I found a great atricle for changing the video driver on Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 VMs from the default VMwate SVGA to a WDDM version from VMware. It seems to have resolved my issues with several of my VMs.
Check it out:
http://sysadmin-talk.org/2010/06/windows-server-2008-r2-console-freezes-when-viewed-from-vcenter-client/
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Found a great article about using the Server License Manager Script, slmgr.vbs. This is the command line method for activating and installing license keys on windows 2008 and windows 7 machines.
I needed a way to do the activation of a Windows 2008 server from a command prompt after deploying a new VM. My answer was simple, use slmgr.vbs to kick off the activation as part of the VM's customization specification. I added "slmgr.vbs /ato" to the command to run after setup and now all the 2008R2 VMs deployed from templates using that OS customization spec are working fine. I don't have to go back and activate them manually.
Check out the larger article to see some of the other great info you can pull with this.
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