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Audio output not working Fuxion 8.5 OS X 10.6 server

September 24, 2016, 3:20 pm
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Well, I've put in the required five hours trying to find an answer and have had no luck so I'm back here to bother the experts again.  I've installed OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard server in vm 8.5.  Everything is working pretty well with one exception.  I can't get any audio output.  OS X system preferences report no output devices found and no input devices found.  I've fiddled with the vmWare settings and done a bit of editing of the .vmx file.

 

The setup is complicated by a headset connected to the audio out port via what looks like a standard RCA jack.  However, unplugging the headset doesn't seem to make any difference.

 

Thanks for any and all pointers,

Tony Lima

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Re: Upgrading from version Fusion 8 to Fusion 8.5 problem

September 24, 2016, 3:20 pm
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Ahh OK.

 

Well on a new release people come to the forum with problems they bump into.

Quite often the problem is unique to their setup and something just didn't go well during the update.

There can be many reasons as there are a lot of factors to take into account. Most of the times the people on the forum are able to help out and get Fusion back to working as they want. You have to take into account that there's a lot of users (I don't know any numbers, but it is quite a large group of customers) so people reporting issues is simply expected due to the scale.

 

Sometimes there are indeed real problems with VMware Fusion in combination with a certain guest OS or feature.

From what I see with the reports coming in from Fusion 8.5 the reports are not suggesting that there are major issues.

Most of the reports I've seen in the past weeks are about macOS Sierra and older versions of VMware Fusion where Sierra is not a supported host OS.

Seeing a problem there when upgrading the host OS is not unexpected, but it can still work.

 

FWIW I run Fusion here on a few systems and have Windows 10 as guest OS and it just works.

No problems at all.

 

This does not mean the product is without defects, but I've also yet to see proof of the opposite.

 

For the record, I do not work for VMware  (if that wasn't clear already)

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Wil

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Re: shared local storage DL 360G9

September 24, 2016, 3:28 pm
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Hello,

 

This isn't really possible without some form of product like vSAN or ScaleIO.

 

I hope this answers your question.

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Re: how to map a shared folder to a drive

September 24, 2016, 4:15 pm
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Thanks for the answers!

 

I am asking this because I want to perform a disk benchmarking using Blackmagic Disk Speed Test.

 

My original dilema is this:

 

I have an external hdd formatted using NTFS.

 

So I want to know which one is the best way to access it's contents considering speed:

 

1 - Through VMware Shared Folder concept under USB 3 connection.

 

2 - Direct access inside the guest using USB 2 connection.

 

Blackmagic Disk Speed Test don't recognize the shared folder as a disk, so I can't perform the test.

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Re: powercli to install vmware tools on windows 7

September 24, 2016, 4:40 pm
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LucD

 

Sorry for delay,

 

I kept a login on the box & ran the script

 

It was stuck at attached

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Re: powercli to install vmware tools on windows 7

September 24, 2016, 4:51 pm
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i adjusted auto play options in control pannel manually & then i see below

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Re: write vmdk images on physical disk

September 24, 2016, 5:25 pm
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If you want to do it without the intermediate step of making a copy then I'm not sure what product supports that, there's probably some, but I simply don't know.

Without an intermediate copy: On a Linux host, vmware-mount -f <diskPath> <mountPoint> gives you access (on the host) to the raw blocks of the virtual disk... the resulting mountPoint/flat file on the host can be copied (with dd) directly onto an empty physical disk -- taking great care to ensure that you don't accidentally overwrite anything important!  Careful choice of args to dd allows for selection of a single partition from the source virtual disk, if needed.  I haven't checked whether Workstation for Windows has a similar option or capability.

 

Cheers,

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Darius

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Re: Cannot update from vRealize Operations Manager 6.2 to 6.3

September 24, 2016, 7:12 pm
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I have 2 files in MyVMware

 

1. Name:  vRealize_Operations_Manager-VA-OS-6.3.0.4276417.pak
Release Date: 2016-08-23
Build Number: 4276417

vRealize Operations Manager - Virtual Appliance Operating System upgrade
Required for both VA and VA-WIN upgrade options in order to upgrade the Virtual Appliance Operating System.

