Is Windows 7 x64 supported as an EFI guest OS in Workstation 11.1 with virtual hardware v11?

I recently upgraded from Workstation v9 to v11.1.0 build-2496824 under my Windows 7 SP1 x64 machine and tried creating a new Windows 7 guest using EFI and the installation media will not boot to get setup going.

The same media will boot on any BIOS type guests and I've tried Windows 7 and Windows 7 with SP1 slipstreamed all directly from Microsoft, not custom ISOs and none of them will work under EFI but will work under BIOS.  Similarly 2008 and 2008 R2 media will not boot either if EFI is used.

EFI VMs can successfully boot media from Windows 8 and up (2012 etc.) but not the previous OS generation.

I've tried a few different things, such as booting from the ISO from a local disk and network share.

I've tried all 3 variants of the dvd/cdrom: SATA, SCSI, IDE, including legacy mode which I don't think is actually working because it doesn't stay checked when I go back to edit the setting.

I've tried initializing setup from the EFI shell but the media is not even mounted under blk0 so I can't go any further.

My boot device options are all setup properly and I've tried forcing virtual cdrom boot on startup with no luck.

I have also tried going through the physical cdrom mapping rather than the ISO file and no luck.

My setup appears to be supported, however the interop/compatibility matrix doesn't point out BIOS vs. EFI support.  I know Windows 7 is UEFI-aware so it should work and I've seen posts where people have deployed it successfully under various Workstation versions using EFI emulation.

I also tried with virtual hardware v10

Both custom and typical install modes recognize the media but just can't seem to boot it up.

Should I be doing the USB boot method with some sort of customized media build?

Here's a snippet of the log file where it just seems like it's not picking up on boot even though it clearly sees the ISO there:

2015-03-27T13:33:51.427-04:00| vcpu-0| I120: CDROM: Connecting sata0:1 to 'D:\WIN7SP1X64ENT.iso'. type=2 remote=0

2015-03-27T13:33:51.427-04:00| vcpu-0| I120: DMG_Open: Not an unencrypted .dmg file (footer signature 0x00000000).

2015-03-27T13:33:51.427-04:00| vcpu-0| I120: DMG_Close: max cached entries 8

2015-03-27T13:33:51.427-04:00| vcpu-0| I120: CDROM: Checking initial physical media state...

2015-03-27T13:33:51.427-04:00| vcpu-0| I120: CDROM:  initial physical CDROM state is 1 (sense)

2015-03-27T13:33:51.427-04:00| vcpu-0| I120: PolicyVMXFindPolicyKey: policy file does not exist.

Just want to know if this is actually supported and if anyone else has this problem out there.

This RAID controller bus controller [0104]: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array G6 controllers [103c: 323a] (rev 01) is supported by VMware 6, I read but is only supported by esxi 5x page HP supports the controller but or not is unclear whether VMware 6

Message was edited by: a.p. - moved the question from the title to the body and shortened the title

I'm evaluating vDP and have got the following trouble. After I changed SSL certificate at vCenter server, vDP jobs are failing permanently.

In the log I can see that vDP is trying to connect to the hypervisor where the VM is located. During connect disk mount fails with the error "unable to get local issuer certificate".

I can see that vDP is trying to connect to the port 902. I tried to verify that the certificate is correct using the following command:

echo -n | openssl s_client -connect $SERVERNAME:$PORTNUMBER | sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' > /tmp/$SERVERNAME.cert

I found that at port 443 certificate is correct, but at port 902 I get the following error:

140735160738656:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_clnt.c:795:

$SERVERNAME here is a FDQN of the hypervisor.

I guess that means that port 902 is not protected with SSL. How can I fix that?

Update:

$ echo -n | openssl s_client -connect $SERVERNAME:902

CONNECTED(00000003)

140735160738656:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_clnt.c:795:

---

no peer certificate available

---

No client certificate CA names sent

---

SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 308 bytes

---

New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)

Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported

Compression: NONE

Expansion: NONE

---

I am running a vSphere 5.5 environment. vCenter Server (VM) is standard with SQL 2012 backend. My vCenter Database is 10GB in size. Transaction logs have ample space allocation and are set to backup and truncate every 4hrs. All default SQL vSphere jobs are running fine. Both vCenter Server and SQL database sit on same subnet and are located on same ESXi host (DRS affinity rule in place).

