Change Mac address of a VM running on Virtual Server to a MAC addy of a...
Hello, I have a nice application tied to Mac address of a server. Currently the mac address its tied to is; 00-50-56-XX-XX-XX The software is installed inside a VM on a ESX host I want to move this...
View ArticleCPUFreq, VMware and Linux 2.6
Was there ever a solution found to address the grossly inaccurate VMware guest time synchronization due to CPU frequency throttling? I don't consider polling an NTP server every hour, or setting the...
View ArticleARP Problem in VMware Server/Linux
I have a problem with VMware Server in Linux. I have Debian 3.1 with kernel 2.6.17.3 compiled by myself. This machine has 2 NIC cards. I installed VMware Server, and the vmnet and vmmon modules...
View ArticleVersion mismatch with vmmon module
I am trying to VMware Server 1.0.1 for Linux. Without the any-to-any patch this thing wouldn't even compile on my system (Debian Stable on a x86 box; Self-Build. 2.6.20 Kernel).. So I installed the any...
View ArticleWindows 2003 Routing.
I have a little problem, and cant see what it wrong. I have a complete Virtual Environment of 7 servers with there own Domain Controller etc running on a VMNet 7 I need the entire environment to be...
View ArticleConvert GSX VM's to ESX ...
Hi all,I need to convert a few VM's running on GSX 3.1 to ESX server. I am using PSFTP utility to copy the GSX VMDK file to the ESX server. Note, the VM are configured with SCSI. But, it's 10GB in...
View ArticleHigh Context switching on Vmware Server host
Hi, I've got a machine (2xDual Core Opteron, Centos 4.4 x86) running VMware Server 1.0.1 with reasonably high context switching (10K+) on the host with little load. It doesn't seem to be effecting...
View Articlecomments in .vmx file
Is there a way of commenting out an entry in the VM's configuration file? I there a "comment character," like # or ; to use?
View ArticleWin2003 - Server install - Error 1713.
Hi there,while the installation of the vmware server - i get following message. Error 1713. VMware Server Installer cannot install one of its required products. Contract your technical support group....
View ArticleBridged Network Fails - Server LINUX
On the LINUX version of VMware Server, during setup, I chose to add a new bridged network - one for each of the rest of my network cards. Each card has an IP address associated with it. In my first...
View ArticleDedicate NIC to VM (for 802.1x authentication)?
Our central IT organization is working on an implementation of wired 802.1x that requires user authentication and restricts access to one host per switch port. This effectively means that my virtual...
View ArticleHorrible network performance w/ Intel Pro 1000 adapter installed in host
I have a Debian Linux host and a Windows XP Pro guest. I have the guest's NIC bridged to the NIC on the host. The host is also running Samba and I have a drive mapped from the host inside the guest....
View ArticleBlank xxxxx.vmdk descriptor file
Hi!, Ive been searching the forums but I cant seem to find a solution to my problem, I have this test server running a Windows version of GSX server, we had a power outage the other day now the...
View ArticleCPU usage, Disk usage with Idle VMs with SMP enabled on Host
I just upgraded my Host to support 4 more gig's ram and 1 more CPU. Updated the kernel on RHEL4 to the SMP 2.6.9-42.0.3 on the host All is good for a few hours. Then for some odd reason. all the VM's...
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 Articlehostonly devices start disconnected on autostarted VM's
I'm having an issue with hostonly ethernet devices starting disconnected on autostarted VMs. The following appears in the log. Jan 29 23:21:33: vmx| VNET: Notification enabled for Ethernet1Jan 29...
View ArticleMemory limits with W2K3 Server as host OS
I am setting up 4 dual Xeon servers each with 4 gigabytes of RAM using Windows 2003 Server Standard as the host OS. If I go to 8 or 12 gigabytes of RAM will GSX Server be able to use that memory for...
View ArticleAccessing the management interface
I've installed GSX on Windows 2000 but can't access the management interface. I can create virtual machines through remote console ok. The IIS server running the management interface appears fine. If I...
View ArticleClock sync
Hi One of my server is having a clock sync problem. The Fedora server is sitting on a RH9 VMWare GSX host. Linux guest on a linux host has a known problem(is it?) of having the time being accelerated...
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When the X server killed by pressing ALT + Backspace, All VMs powered off
The frontend of Linux is running on the same host where the Gsx Server ist installed. Now the problem, if you´re open the frontend of Linux and grab one virtual machiene and now you kill the whole x...
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