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• Get the mac without VMware tools running address

  I looked to see if there was a way to get the mac address of a virtual machine without VMware tools running.  I know that you can see this information for vSphere gui when you change the material, so I think it would be accessible without VMware tools, but maybe not.

  Does anyone know if/how this is possible?

  Thank you

  Michael

  That's right, you have no need for VMware tools must be installed to retrieve the MAC address, there are other attributes such as host name comments for example which is only available when the tools are installed.

  Take a look at this script to retrieve the MAC address of virtual machines: getAllVMMacs.pl

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• Time-out error waiting for VMware Tools start in the prompt

  Hello people,

  I used PowerCLI 5.5 Release 1 connection to my 5.1.036098 vcenter (ESXi host 5.1.0 1065491 management).

  I'm connected (non secure warning) and be able to start the virtual machines.

  I try to run a task on the network of a VM VMware documentation example below interface.

  The first two commands work fine, but finally it fails with the error below.

  I upgraded VMware tools and hardware to the latest version.

  $vm1 = get-VM-name VM1

  $guest = get-VMGuest $vm1

  $interface = get-VMGuestNetworkInterface - VMGuest $guest - GuestUser password1 administrator - GuestPassword - ToolsWaitSecs 100

  Timeout error while you wait for VMware tools start in the comments.

  
  

  Someone at - it suggestions?

  Thank you

  romatlo

  The 3rd line to access the guest OS via VMware tools that must be installed in the virtual machine.

  There are a number of other prerequisites to be able to make that kind of call.

  See my work Will Invoke-VMScript? post.

• Cannot install VMware tools - "cannot find the component...". »

  I created a Windows XP Pro VM under a host Windows 7 Pro using Player 4.02. When I try to install VMware tools I get the message "can't find conponent on the update server. Contact VMware support or your system administrator. "The host and guest both can work a network connectivity and the internet. I saw at least another poster on another forum mentioned this error message and told him to install by mounting the ISO and install it manually. I looked in every subdirectory of the installation of the reader and any windows.iso file could not be found. Is it supposed to be there in this version of the player? If this is not the case, how can I get the iso? Any help is appreciated.

  This question will probably be corrected in the next few days and I see this with other versions.  Right now the last repository showing is: http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/player/4.0.1

• How the news works of linux vmware-tools associated with the support of actions HGFS?

  Just to clarify, if it is possible to get from VMware Tools for Linux Guest users qualified/developer/maintainer.

  If memory serves me right, from 12 Workstation, VMware Tools for modified Linux related with the way it handles stocks HGFS.

  Installation of VMware tools on many Linux guests, I always see the same behavior.

  In some installations it build hgfs module, in others it seems fair to connect on vmhgfs-fuse executable. No module hgfs not charged in this case of the kernel then HGFS works as expected.

  Exactly how it works under the hood, how to install VMware Tools/config, can determine whether it is necessary to build the module or just run vmhgfs-fuse?

  Well, strange person, not even VMware guys come on this subject. IMHO is a really interesting thing, I almost always use shared folders between guests and hosts, it's so easy and simple WHEN IT WORKS.

  The fact that no-one comes on this thread, show what I think always: products like workstation are profoundly less used, average people IMHO use 30/40 per cent of the potential software.

  Then, with a few hours and a few Linux guests many kind in hand machines (work with tools in both modes, hgfs.ko or fuse), investigated and found how it works by myself.

  This is what I found.

  Recent versions of VMware Tools for Linux now seems to check the fuse package installed on guest system installed and when they found him, they try to use vmhgfs-fuse (formerly an Open-vm-tools executable) to mount hgfs actions without the need of the hgfs.ko module and so without needing to compile the module often broken kernel. For example, hgfs.ko thin build up to kernel branch 4.4 and it is broken again on 4.5.

  The script vmware-config - tools.pl also seems power - also when it detects the fuse package - properly configure autostart for hgfs share.

  That's all, and it's very useful for me. Hope it will be for others.

• VMware Tools missing in the Installation of VMware Player 7

  Hi all

  If I try to install/upgrade to update VMware Tools after the Installation of VMware Player 7 no ISO will be connected to the virtual machine.

  I checked the directory of Installation of VMware Player for the ISOs of the tools but no ISOs are there.

