Unrecoverable memory allocation failure at F(5757):336
Hi, I'm using debian linux with kernel 2.6.14. I installed the vmware gsx 3.2.1 build-19281 version and everything worked fine. I made a new virtual machine and tried to run it. But it couldn't start....
View ArticleAnybody using WMI to read GSX perfmon data?
Google says there's not much activity with the WMI interface but here goes. I am trying to read root/cimv2:Win32_Perf[*]Data_VMware_VMware over WBEM/WMI and am being told that there are no instances...
View ArticleGuest network not started on boot
Hi,Ubuntu 5.10 smp host, VMWare Server Beta + Ubuntu 5.10 smp guest. VMWare tools installed and configured in the guest. I followed the suggestion, issued by the config script and rmmod-ed the pcnet32...
View ArticleError with Win98se and emm386 noems setting
While windows starting up, it show the following screen, While initializing device DOSMGR:Insufficient memory to initialize Windows. Quit one or more memory-resident programs or remove...
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 ArticleCannot connect Console to Server
Hi, I have installed the VMware server and VMware MUI packages (build 2088) onto the host system -- SUSE 9, running on x86_64, kernel 2.6.5-7.252. During installation, the only non-default option I...
View ArticleLimiting Memory on a VM
One of our customers running GSX on an ES7000/510 has a problem. The releases installed in the host are the following:O/S:RHEL4 Std 32-bit, 1YSYS MGT:GSX3,UnlSPI 10143276 was applied.(Technical...
View Articledual core pentium 4 HT processor / cannot virtualize 64-bit OSes
On one of my VMware server test boxes, a SLES 10 (beta8) machine running the AMD/Intel x86-64 version with a dual core Pentium 4 HT processor is unable to virtualize 64-bit OSes. Anyone else having the...
View ArticleShutting Down VM
I apologize if this sounds like a stupid question, but when you're shutting down your VM is it ok to simply "Power Off" via the console while the Guest OS is up and running, or should you first log...
View ArticleVM Console keystroke problem with Linux
Using GSX Server on Windows 2003 Server; I am unable to run a Linux image and administer it via Virtual Machine Console. At every prompt, it double and triples my keystrokes. So if I type su - root,...
View ArticleHow to prevent VMware Server from bashing my machine with .vmBigFileTest0
We checked for Using Oracle Cluster Filesystem 2 (ocfs2-1.2) as base for our little VMware Server \*testing* farm for which we do not want to use ESX Server. Creating VMs on ususal filesystems (ext3...
View ArticleCan NFS work over NAT to share host files with guests?
I'm not an NFS nor a network expert, so I need some help with this. I usually use NAT networking with my VMware guests. I need to share files on my host with my two VMware guests, and since Server...
View ArticleStrange Networking Issues
Hey All, I'm running Vmware Server Beta 3 - this problem did exsist in vmware server 2 I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 Guest on Ubuntu 5.10 Host - I've just upgraded from a XEN system The 2 Guests i'm running...
View ArticleVIX Bug? VixVM_LoginInGuest is hanging
I can not seem to get the function VixVM_LoginInGuest to work. It never calls a call back procedure, not even with a progress udpate. It never throws an error. It just hangs. The latest tools ARE...
View ArticleDoes VMware Server support an IEEE-1394 FireWire Interface?
I am running VMware Server on RedHat Linux Enterprise 4.0. I created a Virtual Machine on VMware, running MS Windows XP Professional and am running an MS Windows application in the MS Visual Studio...
View ArticleHowto : Use Xubuntu as an (almost minimal) vmwsvr rc2 host os
Xubuntu uses Xfce instead of Gnome so has a smaller footprint than Ubuntu The following Ubuntu install howto works for Xubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VmwareServer However here are some...
View ArticleVM Server displaying wrong number of Processors
Installed Virtual Server on a new Dell Blade Server with 2 x 3.4Ghz processor obviously with Hyper Threading. Host OS is CentOS 4.3 and is correctly showing 4 processors in /var/log/messages. Virtual...
View ArticleCan l migrate a RHEL 4.2 Workstation 5.5 VM to VMWare Server?
l have an AMD Opteron server running Workstation 5.5 on RHEL 4.3. l have just got some new Intel Xeon based HP DL380's which l will be installing VMWare Server on top of RHEL 4. l would like to migrate...
View ArticleGuest OS can't detect bootable device
Hi all, I'am using VMware Server Beta and create a VM with an image from a server (PowerQuest Drive Image). When I want to start the first time, the VM can't detect any bootable devices. My...
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