Re: Using ThinApp with Oracle 9
Judging by the name, look like a medical app. I thinapp-ed plenty of medical apps installing an oracle client but not a database.First thing you can do is testing the oracle connectivity inside the...
View ArticleSnapshots and Datastore Management
Hey, I'm fairly new so bear with me. I have inherited and environment of about 50 Hosts (ESXi 5.0) and 900 VMs. I'm looking for input as to how you all manage snapshots and the space they utilize. I'm...
View ArticleRe: Purple Screen after install
I was able to hit ALT-F12 and the screen changed to the attached image. What may be hard to make out is there is a coursor in the upper left hand corner but if I type it doesn't register on the...
View ArticleRe: Purple Screen after install
If you haven't done so I would suggest updating the BIOS. When ESXi is booting it typically shows what module is loading. Do you see that happening and if so which is the last to load? If you're...
View ArticleRe: 5.0.2 crashing
I have Parallels on another Mac and it also works well. I just don't understands why VMWare won't fix this … It's perplexing.
View ArticleRe: Why no fix for the huge number of bugs introduced in 5.02
Darius, if you wanted to help why not stop finger pointing and release a fix for all your bugs ….. You refused to listen and still insist you guys have no issues. Yes, I guess you can't be helped.
View ArticleCan't enable Hyper-V in Windows 2012 under VMWare Fusion 5.0.2
I thought nested VM's were a feature of VMWare Fusion for MAC. If so why doesn't this work? I enabled the Intel VT setting, it just keeps complaining that a hypervisor is already running. I'm...
View ArticleRe: Snapshots and Datastore Management
Welcome to the VMware Communities forums. You can use these steps to change the snapshot location for a VM - kb.vmware.com/kb/2007563. An alternative to deploying a datastore that is pretty much...
View ArticleRe: Purple Screen after install
BIOS is the latest. The module loading happens too fast for me to see. I'll try USB to be through, however I have noticed that I can't get it to boot with AHCI or RAID it must be in IDE mode, even...
View ArticleRe: VMware Installer could not shut down all running virtual machines ...
is reply may have shown up already - if it has there may be somethiong wrong with the site. Anyway vmnet 55801 vmci 87584 vmmon 76138 The...
View ArticleRe: Purple Screen after install
USB gives me No Boot Device Found errors, even if I select the USB manually to boot to. -edit yes I have UEFI enabled, also tested with it disabled.
View ArticleRe: ESXI Web Client VM Console - "Connection Timed Out" PLEASE HELP
I ran into the same problem. However, I didn't take the time to troubleshoot, instead I VPN'd into my home network and was able to get the console mode to work that way. Not really sure what to tell...
View ArticleThinApp Suite (“EOA”)
VMware has announced the end of availability (“EOA”)of VMware ThinApp Suite and ThinApp Client, effectiveon December 15th, 2013. No further orders for ThinAppas a standalone product will be accepted...
View ArticleVNC to VMs under ESXi with better security
I have read http://communities.vmware.com/message/1874326 and the KB article entitled "Using a VNC Client to connect to virtual machines" (no permalinks, grrr). I want to encrypt my VNC traffic. The...
View ArticleRe: ESXI Web Client VM Console - "Connection Timed Out" PLEASE HELP
Thanks for the reply. It is helpful to know that someone else has had this issue. I've tried it on different equipment, multiple installations, and every port forwarding config i can think of. It would...
View ArticleRebooting ESXi 5.1 from the CLI without being in maintenance mode?
Greetings again. I want to be able to use esxcli system shutdown reboot --reason="something"without being in maintenance mode. Note that you *can* reboot a system without being in maintenace mode...
View ArticleRe: System is restarted when starting a virtual machine
And someone, please help to share all your files under: /et/vmware Please!!!!!!!
View ArticleRe: ESXI Web Client VM Console - "Connection Timed Out" PLEASE HELP
I don't think that AD has anything to do with it. one thing that does help to troubleshoot instances like this is to throw logmein or some other form of remote desktop up on an inside machine (or use a...
View ArticleRe: VMWare "A virtual CPU has entered the shutdown state" suddenly during...
Interesting...have you taken a look at /var/log/vmkwarning.log on the ESXi host(s) in question? I am wondering if you are seeing and SCSI or disk related messages during the pause period.
View Articleovftool deploy failing with "Network connection was lost"
Hey, Is anybody aware of what network flows exist when deploying an ovf file using ovftool through a vCenter? Right now ovftool is continually erroring out with the following message: Transfer Failed...
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