Virtualisation

Virtual machine watching

This entry was posted in Interesting Monitoring Virtualisation and tagged monitoring Virtualisation VMWARE ESX 3.5 on by

With all the focus of my research for the last three months on familiarising myself with VMware ESX and the practical aspects of managing a simple ESX server configuration raises some areas that aren’t necessarily handled well by the supplied tools from Vmware. Firstly I wanted a simple monitoring application that allowed me to become […]

Your CPU does not support long mode. Use a 32bit distribution

This entry was posted in Software Tips Virtualisation and tagged ESX VMWare on by

I received this when starting a VM (in ovf) format downloaded from the VMware appliance marketplace. What I thought was odd was that this was on an already running ESX server. Researching the background it appeared that by default Dell ship their 2900 Poweredge servers with virtualisation capabilities turned off (which suggests that none of […]

The hardware family of the OVF package is not supported – importing an ovf virtual machine

This entry was posted in Software Tips Uncategorised Virtualisation and tagged OVF VMWare on by

Okay – some background and some confusion. The ovf format pops up when you are running ESX and select import virtual appliance and are given the options Import from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace Import from file Import from url and you realise that all these options relate to an ovf packaged virtual machine. According […]

Vmware is coming

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Blogging has been quite difficult with work demands recently – partly due to the increased time spent on training and other courses relating to Vmware. As virtualisation grows in popularity and functionality it is increasingly hard to manage, maintain and monitor the various Virtual Machines VMs that have been created both to test software – […]

Sco Far Sco Good

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Following on from the article about getting Sco up and running as a VMWARE machine – I can also confirm that running it on Vista 64BIT Vmware workstation – the graphical interface works !! I suspect that this is due to the underlying hardware and graphics capabilities. The next challenge will be in migrating the […]