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Wokstation 11.2 on a Linux host (Ubuntu 14.04) has a fatal diplay configuration problem

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This was posted in a wrong group - reposting.  Sorry for the duplication.

 

I've downloaded and installed the latest VM Worstaion for Linux evaluation copy from the VMWare site: 11.1.2-2780323.x86_64  After installation I created a new Windows 7 guest VM, and tried to power it on.  Alas, no luck:

"Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to detect host display topology, using one display as default."

 

My host has 2 displays.  I tried to explicitly set the Video Card setting of the guest VM to "1 monitor" or "2 monitors"- same difference as with "Use host settings for monitors" - I get the error message quoted above.

 

Reconfiguring the host to use just one monitor didn't help - same error.

A Linux guest VM also can't be powered on because of the same problem.  Any ideas, anyone?

 

Is the VM Workstation for Linux that bad (previously I've used it only on a Windows host)?

 

I would try to install the VMWare Tools on the guest, but of course that would require to power the VM on first - which I can't do. 

 

Please help!

 

TIA,

 

--Anatol


Re: Win8.1 Guest-Minimize,Maximize,Close Window Icons Corrupted?

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Hi,

 

Well, it's an improvement, but the minimize, maximize, and close icons still occasionally get corrupted.

Guess I will have to just live with it.

 

Jesse

Re: H730 driver from Vmware site for Vsphere 6.0?

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The Dell ESXI 6 customized install doesn't appear to add any addition LSI drivers (see page 6 customization details), so you are likely using the Inbox lsi_mr3 driver that also ships with ESXi 6.0.

http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/vmware-esxi-6.x_Reference%20Guide6_en-us.pdf

 

I do know there is a bug with VSAN Health where using the Inbox driver gives the warning that your driver is different from HCL and I believe that's probably what you are seeing,I linked the forum discussion here:Re: vSAN Health Plugin HCL Check

 

If you use firmware 25.2.2.0004, you may want to consider following the non-VSAN VCG  and install the corresponding driver VMware Compatibility Guide: I/O Device Search. If you end up using the megaraid_perc9 driver instead of lsi_mr3, you'll also need to run "esxcli system module set --enabled=false --module=lsi_mr3" to force ESXi to ignore lsi_mr3 driver.

 

If you have no issues with 25.2.1.0037, I'd just stick with it and be happy.

Re: LogFile Handling – Event_Marker

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OK, I just tested this on the Windows agent and it worked as well. Next questions:

 

* What exact version of the agent are you running?

* Can you try to send test messages? For example, add a new section:

 

[filelog|Test]

directory= D:\OmniBackReport\

include= test.log

tags = {"appname":"HPDPSessionError"}

event_marker= ^\[\w+\] From:


Then copy the error.log file to test.log -- note if error.log is really big (more than a couple MBs) then I would suggest just copying the two example lines in your first post and pasting them into a file called test.log, saving the file and close the text editor

Re: Activating Additional Guest 2012 Servers When 2 OEM Licenses Are in Use

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If you buy retail licences and install from retail media you will be prompted for the key during install. Technically, the only difference in the media is a couple of flags in one of the config files to define the product channel, and determines whether the key is pulled from hardware or not.

 

You can actually change the key later with slmgr.vbs /ipk, or through the windows activation section of your system properties.

Re: HTML-Bridge iframe and JS function

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Also, is it possible to modify the frames sandbox options when applying the redirect?

Re: HTML-Bridge iframe and JS function

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No, you only have control over the URL value.

Re: View Client in OS X 10.11 El Capitan Beta

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The View client 3.4 was release about a week earlier to the OS X  10.11 beta. We have identified the issue, and working on it. Expect an updated client soon to support OS X 10.11 beta, beta2.


The script that add the new esxi host to the vcenter can not work.

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hi:

     i have to many new esxi host need add to my Vcenter,when it done, i have to many things to do.Like edit the vswitch,add the VDS ...

so i writed a script to do thoes things for me.

The script works like this:

    1.add the new host to vc;

    2.set the vmhost to Maintenance mode;

    3.attach a vmhost profile.

    4.apply the vmhost profile.

    5.exit the Maintenance mode.

the script can do 1 2 3 well,but it can't apply the profile.can anyone help me ,and explain why?

 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------the script---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Write-Host "Your VC password:"
$VP = Read-Host
Write-Host "Your ESXI Password:"
$EP = Read-Host

Connect-VIServer 192.168.10.11 -Protocol https -User administrator@vsphere.local -Password $VP
$hostlist = Import-Csv d:\test1.csv
foreach ($host01 in $hostlist)
{

Add-VMHost -Name $host01.host -Location $host01.Cluster -User root -Password $EP -Force

Set-VMHost -VMHost $host01.host -State Maintenance
$HashTable = Get-VMHost -Name $host01.host |Apply-VMHostProfile -Profile Cluster-01  -Confirm:$false
$HashTable['network.hostPortGroup["key-vim-profile-host-HostPortgroupProfile-VMKernel_VMotion"].ipConfig.IpAddressPolicy.address'] = $host01.VMkernel_VMotion
$HashTable['network.hostPortGroup["key-vim-profile-host-HostPortgroupProfile-VMKernel_VMotion"].ipConfig.IpAddressPolicy.subnetmask'] = $host01.NETMASK
Get-VMHost -Name $host01.host | Apply-VMHostProfile -Variable $HashTable -Confirm:$false
$VSPG = Get-VMHost -Name $host01.host | Get-VirtualPortGroup
Set-VMHost -VMHost $host01.host -State connected
}

Write-Host "Done!"

