I have been struggling for hours to get the VMware View client to work on an old eMachine T1115 running Windows XP SP3. As it turns out, according to this VMware article, my old eMachine’s Celeron processor may not be capable of running PCoIP. The specific problem is that my processor seems to support Streaming […]
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VMware, ReadyNAS, NFS, and extremely high latency
I have spent plenty of time researching and dealing with this problem of extremely high latency between my ESXi VMware hosts and the NFS datastores on my ReadyNAS 2100. It’s ridiculous how stupidly simple the solution was, and how not one of the posts I’ve found in a Google search have pointed this simple setting […]
vmware vmdk scsi0:0: Unsupported or invalid disk type 7.
When attempting to boot up a vmware server VMDK disk file onto an ESXi server, you may encounter the following error. Module DevicePowerOn power on failed. Unable to create virtual SCSI device for scsi0:0, ‘/vmfs/volumes/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/panama-restored/panama.vmdk’ Failed to open disk scsi0:0: Unsupported or invalid disk type 7. Make sure that the disk has been imported. A […]
vmware 2.0.2 centos 5.4 gcc unstable
After much frustration with vmware’s web interface crashing (See errors/notes below), I finally?discovered the correct google search phrase to?reveal?the solution. Basically, glibc that gets installed/upgraded with CentOS 5.4 is causing the vmware-hostd to crash. See the following URL/Address for details. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884 Here is how I resolved the issue on my CentOS 5.4 […]
Plesk inside OpenVZ memory problems
I believe that the errors encountered below when installing Plesk inside an OpenVZ Virtual Environment (VE) were encountered as a result of memory allocation issues.? Plesk recommends 256MB RAM minimum for 100 domains. However, I’ve found that this does not seem to be enough in a VE. On the hardware node (HN), here is the […]
OpenVZ free memory in container not correct
According to the recommendation on the OpenVZ page below, Table C recommends settings for 256MB RAM for a container (VE) that seems incorrect to me. http://wiki.openvz.org/UBC_configuration_examples_table For the values of privvmpages, vmguarpages, oomguarpages, & shmpages, the values are multiplied by 4 in terms of available memory on the VE.? For this reason, the recommended values […]
date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted (OpenVZ)
Upon installation of an OpenVZ container (VE/Virtual Environment) I was unable to set the date, and the time-zone was incorrect.? Attempts to set the date resulted in the following error. # date 031612482009 date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted To correct this problem, exit from the container (#exit) and issue the following commands. […]
DNS not resolving in openvz container (VE)
After creating and starting a container on OpenVZ, dns was not functioning by default.? Pinging google receives the following error. # ping -c 1 www.google.comping: unknown host www.google.com Whoa, this page seems a bit overkill.http://wiki.openvz.org/Setting_up_an_iptables_firewall Instead, I simply added the following two lines to /etc/sysconfig/iptables /etc/sysconfig/iptables (on HN) -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -d #.#.#.# […]