Goutham

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Dear Experts<br />
We had to install Cisco FMC as VM appliance on VMware the engineer completed this task. But in the vmware web console in the status it is showing as “Warning” and also following event message<br />
1. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The configured guest OS (Other 2.6.x Linux (64-bit)) for this virtual machine does not match the guest that is currently running (Other 3.x Linux (64-bit)). You should specify the correct guest OS to allow for guest-specific optimizations. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Warning<br />
2. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another issue is when we shutdown the FMC safely and again started due to server maintenance later now turned ON but it is more than 4 hours still it is showing up “System processes are starting, please wait. “ when accessed the FMC.<br />
Please help on how to fix the above 1 and 2 , thanks in advance.
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Dear Experts
We had to install Cisco FMC as VM appliance on VMware the engineer completed this task. But in the vmware web console in the status it is showing as “Warning” and also following event message
1.	The configured guest OS (Other 2.6.x Linux (64-bit)) for this virtual machine does not match the guest that is currently running (Other 3.x Linux (64-bit)). You should specify the correct guest OS to allow for guest-specific optimizations.	Warning
2.	Another issue is when we shutdown the FMC safely and again started due to server maintenance later now turned ON but it is more than 4 hours still it is showing up “System processes are starting, please wait. “ when accessed the FMC.
Please help on how to fix the above 1 and 2 , thanks in advance.

cisco FMC not working properly

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