Re: Whats The Best Way To Convert An IDE WinXP HDD To A VM..?
Hi deviouz If you've got an installed OS and you want to turn this into a virtual machine disk file, there may be any number of fatal driver issues that could come up as a result of that. It's part...
View ArticleSCSI Unmap Tool to reclaim Thin provision space
Hi Community,I just wanted to share a powercli tool I wrote to reclaim space on thin provisioned luns. You can get it and read about it here: DaWolf VCP: SCSI Unmap Tool for ESXi5.0 / ESXi5.1 .
View Articlehow to migrate view 5.1 to vcsa?
Hi everyone, I had deployed a VIEW 5.1 service in the windows version of vCenter Server, including the VIEW connection server, VIEW composer server and so on. All works well. Later, I replaced the...
View ArticleRe: Redraw problems with full-screen Baldur's Gate I on Windows XP
Jon, It seems that you like this game very much and thanks a lot for your feedback that we fixed a BSOD issue in this thread.Crash when running Baldur's Gate II on Win XP VM The mouse pointer not...
View ArticleRe: Command line documentation and command line to give permission
Thank you, it helps somehow, but the vicfg-user does not exist for ESXi, so I am afraid that I now know for sure that I cannot do what I expecred. Best regards, Olivier
View ArticleRe: VM Deployment with customization, parallel
I am using the script to build the customization specs and not delete them, power off the vm's, destroy them, and invoke with another script. I am running out of time to debug this, and have to have...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 SCSI UNMAP working yet?
I got a tool I made for this exact purpose. It utilizes vmkfstools -y . Check it out here DaWolf VCP: SCSI Unmap Tool for ESXi5.0 / ESXi5.1
View ArticleRe: Configuring iSCSI storage with 4MB block size.
You no longer set block size in ESXi 5 so by default you can have files that are 2 TB -512 B. If this VMFS datastore was upgrated form VMFS3 to VMFS5 than the block that set when it was created will...
View ArticleRe: View provision by View Planner
http://communities.vmware.com/message/2002482#2002482http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-15578Check this two, I could find only them from neccecery ones.____________________________________VM or Not...
View ArticleRe: Question about expanding a virtual hard disk
Oh I see, and why didn't I understood that myself...?____________________________________VM or Not to VM...?That is the question!
View ArticleRe: storage capacity reports issue
Hello, Thanks for the info. I adjusted these settings and the 'Virtual Machine Capacity' report changed a lot. Before the changes vCops said i could get 429 VM's in the remaining disk space, after I...
View ArticleRe: Slow performamce of a scanner using parallel port
You are more lucky than me. You ahve just a slow performance, in my case I couldn't even use parallel ports anyway, althogh they are supported.____________________________________VM or Not to...
View ArticleHow do you properly configure persistent disk permissions?
I ran into an issue today with one of our newly created Dev Pool VMs. Essentially, the persistent disk isn't available to the developer. When an Admin logs onto the machine, they can access the drive...
View ArticleRe: vmware-vmx uses 40-80% of my CPU while guest does nothing
Have You checked guest OS's task manager? Maybe some background process?____________________________________VM or Not to VM...?That is the question!
View ArticleRe: No shared folder in /mnt/hgfs
Thanks, You solved Your problem but mine as well. By the way that askbuntu is a cool site.____________________________________VM or Not to VM...?That is the question!
View ArticleRe: Where to add Win Server 2012 Datacenter Key in VMware
Hi, no, I never got this resolved. I gave up trying to contact Microsoft. Maybe I will make that my mission tomorrow. According to the document "itsexe" sent, I should be able to get those MAK keys,...
View ArticleRe: Num Lock Light Off When Pointing Back to Host
I had this problem, and it appears not always but time to time, I don't think this is problem to wary about, that is why no one gives attention :) .____________________________________VM or Not to...
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