Cannot create App Layering image for MCS in Azure, hangs during Windows Setup.

To deploy an MCS image to Azure, you decide to use the Azure connector in App Layering. This produces a virtual disk that is primed to run through Windows Setup. You attach it to a VM, power it on, and find that Windows Setup never completes. If you look at the console screen shot in the debuggin...

Failed to mount Elastic Layers, "A virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found."

When using Elastic or User Layers, they do not get attached to the end-user VM when the user logs in. Checking C:\ProgramData\Unidesk\Logs\Ulayersvc.log, you see an error like this: 2018-07-19 13:02:25,804 ERROR 16 CompositingManager: Caught exception:...

Provisioning Services : Unable to stream vDisk with message "No disk available for device"

When booting a target, after downloading the bootstrap and connecting to Provisioning Services, we see the message: "No disk available for device."...

Error: "This Operation Cannot be Performed Because a VDI is in Use by Some Other Operation"

Starting vm fail unable to find the disk OR Unable to start a VM error : "this operation cannot be performed because a VDI is in use by some other operation" OR Unable to start a VM , error : "The SR failed to complete the operation" OR Unable to start the VM , error : "This operation cannot be...

Cannot power on CachePoint, "Cannot open the disk 'UnideskLayers/..."

After host or storage failure, you may find that one or more CachePoints CP will not longer boot. The error message given by vCenter is: An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM CP01. Cannot open the disk 'UnideskLayers/User/Desktop3/P14407081000000d8.B0.R1.V0-000001.vmdk' or...

Google Kubernetes Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Google Kubernetes is an open source Docker container cluster management system from Google, Inc. The system provides resource scheduling, deployment and operation, service discovery and scaling up and down for containerized applications. A security vulnerability exists in Google Kubernetes, which...

PVS Target device boot up stuck at "Starting Windows" or "virtual disk found"

PVS Target device boot up stuck at 'Starting Windows' forever. Most of the time reboot the problem VM from the hypervisor the VM can boot up without issue. Also we could see the PVS Target device boot up stuck at 'vDisk found'...

How to resolve "Failed to probe partitions from virtual disk" error while importing an OS Layer

When importing an OS layer, you get this error: Failed to attach the disk /mnt/repository/Unidesk/OsImport Disks/Windows 10.vhd. Failed to probe partitions from virtual disk This is most often seen when importing a XenServer Windows 10 Gold VM that was exported as an OVF. However, it could happen...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2017:0705-1)

This update for open-vm-tools to 10.1.0 stable brings features, fixes bugs and security issues : - New vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility - GTK3 support - Common Agent Framework CAF - Guest authentication with xmlsec1 - Sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand ...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2017:0701-1)

This update for open-vm-tools to 10.1.0 stable brings features, fixes bugs and security issues : - New vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility - GTK3 support - Common Agent Framework CAF - Guest authentication with xmlsec1 - Sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand ...

openSUSE Security Update : open-vm-tools (openSUSE-2017-276)

This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues : - Updated to 10.1.0 stable release boo1011057 + vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility. + gtk3 support + Common Agent Framework CAF + guest authentication with xmlsec1 + FreeBSD support + sub-command to push updated network information...

Windows Privilege Escalation

The vulnerability of the Windows operating system’s virtual hard disk driver stems from an improper restriction on access to files. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a local attacker to enhance their privileges through a specially created application...

Failed to convert vdisk with error message "BNIStack failed, network stack could not be initialized"

Target device unable to startup with error "BNIStack failed, network stack could not be initialized"...

Error: "Virtual Disk is Owned By Control Domain" in XenServer

- Storage Repository shows a virtual disk attached to a "Control Domain" - VDIs cannot be deleted with errors that the VDI is not managed by this host. - Multipathing cannot be enable on the SR because the VDIs are not managed by this host...

How to Reverse Image from a Virtual Disk to a Local Hard Disk with VMware ESX4

This article contains information about how to reverse an image from a virtual disk to a local hard disk with VMware ESX4. Background It is often necessary in a Provisioning Services environment to reverse an image to install a Citrix hotfix, change a driver, or do certain other tasks.To achieve...

How to Import/Export vDisk

How to Import/Export vDisk...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: openstack-glance-2015.1.2-1.fc23

OpenStack Image Service code-named Glance provides discovery, registratio n, and delivery services for virtual disk images. The Image Service API server provides a standard REST interface for querying information about virtual d isk images stored in a variety of back-end stores, including OpenSta...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL7.x x86_64 (20150727)

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU's IDE subsystem handled I/O buffer access while processing certain ATAPI commands. A privileged guest user in a guest with the CDROM drive enabled could potentially use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: openstack-glance-2014.2.3-1.fc22

OpenStack Image Service code-named Glance provides discovery, registratio n, and delivery services for virtual disk images. The Image Service API server provides a standard REST interface for querying information about virtual d isk images stored in a variety of back-end stores, including OpenSta...

LUKS-OPs - Automate the usage of LUKS volumes in Linux

A bash script to automate the most basic usage of LUKS volumes in Linux. Like: Creating a virtual disk volume with LUKS format. Mounting an existing LUKS volume Unmounting a Single LUKS volume or all LUKS volume in the system. Basic Usage There is an option for a menu: ./luks-ops.sh menu or simpl...