From the beginning of VMware Workstation, virtualizing audio has been a true issue to the program:
VMware, can you PLEASE, after decades, put some effort into improving audio playback, so audio software can finally be tested in a VM?
Thanks,
Axel
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Improve audio performance
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Re: Decrease Drive Size
Your question has not been answered at all.
You also did not receive any good hints that would help to find the real answer.
Let me do that now ....
First of all - there exists a way to reduce the size of a vmdk
( that is in case we talk about regular normal vmdks stored on VMFS - no vSAN or other fancy variants)
Second: Duncans answer is very good. It is safe and lame - but if you want to prevent that your customers destroy VMs that have done nothing wrong then it is the only one possible.
If my job was to decide wether something makes it into the offical documentation - I would probably also not even mention this.
Similar case: I do not expect that the manual for a hunting rifle features a section on how to use this rifle for suicide.
Doing so would really be contraproductive if you want to establish a longterm healthy relationship with your customers.
Problem: adding zeros after the partitioned area is a harmless action.If something goes wrong you end with a vmdk thats is larger than necessary but the risk to do any harm is really really low.
To do the opposite you pick a pair of scissors - that is not failsafe at all - if you cut at the wrong location you DESTROY YOUR DATA in a second.
... never needed a such large disclaimer before ....
So if you really want to cut your flat.vmdk - use dd like I do it.
Get your numbers straight: - one error - and the DATA is TOAST
You have to know this answers :
MBR or GPT ?
Does the partitiontable describe <OLD-SIZE-IN-MB> or was it already expanded for <NEW-SIZE-MB>?
Do you have the OLD-SIZE-IN-SECTORS ?
Then create your pair-of-scissors by extracting the last MB of the old size and save it as scissors.bin
Inspect your scissor.bin with hexedit - really ? - sure you got the right one ??
If you think you got all the questions answered - triple checked your numbers and still believe that this is your only option.
Then reinject scissors.bin at the very same spot you extracted it from and do NOT use conv=notrunc
So to sum it up:
vmkfstools -X
expands a vmdk
dd if=scissor.bin of=name-flat.vmdk bs=1M seek=X count=1
cuts a vmdk.
Thats it.
If you can not address all the problems that come up in this last red paragraph by using skills you practise already yourself then run away NOW.
If you cant fix the vmdk-descriptorfile without needing google first then do not try this - run away now.
If you do not know how to read / edit the partitiontable of a flat.vmdk with Linux-commandline tools ... are you really sure you need to do this ???...
Recommended to study first: read my article on how-to-use-dd-to-work-with-vmdks-stored-on-vmfs on vm-sickbay.
If you ask for support - dont call after you messed up !
But feel free to call via me skype so that I can check your numbers before you mess up.
Last warning: never enter dd seek values that you copied from some instructions in the net.
Ulli
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Re: Add 2nd NIC as independent port on vSwitch on ESXi 6.7
Hi Francis,
this is correct. The vswitch is not designed to switch packets
between its uplinks. Any packet entering an uplink will be
directed to virtual machines and will never ever come out
at another uplink again. This allows us to run several
cables in parallel to a physical switch without the risk
of packet loops or broacast storms. Spanning Tree is not
needed and is not present in a vswitch.
So if we connect two computers to two uplink ports
of a vswitch they will not be able to communicate.
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Re: vmotion (change compute, storage and network) script issues
Is your new cluster in the same datacenter as the old one, or is it in a new datacenter?
If your cluster is in the same datacenter and the VM is in the pool named Resources on the old cluster, you can even leave the Pool property out.
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Re: vmotion (change compute, storage and network) script issues
Same datacenter, but it needs to go to a new cluster. I thought the resource pool field would help specify which cluster the VM would be moving to.
I was able to correct it using the following syntax: $spec.Pool = $DestinationCluster.ExtensionData.ResourcePool
but for some reason it complains that the VM is not changing clusters.
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Re: vmotion (change compute, storage and network) script issues
Is DRS enabled on the target cluster?
If not, you will also need to fill the $spec.Host property with a MoRef from one of the ESXi nodes in the target cluster.
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Re: vmotion (change compute, storage and network) script issues
Yes, DRS is enabled on both source and target clusters.
