I want to create a script to connect any usb connected to host os to guest os. I used the command
vmrun -gu hp -gp root connectNamedDevice /home/hp/vmware/Ubuntu/Ubuntu.vmx /dev/sdb1
It did not work. Can you help me finding a workaround. I am using wrkstation 15 (trial)
I read that vmrun connectNamedDevice does not support usb. Are there altrnatives using command line?
I see Solaris 11.4 is supported under ESX, but no listing for under Workstation 14 or 15.
Where do we stand on getting support for Solaris 11.4 under VMWare Workstation Pro 15?
I'd hate to have to revert to using Oracle VirtualBox just because VMWare can't figure out how to run 11.4...
But if VMWare cannot deduce how to do this, perhaps I'd be better off with VirtualBox.
Hi All,
I am looking for some suggestions if we can utilize the VPN connection in place of DirectConnect for the Bare Metal instances we will be using to host the Tie Breaker & Witness Servers?
Regards
Pravesh
I have 5.5U3 VC (and ESXi-s 5.5u3, with many iSCSI datastores and local datastores) managing few data centers. All works well until we decided to test VDP 6.1.5 (yes I know it is out of support, buit it works for 5.5 and 6.5 and is enough for us for a few years, especially if I managed to cross it with netbackup so we backup data to the tapes weekly).
Then I discover that when I try to clone VM-s between data centers, I got error
Unable to access virtual machine configuration: Unable to access configuration file [name-of-datastore]
It works in SOME cases but do not work in most other. Local (inside DC) cloning works OK.
I count it as maybe VDP modify VC some way, but careful VC config comparision did not reveal any differences (I compare with VC without this issue).
VC is Windows based, 1 version back (I am updating to the very current version now but I do not expect it to solve problem).
As VDP makes many nasty things (for example, it almost killed our Linux cluster, as it set up vmdk tracing for the shared Virtual disk), I cou8nt it as VDP did some changes.
Need an ideas
- anyone see this issue?
- where can I found detailed logs of cloning operation?
- what could VDP change? It maybe was not VDP but recent update but I am not 100% sure, at least I discover it after we started to run VDP.
(Changing to 6.5 is not immediate option as we have old backup system which can't work on 6.5, and additionally web only interface slow down many things /but it is not show stopper; old backup system is/),
It looks as maybe VDP change access mode to the data stores and/or VC try to access remote data center datastore via local host which do not work of course; I can check logs but first I need to find which exactly logs to check, and any idea what could happen. Message itself is weird as it call datastore name as configuration file.
Hello.
I would like help me with the following doubts:
I want to separate traffic of vsphere replication. I add a new vmkernel, after that I see the unique TCP/IP stack available for this traffic is "Default", I also see on "Available service" Vsphere replication traffic and Vsphere replication NFS traffic; my questions are:
-Should I choose default TCP/IP stack, then create static routes??
-What is the difference between choose none available service and choose Vsphere replication traffic and Vsphere replication NFS traffic ??
-If I create a new vmkernel and choose an available service, what happens after? only traffic concerning that service will be pass for this vmkernel?
-What is the TCP/IP stack function?? only for routing?
-When I create custom TCP/IP stack, available services are not chooseable. Can I create a custom TCP/IP stack, then send specific layer 3 traffic throught it? When I create custom stack, available services are not chooseable
Thank you.
I've been experimenting with setting up a test lab on a linux host with KVM as the layer 1 hypervisor and ESX as the layer 2. With KVM configured for nested, ept and ignore_msrs, and ESX set to vmx.allowNested and hv.assumeEnabled things work fine, except that VMs under ESX don't use EPT.
