Windows 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 ArticleThe zen of ext3 partition size reduction
Hello, Can anyone please help. I have an ext3 vmdk (happens to be a bootable centos install) which has:-\- maximum size of 40GB\- current size of 13GB and\- when running centos, the df command shows...
View Articleaccess to vmware guest through VPN
1. I have MS SmallBusinessServer 2003 (RRAS, VPN, DNS, DHCP installed) with two NIC (WAN and LAN)2. I have VMWare Server (build 28343) with Windows Guest (bridged network binded to LAN) installled on...
View ArticleLoading VM with WinPE - LSI SCSI driver not loading
Good day, I'm trying to test out WinPE to do our system loads and I'm testing it first on a VM running on VMware Server. I have the WinPE environment loading and I get the command prompt and the...
View Articlebridged network problem
I have 3 virtual machines (all MS Windows 2003) setup for DHCP. 2 of my virtual machines keep getting the same IP address. I have disabled the virtual network settings for NAT and host only. VMnet0 is...
View ArticleVMware Tools & Time Sync not working
Since building what will be our production server for running production virtual machines, I am experiencing probelms with time synchronisation. Specifically the clocks on Windows 2000 guests are...
View ArticleVMSS file...ok to delete?
My virtual server is running (ie not in suspended state) but for some reason, the VMSS file is still there? any ideas why? Can I delete it?
View ArticleDeleted VM from disk. I deleted the wrong one
Hi, have a big problem. I worked on an XP PC with VMWare Server and at the same time i worked (connect via Terminal Session) an another XP PC with also VMWare Server to check the settings by each...
View ArticleVirtual Machines Slow After 5 VMs
On my server I have 3GB RAM and a 3.2GHz P4 multithreaded processor... \* My host OS is CentOS 4.3 (Redhat Enterprise rebuild)\* My guest OSes are Scientific Linux 4.3 (Redhat Enterprise rebuild) I...
View ArticleUsing GuestInfo to Set IP Address
Can someone explain to me how you might use GuestInfo or other tools to feed the IP address or other NIC parameters to a virtual machine, rather than requiring those to be set by the user inside the...
View ArticleAmount of Memory under /proc/meminfo doesn't match setting
Hello, I've set a VM under VMware Server to use 2GB of memory. However when the VM is running, under /proc/meminfo it reports only 907 MB of memory. I am running 32-bit Gentoo 2006.1. Has anyone...
View Articleproblems connecting to server through console because of authorization
Hi there, I'm talking about a Windows XP Home system, with VMWare Server 1.0.1-29996, on which VMWare used to work and now does not. I have already tried "Repairing" the installation through the...
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Vista Host OS & VM Incorrect MAC address
Not sure if anyone has seen this before, but I'll give it a shot. I am running VMWare Server 1.0.1 build 29996 on Vista Business with all the current MS Critical Patches. On my host os, a PING to...
View ArticleBoot problem Montavista linux
I would like to run Montavista Linux as a guest operating system, but Montavista is not listed as a supported guest operating system. Should it be possible to get it to work anyway? When I try to...
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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...
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Guest Linux unable to access network
I've read a lot of other people with similar issues, and none of the other solutions seems to work for me... I have a FC4 Host and an FC4 Guest running. The FC4 Guest cannot access the network. During...
View ArticleVMware-Tools Time Syncronization stopped working
Hello,I'm in trouble because the vmware-tools time synchronization stopped suddenly 3 days ago. And as we know the guests are not running very accurately.I have a Linux host which clock runs perfect,...
View Article8GB RAM Host: Windows 2000 Server Standard: /pae?
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...
View ArticleVMs are very slow to respond after a period of inactivity
hello, i heave three nearly identical multi core hosts running centos 4.4 and vmware server build 29996. common to all systems is that the VMs that have not seen any usage for a while are very slow to...
View ArticleSlow network connectin in bridge mode
Hi, I have a performance problem in VMware server beta, build 20925.The network connection works at reasonable speed if I use NAT, while performances areunacceptably bad if I use bridged connection.My...
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