VMware GSX Server 2.5.2Features | Documentation | Knowledge Base | Discussion Forums To see more information about a particular virtual machine, click the link to that virtual machine in the Display Name column on the Status Monitor page. The Virtual Machine Overview page appears in a new browser window.
The Virtual Machine Overview page contains the following information:
Activities you can perform when viewing a virtual machine's details include: To review the virtual hardware inside a virtual machine, click the Hardware tab. The Hardware page appears. The Hardware page lists the virtual hardware in the virtual machine — configured devices like the virtual disk, CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives and virtual network adapter. More information about each device is listed.
Activities you can perform when viewing a virtual machine's hardware include: Click the tabs at the top of the page to view the Virtual Machine Overview and Users and Events pages. To see a list of users that are connected to a virtual machine with a console or VMware Scripting API, click the Users and Events tab.
The list under Connected Users identifies any users connected to the virtual machine with a console or VMware Scripting API. The list includes when and from where the user connected to the virtual machine and the status of the user's activity. The list under Permissions indicates what you can do with the virtual machine. You are either allowed or denied the following abilities:
Activities you can perform when viewing a virtual machine's user and event information include: Click the tabs at the top of the page to view the Virtual Machine Overview and Hardware pages. A log of the 25 most recent virtual machine events is available. Click the Users and Events tab. The Users and Events page appears.
The Events list displays a log of the most recent actions or events recorded in the virtual machine, such as the questions GSX Server asks, errors and other events like the powering on or off of the virtual machine. The events appear in reverse chronological order. The event log draws its data from the log file for the virtual machine's configuration file stored, by default, in the virtual machine's folder. On a Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 host, this folder is C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\My Documents\My Virtual Machines. On a Windows NT host, this folder is C:\WINNT\Profiles\<username>\Personal\My Virtual Machines\<guestOS>. On a Linux host, this directory is <homedir>/vmware/<guestOS>. When you perform an action within the management interface that prompts the virtual machine to generate a message needing your response before it can proceed, a waiting for input message appears in the Display Name column. When you click that link, a popup window appears, prompting you for a response. After you provide your answer, the popup window closes. The log shows the date and time the event occurred and an explanation of the event. Some events have a symbol associated with them that corresponds to the type of event that occurred.
Click the tabs at the top of the page to view the Virtual Machine Overview and Hardware pages. Note: On Windows hosts, the host operating system's own Event Log tracks virtual machine power state changes, GSX Server messages and answers to prompts that appear in the virtual machine. |
- This type of event indicates a question or a warning was generated by the virtual machine.
- This type of event indicates an error occurred in the virtual machine.