Disable Write Cache
Inside of the virtual machine I tell the Windows XP Pro SP 2 guest OS that the virtual disk shall have disabled write cache. Does VMware Server 1.0.1 take respect of this flag? Does it really switch of...
View ArticleReceive sound error when starting VM.
Hi all. I'm running the latest version of VMWare Server on Gentoo with a Windows XP guest. I've added a sound device to the VM and tried both "Auto Detect" and "/dev/dsp". However, both options give...
View ArticleMalformed Response From Server
I've finally got everything running, but when I try to power on a VM, I get "Unable to change virtual machine power state. Malformed response from server" at the console, and a similar message is...
View ArticleVMware server memory controller service failed to start
Hi all, using VMware server 1.0.1 with host OS windows 2000 server and windows 2003 server. Running a guest with OS Windows XP I get an error message in the system log of the guest system from the...
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When the X server killed by pressing ALT + Backspace, All VMs powered off
The frontend of Linux is running on the same host where the Gsx Server ist installed. Now the problem, if you´re open the frontend of Linux and grab one virtual machiene and now you kill the whole x...
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 ArticleInstalling GSX onto Debian with 64bit kernel and 32bit userland
Hi all, Petr mentioned in one of his posts that it's possible to run VMware on Debian with a 64bit kernel and a 32bit userland. Has anyone done this? When I ran vmware-config.pl it errored on...
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 ArticleHow to find Host server name sitting on Guest (Windows)
Hi Guys, Just help me How to find Host server name sitting on Guest (Windows)?Is there any command or does Vm ware tools store some where in the registry? Satish M
View Articlelinux host - have to run vmware-config.pl after each reboot
GSX 3.1 on sles 9 Just wondering why I have to run the vmware-config.pl and the vmware-config-mui.pl every time it reboot the linux host. Before I do this I can connect with the vmware remote console...
View ArticleAMD vs Intel
Does anyone here run VMS on both AMD and Intel servers? I'm seriously considering migrating to AMD Dual-Core Opterons from Intel Xeon. I'm curious how well VMS works with AMD compared to Intel....
View ArticleMUI Install on Fedora Core 4
Hi, I set up vmware server on a fresh FC4 setup.The server works fine but I have 2 problems:\- connecting to the console having the encryption enabled on the server, crashed vmware-serverd\- when I try...
View ArticleUnable to change virtual machine power state: Operation failed to change...
Hello. I have a running Pentium 630 CPU server with Linux SuSE 10.0 x64 version installed on it. I was running VMWare GSX Server 3.2 and I recently upgraded to VMWare Server Beta build 20925. The...
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 ArticleIdle CPU usage
I have a 4 core (8 way w/ hyperthreading) Xeon EMT with 32GB running VMware server beta (Windows 2003 x64 standard installed). There are 5 virtual machines running, all with VMtools installed....
View ArticleAdd VMXNet driver and heartbeat to M0n0wall
since i use vmware-server and not gsx, this may not be the best place to post it but here it is anyway: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=35543&tstart=0
View ArticleVery high load in linux host - about 40% of CPU is "system"
Dear forum, I do have the following situation: 1 HP DL380 Server2 XEON 3GHz CPUHyperthreading is enabled3GByte RAM170GB RAID1 SCSI The Host-OS is SLES9, VMWare GSX Server 3.2 bigone:~ # uname -aLinux...
View ArticleVMnet Config Question
The VMnet adapters on my host machine (Win2k3) are running @ 100Mbit. Is it possible to run them @ 1000Mbit? I want to use iSCSI initiated from the guest OSes to the host as a target, but I would like...
View ArticleServer for Linux serial not working?!?!
I've installed VMware 2 times and used this serial number w/ success. This time, I reloaded another PC and tried to load it, and it keeps saying my serial is invalid. I have to in my Serial History...
View ArticleVMServerd Panic Error
Has anyone seen this or have any idea's on what is going on: VMServerd Panic: SSLLoadSharedLibrary Failed to load library /usr/sbin/libcrypto.so.0.9.7:/usr/sbin/libcrypto.so.0.9.7: cannot open shared...
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