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Failed to lock the file! VMWare virtual disk (vmdk)

Posted by Ivan
/ March 12, 2008 / 297 Comments

I copied one of my Windows XP virtual machine running on a VMWare Server 1.02 system locally to my workstation. After the files were copied I opened the vmx file with VMWare Workstation 6 and received the following error below after trying to start the virtual machine. The virrtual machine...

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VMWare Server: 511 vmware-serverd service is not running.

Posted by Ivan
/ March 2, 2008 / 29 Comments

At some point my Windows based VMWare Server server run out of disk space where couple of important production virtual machines were running. Windows started to complain about low disk space and I had only 32KB space left. I tried to open VMWare Server console and I got the error...

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VMware Converter 3.0.2 Update 1

Posted by Ivan
/ February 25, 2008 / 2 Comments

The latest version for VMWare Converter has been out since 3rd of December last year and doing the p2v migration yesterday it helped me to quickly decide how to proceed. The scheduled p2v migration took me very long and I decided to use my evaluation cd of Acronis True Image...

Posted in Acronis, VMWare
VMWare ESX3i Cisco CDP protocol L2 overview

Posted by Ivan
/ February 6, 2008 / 2 Comments

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) allows ESX Server 3 administrators to determine which Cisco switch port is connected to a given vSwitch. When CDP is enabled for a particular vSwitch, you can view properties of the Cisco switch (such as device ID, software version, and timeout) from the VI Client. You...

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VMWare ESX3i Monitoring Server Health Status

Posted by Ivan
/ February 6, 2008 / 1 Comment

ESX 3i host server has sensors builtin that allows you to monitor the health of the following host components: CPU processors Memory Fans Temperature Voltage On systems without IPMI, only CPU sensors are available. Storage sensors are available only on systems with an LSI MegaRAID controller installed. If a particular...

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VMWare Player cmd startup script

Posted by Ivan
/ January 29, 2008 / 12 Comments

Did you ever tried to automate the process of having a script or shortcut to automatically start a virtual guest with VMWare Player? After you login you can start VMWare Player and locate the virtual machine or click the recent one but still you need to control this process. Maybe...

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CactiEZ 0.3 download and install tutorial VMWare Workstation

Posted by Ivan
/ January 27, 2008 / 6 Comments

In this tutorial I am going to show you how easy it is to install CactiEZ appliance and run this as a virtual guest appliance in VMWare Workstation. After the installation the virtual guest is portable and can be moved to a VMWare Server installation. Note from http://cactiusers.org what CactiEZ...

Posted in Cacti, VMWare
VMWare tools tracking mouse issue

Posted by Ivan
/ January 23, 2008 / Leave a comment

New tutorial has been published explaining the strange behavior of the VMWare tools mouse driver. Example screenshot https://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/published/vmware-tools-mouse-tracking-after-upgrade

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Installing VMWare ESX Server for VMWare Workstation 6 screencast

Posted by Ivan
/ December 10, 2007 / 2 Comments

Youtube screw up my 10 minutes video. This time I encoded the video into a flash format. Check out the video which was based on the tutorial of installing VMWare ESX server into a VMWare Workstation6 guest. Click here to open the file (8mb).

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VMug.nl Ducth VMWare Usergroup Event 12 December 2007

Posted by Ivan
/ December 9, 2007 / Leave a comment

Met wat probleempjes naar Nieuwegein en een verkeerde afslag richting Utrecht toch rond negen uur bij NBC gebouw aangekomen. Persoonlijk verliep mijn registratie stroef en moest twee keer opschuiven om in de juiste rij te gaan staan; misschien nog te weinig koffie gehad. 9:30-9:45 Start VMUG Event 2007: ‘Exploring the...

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News, Problem Solutions and Other Interesting Information...

Failed to lock the file! VMWare virtual disk (vmdk)

VMWare Server: 511 vmware-serverd service is not running.

VMware Converter 3.0.2 Update 1

VMWare ESX3i Cisco CDP protocol L2 overview

VMWare ESX3i Monitoring Server Health Status

VMWare Player cmd startup script

CactiEZ 0.3 download and install tutorial VMWare Workstation

VMWare tools tracking mouse issue

Installing VMWare ESX Server for VMWare Workstation 6 screencast

VMug.nl Ducth VMWare Usergroup Event 12 December 2007

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