The problem I am facing is the performance of the Thick client. More often than not (especially when navigating around VM&Templates) the performance is so bad it becomes unusable. When click on a folder or attempting to populate vms, it hangs for 5-10mins. This same issue is not seen in the web client.

Strangely enough, every now and again the thick clients does respond in a more satisfactory manner. I have reset the vCenter Inventory Service database to no avail. VMware support isn't offering much in the way of help or idea. My 10Gb network is still in its infancy of use and the underlying netapp storage is barely 40% utilised and no latency is being observed.

Has any else experienced this issue with the thick client??

My test bed is setup with vSphere 5.5, NSX and VIO beta. From the OpenStack Dashboard,

1. I create an external network from Admin account (DHCP disabled. an IP pool is configured).

2. Login in Dashboard as user1.

3. Create 2 test networks, a router connected to both test networks, 3 VMs (two on test network1, one on test network2)

4. Router gets two interfaces: one on test network1, one on test network2.

5. 3 VMs can ping to each other.

6. Set the router as the gateway to external network.

7. Router doesn't get an external interface with an external IP from the IP pool reserved.

8. 3 VMs can't reach to external network.

On the vSphere web client -> Networking & Security -> NSX edges page, my user1-router edge status is Spinning Busy. After a while, the status shows "The requested object: default could not be found. Object identifiers are case sensitive"

How should I troubleshooting for this? I try to console into the NSX edge appliance for user1-router. What is the login? I tried my NSX manager login and NSX controller login. It doesn't work for the edge. Since this edge is created from VIO, what is the default login?

Hello Friends,

Iam trying to add remote host, iam keep getting this error whenever i try to add.Could some please suggest how to resolve this issue.

Call "optionmanager.updatevalues" for object "EsxHostAdvSettings-9" on vCenter Server "*****" failed

Thanks

Mohan

I know it is unlikely but let us say host has got owned, ie a hacker has managed to break into the host.

How would they go about breaking into a linux VM that uses full disk encryption?

They can't mess with the .vmdk without damaging it - it is encrypted by the guest.

They can't use vmrun because they do not know the guest passwords.

They can't attach to processes in the guest with debugging tools because they cannot see individual guest processes.

What can they do?  And crucially, what can I do as a countermeasure?

Could someone explain how can I make persistent static routes on vCenter Appliance 6.0?

Hi,

I want to understand how plugin works. I have put few log messages in createPluginFactory.function of SolarSystemAdapter class. The plugin is deployed fine. Where are these log messages? I have tried different variations but none of them are getting logged in any log files under C:\Program Files\VMware\Orchestrator\app-server\logs

log.info("info:createPluginFactory");

log.debug("debug:createPluginFactory");

log.warn("warn:createPluginFactory");

log.error("error:createPluginFactory");

System.out("createPluginFactory");

Thanks,

So, I have 6 guests running on my host.  They are all having manually assigned IP addresses of starting from 192.168.99.150 through 192.168.99.155.

My host has an IP address of 192.168.99.100.

My host is only PC connected to the switch and the switch is not connected to any upload link(internet).

I have configured my Guests to have bridged connection so they can directly connected on the hardware switch.

Here is the issue that I am having right now,  when I ping any of my guest IP from the host, it shows about 1ms response time.

but when I ping my host IP from any of the guest, it shows request timed out.

Can anyone give me a solution to solve this issue?

Thank you.

Hello Everyone,

I have a cluster containing 2 hosts that are prepared to use VXLAN. Now I want to add new hosts to the cluster but I don't know how the preparation steps because the cluster are already configured (with 2 hosts). When I add the new hosts, the vmknic is not created.

My question is, how to properly add the new hosts to existing vxlan cluster?

Best regards,

ilmi

All,

I'm running into an issue with mouse control on my VDI machines deployed with NVidia GRID K1 GPUs.

The machines I've deployed with the K1 GPUs can no longer be controlled using console.  Neither the other thick client, or the web client.  Servers that are running on the same host are just fine, but anything with the GRID card on it, fails to display the mouse in Console.

Been running through the best practice documents for the GRID card, and all the settings look good.   Also tried to re-install (even uninstall, reinstall) VMtools.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi,

I have updated the vCenter 5.5 to the latest version that is available yesterday. It is linux appliance.

