Customization of guest (in gray) operating system

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• Guest as ESX operating system

  Hello

  Is it possible to install the OS ESX itself as guest operating system?

  Yes, it is possible you need to do a work around.

  It is recommended to use VMware workstation to run ESX as an operating system called for training and the purpose of the practice

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• using VMrun to start/stop guest a linux operating system on a windows host

  We have a server windows server 2003 running vmware 2.

  the virtual machine is placed at "F:\Virtual Machines\server\SUSE.vmx"

  the comment system is a Suse linux.

  I'm trying to start and stop the guest OS, but I continue to not

  Here are the commands I tried:

  vmrun t h https://172.24.28.1:8333 / sdk Server - gu root - gp pwd start 'F:\Virtual Machines\server\SUSE.vmx '.

  Error: Unknown error

  vmrun t https://172.24.28.17:8333 / sdk h u root otrs Pei Server start "F:\Virtual Machines\server\SUSE.vmx".

  Error: Not sufficient permissions in the host operating system

  no idea what I am doing wrong?

  Do not use '-gu ' and '-gp "in this command.

  The syntax must be the following (on a Windows host):

  the departure of https:// h vmrun t server ' [storage name] WinXP/WinXP.vmx.

  Use "u Administrator" instead of "-u root" because you are on a Windows host.

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• Using the guest host as operating system operating system

  When using VMware Server, if you install it on Server 2003, can use you your host operating system in your guest OS.  Or would you have to install another copy of it?

  Just trying to make sure I have good understanding.  If I install XP as a guest operating system, which is accessible remotely.  In addition, the same image can be created again and again or should I create a new serial numbers don't?  I'm fine with the purchase of new numbers of seria, but did not know how to create the guest operating system has worked.

  Consider each virtual machine comments as another computer.  So, everyone needs an operating system installed.  You can install the same host operating system, but it is a different facility.

  Microsoft allows you to use product keys Windows 4 ~ 5 times and then they will not activate them.  So if you remove an active Windows VM, that use of the key is lost.

  You may be able to copy a virtual machine already activated without having to re - activate, I'm not sure.  Like to do a clean install of Windows XP, activate and update, then copies of the virtual machine before you install additional software.

• vROPs and SRM - protected Machines and placeholder VMs have different guest free space operating system

  Hi all

  Question: Home - health - screen 'one or more machines virtual comments file systems are running out of disk space' has different values for MRS. protect VMs and VMs placeholder.

  Someone has to meet a gap with machines SRM protected value of free space of different OS comments that the position expressed VM?   I've been enforcing a cleaning of the guests with < 5% free space.  When we clean up the comments, the alert is cleared almost immediately on the VM protégé (power on), but the position expressed VM is never a present according to vROPs value.

  Is this a known issue? Is the problem with SRM or vROPs.  Are the vCenters related with MRS supported?

  I'm under vRops 6.2.0.3528905 build 3528905.  We use array based replication and have a GB link between sites.  Replication occurs in less than 5 minutes, so this shouldn't be a problem.  I can still see the question once a day and VMS space have yet to synchronize or to get close in value to their counterpart protect VM.

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  Luis C.

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• ESX4i as a guest in ESX4i operating system? Creating the server virtual way.

  Last night I had a brilliant I could use our system of vSphere to implement an envirovment/laboratory test for the performance of virtual machines with vCenter and a few ESX4i.

  This way I could safetly test some features that would otherwise require an additional installation of equipment. There is almost nothing that should stop her (except the implementation of virtualization HW/CPU limits) because ESX emulates all the elements necessary for a 'normal' server, network, and shared storage. Putting aside the performance issue, I should be able to test a large number of other functionality of Vmware in this kind of installation.

  Those who have seen the film creation include what I mean (dream in a dream, esx in esx).

  I can't find any documentation on how this could be done and the search terms are too generic to search for on Google.

  My own tests show that ESX-installer stops with the vmfs3 module not loading during the startup process of installation without obvious reason.

  Does anyone do this? Any information on where to find the next?

  Is not a supported configuration, but it should work.  See nested running VMs.

• Log even when user login in the guest among other operating system terminals

  When user 1 uses (XYZ of AD id) and if the user 2 with the same id (XYZ) session logging 1 user disconnected

  Is it possible to not not at the end of the Session running

  If a user connects to a desktop via the view using the X credentials to connect to the server, no matter which other connection to that office through the view in the form X will be reconnected to the existing desktop which has a user session associated with X (even if the logon local VM is different) This is the designed behavior.

  If you try to set up a classroom style environment where everyone uses the same name of connection then floating pools you can assign sessions depending on both the device and the user credentials customer, you need to enable 'multiple connections by user' for the pool - that way user X on client B will not be connected to a desktop in use by user X customer A.

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• PowerShell change of guest operating system

  I need to change the guest some VM operating system.

  How the powershell commands.

  for example, I have to change Red hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit) by Red hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit)

  Can you help me?

  Thank you for your help

  to change the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit)

  Set-VM - VM - VM1 - ID "rhel6_64Guest" name VM - confirm: $false

  to change the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit)

  Set-VM - VM - VM1 - ID "rhel5_64Guest" name VM - confirm: $false

• Upgrade memory of the guest operating system

  Hello

  There is problem, increasing memory on the guest operating system.

  Here is the hardware config

  HP Blade

  Whe have 14 GB of physical RAM on this server blade

  ESXI 3.5 VM

  Windows 2003 guest entry (guest 2 OS) operating system

  Question:-we want to divide our 14 GB of ram in two comments OS 7 GB each.

