Showing posts with label Virtualisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virtualisation. Show all posts

Monday, March 04, 2013

Unable to install VMware tools on Windows 7 X64 - Progress bar never finishes loading

Issue:
I was getting an issue trying to install the VMware Tools on Windows 7 X64.  I would mount the Virtual CD and the program would load but the progress bar would only load to about 90% and never complete.

Resolution:
Uninstall the C++ 2010 and 2008 redistributables and try again.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Hyper-V Slow Network on HP DL380 G7's

I am yet to find the root cause of why the Hyper-V guests have very slow network transfers on HP DL380 G7's.. If anyone find the cause please comment.

To me it seems the Hyper-V Virtual switch is just slow on these models

I can build a desktop with Windows 8 and install the Hyper-V tools and run up desktop much faster than I can on  the HP DL380's.

Maybe it's the Broadcom cards in the server.

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