  Can you help me out of this Situation or is it a missing element in the installer?

  Thank you

  Michael

  I just downloaded VMware-player - 7.0.0 - 2305329.exe and installed under Windows 7 x 64 and had no problems with it automatically detect installed VMware Tools to the guest operating system to be downloaded and successfully downloaded.  Having said that, have you tried? : Player > file > Preferences... > download now all components

  Maybe something is blocking you to download the VMware tools.

  You could also do it manually by using the following tools from VMware for VMware Player 7.0.0.

  • Tools-freebsd - 9.9.0.exe.tar
  • Tools-linux - 9.9.0.exe.tar
  • Tools-netware - 9.9.0.exe.tar
  • Tools-solaris - 9.9.0.exe.tar
  • Tools-winPre2k - 9.9.0.exe.tar
  • tools-windows - 9.9.0.exe.tar

  Unzip the file, then run the executable result and it will silently install the file without any indication that he actually did like this isn't really so planned how to do even if it works!

• In any case be easily listed / alert guests not vmware tools running?

  I have an environment engineer who maintain their own environment in general. However I have noticed most of the guests don't have vmware tools installed. I'd like to see or be alerted at least guests who do not. There must be a better way then clicking on each host summary page to see if its installed or not. I also know that you can make vCenter show you on the list of views page if its installed or not.

  However, I am sure that there is another way to get the hosts easily without tools installed, which I can share with the engineers...

  You have a few options.

  (1) install and use the script vCheck

  (2) or to run this command powercli-

  Get - vm | % {get-view $_.ID} | Select Name, @{Name = "hostName"; {Expression = {$_.guest.hostName}}, @{Name = "ToolsStatus"; {Expression = {$_.guest.toolsstatus}}, @{Name = "ToolsVersion"; {Expression = {$_.config.tools.toolsVersion}} | name of tri-objet

• VMware tools State prevents the publication of VMware templates

  Hi all

  I have created a template in Lab Manager 3.0, but I am unable to change the status to released because Virtual Center 2.5 and Lab Manager 'think' that VMware tools is not installed.

  It is a new installation of Redhat RHEL Server 5.0, kernel 2.6.18 - 92.el5. The VMware tools install seemed to go very well, without error. rpm and yum both agree that VMwareTools 7302-123630 is installed. Same Virtual Center showed VMware Tools as 'OK' for a minute before changing the status "not installed".

  Reboots and reinstalls have not changed behavior. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks,-Jeff

  Go to the properties of the virtual machine template. Uncheck "Run the customization" and click Update. Now try the editing model.

• Install VMWare Tools running under VMWare Server 2 Server

  I have converted a physical server using VMWare converter 4.

  When I start VMWare server 2 using the vmdk file converted - I need to install VMWare tools on this server.

  How do I do that?

  If you return to vCenter Converter, which you can do it from another machine that installed him as long as he has access to hard and you .vmx files product, there is an option to "configure the Machine' rather than 'Convert the Machine' and this should allow installation of the tools in the image. If the converted image actually starts on the server 2.0 then there is an option in the web interface (https://yourserver:8333) to install VMware Tools when the prompt is selected in the left pane.

  Guy Leech

  VMware vExpert 2009

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• VMware Tools: Shrinkage of the virtual disks - what is - this intended?

  Hello

  Maybe I'm missing something, but what is the "Reduction of the virtual disks' in VMware Tools used for?  It seems to me that 'reduce the virtual disks' is the only thing that it does not.

  I have a virtual disk in a virtual machine with Windows 2003 Std x 64.  A 'volume' (a partition on a dynamic disk) disk occupies 10 GB on a virtual disk.  The rest of the space on the virtual disk is not assigned.  I want to "shrink" the virtual disk to recover the unallocated space.  But the function "reduce virtual disks" VMware Tools seems to allow me only to "shrink" the disk volume or partition.  I want to reduce the virtual disk.

  What Miss me?

  Thank you.

  Your best best for shrink disk is to use VMware vCenter Converter.  The fret is more than one optimization tool, a bit like a Defrag tool, but will not reduce the size of the disk of the virtual computer.

