eth1 == vmnet2 bridge sniffing not getting packets
I have two Ethernet adapters in my host RHEL4 Linux box. Eth0 is the main connection and is bridged to vmnet0 in the vmware-config.pl for all the bridged guests, that works fine. I have a seperate...
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I've a box HP DL740 8xCpu 24Gb ram with Windows2003 EE, with GSX 3.1The problem is that im unable to star any VM, when i press the start button, the machine dont start and it writes this log on Event...
View Articlevmdk-File corrupted after host crashed
Hi everybody, I can´t start my virtual machine - in the vm-console I always get this error:"unable to open either the disk /data1/win2004.vmdk or the redo log ./win2004.vmdk.REDO_jcswXA.Failed to...
View ArticleSetting up DSX on a Windows XP host
I have a P4 3 GHz Windows XP workstation with 2 GB RAM. When I set up GSX, the host settings indicate that only 788MB of ram is available for all VMs. This is an evaluation version of GSX. Is there any...
View ArticleSetup did not find any hard disk drives...
I am unable to install Windows XP Professional. The error message is: Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Is there any hardware requirement for GSX Server as well? I...
View Article64-bit Support - What does it really mean?
Hello All, I will be installing the new Server Beta tomorrow. I've poured through the readmes and stuff but I can't find an aswer to one question: What's the deal with 64-bit support? I guess...
View ArticleError trying to start virtual Machine
I installed VMWare server on a Fedors 3 box, I have a console installed on a XP box, when I try to fire up a new or old virtual machine, I get nothing. Below is a piece of my vmware-serverd.log . Any...
View ArticleSMP License Expired
Hello, I'm running a virtual machine on VMware Server with 2 virtual CPU's. After some time the VirtualMachine is automatically suspended and in the log the following message shows up: The VMware...
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 ArticleVMXNET is it available in SUSE 10
I could not get this to come up. I had vlance and each time I rebooted I would lose my network connection. I am running GSX 3.2.0. I am just learning linux but a bit of help would be great, thanks
View ArticleSuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. Can't install on GSX Server 3.2.0
Hi! Trying to install SLES 9.1 on GSX Server 3.2.0. I specified iso-image SLES-9-SP-1-i386-RC5-CD1.iso in settings of Virtual machine CD-drive. It started fine until "Make sure that CD number 1 is in...
View ArticleHow to simulate Windows VPN
I'm new to VMWARE, and I've setup a Windows SBS 2003 Server, made it a DC and then added a WinXP client and joined it to the domain. What I'd like to simulate is a Windows VPN connection on...
View ArticleBridged Network Fails - Server LINUX
On the LINUX version of VMware Server, during setup, I chose to add a new bridged network - one for each of the rest of my network cards. Each card has an IP address associated with it. In my first...
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 Articlevmware-uninstall.pl
Hi! I installed VMware Server Beta in Ubuntu 5.10 but it expired and I need to install the new version, but I can't uninstall, when I try to run the uninstall script it says it can't find the...
View ArticleFull screen not restoring previous resolution on exit
I'm using vmware server (build 23869) on Ubuntu linux, using Gnome as my desktop environment. I have my desktop running in that well known resolution of 1400x1050 (1600x1200 was just too small on my...
View ArticleWindows 2003 Server R2 Server Reboots when starting VM machine
When I started a Virtual Machine on a Windows 2003 R2 host running on hardware that has 2 CPU's Xeon 1.8 with HT enabled. The host stops responding and the server reboots. The host stops responding...
View Articlevmware-vdiskmanager shrink
I am trying to shrink a vmdk with vmware-vdiskmanager but I get an error because one of the other drives on my VMX file is independent-nonpersistent, however I am not trying to shrink that drive. Is...
View ArticleAuth problems (LDAP backend with TLS)
I have a little problem with auth against LDAP. The host system is a SuSE Linux 10.1 x86_64. Everything works fine on the system, IMAP, POP, login, SMB etc. etc.. But when trying to auth via a VMware...
View ArticleI cannot get it to display my external hard drive (a USB Western Digital)
Hi, I have the latest server version installed on Ubuntu. I've loaded WIn XP Home edition on it. But I cannot get it to display my external hard drive (a USB Western Digital My Book drive) Without...
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