is this correct?

  A snapshot is not a good method of backup, and this isn't how it should be used.  A snapshot preserves the State of a virtual machine that allows you to make changes and revert to a previous state if you need to.  Should not be considered as an alternative to long-term backup.  That's why you have to VCB.

  ESX 3i is very easy to manage, the hardest part is not console, so you can not do operations on the host easily, but you can copy files from ESX via the data store.  While ESX is more suited for very large like VM 15 guests or more, and if you are not running a very high load and not many VM VM Server will work fine.  There isn't really a difference in performance between any virtualization product until you start to reach the breaking point.  ESX can accommodate dozens of virtual machines on a computer, is there that ESX is really profitable (and I know that ESX 3i is free) but pound for pound can match VM Ware ESX Server 3i for small host environments, and given that it's windows it does not have a lot to manage.