Can 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 ArticleBrooktrout PCI Fax modem card
Host OS is Windows Server 2003Virtual Server of is Windows Server 2003 I installed the pci card and turn on computer. The host OS finds card, installs drivers and works great. The virtual server does...
View ArticleSCSI HDD Drivers for Windows NT 4 under VMServer
Can anyone please tell me where I can find SCSI drivers that will work for Windows NT 4 on VMServer? The NT setup program won't load the Generic VMWare SCSI drivers that i've been able to find.
View ArticleChanging Port 8222 to Port 80 and 8333 to 443
Running the latest VMware Server Beta and Windows 2003 nothing I do seems to allow the server to work on the ports I want it to. It seems to redirect to 8222 even if IIS is set to 80. I even search...
View Articledriver-irql-not-less-or-equal after moving guest
I can't seem to fix this memory dump problem. This guest has been transfered from a physical machine via restoring a full NTBACKUP with system state. Which "usually" works fine. In this case though,...
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 ArticleLicense expiration on 13.7.06
Hello, just want to know what about the licenses we got from Vmware.Will they be automatically updated to a new license when Vmware Server stable will available or what do I have to do? Thanks, Alex
View ArticleVista Build 5456 hangs at end of installation, any help welcome
Hi there, im trying to install Vista Build 5456 to a VMWare server RC1. Vista setup hangs near the end of the installation stating "Completing installation". It just never gets finished. I've also...
View ArticleShrink Preallocate Disk Space
Is there any way that you can shrink preallocated virtual disk space?
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 ArticleMissing /dev/vmnet1 etc.
Hi, I've installed VMWare Server RC2 on Centos 4.3 and I'm not sure it's installed correctly. I've set it up with bridged networking, and it has installed a /dev/vmnet0, but no other adapters. When I...
View ArticleThe time of linux guest always goes slowly!
Hi all, I am running Vmware server 28343 on a Dell D610 notebook(PM-1.6GHz, 1G ram) and both the host and the guest OS are Redhat ES 4, all runs with single CPU kernel. I found that the guest OS will...
View ArticleLinux Host - Bonding support? (Linux bonding)
Linux based (kernel) network bonding doesn't seem to be supported by vmware-server. Linux host using Bonding (I desire mode 6, adaptive load balancing) with 3 gigabit nics. The bond0 adapter functions...
View ArticleWhy such bad disk performance (FreeBSD guest)?
I spent the past few days configuring a FreeBSD virtual server on top of a Windows 2003 host. The host is running on a 6-disk SATA RAID5 array, and the disk performance is rather good. The virtual...
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 ArticleGuest OS Hangs socket error: 10054
I am running 1.0.1 build-29996. A guest OS keeps hanging. From the logs I see: Aug 30 10:50:07: mks| SOCKET 1 recv error 10054: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote hostAug 30...
View ArticleExport Virtual Machine from ESX to GSX Server ...
Hi all,I need to export a Virtual Machine from ESX to GSX server. I was able to do the following:1. Export the VM using the vmkfstools -e command to a Windows shared point. 2. Copy all the *.vmdk files...
View ArticleWindows 2003 DC FSMO clock running slow
Host = Ubuntu Dapper 2.6.15-23-serverGuest1 = Windows 2003 R1 running DC and FSMO rolesGuest2 = Windows XP SP2 After reading all info regarding slow guests, I'm still having trouble with my Guest1. If...
View Articlecan not connect to console
Host is running on x64 SLES10.Guest is 32bit SLES10. System running console is xp pro. Here's the tail of messages Sep 14 18:13:45 vmware2 vmware-authd\[8763]: pam_unix2(vmware-authd:auth): Unknown...
View ArticleCan vmware-server working without X under linux?
Hi! I have a trouble with running vmware-server under console without X Window. I using C API functions in order to run vmx clone. In my program, after running vmx, i don't have any errors. Function...
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