I was having problem to get in to web client after the update. I performed the "Regenerate SSL certificates" option thats located under Admin tab. Then the issue is resolved and I am able to get in to web client.

Now, I am seeing the different issue.

Unable to retreive health data from http://localhost/sps/health.xml

Unable to retreive health data from http://localhost/sms/health.xml

These 2 services are running but not able to load it. Also, I am seeing the following exceptions in the log.

From vpxd log:

--------------------

[7F4D4DD3A700 error 'HttpConnectionPool-000340'] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:00007f4cd40b2850, TCP:vc55mjl1.lab.equallogic.com:10443>; cnx: (null), error: N7Vmacore3Ssl18SSLVerifyExceptionE(SSL Exception: Verification parameters:

--> PeerThumbprint: 36:D5:B5:C2:8B:A5:A6:40:39:10:57:A0:0A:CF:B0:75:1B:62:31:1F

--> ExpectedThumbprint: 06:E3:CB:EB:48:12:59:47:1E:AA:05:69:B0:D5:42:14:AD:5B:63:85

--> ExpectedPeerName:xxxxxxxxxxxx

--> The remote host certificate has these problems:

-->

--> * unable to get local issuer certificate)

From vws log:

[2014-01-03 22:09:26,979 Thread-21  ERROR com.vmware.vim.health.impl.XmlUtil] Error retrieving health from url: http://localhost/sps/health.xml

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://localhost/sps/health.xml

        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersion(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.StreamValidatorHelper.validate(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.ValidatorImpl.validate(Unknown Source)

        at javax.xml.validation.Validator.validate(Unknown Source)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.XmlUtil.getDocumentFromUrl(XmlUtil.java:96)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec.retrieveHealthFromUrl(ComponentSpec.java:300)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec.retrieveHealth(ComponentSpec.java:266)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealthFromUrl(HealthPollerImpl.java:119)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:104)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.computeHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:203)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:102)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.pollHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:85)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.access$100(HealthPollerImpl.java:28)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl$PollerThread.run(HealthPollerImpl.java:55)

        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[2014-01-03 22:09:26,979 Thread-21  ERROR com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec] Unable to retrieve health for com.vmware.vim.sps from http://localhost/sps/health.xml

[2014-01-03 22:09:26,979 Thread-21  ERROR com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec] Unable to retrieve health for com.vmware.vim.sps from any of its health URLs

[2014-01-03 22:09:26,981 Thread-21  ERROR com.vmware.vim.health.impl.XmlUtil] Error retrieving health from url: http://localhost/sms/health.xml

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://localhost/sms/health.xml

        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersion(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.StreamValidatorHelper.validate(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.ValidatorImpl.validate(Unknown Source)

        at javax.xml.validation.Validator.validate(Unknown Source)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.XmlUtil.getDocumentFromUrl(XmlUtil.java:96)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec.retrieveHealthFromUrl(ComponentSpec.java:300)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.ComponentSpec.retrieveHealth(ComponentSpec.java:266)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealthFromUrl(HealthPollerImpl.java:119)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:104)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.computeHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:203)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.retrieveHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:102)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.pollHealth(HealthPollerImpl.java:85)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl.access$100(HealthPollerImpl.java:28)

        at com.vmware.vim.health.impl.HealthPollerImpl$PollerThread.run(HealthPollerImpl.java:55)

        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I have loooked at the hosts file and make sure DNS is right. Also, Performed Regenerate certificates on appliance. Any ideas where to look for to troubleshoot??

Appreciated ,

Thanks!!

Seems like this would be something simple to do, but for some reason I'm not connecting the dots.  If I

have an Array of VC:VirtualMachine objects and a vCAC:VCACHost object, how can I easily/quickly get

the vCAC:VirtualMachine objects for those VMs?  Thanks.

Hola amigos.
Les comento mi situación.
Instale la versión ESXi 5.5 u01, en un servidor con tarjetas r8169. (Ya que las mismas no son soportadas oficialmente, agregue los drivers manualmente).
Durante la instalación no tuve inconvenientes, me las detecto perfecto a las tarjetas. El inconveniente que estoy teniendo es que desde las VM creadas dentro de este Host, la transferencia es de solo 10Mbps. (Recibo a 1000Mbps pero al enviar por SCP/FTP la velocidad es solo de 10Mbps.)
Aclaraciones:
Las tarjetas son de 1000Mb Full Duplex y me las detecta como tal.
Intente con diferentes SO (Windows 7/ Centos 6.5 con VMware tools ultima versión).
Intente con diferentes Adaptadores (E1000, Flexible, VMXNET3).
Tengo 4 tarjetas conectadas (Mismo modelo) y con las 4 sucede lo mismo.
Los Cables son CAT 6A y el Switch es de 1000.

