OSX Mountain Lion (10.8) seems to change the order of the MAC addresses presented to flexlm licence processes. There is a page about various problems at the Mathworks website:
Why am I unable to launch MATLAB after upgrading to Mountain Lion?
At the bottom of the page it gives the command to run to determine which address the licence process is seeing:
/Applications/MATLAB_.app/etc/maci64/lmutil lmhostid
In our case, wondering where that cannot create Microsoft.SMS.Client object 800A01AD error comes from…
Sometimes you need to let ccmsetup.exe do it’s thing when joining systems to the domain.
It can sometimes be difficult to get Windows systems to shut down reliably using an ACPI signal (either the power button for a physical system, or an equivalent signal from a virtual machine hypervisor). Generally you find after the system has been on for a period of time, the first ACPI signal merely wakes up the screen. On a physical system this makes some sense – it shows you the system is in fact on already. To turn a physical system off you just press the power button again. For a virtual system this is not convenient, especially when you want the system to shut down cleanly when the host system is going down. The trick is to keep everything, particularly the screen, alive so that the first ACPI signal does actually initiate shutdown.
Read more...According to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782277(v=ws.10).aspx this should be simple. Trying it on a Server 2003 VM (that had been converted from Virtual Server 2005) didn’t give the options of the other HALs. The answer is at http://www.pimp-my-rig.com/2008/08/article-acpi-uniprocessor-to.html – use the command line devcon.exe tool and the .cmd script at http://www.pimp-my-rig.com/2008/10/acpi-multiprocessor-hal-upgrade-script.html .
Devcon can be downloaded from Microsoft at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272
The script is:
@echo off
@title "Upgrading to ACPI Multi-Processor HAL.."
cls
echo ====================================================
echo Upgrading to ACPI Multi-Processor HAL..
echo ====================================================
echo.
echo please wait..
devcon sethwid @ROOT\PCI_HAL\0000 := !E_ISA_UP !ACPIPIC_UP !ACPIAPIC_UP !ACPIAPIC_MP !MPS_UP !MPS_MP !SGI_MPS_MP !SYSPRO_MP !SGI_MPS_MP > nul
devcon sethwid @ROOT\ACPI_HAL\0000 := !E_ISA_UP !ACPIPIC_UP !ACPIAPIC_UP !ACPIAPIC_MP !MPS_UP !MPS_MP !SGI_MPS_MP !SYSPRO_MP !SGI_MPS_MP > nul
devcon sethwid @ROOT\PCI_HAL\0000 := +ACPIAPIC_MP > nul
devcon sethwid @ROOT\ACPI_HAL\0000 := +ACPIAPIC_MP > nul
devcon update %windir%\inf\hal.inf ACPIAPIC_MP > nul
echo.
echo ====================================================
echo Script Completed: press any key to reboot..
echo ====================================================
pause > nul
devcon reboot
Because I always forget about this one…
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Acpi_kvm
For Server 2003 (and 2008) run
gpedit.msc
and change the key
Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options\Shutdown: Allow system to be shut down without having to log on