How do you get 3D working in Workstation Player 12?  Ever since upgrade to 12 a few months ago, I get the "NO 3D Support is available from the host" regardless of the guest operating system. I ignored because I didn't need 3D on the guest until now.

-  The Accelerate 3D is checked in the guest settings

-  Windows 7 Host has directX and 3D and AGP all enabled and running just fine.

-  Running latest versions of vmware tools and host video drivers.

It used work on previous versions of Vmware I had.  This is what the log says which I'm not sure where it fails:

2015-12-16T10:54:06.305-05:00| vmx| I125: MKS PowerOn

2015-12-16T10:54:06.306-05:00| vmx| I125: hread 7132 1456VTHREAD start thread 2 "mks" host id 7132

2015-12-16T10:54:06.306-05:00| mks| I125: MKS thread is alive

2015-12-16T10:54:06.306-05:00| mks| I125: SOUNDLIB: Creating the Wave sound backend.

2015-12-16T10:54:06.308-05:00| mks| I125: hread 6684 1456VTHREAD start thread 10 "mouse" host id 6684

2015-12-16T10:54:06.308-05:00| mks| I125: hread 7156 1456VTHREAD start thread 11 "kbh" host id 7156

2015-12-16T10:54:06.309-05:00| mks| I125: MKS Win32: Registering top level window (0x307c0) to receive session change notification.

2015-12-16T10:54:06.309-05:00| mks| I125: MKS-RenderMain: RenderMain: PowerOn allowed DX11Renderer MKSBasicOps

2015-12-16T10:54:06.309-05:00| mks| I125: MKS-RenderMain: Collecting RenderOps caps from DX11Renderer

2015-12-16T10:54:06.310-05:00| mks| W115: DX11Renderer: Enumerating adapter 0

2015-12-16T10:54:06.310-05:00| mks| W115: DX11Renderer: `NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT` vendor=0x10de device=0x0622 revision=161

2015-12-16T10:54:06.310-05:00| mks| W115: DX11Renderer: video=487MB system=0MB shared=3583MB

2015-12-16T10:54:06.311-05:00| mks| I125: MKS-RenderMain: Collecting RenderOps caps from MKSBasicOps

2015-12-16T10:54:06.312-05:00| mks| I125: MKS-RenderMain: Starting MKSBasicOps

2015-12-16T10:54:06.312-05:00| mks| I125: KHBKL: Unable to parse keystring at: ''

2015-12-16T10:54:06.312-05:00| mks| I125: MKS-RemoteMgr: Set default display name: XP Graphics Work

2015-12-16T10:54:06.312-05:00| mks| I125: MKS-RemoteMgr: Loading VNC Configuration from VM config file

2015-12-16T10:54:06.312-05:00| mks| I125: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware): Cannot create a file when that file already exists (183)

2015-12-16T10:54:06.312-05:00| mks| I125: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware): Cannot create a file when that file already exists (183)

2015-12-16T10:54:06.313-05:00| vmx| I125: Msg_Post: Warning

2015-12-16T10:54:06.313-05:00| vmx| I125: [msg.mks.no3D] No 3D support is available from the host. The 3D features of the virtual machine will be disabled.

Thanks!

Hi,

we are trying to implement a connection from our plugin to the vco plugin.  We retrieve a set of Workflows which are necessary to complete an action, and show them in a list.

For each workflow, we would like to create a link, and when the user clicks on it,  we would like to navigate to that specific workflow item in the vco plugin.

So our code Looks like this:

//the workflow has been retreived from the orchestrator rest api, and looks like this:

var workflowID = "vco:WorkflowItem;vco:bd5ab44f-5d07-4776-98f1-a2bfabfc5a36,vco:WorkflowItem,https://<ipaddress>:8281/vco/api/wokflows/11352cf1-b8c4-437c-afe9-76d7209aa5bc/";

var targetViewId = "vsphere.vco.workflowItem.monitor";

WEB_PLATFORM.sendNavigationRequest(targetViewId, workflowID);

When this is called, nothing happens, and in the virgo.log I see the message:

org.springframework.Flex.core.DefaultExceptionLogger  The following exception occurred during request processing by the BlazeDS MessageBroker and will be serialized back to the client:  Flex.messaging.MessageException: No destination with id "objectReferenceService" is registered with any service.

So could you please tell me, if I am doing it wrong or if this is not possible?  When I manually navigate to this item, and look at the URL, it seems that my input would be correct.

thanks

Cathy

I've been asked to P2V a server that has the Microsoft product Hyper-V installed and running a virtual client.

