Dear All

1. i have a problem can't install Guest server ?

2. host server : XEON 5160 CPU X 2，16G RAM，windows 2003 Enterprise x64.

3. Guest server : windows 2003 Enterprise x64.

4. error message:

messageThis CPU is VT-capable, but VT is not enabled (check your BIOS settings).

You have configured this virtual machine as a 64-bit guest operating system.  However, this host's CPU is not capable of running 64-bit virtual machines or this virtual machine has 64-bit support disabled.

For more detailed information, see http://www.vmware.com/info?id=152

vmwsvr host : desktop pc P4 2G RAM xubuntu 6.06 vmwsvr 1.0.1 numlock =ON

vmwsvr guest : xubuntu 6.06 with vmwtools numlock=ON

when i move mouse from within guest to the host server console "window frame" the keyboard numlock led goes off and stays off when i move to another host window (eg firefox) however numlock is still functioning (which is what i want) even though vmware has turned the keyboard led OFF !

when i move mouse back into guest the keyboard led comes back on !

are there any fix or workaround for this ?

Hi ppl,

im new here but i have got and very heavy problem:

If a Guest makes an ldap query (from phpmyldap) the WHOLE vmware Server crashes. All other VMs will powered off and the Server rebooting.

Background:

Guest: RH7 Linux padcacti1 2.6.19-1.2906.fc7 #0 SMP Sun Jan 7 21:38:23 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Host: Windows Server 2003 R2 (all updates and Patches)

VMware: VMware Server 1.0.1 build 29996

Hardware: HP DL380 G4, 3,5 GB RAM, RAID 1 and Gigabit Network with Teaming Mode (automaticaly)

Network: bridged

Exactly Windows Server log:

Event Type: Error

Event Source: System Error

Event Category: (102)

Event ID: 1003

Date: 22.02.2007

Time: 09:27:35

User: N/A

Computer: WVMWARE1

Description:

Error code 000000d1, parameter1 00000006, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 f723b9e5.

On the BSOD you see that something is done with the ndis.sys[/b] but nothing more different.

2 other VMware Server (same hardware, only less RAM) with the same setup working fine (6 Linux VMs, 4 Windows VMs). And if i migrate this "evil" VM to the other Host it will crash too...

Any suggestions?

I tried:

\* changing the Host -> fault

\* updating drivers -> fault

Hello,

I've asked for one server to run VMware Server and 3 VMs.

I kind of got a 'yes,' plus a request for what it costs for 3 single servers.

So far I have thought of several advantages of virtualizing:

1. Less power usage (700 or 800 watts vs. 2100 to 2400 watts)

2. Less heat (a/c in server room doesn't have to work so hard, saves $$)

3. More complete usage of CPU and RAM (dual Xeons, 8 GB RAM), should easily do 3 VMs (SharePoint WSS 3.0 front end, SQL Server 2005, WSUS)

4. Less noise (smile! I know it's not that important! smile!)

5. About 25% less money for one server vs. 3 single servers -- they have the funds to buy 3 boxes if they want

6. One less UPS I have to buy

7. Less backup software to buy -- use the VBscript backup routine developed by someone here for Windows hosts (I prefer Linux host but Windows host will be 50% cheaper)

8. Same number of Win2k3 licenses

9. This server will have headroom to add a 4th server by adding more RAM

10. Easier to do disaster recovery so long as the VM has been backed up (to NAS)

11. More consistent installation and less maintenance by using 'master template' for the OS and same drivers (even if all three single servers are the same, they would have different amounts of RAM, hard drives, etc.)

Can anyone else offer ideas or suggest where I can look for more ideas??

Thank you, Tom

hi, I have a CCM5 server running on VMware sever. Host Operating system is Windows 2003 server.

Now the issue is, CCM server going down frequently (Host OS is running). I checked CCM logs and no error messages were found.

Can somebody help me in troubleshooting this issue?

Thanks,

Sitaram

I just finished installing fedora core 5 as guest system on an XP host. Everything went well in the installation and was able to stop and restart the vm. However today it refused to boot with the following message:

   Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel

   Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting

   sda: assuming drive cache: write through

   sda: assuming drive cache: write through

      Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...

      Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2

      2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active

   Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init

The only thing I did was to add some hardware (usb and sound), but when I removed it kept hanging, so perhaps has nothing to do with it. Can some good soul help me? Thanks.

Daniel

Hi,

I'm new here, so if this post is in the wrong place, please forgive me, thanks!