With some help I'm now trying to determine which of these flags ESX requires for EPT to function, e.g. to get HWMMU working:
2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: VPID and EPT Capabilities (0x00000d0106114041) 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: R=0/W=0/X=1 yes 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: Page-walk length 3 yes 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: EPT memory type WB yes 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: 2MB super-page yes 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: 1GB super-page no 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: INVEPT support yes 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: Access & Dirty Bits no 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: Type 1 INVEPT yes 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: Type 2 INVEPT yes 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: INVVPID support yes 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: Type 0 INVVPID yes 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: Type 1 INVVPID no 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: Type 2 INVVPID yes 2016-02-11T21:17:00.157Z| vmx| I120: Type 3 INVVPID yes ... 2016-02-11T21:17:00.158Z| vmx| I120: MONITOR MODE: allowed modes : BT32 HV HWMMU 2016-02-11T21:17:00.158Z| vmx| I120: MONITOR MODE: user requested modes : BT32 HV HWMMU 2016-02-11T21:17:00.158Z| vmx| I120: MONITOR MODE: guestOS preferred modes: HWMMU BT32 HV 2016-02-11T21:17:00.158Z| vmx| I120: MONITOR MODE: filtered list : HWMMU BT32 HV 2016-02-11T21:17:00.158Z| vmx| I120: HV Settings: virtual exec = 'hardware'; virtual mmu = 'hardware'
So far I've been able to get VMs to use HWMMU with the above flags active in a patched host kernel.
Could anyone tell me which flags ESX actually requires and which are optional or preferable for EPT/HWMMU to work?
Additionally, are more or different flags required with "vhv.enable = TRUE"? So far I have only tested with "vhv.enabled = FALSE"
It's a big performance jump to have this working so it would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
Sorry if I have missed the answer to this on here, but I am trying to setup a VM connected to 2 physical adapters (2 different physical networks and IP address ranges). One adapter is built in to the computer and the other is a USB 3.0 Ethernet adapter. The Host computer can communicate on both networks (one is internet and one is devices). I also have to use Bridging for my programs on the VM to be able to see the devices. I have been unable to get the USB network card to show in the VM. I can get two network cards showing in the VM under networks, but it is always just pointing both to the built-in adapter.
Both my host and VM's are Windows 7, and I have VMWare Workstation Pro 12.5.9.
The last thing I tried was using Virtual Network Editor and setting up a bridged network for each card:
The I tried editing the VMX file to have two sets of ethernet entries with different .vnets:
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.vnet = "VMnet0"
ethernet1.present = "TRUE"
ethernet1.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet1.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet1.addressType = "generated"
ethernet1.vnet = "VMnet3"
But, i get two of the same adapter:
Jim
MacOS: Mojave 10.14.2
Fusion: 11.0.2
After upgrading VMware Fusion to 11, and accidentally upgrading the VMs, all VMs (Windows XP, 2012 R2) are black screen. Using those VMs for developing and coding and I am fully blocked with no progress on projects.
Please help.
Hi there,
A quick question for the more advanced gurus out there:
I have come across a customer that has a cluster running 5 hosts. However, I noticed that the CPU chip set is different for 3 of the servers (A mixture of Broadwell, Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge). HA and DRS is enabled in the cluster, however I noticed that EVC is disabled. I thought I had an understanding that this is not a compatible scenario and would have prevented adding hosts that have a different chip set. I also noticed that I can successfully vMotion a VM from a Broadwell CPU server to a Sandy Bridge CPU server without issue.
Running vSphere 6.5 (vCenter and Hosts)
Have I missed something here?
Thanks in advance.
Justin
I have a new vSphere 6.7u1 environment with the vCenter 6.7 appliances setup with embedded PSCs link, per the recommendations for a SSO environment with multiple vCenters. I then installed SRM 8.1.1 in Windows 2016 (firewall disabled). After running the setup of SRM and connect it to the vCenter PSC and vCenter, SRM is up and running but the client plugin for SRM is not installed in the Web Console of vCenter. I have checked the package directory on the appliance on the srm package directory was not created in /etc/vmware/vsphere-client/vc-packages/vsphere-client-serenity. It looks like the plugin was not pushed. Is this a known issue? is there a way to manually install the client plugin? Any clues?
The script：
Installing is OK. But I want after installing has been completed auto eject CD.
What should I do?
hello guys,
my datastore missing, please help...
it was 2 datastore, but 1 missing after reboot.
but the disk is detected. thx for your help
I have a physical server and install VMware ESXI 6.0.0 on it. I have 4 VMs running on this ESXI. I noticed that in few days datastore size is reducing almost 10GB per day. now space is getting full and I will be in trouble in a day as wont be having more space.
need urgent support please.
regards
Sajid Ali Shah
Fusion 11.0.2 on OSX 10.12.6, Win10 1803 guest.
