BartPE powers down VM guest during boot...
Anyone seen this? Right about when it should be going graphical, the VM guest just shuts down. Build 22874. update: This build of BartPE just booted up a VM guest on VM Workstation 5.5.1 with no...
View ArticleVLAN Tagging
If a VM is running in bridged mode. Is it possible for it to tag itself to a different VLAN than the host machine? We want to run a special VM on our host, however, it will need to be tagged to a...
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 ArticleWindows Server 2003: Mouse Cursor Stuck in Bottom Right Corner
After converting my VMs from Virtual Server 2005 R2 I installed VMware Tools. Since installing the tools the mouse cursor is stuck in the bottom right corner from the console. The only functional way...
View ArticleGuest NIC running at 10MB/s when it should be 1GB/s
Host : HP Proliant ML370 with MS Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 R1 Guest : MS Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x32 R2 I have used HPs Network Utility to Create 4 Virtual NICs. Each Virtual NIC is...
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Instructions for installing VMWare tools on OpenBSD (no X windows)
I tested this on OpenBSD 3.9, 32-bit on a 64-bit Linux host. The installation CD/floppy for OpenBSD 64-bit would not boot at all on my system with a Pentium D 950 CPU. I don't install X windows on my...
View ArticleGame server performance? LAN party!
Hey guys, I run a LAN party in DC and was wondering how VMware Server could handle game servers. Just to give you an idea; two servers 2.8Ghz p4s, 2gb of ram. I was hoping to run 2 VMs on each...
View ArticleGuest Windows XP vs CPU usage
I'm running VMware server in a Fedora 5 (latest kernel) as host OS.I created a Windows XP VM acting as separate client to run some "only windows" applications. When I connect remotely the VM through...
View ArticleSetup is starting windows hanging on Windows 2003R2 install
I have VMware server, latest load installed on a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 with all updates. Hardware is a Dell Poweredge 1400 with 1.2 G of memory and 80GB Sata drive. The base system works...
View Article56k USB dialup modem on guest OS
Hi All, I got a host running on windows server 2003 sp 1 and a few guests OS running on windows XP sp 2. i able to detect those usb modems in guest OS, but how can i make this modem to connect to the...
View ArticleNetwork speed limited to only 10Mbps in VM
Hello All, GSx build 3.2.0 14497. I have a network related issue. I have a gigabit network and the host is having two 1Gbps NIC and the switch to which it is connected is also a 1gig switch. The...
View ArticleNLB - leaving the Cluster
I am attempting to use NLB on VMware server - my VM's are Windows 2003 Std SP1. VMware was so kind to include a section on this in their manual. That was helpful -- I have used NLB in the past, but I...
View ArticleLink detected : no
Hi, I have Virtual Machine Red Hat Enterprise 3 AS I can't change the paramethers of my ethernet: 100 Full duplex...I use ethtool....and it don't work nothing. I put the correct parameters and after...
View ArticleBSOD Stop: 0x000000D1 (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL) Server 1.0.1 29996
I receive the BSOD Stop: 0x000000D1 (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL) on VMServer 1.0.1 b.29996 running on WinXPsp2 ... ...when I copy a large zip file (700+mb) from the network to the VM, or if I try...
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Screen size/resolution problem
I had Solaris 10 working wonderfully inside my vmware server on windows XP 64 bit. vmware tools was installed, and I could get full 1280x1024 resolution in full-screen mode. Then I used Solaris...
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 ArticleVMware Tools & Time Sync not working
Since building what will be our production server for running production virtual machines, I am experiencing probelms with time synchronisation. Specifically the clocks on Windows 2000 guests are...
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VMware Server refuses to bridge with VLAN device
Hi, I have recently set up a new server running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, with the intention of consolidating our development systems on to a single machine. I configured several VLANS on the host machine and...
View Articlevcpu-0| VLANCE: Ethernet0 skipped X time(s)
Hello ! A user of one of our hosted VMs is reporting sporadic networking problems. looking at the vmware.log i found those "Ethernet0 skipped...." messages. Does someone know what is causing this...
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