Failed to open VMDK. ESXi 5.5 and Veeam 7.0.0.764+

After updating Veeam or VMware such that a combination of ESXi 5.5 and Veeam 7.0.0.764 or higher exist within the environment, the jobs fail with error “Failed to open VMDK” and/or “Host not licensed...

Backup Jobs fail after upgrade from ESX to ESXi

Challenge After upgrading VMware servers, all backup jobs have the following error: "Invalid SoapPath link: "/vmfs/volumes/YourPath" 'Text' is an invalid XmlNodeType." Cause The issue occurs because we are not able to use local storage on an ESXi server as the target for a repository because...

Appliance Mode (Hotadd) Requirements and Troubleshooting

Requirements Virtual Appliance HOTADD Requirements and Limitations Requirements for Backup and Restore of Encrypted VMs Known Issues If the VM disk resides on a vVol, the Veeam VMware Backup Proxy's VM configuration file vmx must be on the same vVol. The Veeam VMware Backup Proxy VM must be locat...

Format string

libguestfs before 1.5.23, as used in virt-v2v, virt-inspector 1.5.3 and earlier, and possibly other products, when a raw-format disk image is used, allows local guest OS administrators to read files from the host via a crafted 1 qcow2, 2 VMDK, or 3 VDI header, related to lack of support for a dis...

VMware Studio虚拟应用设备WEB接口文件上传目录遍历漏洞

Bugraq ID: 36199 CVE ID：CVE-2009-2968 VMware Studio是一款用于开发，配置，定制虚拟应用程序和应用设备的解决方案。 VMware Studio支持的web接口组件不正确过滤用户输入，远程攻击者可以利用漏洞上传文件到VMware Studio虚拟应用设备上的任意目录中。 不过此漏洞不影响由 Studio 2.0 beta建立的虚拟机。 VMWare Studio 2.0 beta 用户可联系供应商获得相应产品的补丁或升级程序： VMware Studio 2.0 build 1017-185256...

VMSA-2009-0003:ESX 2.5.5 patch 12 updates service console packag ed

VMSA-2009-0003 ESX 2.5.5 patch 12 updates service console packag ed VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2009-0003 VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: ESX 2.5.5 patch 12 updates service console packag ed VMware Security Advisory Issue date: 2009-01-26 VMware Security...

CVE-2008-4914

Unspecified vulnerability in VMware ESXi 3.5 before ESXe350-200901401-I-SG and ESX 3.5 before ESX350-200901401-SG allows local administrators to cause a denial of service host crash via a snapshot with a malformed VMDK delta disk...

Security feature bypass

Unspecified vulnerability in VMware ESXi 3.5 before ESXe350-200901401-I-SG and ESX 3.5 before ESX350-200901401-SG allows local administrators to cause a denial of service host crash via a snapshot with a malformed VMDK delta disk...

ESX patches address an issue loading corrupt virtual disks and update Service Console packages

a. Loading a corrupt delta disk may cause ESX to crashIf the VMDK delta disk of a snapshot is corrupt, an ESX host might crash when the corrupted disk is loaded. VMDK delta files exist for virtual machines with one or more snapshots. This change ensures that a corrupt VMDK delta file cannot be us...