USB Controller initialization failed in XP
When I start up any virtual machine with USB present I get this message: USB controller initialization failed. A supported host USB driver was not found. If you have installed USB traffic monitoring...
View ArticleConsole won't accept keyboard input or show output on guest
I am running CentOS 4.3 on the server with VMware Server 1.0.1-29996 All of the guests (12) are setup as Linux 2.6 other and have Fedora Core 2 installed. This is in an open student lab and no more...
View ArticleVMSS file...ok to delete?
My virtual server is running (ie not in suspended state) but for some reason, the VMSS file is still there? any ideas why? Can I delete it?
View ArticleVMWare Server unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
Hi All, We are getting the following error whenever we try to suspend or power off our Debian 3.1 guest: [b]"VMware Server unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)Unexpected signal: 6.A log file is available in...
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Server on XP problem
Hi. I tried searching for similar symptoms in the forum, but did not find any. I have installed VM server 1.0.1 build 29996 on my IBM T42 laptop running XP professional. I even have IIS installed ....
View ArticleVMware Server Console crash on Ubuntu 6.10
A few days ago I installed Ubuntu 6.10 (i386) on my system.VMware Server is installed and everything runs fine, except for the VMware Server Console. Description of the Problem: \- I start the Console...
View Article"The partition table is invalid" error with a new physical drive
Hi, all. Recently I tried to use VMWare Server and got the following problem. Several days of googling and searching this forum did not give a nice solution about this problem. My system has two hard...
View ArticleWindows 2003 Product Activation dialog bypass
All, I'm currently in the midst of doing a massive conversion from physical machines to VMs. Unfortunately I've run into a snag on a machine conversion from a Dell GX280 to VM on Windows 2003. It seems...
View ArticleSupport for SCSI FUA (Forced unit access)?
I'm planning on running a production domain controller in a VM environment. I figure there's all sorts of implications with doing so (i.e. snapshots) due to the nature of Active Directory. In my...
View ArticleVMware Server unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
Hello all. Seems that I included too much info in my last post so I'll start small. We have a Windows 2k3 VM server running on Ubuntu (2.6.15-27-amd64-server). Three times in the past 5 days the 2k3...
View ArticleNeed to remove Unallocated Space from VM
Hi all, A colleague of my accidentally extended Disk0 with approximately 13GB of space. At this point, I would like to just remove the unallocated 13GB from the VM. Does anyone have any suggestions...
View ArticleIBM 4690 Supermarket Application as guest
I am trying to boot an image of an IBM 4690 Supermarket Application OS into VMWARE Server. I used LiveView to create a VM from a DD image of the hard drive.The system boots to a blank screen with an...
View ArticleMouse on Linux session (no graphical interface)
I've an Xp Host and Centos 4.4 Guest.If I boot Linux with graphical interface (X) I can use mouse without problems.Instead If I start Linux with rebooting Init 3 or boot only in text mode, I have to...
View ArticleW2K Guests won't power off
GSX v3.1.0 build-9089 I "inherited" our VM machines from a previous employee,When using the console to access them was getting the"tools are out of date"/"tools not installed" message on some of...
View ArticleVMHS: Connection to VM broken; error: Pipe: Read failed; state: 3
In a new install, using an upgraded machine, the server fails to launch any vmx processes. After much fiddling, I can login to the console if I run it under sudo, but the machine "power on" button...
View ArticleHeavy IO causing out-of-memory?
I've got a GSX server with several VMs (linux). Whenever the VM's experienced heavy IO, their memory footprint balloons and runs the host server out of memory. Has anyone seen this behavior and how...
View ArticleGuests do not start anymore... VMware Server RC1 Build 24927
Hello, after updating to the RC1 I can't start my virtual machines any more ;( Host: Windows 2000 Server; domain member. While booting, I get the message produced by host: "At least one service or...
View ArticleDrastic network performance problem
Greetings, I am experiencing a very significant network throuput problem withVMWare Server 1.0.0 build 24927. Both my host and guest OS's are 64bit Suse Linux 10.1. I am using iperf version...
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 Article\Device\Scsi\symmpi1, did not respond within the timeout period.
I'm running VMware Server (free download). I have a Windows 2003 Enterprise edition, and running oracle grid 10g. I keep get multiple errors every couple of days. The server will stop responding,...
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