Are there any caveats, approaches or best practices I should know about prior to starting?

Thanks,

NeedCoffee

Hi there:

I have a 10.10 VM that I use to manage some departmental iPads via Apple Configurator.  Post-update to 8.1, I can't get iPads to consistently connect.  When I do manage to get an iPad connected and try to update it, it won't reconnect.  I've tried changing the USB passthrough settings to only connect to the VM, but to no avail.  This also happens in iTunes.

Anyone else having this or similar issues?

I have the socialcast app on my Samsung tablet but can not find an option to change my profile picture. It is possible to do this using the socialcast url in a browser but I believe it should be possible to change it in the app?

Please let me know how this is possible, or add this feature to the app.

Thanks.

Anyone had a similar issue?

Host has a PERC H730p controller. Looks like the disks were resetting prior to the crash according to the system's lifecycle controller.

On call with Dell Support. Planning on a VMware support call too.

Thanks in advance!

Justin

In the following KB (VMware KB: Best practices when using advanced transport for backup and restore), the document makes the following statement regarding not turning on CBT for NFS.

"When backing up virtual disk residing on NFS datastores, do not enable CBT, which is a VMFS only feature. If you enable CBT with NFS, thin-provisioned virtual disk will be turned thick upon restore.

Note: Some virtual disk backup solutions may have an advanced method to handle the restore of thin-provisioned virtual machine disks hosted on NFS storage. For specific information on how these disks are handled, contact your backup vendor."

However, in this KB (VMware KB: Changed Block Tracking (CBT) on virtual machines), it is made clear that NFS is supported and has been since v4. 

Shouldn't the first KB be updated to support this change?  Or will NFS VM's on thin LUNs always still restore to thick?  If so, is there a KB regarding why that I can provide for an end user/customer with technical data (and -if possible-I would really appreciate a document with v6 included in the versions on the right hand side).

Lastly, if this should not be updated, does anyone have info on which specific vendors VAAI primitives can handle this issue? 

Is there any way to get a particular Loginsight alert to show in my vROps 'Alerts'?

Hi all

I am trying to clean up a couple of inactive dumpfiles.

I have followed instructions to do this but keep getting this error:

Unlink of file /vmfs/volumes/**********************.dumpfile failed: Device or resource busy.

I have identified the owner host via its MAC address.

Of the three dumpfiles both of the two I am trying to remove are flagged as FALSE for "active" and "configured"

I have used the flag --force but still get the above error.

Why is this saying the resource is busy if it is inactive??

thanks

Tracy

Ever since "upgrading" to the November update of Windows 10, my shared folders do not work.  I had hoped that the upgrade to Fusion 8.1 would fix this but it has not.

Basically if I enable shared folders, such as Documents and Downloads, I can access them from the link on the desktop.  However, I do not get my Y: and Z: drives as I used to.  Also, when opening Explorer there is a hang of 30-60 seconds while it apparently tried to find these drives. 

If I disable sharing, Explorer is fast and never hangs. 

I have tried unisntalling/reinstalling the VMWare Tools but it makes no difference.  I have to leave Shared Folders disabled to have a usable VM. 

Any thoughts on how to fix this so that it works like it used to before the November update?

I'm having an issue with a migration script I've written to migrate VMs between 2 VCs.  The first part of the script works as designed (checks tools, right-sizes, and removes VM from inventory on the source VC).  The second part fails.on the destination VC when setting the folder:

#The CSV should be in the following format
#VMNAME,$MEM,$CPU,$VMHOST,$VMXFILE,$CLUSTER,$VMFOLDER,$RESPOOL,$VMNETWORK
#Even if there's not going to be a change, the
#cells cannot be blank use "" for blank

#Import the CSV
$vmlist = Import-CSV d:\scripts\naotest-UCSmigration.csv

#Prompts user for the source and destination vCenter servers
$SourceVC = Read-Host -Prompt 'What is the source vCenter?'
$DestVC= Read-Host -Prompt 'What is the destination vCenter?'

