never mind.. See that there is a C:\..
mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
location at c:\ProgramData\vmware\workstation\config.ini
Editing for clarification: Add the line to the config.ini and then reboot host and start them back up. Look inside your VM folders and they will not show the vmem files except the lck file when running.
esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware vxlan network vtep list --vds-name=Compute_VDS --vxlan-id=5000
Hello All,
For the second time in the last 2 months I have had VMWare fusion stop working after a force quit. The first time it happened the only way was able to get Fusion working again was to erase my drive and resinstall my machine from a time machine backup with a date prior to the problem. I am hoping that someone can help me with this recurring issue.
Here are the details for my latest.
1. I am running vmware fusion 7.1.0 on a mac book pro running Yosemite.
2. Fusion was running and has been for well over a month
3. At the time the problem occurred I was running an Ubuntu 14.02 desktop client doing android development. I had finished building an APK and used the devices menu to map my HTC Android phone (connected via USB) the the Guest.
4. Fusion froze when I tried to map the USB phone to the Guest
5. after a few minutes of beach ball I did a force quit.
6. I then relaunched Fusion and I could see the menu but no windows... After a while my stopped VMs showed up but when when I tried to start I could get a cannot connect to some vmware agent mesg (I can't remember the exact mesg).
7. I rebooted the machine.
every since then I run VMware from my account and I can see the menu. but any action that results in displaying a window (i.e. file ->open, Preferences, etc) hangs vmware and grays out the windows. So... VMWare is running but there are no UI elements.
Here is what I have tried.
1. login to a different account and run fusion... fusion starts up with out issue.
2. Completely remove VMWare fusion from my mac using this manual procedure
After removing /Application/VMWare Fusion.app and all the files in /Library and ~/Library with *VMware* and com.vmware*
i rebooted the machine. I then did additional finds in ~/. and /Library for anything *vmware* and deleted all those files.
then rebooted again.
Then downloaded and opened the DMG. When double clicking the DMG fusion installs but it never puts up any dialogs. So... it remembered that it was broken and does not display info on my screen.
ps aux | grep vmware
from a terminal shows that vmware is running
running vmware fusion results in the above. No ui elements.
Switching to a new user and running vmware fusion brings up the initial wizard asking for a key. Once the key is entered it proceeds as normal.
Working theory.
My guess is that although all the *vmware* an *VMWare* files have been removed from the system there are others files that have state info that in this case are corrupt and prevent vmware from running.
My question is... how do I completely restore my account so that vmware thinks that I am a new user. What other files exist that don't have the word vmware or VMWare in their name. A file for example that stores the license key?
3. Last time this happened I spent 2 days on the phone with vmware support and they were unable to help. So... before I erase and restore from a time machine backup I would like to know what additional files need to be deleted to return my user account to a "virgin" state as far as fusion is concerned.
Any help in this matter is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
--luis
vROps does not track changes to individual VMDKs (e.x. change rate).
You'll find that there are already some preexisting symptoms for it.. see attached. You could also build a new symptom for the specific instance of c:\.. see embedded screenshot for example.
Thank you. I'm gonna check it out.
So you suggest me to use MeasureUp ?
What about this ? http://www.pearsonitcertification.com/store/vcp5-dcv-official-certification-guide-covering-the-9780133962079
I don't know if I have right hardware to build a virtual lab. I have CPU Intel i7 Bloomfield 2.6 Ghz, RAM 6 Gbytes, and no RAID Controllers. Only two SATA Hard Drives.
hello all,
here is the log file that is generated every time I run fusion... found in ~/Library/Logs/VMWare Fusion/vmware-vmfusion.log
notice...
2015-02-28T15:41:57.966-05:00| VMware Fusion| W110: -[PLVMStartMenuManager runStartMenuAppWithArgument:], error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The application “VMware Fusion Start Menu” could not be launched because a miscellaneous error occurred (OSStatus -10810)." UserInfo=0x600002661a00 {NSURL=file:///Applications/VMware%20Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware%20Fusion%20Start%20Menu.app/, NSLocalizedDescription=The application “VMware Fusion Start Menu” could not be launched because a miscellaneous error occurred (OSStatus -10810)., NSUnderlyingError=0x60000045cb00 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -10810.)"} while launching start menu with path: /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware Fusion Start Menu.app arg: -a
My guess is that this is what is causing issues with staring fusion. What is interesting is that there are no google hits on this. Anyone have any ideas what this means?