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Whats wrong in the script
PowerCLI C:\> Get-VM -Name (Get-Content vmnames.txt) |Select-Object Name,@{N="HardDiskSizeGB"; E={(Get-HardDisk -VM $_ | Measure-Object -Sum CapacityGB).Sum}}
Get-VM : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Name'. The argument is null or empty. Provide an argument that is not null or empty, and then try the command again.
At line:1 char:14
+ Get-VM -Name (Get-Content vmnames.txt) |Select-Object Name,@{N="HardD ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Get-VM], ParameterBindingValidationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.GetVM
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Re: VMware Fusion 12
... However, the Applications Menu doesn’t seem to have been updated for Dark Mode (at least on 10.14.6, it remains unchanged: the same both in light and dark mode): is there a reason for this? Hopefully, will it be updated in a future release?
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Instant Clones - How are you guys preloading Print Drivers on the GI ?
Hi ,
In regards to IC's and the Gold Image - i was just curious how most are loading Print Drivers . ( or are most not doing that ? )
We are using UEM / App Vol and Writables with just UIA's .
It sounds like most people are putting Printer Drivers on the Gold image of the instant clone ?
Sorry for being an idiot.. but i was just wondering the precise steps .
copy the driver files to C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository
We dont want everyone to have access to every printer... thus we dont want to install every printer on the GI .
Im just trying to 'preload' the drivers onto the GI.. so they are there when a users gets that printer added .
Perhaps install the printer then remove it ?.. i wonder if the driver stays ?
thanks .
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Re: UEM applied Shortcuts - How to you DEL them from the desktop ?
HI ,
Nope.. not doing anything like you listed. thanks .
I Did find this old forum post :
UEM 8.7 - UEM Refresh / Shortcut "Undo at logoff" not working
Yep .. its a tad old.. we Are getting that "[ERROR] Async UEM actions or UEM Refresh in progress" error .
Im working on getting the logs. I should probably get my managers ok to post them just to be safe . Is there any method i can send them to you outside the forum ?.. Could you PM me ?
thanks .
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Cannot create datastore using VVOL
Hi everyone,
Good day,
Anyone has ever encountered a problem like mine, i don't have any idea to solve this, help me.
Storage: NetApp
Model: FAS8200
OS: Ontap 9.6P2
ESXi: 6.7U2
vCenter: 6.7U2
Thank You
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Re: Thinapp Windows XP application to Windows 10
Hi Lalegre,
In my experience, Virtualized Oracle 8i Client (ODBC) can run on Windows 10.
I installed all apps including Oracle directly under the C drive.
Case of installatin to Program Files on WinXP(x86), it did not work on Windows10(x64). (TNS error occurred)
Best Regards,
Kzmaybe
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Re: Shrinking APFS?
The VM does not have any snapshots.
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Re: Fusion 11.5 networking completely broken
This might be similar to the problem I observed (I'm running on macOS 10.14.6 Mojave, in case it matters).
Have you restarted the host since installing Fusion 11.5?
After installing Fusion 11.5 I had a problem with USB devices being unavailable in my VMs: VMware Fusion said there were no USB devices connected, USB storage devices mounted on the Mac without Fusion asking me whether to attach them to the active VM or host. I didn't check whether networking was OK at that point.
I had already gone to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General and approved the VMware Fusion kernel extensions, but behaviour suggested they weren't working.
I don't recall if I tried quitting and relaunching VMware Fusion first, but a restart of my Mac got USB support working again for VMware Fusion.
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Re: Error when using Invoke-VMScript
LucD We tried building a new Server 2016 VM and see the same issue.
The team testing this missed the request to try Invoke-VMScriptPlus and they are trying to get that to work. So far they are running in to an issue.
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Re: DOS/WINDOWS 3.11 Network issue
It's me again, to report some limited success, I got the cdrom working... so now I have access to files from the outside world larger than 1.44MB.
But the Networking... what a bugger that is. I will post some pictures of where windows sees things about the Network on startup. And also a picture
of my success of getting this DosBox together.
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Re: Cannot create datastore using VVOL
What exact steps did you take to produce this screenshot?
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Re: open-vm-tools-desktop passed drag_and_drop from Host(RHEL) to Guest(RHEL) but failed from Guest to Host
There may be an issue with Wayland. Log out, set session type to "Gnome Classic" and try again.
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Re: Workstation 15 on Linux vmware tools
That looks lime the same issue as in vmware tools can't be install on guest os on ubuntu 19.04 host.
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