Adjunto algunas capturas por si les sirve de algo.

Muchas Gracias!!

In an ESX 5.0 environment, I have a datastore cluster of ten VMFS datastores visible to a cluster of thirty-two hosts. Every datastore currently uses fixed multipathing to every host, but I want every datastore to use round robin to every host instead. I found the following on https://runningvm.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/vsphere-powercli-multipath-policy-script-examples/ (third paragraph):

#Sets the multipath policy for all EMC LUN’s (naa.6006*) connected to all hosts in Cluster RV00 to roundrobin

Get-Cluster RV00 | Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun -CanonicalName “naa.6006*” | Set-ScsiLun -MultipathPolicy “roundrobin”

This promises to do exactly what I want, but the page was published in 2010 and I fear it may be outdated. Does everything in this script still work in ESX 5.0?

Also, can this little script be run successfully on its own? Reading further down the linked page (sixth paragraph and following), I see the author offers a much, much longer script for setting multipathing to round robin, and that makes me worry that this little one-liner may not be meant to stand on its own and may leave loose ends untied and have hidden consequences. Can anyone comment on that?

Thanks a ton, everyone!

I'm using a mid-2012 MacBook Air 13" (i7, 256 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM) with VMWare Fusion 5.0.5 installed. I'd like to move my existing Win7 virtual machine over to an external drive because it is consuming a lot of space on my SSD. Because I use the VM for work (Office and other biz productivity apps mainly), I need the external drive to be connected to my laptop almost 100% of the time. My questions:

In this context of running a VM from an external drive, what are the benefits of upgrading to Fusion 7? Would it be wise to wait until Fusion 8 is released so I can create Windows 10 VMs?

What is the best option for an external drive with small physical size but high storage and speed capacity?

What are the steps I would need to take in cloning or moving my current VM from my internal SSD to a USB 3.0 thumb drive?

What can I do to optimize the speed of the VM as it will be running from a separate drive? (see article linked here for something I found along these lines, but not sure if this is valid for Fusion VMs)

I have researched this a bit but have found it difficult to come up with straight answers to these questions with a common result in mind. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you!

My company just updated our software to VMWare Fusion 7.1 it works great with the new OS but my only issue that I can't click and drag files from the Mac Desktop to the PC (VMWare Fusion) desktop.

Anyone have any clue how to make it work?

Thanks!

- Jake

Running an early 2009 Mac Pro with 10 GB of RAM, 2.66 Quad-Core Intel Xeon CPU, OS X 10.10.2. Fusion 7.1.1.

I have an issue where a guest OS I'm running under Fusion will inevitably get unusably slow after it's been running for a while. Usually what happens is when I start the system up, everything is running smoothly, and then after an hour or two, it will start performing very slowly. Very basic operations like moving a window around take several seconds to complete, and I can see the screen slowly updating as the window moves. Another example is clicking on a menu in the menu bar might take several seconds for the menu to even begin drawing, and then several more seconds for it to finish, and during that time the OS is otherwise unresponsive. Essentially, basic interaction with the OS is very difficult. If I shut down the guest OS and then start it back up again, it will resume performing normally for another hour or two.

If I save a snapshot of a system and then later restore, usually (but not consistently) that will trigger the poor performance, and I'll have to fully shut down the guest OS and start it back up again to fix it.

This occurs regardless of what the guest OS is. I've experienced it in OS X 10.6-10.9, Windows XP, and Windows 7 both 32-bit and 64-bit.

So far I've tried setting the hardware versions of these VMs to version 10, as it was recommended in other threads I've found for fixing this exact issue. However, it doesn't fix things for me.

Does anyone have any idea what's wrong? I'm quite liking Fusion so far, more than Parallels, but with this issue it's very difficult for me to get any work done. I hope it can be solved.

Thanks in advance!

It is possible to use the PSC 6.0 "temporary" with a vCenter 5.5 pointing to it?