Tag Archives: virtualization

Fixing High CPU Usage for Windows Update

Posted on 2016/05/21 by Kirk Kosinski

Recently I had an issue with Windows Update on a newly deployed Windows 7 VM.  I’ve been using the same template to deploy Windows 7 VMs for a couple years, so it was strange that suddenly there was a problem. … Continue reading →

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Configuring CentOS 6 and Windows VMs for virsh console on KVM

Posted on 2013/01/06 by Kirk Kosinski

Accessing the console of a KVM VM directly rather than via SSH (Linux) or RDP (Windows) can occasionally be useful.  For example, if a Linux VM suffers a disk issue and is stuck at a single-user mode prompt, SSH won’t … Continue reading →

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Install VMware Tools in CentOS using yum

Posted on 2012/09/22 by Kirk Kosinski

When running CentOS (or RHEL, or Scientific Linux) in a VM on VMware ESXi, you may want to install VMware Tools.  Modern Linux distributions include the drivers necessary to run the OS in a VM on VMware ESXi, even those for PVSCSI controllers and … Continue reading →

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Updating LSI MegaRAID firmware in VMware ESXi 5

Posted on 2012/08/06 by Kirk Kosinski

I recently built a new server to run VMware ESXi.  After installing ESXi 5.0 update 1 and applying the latest patch (ESXi500-201207001), I decided I should update the firmware on the installed MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i RAID controller.  I have a … Continue reading →

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