  Here is a good article

  http://www.RTFM-ed.co.UK/?p=40

• VMware Workstation running without the GUI

  I used to use VMware Server and configured to start some VM, I need on-site at startup. I went to the workstation to work with our ESX VM, so now I wonder if there is an easy way to get a similar behavior.

  There is no a lot of information about this in the manual, I tried running ' / usr/bin/vmware - blah.vmx x ' when when I connect, but the graphical interface starts too. If I can remove the GUI and I have just the tray icon, I'd be a happy man.

  Once my session X crashed and the VM kept working well, so I guess that there is a process that is actually running the virtual machine independent of the GUI somewhere can I drill to get the virtual machine started?

  N ° workstation is designed for interactive virtual machines.  6.x and newer, the ability was added to maintain a virtual machine running in the background AFTER it was launched upward - however the GUI should be started to start/run prompt, AND user must stay connected (i.e. the virtual computer is running as a user process).  If you want to run virtual machines under services, using VMware Server.

• Screen resolution on local workstation not the same size as the resolution of the screen on a Terminal Server

  At work connect us through MSTSC to a Terminal Server. We have a user who changes the resolution of the screen on a local computer, but it does not change on TS. Any suggestions?

  Hello

  As you work on a domain network, the question would be better suited on the support of Microsoft TechNet forum. Then I suggest you to post the question on the TechNet support forum.

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb676213

• UEFI TBS tool running on the virtual machine

  I installed esxi5.0 with setting of the virtual machine to support UEFI BIOS. I tried to run TBS uefi (self-certification tool) on uefi shell but installation stop impossible to copy the file stallforkey.efi. However, on a normal physical machine, I am able to boot to efi shell and can install the tool even without any impact. I wonder why it does not work on a virtual machine. Thank you!

  Sorry I did not on this thread in a timely.  I try to help where I can, but it can be difficult to follow all this and make sure that I have the answer to everything.

  The driver that you have found is the right, and it seems that you have loaded correctly too.

  You should probably just use "reconnect" in the EFI Shell to disconnect our CTS volume FAT file system driver and connect the FAT file system driver that you have installed (which has a larger number of driver version, it should be preferred to our driver)... Then, you should have file name long support on the volume of the SCT.  There is some trick that is necessary in order to obtain the ID correct grip for the command "reconnect", or you can try of "reconnect - r", which will take a little longer to run.  You must ensure that the current the EFI Shell working directory is not on the file system you want to log.

  So you're on track with OVMF + qemu anyway, so I just after the above for the sake of completeness, and just in case you find yourself stuck and looking for yet another way forward.  Sorry again once I failed to reply to your message.

  See you soon,.

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  Darius

• VMware Tools failure of the pulsations at the instant withdrawal?

  We use vSphere 5.1 with vRanger 6 for the backup connection.

  For a particular VM with a size around 600 GB VMDK file, we find that we get the 'HA VM vSphere monitoring error' whenever the connection vRanger finished and tried to delete the snapshot.

  In fact, it seems that the virtual machine cannot be reset by vSphere HA we get the message "vSphere HA can not reset this virtual machine.

  We would like to ask for your opinion

  (1) why we get followed "vSphere VM HA" error and how to avoid it?

  (2) why HA reset failed (indeed, we don't want make reset)?

  (3) should shut down us "vSphere HA VM monitoring" for this particular virtual machine?

  Your advie is requested.

  Hello

  (1) why we get followed "vSphere VM HA" error and how to avoid it?

  > You might have followed VM enabled, if you do not want to activate.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1027734

  • Log the server vCenter Server using the vSphere Client.
  • Right-click on VMware HA Cluster and choose change settings of
  • In the settings of Cluster dialog box, select VM monitoring
  • Monitoring of the VM State: VM monitoring drop-down menu, select disabled
  • Click OK

  (2) why HA reset failed (indeed, we don't want make reset)?

  You can see this doc if applicable to your

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2032670

  (3) should shut down us "vSphere HA VM monitoring" for this particular virtual machine?

  > If it is high I/O intensive VM, yes it will be wise of offshore monitoring vm

  Concerning

  Mohammed

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  No one can tell you anything without the proper system or other technical details info. This happens usually when the local permissions issues prevent the custom being written to disk preferences file.

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