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Monthly Archives: February 2009

New articles published for week ending 2/22/2009

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Amandeep Gill

VMware ESX

Adding multiple gateways to Service Console network (1008464)
Date Published: 2/19/2009

Kernel panic during ESX host upgrade after disabling HBA in BIOS (1008600)
Date Published: 2/18/2009

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator and SysPrep Clones (1008654)
Date Published: 2/18/2009

ESX Server 3.0.2: Roll-Up Bundle for ESX Server 3.0.2 (1008410)
Date Published: 2/17/2009

USB Keyboard Does Not Work When Connected to a Rear Port of Dell PowerEdge 2950 Server (1008647)
Date Published: 2/17/2009

VMware Lab Manager

Deployment of a fenced configuration fails with Directory not found error (1008726)
Date Published: 2/20/2009

Manually removing duplicate or orphaned ESX hosts from Lab Manager (1008634)
Date Published: 2/18/2009

VMware Server

Cannot power on virtual machine after a certain date in VMware Server (1007871)
Date Published: 2/18/2009

VMware View Manager

USB redirection for VoIP with View Clients (1008544)
Date Published: 2/19/2009

VMware Workstation

Unable to record audio from the virtual sound device (1007996)
Date Published: 2/17/2009

New articles published for week ending 2/15/2009

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Amandeep Gill

VMware ACE

User authentication fails for VMware ACE after changing the administrator password (1008376)
Date Published: 2/10/2009

Storage IO crash consistency with VMware products (1008542)
Date Published: 2/11/2009

VMware Capacity Planner

Two unique hosts with the same host name are merged (1008160)
Date Published: 2/13/2009

VMware Converter

Conversion fails when source or destination do not support large files (1008633)
Date Published: 2/13/2009

VMware ESX

Unable to download latest ESX patches using VMware Update Manager (1008638)
Date Published: 2/13/2009

VMware Knowledge base issues – Images not appearing in articles and unable to print (1008662)
Date Published: 2/13/2009

ESX fails to boot after adding a processor (1007942)
Date Published: 2/13/2009

Changing a MAC address in a Windows virtual machine (1008473)
Date Published: 2/11/2009

Best practices for running Java in a virtual machine (1008480)
Date Published: 2/11/2009

Unable to power on a virtual machine due to an invalid value (1008513)
Date Published: 2/10/2009

CVE 2003-0786, CVE 2008-0891 and CVE 2008-1672 OpenSSL Vulnerability and ESX (1008521)
Date Published: 2/10/2009

SATA cdrom drive is not functional on Dell PowerEdge R805 (1008340)
Date Published: 2/10/2009

Enabling Belkin network USB hub in a virtual machine (1008372)
Date Published: 2/10/2009

VMware Update Manager

Update Manager Configuration with an Internet Proxy Might Fail if Proxy Port Has 5 Digits (1008546)
Date Published: 2/12/2009

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone

Enabling the Use of Non-root User for Hot Cloning of Linux Source Machines (1008164)
Date Published: 2/12/2009

Using the Command-Line to Install VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Agent (1008207)
Date Published: 2/12/2009

Enabling Logging in to Helper Virtual Machine During Conversion of Powered-On Linux Sources (1008209)
Date Published: 2/12/2009

Disabling Automatic Shutdown of Helper Virtual Machines After Converting Powered-On Linux Sources (1008210)
Date Published: 2/12/2009

Switching on Disk Pre-Allocation for Flat Target Virtual Disks (1008300)
Date Published: 2/12/2009

Extending the Timeout Period for Helper Virtual Machine Startup (1008301)
Date Published: 2/12/2009

Enable Retention of Sparse Files During Linux Conversions (1008303)
Date Published: 2/12/2009

Increasing the Write Timeout Value for Conversions to ESX Destinations (1008305)
Date Published: 2/12/2009

VMware vCenter Server

View Administrator and VirtualCenter display the amount of free space for a datastore inconsistently (1008492)
Date Published: 2/9/2009

VMware View Manager

Adding a VirtualCenter Server in View Administrator and accepting error message "Unable to connect to View Composer" disables OK button (1008550)
Date Published: 2/12/2009

