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shrink, defrag, size not reduced

February 26, 2007, 12:07 am
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I am using windows 2003 server as host and as guest. I have virtual growable disks splitted in 2 GB slices.

 

One vmdk-file has 25 GB of size. I have deleted files some files in the guest system. So I have released 5 GB of space.

 

Over the weekend there was running a scpript on the host  to reorganize the vmdk-files.

 

First I have used the following command to defrag the virtual disk:

 

vmware-vmdiskmanager - d disk1.vmdk

 

After that I want to shrink the virtual disk using this command:

 

vmware-vmdiskmanager -k disk1.vmdk

 

But unfortunatly the size is not reduced. What is wrong ?

Shoult I first shrink an then defrag ?

Are there any other options which I should activate ?

 

Thanks in advance

 

H. Keil

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Upgrading NT4 Server VM to Windows 2003 Server

April 5, 2005, 1:51 am
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Hello,

 

Has anyone had any problems Upgrading NT4 Server VM's to Windows 2003 Server specifically with Mass storage devices.  We have created a PDC NT4 server and have tried upgrading it to windows 2003 but it blue screens with a mass storage error and doesnt specify which storage device.

 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

R.

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FreeBSD: lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer

October 17, 2005, 12:04 am
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VMware-gsx-3.1.0-9089 based on RH9.

Guest OS: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8.

 

Periodicaly in kernel messages:

lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer

lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer

lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer

 

\# cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep lnc0

lnc0: <PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter> port 0x1080-0x10ff irq 10 at device 17.0 on pci0

lnc0: Attaching PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter

lnc0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:29:02:f6:dd

lnc0: if_start running deferred for Giant

lnc0: PCnet-PCI

 

Can anybody explain this? Google didn't give me clear answer.

 

Thanks.

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USB HD bug?

May 22, 2006, 2:49 am
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vmware server beta3 on mandriva 2006_64, Athlon64 3800, win2000 guest

 

Problem: A brand new install works fine and win2000 finds a USB hard drive without problem; get popup windows about installing drivers, don't need to mount via the VM menu option, can access the contents.

 

\_Every_ other attempt, with the same or different USB hard drive fails.  Nothing spontaneously happens, if use menu VM -> Removable -> the hard drive whose name is in the list, get popup warning:

 

"The existing driver (usb-storage) could not be successfully disconnected (Operation not permitted).  Unload the driver manually, then try again" 

 

Not fixed by rebooting vmware or the computer.  Can't seem to find said usb-storage driver to delete.  Looks like a bug?

Any ideas would be welcome

 

Tony Blackwell

Brisbane, Australia

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Does VMware Server support an IEEE-1394 FireWire Interface?

May 22, 2006, 12:52 pm
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I am running VMware Server on RedHat Linux Enterprise 4.0.  I created a Virtual Machine on VMware, running MS Windows XP Professional and am running an MS Windows application in the MS Visual Studio 2005 Development Environment that needs to poll the PC for an IEEE-1394 FireWire Interface and it does not seem to be able to recognize that that the 1394 port actually exists.

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msg.disklib.TOOMANYREDO - > Too many levels of redo logs

May 29, 2006, 3:16 pm
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msg.disklib.TOOMANYREDO - > Too many levels of redo logs

 

Does anybody know when this message will appear - what is the maximum allowed?

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No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

June 10, 2006, 10:50 pm
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This is the error I get when trying to connect.

 

Cannot connect to host: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

 

I am connecting on the host machine which is a XP SP2.  I have turned off the firewall and anti virus.

 

Thanks in Advance

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Install error 1904: vmware server console on windows nt 4.0

July 10, 2006, 8:48 am
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Hi *,

 

I try to install the vmware server console on a NT 4.0 WS + sp6a + ie6 (german). I Always got the message

 

"Error 1904 c:\programme\vmware\vmware server console\vmappcfg.dll failed to register. HRESULT -2147024769. Contact your support personal.".

 

If I ignore, I got the message

 

"Error 1904 c:\programme\vmware\vmware server console\vmhwcfg.dll failed to register. HRESULT -2147024769. Contact your support personal.".

 

If I ignore again, I got the message

 

"Error 1904 c:\programme\vmware\vmware server console\vmhwsdk.dll failed to register. HRESULT -2147024769. Contact your support personal.".

