If you are ever tasked with updating the VMware tools in a linux guest from the command line, it is best to execute the installer from the console. If you update the tools from a remote connection via ssh, the install will fail because the installer restarts the network service (unless you run the installer [...]
Locked out of our own Blackboard system…
April 10th, 2010
As you can imagine panic will set it when 10k users cannot access you system becuase they do not get a login screen. We had an individual with Admin access inadvertently try to change the login screen without fully understanding the process. The result was a very useless error message, which made you believe it [...]
Every so often I will have problems when restarting Guest virtual machines on our ESXi servers. One time in particular, I restarted the system from the operating system and the VM hung on reboot. When I tried to hard Power Off the VM through ESXi, it gave me an error similar to “The operation cannot be [...]