Your favorite Virtual Machine File changes (.vmx)

jibbajabba

Just wondering what people tend to change first thing when deploying a new VM

My favorite settings

Stop the damn console from repeating kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkeyboard characters

keyboard.typematicMinDelay = "2000000"

Enabling Copy / Paste through the console window

isolation.tools.copy.disable = "FALSE"
isolation.tools.paste.disable = "FALSE"

Most favorite for nested setups - show the hardware bios infos rather than "VMware" (for geeky or licensing reason)

SMBIOS.reflectHost = "TRUE"

Essendon

Number 2 is the first thing I do. I wish you could somehow copy and paste files too, but I understand the security angle of it.

/Great thread!

blargoe

I sometimes enable copy/paste. That's about it.

jibbajabba

Oh and a tip for people who rarely change settings .. if you do it via SSH / VI .. make sure the VM is off.

Colleague just made a big mistake today, managing to corrupt the VMX.

What happened

1. VM is OFF
2. He made changes (did not save)
3. Powered VM on
4. Saved changes

After the VM was powered off again, it wasn't able to power back on due to the missing changes vSphere performs when powering VMs on. Because the powered off file was open and saved once the VM was on, it overwrite the important bits and basically trashed it (not the VM, just the config file)

Asif Dasl

I found this site by accident Jibba, you might find it useful.. or you might have seen it before - dunno.

sanbarrow.com

jibbajabba

I used to know it .. Forgot about it