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Connect to SCSI tape drive

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I have VMWare server running on top of RHES4. I have attached a SCSI tape drive (HP Ultrium) and Linux sees the device as liove. I can do eject, load & status and all work. But VMWare does not see the device and will not connect. I have tried using all the ID ports in VMWare to no avail.

 

Any ideas on this?

 

Richard


CPUFreq, VMware and Linux 2.6

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Was there ever a solution found to address the grossly inaccurate VMware guest time synchronization due to CPU frequency throttling?

 

I don't consider polling an NTP server every hour, or setting the synchonize with host machine in VMware tools to be a viable solution.  The Vmware guest running windows 2003 has to KEEP time, not correct it every hour and be inaccurate every other time.

Give guest exclusive or raw access to IDE CD-RW?

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Hello all,

I'm having a problem getting some functionality I'd like out of VMware Server... my goal is to create a VM that can burn a Lightscribe label onto a cd using a normal Lightscribe CD-RW drive. The purpose of doing this in a VM is to provide an easy means to make a Lightscribe label when the host OS does not support it.

 

I've made a VM that has all the software it should need to do this, but the guest OS is not able to burn a data CD, nor is it able to make a Lightscribe label. I think, but do not know for sure, that the problem is that it does not have exclusive access to the drive.

 

Does anyone know how I can enable this with any setting or .vmx modification? The guest OS is Ubuntu 6.06, which definitely can burn CD's and Lightscribe labels.

problem after unexpected shutdown of host.

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i have this in the vmware.log of a windows xp guest:

 

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| DISK: OPEN ide0:0 '/opt/raid0/VirtualMachines/europa/Windows XP Professional.vmdk' persistent R\[(null)]

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| FILEIO: Failed to get a lock for file '/opt/raid0/VirtualMachines/europa/Windows XP Professional.vmdk'.

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK  : "/opt/raid0/VirtualMachines/europa/Windows XP Professional.vmdk" : failed to open (Failed to lock the file).

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/opt/raid0/VirtualMachines/europa/Windows XP Professional.vmdk" : failed to open (Failed to lock the file).

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB   : Failed to open '/opt/raid0/VirtualMachines/europa/Windows XP Professional.vmdk' with flags 0xa (Failed to lock the file).

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| DISK: Cannot open disk "/opt/raid0/VirtualMachines/europa/Windows XP Professional.vmdk": Failed to lock the file (16392).

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| DISK: Failed to open disk '/opt/raid0/VirtualMachines/europa/Windows XP Professional.vmdk' : Failed to lock the file (16392) 3023.

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| Msg_Post: Error

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| \[msg.disk.noBackEnd] Cannot open the disk '/opt/raid0/VirtualMachines/europa/Windows XP Professional.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| \[msg.disk.configureDiskError] Reason: Failed to lock the file.----


Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| POST(no connection): Cannot open the disk '/opt/raid0/VirtualMachines/europa/Windows XP Professional.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| Reason: Failed to lock the file.

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| Module DiskEarly power on failed.

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 0

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| VMX idle exit

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| Flushing VMX VMDB connections

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| IPC_exit: disconnecting all threads

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| VMX exit.

Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| AIOMGR-S : stat o=9 r=3 w=0 i=0 br=1710 bw=0

 

this is the current file list in its directory:

 

jhorne@polaris:/opt/raid0/VirtualMachines/europa> ls

564d5f48-47e1-9a43-eb50-a2b39527ebde.vmem            nvram               vmware-

564d5f48-47e1-9a43-eb50-a2b39527ebde.vmem.WRITELOCK  QuickBooks2007.iso  vmware.

564d80db-b1b7-7035-71a5-7583c4df4294.vmem            vmware-0.log        Windows

564d80db-b1b7-7035-71a5-7583c4df4294.vmem.WRITELOCK  vmware-1.log        Windows

jhorne@polaris:/opt/raid0/VirtualMachines/europa> ls

564d5f48-47e1-9a43-eb50-a2b39527ebde.vmem

564d5f48-47e1-9a43-eb50-a2b39527ebde.vmem.WRITELOCK

564d80db-b1b7-7035-71a5-7583c4df4294.vmem

564d80db-b1b7-7035-71a5-7583c4df4294.vmem.WRITELOCK

nvram

QuickBooks2007.iso

vmware-0.log

vmware-1.log

vmware-2.log

vmware.log

Windows XP Professional-f001.vmdk

Windows XP Professional-f002.vmdk

Windows XP Professional-f003.vmdk

Windows XP Professional-f004.vmdk

Windows XP Professional-f005.vmdk

Windows XP Professional-f006.vmdk

Windows XP Professional-f007.vmdk

Windows XP Professional.vmdk

Windows XP Professional.vmdk.WRITELOCK

Windows XP Professional.vmsd

Windows XP Professional.vmx

 

