Any Click on the VM Console pops up a window with tis message
Hello everyone! This is the message "Your VM is using a custom pointer, which is not natively supported by Microsoft terminal services. If you experience problems using your mouse, try switching to a...
View Articlehostonly devices start disconnected on autostarted VM's
I'm having an issue with hostonly ethernet devices starting disconnected on autostarted VMs. The following appears in the log. Jan 29 23:21:33: vmx| VNET: Notification enabled for Ethernet1Jan 29...
View ArticleDOS networking dos not work to VMware host
I have a DOS boot flop with network support, using TCP/IP. This floppy works. I can boot from it (using a real pc, not a vmware) and I can drive map to a WindowsXP Pro pc. (like net use T:...
View ArticleMigrating Red Hat + Informix
Hello I would like to migrate a Red Hat + Informix Application system from a physical server to a VMware virtual server. The VMware is going to be installed on an Windows 2003 Server.Reinstall the all...
View ArticleGSX3.2 Performance drop while copying files, Linux host & NW411 guest.
Hi All, Need some help here. I have VMware GSX 3.2 installed on a Linux host and Netware 4.11 as the guest on a dual-Xeon CPU/1GB RAM/73GB SCSI HDD machine. The guest is configured to have 40GB of...
View ArticlePAM error messages in /var/log/secure
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...
View ArticleI cannot find audio driver for Win XP pro x64 edition (guest os)
Cannot find in OS setup disk, not in vm tools, where can I get it? Thanks. Message was edited by: Hakkk
View ArticleVMXNET error help!
Hi! I use gsx server 3.2.1. I have on 2 occasions on 2 days had a nic dropout for a short while. I dont know if its releated to overload or whatever. I run it on a win2k3 host with a debian guest. Its...
View ArticleIdle CPU usage
I have a 4 core (8 way w/ hyperthreading) Xeon EMT with 32GB running VMware server beta (Windows 2003 x64 standard installed). There are 5 virtual machines running, all with VMtools installed....
View ArticleBridging fails with Check Point SecuRemote
WinXP SP2 hostVIA Compatable Fast Ethernet Adapt (onboard) Win2K guestFedora-fc5-i386 guest Check Point VPN-1 SecuRemote NG Build 132 I could connect to the internet using NAT from the guest OS's but...
View ArticleCan NFS work over NAT to share host files with guests?
I'm not an NFS nor a network expert, so I need some help with this. I usually use NAT networking with my VMware guests. I need to share files on my host with my two VMware guests, and since Server...
View ArticleChange Subnet for VMnet0 adapter
My VMnet0(Bridged) was auto assign the subnet 255.255.255.255. How can I change it?
View ArticleMinimal Host OS Install
Has anybody determined the minimal install (any distro) necessary to run VMware Server Beta? I would like to build a "poor man's GSX" by installing only what is necessary on the host OS to get VMware...
View ArticleCan i use a pci tv card under vmware server.
i have pci (pixel veiw playtv pro 2) tv card that only work well under windows cuz drivers are not available for linux. but linux has the software i'd prefer to capture /watch it. is it possible to use...
View ArticleWhat's wrong with Server Knowledgebase links?
I cannot get to knowledgebase links from VMware Server Release Notes page:http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html They are like:http://www.kb.vmware.com/kb/1082240and don't...
View ArticleWindows Server 2003: Mouse Cursor Stuck in Bottom Right Corner
After converting my VMs from Virtual Server 2005 R2 I installed VMware Tools. Since installing the tools the mouse cursor is stuck in the bottom right corner from the console. The only functional way...
View ArticleReplaced NIC and now networking is broken
I'm running VMWare Server on a Suse 10.1 linux workstation. My motherboard was replaced yesterday and there is a new NIC with a new MAC address. Now my VMware guest OSs won't connect to the network....
View ArticleTerminal Server Connection
Is it possible to establish a terminal server connection with a guest install on a host machine where all the guest installs and host machine share the same nic card?
View ArticleBooting a guest from USB-rawdisk
In case anybody is interested: I just managed to boot a 2k3 guest from a USB-rawdisk.All you have to do is rewrite the rawdisk descriptorfile so that it uses an IDE-geometry instead of the...
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