2015-02-28T15:41:57.524-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Log for VMware Fusion pid=1474 version=7.1.1 build=build-2498930 option=Release
2015-02-28T15:41:57.524-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: The process is 64-bit.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.524-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
2015-02-28T15:41:57.524-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Host is Mac OS X 10.10.2 (14C109) Darwin 14.1.0
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: VTHREAD initialize main thread 4 "VMware Fusion" pid 1474
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: UTIL: Change file descriptor limit from soft 256,hard 4294967295 to soft 8192,hard 4294967295.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_Reset:
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ----------------------------------------
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config. Using default values.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/settings": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_Reset:
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/settings": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ----------------------------------------
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/settings. Using default values.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/config": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_Reset:
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/config": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ----------------------------------------
2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/config. Using default values.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.508-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Users/lsoltero/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.508-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_Reset:
2015-02-28T15:41:57.508-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Users/lsoltero/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.508-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ----------------------------------------
2015-02-28T15:41:57.508-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /Users/lsoltero/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config. Using default values.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| W110: Log Facility output is directed to file: /Users/lsoltero/Library/Logs/VMware Fusion/vmware-vmfusion.log
2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: OBJLIB-LIB: Objlib initialized.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_SetLocaleEx: HostLocale=UTF-8 UserLocale=en
2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/messages/en/vmware.vmsg": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_Reset:
2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/messages/en/vmware.vmsg": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ----------------------------------------
2015-02-28T15:41:57.549-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: vmxFilePath="/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vmx"
2015-02-28T15:41:57.549-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: vmxFilePathDebug="/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vmx-debug"
2015-02-28T15:41:57.549-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: vmxFilePathStats="/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vmx-stats"
2015-02-28T15:41:57.576-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: HOSTDEV-MAC: HostDeviceInfo_FindHostSoundDevices: Found default sound devices [AppleUSBAudioEngine:Logitech Inc:Logitech H820e:0000000000:2,1|AppleUSBAudioEngine:Logitech Inc:Logitech H820e:0000000000:2,1].
2015-02-28T15:41:57.580-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Warning: Could not open /proc/net/dev
2015-02-28T15:41:57.580-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Warning: SGHostEnumerate not yet implemented
2015-02-28T15:41:57.580-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: SMBIOS: can't open /dev/mem: Could not find the file
2015-02-28T15:41:57.580-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: VmhsHostInfoPopulateSystem: Could not get information from smbios to populate VMDB.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.652-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Foundry Init: setting up global state (1 poll threads, 0 worker threads).
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogLevel = 0
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixApiTraceLevel = 0
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixDebugPanicOnVixAssert = 0
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogRefcountOnFinalRelease = 0
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: asyncOpWarningThreshold = 1000000
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: enableSyncOpSelection = FALSE
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: enableExternalThreadInterface = TRUE
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: enableVigor = FALSE
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_SetLocaleEx: HostLocale=UTF-8 UserLocale=en
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/messages/en/vmware.vmsg": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_Reset:
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/messages/en/vmware.vmsg": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ----------------------------------------
2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: VixHost_ConnectEx: version -1, hostType 3, hostName (null), hostPort 0, options 8707
2015-02-28T15:41:57.755-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ReadProxyFile: Failed to read file: /etc/vmware/hostd/proxy.xml
2015-02-28T15:41:57.756-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: SOCKET creating new socket, connecting to /var/run/vmware/usbarbitrator-socket
2015-02-28T15:41:57.756-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: REM-USB: Protocol version min:15 current:16. hostId:52 91 02 ff d3 16 08 e0-07 8b 53 eb b1 e3 40 e8
2015-02-28T15:41:57.756-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: REM-USB: Initializing 'Generic' backend
2015-02-28T15:41:57.760-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Users/lsoltero/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences-private": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.760-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: CDS: Initializing a CDS updater client 1.0 for product fusion, version 7.1.1 (workspace /var/folders/68/n9tv8l_n4hxc2s73bkwhkmyh0000gn/T/)
2015-02-28T15:41:57.761-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: VMServiceUser opening service (async): /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/services/Open VMware Fusion Services
2015-02-28T15:41:57.762-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Users/lsoltero/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmInventory": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.762-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.886-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/licenses/urls": No such file or directory.
2015-02-28T15:41:57.966-05:00| VMware Fusion| W110: -[PLVMStartMenuManager runStartMenuAppWithArgument:], error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The application “VMware Fusion Start Menu” could not be launched because a miscellaneous error occurred (OSStatus -10810)." UserInfo=0x600002661a00 {NSURL=file:///Applications/VMware%20Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware%20Fusion%20Start%20Menu.app/, NSLocalizedDescription=The application “VMware Fusion Start Menu” could not be launched because a miscellaneous error occurred (OSStatus -10810)., NSUnderlyingError=0x60000045cb00 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -10810.)"} while launching start menu with path: /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware Fusion Start Menu.app arg: -a
2015-02-28T15:41:57.979-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: VMServiceUser successfully opened service: /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/services/Open VMware Fusion Services
White, Quick question, your RAID. What are you using? Windows Softraid or RST? (Is RST throwing errors in the Eventlog?)
