Usb Flash Drives with VMWare Server E.S.X.
This may be of use to some users wanting access to usb storage devices that is not supported. Using Linux as my host OS and as my virtual machine, I managed to access my usb flash drive by doing the...
View ArticleMicrosoft CDB debugger crashing sqlservr.exe Process
When running Microsoft CDB debugger to monitor the sqlservr.exe process after 1 to 4 hours sqlservr.exe process terminate unexpectedly. There are no errors in logs. At least none that I could find....
View ArticleSlow network connectin in bridge mode
Hi, I have a performance problem in VMware server beta, build 20925.The network connection works at reasonable speed if I use NAT, while performances areunacceptably bad if I use bridged connection.My...
View ArticleCluster shared disks
I am trying to build test cluster setup to VMWare server. But when I create new partition to shared disk other node will see that partition only after I will reboot the server. This is also same thing...
View ArticleUnable to connect via Vmware Server Console
I am unable to connect to any virtual hosts on a vmware server beta host. The console application either crashes or the connection is refused. When I sniff the traffic going to the server FIN packets...
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 ArticleMultiple VMDK Files???
I am pretty new to VMWARE Server coming over from the Virtual Server Camp. I have installed VMWARE Server Beta 1 onto a Windows 2003 Server, and an running as Guest OS's Windows 2003 Small Business...
View ArticleBridging fails with Check Point SecuRemote
WinXP SP2 hostVIA Compatable Fast Ethernet Adapt (onboard) Win2K guestFedora-fc5-i386 guest Check Point VPN-1 SecuRemote NG Build 132 I could connect to the internet using NAT from the guest OS's but...
View ArticleVMWare Server Beta not starting on CentOS 4.3
I have installed VMWare Server Beta VMware-server-e.x.p-22874.i386 on CentOS 4.3 and the vmware-serverd process is not starting. I have ensured SELinux is disabled. \[root@hsd-prod-as01 ~]# service...
View ArticleConvert disk to 2GB split files.
There is a GUI tool to convert disk types. Can someone refresh my memory as to what it was again?Having a Senior moment. I want to convert a growable .vmdk to a split 2GB disk. Thanks
View ArticleDestination host unreachable; cannot pass traffic through interface.
We have 1 HP dl385 running Windows 2003 R2 64 Bit Server Service Pack1 (up to date with patches). We have 3 guest vm servers running Windows 2003 Standard SP1 and they are all up to date with patches...
View ArticleVirtual hardware list?
Is there a list somewhere of what hardware is being simulated within the VM? Thanks!
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 ArticleMount a virtual disk
Can I mount a virtual disk onto my Linux Suse 10.1 filesystem? How? Thanks in advance.
View ArticleNTVDM encountered a hard error
System is Dual 3.4 GHz Xeon - 6 GB RAM - SATA HDD's Running VMWare Server RC 1 on Windows Server 2003 Enteprise R2 Host. VM's are Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP1 or Windows Server 2003 Enterprise...
View ArticleAddress already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 8333
When I try to start the httpd.vmware service it stays status started howerver it doestn work.When i view the logs i get "Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 8333" I have removed...
View ArticleMissing the WAN Miniport (IP) driver
I tried a P2V conversion on a Win2K Pro box by doing a full backup of the physical server and a restore onto a guest. Everything is fine except that I am unable to add the TCP/IP protocol to the...
View ArticleClock synchro under Solaris 10 ? Xorg config after update ?
Hi everbody, I am trying to set a Solaris 10 64 bit vm on a VMware Server 1.0.0 27828. The host is a Windows 2003 Server (32 bit) running on a dual core Athlon X2 3800. I have, as usual, a clock...
View Articleno valid devices were found on which to create new file systems
Recently I started having trouble installing CentOS 4.3 guests on my VMware server. The VMware server host is running CentOS 4.3. I keep getting this error when I am prompted in the Disk...
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...
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