Eternally SCSI Spinning Disk…
VMWare Server 2.0 Beta. You define a Linux virtual machine (or import a machine defined elsewhere) and it stands forever during boot in “SCSI Spinning Disk”. This is due to the fact that machine has...
View ArticleInstalling VMWare Server 1.0.5 tools on CentOS 5.1 guest
Running vmware-config-tools.pl script on a guest CentOS 5.1 virtual machine in a VMWare Server 1.0.5 environment will not find the proper kernel modules, so it will prompt you to compile the modules....
View ArticleError installing VMWare 2.0 on Windows 2003 Server
I was trying to installing VMWare Server 2.0 but it kept getting this error System Administrator has set policies to prevent this installation. Quick and dirty solution in 8 steps: Click Start ->...
View ArticleOpenFiler 2.3 Troubleshooting.
OpenFiler is a great system to implement NAS (Network Attached Storage) in a network using general purpose hardware. On the ‘Net you can find great tutorial about how to setup with VMWare ESX servers,...
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Configuring layer two VM as inline IPS in VMware ESX
To setup properly the portgroups in VMware vSwitching environment, we had to create two portgroups per vSwitch as depicted below: Reason for this configuration is that “operative portgroups” where...
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Upgrading ESXi 4.0 to 4.1 from CLI
Today I successfully upgraded 4 ESXi hosts to VMware ESXi 4.1. Since I do not have Virtual Center (they are mainly lab machines), I found very good hints about hot to do it from CLI via SSH. And as...
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Convert VirtualBox disk file into VMware on a Mac
Being in love with wonderful VirtualBox since I’ve tried the first time few years ago, I noticed that the disk files are often incompatible with VMware. Today I’ve found a good solution and I want to...
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Useful CLI commands on VMWare
Using a Mac with VMware ESX(i) is a pain, since very scarce support is available for the poor lovers of the apple Luckily, once you enable ssh access on the hypervisor, the following commands come very...
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Installing Mavericks on ESXi 5.1
Despite what it might seems at a first look, this is NOT a complicated thing. The advantages are enormous… especially if you own a developer account: it would allows you to test the evolution of this...
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HowTo Export a VM in OVA format in VMware Fusion for OS X
The main reason of almost every post on this blog is the same. Need to do something, dig the Net, take a while to find stuff so I think to make a note on my… virtual hints book This time the need was...
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