Choppy display when using remote console
I’ve noticed that while using the VMware console to administer Windows 2008 servers remotely (as opposed to using Remote Desktop) the display has been slow and choppy, almost unusable when accessing servers across slow WAN links. It turns out this…
A general system error occurred: unable to save the snapshot file
For the last hour or so I have been attempting to take a VM snapshot on my ESXi 5 host at home but keep encountering the f0llowing error: A general system error occurred: unable to save the snapshot file I have…
Using ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver
While trying to recover a virtual server that wouldn’t boot (NTLDR missing) I came across a wonderful tool called ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver. It allowed me to mount a VMDK file on my Windows 7 workstation and access it like…
Presenting a physical USB hard drive to a virtual machine
I have decided to attach a USB hard drive to my ESXi server at home to store backups. This only involves a few configuration steps to add the USB controller first, then the drive itself. Here’s how: 1. Plug the…