Re: Unable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe...
Hi,Could you please check the VM vmware.log and esxi host /var/log/hostd.log. VMware KB: Opening a console to a virtual machine fails with the error: Unable to connect to the MKS: Console access…...
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Re: Icon with Exclamation Mark
I had same problem today. I copied vm from windows machine, then exclamation mark appeared.Vm worked just fine, but I could bear ugly exclamation marked icon. When I quickviewed that icon, message told...
View ArticleHow to downgrade the hardware version of a VM?
We have VM that hardware version is 10 and running in esxi 5.5. As per project requirement we need to migrate the VM to esxi 5.0. Can any one advise please. Thanks in advance.
View ArticleRe: How to downgrade the hardware version of a VM?
Hello, you could do following: - Using VMware Converter Standalone to make a V2V to downgrade the vHWor- Creating empty VM with same Specs and Pointing the Disks to the new one (new created vm on 5.5...
View ArticleRe: How to reclaim a datastore in esxi 5.5?
Hello, here you have the KB for UNMAP Feature http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2057513 best regards Max
View ArticleRe: Vcenter 6 - Performance Tab
Hi theire, Yes that's a Pitty. Vmware is trying to force Webclient overally. as for that they removing slightly features from VI-Client so that we all painfully need to get over to the webclient....
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
Hi David, Did finally work the new SATA card attached BluRay player solution?Or have you found anything other. I'm fighting to have a working BluRay player in a VM too (ESXi 6+Win10) +LG player, no...
View ArticleQuickTime Player Screen Recordings appears black in a Virtual Machine
Is there any way to get QuickTime Player Screen Recordings work in a virtual machine?Right now anything that is recorded inside virtual machine appears black.It works without using virtual machine. I...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5 installation error
Resolved...I was getting this error because of slow internet connection.
View ArticleRe: View Persona MGT not syncing AppData\Local\Apps
The only way to make sure Persona replicates the profile successfully is by looking at the log file. Up to now Persona doesn't have a console to remind administrator if something happened in profile...
View ArticleRe: How to reclaim a datastore in esxi 5.5?
Hi, Thanks for valuable input. It's very helpful. Thanks
View ArticleWindows 7 Virtual PC XP vhd import failed !
Hi all,I try to replace Windows 7 Virtual PC by VMWare workstation , provided that I can import the XP machine created with Virtual PC .VMWare Workstation offers to create a virtual machine from a mvc...
View ArticleRe: Installing vSphere Hypervisor 6.0 Host
Welcome to the Community, first of all, ESXi is a Type-1 Hyprevisor, i.e. installed directly on the hardware (it's actually an operating system). Installing it on a system will overwrite the...
View ArticleRe: "Install of VMware Tools for Windows 95, 98, Me and NT failed. Contact...
Welcome to the Community, Did the download work? What you may try is to open the VMware Player preferences and run download all components now. Once all VMware Tools packages are downloaded try the...
View ArticleRe: App Volumes 2.7 - Windows 8.1 - Start menu
Hi, we are running Windows 8.1 and have the problem with the Start menu. I really hope VMware will fix their App Volumes agent, not everyone is running Windows 7 like they do in their labs. Can you...
View ArticleBest Practices for NIC configuration
We are running Vsphere Enterprise Edition and are migrating from HP DL380 G8 to Gen9 servers. Each Gen9 server has 12 NIC ports and I would like to know what is the best practices to utilize these NIC...
View ArticleConvert Windows 2003 server?
Hello.I'm an IT admin and recently my company inherited a particular old server running Windows 2003.My only concern is the HW failing on me so my immediate thought was to convert the server into a VM,...
View ArticleRe: Best Practices for NIC configuration
Hello, Just Questions. how much Onboard Connections and how much Additional Cards? Just as it would be good to cross Connections through different Cards. So means in worst case if 1 Card dies - that...
View ArticleRe: "Install of VMware Tools for Windows 95, 98, Me and NT failed. Contact...
Welcome to the Community, Did the download work? What you may try is to open the VMware Player preferences and run download all components now. Once all VMware Tools packages are downloaded try the...
View ArticleRe: Convert Windows 2003 server?
I had to do something similar some time ago, and what I did was to use the old ColdClone CD (assuming you still hve it) and convert the Windows 2003 Server into a VMware Workstation format (ColdClone...
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