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1. WHAT IS CURRENT VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS INSTALL
2. WHAT IS CURRENT VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS DRIVERS
3. WHAT IS CURRENT VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS UPDATE
4. WHAT IS CURRENT VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS DRIVER

The timeout value for a Linux block device can be set using sysfs. From KB1009465: Increasing the timeout value This situation can lead to serious issues and can only be solved with a reboot of the VM. Note: This issue may affect other Linux distributions based on early 2.6 kernels as well, such as Ubuntu 7.04. These guest operating systems are affected: However, the problem is aggravated in an ESX Server environment because ESX Server manages multiple paths to the storage target and provides a single path to the guest operating system, which effectively reduces the number of retries done by the guest operating system. The same behavior is expected even on a native Linux environment, where the time required for the file system to become read-only depends on the number of paths available to a particular target, the multi-path software installed on the operating system, and whether the failing I/O was to an EXT3 Journal. VMware has identified a problem wherein file systems may become read-only after encountering busy I/O retry or SAN or iSCSI path failover errors. Ok so what if you use a Linux distribution with a kernel older than 2.6.13? From KB51306: The disk timeout value can only be changed with Linux kernel 2.6.13 or higher. Press / and type 180 now you see the info we are looking for: I though the solution can be found within the script.

WHAT IS CURRENT VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS INSTALL

But how does the VMware Tools install change this value. In my earlier post about disk-timeout settings I wrote about the timeout value being increased during the VMware Tools installation. Recently I had some issues with Linux VM’s which became read-only.

WHAT IS CURRENT VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS DRIVER

Note: After a VMware Tools upgrade, the driver files are located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\wddm_video.Ĭontinue reading “Slow mouse performance on Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine” →

A new WDDM driver is installed with the updated VMware Tools and is compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.

WHAT IS CURRENT VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS UPDATE

To resolve this issue, update to ESX 4.0 Update 1. This is a legacy Windows driver and is not supported on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 guest operating systems. This issue can occur due to the XPDM (SVGA) driver provided with VMware Tools.

WHAT IS CURRENT VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS DRIVERS

This article mentioned the new WDDM driver: Troubleshooting SVGA drivers installed with VMware Tools on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 running on ESX 4.0 Details

After a quick search at I found the following KB article: KB1011709. I wanted to migrate the lab to Windows Server 2008 R2 and found some problems with the video drivers provided with vSphere 4.0. So if you have a question or an idea, please leave a comment below. I think there will be a lot more possibilities to script with PowerCLI and VMware Tools. $AllVms_view = get-view -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name, Config, Guest

This results in network connection failure.īut how do you know if you’re running this buggy combo? Well PowerCLI to rescue. Guest VM ports are exhausted after using VMware Tools 10.2.0. Ports are exhausted on a guest VM after using VMware Tools 10.2.0 VMware has fixed the issue with the release of VMware Tools 10.2.5.

Guest virtual machine ports are exhausted after a few days.

Windows Server 2008 R2 guest VM ports are exhausted after upgrading to VMware Tools 10.2.0 When you’re (still) running Windows 2008 R2 and are using VMware Tools 10.2.0 you might run in an issue regarding to network loss.