Which host OS should I use ? W2K3 , RHEL , CentOS or unsupported Fedora ?
This question seems to be getting repeatedly being asked without any clear answer. So here's my angle. W2K3 will cost you money and GUI resources ! Fedora is unsupported, bleeding edge and only...
View ArticleGuest OS with strange hardware - Siemens MPI PCI Card
hello everybody ! can anyone help me ? we will plan to migrate a existing W2K Server from the old serverhardware to a new server with vmware server installed. but on the old server is a special pci...
View ArticleThe device, \Device\Scsi\symmpi1, is not ready for access yet
I had a virtual machine become unresponsive this morning. I had to hardboot it and this was listed over and over again in the event viewer for the past two days. These events were occuring less then...
View Articlepostfix in host (unbuntu) and mail client in win23k(guest)
I know how to set up postfix MTA in ubuntu server but how do i set up the mail client in my guest win2003server. hows does postfix pass the mail from linux to windows ? ricky1
View ArticleBrooktrout PCI Fax modem card
Host OS is Windows Server 2003Virtual Server of is Windows Server 2003 I installed the pci card and turn on computer. The host OS finds card, installs drivers and works great. The virtual server does...
View ArticlePerl bindings to Vix API
In beta3, a new Perl binding was added for the Vix C API. It got left outof the Release Notes, so I wanted to point it out in this forum. Here'sa sample app to get you started. Note that this has...
View ArticleDisk Unknown Unreadable
My virtual machine was powered off unexpectedly and now some of my disks are listed as unknown and unreadable. Any idea how to get these back?
View ArticleVirtual Machines Shut Down Unexpectedly in Build 23869
I just upgraded to Beta 3 this morning and now a number of my guest OSes power off on their own. I have four Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard and Enterprise Edition guests and one SUSE Linux 10.0 Guest...
View ArticleHow to set up samba?
Could someone give me a start on setting up file sharing between a linux host and windows or linux guest? Previous topics say that samba is the way to go, so I read the VMware server virtual machine...
View ArticleCan i use a pci tv card under vmware server.
i have pci (pixel veiw playtv pro 2) tv card that only work well under windows cuz drivers are not available for linux. but linux has the software i'd prefer to capture /watch it. is it possible to use...
View Articlewindows xp professional addition
When i try to install vmware servre on windows xp profession. it gives me error of "setup has detected an unsupported host. You may encounter some issues when using VMware Server on this system"What...
View Articlekernel: out of memory: killed process nnnn (vmware-vmx)
Hi, I'm running Vmware Server 1.0.0 build 27828 on CentOS 4.3 on Dell Poweredge 4600 with 8GB RAM. The objective I have is to run a number of Oracle test / development environments on this server, each...
View ArticleNew AMD Utility to Sync Cores
Not sure if this will help some of the clock drift issues on AMD X2 CPUs but might be worth trying. It is reported here at The Register http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32790 and can be...
View Articleno Internet with host-only network(not NAT-wanna limit traffic via IPTABLES
I m using VMware-server-1.0.0-27828.i386 on a Suse 10.0 box. Guest VM is win98. I m using host-only networking (not NAT, coz I wanna limit traffic via IPTABLES). The 98VM gets default gateway...
View ArticleSAN Connectivity / Presenting a Multipath Disk Device to a VM
Hello, We're running VMWare Server 1.0.0-24927, on RedHat Enterprise AS4 U3. We'd like to provide a Windows Server 2003 VM with access to our SAN - the two ideas we've been exploring are (1)...
View ArticleWindows: P2V with nothing but NTBACKUP
I've recently duplicated our producion environment into VM's to allow us to test upgrades and patches without having to arrange outage windows, come in on the weekend or waste a night rebuilding a...
View ArticleSafely delete redo files
I have some big redo files in a virtual machine and I would like to know how to safely delete them. DISCO_E.vmdk.REDO_a00544DISCO_C.vmdk.REDO_a00544 Thanks CCA
View ArticleFree Vmware Server Licence key
I have VMware free server and I have installed correct licence key. if I check it says no Expiration but I can not start a virtual machine, it is giving me a message that it has expired. Thanks
View ArticleCompact Virtual Disks
I have searched the web and this forum for an answer, but I have not been able to find one so far... Does anyone know of a way to compact virtual disks? I have a virtual drive that is 100GB but only...
View Articlehidden network adapters when importing from MS Virtual Machine to VMWare
When I converted my MS virtual machines to VMWare, ended up with hidden network adapters that are assigned the IP address it had when it was a MS virtual machine. When I try to set the IP address of...
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