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------end------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------the csv file-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

   

hostClusterVMkernel_VMotionNETMASK
192.168.10.24Cluster-01192.168.21.24255.255.255.0

Re: View Load Testing: Ways to script commands to applications?

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I may not completely solve your problem, but can make it a bit more simpler.

 

Q. For the "Is there any way built in to pass a script in the command-line arguments that will execute some commands on that desktop or RDS App session?"

A. No, however you can use group policies (GPO) that can be activated upon login to execute a script.

 

Btw, for others reading this blog, "VMware View Planner" is the internal tool that can be used by customers too for load testing in some areas: VMware View Planner | United States

Re: how to user powerGUI to migrate the vm?

Re: Windows licensing for fault tolerence

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Hello,

 

im planning to protect 2 VM with Fault Tolerance, OS Guest Windows Server 2012 R2 standard. How many licence must i buy ?

 

Best regards

Why is VMware Workstation 11 creating additional disks when I explicitly created a flat disk and pre-allocated it? Also, why can't VMware tell how much of the disk is actually in use?

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I have a 150GB physical disk which I set aside for my VMWare Workstation 11 guest (host is Windows 8.1). When I created the guest I preallocated 120GB in a single flat file. On this system I am running Ubuntu. I was running 14.04, but since I needed a later version of Google protobufs and since Ubuntu (and Linux in general) is useless at getting later versions of components I was forced to upgrade to 15.04 (via 14.10). In the process of install 15.04, VMware decided that is needed another disk, which is baffling because when I look at the file system in the Ubuntu only 35GB is use and 78GB is free. This new very very very unnecessary disk grew to 12GB filling up the physical disk. This then resulted in VMware workstation prompting me about this and giving me only two options (Ok or Cancel). Well since the guest is the only thing on the drive, I have nothing else to free.

 

Since the stupid dialog is modal, I can't do anything to the VM, like delete snapshots etc. so I have to click cancel. This kills the guest in the middle of the Ubuntu 15.04 installation, so now my guest is in a very inconsistent state and I'm going to have to rebuild it (again) from scratch. The sad part is that I have had to do this so many times due to VMware idiosyncrasies that I now have a script that I store in git which does most of this for me. I hope you take notice of this because it is ridiculous that I should need such a thing.

 

So here are my questions:

1. Why on earth did your product create another disk when there is more than sufficient space already on the disk?

2. Why on earth did it not prompt me for this?

3. Why does VMWare think that 135GB is in use on the Ubuntu system when only 35GB is in use?

4. Can you point me to a decent competitor product that I can use in place of this? I am well and truly annoyed by VMware's management of storage.

 

This isn't the first time that VMware storage has been a problem for me. expandable disks (even when capped to a specific size) used up almost triple of that space on disk on another system. I blew away the VM multiple times before getting it to behave itself with a single flat disk, but this tells me that I need to pay attention to it.

 

Can you please figure out how to manage the storage on your VMs because this is ridiculous.

 

Does anyone know how I can avoid this in the future? Is there some "no don't create another disk because you're bored" setting that will stop this from happening?

removing self signed certs - reinstall vcenter

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what is the default location for the vcenter self signed certs? I need to remove these, uninstall vcenter and do a complete reinstall

 

does uninstall remove the certs?

Re: Updating Windows 10 Enterprise 64 from 10074 to 10130 fails with LSI Paravirtual disk & View Agent gives BSOD on Ctrl+Alt+Ins\Del

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Hi Eric,

 

From attached screenshot, it is clearly the BSOD was triggered by kbdclass.sys which keyboard driver from Microsoft. Usually this is caused by mismatch code execution level in kernel mode (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL).

To identify what was caused, memory dump is important to see the call stack. It may/may not be caused by API calls in user mode. If possible please attach memory.dmp file which you can find in c:\Windows folder.


Re: Windows licensing for fault tolerence

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2012 R2 Std gives you license for 2 virtual servers on ONE physical server (physical server can have up to 2 processor sockets). You will need to buy 1, 2012 R2 Std license for each of your physical servers. If you add any more virtual server 2012 R2 servers to the mix you'll need to buy more licenses.

Microsoft doesn't care if the VM's will only exist on the other server for 5 minutes over the next 2 years. If they ever go live on that server you need to purchase a license to be compliant with Microsoft licensing - period.

 

 

Edit - Microsoft has a few confusing licensing articles floating around but I usually just have the vendor I'm dealing with get their MS guy on the line so I can throw scenarios at him and have him explain the depth and breadth of Microsoft's greed.

Re: Windows licensing for fault tolerence

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Thank you for your fast answer

 

i have two ESXi on the same Cluster, i have Two VM with OS Guest : Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard edition

 

i must buy 4 licences for Folt tolerance ? if yes, where i must put this licence.

 

Best regards

Re: removing self signed certs - reinstall vcenter

Re: ROBO licensing - per site?

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A maximum of 1 pack can be deployed per

remote site or branch office. Customers can choose to

distributed a pack of 25 Virtual Machines across sites

(e.g., 5 VMs in Site 1, 5 VM in Site 2 etc.).

Re: VM Guest OS reporting

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Hi Shaka,

 

You can try like below.

 

Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | select @{N='VM OS';E={$_.Summary.Config.GuestFullName}} | Group-Object "VM OS" | select Name,Count

 

It will pull the report based on VM Template Which you have chosen while creating a Template.

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