Need recommendations on Raid stripe size
Hi, I'm trying to get a windows 2003 host to run as fast as it can. My attention has turned to the disk subsystem. I would like to hear the group's recommendations regarding RAID Stripe Size for the...
View ArticleWM-ware Work stations through loopback adaptor
I would like to configure my W2K server to manage with Active Directory my WM-ware Work stations through loopback adaptor since I do not have a Network adaptor.
View Article"Promiscuous" mode on Win XP Pro Host
I am running a Red Hat 9 guest on a Windows XP Pro host. I have Snort set up on the guest, configured to look at all packets passing through the hub that the host is connected to. The problem is, I...
View ArticleLarger than 2 GB vmdk files on Fedora Core 3
How come when creating a new virtual disk it has to split the disk into 2GB files? As far as I know, Linux's ext3 filesystem supports files larger than 2GB yet GSX 3.1 running on Fedora doesn't think so.
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iptables on host with bridged networking
I'm trying to firewall on the host via linux iptables. Guest uses bridged networking. I have tried different approaches, including matching on PHYSDEV - nothing seems to allow iptables to see the...
View ArticleUnknown vmware-vmx process running
Im getting high CPU utilization on my GSX server. To find out whats going on, I checked TOP and found 25 vmware-vmx processes running. To my knowledge, each vmware-vmx should reflect the number of...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Console over SSH Tunnel
I've got an interesting situation where I've procured and installed VMware GSX 3.2.0 (14497) at a school where I do volunteer work. The host OS (Windows Server 2003) also has the OpenSSH Server for...
View ArticleCannot find or download vdiskmanager.exe utility
Hi, can anyone point me in the right direction to download and install vdiskmanager.exe Don't know whether I am being stupid but cannot find it anywhere on my pc or the internet. I have installed GSX...
View Articleis the gsx GUI on 64bit linux sort of unstable?
I have started playing with GSX on a 64bit linux system. It has 8 gigs of ram, a pci express video card, two dual core opterons. My problem is that VMs seem to work just fine if I start them without...
View ArticleBridged Networking - No route to host
Hi all,I have a Linux FC4 host system set up with bridged networking (no NAT and no host-to-host) I have a WinXP and a Debian OpenACS VM running with full networking configured and working properly (I...
View ArticleSCO Xenix 3.2.2, SCO Openserver 5.0.7 with serial ports as guests
I haven't seem anything that says I can or can't install SCO Xenix 3.2.2 or SCO Openserver 5.0.7 both with serial ports such as Stallion card as guest OSes. Has anyone done this?
View ArticleStore .vmem files in /dev/shm
Hello, I noticed that VMware Server creates a .vmem file with size of the memory used in the guest OS. Will performance be improved if VMware Server stores the .vmem-files in a temporary directory...
View ArticleVMware bridge traffic
I'm hosting a server in a big datacenter.VMware is running on the top of the Linux Host OS. When i'm booting the bridged guest OS (FreeBSD), the vmnet0-eth0 link moves to promisc mode:May 28 03:34:47...
View Articlevmnet-natd degrades periodically under load
We are observing the following behaviour with build 1.0.0-27828 (and earlier versions): Depending upon the number of network connections (the apache vm is getting roughly 100k pageviews per day): \-...
View ArticleRemote Console crashs
VMware Server (newest version) is installed on SUSE Linux 10.1 host. There are two virtual machines running on the host:\- Windows Server 2003 Std.\- Windows XP Prof.Both virtual machines were first...
View ArticleSound not working in vmware server 1.0 on debian sid with alsa-sound
Hi I am trying to get vmware working with alsa sound. A moment ago i did have it working but now it doesn't work anymore. And the steps i took to get it working also don't work anymore. Also a problem...
View Articletracing iowait
I have some question about a performance problems: we set up a vmware server on top of a SuSE 10.1 systemwith two opteron CPUs and 8GB of memory. Running vmwareserver, we currently run about 16 guest...
View ArticleAMD X2 Linux - XP SP2 guest - STOP 0x0000007F 0x00000000 "division by zero"
Hi all, I have VMware Server (now build 28343) running on Debian Etch Linux (2.6.16) on Asus A8V-VM (VIA chipset) with Athlon X2 4200+. I've tested the machine with memtest86. The Guest OS is XP 32...
View ArticleConvert SCSI vmdk -> IDE vmdk: is it possible?
Hello *, is it possible to convert the virtual LSILogic oriented SCSI disk into an IDE one? Thanks
View ArticleTime Creep (Runs Too Fast)
I am running VMware Server 1.0.1 on a Red Hat Enterprise AS Server. I have some VMs, running Windows Server 2003 R2, that the time runs too fast. On 1 of the servers, the time runs about 33% faster...
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