When printing stopped working after a Fusion upgrade (from 8.5), I did the usual things: turned "Share Mac printers" off, uninstall and reinstall tools, turn Share printers back on. When it still didn't work, I came looking here, and found there was a new thing to install in Fusion 11. (Still trying to figure out how we were supposed to know to do that.) So I installed the Virtual Printer.
The good news is that I could then print from Access, which is what I was trying to do.
The not so good news is that the printers aren't visible in Windows like they were in 8.5, at least in the standard printer area.
Are the available printers not visible in the standard Windows "Printers & scanners" area? Are they visible anywhere, other than an app's menu?
I wanted to submit a bug in Workstation 15, but was not able to do that in the Support page, so I am writing about it here.
When using accelerated 3D graphics in Workstation 15, the 3D objects rendered with WPF application are not correctly rendered. It looks like the DirectX back buffer is not cleared when a new frame is rendered so that the content of the previous frame is still visible.
For example, the following 3D scene can be rotated with the mouse:
In Workstation 15 after the scene is rotated with the mouse, the screen looks like the this:
The problem occurs in Windows 7 and Windows 10 (as guest OS).
This works well in Workstation 14.
I am attaching a simple sample to reproduce the problem (with full source code in a zip file and as compiled exe).
Hi,
I am looking for any option to create vSphere VM Disk clone via API at VMDK level. The purpose is to provide the space saving clone (Child disk chaining) for specific Parent VMDK and connect to other new placeholder VM for some dev testing purpose.
Could anyone please share any views and suggestion ?
Regards
Sameer Kumar
皆さま
はじめまして、S と申します。
現在、私は"VMware Horizon Cloud Service" の提案活動に携わり始め、
それに伴う提案資料の作成を予定しています。
しかし、インターネット上での検索で公式アイコン集に値する公開ドキュメントが見つかりません。
もしご存知の方がいらっしゃいましたら、ご教示またはご共有頂けますと幸甚です。
どうぞよろしくお願い致します。
S
Hello,
I found a bug in VMware Workstation 15 (latest version), my setup is simple:
Windows XP x64 VM with 3d acceleration enabled. I need 3d acceleration because:
Im just running a Game called "Silkroad Online" in this VM.
Wheneve I teleport into a certain ingame town Workstation just crashes the VM ( see below screenshot ).
I tested following:
running same setup on Win 7 x64, Win 10 LTSB x64, running on a dedicated nvidia gpu and an intel graphics card on 2 different PC and Notebook, it always happens in this town.
I can reproduce this error and Im willing to build a VM for an VMware engineer, please get in touch with me.
I can also attach a .dmp, is this safe here in a open place?
I have got no support entitlement!
For the past six months, I've been using VMware Fusion 10.1.5 to run Windows 7 on my iMac IOS (10.14). I need to do this to run the PC version of Quicken Deluxe 2012. (The Mac version of Quicken is terrible.)
A few days ago, everything started to get really slow to the point where now nothing happens when I click anything on the Windows 7 desktop.
I tried deleting everything and reloading the VMware Fusion program, creating a new file, and reloading Windows 7. Again, once I get to the Windows 7 desktop, nothing happens when I click on anything. I am able to click and get a response from the menu bar commands. Restarting gets me back to the same frozen Windows 7 desktop.
Any suggestions on how I can get this thing working?
Thanks in advance,
Cliff
I'm using UCSB-B420-M3. I'm using vcenter 6.5 u2. I saw new firmware on vmware . cisco server should go on new firmware or not. I have to install the new firmware or how do I find out what to do ? what happens if it works. I'm waiting for your advice
| Model | BIOS Version |
| UCSB-B420-M3 | B420M3.2.2.6e.0.062220160138 |
| UCSB-B420-M3 | B420M3.2.2.6e.0.062220160138 |
| UCSB-B420-M3 | B420M3.2.2.6e.0.062220160138 |