Category Archives: Virtualization

Scott Lowe link Understanding NPIV and NPV Friday, November 27, 2009 in Gestalt, Networking, Storage by slowe | 71 comments Two technologies that seem to have come to the fore recently are NPIV (N_Port ID Virtualization) and NPV (N_Port Virtualization). … Continue reading →

To power on a virtual machine from the command line: List the inventory ID of the virtual machine with the command: vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms |grep Note: The first column of the output shows the vmid. Check the power state of the … Continue reading →

ESXi no longer automatically loads this module. Results in this: You are unable to power on some virtual machines Powering on virtual machines fail with the error: File [VMFS volume] VM-name/VM-name.vmdk was not found. When you view the details of … Continue reading →

vim-cmd hostsvc/net/info | grep “mac =” mac = (string) [ mac = “00:1b:78:59:eb:52”, mac = “00:1b:78:59:eb:53”, mac = “80:ee:73:63:4e:1c”, mac = “00:1b:78:59:eb:52”,

After deploying OVF from vSphere client, you cannot use vSphere client to connect to vCenterServer. You will get an “unknown connection error”. Use a browser to connect to port 5480 on the appliance to configure the embedded db, sso, and … Continue reading →

In vm.cfg of virtual machine check for this entry: serial=”pty” In the guest, edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.conf with the following lines, add them somewhere above the first kernel entry, probably just below the default and timeout directives. serial –unit=0 … Continue reading →

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Command Line Application VMware Workstation includes a separate application, vmrun, for operating teams or virtual machines from the command line. VMware Workstation includes a separate application, vmrun, for operating teams or virtual machines from the command line. To launch the vmrun application, … Continue reading →

  vmrun -T headless  start “./Sol11-server.vmx” nogui

vboxmanage list vms “Sun_ZFS_Storage_7000” {a14109a5-8478-4209-b8f8-e6212582b7c7} “Sun_ZFS_Storage_7000_1” {b76b26de-2af6-49e6-9b32-0fcceb0fefc8} nohup vboxheadless -startvm Sun_ZFS_Storage_7000_1& vboxmanage list runningvms “Sun_ZFS_Storage_7000” {a14109a5-8478-4209-b8f8-e6212582b7c7} “Sun_ZFS_Storage_7000_1” {b76b26de-2af6-49e6-9b32-0fcceb

This entry is filed under Virtualbox and tagged VirtaulBox How to attach a DVD / CD to a running vm, VirtaulBox How to de-attach a DVD / CD from a running vm, VirtaulBox How to find out the VM IP, … Continue reading →