#connects to the source vCenter for right-sizing
connect-viserver $SourceVC

#check tools status first
write-host ""
write-host "Checking VMware Tools Status before proceeding." -foreground green
write-host ""
foreach ($item in $vmlist) {
              $vmname=$item.vmname              $ToolsStatus = (Get-VM $vmname).extensiondata.Guest.ToolsStatus -eq "toolsNotRunning"              IF ($ToolsStatus -eq $true){              write-host ""              write-host "Tools is not installed or running on $vmname. Remediate on guest and restart the script" -foreground Yellow              write-host "Script will exit" -foreground yellow              write-host ""              Exit}              Else {              write-host ""              write-host "Tools running, script will continue" -foreground green              write-host ""}
}

#Power down all the VMs in the list
write-host ""
write-host "Powering down all VMs in the list.  Script will sleep for 2 minutes before continuing" -foreground green
write-host ""
foreach ($item in $vmlist) {  $vmname = $item.vmname  Shutdown-VMGuest -VM $vmname -Confirm:$false
}

#sleep for 2 minutes before continuing
#may need to adjust depending upon time for
#servers to shut down
Start-sleep -s 120

#stop VMs that haven't shut down
write-host ""
write-host "Stopping VMs that have hung on power-down" -foreground green
write-host ""
foreach ($item in $vmlist) {
  $vmname = $item.vmname  Stop-VM -VM $vmname -RunAsync -Confirm:$false
}

#Right-size CPU and memory
write-host ""
write-host "Right-sizing CPU and Memory" -foreground green
write-host ""
foreach ($item in $vmlist) {

    $vmname = $item.vmname    $cpu = $item.cpu    $mem = $item.mem    Set-VM -VM $vmname -NumCpu $cpu -MemoryGB $mem -RunAsync -Confirm:$false}      
#start the VMs after the vCPU/Memorychange
write-host ""
write-host "Restarting the VMs to enact the vCPU/Memory change"          -foreground green
write-host ""
foreach ($item in $vmlist) {    $vmname = $item.vmname    Start-VM -VM $vmname -RunAsync    }

#Wait 5 minutes for the VMs to completely Power Up
write-host ""
Write-host "Sleeping for 5 minutes to wait for all VMs to power up" -foreground green
write-host ""
Start-sleep -s 300

#Power down the VMs in preparation for migration
#NOTE:  It's necessary to power them up after the right-sizing
write-host "Power down and sleep for 2 minutes"
foreach ($item in $vmlist) {  $vmname = $item.vmname  Shutdown-VMGuest -VM $vmname -Confirm:$false
}

#Wait 2 minutes for the VMs to completely Power down
Start-sleep -s 120

#stop VMs that haven't shut down
write-host ""
write-host "Stop VMs that haven't shut down normally." -foreground green
write-host ""
foreach ($item in $vmlist) {
  $vmname = $item.vmname  Stop-VM -VM $vmname -RunAsync -Confirm:$false
}

#disconnect CD-ROM
write-host ""
write-host "Disconnect any connected CD-ROM drives."
write-host ""
get-vm $vmname|Get-CDDrive | Set-CDDrive -nomedia -Confirm:$false

#remove VMs in list from inventory on the source vCenter
write-host ""
write-host "Remove VMs from inventory on the source vCenter."
write-host ""
foreach ($item in $vmlist) {
  $vmname = $item.vmname  Remove-VM -VM $vmname -Confirm:$false
}

#disconnect from the source vCenter
disconnect-viserver -Confirm:$false

#Connect to the destination vCenter server
connect-viserver $DestVC

#Add VMs to the new vCenter server
write-host ""
Write-host "Add VMs to the Destination vCenter"
write-host ""
foreach ($item in $vmlist) {
              $VMXFILE = $item.VMXFILE              $CLUSTER = $item.CLUSTER              $VMHOST = Get-VMHost -location $Cluster | Sort $_.CPuUsageMhz -Descending | Select -First 1              $VMFOLDER = $item.VMFOLDER              $RESPOOL = $item.RESPOOL              $VMNETWORK = $item.VMNETWORK          New-VM -VMFilePath "`"$VMXFILE`"" -VMHost $VMHOST -Location $VMFOLDER -ResourcePool $RESPOOL}

#change the network for the new vCenter
foreach ($item in $vmlist) {
$vmname = $item.vmname
get-vm $vmname | Get-NetworkAdapter | Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName $vmnetwork -confirm:$false
}

#Power up the VMs on the new vCenter server
write-host ""
write-host "Powering up VMs on the destination vCenter."  -foreground green
write-host ""
foreach ($item in $vmlist) {    $vmname = $item.vmname    Start-VM -VM $vmname -RunAsync    }

The CSV looks like this:

vmname,cpu,mem,vmxfile,cluster,vmfolder,respool,vmnetwork

ATEST-VM002,1,4,[DEV-DATASTORE] ATEST-VM002/ATEST-VM002.vmdk,DEV-STND1,DEV\Dev\Infrastructure,DEV-root,VLAN-123

The error is as follows:

New-VM : 12/16/2015 2:46:49 PM    New-VM        Could not find Folder with

name 'DEV\Dev\Infrastructure'.

