Just a quick note that I wanted to get out… A security patch has been released. Please look at the following KB article and download, test and implement the patch. VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200904201-SG: Updates VMX RPM Issues fixed in this patch (and their relevant symptoms, if applicable) include: A critical vulnerability in the virtual machine display function might [...]
I’m running OpenSuse as my primary OS at the moment. One of the problems I had was getting VMware Workstation to work in a normal way. The problem was that the kernel modules weren’t compiled correctly. It’s been bugging me ever since, but due to the fact that it’s the end of the quarter I never had the time to [...]
VMware released two patches on the 20th of March. Both patches are related to an issue with the Broadcom bnx2x driver. If you are running on hardware with a Broadcom NetXtreme II 57710, 57711, or 57711E NICs be sure to look into the patches below: ESX350-200903412-BG – PATCH – KB 1009232 – General Updates Kernel Source and VMNIX ESX350-200903411-BG – [...]
VMware just released patch 2 for SRM 1.0 Update 1. It’s a cumulative patch that corrects several problems with 1.o Update 1: a problem that prevents protected virtual machines from following recommended Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) settings when recovering to more than one DRS cluster. a problem observed at sites that support more than seven ESX hosts. If you refresh [...]
I just noticed that VMware vCenter 2.5 Update 4 has been released. I wanted to say: download it and install, but looking at the attendee numbers most of my readers will probably be at VMworld! What’s new? Guest Operating System Customization Improvements – VirtualCenter now supports customization of Windows Server 2008 guest operating systems. Performance Overview Charts – VirtualCenter 2.5 [...]
VMware just released 9 new patches for ESX 3.5: ESX350-200901401-SG – PATCH – Security – KB 1006651 – Updates VMkernel VMX hostd. But most important fix that this patch containts definitely is: VMware ESX and ESXi 3.5 U3 I/O failure on SAN LUNs, and LUN queue is blocked indefinitely. For a full description of this issue, see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008130. ESX350-200901402-SG – [...]
Just before 2008 ends VMware released a bunch of patches for the 3.0.X release of VMware ESX. 9 Patches, all are “General” patches: ESX303-200812401-BG: Virtual Machines Stop Responding When Disconnected from Serial Port ESX303-200812402-BG: Fix for vdf -P Command to Delimit the Output Values With Proper Spacing ESX303-200812403-BG: Qlogic iSCSI Driver Allocates Target IDs Greater than 255 ESX303-200812404-BG: Permissions on [...]