I installed VMWare Server exp build 22874 and attempted to install Windows 2000 Server in a VM.  I have the server cd in the cd-rom drive.  However, when I attempt to boot 2000 Server, I receive the error message, "Remove Disks or Other Media.  Press Any Key to Restart."  The host machine is a Dell workstation with ide drives and Windows XP Pro installed.  This is as far as I've gotten.  I didn't see this error posted elsewhere, but maybe I just missed it.  Thanks for any help you can provide!

I have Vmware Server RC1 running on a windows 2003 SP1 host with 2 VMs.  

The host is running on a RAID 5 setup with 3x 146 15K SCSi hard drives and I've noticed that the average disk queue length (in performance manager) when running the two VMs are spiking to 100% every 5 seconds (pretty regular intervals). Paging and Processor time are normal.

The guest Vms are allocated 2Gb and 1 GM ram (the host has 4GB) and they have plenty of ram in reserve when I checked in the VMs.

The Host is a dual xeon 3.2Ghz HP DL380 G4 and disk space is preallocated in 2GB chunks.

One of the VMs run a mail server and the other a backup DC.  I've update the drivers and ROM on the smart array controller but this has no impact on the host. I've checked the array and host system logs but no problems there.

I have noticed in the vmlog, there are these entries:

Jun 25 14:04:56: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.790 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:04:56: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.780 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:04:56: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.783 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:04:56: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.478 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:04:56: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.837 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:05:55: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.384 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:06:36: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.434 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:07:28: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.202 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:07:29: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.036 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:07:44: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.410 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:07:56: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.462 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:10: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.544 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:21: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.094 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:21: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.162 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:21: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.076 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:21: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.105 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:21: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.285 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:21: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.314 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:21: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.269 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:22: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.443 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:22: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.111 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:22: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.226 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:34: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.059 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:47: vcpu-1| TOOLS unified loop capability requested by 'toolbox-dnd'; now sending options via TCLO

Jun 25 14:08:47: vcpu-1| GuestRpc: Channel 2, registration number 1, guest application toolbox-dnd.

Jun 25 14:08:47: vcpu-1| DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : toolsVersion = 6529

Jun 25 14:08:54: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command READ(10) took 1.275 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:54: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.302 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:54: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.321 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:08:54: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.333 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:09:05: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.380 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:09:06: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.439 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:09:49: vcpu-1| GuestRpc: Channel 2 reinitialized.

Jun 25 14:10:34: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.347 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:10:34: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.362 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:10:35: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.877 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:10:35: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.849 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:10:35: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.673 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:10:35: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.855 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:10:35: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.863 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:10:35: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.875 seconds (ok)

Jun 25 14:10:35: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.892 seconds (ok)

Debugging is turned off as well.

Anyone ever ran into this problem before?  Any suggestions I could take to fix this?

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Hi,

I've installed VMWare Server RC2 on Centos 4.3 and I'm not sure it's installed correctly. I've set it up with bridged networking, and it has installed a /dev/vmnet0, but no other adapters.

When I run ifconfig -a, I only get details for eth0 and lo, no vmnet*.

Is there something I'm missing - when I install on Windows it creates 8 virtual network adapters.

Screwtape.

I've recently duplicated our producion environment into VM's to allow us to test upgrades and patches without having to arrange outage windows, come in on the weekend or waste a night rebuilding a production server after a patch went bad.

After much trial and error, using Ghost, Barts PE with the Ultimate P2V plugin and LiveState Recovery, I've found the following method to work perfectly every time:

1) Start with a VM running a clean OS install + VMWare tools. Make sure you are runing the same version and service pack version as that of the system you want to restore

2) Use NTBACKUP to take a copy of the windows partition and system state of the physical machine. Copy the resulting BKF file into your clean guest OS.

3) Use NTBACKUP to restore the system state + C drive into your VM. Because ntbackup keeps the hardware specific registry settings of the machine it's restoring to, you shouldn't see the STOP 0x7 error on restart.

4) After restoring, restart the guest OS. If everything starts, logon to the guest, reinstall VMWare tools and be happy. If you've restored from a Compaq (HP) server you might find the system hangs after the bios but before the Windows logo. Compaq/HP servers seem to use a different HAL from your run of the mill acapi HAL which doesn't agree with VMWare. In this case:

5) Boot from the Windows 2003 setup CD. (Hint: convert it to an ISO, copy it to your VMware host and attach it to your virtual CD ROM drive - Windows Setup will boot about 60% to 70% faster!)

6) Start the recovery console and drop to a command line

7) copy \WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\HALAACPI.DLL \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\HAL.DLL (overwrite the existing file)

8) Exit the recovery console and watch your VM boot (hopefully!) Install VMTools and be happy.

