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When I try to start a machine I get this The maximum number of virtual machines is opened.You must close some virtual machines before opening new ones. I have no machines on right now. There are...
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Hi. Today my vmare stop working (with my Kubuntu virtual machine) (after clicking on "power on" machine turn on with black screen and in 1 second suddenly stop). Logs says:Dec 09 13:59:00: app|...
View ArticleFailed to retrieve disk information for... VMDB failure.
I recently moved my Virtual Machines from Fedora Core 5 to Windows XP 64 bit. Other than locking up after starting HAL, everything went smoothly. (HAL lockup was resolved by switching the client (FC...
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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Hi, I'm running an ubuntu feisty guest in vmware server 1.01, and the "autofit guest" doesn't work.I think it's because the vmware-user process stops when the session is launched. I've looked for this...
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We are evaluating the OPManager-MSP platform (=a Management tool of Advantent) and installed it a w2k3 as a quest on VMware Server. The OPManager-MPS collects data from remote probes via https. During...
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Hi all, I installed the latest VMServer onto SLES8 SP2 and installed a virtual server running SLES8 SP2 and Oracle database.I'm having a problem whereby the virtual server will shutdown by itself every...
View ArticleBoot problem Montavista linux
I would like to run Montavista Linux as a guest operating system, but Montavista is not listed as a supported guest operating system. Should it be possible to get it to work anyway? When I try to...
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has anyone seen a problem where they have GSX Server installed on Windows 2000, a Windows2000 VM with 1 Virtual NIC (Bridged), and multiple IPs assigned to this Virtual NIC. Then, over time, the ARP...
View ArticleWhat do all of Configuration File Settings do in a VMX file
I am trying to get a list of all of the options that are in the .vmx file and what they actually do. I have compiled a list of all of the possible settings in the .vmx file. (There May be more) If you...
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