 

is there a way out of this?  i do have a backup of the entire VM, but i would like to not pull that out if i can avoid it.

vmdk file signature and offset needed for data recovery!?

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Hello,

We have suffered file system corruption on a raid volume with 3x virtual machines on it.

We are using data recovery software (EasyRecovery Pro) to find data on what is now identified as a RAW disk = the problem is that ER does not know anything about vmdk files and in order to identify them on disk it needs the above signature and offset in hex format.

 

Can anyone help?

 

Thank in advance as ever

How to let a VM allocate a hosts interface on its own?

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I have a host with two nics. Today the host (ubuntu) allocates an IP-address for each nic and the VM is bridged to the second nic with its own IP-address.

 

Totally 3 IP-addresses.

 

Is it possible to let the VM "own" the hosts second nic on its own? I mean, the second nic should only be connected to the VM, not to the host. This means that the second nic will only have one IP address and the ip address is only connected to the VM, not to the host.

 

Is this possible, and how do I do it?

 

Regards

/Erik

Starting guest machine locks up for 20 seconds

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Hi!

 

When I power on a virtual machine ba clicking the green "play" button in the toolbar, the VMware GUI freezes for about 15 seconds.

During that time the vmware-vmx.exe (IIRC) process eats 100% CPU.

After the 15 seconds everything goes on normally.

 

The about dialog says I have VMware Server Console 1.0.0 build-28343

 

I downloaded it a week ago (wasn't there version 1.0.1 already a while ago ???)

My host OS is win2000 SP4.

 

The freeze happens every time I start the host system (I only have one configured).

 

Regards,

David

 

PS: here is a part of the log, where the delay can be seen :

 

Feb 08 10:13:02: vmx| PowerOn

Feb 08 10:13:24: vmx| Host ACPI: can't find SRAT

Feb 08 10:13:24: vmx| HOST Windows version 5.0, build 2195, platform 2, "Service Pack 4", SMP

 

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PXE boot in NAT mode

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Hello ,

 

I would like to know if there is a way i can PXE boot my VM into the DHCP server in my Network, while configured in NAT mode.

 

Please note that the DHCP server is not a VM.

 

Is there a way to do this apart from creating another Virtual Adapter in Bridged mode and configuring it that way.

 

Is there a way i can set my physical DHCP server attributes in the vmnetdhcp.conf.

 

Thanks in advance


vmnet-natd degrades periodically under load

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We are observing the following behaviour with build 1.0.0-27828 (and earlier versions):

 

Depending upon the number of network connections (the apache vm is getting roughly 100k pageviews per day):

 

\- network connections from outside start to get lost

\- the load of vmnet-natd goes up from 1-5% to 30-40%

\- first only a few then all pages will no longer be served

 

The problem vanishes completely after manually killing and restarting vmnet-natd on the host system. The client is not touched at all.

 

We are now hourly restarting the nat process. This solved the problem but is very unsatisfying.

 

Has anyone observed a similar behavior or found a solution for it?

 

Regards,

Juergen

hidden network adapters when importing from MS Virtual Machine to VMWare

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When I converted my MS virtual machines to VMWare, ended up with hidden network adapters that are assigned the IP address it had when it was a MS virtual machine.  When I try to set the IP address of the VMWare created network adapter, I get an error telling me that the IP address is being used by hidden network adapters.  The Virtual Server doesn't respond to that IP address though.

 

Does anyone know how do deal with this problem?

problems copying files from HOST to VM

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I can't seem to be able to copy files ( regardless of size) from the HOST Box to any VM's on the host. When I initiate a file copy, it hangs up on 'preparing to copy', and the copy eventually fails.

 

Copying files from the VM to the host works just fine.

