Comments on: New patches for ESX 3.5

By: chacho

chacho — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:57:21 +0000

I answer myself to clarify the problem.

The issue was that the BIOS battery is kind of old and when I set the VT or other feature it remains for 1 hour or 2, but if the server is without power for more than 5 hours, then the default values are restored bucause the batterry goes off.
I hope that this be clear and be helpfull to somebody

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:49:46 +0000

If you toggle the VT option in your BIOS you need to power the system off and back on again for the change to take affect (a reboot is not enough).

By: Duncan Epping

Duncan Epping — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:07:19 +0000

That most definitely shouldn’t happen. I think you should contact the hardware vendor cause something is wrong on the BIOS part.

By: chacho

chacho — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:24:12 +0000

I did it so, I enabled the Intel VT on the bios as you told me, and everything goes ok, but then the next day when I try to start my allready installed Suse 10 (64b) the same error appears, so I went to to BIOS again and the VT option was disabled.
That can happend ?, the value can be changed by itself, is there any kind of restorage of values, I don’t know.

I enable it again and remains enabled, even after rebooting; anyway tomorrow after leaving the server down I’ll tell if is enabled or not

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:26:56 +0000

Enable VT in the BIOS of your server! That will solve this issue probably.

By: chacho

chacho — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:56:57 +0000

I have a problem, but I don’t think it’s related to this matter completly, I need to install a 64-bit Suse Enterprise Server 10 (sp2) on a VM inside an ESX Server 3.5 (standalone server by the way).
But I receive an error
“You can not install 64-bit software in a 32-bit computer”

the server I use as ESx is a 64-bit (HP Proliant ML350 G5), and when I created de VM I did it of 64-bit Suse E. 10.

What is the problem ?

By: Goblin

Goblin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:18:22 +0000

I had this problem:

Virtual machines unexpectedly restart during a VMotion migration

But this patch did not solve my problem even though it says it should :-s

By: tom

tom — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:02:01 +0000

Duncan,

Do you have any idea what the Qlogic fix solves ? The VM site doesn’t show anything regarding this fix.

thanks Tom

By: superted666

superted666 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:52:09 +0000

Thanks for the heads up!

I was mid patching my 21 servers with the last update when i saw this…

Time to start again!

By: Hugo Peeters

Hugo Peeters — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:41:58 +0000

Note that you *might* run into issues trying to update your vmware tools after installing patch ESX350-200811401. The installer might think your old version is newer than the one you are trying to install.
A workaround is manually uninstalling and installing the tools.
I’ve reported the incident to VMware support.