Web access redirect fails if an SSL accelerator [offloader] is present between client and server (1008622)
Date Published: 2/12/2009

Upgrade from VDM 2.1 agent to the VMware View Manager agent fails (1008402)
Date Published: 2/11/2009

No snapshots are listed in View Administrator when you are creating a desktop pool using linked clone technology (1008377)
Date Published: 2/10/2009

View Composer installation fails on Oracle 9i database with ODBC driver versions lower than 9.2 (1008427)
Date Published: 2/9/2009

VMware VirtualCenter

Virtual machine computer account is disabled in Active Directory after deployment (1008096)
Date Published: 2/12/2009

VMware Tools status reports OK even though the tools build number is older than the ESX build number (1008121)
Date Published: 2/10/2009

User with Administrator rights on a Resource Pool cannot create a virtual machine (1008055)
Date Published: 2/10/2009

VMware Workstation

Host CPU usage spikes to 100% and issues Event ID 100 (1008060)
Date Published: 2/13/2009

Critical VMware Security Alert for Windows-Hosted VMware Workstation (1008502)
Date Published: 2/10/2009

New articles published for week ending 2/8/2009

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Amandeep Gill

VMware Converter

Conversion of a NT4 hosts prompts for nonexistent hotfix file (1007742)
Date Published: 2/5/2009

VMware ESX

Windows virtual machine generates a Possible Dead Lock Condition error (1007754)
Date Published: 2/5/2009

ESX Server 3.0.2 and ESX Server 3.0.3: Not Able to Download VI Client Installation Files (1008332)
Date Published: 2/5/2009

/proc/stat does not report virtual machine CPU usage (1007854)
Date Published: 2/4/2009

Installing NaviAgent on ESX 3.x and 3.5x (1007938)
Date Published: 2/4/2009

CVE-2007-3798 Tcpdump Vulnerability and ESX (1008169)
Date Published: 2/4/2009

An ESX virtual machine on NFS fails with swap errors (1008091)
Date Published: 2/3/2009

Keeping powered on virtual machines separated from powered off virtual machines (1008148)
Date Published: 2/2/2009

VMware Site Recovery Manager

SRM Server Migration Workflow (1008426)
Date Published: 2/6/2009

Requirements When Using Trusted Certificates with SRM (1008390)
Date Published: 2/5/2009

VMware View Manager

View Client command line option "-offlineDirectory" does not work correctly (1008460)
Date Published: 2/6/2009

IP address and AD account of a desktop remain after it is deleted from a pool (1008466)
Date Published: 2/6/2009

Sounds might not play as expected in redirected audio devices in Virtual Desktop Manager and View Manager (1008501)
Date Published: 2/6/2009

View Agent does not automatically add an exception for RDP to Internet Connection Firewall on Windows XP SP1 (1008311)
Date Published: 2/6/2009

Unmanaged View Agent installation fails if computer description is zero length (1008432)
Date Published: 2/4/2009

View Client command line option "-staycheckedout" works only in conjunction with the option "-checkin" (1008453)
Date Published: 2/4/2009

Checkout fails when the command line option "-checkout" is used with the option "-nonInteractive" (1008455)
Date Published: 2/4/2009

Clean installation of the Connection Server fails when the default security on the parent directory of the installation directory is altered (1008425)
Date Published: 2/3/2009

VMware Virtual Desktop Manager

VDM managed Virtual Machines must not be moved within VirtualCenter (1008457)
Date Published: 2/6/2009

Wyse thin client devices are disconnected from VDM sessions after a period of time shorter than the VDM timeout value (1007856)
Date Published: 2/5/2009

Provisioning operation fails when the desktop pool name is not unique in that VirtualCenter location (1008430)
Date Published: 2/4/2009

VMware Workstation

An error appears when Quicken and Workstation are running on the same system (1007901)
Date Published: 2/3/2009

Installing VMware Workstation fails generate the SSL keys (1008179)
Date Published: 2/3/2009

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Amandeep Gill

VMware ACE

Data Security Best Practices – SSL keys for communicating with Virtual Center and other applications (1008166)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

VMware Capacity Planner

CSV export of Consolidatable and No Data reports returns incorrect data (1008191)
Date Published: 1/28/2009

