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Posts Tagged ‘vm’

vSphere 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) can run any hardware level since ESX Server 3.5

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17

Last year, I missed this tiny sentence:

So in plain English, any VM that was generated on VMware ESX Server 3.5 or later can run atop ESXi 5.1 unchanged.

Which means it is a snap to move your VMs from older ESX / ESXi / vSphere versions as long as they are ESX 3.x or later.

In fact hardware version 7 has the widest compatibility amongst ESX/ESXi/vSphere/Fusion/Workstation/Player versions (see the table at the bottom).

The free version still has a 32 gigabyte physical RAM limit (people are still confused by the vRAM / Physical RAM distinction, especially since vRAM is not limited any more). Read the rest of this entry »

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openSUSE 12.x: “A plain `halt` will not shutdown the system properly.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/30

Just noticed that in openSUSE 12.x, A plain halt will not shutdown the system properly.
On my system, it would leave the screen as shown on the right:

Only halt -p works, none of the other hints in the shutdown does not power off thread work, nor the acpi=off or acpi=oldboot settings.

The odd thing: a plain reboot still works properly.

If someone knows a better workaround: please let me know in the comments.

I hope they will fix this in a future openSUSE version; at least for 12.1 they have a “CHECKIT” marker in the documentation, but it has disappeared as of the 2.3 docs, but still fails:

5.4. systemd: System Shutdown

CHECKIT for 12.3. Is this entry still required?

To halt and poweroff the system when using systemd, issue halt -p or shutdown -h now on the command-line or use the shutdown button provided by your desktop environment.

Note: A plain halt will not shutdown the system properly.

Luckily, my openSUSE is a VM, which I can reboot from the ESXi host.
On a physical system, you will end up without any option to resurrect the system.

Later

After installing antivir, a plain halt works sort of: it says it is halted, but ESXi still thinks it is not:

After installing antivir, a plain halt works.

After installing antivir, a plain halt appears to work, but it doesn’t.

ESXi is sure the system didn't actually power down.

ESXi is sure the system didn’t actually power down.

–jeroen

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