 

2. Name:  vRealize_Operations_Manager-VA-6.3.0.4276417.pak
Release Date: 2016-08-23
Build Number: 4276417

vRealize Operations Manager - Virtual Appliance upgrade (without Windows based RC)
For vRealize Operations upgrades for existing v6.x Virtual Appliance installations (with no Windows-based Remote Collectors).

 

I think you must install both files.

 

See at vRealize Operations Manager 6.3 Information Center and Upgrade vRealize Operations Manager appliance, from 6.0.1 to 6.2.

 

So you must now install only vRealize_Operations_Manager-VA-6.3.0.4276417.pak

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Fusion 8.5 tabs and keyboard shortcuts

September 24, 2016, 7:29 pm
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Is there a way to add the tab shortcuts to the Fusion keyboard profile so they are trapped instead of passed to the active VM? Currently, some windows (ubuntu) grabs the ctrl-tab sequence when I'd rather have it switch the tabs.

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Fix Wrong Source Interface for Wake on Lan Packets

September 24, 2016, 7:51 pm
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In my lab setup I am using two ESXi 6 hosts and the VCSA. I have setup VLANs for iSCSI, vMotion, and Management.

iSCSI is using the non wake-on-lan ports and vMotion the wake-on-lan ports.

When I place an ESXi host on standby this functions normally. When I select to Power On the standby host the host does not power on.

I captured packets on the network and discovered that the active ESXi host is sending the Wake-On-Lan packets from the iSCSI interface. So the wake up fails because the iSCSI VLAN does not connect to any ports of the standby host which are capable of wake-on-lan. Also the MAC addresses for the wakeup packets are not on the iSCSI VLAN; they are on the vMotion and Management VLANs.

 

Is it possible to fix this behavior and force the active ESXi host to send the wake up packet out the vMotion or Management interface so the packets will reach a wake-on-lan port of the standby host?

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Connection refused for putty and winscp after installing Dell OpenManage

September 24, 2016, 10:31 pm
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Re: deployed NSX edge but cannot ping it

September 24, 2016, 11:30 pm
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ok not sure what happened but finally got nat working. from my web tier I was able to ping public IPs.

 

 

I didnt put the secondary IP address in there. I only specified the NAT IP under NAT rules.

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Vmware's DVS port mirroring does not capture vlan tags

September 24, 2016, 11:49 pm
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Hi i have a very specific use case which requires my monitoring tool to receive captured data including vlan headers

 

 

i've tried several different methods of VDS port mirroring and im getting mixed results

some of the methods i'm trying remove the vlans tags and some preserve them

 

here are the methods I've tested:

 

Port mirroring legacy with source mirror and destination as the same portgroup - removes vlan tags

Port mirroring legacy with source mirror and destination as the diffrent  portgroup - removes vlan tags

Distributed port mirroring (via web client) with source mirror and destination as the same portgroup - removes vlan tags

Distributed port mirroring (via web client) with source mirror and destination as the different  port group -  preserves vlan tags

 

I've ruled out the fact that the monitored machines are in the same broadcast domain by conducting  a ping using  machine in the same broadcast domain

as well as a machine on a different vlan (going through a virtual router) results were the same

also i made sure the "Preserver original vlan" checkbox was marked

(i've also made sure that the destination port group is in trunking mode and has Forged transmits and mac address changes in accept

i'vee checked using wireshark)

 

my point is that instead of performing a trail an error experiment here i would like to know if there is an official answer on how to configre port mirroring in a way that i can see the vlan tags in the captured destination

 

 

in addition, i'm using Gammon Appliances, which create automatically a port mirroring session in the form of Legacy port mirroring (the version that is available in vSphere client)  so  i would also like to know if it is possible to preserver the vlan tagges using legacy port mirroring

 

thanks

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Re: "SSO admin service failure" exception in vSphere 6.0.2

September 25, 2016, 12:07 am
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Hi vesuvius_prime,

 

Is there a patch for build 3634794?

