Good afternoon,
Where do I start.... I have been tasked with creating a procedure for the following.
Current setup.
Users use VMWARE player to run VM's on their local machines, some machines will not run on certain hardware without errors. Let me elaborate a little more. We have DOS 6.2 VM's and Windows 3.1 VM's. No that is accurate and not going anywhere anytime soon. So to fix that...
Purposed setup
Run the machines on ESXi, grant the users rights to the proper container, use the dreaded web client for them to see the console.
Problems:
Users need to be able to transfer files between VM and physical desktop. VMWARE-Mount... I've got to this work but this utility is very frustrating to use... I haven't used it for a "Remote" mount in years. I do have PowerCLI as well(Not that this has anything to do with anything).
My question is this
1. Is there a better way to do what I want to do?
2. VMware-Mount.exe displays this message everytime I try to map the drive. "Unable to mount the virtual disk. The disk may be in use by a virtual machine, may not have enough volumes or mounted under another drive letter. If not, verify that the file is a valid virtual disk file." I've tried multiple machines with and without snapshots(thought this maybe an issue). Is there something I'm missing?
Sample of command
VMware-mount.exe m: "[datastore] Path to vmdk" /i:"Path to inventory" /h:vCenterServer /u:Domain\User /s:MyPassword /v:2
I've tried it with and without specifying the volume. I don't think my syntax is off as I have tried changing all components of the command I always receive an error related to each part of it. In other words if I change the inventory path I will receive a message indicating that, etc etc.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated,
Timbo