At D:\scripts\vm-uscmigration.ps1:144 char:5

+    New-VM -VMFilePath "`"$VMXFILE`"" -VMHost $VMHOST -Location $VMFOLDER

-Resou ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (SAT1-DEV\Dev-NAOTEST\Infrastruc

  ture:String) [New-VM], VimException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_ObnSelector_SelectObjectByNameCore_ObjectNo

  tFound,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.NewVM

I pulled the path information from RVTOOLS (along with most of the other relevant info). Is the path info incorrect, or is it a problem in my script?  Any assistance would be appreciated.

P.S.  I don't know that setting the network will work or not, I haven't gotten that far!

Thanks!

Hi!

I got a strange behaviour. When check the size of a directory via SSH on a ESXi 6 Host i get this output (2.2G):

When I check the Size of the same Directory in the Datastore Browser I get the following:

the strange thing is that the *-checkpoint.vmdk file is growing and growing and growing

Why are this different Values?

Why is the checkpoint vmdk still growing and growing?

All Builds are the newest versions.

Hello,

I Read The Friendly Manual but I can't seem to find readouts for S.M.A.R.T. data and the SSD Wear-leveleling Indicator. I use LSI 9207-8i HBA's so ESXi has direct control over the disks.

Kind regards,

Steve

I'm currently demoing VMware Workstation 12 Pro and previously had been using Workstation 8 with no issues. I wanted to see the cool, new performance improvements in 12

Occasionally while running Windows 10 as a guest inside a Windows 7 host, the host OS will hang briefly, go black, and return with the "your display driver stopped responding" message. Everything seems to recover just fine except for VMware, which remains black no matter what I do (pause/resume, suspend/resume, force resize on guest) -- essentially I have to power off the VM and reboot the guest in order for the display to work again. Sometimes that doesn't even work though. In other cases, I need to terminate the VMware processes because they're unresponsive.

Immediately, this sounds like a display driver issue, so I tried updating my drivers, but that didn't help. Also I tried some some earlier versions of the driver (by way of NVIDIA Experience) but no luck.

Here are some interesting things about this problem though:

1. The problem goes away if I turn off 3D Hardware Acceleration on all my VMs in Workstation 12 Pro (specifically, I no longer encounter the "display driver stopped responding" message on the host OS)

2. While running Workstation 8 (older version) even *with* 3D Hardware Acceleration enabled, I do not experience the "display driver stopped responding" issue on the host OS

3. Finally, VMware fails to recover -- the vmx process seem to linger in the background, but the guest screen remains blank until I power off and reboot the VM, which makes the workflow completely unusable

My question(s) is:

1. Are there any known issues with VMware Workstation 12 Pro using 3D Graphics Acceleration while running a Windows 10 guest? I tried searching, and though I do see some things, they all looked related to other causes

2. Is there any way VMware could be improved to at least recover more gracefully when the display driver stopped working? Everything else in Windows recovers just fine. I thinkn VMware would want to look to improve this, if anything.

Occasionally VMware does display a dialog box after host OS shows the "display driver stopped responding" pop-up, mentioning something to the effect of: an SVGA error occurred "Error: 3" -- but oddly I cannot make a screen capture of this and it only appears rarely. So unfortunately I do no have the exact message. In some cases, I have to terminate the VMware processes as they are unresponsive.

My video card is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 with 2GB (though 4GB combined with system memory). Again, what's interesting is that I do see see this problem until I upgraded to the trial version of Workstation 12 Pro -- and turning off 3D Graphics Acceleration on the guest VM makes it go away.

My host machine is custom built with two Xeon Quad Core processors and 32GB of RAM, though I don't think that contributes to any part of the problem. I'm more inclined to think the video card is at fault somehow, except trying different drivers (including the latest) has not helped any, and only VMware 12 Pro seems to trigger this. I'm able to do other graphics intensive stuff, such as rendering in After Effects, 3D modeling, etc. with no issue so I think the video card itself is fine.

Any clues? Thanks for any insight.

On a number of occurrences, when an AppStack is mounted, a corresponding "CVApps" drive is mounted in My Computer.  This condition happens mostly when an AppStack is mounted immediately, but I've also had it occur "at next login" or after a refresh/recompose. Also happens with both dedicated and floating desktops.\

I've seen an article online about verifying the value of a registry key.  That key did not appear to be the issue in my case.

AppVolumes 2.7

any help would be appreciated.