  When connect us to OS there is no increase ram it shows only invited invited old config ram, how can I update to the new allocation of RAM on the operating system.

  Thanks in advance.

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• Windows operating system online

  We had a problem yesterday where we needed to quickly get the status of all of our virtual Windows machines.  We needed and still need a way to identify quickly if the OS is up and running, not only if the customer is in a powered state.

  Most of our customers have "old tools" because we are in the process of upgrading to U4.  Our environment is 100% Windows.

  Can I report it on the guest easily online operating system?  If so, then at the end of the report can it be redirected in .xls or .csv format?

  vCenter 2.5.0U5

  ESX 3.5.0U3/U4

  Thanks in advance

  If I understand correctly the wire you want to be able to find customers who are turned on, but where the operating system does not work because it is not installed?

  The following example script will create a CSV file that reports on different types of States of all your guests.

  $report = @()
  Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | %{
       $row = "" | Select VMname, PowerState, ToolsStatus, GuestHeartbeatStatus
       $row.VMname = $_.Name
       $row.PowerState = $_.Summary.Runtime.PowerState
       $row.ToolsStatus = $_.Guest.ToolsStatus
       $row.GuestHeartbeatStatus = $_.GuestHeartbeatStatus
       $report += $row
  }
  $report | Export-Csv "C:\VM-States.csv"
  

  If you look in the CSV file and select guests who have a powerstate of 'receiving' and a 'red' GuestHeartbeatStatus you find the guests you are looking for.

  If you want a script that reports that the guests, an if statements in the previous script will do the trick.

  $report = @()
  Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | %{
       $row = "" | Select VMname, PowerState, ToolsStatus, GuestHeartbeatStatus
       $row.VMname = $_.Name
       $row.PowerState = $_.Summary.Runtime.PowerState
       $row.ToolsStatus = $_.Guest.ToolsStatus
       $row.GuestHeartbeatStatus = $_.GuestHeartbeatStatus
       if($row.PowerState -eq "poweredon" -and $row.GuestHeartbeatStatus -eq "red"){
            $report += $row
       }
  }
  $report | Export-Csv "C:\VM-States.csv"
  

  I hope that's what you're looking for?

• Guest operating system not customizable at the cloning

  Hello

  I am trying to clone an existing virtual machine (win2k3) and to customize the operating system i.e. sysprep by using the wizard.

  I placed and a ran/extract the files of microsoft in C:\ALLUSERSPROFILE\...sysprep\1.1 etc., but still the wizard is grayed.

  Is there some post installation task that must be completed? or a clue as to where to look for the answer

  Thank you

  Glenn

  This will sound like a stupid question, but are you sure that the guest virtual machine OS is set correctly on Windows 2003?

• Customize the virtual machine guest operating system crashes

  I'll put a guest operating system XP very basic in a pool of utter connected auto. After a good market the checklist in the admin manual the pool begins to create guests. When he got to the customization step machine virtual guest operating system, it failed. The error was:

  A specified parameter was not correct.

  spec.identity.userData.computerName

  No idea what this means and how to fix it?

  Hi dTardis,

  Using special characters in the hostname?

  Good luck.

  Concerning

  Franck

• vCenter 4.1 Update 1 "Guest Operating System support customization"

  I was reading the release notes for vCenter 4.1 update 1. I noticed this statement regarding the additional customization support:

  "Additional support for customization of the operating system called: vCenter Server now supports the customization of the following systems: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x 32 and x 64)".

  (1) this means that we should not patch our model of Windows 2008 R2 with SP1, if we're still using vCenter 4.1 (without Update 1)?

  (2) in addition, it is possible that someone has already patched our model of Windows 2008 R2 with SP1. What would be the consequences or potential issues if some virtual machines have already been deployed and customized in vCenter 4.1 (without Update 1)?

  I doubt I'll see any error, warning or other if I tried to customize, but I want to assure you that it is not some underlying issues that would not easily noticeable.

  The reason is simple... SP1 is RTM and will be released in the coming weeks.

  First version of vCenter 4.1 can not support only because that there was not.

  Does not support does not mean that it is does not work (sorry for the pun).

  André

• Change the customization of the operating system invited to the catalog

  Hi, I was testing vCloud for a demo, when I realize that it was not able to connect to cloned Windows 2008 R2.

  Checking certain things, I get to the customization options of the guest operating system, where I found a password change policy, but they have grayed out to the level of the catalog (as shown in the attached picture).

  I was able to change the option to a power off VM cloned already in my cloud, but the question is: do I have to do this for each cloned virtual machine, or is it possible to do it at the level of the catalog to get a framework agreement?

  Thanks in advance!

  Pablo. -.

  EDIT: Sorry, vCD is 1.5 with vSphere 5.0. VMtools are updated on the VMS and I use vHardware 8.

  Lol once in the catalog, it can not be changed. See also the thread here http://communities.vmware.com/thread/285874?tstart=30

• Error: The "centos64guest" guest operating system is not supported.

  Hello

  Did someone met this kind of mistake? Error: the "centos64guest" guest operating system is not supported. This happens during the recovery after disaster, the 64-bit centos OS prompt never switch on after the opening of the option "IP address change. While my windows 2003 and 2008 R2 are successful.

  Hello

  According to the compatibility matrix, customization of CentOS VMs is not officially supported:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/SRM/SRM-compat-matrix-5-0.html --> Guest Operating Sysytem customization Support

  Michael.