Auto startup/shutdown settings for guest keep replicating each time I access...
Greetings, I have a single ESXi 5.5 host with a single Win 2012 std server guest. I have a second guest but it is not in production. Several months ago, I had "thought" I enabled auto startup and...
View ArticleIs it possible to control the formatting of the description on a Catalog Item?
With or without providing carriage returns the description text provided for a Catalog item turns into a blob of text that is bunched together (And possibly truncated).I am curious if there is a way to...
View ArticleExternal URLs
Hi!If a user located in the Inet uses Horizon Client via PCoIP to get his remote desktop, what URL must I set Enabled and what can I disable?secure tunnel external URL, PCoIP external URL, and Blast...
View Articlevc appliance postgres db volume full
our /storage/db is 100% and we have tried the commandsudo -u postgres /opt/vmware/vpostgres/1.0/bin/vacuumdb -a -e -v -f -U postgres /tmp/vacuumdb.log the command returns error: could not change...
View ArticleThinApp 5.2 released! Now supporting Windows 10
I'm happy to be able to announce the release of ThinApp 5.2! With Windows 10 support..Get it here: VMware ThinApp 5
View ArticleSeveral VMs left suspended prior to V8 upgrade, now won't start and can't be...
I have several VMs that I had left suspended while I was running Fusion V7, and had forgotten about them when I did the upgrade to V8. I am unable now to shut these VMs down, nor have I found a way to...
View ArticleDatastore creation using EMC VNXe3100 and ESXi 6.0.0 update 1
Hi In the past with ESX 5.1 and 5.5, I could use the EMC Vnxe3100 gui to create and automatically create VMFS datastores on the ESXi hosts. I have upgraded one host (HP DL360p Gen 8) to the latest HP...
View Articleupdate issues
I updated my host running ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.1 update 2...and have been down ever since.. Call "PropertyCollector.CreateFilter" for object "ha-property-collector" on ESX "XX.XXX.XXX.XXX failed." After...
View ArticleWorkstation 12 Windows 10 host, USB 3 device not seen on Windows 7 guest
Now Fixed I just installed Workstation 12 in the hope that the USB devices would work (they were very sporadic on Workstation 11).The USB device is a USB 3 SSD (Identified as Kingston SSD by vmware...
View Article"This notification is to inform you that our records show that you started...
Hi, I have just registered for a vCloud subscription for testing purposes. But I got a mail today that I dont understand. I says: This notification is to inform you that our records show that you...
View ArticleCannot delete VDC. Get message: You must remove all catalogs backed by this...
Hi, I have recently created a vCloud air subscription and I accidentally created two virtual data centers. I want to delete one of them, but I get this message: You must remove all catalogs backed by...
View ArticleVMware workstation 12 pro - Guests w/Visual studio 2013 crash on start up...
Host OS: Win 7 -64Guests: Win 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 -64 Both guests running Visual Studio 2013 and SQL server 2014. I have tired to disable Hyper-V (VS emulators) on the guests but same result. Other...
View Articlevmware player firmware efi, boot menu delay?
I entered in the machine's vmx filefirmware="efi" Now my questions are, when do I have to press ESC to access the boot menu, and is bios.bootdelay="5555" needed?Specifically (and to circle around the...
View ArticleWorkstation 10: USB devices disappear from removable devices menu
I'm using Workstation 10.0.7 build-2844087 on a Windows 7 x64 host. Occasionally the USB devices section will disappear on the Removable Devices menu in the Workstation software in the host. This...
View ArticleWhy would allocating 3 of 4 cores to a Win7 VM cause "slow performance of......
I'm running a VM containing Windows 7 SP 1. Formerly it was configured to use 2 of the 4 cores of my MacBook Pro. I want to squeeze more performance out of the VM, so I increased the number of...
View ArticleHow do I reinstall my Virtual Machine back to Windows?
Downloaded OS X El Capitan update and by mistake I downloaded El Capitan into vmware. How do I return to Windows and recover?
View ArticleWS 12 degraded 3D performance from WS 11 in Guest
Hi; I'm trying out WS 12.0.1, and decided to see how much the 3D performance of WS 12 has been improved over WS 11. I seem to be finding that the performance has actually gone down. This is on a...
View ArticleWorkstation 12 Sound when changing Guest between windowed and Fullscreen
Hi; I'm trying out Workstation 12 Pro. I've been using Workstation 11 on a Windows 7 Pro 64-bit host. I tried using a Windows 7 Pro 64 bit Guest which had been running hardware version 8 with...
View ArticleCan't print on VMWare Workstation 12 Player and Windows 10
I am running VMW Workstation 12 Player, the printer icon on the top right toolbar is shows a printer as present, the box on virtual printing is ticked in Player/File/Preferences and it shows as...
View ArticlevRealize Automation 6.2.1 - Unable to create services in Catalog Management
Hello Admins, I created a blueprint and would like to create a service for it through Catalog Management. I noticed when I try to create a service through IAASADMIN user, the "Add" button is greyed...
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