 

Thanks,

Tamir Obergot

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Re: powercli to install vmware tools on windows 7

September 25, 2016, 2:53 am
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Perhaps I was not clear, but I wanted to see the setup.exe being started form a command prompt or PowerShell prompt, with the same parameters you are passing to the Invoke-VMScript.

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Quickest way to backup a VM without Veeam

September 25, 2016, 2:49 am
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I'm using ESXi 6.0 U2....free version and cannot use Veeam (i believe).

 

I want to backup a VM, it's okay it is stopped, but for a shortest possible time.

 

My own suggestion:

I think the best way would be to make an OVF of the VM.

But to keep the down-time as short as possible I would like to export to a OVF located on the same host (but in another datastore located on another disk) perhaps with the fastest compression.
1st question: Using the ovftool, is it possible to specify a local datastore on the same host as target? If so how?
I tried something like:

ovftool -ds=DataStore2 vi://root:MyPW@srv01/vm1 vi://root:MyPW@srv01 srv01backup.ovf

2nd question: If I use ovftool from my local windows client pc.....will data be transferred to my PC and then back to the host or will the host understand to do it directly to it's own datastore?

3nd question: Can I do an OVF export directly on the ESXi host. e.g. connecting to the host using SSH and type a command?
For now I only know of two ways: Using the web-client and using the UI (but data will for sure be transfered directly to my PC). Or using ovftool from my PC.

 

One could ask, why not make a OVF directly to my backup-archive? Because I believe transferring the OVF files directly over the network will make the backup time longer, and therefore having the VM being stopped for a longer time. I get transfer-speed between 15-30MB/sec....I was hoping to get a lot more doing and disk-to-disk transfer on the host.

 

Any other way of doing this?
I know I could just copy all the VMs files from the datastore, but I don't like it too much as it can get complicated with snap-shorts, memory files etc.

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Re: Connection refused for putty and winscp after installing Dell OpenManage

September 25, 2016, 3:50 am
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We've installed OMSA on a number of hosts without any issues.

 

I assume SSH is enabled and there is nothing odd going on with the ESXi firewall?

 

Try uninstalling OMSA and rebooting to see if access is restored, to confirm if this is something OMSA did or just a coincidence that it started with an ESXi reboot.

 

Cheers, Matt.

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Re: Resource pool and cluster vSphere

September 25, 2016, 4:11 am
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Thank you very much for your help. Now I understand,

best regards

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Re: how to map a shared folder to a drive

September 25, 2016, 4:19 am
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Hi,

 

I guess it depends on what mechanism your benchmark software uses, as it is "black magic" (pun intended) I guess we'll never know.

 

FWIW, there's a big difference if your need is fast big files versus fast on many small files.

For VMware Shared Folders, also known as Host Guest File Sharing (HGFS), the latter one is known to be slow, but with sharing big files it performs quite well.

While HGFS is convenient for exchanging files between guest and host, I personally would not even consider it in a scenario where I need reliable, fast, continuous file sharing between a guest and host.

 

Also not sure why you only talk about USB2 from the guest as my Sierra guest does support USB3.

 

You mention using an external disk formatted as NTFS, I take it you are aware that macOS Sierra by default does not enable write to the disk (you have to manually enable that)

 

Finally if you have a need to concurrently access the files from both guest and host, then your external disk scenario might end up being a hassle as only one OS can have access at the same time. So it is either your guest or your host that is connected.

 

If you really need fast and reliable shared file access then I'm afraid that the answer is to use industry standards and use network file sharing alternatives.

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Re: convert XenServer VM to ESX

September 25, 2016, 4:20 am
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I have the same Problem:

 

I use VMware Converter 5 or 6 for convert Windows 2012 R2 from XenServer 7 to VMware 6.x. After Convert i only can start in Safe Mode :-)

 

- repair Windows - no luck, no way

- checking Partition - my partitions are ok

- Error = System Thread Exception Not Handled (uninstall Xen Drivers and Display Drivers) - no luck, but i think it is a way: look at drivers.

 

Now i convert with Option (Install VMware Tools) - we will see

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