Linux host. Linux guest. How to shrinkg a virtual disk?
I have a Linux guest running on a Linux host. The virtual disk is a growable 75Gb virtual disk that allocates space as needed. I only need 70Gb. How do I shrink the size of the disk down to 70Gb? I...
View ArticleCannot unlock the vmx file to enable 2 node cluster to access same disk
I am creating a SQL cluster with 2 nodes. I cannot unlock the shared disk by editing the vmx file. Here is the vmx file: \---- config.version = "8"virtualHW.version = "4"scsi0.present =...
View Articlevmnet-natd degrades periodically under load
We are observing the following behaviour with build 1.0.0-27828 (and earlier versions): Depending upon the number of network connections (the apache vm is getting roughly 100k pageviews per day): \-...
View ArticleCan't share disk
I am receiving the following error when trying to start my virtual machines that are configured in a cluster using windows 2003 enterprise edition: Sharing is only supported for persistent SCSI disks....
View ArticleICMP packet loss through guests?
I've got a strange problem with VMware Server that only affects ICMP traffic that I can tell so far. Prior to installing VMware, I had smokeping on the same physical server that worked fine for years....
View ArticleVMWare server causing Interrupt loss...constantly
I am running VMWare server on Debian Etch, with kernel 2.6.16-2-686-smp on a Dell PowerEdge 830 Pentium D 2.8GHz. The server itself runs fine, and I seem to be having no issues with it. However, this...
View Articlew2k3 crashes on a suse 10.1 host
Last night a guest crashes and i don't know why. guest: w2k3 stdhost: suse 10.1 there's nothing in the windows event log. but i found something in /var/log/messages on the host: Oct 3 03:24:43...
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Bridge second interface - fails - no firewall, vmware-bridge is up
Hi. I have a working VMWare Server 1.0.1-29996 running on CentOS 4.3 on a Dell with two NICs (eth0 and eth1). I initially installed VMWare with eth0 as bridged (the default). Works great. Also, the...
View ArticleVMServer Linux vs Windows Host Operating System - How to?
Ok this has been covered in other postings but not in so much detail. No flames please! Maybe by answering everything in the post you will enable more Windows users to convert to Linux! First off, I...
View ArticleAnyone Else Have 'Command WRITE(10) took N.NNN seconds' Events In Logs?
Hi All, I have recently been trying to upgrade my system from GSX 3.2 on W2K3x64 to Server 1.0.1 on linux. I'm very frustrated to find that the guest/host performance in my configuration is...
View ArticleProblem extending Linux guest physical ext3 partitions on a XP host
Hi, I have an Ubuntu Linux guest installed with a physical ext3 partition and have not been able to extend the partition. First, I extended the ext3 partition with Partition Magic 8.0, but did not move...
View ArticleGiving Up On Linux Host - Back To Windows
After several attempts to get my linux host to perform well I'm giving up and going back to windows. This depresses me because I was enjoying the challenge of developing my linux skills by needing to...
View ArticleSolaris 10 (update3 11/06) problem with guest screen resolution and vmtools
I installed Solaris 10 update 3 (aka 11/06) in a VM on a Fedora Core 6 host. The VM worked fine until I installed vmtools for solaris. During the tools installation I chose a screen resolution of...
View ArticleNeed to remove Unallocated Space from VM
Hi all, A colleague of my accidentally extended Disk0 with approximately 13GB of space. At this point, I would like to just remove the unallocated 13GB from the VM. Does anyone have any suggestions...
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software raid devices and vmware raw disks
Hi! I'm using vmware gsx server 2.51 and would like toadd a raw disk to the configuration of one of my guestoperating systems. I can add /dev/hdX and /dev/sdX devices without problems,but when I try to...
View ArticleHow to get GSX3.1 to work with bond0 interface ?
Hi ! We've installed GSX3.1 on SLES9, configured a bond0 interface, which is working properly. We've also installed the vmware-any-any-update88. We bridged vmnet0 to bond0. ps -ef root 22016 1...
View ArticleUpgrading NT4 Server VM to Windows 2003 Server
Hello, Has anyone had any problems Upgrading NT4 Server VM's to Windows 2003 Server specifically with Mass storage devices. We have created a PDC NT4 server and have tried upgrading it to windows 2003...
View ArticleBest way to Shrink space
Hi, I would like to know what's the best way to shrink a disk. My goal is to created zipped up VMWare sessions, so I want to create the smallest possible zip files. I know about Shrink option and from...
View ArticleMicrosoft Windows SQL Desktop Engine 100% CPU utilization (MSDE)
We encounting a problem using GSX 3, runnning windows 2003 server with MSDE. As soon as the database is accessed by any progrm the CPU utilization reaches a 100% and stays there until the program...
View Articlevmware management interface
i can't get my vmware management interface to work on a windows 2003 64-bit host I checked for listening ports and 8333 & 8222 are missing. Is the mgmt interface installed with the product or does...
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