Im attempting to update the objects our customers have rights to in vROps, programmatically through the REST API. The idea is that when a customer spins up or destroys a VM through vRA, we would go find all their provisioned VMs and rebuild the objects list for their vROps group through vRO using the vROps REST API. I have a vRO workflow that looks like this:

var groupId = "8c380090-d5c3-42a7-a77c-5de4437ce85b"
var resourceId = "8e62002f-0965-47e2-a82a-6d403b44b756"

var body = {"traversal-spec-instances" : [{
  "traversal-spec-instance" : {       "selectAllResources" : false,       "name" : "vSphere Hosts and Clusters",       "resourceKind" : "vSphere World",       "adapterKind" : "VMWARE",       "resourceSelection" : [{            "resourceId" : [                 resourceId,                 "4abb32e5-1fd0-443b-85ed-4995da4a1a0d"            ],            "type" : "SPECIFIC"       }]  }
}],
"allowAllObjects" : false,
"roleName" : "ReadOnly"
}
System.log(JSON.stringify(body));


var request = restHost.createRequest("PUT", "/auth/usergroups/" + groupId + "/permissions", body);
request.contentType = "application/json";


var json = JSON.stringify(System.getModule("com.vmware.library.http-rest").xml2json(request.execute().contentAsString));
System.log(json);

This produces the JSON string:

{"traversal-spec-instances":[{"traversal-spec-instance":{"selectAllResources":false,"name":"vSphere Hosts and Clusters","resourceKind":"vSphere World","adapterKind":"VMWARE","resourceSelection":[{"resourceId":["8e62002f-0965-47e2-a82a-6d403b44b756","4abb32e5-1fd0-443b-85ed-4995da4a1a0d"],"type":"SPECIFIC"}]}}],"allowAllObjects":false,"roleName":"ReadOnly"}

There are no examples of the request body so i'm just doing what i am interpreting the REST API documentation requires.

Executing this results in the error:

{"error":{"message":"Invalid input format.","xmlns:ops":"http://webservice.vmware.com/vRealizeOpsMgr/1.0/","moreInformation":{"info":{"content":"/suite-api/api/auth/usergroups/8c380090-d5c3-42a7-a77c-5de4437ce85b/permissions","name":"api-uri"}},"httpStatusCode":400,"xmlns:xs":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema","xmlns:xsi":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance","apiErrorCode":400}}

Which isn't very helpful.

I've verified through other API calls that the groupId is correct and returns a valid grump object through the REST API. So my assumption at this point is that the body of the request is malformed but im not sure how and the errors aren't giving me much to go on.

I am attempting to add new attributes to a configuration element using the "ConfigurationElement.setAttributeWithKey" method.

The value type I have populated is an Array of Strings. I confirmed within the workflow, the data is represented correctly in an Array of Strings. However, when using the method to add the new attribute of array of strings as a value, the resulting type that was added into the configElement is just an "array" type. Not an Array of Strings. Because of this, no data was added to the value of the attribute because of the mismatch of types.

Does the API method only accept a single object type, not an array of objects?

Thanks,

-Zach

EDIT: As requested by wila and for Mac info also see my sig below.

Downloaded Version 8.1.0 (3272237) trial version. When selecting the Accelerate 3D checkbox, my Windows 10 can't be set to my monitors native resolution @ 1920 x 1200.

SVGA 3D driver issue within Device Manager:

Resulting in:

These settings solved my VMware Tools SVGA 3D driver issue for Windows 10 Pro x64, screen resolution 1920 x 1200!

Resulting in:

Windows 10 is running fine now! But, will VMware solve the issue that no 3D acceleration in current VMware Fusion 8.1 / Tools is possible?

I have deployed a second VDP appliance v6.1 in a DR site and want to use it as a replication target. I have noticed that the appliance is not pushing hard and is not sending a lot of data through the link. The replication is happening on the weekend when no one is using the link between the sites and we have 1Gb connection between the two sites. I reached out to our network guy and i asked him to monitor the traffic between the two appliances, He told me that we have enough bandwidth, but looks like the appliance is not pushing hard enough or the appliance is not sending a lot of data through the link. He mentioned something like 1Mb/s as a transfer rate. The replication job starts then stuck on 92% in the source site and 98% in the distention site and the replication task fails if it took it more than 24 hours.

Any one had the same issue? Is there a limitation set on the appliance or a configuration file that we can modify to make it send more data than 1Mb/s ?

Hi

I am trying to Edit the VCAC vm specs using the VCO workflow "Request for Resource Action". The workflow executes fine but the changes are not applied to the VM.

Regards,

Deepak M.