So far, this method has worked perfectly for me. There hasn't been a single machine that has failed to run or given me problems after restoring.

My questions are:

Is anyone aware of any problems with this method? and, seeing as it works so well, what benfit is there using a commercial P2V product? We've actually just purchased Symantec Live State with the restore anywhere option for our production servers, to allow us to restore them into VM's for disaster recovery purposes. I'm starting to regret this decision now, as it would appear I could have done the same thing with good old NTBACKUP!

I have a AMD 64bit machine running Centos 4.3.  I have two NIC's nic in the server.  I'm just toying around with different configuration and using this as a test box, but here is what I'm doing:

NIC1 - NO IP on CENTOS and not using DHCP

NIC2 - Has an IP on my local network

I have each nic assigned to a different vmnet adapter.

I am connecting NIC1 to a cable modem and assigning it to the RED network if an IPCop firewall vm.  I've used this scenario in testing with a static IP and it works fine, but the DHCP address is not passing through.  If I set the interface to DHCP under Centos the host server gets and IP just fine, but will not assign to VM.

Any suggestions?

I have VMWare Server installed on a Linux box and have used it to create multiple images. Would it be possible to move these images to a VMWare Server installed on a Windows box. Also, would the reverse work: Taking an image created on VMWare Server running on Windows to one running on Linux.

Apologies if this has been answered before. I tried searching the forum, but couldn’t find anything.

Hi. I tried searching for similar symptoms in the forum, but did not find any.

I have installed VM server 1.0.1 build 29996 on my IBM T42 laptop running XP professional. I even have IIS installed   . However, when I open the VMware Server Console, almost all the menus seem to be blanked out.

Under the VM heading everything is un clickable. Even the HELP - Enter Serial Number  is greyed out.

I know XP is not supported, but could someone help me out with some advice please?

Ciao

Derik

I am in need of some help with a scsi problem. we recently switched hw vendors to hp from dell and now i am running into a problem. basically, i am trying to attach a autoloader to a vm using scsi passthrough. here is some background info on my config.

hp ml350 G5 running Redhat ES 4 update 3 64bit

hp 1x8 ultrium 960 autoloader

i can see, control and use the autoloader from linux but it will not connect to any of my vm's. in linux the paths are /dev/sg0 for the tape drive and /dev/sg1 for the autoloader. i can connect the sg0 device most of the time but i can never connect the sg1 (autoloader). i always get the following message "unable to determine the scsi device type of host device".  any suggestions? i really need to make this work soon. if i cant get it going soon i will have to switch the host os to windows.

i have never had any issues like this in the past with dell and adic gear. (as amazing as that sounds). i always just assigned the 2 sg* devices as generic scsi devices and life was good. the one thing i noticed about this particular autoloader is that both the tape drive and the autoloader controller are at the same scsi id. they just have diffrent luns. the tape is lun 0 and the controller is lun 1. i can get the lun 0 device (tape drive on /dev/sg0) to connect to the vm most of the time but it some times spitts out some nasty scsi bus messages on the console like this "mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=0000010037df5a40)". when i try to attach the sg1 device i see the following on the console "mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=0000010037df540) scsi0: destination target 5, lun 1 command = inquiry 00 00 00 60 00" i dont know if its the diffrent lun thing thats causing me the problems or somehing else. i have already loaded the lattest and greatest scsi driver for the card from hp. no change.

thanks!

Hey Proffesional Pals!

I am in trouble.i had a very fine W2K server operating but just run out of disk space.I have just expanded the disk using vmware-vdiskmanager

And was 100% done  on a Linux Host.On starting the VM this error message is displayed:

Cannot open the disk '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Win2000Ser_72/Windows 2000 Server.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

Reason: Insufficient permission to access file.

and that becomes the end of the road.I guess it has nothing to do with permission.am logged in as root to the host OS and previously was able to evrything without facing any problem.

Hey Help badly needed!

thanks in Advance.

regards,

elikat

Hi all!

I searched och searched and can't find an anser to my question. If u install GSX server on a Beowulf or MOSIX cluster, will the GSX server(and all its running virtual machine) workload/networkload be shared on all nodes in the Beowulf och MOSIX cluster? Like a workbalance/networkbalace "plattform"?

p.s. Sorry for my english, hope you understand what i mean anyway... if not, just ask.

/Regards mj0ne

Hi,

Ubuntu 5.10 smp host, VMWare Server Beta + Ubuntu 5.10 smp guest. VMWare tools installed and configured in the guest.

I followed the suggestion, issued by the config script and rmmod-ed the pcnet32 module, then loaded the vmxnet module. The network works just fine.