VMware Converter

Cannot deselect the Split into 2GB files option when destination is an HGFS shared folder (1008193)
Date Published: 1/29/2009

VMware ESX

ESX Server 3.0.2, Patch ESX-1007670: ESX Server Fails When a Guest Operating System Sends a Large Data Packet With Large Number of Scatter Gather Elements (1007670)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

ESX Server 3.0.2, Patch ESX-1007671: Fix to Remove Spurious I/O Error Messages (1007671)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

ESX Server 3.0.2, Patch ESX-1007672: Applying a Patch Bundle Updates Some Original Entries in syslog.conf File (1007672)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

ESX Server 3.0.2, Patch ESX-1007673: Security Update to SNMP in the Service Console (1007673)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

ESX Server 3.0.2, Patch ESX-1007674: Security Update to libxml2 in Service Console (1007674)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

ESX Server 3.0.2, Patch ESX-1007675: Updated vm-support Script (1007675)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

ESX Server 3.0.2, Patch ESX-1007676: Update for ESX Server With BCM 5700 Ethernet LAN Controller Cards (1007676)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

VMware ESX Server 3.0.3, ESX303-200901401-BG: COW_MAX_HEAP_SIZE_MB parameter Can be Changed Only in Service Console; ESX Server Fails When a Guest Operating System Sends a Large Data Packet with Large Number of Scatter Gather Elements (1007677)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

VMware ESX Server 3.0.3, ESX303-200901402-SG: Updated vm-support Script (1007678)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

VMware ESX Server 3.0.3, ESX303-200901403-BG: Applying a Patch Bundle Updates Some Original Entries in syslog.conf File (1007679)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

VMware ESX Server 3.0.3, ESX303-200901404-BG: Fix to Remove Spurious I/O Error Messages (1007680)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

VMware ESX Server 3.0.3, ESX303-200901405-SG: Security Update to SNMP in the Service Console (1007681)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

VMware ESX Server 3.0.3, ESX303-200901406-SG: Security Update to libxml2 in Service Console (1007682)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

VMware ESX Server 3.0.3, ESX303-200901407-BG: Update for ESX Server With BCM 5700 Ethernet LAN Controller Cards (1007683)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

64bit guest operating systems are unable to boot with Paravirtualization support (VMI) enabled (1008170)
Date Published: 1/30/2009

Troubleshooting network connectivity issues via Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) (1008184)
Date Published: 1/29/2009

Virtual machines do not shut down gracefully (1008182)
Date Published: 1/26/2009

VMware Lab Manager

IIS application pool settings prevent login (1008295)
Date Published: 1/30/2009

Performance issues caused by excessive chain length (1008212)
Date Published: 1/28/2009

A VBScript error appears when you log in to a virtual machine (1008029)
Date Published: 1/26/2009

VMware Server

Collecting diagnostic information for VMware Server (1008254)
Date Published: 1/31/2009

Unable to manage or edit VMware Server 2.0 virtual machines using the VMware Infrastructure Client (1008180)
Date Published: 1/30/2009

VMware Site Recovery Manager

Refresh Inventory Mappings Can Make Display Unresponsive at Sites That Support More Than 7 ESX Hosts (1008185)
Date Published: 1/27/2009

Undocumented SRM utility srmcfg.exe may display unreadable output (1008201)
Date Published: 1/27/2009

VMware View Manager

View Client or Web Client install issues on Windows XP Embedded based Thin Clients (1008290)
Date Published: 1/29/2009

VDM Agent fails to start on boot (1008010)
Date Published: 1/29/2009

View Agent SSO does not work unless HP RGS Sender is installed before installing View Agent (1007922)
Date Published: 1/28/2009

If the client loses connection to the server, refresh does not work on a desktop that is checked out (1008302)
Date Published: 1/28/2009

Attempting to cancel a check-in after disconnecting and quickly restoring the network puts desktop virtual machine into an invalid state (1008312)

Date Published: 1/28/2009

The Repair option in the installer does not repair the Offline Desktop component (1008139)
Date Published: 1/27/2009

VMware VirtualCenter

Template deployment for Windows XP SP3 fails to complete (1008281)
Date Published: 1/30/2009