 

I ignore again:

 

"Error 1904 c:\programme\vmware\vmware server console\vmdbCOM.dll failed to register. HRESULT -2147024769. Contact your support personal.".

 

If I try to start the console, I got a error message (I try to translate into english):

 

"Can't find procedure entry point "SHGetSpetialFolderPathA" in dynamic link library "SHELL32.dll"

 

If I follow the "VMware Server RC 2 Administration Guide" in the Section "Software Requirements – Windows Remote Client" page 11/12, this is an correct system configuration.

 

What ist wrong? Has any one an idia? thanks for help

 

doppelra

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Impossible to Login locally

August 19, 2006, 7:30 am
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Hi,

i have a blatant problem which is slowing starting to kill my life hour after hour.

 

This is all the more simple to describe :

I cannot login at all with VMware Server Console.

 

Now, i see no good reason for that :

I'm using Windows XP SP2, have been installing the latest VMWare server version (1.0.1), and am trying to login locally, so no remote connection in place. Of course, i've got full administrative privileges.

 

So there is really something wrong here.

Other Vmware products (Vmware players and Vmware Workstation) have been working nicely on this computer up to now, so this clearly has something to do with the login sequence only.

 

I don't even understand what the console asks me :

Host Name : ???? Localhost ? 127.0.0.1 ?

User Name : ????? admin ? administrator ? login name ? what what ?

Password : even worse

 

Whatever the combination, the process always end with a connection problem, mostly stating that the connexion was explicitly refused (when using localhost as the target host).

 

I believe to have used on another computer an older version (bêta) of Vmware Server, which did not asked me so many questions to connect locally. So Why ????

 

What's trully irritating, is that i can't find any help anywhere on that problem even after searching hours on Internet and VMTN. As if it was so trivial that no one cared to write a single line of documentation on it.

 

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        Tractor

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Problems opening apps that use files with OCX extension

November 19, 2003, 12:21 pm
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Hello All!  My first time posting.

Has anyone evercome across the problem of not being able to open an application and the eror message is like the following:

Run-time error '372':

Failed to load %FileName% from anyname.OCX. Your version of anyname.OCX maybe outdated. Make sure you are using the version of the control that was provided with your application.

 

I'm leaning towards a video issue with VMWare, because the same app will run fine on the host.  So, if anyone has encountered such an error and also solved it, please let me know.

 

Thanks.

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Operation on file xxx.vmdk failed

February 10, 2004, 4:27 pm
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Have a W2K host running W2K guest with MS SQL 2000.  At random times, about 2 to 50 hours between occurances, the guest 'hangs'.  With remote console we connect and there is a pop up with the following message, a response of retry 'frees' the guest, even if is has been many hours.  The events are logged in the host application  log, but no events in the guest.  I have looked everywhere without success for some thing that would lock the file.  It is not even the same file, sometimes it is the first segment, sometimes another drive altogether.  Tech Support has been no help.  Has any one seen this before and was a solution found?

 

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Event Type:     Information

Event Source:     VMware GSX Server

Event Category:     Virtual machines

Event ID:     1101

Date:          2/9/2004

Time:          10:54:53 PM

User:          N/A

Computer:     xxxxxxx

Description:

Virtual machine received question: x:\vmware\vms\xxxxxxxx\windows 2000 server.vmx

 

Operation on file Windows 2000 Server-02.vmdk failed (write: The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file).

 

Pressing Retry will attempt the operation again.

Pressing Abort will terminate this session.

 

\[Retry, Abort]

 

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Event Type:     Information

Event Source:     VMware GSX Server

Event Category:     Virtual machines

Event ID:     1102

Date:          2/10/2004

Time:          8:05:33 AM

User:          N/A

Computer:     xxxxxxxx

Description:

Virtual machine received answer "Retry": e:\vmware\vms\xxxxxxxx\windows 2000 server.vmx

 

Operation on file Windows 2000 Server-02.vmdk failed (write: The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file).

 

Pressing Retry will attempt the operation again.

Pressing Abort will terminate this session.

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Linux VLAN's and vmware..

May 1, 2004, 1:11 pm
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I have a linux guest OS setup w/ a RH9 machine(kernel 2.4.20-39) acting as a router.. this machine is bridged via Vmware and uses VLAN tagging via the Linux 8021q module to the network it is routing. The other interface is bridged as well(on a secondary physical port) and is not VLAN'ed.

