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Mouse jumps around with 14.1.1 and multiple monitors - XP guest crash - falling back to 14.0.0

January 23, 2018, 2:52 pm
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I have a Windows 7 Pro host and a Windows 7 Pro guest and was on VMware Workstation 14.0.0 then upgraded to 14.1.1.  My host is a desktop Xeon X99 based workstation.  I also updated the vmware tools in the guest to the 10.2 as prompted.  I have three monitors and use all three for the guest.

 

I noticed, almost immediately that my mouse would sometimes 'jump' from the center monitor to the monitor to my left. There does not seem to be much rhyme nor reason but in a text  editor, UltraEdit, i noticed that when I pushed the Undo key multiple times in a row, 5-10 times, the cursor at first disappears and always jumps off the button.

 

I am using a Microsoft Mouse with the standard Windows mouse driver. I do not use the 'enhanced' VMware keyboard driver.

 

I saw a user with a laptop and a jumping mouse which appears attributed to a driver.  I also have an Windows XP guest which crashed immediately after starting it.

 

Beware of this release!  I am falling back to 14.0.0.

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Re: Download Spectre and Meltdown custom dashboards kit for vRealize Operations Manager 6.6.x

January 23, 2018, 3:34 pm
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stingrayX

 

I would not know if it is entirely related to the dashboards unless I look at the logs. However since you mentioned that you have 10K virtual machines, the View which filters down your Idle and Highly active virtual machines does analyse the utilization stats for last few days. This might be the reason for the spike.

 

I would recommend that if you are not using the "CPU Bug: VM Patching" dashboard then you can remove it to optimize the CPU Usage. The views in this dashboard are heavy as they are analysisng all the VMs in your environment.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Regards

Sunny

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Re: 2 node direct VSAN maintenance

January 23, 2018, 3:34 pm
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Hello bulabog

 

 

Sorry but I don't think you are getting how this works.

 

"2. Once in maintenance mode, I then go to the VSAN disk groups and delete the Disk Group for the host I am working on."

There is no need to remove the disk-groups when re-installing a host.

 

"4. I then exit maintenance mode on the host, then put it in maintenance mode again this time selecting "Full Evacuate Data" "

The host was already in MM so this changes nothing and is unnecessary.

There was no data on the node to evacuate as there were no disk-groups...

 

 

Bob

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Dashboards to be imported

January 20, 2018, 6:39 pm
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Dashboards to be imported

 

IMPORTANT NOTE - The dashboard kit includes a dashboard named "CPU Bug: VM Patching"

 

This dashboard processes all the Virtual Machines in your environment to come up with the list of Idle VMs and VMs with High CPU utilization. In large environment, this view might take up time to load since it has to process all the Virtual Machines.

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Re: Windows 7 resolution issue

January 23, 2018, 3:45 pm
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So the solution is to change the resolution of my Mac? Sheesh, I hope that gets fixed soon. That makes using VMWare more of a chore than it needs to be...

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Is VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 7526125 Withdrawed???

January 23, 2018, 4:09 pm
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A few days ago, I downloaded all possible ESXi 6.5 patch and tested the upgrade procedure lab, At that time, the latest patch was VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 7526125 (File name: ESXi650-201801001.zip). Today, I double check the available patches, I cannot find that patch any more.

 

Is it withdraw?

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Re: Error while opening the virtual machine: VMX file is corrupt. URGENT DESPERATE!

January 23, 2018, 4:19 pm
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The VMX file is the configuration file for your Virtual Machine typically located inside the virtual machine's folder.  If you can locate the .vmx file you can right click (or hold down control and click in Mac) and open in a text edit, like wordpad or notepad.  This will allow you to view the configuration in plain text. 

 

Please post the .vmx file's configuration on here and maybe we can find out what is wrong.

 

Good luck,

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Re: Windows 7 resolution issue

January 23, 2018, 4:20 pm
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I don't think you have to change the resolution of the host iMac.

 

Have you tried unchecking the VM Display Setting "Use full resolution for Retina display"?

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Re: Touch screen does not work in virtual XP environment unless USB cable for touch input is removed then re-inserted...

January 23, 2018, 4:25 pm
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This did not cover it either unfortunately...

 

Right now the only thing we can think to do is create a batch file that will run automatically VM startup to unplug and plug in the USB ports virtually, but this must be done on the host side when the VM starts, adding another level of complication to this.  I wonder why it detects the touchscreen monitor's inputs only after unplugging/plugging in the USB input for the touchscreen...

