A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
“Disable VMware ESX” is the warning message that is displayed when you open your VMware vSphere Client after the 60-day evaluation period has expired without typing in a new license key for your free VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5 install. You cannot type in the license key in the vSphere Client after the evaluation period has […]
This short post is about VMware Tools on VM guests running in a vSphere 5.x cluster/hosts. This PowerCli one-liner creates a list of VM guests where the VMware Tools CDROM/ISO is mounted: (Get-VM | Get-View | Where {$_.Runtime.ToolsInstallerMounted}) | % {$_.Name} Unmount the VMware Tools installer CDROM on all VM guests. This is useful to […]
This post describes how you can download and install the latest version of VMware Tools to a linux guest from a ESXi 5.0 host. You need SSH access rights to a VMware host to follow this guide. Allow SSH access to the VMware host you are about to access. This can be done in the […]
This post describes how you can import a VHD disk image file from XenApp 6 to your VMware vSphere 5 environment in a few simple steps. I am writing this because VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client version 4.3 does not support conversion of VHD image files, even though it has done so in previous versions. […]
Installing the 64 bit VMware Workstation 7.1.1 on Ubuntu # ./VMware-Workstation-Full-7.1.1-282343.x86_64.bundle When you try to start VMware Workstation for the first time you will get the following error message You have to read the log file to get the details why VMware would not start, in my case it is named /tmp/vmware-root/setup-24056.log Oct 02 00:10:54.570: […]