Archive for the ‘VMware’ Category

Deploy Virtual Machine Template: Customization Of Guest Operating System Not Supported

Are you receiving the following error (or similar) when attempting to deploy a VMware template in vSphere / vCenter? PROBLEM: Clone virtual machine Customization of the guest operating system ‘windows7Server64Guest’ is not supported in this configuration. Microsoft Vista (TM) and Linux guests with Logical Volume Manager are supported only for recent ESX host and VMware…
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Can’t Power Off Virtual Machine: Operation Cannot Be Performed In Current State

If you are having trouble powering off a VMware ESXi 5.x virtual machine, there is a command line method to force the VM to shut down. Here was the message I was receiving when trying to power off a VM: The attempted operation cannot be performed in the current state. So the current state, which…
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How To Get VMware Tools Working On An Ubuntu Linux Server

If you’re like me, and are familiar with setting up virtual machines (VMs) on VMware 4 & 5 ESXi servers using Microsoft Windows, then you have probably gotten used to the simplicity and user-friendliness of installing the VMware tools in the operating system. You just open the VM’s console window, log on to the desktop…
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