Linux VMware Server Console - Virtual Machine can't power on
Hi, I have installed VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386.rpm on my linux machine with kernel 2.6.16.38. I have created Virtual Machine, but VM can't power on. I don't get error message box (only black...
View ArticleThe maximum number of virtual machines is opened
When I try to start a machine I get this The maximum number of virtual machines is opened.You must close some virtual machines before opening new ones. I have no machines on right now. There are...
View ArticleCannot find or download vdiskmanager.exe utility
Hi, can anyone point me in the right direction to download and install vdiskmanager.exe Don't know whether I am being stupid but cannot find it anywhere on my pc or the internet. I have installed GSX...
View Articlegsx 3.0 and vlans
im looking for a how to setup document or urli have configured the 3com switch and on the host i have 4 vlans setup under my intel 1000pro card but what do i do next with the server and network utility...
View Article511 vmware-serverd service is not running
"511 vmware-serverd service is not running." This is the message i've got after trying to connect to local computer. PentiumIII 900 mhzWindows XP SP28 GB harddisk512 MB memoryGSX Server 3.2.0...
View ArticleMalformed Response From Server
I've finally got everything running, but when I try to power on a VM, I get "Unable to change virtual machine power state. Malformed response from server" at the console, and a similar message is...
View ArticleProblem with iSCSI and virtual disk with 70GB of size
Hello, I intend to use a Promise VTrak M500i from a Win 2003 host running GSX Server 3.2.0 which is connected via MS-Software-iSCSI-Initiator. The problem I have is, that GSX freezes when I want to...
View ArticleTime Stamp counter?
I have a dual-opteron system that runs GSX 3.2 normally. So, I swapped the system raid to give the beta a test run.I installed SuSE 10.0 and installed VMware server from rpm, entered the...
View ArticleRunning Apache 2 under VM Server Beta problem
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...
View ArticleMUI doesn't work with Ubuntu Dapper (6.06)
I have VMware Server 22874 working with no problems on Ubuntu Dapper (ubuntu 6.06), but vmware-mui doesn't work after reboot. I launch vmware-config-mui and then works, but when i reboot just doesn't...
View ArticleInstallation Problem: Error 1713
Hello! I just tried to install VM Server (VMware-server-installer-1.0.0-28343.exe) and the installation terminates with "Error 1713.VMWare Server cannot install one of its required products. Contact...
View ArticleWindows: P2V with nothing but NTBACKUP
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...
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Instructions for installing VMWare tools on OpenBSD (no X windows)
I tested this on OpenBSD 3.9, 32-bit on a 64-bit Linux host. The installation CD/floppy for OpenBSD 64-bit would not boot at all on my system with a Pentium D 950 CPU. I don't install X windows on my...
View ArticleConsole Performance On Linux - Only Me?
Hi All, I have a dual 2ghz opteron running a copy of GSX 3.2.1. The host is running 64bit Windows 2003 Server and has 2 gigs of RAM and four virtual machines running on it. Console performance, while...
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Success with Ghost2k3 and VMImporter
Hello all, I wanted to share our success story with virtualising a SBS2003 server with you. Maybe it will help other people looking to do the same. We had: \- One SBS2003 physical server\- One other...
View ArticleAIX on VMWare
Has anybody setup an AIX 5.2 image on a VMWare server? Is it even possible?
View Article\Device\Scsi\symmpi1, did not respond within the timeout period.
I'm running VMware Server (free download). I have a Windows 2003 Enterprise edition, and running oracle grid 10g. I keep get multiple errors every couple of days. The server will stop responding,...
View ArticleVirtualize Windows NT 4.0 Server?
Hello, I would like to ask, if someone already done it... I already virtualized some dozens W2K and W2K3 machines according to following method: \- Image the HDD(s) using...
View ArticleSloooooooooooooow Netware 4.11 server on GSX 3.2
I have a Novell Netware 4.11 server running on VMWare GSX 3.2, hardware is a HP desktop DL530.This works great. Now I want to move this to a production server, running Windows SBS 2003 as host, the...
View Articleunreadable fonts in vmware-server-console
Hi, I'm using vmware-server on a amd64 box (GNU/Linux, Debian unstable) and used to administer the server via vmware-server-console, usually from a remote host via ssh/X11 forwarding. Having switche...
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