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Due to a need for MS CHAP V1 a certain Windows 7 user needed to us XP Mode to establish a VPN connection as MS CHAP V1 was depreciated with Windows Vista. When connecting using the Microsoft PPTP connection the user got a 721 error. After confirming that the firewall was not the issue we check the network settings. By default NAT is selected. The fix is to choose bridged networking. It is not labeled bridge as it is in VMware products but if you select the network adapter the host is using it will have the same effect. Lastly, run ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew on the XP Mode VM then reconnect to the VPN.

When publishing Oracle Enterprise Management Client on a Citrix presentation server you may receive an alert that the application is not found on this server. The properties of the Enterprise Management Client shortcut point to C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\BIN\oemapp.bat console.

During the process to add a new published application specify the path as “C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\BIN\oemapp.bat” console

This will separate the executable (batch file) and the command line argument. This syntax is true for other executables that require command line arguments.

Problem: After using VM Converter to convert a physical XP Pro machine to an ESXi virtual machine you receive an error “A disk read error occured” and pressing ctrl + alt + del does not fix the issue.

Solution: Check the vm properties to see if the drive is IDE. While IDE drives are supported during conversion they aren’t bootable. During conversion check the box to install VMWare tools, if the drive still won’t boot you need to add an equal size SCSI virtual drive.

Now with two drives mount your disk cloning tool of choise (Ghost, G4l, Acronis) and boot the VM to the CD (press ESC during power on and select the CD ROM drive).

Clone the IDE drive to the unallocated SCSI drive. After cloning, shutdown the vm, unmount the CD and boot into BIOS (F2), go to the boot tab and change the boot order to boot to the 2nd drive (SCSI). Restart and your VM is back up.

After successfully logging into the VM you can shut it down and remove the first IDE drive. This will cause there to be no master IDE drive but a slave (CD ROM) IDE drive. Select the CD ROM drive and change it from IDE (0:1) to IDE (0:0)

Probably the most helpful blog post I’ve ever found. Configuring VMware vCenter with SQL Server

During vCenter installation you are prompted for your database DSN. After selecting that you may receive the error message “Please configure SQL Server remote connections to use both tCP/IP and named pipes. This can be done using Microsoft SQL Server Surface Area Configuration tool, by selecting the database instance and navigating to Database Engines | Remote Connections option.” Pretty useful error message.

Go to start > programs > microsoft sql server 2005 > configuration tools > microsoft sql server surface area configuration.

Choose services and connections at the bottom.

Under mssqlserver > database engine > choose remote connections.

Here you can select “local and remote connections > using both tcp/ip and named pipes”

Jump back to mssqlserver > database engine and stop and start the service.

Now continue with the vCenter installation.

During efforts to support Windows 7 VMs I though I would share what I have found.

Here is the list of VMWare products that I have found support Windows 7:
- ESX 4.0
- ESXi 4.0
- VM Player 3.0
- VM Workstation 7

You can get Windows 7 to install on Workstation 5.x.x and 6.x.x as O/S Vista or O/S other but things seem to break.

Some useful links:
VMware Player 3.0 supported host and guest list: http://www.vmware.com/support/player30/doc/releasenotes_player3.html