 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

 

Regards,

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Re: Problem with Workstation Player 14 Kali Linux

January 23, 2018, 4:28 pm
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I discovered the fix here - Kernel – 4.14-rc1 Released – Breaks VMware and NVIDIA..  GPL Errors Again.. | Adventures With Linux ™ (note: not the first solution! global_numa_pages will fail as the poster describes)

 

The problem was this: with the kernel upgrade, the "global_page_state" function was renamed "global_zone_page_state" (https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/commit/770c7ffe611520ac96490d235399554c64e87d9f ).

 

So, to fix, I copied vmmon.tar (created during the failing kernel module update process) from /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/ to /tmp. I then created the folder matching that of the failing build command from the log (in my case modconfig-VFqmxS), and extracted the tar into it. Edit the file vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c, and replace all occurences (5) of "global_page_state" with "global_zone_page_state". Save and exit, run the build command. This will leave the file "vmmon.ko" in vmmon-only/ - simply move this to /lib/modules/4.14.0-kali3-amd64/misc (exact folder name will vary based on kernel header package installed).

 

Then starting vmware player will launch the kernel module updater, which will succeed with the vmmon module already in place and hopefully drop you straight into the GUI. Hope this works for you!

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Re: Why vROps is probably not the product you are looking for

January 23, 2018, 4:36 pm
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I just wanted to share the relatively easy method of temporarily disabling alerts for a VM, host or any other object in vROPS.

You can start a maintenance for this object by using  Inventory Explorer. Its location in v 6.6. is under Configuration menu.

Simply find your VM and start a maintenance. You will be able to configure a scheduled end of it or choose to end it manually.

You can also set up scheduled maintenance if you anticipate one.

vROPS does not collect metrics and does not trigger alerts for objects in maintenance state.

 

On the original subject that started this discussion - I must say that, for sure, vROPS is not an easiest piece of software or a content to grasp. However, nor virtualization itself

It is not for us, system nerds, to complain about it. Rather to wrap our heads around it.

vROPS learning curve is steep.  But when past it - its VERY flexible and powerful product.

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Re: Logical Drive 01 - Degraded (Interim Recovery)

January 23, 2018, 4:55 pm
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Hi
do you still have the problem ?
If yes - feel free to contact me via skype - I may be able to help remotely.
Ulli

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Re: The operation on file "/vmfs/devices/deltadisks/test.vmdk" failed. ESXi 6.0

January 23, 2018, 5:01 pm
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Hi
I have seen this quite often last months.
The trick is to clone the disk once via vmkfstools -i current.vmdk new.vmdk
ESXi can handle this type of vmdks but will not create snapshots - so backing up such a disk via Veeam&Co is impossible.
Once converted into standard "VMFS" format and your problems will be history.
Ulli

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Unable to connect to the MKS: Too many socket connect attempts; giving up on VMware workstation pro 14

January 23, 2018, 5:06 pm
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I have installed vmworkstation pro 14 on a ubuntu 14.04 and whenever I try to spin up a vm I get the error

 

"Unable to connect to the MKS: Too many socket connect attempts; giving up"

 

And in the syslog I see:

 

vmauthd[14486]: LOCALE en_US -> NULL

vmauthd[14486]: Msg_SetLocaleEx: HostLocale=UTF-8 UserLocale=NULL

vmauthd[14486]: setuid: ignoring user's config and preferences

vmauthd[14486]: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.

vmauthd[14486]: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.

vmauthd[14486]: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/settings. Using default values.

vmauthd[14486]: lib/ssl: OpenSSL using FIPS_drbg for RAND

vmauthd[14486]: lib/ssl: protocol list tls1.2

vmauthd[14486]: lib/ssl: protocol list tls1.2 (openssl flags 0x17000000)

vmauthd[14486]: lib/ssl: cipher list !aNULL:kECDH+AESGCM:ECDH+AESGCM:RSA+AESGCM:kECDH+AES:ECDH+AES:RSA+AES

vmauthd[14486]: Connect from (local) AF_UNIX socket.

vmauthd[14486]: Connect from 127.0.0.1

vmauthd[14486]: local verification as xxxx

vmauthd[14486]: received CONNECT_NOSTART command: /usr2/xxxx/vmware/Debian9.x-64-bit/Debian 9.x 64-bit.vmx mkscontrol

vmauthd[14486]: recv() FAIL: 13.

vmauthd[14486]: VMAuthdSocketRead: read failed.  Closing socket for reading.

vmauthd[14486]: Read failed.

 

Have any of your encountered this?

