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Last week I was helping a client upgrade to VI 3.5 and experienced some unexpected VM reboots. Unfortunately I did not discover the reason it happened until after the upgrade. I was reading blog.scottlowe.com when I found the post ESX Server 3.0.1 Patch Needed for VC 2.5. From the post:

According to this VMware KB document, any ESX Server running version 3.0.1 should have patch ESX-7557441 installed before VirtualCenter is upgraded to version 2.5. If this patch is not installed, Read the rest of this entry »

It’s not as simple as in Windows VMs !

This guide is the combined instructions found from the guides at:

http://www.howtoforge.com/vmware_tools_on_linux

http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/howto/fedora-7-vmware-tools-install.html

I started with a fresh install of Fedora 7. I used the LiveCD and installed it to the VM hard disk. I did not apply the 210 package updates or the security updates. (Who says Linux doesn’t have be patched as often as windows?)

Note: I was unable to get the shared folders or the fast network driver feature to work. I’ve never been able to get these features working properly, but I’ve never really needed them to. The VMtools will load without these features anyways. I assumed that the sections for fixing the vmxnet module would finally make this work, but it did not. I might have done something wrong so I kept those sections in these instructions in case someone else gets it to work.

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Steven Kishi – Product Manager – VLA

What is VLA? Questions and notes from session

Shared VM library

• stores vm configurations in state as a unit
• uses a fraction of the storage normally required – 16 mb files called differencing disks
• runs identical copies of vms simultaneously on the same network
• leverages central pool of virtualization resources

Does VLA need VC2? – not today, but next version will use VC2

Rapid provisioning

• deploy as needed
• web based

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