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Re: ESX Host 3.5 is getting powered off during the VM powering up.
from VMware Communities: Message List
(2008-12-18 15:50)
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Hi, In order to run ESX3.5 and power on virtual machines, you'll need to install VMware workstation 6.5 afaik. -- Wil _____________________________________________________ Visit the new VMware developers wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com
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Audio - Apple 24" LED Cinema Display USB Audio - Sharing between Windows VM OS and Mac OS - Sound Ou
from VMware Communities: Message List
(2008-12-18 15:49)
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There appears to be an issue with using the new Apple 24" Cinema Displays with integrated USB audio, VM Ware and virtual machines. When the display is plugged into a Mac Book Pro notebook, via USB, normally Mac OS will see the external UBS audio and switch to it from the notebook speakers. If you look in Mac OS System Preferences>Output, Internal Speakers and USB Speakers are shown. But, when VM Ware is running, and Windows Vista is running as the guest OS in the virtual machine, the Virtual Machine takes over the USB audio for Windows Vista, and is unavailable to Mac OS X. In this scenario, when looking in Mac OS System Preferences>Sound>Output, only the Internal Speaker for the notebook show up, and when in Mac OS, the audio is coming from the notebook computer, but when audio is playing from Windows Vista, it is coming from the Apple Display. Any Clues???
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Re: Backups and Time Machine
from VMware Communities: Message List
(2008-12-18 15:40)
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Thanks, Woody. Now I can get it right the first time.
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Re: Backups and Time Machine
from VMware Communities: Message List
(2008-12-18 15:34)
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GaryFlorida wrote: Does this mean that the folder "Virtual Machines" inside "Documents" inside my home icon folder is all I would drag and drop? Does this have all the Windows XP OS and supporting files, or just my data? Yes and by default normal file based Fusion Virtual Machines are created in the "/Users/${USER}/Documents/Virtual Machines" however that doesn't stop the User from placing them elsewhere. The Virtual Machine Document Package is a folder that, by default, has a hidden extension of .vmwarevm and this Package contains the files the comprise the Virtual Machine and the .vmdk files are the virtual hard drive that contains the OS/Applications/Data. Backing up the entire Package is what you want to do. finally, excuse my ignorance, but what are abbreviations you used: FWIW, YMMV, AFAIC You could Goggle it or try something like http://www.acronymfinder.com FWIW = For what it's worth YMMV = Your mileage may vary AFAIC = As far as I'm concerned
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Re: Backups and Time Machine
from VMware Communities: Message List
(2008-12-18 15:18)
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Does this mean that the folder "Virtual Machines" inside "Documents" inside my home icon folder is all I would drag and drop? Does this have all the Windows XP OS and supporting files, or just my data? finally, excuse my ignorance, but what are abbreviations you used: FWIW, YMMV, AFAIC Thanks
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Re: Boot Camp partition preparation failing
from VMware Communities: Message List
(2008-12-18 15:07)
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With Fusion closed delete the following folder which contains the Boot Camp and the Helper folders: "/Users/somersam/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines" Then start Fusion and try running the Boot Camp partition again and if it fails then attach the following log file: "/Users/somersam/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Helper/naos-1.0.vmwarevm/vmware.log"
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Re: VM starts up after ESX Host left isolation mode ?
from VMware Communities: Message List
(2008-12-18 14:59)
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Power failure happened last night for both (2 together) in a VI Cluster last night. After power is resumed, VMs on ESX1 started up properly. However, a specific VM (and the only one) on ESX2 doesn't start up. We have to start it up manually. Do you have any suggestion ? Thanks
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Re: Basic OS install problem
from VMware Communities: Message List
(2008-12-18 14:52)
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Setting the boot delay did allow me to access the boot menu and although I set the CD drive to the first boot device and had it "connect at power on" and had it set to use the host device all I get is the PXE boot. I am able to use the CD drive on the client device, but since my client device is across a network from the ESXi host system (and my laptop/client device has a relatively slow CD drive) this isn't the most efficient means of installing an OS. I also tried setting the CD drive to "Emulate IDE" and "Passthrough IDE" which are the only possible choices in that area. The CD drive on the host does work since that is how I installed ESXi. Seeing as there aren't that many possible CD configuration possibilities (and I think I've tried all variations anyways) it seems that I don't have the ability to install an OS in a ESXi vm any way except using the drive on my client device. It shouldn't be this difficult.
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Re: Backups and Time Machine
from VMware Communities: Message List
(2008-12-18 14:47)
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FWIW Time Machine may not be reliable in the Backup/Restore of Virtual Machines and while YMMV many Users have reported TM didn't Backup/Restore their Virtual Machines properly. That said TM cannot backup User Data Only that resides within the Virtual Machine and you should employ appropriate measures to preform User Data Backups. AFAIC The best way to ensure the entire Virtual Machine is properly backed up is to shutdown, not suspend, from within the Guest OS and then close Fusion and either then manually copy the Virtual Machine Document Package to another hard drive other then the one the original resides on and or to Optical Media as well or if not manually then via Scripting or some Application other then TM and also generate md5 or sha1 sums to validate the copies against. Sounds like a lot of work however on my Production Virtual Machines that I may have spent 24 ~ 40 hours building out originally I'm not about to not be absolutely sure I can restore that work when need b ...
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Virtual Machine Won't Start.
from VMware Communities: Message List
(2008-12-18 14:43)
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I have a trial version of VMware Workstation Installed on Vista 64, 8GB RAM, 3GHz, Quad Core CPU (virtualization on) and the install goes fine with no errors. After the reboot, I try to create a new VM (any guest OS) and then run it and nothing happens. The VM is created, but there is no window indicating that it's running and there are no error messages either. Are there particular Windows services that need to be running in order for the newly created VM to run? I also copied over a preconfigured linux VM to run, but that doesn't work either. I've tried reinstalling 3 times, firewall and anti-virus turned off. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Miklos
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