All
I'm trying to setup a simple system on VMware workstation and for some reason it's not playing ball
The setup: 2 x ESX 5.5 or 6.0 hosts each with 4 NICs and I want to setup Openfiler or FreeNAS to provide shared storage via iSCSI
I want to setup two NICs for Management and VMs and two NICs dedicated for iSCSI traffic
Most of the simple setups out there put iSCSI traffic on the Management network and one NIC for FreeNAS or Openfiler, which is hardly realistic or desirable
However when I setup on VMware workstation, despite setting up (I think) correctly with the iSCSI traffic to go through two different NICs from the rest, the ESXi hosts refuse to see the LUNs presented by either NAS software. If I put just 1 NIC for the NAS on the Management network, it presents the LUN for ESXi. If I setup to NICs which don't have the Management PG on it, I get nothing.
Has anyone managed to get ESXi 5.5 or 6.0 to connect to an iSCSI LUN on NICs which are on an isolated (Host-only) network on VMware workstation 10?
i'm looking for whatever xml file shows all the memory attributes like mem|active_average" Do you know which one?
HI, I have experienced a similar problem immediately after upgrading to 11. (11.1 didn't fix this either). I have two (physical) machines with Windows 7/64 running Workstation. I have local and shared VMs on both. In version 10 I could connect from one to the other and and run its shared VMs. Once I upgraded both systems to 11 I couldn't connect to the other anymore. When I try to connect to the other server I get the following error (sharing is enabled in both):
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VMware Workstation
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Failed to connect to XL5640. XL5640 is an unknown server. VMware Workstation cannot connect to this server.
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Once I downgraded one of the machines back to 10 I could connect it again one way. In summary:
WORKSTATION 10 - Connects to WORKSTATION 11 - YES
WORKSTATION 11 - Connects to WORKSTATION 10 - NO
WORKSTATION 11 - Connects to WORKSTATION 11 - NO
So, the server part is working, but version 11 does not recognize other Workstation xx as server.
WORKAROUND
I downloaded ESXi 5.5 (vSphere Hypervirsor 5.5) which is free, prepared a dedicated machine and am in the process of migrating all my VMs there. So far I have no issues.
Workstation 11 connects to the ESXi server in a snap. Despite the intimidating installation guide, a fresh installation on a CPU with a clean disk is straight forward. You can tweak things afterwards with VSphere Client (also free) form another machine in the network. To install ESXi just burn the ISO and boot from it. I got it running in minutes. Hypervisor is the OS running this machine and all your VMs run there as well. This is a more robust solution down the road if you can dedicate a piece of hardware to it.
TIP
Create your VMs with Workstation. You can create them directly in ESXi from Workstation. In ESXi you can also create VMs but they are not the same kind of animal. I couldn't get those ESXi VMs to connect to a CD to install the OS, the BIOS is kind of bare bones.
Hope this helps, and I hope VMware fix the various flaws reported in 11.
I don't see anything wrong in the configuration file. Maybe the ESXi host's vmware.log contains some hints, as it shows the physical processor's capabilities!?
Just to be sure, the error pops up when you try click Finish in the create VM wizard? Did you configure anything special in the Windows VM, and/or do you try to set it up using the Easy Install feature, or do you select I will install the OS later?
André
Hi,
I have created a shortcut for a thinapp package. The shortcut is located on a network share
I have added all the details to the package.ini The thinapp creates the entry point but not the correct target location
How can i change the target location for the shortcut created
I am also surprised that VMware writes the mem to disk by default.
Even after the fix from jhorsman I can see that only 3GB of my 16GB are in use, and I am running 3 VMs in parallel.
So it should be no problem to set these options.
I found this page:
the last hint says:
for Windows hosts:
mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
for Linux hosts:
mainmem.backing = "swap"
exactly what jhorsman told us.
This will safe the life of my SSDs.
Have you looked at these two blogs ?
http://www.stephenwagner.com/?p=814
Here are two VMware docs that explain iSCSI in a little more detail.
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/iSCSI_design_deploy.pdf
Also if your nested ESXi host are nested on an ESXi physical server remember to change your vSwitch so Promiscuous Mode is set to Accept.
I saw that with vrops it's possible to get some guests information like Disk spaces without having hyperic agent installed (I think vmware tools report some informations to vcenter).
Anyone know if there's also the possibility to get information related to Memory SWAP on linux/Paging file used on windows system in the same way without having to install an agent?
Thanks
Francesco
Any more updates to this?
Hi,
I have VMWare Player 7.1.0 running on a Win7-64 Pro host. Just installed Ubuntu 64 Desktop 14 LTS as a Guest. It has some version of VMWare Tools installed but it says I need an upgrade.
When I try to install VMWare Tools 9.9.2, I get the following error every time:
Corrupt file received from update server. Check your network connectivity and try again later. If problem persists, contact administrator.
I also tried File->Preferences->Download All Components Now. That worked for the other tools (Netware, Solaris, etc) but failed for Linux and Windows.
The primary things I want to get working are AutoResizing of Guest and copy/past between host and guest.
Thanks in advance for helping me get this fixed.
Mike
I tried those steps before and had no success. I tried them again exactly as you listed, in order, and had the same issue. Repaired the permissions and verified the disk while in OS X recovery system. Had even tried to run the VM on a different computer running latest Fusion and it gave same error.
