I'm trying a particular software in a VM on VBox and VMWare Player with SLES and Opensuse Leap, everything works fine. The same setup on VMWare ESXi and ProxMox is unstable.
The software consists in many services. Some of these services simply don't start.
Curiously enough, if I copy the problematic VM from ESXi to VMWare Player it works like a charm.
Before giving some more details, are there known issues with Suse products (Tumbleweed, Leap and SLES) and specific hypervisors like ESXi or ProxMox?
SLES on VMWare looks like it's end of life since 2014, so probably not surprising it doesn't behave well on the recent version of SLES on recent version of ESXi...
(https://www.vmware.com/products/sles-for-vmware.html)
You can check the compatibility here:
(https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=software)
Might also want to make sure if you installed vmware tools? hope this helps.
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I can't seem to find a procedure on how to upgrade EXSi v7 free version with patches.
The question is twofold
How do I find the relevant patches? The vmware site is far from user friendly
How do I patch the free version of EXSi v7?
Look on this page ; https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-esxi-702-release-notes.html
Section: "Patch Download and Installation", you will find informations on how upgrade your esxi without vCenter.
I have done once, a long time ago, you should be sure you can log into your esxi, copy vib files on it, place your esxi in maintenance mode, execute your command. You should read the full procedure on VMware website to be sure.
You can also reinstall with a VMware ISO of esxi 7, it will ask you if you want to reuse your old datastores or delete them. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.esxi.upgrade.doc/GUID-77D42D81-F47E-4FE9-B4B2-B15AB16C9C1A.html
How to download quickstart VM 5.x for virtual box for windows 10? I have installed oracle virtual box. But for cloudera qickstart VM I am not getting any source. I have searched a lot in google and youtube but the link or site all are referring is no more there. Can anyone please help?
The first thing to realize, is that a VM which can be run on any operating system by leveraging tools like VMware and Virtual Box.
Cloudera in fact no longer provides a quickstart VM for the legacy CDH 5 platform, this can be seen here as you get redirected to CDP datacenter.
However be aware that CDH 5 relates to a very old distribution. I believe CDH 5 goes end of life this year. Even CDH 6 is not recommended for new clusters, as CDP 7 is already GA for a while. CDP, the Cloudera Data Platform is the successor to both CDH and HDP.
If you want to check out the latest version, there is a trial which should serve for most purposes that you may wanted to use the quickstart. This can be downloaded here.
Full disclosure: I am an employee of Cloudera, the company behind both CDH and CDP.
I have a production server that hosts 3 VM's over Esxi 5.5.
Back in the day, I used a customized HP image to get ESXi installed on the Proliant server.
I have purchased a new server with Esxi 6.7 installed and wonder if I can move my 3 VM's hosted on the old HP server onto my new server (running ESXi 6.7).
The HP server sits 1500Km away so is challenging to test.
Did anyone come across any challenges removing VM's from one Host to another running different ESXi versions?
Thank you
You won't have any problems in the transportation process, but need to decide which transportation method use.
You can install vCenter Server Appliance then migrate with Storage vMotion.
If you do not want to install vCenter, you can turn the VMs power off and get an OVF copy to export (more on OVF here on vmware.com's site). You can then add this again from the deploy OVF section.
Link below for Vcenter installation.
https://www.tayfundeger.com/vcenter-server-appliance-6-7-kurulumu-bolum-1.html
https://www.tayfundeger.com/vcenter-server-appliance-6-7-kurulumu-bolum-2.html
Thanks.
VM objects are fairly backwards compatible and most go back quite a few years and a handful of versions, so you should be fine between those particular versions.
The biggest consideration is normally how to get the VM object data from point A to point B. Example:
Are you using storage based replication?
Are you SCPing the data directly from the hosts?
Are you exporting the VMs, transporting the data, and importing them?
Etc.
Yes, you can. The things you must take into account are:
1 - Hardware version. It's not possible to downgrade HW version through the ESXi UI. This won't be a problem in your case, as you are moving the VMs to a higher ESXi version that still supports ESXi 5.5's HW version. Once you have the VMs in the target server you can decide to upgrade to the most recent HW version for your new platform.
2 - VMFS version. ESXi 6.7 allows the use of VMFS-5 or VMFS-6, which is a newer version of the VMWare file system. You can indeed move VMs from VMFS-5 to VMFS-6. Nonetheless, unless it's unavoidable to do so, I would use the same VMFS version, as performing a cross-file system migration can make you fall into some incompatibilities that you should avoid.
3 - You will have to move your VMs over IP. If you don't own a VMWare license that allows you to migrate them, you can use an ESXi backup tool from 33hops.com that is compatible with unlicensed Free ESXi.
This XSIBackup-DC is a well-tested tool that allows to live migrate VMs over IP in licensed or unlicense versions of ESXi.
I want to know that is it possible to create a fully portable virtual machine using any of the VMWare like products? My objective is to create a virtual machine (XP as guest OS), install some app in it, put the vm in a usb2 drive (performance is not a matter), and run it in any windows os (xp, vista, 7) without installing anything in host, using any host account (admin, guest, limited).
Is it possible to do that using any vmware like product? If possible then which one is my best bet?
