vizz.info

Have a look in :

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\linux.iso\

After backing up a VMWESX VM with vcbMounter you can use vcbRestore to perform a quick restore on another ESX server

Edit the catalog file

• change SOURCE hostname to DEST hostname
• check the same “resource pool” exists on DEST host (if not change it so it does)

for example

• host=myserver.mydomain

• resourcepool= “/ha-folder-root/ha-datacenter/host/myserver.mydomain/Resources”

Basically during the VMware ESX two phase live backup process

ESX 2 uses .redo and .redo.redo “redo files” while

ESX 3 uses -0001-delta.vmdk and -0002-delta.vmdk “snapshots”
In VMWESX 2 .redo and .redo.redo are used for live backups

Running

var.vmdk

Backup started

var.redo

var.vmdk

Backup completed (applying redo)

var.redo.redo

var.redo

var.vmdk

In VMWESX 3 snapshots -000001-delta.vmdk and -000002-delta.vmdk are used

Running VM

var-flat.vmdk

var.vmbk

Backup started

var-000001-delta.vmdk

var-000001.vmdk

Backup completed (applying, commiting, delete all, removing snapshots)

var-000002-delta.vmdk

var-000002.vmdk

var-000001-delta.vmdk

var-000001.vmdk

var-flat.vmdk

var.vmdk

vmware desktop virtualisation video

http://download3.vmware.com/demos/desktop/

http://www.virtualization.info/ continues to be a source of some of the best virtualisation articles available
http://www.virtualization.info/2007/01/hidden-risk-of-virtual-appliances.html

http://www.virtualization.info/2006/12/choosing-between-vmware-server-and-esx.html
http://www.virtualization.info/2007/11/thinsy-announces-7th-xen-based.html

http://www.virtualization.info/2007/11/red-hat-adopts-xen-31-in-its-new.html

http://www.virtualization.info/2007/11/whitepaper-understanding-full.html

( http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware_paravirtualization.pdf )

Open source VMware guest tools

VMware have announced that they’re open-sourcing most parts of our Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris guest tools.

You can see the site with details of what’s present (including kernel modules) here.

Published by Philip Langdale12th September 2007 in The Joy of Work.

EasyVMX! is the simple and failsafe way to create complete virtual machines for VMware Player on the web. You can then install any Windoz, Linux, BSD or Solaris, and test any LiveCDs in a safe environment.

You can put your default VCHOST, USERNAME, PASSWORD in /etc/vmware/backuptools if you prefer

VMFS folders
$ vcbUtil -h localhost -u root -p password -s vmfolders

VMs

$ vcbVmName -h localhost -u root -p password -s any:

Backup

$ vcbMounter -h localhost -u root -p password -a uuid:myvm -r /vmimages/vmbk

Restore (to same location)

$ vcbRestore -h localhost -u root -p password -a uuid:myvm -r /vmimages/vmbk

Restore (to different location)

$ vcbRestore -h localhost -u root -p password -s /vmimages/vmbk/myvm -a /vmimages/my-alt-catalog

Here are some vmwvi vmwesx snapshot apply commit delta “delete all” (sic) remove (sic) redo timings from VMTN users / threads !
18G = 2 hours
80G = 5 hours
450G = 8 hours

So instead of using VMware VI  ESX “snapshots” you might prefer to use vmbk.pl instead !

It would appear that VMware ESX 3.0.2 needs your CPU to have EM64T and VT features and that Execute Disable is enabled in the BIOS (e.g. an Intel Xeon E5300 X5365) to run 64-bit VMware guest virtual machines !

Here are some other Red Hat RHEL 64 bit guest issues you might see

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2087

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2260

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2263

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=10147

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2229