KB Digest

KB articles published (New or Updated) for the week ending 4/13/2007

VMotion Might Fail on ESX Server 2.5.4 Patch 2 and Higher when Virtual Machines Have Virtual Floppy or CDROM Devices Pointing to Incorrectly Specified Image Files (4334775)
To work around this problem, make sure that floppy devices pointing to image… Published Date: 4/12/07

VMware Authorization Service Might Take a Long Time to Start on Windows 2000 Servers (1282693)
After rebooting a Windows 2000 server, the VMware Authorization Service (vmware-authd) might take several minutes to start. You will not be able to… Published Date: 4/11/07

Cleaning Up After Incomplete Uninstallation on a Windows Host (1308)
This article describes the procedures for cleaning up after an incomplete uninstallation of various VMware products, including VMware ACE Manager on an administrator’s computer…. Published Date: 4/11/07

ESX Server 3.0.1, Patch ESX-2559638: Security Issues With texinfo (2559638)
Applicability This patch is for ESX Server 3.0.1 only. For the related patch for ESX Server 3.0.0, please refer to… Published Date: 4/10/07

Taking Snapshots of Virtual Machines With Virtual Disks on Different Datastores Can Cause Datastores to Disappear From the VI Client (10043)
When a virtual machine is attached to two or more virtual disks (.vmdk files) where the disks are not on… Published Date: 4/10/07

Running VirtualCenter in a Virtual Machine (10087)
See the following tech note for guidelines on how to deploy VirtualCenter in a virtual machine, including sizing, installation, functionality, and configuration of VMware HA. … Published Date: 4/9/07

ESX Boot-from-SAN Configuration with Xiotech Magnitude 3D 3000 Storage Array Might Not Boot Properly (10044)
Xiotech has released DataScale Software 5.0.5 which fixes a condition that causes the ESX Server host not to… Published Date: 4/9/07