Can't be done if you want to take advantage of Hardware assisted virtualization. Basically you need admin rights in order to access all the nifty features that make modern, hardware assisted virtualization so fast.
QEMU can run in a few different modes. When run as an emulator the processor is replicated in software, so hardware assisted virtualization is not necessary. This emulation is slow, but very useful if you're developing for embedded hardware that is different than your main PC.
Do you absolutely need to run the VM on top of Windows? If not, and if re-booting the hardware is allowed, you may be able to install a bootable OS on the USB drive. Boot straight from USB when you're elsewhere, and use the VM tool of your choice to boot from USB when you're back at your desktop (I know VMware and QEMU let you access a raw device).
You may also consider a bootable CD to get to a VM environment, then access the VM on the USB. I know there are CDs that will provide KVM or QEMU (I think Knoppix has it); I've not sure about booting to a VMware Server/Workstation environment.
Vmware ACE.
Specifically Pocket ACE. You'll need vmware Workstation to create the package. Check out the youtube video on how to do it. :D
[EDIT] Ace does not fit the requirement of having no Admin rights on the box.
Might want to Moka5. They supposedly support limited accounts, although they also mention requiring administrator access to install.
Vmware Thinapp will allow you to virtualize your app without having to go through the hassle of creating and running a whole VM. Here's another how-to video.
thindownload.com has a bunch of thinstalled apps if you want to try it out.
I develop exclusively on VMs. I currently run Boot Camp on a MacBook Pro and do all my development on a series of Virtual PC VMs for many different environments. This post by Andrew Connell litterally changed the way I work.
I'm thinking about switching to Fusion and running everything in OS X but I wasn't able to answer the following questions about VM Fusion/Workstation/Server. I need to know if the following features from Virtual PC/Server exist in their VMWare counter parts.
Differencing Disks (ability to create a Base VM and provision new VMs which just add deltas on top of the base [saves a ton of disk space, and makes it easy to spin up new VMs with a base set of funcitonality]). (Not available with Fusion, need Workstation [$189])
Undo disks (ability to rollback all changes to the VM within a session). (Available in both Workstation and Fusion [$189/$79.99 respectively])
Easily NAT out a different subnet for the VM to sit in. (In both Fusion/Workstation).
Share VMs between VM Player and VM Server. I'd like to build up a VM locally (on OS X/Fusion) and then move it to some server (Win2k3/Win2k8 and VM Server) and host it there but with VM Server. (In both Fusion/Workstation).
An equivalent to Hyper-V. (Both Fusion and Workstation take advantage of type-2 hypervisor a for 64x VMs, neither do for 32 bit VMs. VMWare claims they're no slower as a result some benchmarks corroborate this assertion).
Ability to Share disks between multiple VMs. If I have a bunch of databases on a virtual disk and want them to appear on more than one VM I should be able to just attach them. (Available in both Fusion and Workstation)
(Nice to have) Support for multiple processors assigned to a VM (Available in both Fusion and Workstation).
Is there a VMWare guru out there who knows for sure that the above features are available on the other side?
Also the above has been free (as long as you have licenses for Windows machines), besides buying Fusion are there any other costs?
The end result of my research, thanks so much!
You can only create Linked clones and Full Clones (which are close to differencing disks) in VMWare Workstation (not Fusion). Workstation also has at better snapshot management in addition to other features which are difficult to enumerate. That being said Workstation is $189 (as opposed to $79) and not available on OS X. In addition Fusion 1.1 (current release) has a bunch of display bugs on OS X 10.5 (works well on 10.4). These will be remedied in Fusion 2.0 which is currently in (RC1). I'll probably wait until v2.0 comes out and then use both Workstation/Fusion to provision and use these VMs on OS X.
I've not used Fusion, just workstation and server
1) Yes, you can create a linked clone from current vm state, or from a saved state (snapshot) in VMware Workstation
2) Yes, revert to snapshots
3) There's a number of different network setups, NAT's one of them
4) VMware virtual machines created with VMware Fusion are fully compatible with VMware’s latest products.
5) ?
6) You can add pre-existing to disks to other vm's
7) Yup, you create multi-cpu vm's
Workstation costs, but VMWare Server is free
It doesn't have #1, at least.
VMWare server is free, but only allows for one snapshot, a serious deficiency. VMWare Workstation allows multiple snapshots and can perform most of the same functionality.
VMWare has a Hypervisior which is equivalent to Hyper-V in Virtual PC.
You can not share a VM that was created in Fusion with Windows VMWare Server (free version) you'll need the paid version to be able to share amongst both.
I'd also take a look at Sun's xVM VirtualBox for Mac. It runs Windows XP and Vista quite swift on my Mac.
1 and 2) VirtualBox has snapshots that branch off from the base VM like a tree. You can revert to any previous snapshots and name them.
3) It has NAT support and bridged networking like the VMWare and Microsoft products.
4) There is no server version of VirtualBox, but I know it shares an engine with Qemu, so it may be possible to host your VBox images on Qemu.
5) VirtualBox does have a hypervisor if your Mac has VT-x enabled.
6) Sure, you can add existing disks to other VMs. But you can't run the same disk in multiple VMs at once. (Isn't that a restriction of all virtualization hosts, though?)
7) No. VirtualBox will give each image one CPU and spread them out.