Copying files from random physical machines to the host, or the VM , also works fine.

 

The problems seems to be exclusively with Host to VM copy operations.

 

details:

 

Host Box: windows server 2003

VM: windows server 2003

 

VMWARE: GSX Server 2.5

networking: set to vlance

 

 

any suggestions? known issues?

Failed to connect /dev/parport0

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I use GSX 3.1 for Linux on RHL 3 Ent. 3.

 

I try to connect Parallel port, but this error occur.

I just try to stop cups service.

 

Parallel port "/dev/parport0" is used by another program (such as another instance of VMware GSX Server) or driver (such as lp). Failed to connect virtual device parallel0

 

Thanks

Luca P.

VM Dont't start

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I've a box HP DL740 8xCpu 24Gb ram with Windows2003 EE, with GSX 3.1

The problem is that im unable to star any VM, when i press the start button, the machine dont start and it writes this log on Event Viewer:

 

vent Type:     Error

Event Source:     vmauthd

Event Category:     None

Event ID:     100

Date:          27/01/2005

Time:          14:46:34 PM

User:          N/A

Computer:     

Description:

The description for Event ID ( 100 ) in Source ( vmauthd ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: VMware process did not start properly.

 

 

Can someone help?

Expanding Virtual disk errors

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I'm trying to expand a virtual disk but I'm getting the following error.

 

Using log file C:\DOCUME1\xxxxxxx\LOCALS1\Temp\1\vdiskmanager.log

Failed to open the disk 'Exchange Server-flat.vmdk' : The file specified is not a virtual disk. (15)

Failed to open disk 'Exchange Server-flat.vmdk' : The file specified is not a virtual disk. (15)

 

This is the command:

vmware-vdiskmanager -x 6Gb "Exchange Server-flat.vmdk"

 

Ideas?

Problem after increasing virtual disk size

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I am using a VM that has Windows 2003 as its OS. I increased its disk size using vmware-vdiskmanager.exe and the expansion was successful. However, when I checked in My Computer>Manage>Disk Management, it was contradicting because in the top portion, C: still has a capacity of 8GB, while in the lower part, it shows that C: has 66GB. Also, when I checked the properties of C: in the Windows Explorer, it shows that it is 8GB still. What is the real size of C: ? Any help is very much appreciated.


Failed to do SSL handshake

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when i try to use the Server Console on Windows and connect to localhost, i always get the error "Failed to do SSL handshake"

 

I can Telnet to the local port 992 and get "220 VMware Authentication Daemon Version 1.10: SSL Required, MKSDisplayProtocol:VNC"

 

The client log shows:

Feb 14 14:02:30: vmui| Log for VMware Server pid=1640 version=e.x.p build=build-20923 option=BETA

Feb 14 14:02:33: vmui| HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1 numThreadsPerCore 1.

Feb 14 14:02:33: vmui| HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 1 total cores, and 1 logical CPUs.

Feb 14 14:02:36: vmui| VmdbCtxGet: Failed to get /host2/#17829aac81e1d644/productinfo/name/ (Not found)

Feb 14 14:02:48: vmui| SSL: connect failed

Feb 14 14:02:53: vmui| SSL: connect failed

Feb 14 14:02:53: vmui| There was a problem connecting:

Feb 14 14:02:53: vmui|

Feb 14 14:02:53: vmui| Failed to do SSL handshake

 

and the vmware-serverd.log:

Feb 14 13:16:44: app| \[Netmap_OpenAlways] path: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Serve

r\netmap.conf C:/ob/bora-20923/bora/lib/netmap/netmap.c:170

Feb 14 13:16:44: app| \[Netmap_OpenAlways] path: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Serve

r\netmap.conf exists. C:/ob/bora-20923/bora/lib/netmap/netmap.c:177

Feb 14 13:16:44: app| \[Netmap_OpenAlways] path: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Serve

r\netmap.conf exists. netmap 01774D80. C:/ob/bora-20923/bora/lib/netmap/netmap.c:183

Feb 14 13:16:44: app| VmsdNetworkPopulate: There is nothing in netmap

Feb 14 13:16:44: app| Serverd hostname: C9925FZR

Feb 14 13:16:44: app| Setting up serverd discovery channel for vmxes

Feb 14 13:16:44: app| Successfully set up serverd discovery channel for vmxes

Feb 14 13:16:44: app| vmserverdWin32.exe entering main loop.

