Windows: 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...
View ArticleSystem Clocks run to fastr in Windows 2000 Server.
Does Anyone know how to stop the system clock from running too fast in the guest OS of Windows 2000 Server. I want to run three seperate instances of Windows 2000 Server. The first Instance run up and...
View ArticleWin2k SQL2000 slow performance - hyperthreading recommended ?
A guest OS is experiencing slow performance when running SQL intensive jobs. Scenario: \- Host server HP Proliant 380G3 / dual 2.8 xeon / Win2k AS SP4 / 6GB Ram\- Guest Win2k Srv SP4 MS-SQL2000...
View ArticleClock sync
Hi One of my server is having a clock sync problem. The Fedora server is sitting on a RH9 VMWare GSX host. Linux guest on a linux host has a known problem(is it?) of having the time being accelerated...
View ArticleVirtual Network Error code: 0
Hi there,I have an issue where everytime I try to save any changes whatsoever in 'Virtual Network Editor' it throws up an error message 'An error occured while updating the Virtual Network Setting....
View ArticleW2k3 client hangs with cpu usage on GSX 3 W2k3 host
Does this problem sound familiar to someone?When I work on a W2k3 client using remote console, suddenly the client hangs. The console just freezes the display. There is no more disk or network activity...
View Articlecomments in .vmx file
Is there a way of commenting out an entry in the VM's configuration file? I there a "comment character," like # or ; to use?
View ArticleCntrl-Alt-Delete query
I'm really sorry as this is a really stupid question! I've just created a new GSX VM...i'm TS-ed onto the GSX Host and viewing the new VM through the console.... but what keys do I press to send a...
View ArticleAutomatically change windows VM hostname
Does anyone know of a way to automatically change the hostname of a virtual machine without "going through the motions" and doing it manually inside the VM OS?? Perhaps the VMPERL or VMCOM API? Mark
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 ArticleEmulating SCSI Controllers
Hi, Is it possible to configure a virtual SCSI Controller withoutactually having the physical hardware installed on the host GSX Server. I assume not ??? I want to practice configuring RAID arrays. Can...
View ArticleError in Clustering - Unable to add node to cluster
Hi, I setup windows 2003 sp1 for Node 1 and Node2. I have configure Node1 cluster sucesfully. However, can i try to power on node you and add the cluster to node, it reach until the following when...
View Article[Q] GSX Server for Linux doesn't work - how to resolve the issue?
Hello everyone! I've installed the GSX Server 3.2 on a Linux box according to instructions in docs. Installation scripts told me that installation is successful, however, I have problems with the...
View ArticleVMware Server beta supported hosts
Is there any documentation on what hosts are supported. I tried to run the new VMware Server beta on a Windows XP host. Neither host cant start the management website. When starting "VMware Server...
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 ArticleVMware Server Installation Failure (WINXP), Please help
When am attempting installation of VMware Server on WinXP (using VMware-server-installer-e.x.p-20925.exe). Part way through (when the status is "Installing VMWare Management Interface) I get a popup...
View ArticleVMControl error -8: Invalid operation for virtual machine's current state
We were running some VMs then we shutdown the server without shutting down each VM. We saw VMWare saying it was stopping them then it said it was unable to stop all VMs. After the reboot any VM we...
View ArticleVIDE: ATAPI DMA 0x25 Failed: key 0x2, asc 0x3a, ascq
Host OS: Server 2003 32bitVer: GSX 3.2Guest OS: Server 2003 32bit R2CPU: Dual Opteron 244'sRAM: 2Gig Just noticed one of my VM's shut down in the lab testing R2. What does this mean? Feb 24 13:11:07:...
View ArticleAll snapshot options greyed out in Vmware Server
Hi, I have a little problem with VMWare Server. I moved three VM's from GSX server 3.1 (linux host) to VMWare Server on Windows Server 2003. Since I changed the host and VMWare version, I cannot take,...
View ArticleOpenVPN routing problem
Hi, I am running vmware server on a Linux box which is also an OpenVPN server (subnet 10.33.0.x). The virtual machines are all behind vmnet8 (NAT) which has IP 192.168.33.1 (192.168.33.2 to the...
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