Re: Windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit on VmWare 5.02?
XP definitely needs less memory, however it goes out of support shortly, so you won't be able to get any security patches. 32 vs 64 bit makes no significant difference in the memory footprint or...
View ArticleESXi3.5 hosts copy to ESXi5.1
Hello, I have ESXi 3.5 and 4.1 machines with multiple VM's. I have a new server and would like to take advantage of VMFS5. If I do this will I be able to copy the VM's on my older systems to my new...
View ArticleRe: Installing Boot Camp Drivers
You shouldn't need any drivers installed in the windows VM to use a USB CD/DVD drive at all. Fusion should handle all that by virtualizing the Mac hardware and presenting a generic device to the VM.
View ArticleRe: Guest OS Hangs or Fusion 5 Crashes
From the VMWare Store, Fusion 5: System Requirements:Any 64-bit capable Intel® Mac. 4GB RAM recommended750MB free disk space for Fusion at least 5GB for each VMMac OS X 10.6.7 or later; OS X...
View ArticleRe: Can I rename "Shared Folders"
A workaround might be to SUBST a drive letter for that path.
View ArticleRe: Why no fix for the huge number of bugs introduced in 5.02
What bugs? Specifically? What ones have you provided a support bundle for? What ones have you actually diagnosed and confirmed as issues? What ones have you submitted to tech support via offical...
View ArticleRe: Multiple monitors, multiple VMs, full screen and Unity mode
Thanks. Right now I'm operating in one of the two modes you mentioned. But I had this working on the new install I did recently but in troubleshooting another problem (losing mouse click in Linux VM) I...
View ArticleRe: 5.0.2 crashing
You've managed to cross post assertions to multiple threads, which may make you feel better, but posting that support bundle that Woody asked for would actually help resolve things. Have you asked...
View ArticleRe: Getting Hyperic to monitor ESXi hosts or vCenter Server
Hi there Iam having the same issue in configuring this out. I am using the HQ (open source) 5.0 and struggling in setting the server to monitor the vmware enviroment, in particular setting up the...
View ArticleRe: Some old VMs can't use the MACbook mouse
Did you try reinstalling VMWare tools under fusion? It shouldn't make a difference, but, well, you never know.
View ArticleRe: Running Fusion as a network user
Don't use the command line - can you open it from the Applications folder in that user account? It sounds like the user doesn't have the rights to use that application. Does the account have admin...
View ArticleRe: Solution to full transaction log for database VIM_VCDB
Thanks, This was successful for us too, we were getting maxed out logs on "Past Day stats rollupVIM_VCDB" job, and upping the max limit on our transaction logs to somthing ridiculous allowed the job to...
View ArticleRe: How to get Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) To work in Vmware Fusion 5!
I'm trying to run SWTOR in a fresh Win 7 32bit install and the enter VM crashes at some point once you hit 'PLAY' from the first screen (updatesr download fine)...everytime. Can you post your config...
View ArticleRe: Running Fusion as a network user
The network user has local administrator privs on that box. When I do click on /Application/VMware Fusion, it bounces a few seconds on the launch bar and then disappears.
View ArticleRe: 5.0.2 crashing
It's up to VMWare to make sure that their software runs on Mac OS X. It is not Apple's responsibility to make VMWare do it's job. Parallels is not have any of these issues. It's not a rant. It's...
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Re: Some old VMs can't use the MACbook mouse
dlhotka wrote: Did you try reinstalling VMWare tools under fusion? scchan has said "The keyboard and mouse have no response after login" a couple of times now, so how do you propose VMware Tools get...
View ArticleRe: ESXi3.5 hosts copy to ESXi5.1
Are you using shared storage or vCenter? If you don't have vCenter you might consider Essentials package. If you have vCenter you could join the new host (vCenter would have to be at version 5.1),...
View ArticleRe: How to run powecli via jmeter
This seems to work: BSF sampler: use beanshell exec("cmd /c \"echo . | powershell -PSConsoleFile \"C:\\Program Files\\VMware\\Infrastructure\\Vsphere PowerCLI\\vim.psc1\" -command .\\<ps...
View ArticleRe: Getting Hyperic to monitor ESXi hosts or vCenter Server
That will be a tough one since it was trial and error to get this to work and I went through a ton of emailing back and forth and webex sessions to get it to work and I dont remember the exact thing...
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