Sharing virtual disks between two running guests/disk hotplug/clustering
Hi, I am currently trying to find a high-performance way to share a virtual disk between two Windows guest OSes. The requirements:1. the two VMs are running at the same time2. only one VM is mounting...
View ArticleVirtual machines freezing suddenly
Hello everybody, we are testing VMWare Server 1.0.1.29996 running on a DELL PowerEdge 850 (Pentium D 830, 3.0GHz, 2GB RAM) with Windows 2003 R2 Host. Currently we are running two VM's with Windows NT...
View ArticleVirtual MAC address assigned inside guest OS not receiving packets
Hello I have a vmware server on Linux with two BSD guests. Each guest has its primary network interface bridged to the host's physical one, which is attached to a dumb switch. The guests arbitrate a...
View Articlewhere can i find "VMware Server.msi"
i'm trying to install a supplemental tools package that is asking for "VMware Server.msi". My installation package from VMWare is "VMware-server-installer-1.0.1-29996.exe". Is there a way I can extract...
View ArticleProblem with OPManager-MSP running on a VMW-Server
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...
View ArticleLinux VMware Server Console - Virtual Machine can't power on
Hi, I have installed VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386.rpm on my linux machine with kernel 2.6.16.38. I have created Virtual Machine, but VM can't power on. I don't get error message box (only black...
View Articlesmartd fail When run Redhat Ent. 4 on GSX 3.2
When I install Redhat Ent 4. on GSX 3.2 , and I restart Redhat when finish install and reboot i have massage on boot smartd failed . I don't no what happen ,Please Help me
View ArticleI have a low resolution on a Win2K VM and i can't change it
Im running VMWARE Server Beta on a Win2K Host, I have create a French Win2K Virtual Machine. Currently the res is 640x480 and 16bit colour, the upper limit in properties is 800x600. When I increase...
View ArticleNLB in Unicast mode support?
It seems that current versions of GSX Server doesn't allow Windows Server 2003 NLB clusters in Unicast mode. But I need it badly for use with ISA Server (it doesn't support Multicast mode). Does VMware...
View ArticleSLES 10 and vmware tools installation
Hi there, can someone please offer some light on an issue I am currently having. I am installing SLES 10 into a VM, and it works well. I have installed the gcc compilers, and the kernel source so that...
View ArticleSlow performance on brand new PowerEdge 1950
Hi, I need help about my performance problems. My VM is about to go into test production and this performance problem will make that impossible. Please help me. I have a brand new PowerEdge 1950 with...
View ArticleSolaris 10 vmtools installation problems
Hi everybody, I have installed VMware server (free version) 1.0, and selected Solaris 10 when I installed. I am now trying to install the VMware tools so that I can copy/paste & resize the screen...
View ArticleHow to configure to use "tentire disk" from CLI
Hi, I hava a 40G entire disk (/dev/sda), so I just want to install the GuestOS to /dev/sda. I know that use the wizard of VMware Server is standard, but can I configure that from command line...
View Article/etc/init.d/vmware status : line 1003: status: command not found
Hi, It seems that the vmware init script on a Linux host (/etc/init.d/vmware) expects that a "status" command exists. /etc/init.d/vmware statusAt least one instance of VMware GSX Server is still...
View ArticleGSX ver3 pn linux powerquest deploy center hang
I'm trying to user powerquest deploy center to restore a windows 2000 server image to a gsx virtual machine running on linux. After tranferring a few hundred megs of the image file the vm hangs every...
View ArticleTerminal session to Windows Server 2003 Guest
I have several Windows Server 2003 VMs setup on a Windows Server 2003 Host. RDP or ICA sessions to the guest OS take a very long time to establish (45-60 seconds) but any terminal session to the Host...
View ArticleEmulating Sitelink with less than 1Mbit bandwith
Probably rather trivial, but I've got Problems linking 2 Win2003 Servers on the same gsx-server-environment together, so that they can communicate over a slow network-connection.I want to emulate an...
View Article32-bit or 64-bit host OS?
Hi, I've just ordered some servers to run VMware Server on. They have 64-bit Intel Xeon EM64 CPUs. To get the best performance out of VMware, should I install a 32-bit or 64-bit host operating system?...
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 ArticleAll snapshot options greyed out in Vmware Server
Hi, I have a little problem with VMWare Server. I moved three VM's from GSX server 3.1 (linux host) to VMWare Server on Windows Server 2003. Since I changed the host and VMWare version, I cannot take,...
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