 

The trouble is that the hosts in the routed 'net are not using tagging and this is causing a MTU problem. The routed hosts use an MTU of 1500 which is translated to 1504(4 byte 802.1q header added) by the switch when the packet reaches the VM.. any packets >1500 bytes are not being seen by the VM host. The 8021q tagging being done by linux in the VM is using a 1496 MTU(1500 - 4 for the VLAN tag).. I believe this is dependent on the pcnet32 NIC.

 

Is there any way to get it to use 1504 bytes for 802.1q tagging?

 

Thanks.

 

-r

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Why are the Graphics so Dreadful?

October 10, 2004, 9:17 am
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I'm using Mandrake 10 as a guest OS on GSX Server 3.1 but the graphics are dreadful.

 

VMware Tools installed ok with 'VMware virtual video card' showing in hardware settings. Screen resolution is 1024x768 with color quality set at 16 bit to match the Host OS.

 

My own websites and others look dreadful via any browser installed into Mandrake including Opera, Mozilla and Konquerer.

 

I've tried several versions of Mandrake inluding those that are officially supported and also tried installing them into VMware Workstation with the same results, very poor graphics.

 

XP, Win98 etc all give good results, why is this an issue for Linux and more importantly, is there a fix?

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poor performance of my machine

February 18, 2005, 2:14 pm
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I get lot of event with id's of 4097 and 4205 in my event viewer.

 

Could anyone help. pls.

 

In the vmware log files i see a lot of error messages as shown below:

 

Feb 14 13:38:46: vcpu-0| VLANCE: Ethernet0 skipped 9 time(s)

Feb 14 13:38:46: vcpu-0| VLANCE: 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Feb 14 13:38:46: vcpu-0| VLANCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Feb 14 14:18:46: vcpu-0| VLANCE: Ethernet0 skipped 10 time(s)

Feb 14 14:18:46: vcpu-0| VLANCE: 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Feb 14 14:18:46: vcpu-0| VLANCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Feb 14 14:51:01: vmx| LICENSE using: 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware GSX Server\License.gsx.3.0-20'

Feb 14 16:24:14: mks| SOCKET 2 recv error 10054: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

Feb 14 16:24:14: mks| SOCKET 2 destroying VNC backend on socket error: 10054

Feb 14 16:24:14: mks| SOCKET 2 closing socket

Feb 14 16:24:14: mks| SOCKET 2 Final release; freeing asock struct

Feb 14 18:08:46: vcpu-0| VLANCE: Ethernet0 skipped 11 time(s)

Feb 14 18:08:46: vcpu-0| VLANCE: 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Feb 14 18:08:46: vcpu-0| VLANCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Feb 14 18:08:46: vmx| VLANCE: Ethernet0 skipped 12 time(s)

Feb 14 18:08:46: vmx| VLANCE: 7 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Feb 14 18:08:46: vmx| VLANCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Feb 14 21:22:37: vmx| AIOWIN32: PR 38693: resetting event

Feb 14 22:02:37: vmx| AIOWIN32: PR 38693: resetting event

Feb 15 02:56:34: vcpu-0| VLANCE: Ethernet0 skipped 13 time(s)

Feb 15 02:56:34: vcpu-0| VLANCE: 8 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Feb 15 02:56:34: vcpu-0| VLANCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Feb 15 02:56:34: vcpu-0| VLANCE: Ethernet0 skipped 14 time(s)

Feb 15 02:56:34: vcpu-0| VLANCE: 8 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Feb 15 02:56:34: vcpu-0| VLANCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Feb 15 13:27:32: vmx| AIOWIN32: PR 38693: resetting event

 

The problem i am having is that my machine is running very very slow.

 

Need help.

 

Thanks

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USB conversion to COM modem

April 4, 2005, 6:26 am
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Hi,

I have a Windows 2000 SP4 box with VMware GSX 3.1 installed.  A USB modem was purchased and needs to be added to one of the Virtual Machines.  I can see the modem on the host but since it is a USB to COM conversion modem, I am not receiving the option to add the COM port to the virtual machine and I have already shared the USB with this virtual machine.  Is there anything I can do to make this work or should we purchase a new COM port modem?

