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NTLDR missing – silly but can happend

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 26, 2012

This might happen if you have a floppy attached to your VM. Sometimes, when you forget to un-attach a floppy drive from a VM, you might experience this error message. Windows does not boot You see the error: NTLDR is missing Well, to get your VM work again, just make sure that the SCSI driver […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ntldr missing, vmware error ntldr missing

How To Shrink VMware Virtual Disk Files and disable shrinking

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 24, 2010

Sometimes you just want to disable shrinking of VMdk for certain VMs. How do you do that? Before you get started you should know that, if this is done repeatedly, the virtual disk can become unavailable, effectively causing a denial of service. so In most datacenter environments, disk shrinking – no. So you can disable this […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: disable shrink vmdk, shrink virtual disk, shrink vmdk, vSphere shrink disk

ESXi – the past, the present and the future

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

The ESXi – COS less future of tomorrow? ESXi 4 is now The Hypervizor being the most promoted by VMware. The version of ESX Server without the Linux Red Hat service console. Sure, this is an obvious advantage of such a hypervizor. Reduced surface attack, reduced patching, cooling and reduced energy needed to run (in it’s […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi, ESXi 4 embeded, VMWare ESXi, VMware ESXi 4

VMware Fusion 3 on MAC running Flip3D

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 8, 2013

VMware Fusion 3 video. VMware Fusion 3 for Mac has better 3D support, which enables Aero under Windows Vista and Windows 7. In this little video I found on YouTube. Also you’ll see unity mode. What is it? Unity mode just hides the VMware Fusion 3 principal window and makes your windows applications appear as […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Fusion, VMware Fusion 3, Windows on MAC

How to collect log information from vCenter Server 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

How to collect logs from vCenter Server? Sometimes when you’re in trouble, you need to go and generate the diagnostic information for VMware vCenter Server 4.0. I was wondering where and how, just until when I stumbled on this KB article on VMware KB website. The article explains that to generate the vCenter 4 logs, […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: collecting logs informations vCenter Server, logging info vmware, logs vmware, vcenter collect logs, VMware collect logs

How to know where is my VM if vCenter is down?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

This info comes from my “French connection”  blogger Raphael SCHITZ at Hypervisor.fr. Since he still publishes his posts in French and because a vast majority of virtualization folks speaks NO French, I decided to re-blog this info, which I founded useful for anybody dealing with vCenter and VMware ESX . In case the vCenter goes […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4, export vCenter info, vCenter 4, VMware ESX 4

Use VMware Converter to import 3rd party VMs, for example Virtual Iron’s VMs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

After the Death of Virtual Iron acquired by Oracle, the users of Virtual Iron do have a solution to convert their VM’s to VMware format. Oracle has bought Virtual Iron to phase it out. To develop Oracle’s virtual solution with Xen. You can convert Virtual Iron Virtual machines in 2 ways: You can do cold […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Convert Virtual Iron VM, Free VMware Converter 4.0.1, VMware converter 4.0.1 standalone

Windows XP installation as a VM – trouble to see the disk or not?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 1, 2013

When installing Windows XP with VMware ESX 4 or higher, you might receive an error during the installation process saying that “Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.” It’s because there is not a compatible disk controller driver shipped with Windows XP. What’s are the choices for you to successfully […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Disk not found, Install XP in a VM, SCSI driver for XP

Vmware HCL for ESXi 4.0 and 4.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 27, 2012

VMware HCL – How to be sure that my hardware is compatible to run the latest VMware ESXi 4.1? It came up recently by e-mail from one of the ESX Virtualization readers. Where to find a Hardware compatible with ESXi 4. Well not too difficult, I directed the user to VMware website where you can […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4 HCL, VMware ESXi 4 HCL, VMware HCL

PDF version of vSphere Quick Start Guide available

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

As Duncan Epping just blogged about, there is a PDF version of this small (by the format) book about VMware vSphere 4 available now from Lulu. And also, another $2.00 off with coupon code “HOHOHO” if you order in the next few days, because the offer ends Unfortunately I bought the paper version few weeks […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: PDF version of vSphere Quick Start Guide, vSphere 4 Book, vSphere 4 books, vSphere quick start guide

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