Questions tagged [vmware-server]
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VM Cloning Transfers cause Blade outage
I used to be able to do this sort of thing without any problems, though the speed was still not all that great.
Hardware:
HP Proliant C3000 enclosure
BL460c G7 blades
BLc SB40c Storage blade
Enclosure is connected to Netgear Gigabit switch
Nowadays,…

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Communication between a host machine and a Remote VM running WMWare ESX
I am trying to automate the testing of an installer on a remote virtual machine running VMWare ESX.
I wanted to know what kind of technologies would help me in doing so, as this task requires extensive communication between the host machine(wherein…

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Take parts of the standard output value and put it into a array variable
I'm currently working on a script (using BASH) which backups VM file to a remote server.
I want to try and make the script a bit more dynamic by being able to just looping though each VM from a "show VM command". my idea is to take the standard…

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VMWare Server 1.0.7 on 64-bit Windows 2008 Issue
Normally when using VMWare Server 1.0.7 you are asked if you would like to connect to the local machine or a remote host. Installing the same software on 64-bit Windows 2008 only gives the remote host option.
I have tried entering the local machine…

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vCenter 5.1 Appliance SSO - password
After installing vCenter 5.1 appliance on a virtual machine (run by ESXi), it automatically set embedded SSO credentials. While the administrator user-name is always admin@System-Domain and the password is unknown.
How can I know the SSO…

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FATAL: Module sg not found
When I was installing uptime monitoring agent, I got the error messages:
Probing 'sg' devices
FATAL: Module sg not found.
But lsmod shows the sg module is loaded:
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)
#…

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How to get around PowerCLI Connect-VIServer
I am pretty new to using PowerCLI and I would like to use it to automate a couple of things, but it does not seem to allow me to run what I want to without connecting to a server. I do not want to have to connect to a server to automate the service…

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Server of VMWare virtual machines
Sory for asking questions like these, but all I can find is how to use a virtual server and that is not what I need.
I need to create a server (VMWare or not) or a super-server, where I can install several virtual machines, linux, windows xp,…

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Static pdf not available
I am providing an anchor in my Spring MVC application as follows:
Download User Manual
But instead of serving the pdf file the server is returning 404 error ,…

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vmrun tool usage
I have a vb script (that sets up the IIS). I need to run this vbscript inside the guest VM, from the Host box.
How do i do this? I am tol vmrun.exe can do this.
Any samples to get this done would be great help.
I am running VMWare server 2 in host.
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VMWare - Error 500 from Server when trying to upload on a VM
Say I have 2 "physical" ESXs which are both headed by a vSphere Server. What I am trying to do is to run a script which would upload a file to a specified VM. So basically, I use the VIFS.pl script provided by the VMWare community, the documentation…
user740316
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Starting the WindowsPhone 7 emulator crashes running instances of VMWare (Server)
I have a machine running Windows 7 Professional SP1 directly on hardware.
I use this machine for all developing stuff. As this includes web– as well as WP7–development I have some virtual linux-hosts running inside VMWareServer2 for my…

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Traffic monitoring tools for VMWare Server?
We want to monitor traffic usage for each of our virtual machines - we need to generate a monthly traffic report (in terms of bytes, for billing purposes).
How can we do this?
Our platform is VMWare Server 2, using bridged interfaces on Windows…

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Running an executable in virtual machine through base machine
I want to launch an executable in my virtual machine(Windows Server 2003 OS and is installed using VMWARE Workstation) from my base machine
I tried the following command
"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VIX\vmrun" -T server -h…

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Downloading VM from VMWare ESX to VMWare player, preserving thin storage format
I'm using ESX 4.1 and want to download VM's to run on VMWare Player (v3.1.3). I'm able to download and run them, but the space on the virtual disk files, which are in "thin format" expands to the full provisioned storage size.
How do I make the…

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