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Vmware console, blank screen, failed to launch the MKS client

April 11, 2005, 4:16 am
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While trying to access an virtual machine via gsx-console, the following error occurs:

Apr 11 12:07:00: vmui| Unable to view the virtual machine's screen: Failed to launch the MKS client: Das System kann den angegebenen Pfad nicht finden[/b]

Any idea what it does mean ?

We are just migrating our local clients from one windows-domain to an other. Using the old one, everything works fine. But migrating from the old one to the new one creates the error( copying existing profiles). We can connect to the VM, but no display is viewable ? Even reinstalling vmware-console doesn't work

Any Ideas ?

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Service vmware-authd expects port ..

June 7, 2005, 12:39 pm
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Hello Forum,

 

when i did installing my gsx on sles9 the installer told me to change to port 904 (i think he did this because 902 was in /etc/services). now delete this entry and want to change it back to 902. using vmware-config.pl looks good, but when i restart xinetd i get the message

 

Jun  7 21:32:48 srv-vmware1 xinetd\[15479]: Service vmware-authd expects port 904, not 902

 

in /var/log/messages.

 

xinetd-session looks good:

 

srv-vmware1:/var/lib # cat /etc/xinetd.d/vmware-authd

\# default: on

\# description: The VMware remote access authentification daemon

service vmware-authd

{

    disable         = no

    port            = 902

    socket_type     = stream

    protocol        = tcp

    wait            = no

    user            = root

    server          = /usr/sbin/vmware-authd

}

 

 

thanks for your help in advance

 

Andreas

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Microsoft OEM Licenses

June 24, 2005, 6:27 am
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Hello

 

I don't know if I am in the right forum to be asking this question or if it has been asked before but......

 

I have GSX Server installed on all my servers at work and want to install MS Windows Server 2003 OEM as a virtual machine.

 

I heard on the grapevine that Microsoft don't allow OEM licenses to be installed as a virtual machine.  So with this I phoned the Microsoft Licensing Helpline to ask them.

 

I told them the situation - that I have VMWare GSX Server and wanted to install an OEM license and asked if they allowed it.  Their response was - "I don't know, you will have to look on the box that disks came in or contact the manufacturer of your virtual machine software", which i found quite commical really.

 

So to cut a long story short, can I install an OEM license 

on a virtual machine?

 

Any help on this would be great

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PCNet-PCI II Dos ODI driver crashs VM under GSX 3.2

July 5, 2005, 4:16 pm
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I use a DOS 7.01 Bootdisk Image that works under Workstation 5 really fine.

Unter GSX 3.2 the Dos ODI driver crashs the VM.

 

The error Msg:

 

The Master Boot Record (MBR) of this virtual machine's hard disk does not contain valid bootstrap code. It is likely that the MBR was corrupted by an incorrect guest operating system installation or some other reason. The virtual machine cannot continue and will now power off. (For advanced users: the MBR ist the last disk sector accessed by the virtual machine befor the error.) Pleas consult out Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/info?id=18" for common troubleshooting help.

 

I think to write the information on this Web site is not helpfull is redundant....

 

Has anybody a working Dos driver for GSX ? Or a bugfix ?

 

-st

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vmdk-File corrupted after host crashed

September 29, 2005, 4:54 am
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Hi everybody,

 

I can´t start my virtual machine - in the vm-console I always get this error:

"unable to open either the disk /data1/win2004.vmdk or the redo log ./win2004.vmdk.REDO_jcswXA.

Failed to configure disk scsi0:3. The virtual machine cannot be powered on with an unconfigured disk.

 

So,

what happened ?

Long time ago I saved a snapshot of this machine. I didn´t need it anymore so in the vm-console I said "Remove snapshot".

This took some time - BUT during this my vm-ware host crashed down !

 

After I powered it on again I tried to start the virtual machine again - but received the error mentioned above.

Seems the disk-file ist corruped because the crash occured just during the merge of the vmdk and the redos.

 

So,

what´s the configuration ?

SuSE Linux 9.2 with GSX Server 3.1 on it.

The virtula machine is a Windows2003 with 3 SCSI disks configured.

 

So,

what´s the question ?

How can I repair a corrupted vmdk-file ????

 

Searched around here in the forums and found lots of people having similar problems - but I found no solution...

 

Best regards

Th. Jalas

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