All about virtualisation. VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, ESXi and vCenter, qemu
The BIOS of the VMware Workstation does not support to boot from a USB drive or stick which is connected to a virtual machine.
But there is a workaround:-) Use the Plop Boot Manager. Download the latest ZIP File and extract the plpbt.iso file. This contains a CD image which starts plop boot manager. Connect the iso file as a virtual CDROM to your virtual machine.
Continue reading VMware Workstation: Boot a virtual machine from a USB drive/stick
Last week a customer had the problem that a virtual machine uses a NAT Network connection but the NIC Adapter in the virtual machine is in disconnected state.
C:\Users\Administrator>ipconfig Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter LAN-Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : localdomain
Continue reading VMware: Virtual maschine LAN Interface disconnected
In previous version of VMware Player the NAT and the “Host only” network settings could be change by vmnetcfg.exe.
Since VMware Player 5 this tools is no longer a part of the installation, but vmnetui.dll is available. You can start the virtual network editor using the Windows rundll32.exe.
Open a command line and change to the VMWare Player installation directory. This command bring the virtual network editor back:
rundll32.exe vmnetui.dll VMNetUI_ShowStandalone
Michael
Hi,
for VMware vSphere a very powerfull Scripting engine is available which is called PowerCLI. PowerCLI based on, the also very powerfull, Microsoft powershell.
The Basics
Get the PowerCLI package from the VMware website and install it on your Windows Computer or on the VMware vCenter Server. Ok, lets start.
Open PowerCLI Command prompt by clicking “VMware vSphere PowerCLI (32-Bit)” Icon. Note: The 64Bit Version(both the 32Bit and 64Bit versions were installed) did support all commands. For example when you clone a computer by the New-VM Command-Let and specifiy the OSCustomizationSpec parameter the follwing error was thrown.
New-VM -VM "ComputerTemplate" -Location "Windows Clients" -ResourcePool Resources -OSCustomizationSpec "Windows XP Client" -Datastore esxdatastore0 -Name "COMPUTER1" New-VM : 26.06.2013 23:37:42 New-VM is not a valid Win32 application. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800700C1)
However start the 32Bit Version :-). First you have to connect to your vCenter. If your Windows Account, with which you logged on, have the appropriate rights to connect to vCenter simply call
Connect-VIServer NameOfYourvCenter.domain.com
If logon successeds 2 global object variables are set to which all following commands refers to.
global:DefaultVIServer NameOfYourvCenter.domain.com
global:DefaultVIServers {NameOfYourvCenter.domain.com}
Alternatively you can assign the vCenter Object to a variable and append the -Server <VIServer[]> parameter to each command. This is usefull if you have multiple instances of vCenter.
$oSecondVCenter=Connect-VIServer NameOfYourvCenter.domain.com Set-Vm -VM "OldName" -name "New-Name" -Server $oSecondVCenter
By default, all command are executed synchronous. This means the command prompt returned not until the tasks is finished. To start jobs asynchronus append the -RunAsync parameter to each command line.
Lets start with some example scripts
Continue reading VMware: A (incomplete) list with some PowerCLI Scripts for vSphere
Hi,
part 3 of my (incomplete) list of the esx cli.
ESXi Advanced Kernel Settings/Parameters
Get all
esxcli system settings advanced list
Set one, i.e. disable the shell respectively ssh warnings
esxcli system settings advanced set -o /UserVars/SuppressShellWarning -i 1
ESXi Kernel modules
List loaded kernel modules
vmkload_mod -l
Get a list of all enabled kernel modules
esxcfg-module -q
Continue reading VMware ESXi: A (incomplete) list of host commands Part 3