VMWARE Machine Win2003 suddenly stops
Hello, I've installed VMServer 1.0.0 on a Win 2003 Std. Server with 2GB ram. Then I started a virtual machine (Windows 2003 Std.) which I already created with VMWorkstation 5.x . It seems that...
View ArticleShowing the correct memory usage in the host's task manager.
When a virtual machine starts, it allocates a large chunk of the memory, but that memory is not displayed in the Microsoft windows task manager (host machine). I dont know what happened, but I...
View ArticleTerrible keyboard+mouse+display lag
I'm getting absolutely awful keyboard/mouse lag inside my Linux (2.6.16 kernel) guest OS (yes, I have tools installed). Keys will often repeat themselves (just typing "ls" results in "lllssssss"), the...
View ArticleAIX on VMWare
Has anybody setup an AIX 5.2 image on a VMWare server? Is it even possible?
View ArticleClients cant connect to Internet. LAN & Intranet ok
Hello together A SBS2k3 SP1 (without ISA) with activated internal Firewall. 2 Nic´s.On the Server VMWare Server is installed with a XP Pro Guest System.With the Server (Host) a Internet connection...
View Articlevmdk file signature and offset needed for data recovery!?
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...
View ArticleFullscreen mode - changes refresh rate ?!
Hi, I'm running Fedora Core 6 with the Nvidia 9625 drivers as my Host. All seems to work fine. I run my Host OS in 1280 x 1024 @ 85Hz which is fine. When I fire up guest OS (WinXP) with the VMWare...
View ArticleCan't SSH to VM via SSL VPN Tunnel
I'm attempting to SSH in to a SUSE Linux 10 VM over an SSL Tunnel via an AEP Netilla SSL VPN box. VMWare Server is running on SUSE10. SSH connections from the local network are fine. However when...
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 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 Articlediskmount and Drive Snapshot compatibility success!
You may or may not know "drive snapshot" (www.drivesnapshot.de) - it's a disk imaging tool I've been using to do P2V conversions together with Vmware importer. Also, I'm doing in-guest backups with...
View ArticleGSX best HW: P4 w/ HT vs 2-way P3
Hello there,I'd like to have your opinion about this choice: planning a very small GSX server (no more than 4 GB Ram) is better to choice a modern and very fast Pentium 4 (let's say 3,06GHz), maybe...
View ArticleIPX support?
Has anyone had any luck using Novell Netware with the IPX protocol in a GSX VM? VMware says its not supported. Does it work?
View Article/etc/init.d/vmware status : line 1003: status: command not found
Hi, It seems that the vmware init script on a Linux host (/etc/init.d/vmware) expects that a "status" command exists. /etc/init.d/vmware statusAt least one instance of VMware GSX Server is still...
View ArticleDate
I'm running a linux guest on a linux host, after booting i got the following error message: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from The time and the date is not updated, the host is running 2.6.8 and the guest...
View ArticleAMD PowerNow! Supported?
Does this release allow us to use PowerNow! on the host? VMware Workstation 5.5 gave me trouble when I had it enabled and then powered on any VM. I would really like to use this setting with my E4...
View ArticleVirtual Network Settings.... are grayed out
I've just installed VM WARE SERVER with Red Hat Enterprise 4 as the host OS. The machine is a Dell Poweredge 2650 with Dual Xeon 2.2 GHz processors and Dual NICs. The problem I'm having is that the...
View ArticleMouse pointer is missing after VMware tools installed
Hi, I installed VMware tools on WIn2003 guest OS, host is running on WIn2003 as well. After installation there is no mouse pointer anymore in console. I already put "video accelaration" to maximum as...
View ArticleShinking Virtual disk
Hello, I'm trying to shrink a vmdk file and getting an error "failed to lock file" Any ideas why this may be happening? It is a growable disk so I assume I should be able to shrink it..... Jon
View ArticleUSB devices not usable under VMware Server
I've installed VMware Server under SuSE Linux 10.0 and make a VM of WinXP. It installs software as expected and can connect to the Internet without problems. However it has serious issues when handling...
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