After a reboot of the guest OS, there was no network. lsmod displays that both pcnet32 and vmxnet modules are loaded. If I rmmod them, and then modprobe vmxnet, the network is back again.

In the kernel log file I see these related lines:

Feb  9 12:25:36 localhost kernel: \[4294690.051000] pcnet32.c:v1.30j 29.04.2005 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de

Feb  9 12:25:36 localhost kernel: \[4294690.059000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18

Feb  9 12:25:36 localhost kernel: \[4294690.063000] pcnet32: PCnet/PCI II 79C970A at 0x1400, 00 0c 29 51 89 d7 assigned IRQ 18.

Feb  9 12:25:36 localhost kernel: \[4294690.076000] eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A

Feb  9 12:25:36 localhost kernel: \[4294690.078000] pcnet32: 1 cards_found.

....

Feb  9 12:25:36 localhost kernel: \[4294731.062000] vmxnet: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.

Feb  9 12:25:36 localhost kernel: \[4294731.066000] VMware vmxnet virtual NIC driver release 1.0.0 build-20925

...

At this state there is no network, and the machine is booted. Now, I go and rmmod vmxnet and pcnet32, and then modprobe vmxnet, and the network is up. This is what appears in the log for modprobe vmxnet:

Feb  9 14:24:55 localhost kernel: \[4294927.059000] VMware vmxnet virtual NIC driver release 1.0.0 build-20925

Feb  9 14:24:56 localhost kernel: \[4294927.097000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18

Feb  9 14:24:56 localhost kernel: \[4294927.098000] Found vmxnet/PCI at 0x1424, irq 18.

Feb  9 14:24:56 localhost kernel: \[4294927.731000] NET: Registered protocol family 17

Any ideas?

Thanks

Sunny

I am attempting to use NLB on VMware server - my VM's are Windows 2003 Std SP1.  VMware was so kind to include a section on this in their manual.  That was helpful -- I have used NLB in the past, but I would not have know I needed to use multicast mode instead of unicast.

Anyway - I have VMware server running on a server called isweb2.  The VM on isweb2 is isweb4.  I wanted to test VMware server before putting other servers up so I NLB'ed isweb4 (the VM) with a physical server isweb1.  I used to have isweb1 and isweb2 NLB'ed, but I removed isweb2 and added isweb4.

I have two NIC's in isweb1 and two in isweb2 - one used for NLB and the other for external traffic.  On the VM setup on isweb2 I setup two separate bridges - one for each NIC.  I use the NICs in the same manner on isweb4 -- the isweb2 external is the isweb4 external; the one that used to be for NLB on isweb2 is used for NLB on isweb4.

Today a program I use to monitor the servers told me it could not ping isweb4.  I found this in the system event:

(from isweb1)

Event Type:     Information

Event Source:     WLBS

Event Category:     None

Event ID:     69

Date:          8/25/2006

Time:          5:39:22 AM

User:          N/A

Computer:     ISWEB1

Description:

NLB Cluster 10.3.1.97 : Initiating convergence on host 1.  Reason: Host 2 is leaving the cluster.

\--  from Isweb4 \---

Event Type:     Information

Event Source:     WLBS

Event Category:     None

Event ID:     65

Date:          8/25/2006

Time:          5:39:18 AM

User:          N/A

Computer:     ISWEB4

Description:

NLB Cluster 10.3.1.97 : Initiating convergence on host 2.  Reason: Host 1 is converging for an unknown reason.

Not sure what to look for -- are there different NIC drivers that can be used?  Any other settings I should check?

Dear NG,

I have an Windows 2000 Server (STD) Host running with VM-Ware Server with physical 3GB RAM. Now I will upgrade the to 8GB RAM. Windows 2000 Server Standard does not support more than 4GB RAM (e.g. MS Technet). Does VM-Ware Server use the Memory above 4GB with option /pae set in boot.ini of the host?

Daniel

hi all,

I  am using vmware server 1.0.1 and red hat linux as both host and guest.   i have added one physical disk to to vmguest. now i am executing 1 c program which is writing into a file( present in that physical disk).

Now during execution of program i pulled out fiber channel cable . i got following error

Operation on file "/dev/sdd" failed (Input/output error).

Choose Retry to attempt the operation again. Choose Abort to terminate this session.

Choose Continue to forward the error to the guest operating system.

if i am choosing continue program runs as usual and writes in the file. which should not happen.

if i am choosing abort and try to run the program it's not running till i connect fiber channel cable again.

Please let me know why the program is writing into the file successfully even in the absence of fiber channel cable when i am choosing continue.

Is it known bug?

Thanks in advance.