VMware View Third-Party Certificates (Pre 5.0.1)

I always have to go back and do the searches again to find these when I need them.

For pre-View 5.0.1, doing the cert with keytool... These are the resources you need:

Familiarize yourself with both of them before proceeding. The TcpDump one is particularly good, buit it omits making a 2048-bit request.

TcpDump

VMware KB 1008705

FIX - VMware Windows 7 VM with no Audio [ESXi]

I have a template we make some persistent VMs from and they haven't been getting audio. For some reason it took me a little bit to track this one down.

Device Manager, add Legacy Hardware, Have Disk

C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\vmwvaudio\vmwvaudio.inf

No reboot needed.

[If you don't have this directory you'll need to copy it from a system with working audio.]

TIP: vMotion VLAN or Else

The impact of not following the 'best practice' of putting my vMotion and Management traffic on a dedicated VLAN seems to have finally showed itself.

I've been on a persistent VM for 3+ years now. It's been great, except for occasionally I'd get 'Session Lost!' on my zero client. It didn't happen often enough to concern me ... until it did. It was around this time that we started noticing several of us were being kicked off simultaneously. Those of us on 100Mb had issues, but not those of us on 1000Mb.

Thanks to having Riverbed Cascade we could see that the smaller ports were being flooded and overwhelmed by broadcasts from a vMotion port. Two days after establishing the VLAN and I have seen zero sessions lost.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1736018

Simple & Easy VMware Thin Client

How about a 38.4MB linux distro with View open client that is simple to set up and works great?

http://repurpose.vmwaredotg.com/tcbuilder/

Go to the build page and put in your criteria and it compiles an ISO for you.

You can burn that to CD, or put it on a thumb drive. [I used UNetbootin in Ubuntu to put it on a thumb drive.]

One gotcha is that, by default, the View client uses the time setting of the client. Since the client, in this case, is the tinycore linux distro that has minimal configuration, you get the timezone of your VM changed to UTC.

You can follow VMware KB 1006773, or edit /boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg in the ISO or on the thumb drive to add your timezone, i.e.: append initrd=/boot/core.gz quiet cde kmap=de-latin1 cde tz=EST

It gets trickier if want to include DST, but it is doable.

If someone figures out how to get this running on a Raspberry Pi, please let me know.