Best design for vmware server
Hi there. I am about to build a new vmware server, and am looking for input on best design practices. It will be a linux based host that will do nothing more than run vmware server. More specifically,...
View ArticleHost: winXP64; vmserver 1.0.1 and Solaris 10 u3 vmtools issue
I can't figure this one out. Solaris 10 64bit virtual machine defined. Install had two issues (both resolved by alternate methods). 1. The download .iso image was not readable by vmserver 1.0.1....
View ArticleWhat IPs do guests acquire through NAT?
Hello! I am running the free VMware server on Windows XP Professional perfectly with no problems. I am using NAT, and the virtual adaptor on my host has an IP of 192.168.76.1/24. When my virtual...
View Articlebest hard drive/RAID configuration?
Wer'e just setting up a new Dell 2900 w/- 4gb and 5 hard drives; 2 x 80Gb configured as RAID 1 (so 80Gb total), and 3 x 160Gb in RAID 5 (so 320Gb total). I'm wondering about the best way to set up the...
View ArticleVMNetx Adapter Settings
Under Windows, it's not clear to me what impact if any enabling Client Network and File & Printer Sharing has on the Virtual network adapters VMNet1, VMNet8, etc. I understand that VMNet1 is for...
View ArticleFC6 / Rawhide users - this might interest you.
Hello all, I just installed the latest rawhide as a VMWare server guest.Due to changes within the Linux kernel (fs.h, config.h), the guest's vmware-config-tools.pl will fails to build the required...
View ArticleSound support on VMware server
Hello, I am confused about sound support. Could somebody to explain what exactly is supported?I have server with soundcard, Linux and VMware Server on it. I have also XP and Linux virtual machines. I...
View ArticleWindows 2003 Product Activation dialog bypass
All, I'm currently in the midst of doing a massive conversion from physical machines to VMs. Unfortunately I've run into a snag on a machine conversion from a Dell GX280 to VM on Windows 2003. It seems...
View ArticleVMware Server and changing DNS domain from localdomain
I installed VMware Server 1.0.1 on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition with a NAT network. Noticed that DNS domain is localdomain by default. ipconfig /all shows Prmary DNS suffix, DNS Suffix search...
View ArticleSharing a virtual disk file between VM guests
Hi,I am using vmware server 1.0.1. i am using redhat linux4 for both vmhost and vmguest. i want to share one virtual disk file between two vmguest.i created a virtual disk on first vmguest and i add...
View ArticleMoving a VM to another Drive
Hi, I have moved my virtual machine from my C drive to my external E drive. I have done this with other VM and I can normally start them up fine. However this time it appears my VM still wants to refer...
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 ArticleProblem creating VM from Quick Restore CD
I would like to create a Windows XP Professional virtual machine from my machine's quick restore CD and then wipe my hard drive, make some flavor of Linux my host operating system instead, and then run...
View ArticleVirtual disk corruption
Hello, I'm running VMware Server 1.0.1 on a Dual Opteron 265 server with CentOS Server 4.4, and 4 250GB SATA drives paired two each as RAID-1 (so two md devices) combined using LVM into a single...
View ArticleVersion mismatch with vmmon module
I am trying to VMware Server 1.0.1 for Linux. Without the any-to-any patch this thing wouldn't even compile on my system (Debian Stable on a x86 box; Self-Build. 2.6.20 Kernel).. So I installed the any...
View ArticleHow to remove redundent snapshot (cannot via gui)
Hi, I seem to have a couple snapshots on the disk which are being used as the main disks? These are taking a considerable amount of disk space and I want to get rid of them. The option in the gui to...
View Articleshrink, defrag, size not reduced
I am using windows 2003 server as host and as guest. I have virtual growable disks splitted in 2 GB slices. One vmdk-file has 25 GB of size. I have deleted files some files in the guest system. So I...
View ArticleSOLUTION -> 511 Error connecting to ....\vmserverdWin32.exe process
Hi ppl: Since this is my first post, i'd like to congratulate the VMware TEAM for the amazing software they developed over the years.Thank YOU ALL !!!! Since i've installed the free version of VMware...
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 ArticleNo VM startup under SuSE Linux 10.0 on dual Opteron
This kinda worries me.. It's found in vmware-ccagent.log The problem is filed as SR Id: 249661. Apr 26 11:33:37: app| VMServerdConnect: connecting to /store3/vmware/hulda/winNetEnterprise.vmxApr 26...
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