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Re: Вопрос по консоли из vSphere v5.5

January 23, 2018, 5:13 pm
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Большое спасибо за ответ. перезагрузка сервиса помогает но не на долго, так же заметил если отключить виртуальную машину и запустить в vSphere при этом наблюдать за запуском через консоль, то консоль начинает работать, но так же не на долго, на пару дней. С обновлением я понял, но очень хотелось бы подробную инструкцию, как это сделать и делается это на "горячую" или нет?

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Re: Determine Disconnect time for VDI

January 23, 2018, 4:54 pm
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This will get you close so figure out the rest. Obviously you'll need PowerCLI 6.5

 

 

 

#Start of Script

#This is a quick script (10 minutes) I whipped up to get session status of HV connected users.
#Use this at your own risk. I'm not responsible if you run this in your environment and everything breaks.
#I do not have any certs/degrees/diplomas/medals or any of that crap when it comes to a formal education on any of this to include Windows/VMWare/IT/Technology.
#Unlike everyone else running around these forums I'm not a professional but if they can whip this script up in 10 minutes they deserve a medal ;). Everything below is strictly from good ole fashioned trial and error.

#Jose Rodriguez

#Import Modules
Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.HorizonView
Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Core

#Get Credentials if not exist
if($cred -eq $null){

$cred = Get-Credential

}

#Specify and Connect to Horizon Server if not conected
$viewserver = 'NAME_OF_YOUR_HORIZON_CONNECTION_SERVER_GOES_HERE'

if($connectviewserver -eq $null){
$connectviewserver = Connect-HVServer -server $viewserver -Credential $cred
}

#Do crap
$hvapi = $global:DefaultHVServers[0].ExtensionData

$queryservice = New-Object 'Vmware.Hv.QueryServiceService'

$querydefinition = New-Object 'Vmware.Hv.QueryDefinition'

$querydefinition.queryEntityType = 'SessionLocalSummaryView'

$Sessions = $queryservice.QueryService_Query($hvapi,$querydefinition)

$sessionsobject = $sessions.Results

$finalobj = @()

foreach ($session in $sessionsobject){

$properties = @{

UserName = $Session.namesdata.UserName
poolname = $Session.NamesData.desktopname
desktopname = $Session.NamesData.MachineOrRDSServerDNS
sessionState = $Session.sessiondata.sessionstate
sessionstarttime = $Session.sessiondata.starttime
sessiondisconnecttime = $Session.sessiondata.disconnecttime
}

$finalobj += new-object pscustomobject -Property $properties

}

#output the results
$finalobj

#End of script

Output example:

 

sessiondisconnecttime : 1/23/2018 4:44:42 PM

sessionState          : DISCONNECTED

poolname              : Pool-Name-blah-blah

UserName              : blah\someusername

desktopname           : somedesktopwillbehere

sessionstarttime      : 1/23/2018 5:04:26 AM

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Re: Touch screen does not work in virtual XP environment unless USB cable for touch input is removed then re-inserted...

January 23, 2018, 5:26 pm
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I don't think a simple batch file can do it either unless within that batch file there is a program that will disconnect the device from the host and connect the USB device to the guest VM; whether that is possible (programmatically disconnect/connect) that is another question.

 

I see that your USB autoconnect only specifies "TRUE" instead of the USB vendor ID and device ID as outlined in the KB

 

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1648

 

Anyway, I pretty sure the touchscreen.vusb.available = "TRUE" works on a Windows 10 VM. I got it working on a Windows 10 VM to have touch gestures on a Surface Pro 3 Windows 10 host.

 

The thing is XP by itself does not have built-in touch screen support. I just searched "Windows XP Tablet Edition" and there is indeed such a version. So I don't know whether the problem is partly due to this.

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Re: Windows 7 resolution issue

January 23, 2018, 5:36 pm
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Thank goodness, that's fixed it. I don't think I realized that's what the problem was.

I wonder why it didn't come up in the other thread? (Or anywhere else?)

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Re: Is VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 7526125 Withdrawed???

January 23, 2018, 5:39 pm
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bulk listing virtual machines per san array

January 23, 2018, 5:37 pm
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Vcenter 6 + ESXi 6:

Can anyone suggest a way to generate a bulk listing of either vm names with corresponding datastore name + iscsi device identifier or iscsi device identifiers with corresponding datastore name + vm name(s)?  Open to options either through the ESXi hosts individually or through vcenter as a cluster with the goal being to identify which vm's are using which san array on several hosts each linked to two different sans.  Volume device identifiers show up in esxi with prefix naa.6000* for one san and prefix eui.* for the other san.   I checked the maps tab in vcenter and could only get the datastore names from it which isn't helpful for this purpose.  Thanks

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