Tag Archives: virtualization
Fixing High CPU Usage for Windows Update
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
Configuring CentOS 6 and Windows VMs for virsh console on KVM
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
Install VMware Tools in CentOS using yum
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
Updating LSI MegaRAID firmware in VMware ESXi 5
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