Feb 14 13:18:28: app| CnxHandleConnection: ReadFile failed (code 109)

Feb 14 13:18:28: app| Failed to get connection on vmdb port

Feb 14 13:18:38: app| CnxHandleConnection: ReadFile failed (code 109)

Feb 14 13:18:38: app| Failed to get connection on vmdb port

Feb 14 13:21:56: app| CnxHandleConnection: ReadFile failed (code 109)

Feb 14 13:21:56: app| Failed to get connection on vmdb port

Feb 14 13:22:39: app| Ignoring windows message posted to non-UI thread. hwnd 1443046 msg 1024 wp 0000babe lp 00172394

Feb 14 13:22:46: app| CnxHandleConnection: ReadFile failed (code 109)

Feb 14 13:22:46: app| Failed to get connection on vmdb port

 

I have certificates in C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\SSL (and they are created by the installer)

 

Any Hints ?

PAM error messages in /var/log/secure

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I am seeing the following messages in /var/log/secure. Everything seems to be working, but these are logging frequently.

 

vmware-authd\[8725]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix2.so)

vmware-authd\[8725]: PAM \[dlerror: /lib/security/pam_unix2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

vmware-authd\[8725]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix2.so

vmware-authd\[8732]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix2.so)

vmware-authd\[8732]: PAM \[dlerror: /lib/security/pam_unix2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

vmware-authd\[8732]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix2.so

vmware-authd\[32261]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix2.so)

vmware-authd\[32261]: PAM \[dlerror: /lib/security/pam_unix2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

vmware-authd\[32261]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix2.so

vmware-authd\[32263]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix2.so)

vmware-authd\[32263]: PAM \[dlerror: /lib/security/pam_unix2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

vmware-authd\[32263]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix2.so

 

Install is CentOS 4.2 with current updates on an Intel Xeon dual processor server.

 

Thanks, Robert

Best video card for GSX

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I'm a developer using Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, SQL Server, etc.

 

What is the best video card to use with GSX?  Should I focus on a workstation cards such as the NVidia Quado series or should I go with a gaming card such as the NVidia GeForce 7 series?

 

It's my understanding that VMWare is OpenGL based, so a workstation card should provide better performance.  Is this true?

 

Thanks in advance!

Running Apache 2 under VM Server Beta problem

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I am running a VMware Server Beta version and the guest OS is Fedora Core 4. The host is Windows XP Pro SP 2.

 

Fedora has IP address of 192.168.248.128. I can ping it from Windows cmd line. I can ping the windows host from Fedora too.

 

I started apache 2 on port 8080 on Fedora and I have an index.html in /var/www/html.

 

I am not able to hit http://192.168.248.128:8080 from a browser on Windows to view index.html.

 

This runs fine and displays Hello world in the browser when I hit it from within Fedora. The URL I use is http://localhost:8080/index.html

 

When i try to browse the page, it tries for a long time, then comes out with this error:

Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: "" 

The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time. 

 

 

 

 

Here is the ipconfig output on my host(Windows):

 

 

Windows IP Configuration

 

 

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

 

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.248.1

        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

 

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:

 

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.57.1

        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

 

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

 

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : undisclosed.com

        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.84.202

        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0

        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.84.1

 

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

 

        Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

 

Here is the ifconfig -a output on my guest (Fedora):

 

\[root@mybox html]# ifconfig -a

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:5C:6E:29

          inet addr:192.168.248.128  Bcast:192.168.248.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe5c:6e29/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:595 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:374 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:65715 (64.1 KiB)  TX bytes:54129 (52.8 KiB)

          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1080

 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:1631 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:1631 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:2123078 (2.0 MiB)  TX bytes:2123078 (2.0 MiB)

 

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4

          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

 

 

I am able to ssh into the Fedora guest from my windows host too.

 

Is there something I am missing here?

How to migrate Physical machine to VM

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I'm a newby to the Vmware scene and have been looking at the Beta Server product to host a test environment.

 

I've been creating VM's from scratch and would like to know if their is a documented process for migrating a physical machine ( Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server ) to a virtual machine ?

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