Decisions... WinXP64 or Pro, two Dual-core vs. two Xeon
My work is letting me order my dream workstation. I could use some advice on what options I should order. I'm hoping to run maybe four to six virtual workstations in the VMWare Server beta. All...
View ArticleCan I use VMware Server with ReiserFS?
I've seen quite some file system problems with totally screwed up directories when storing the virtual machines on a ReiserFS system when running GSX 3.2, but haven't been digging into it really. Is...
View ArticleVirtual Machines Shut Down Unexpectedly in Build 23869
I just upgraded to Beta 3 this morning and now a number of my guest OSes power off on their own. I have four Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard and Enterprise Edition guests and one SUSE Linux 10.0 Guest...
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 Articleno Internet with host-only network(not NAT-wanna limit traffic via IPTABLES
I m using VMware-server-1.0.0-27828.i386 on a Suse 10.0 box. Guest VM is win98. I m using host-only networking (not NAT, coz I wanna limit traffic via IPTABLES). The 98VM gets default gateway...
View Articlecan't port forward using vmnet8 NAT
Hi,I have CentOS 4.3 Host, VMWare Server RC1. eth0 = public ip (63.x.x.x)eth1 = private LAN ip (10.0.0.x)tun0 = p-t-p VPN (10.8.90.x) Guest VM is Ubuntu Dapper Server The guest is configured with only...
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 ArticleBlank Screen
I have a Workstation 5 VM, now running under VMware Server 1.0. It runs, but the screen (on VMware Virtual Machine Console) is black. I can only see the machine because I had installed a VNC server...
View ArticleHow do I turn off MAC filtering?
I have a situation where I would like to work with a layer 2 network (ie: an ethernet bridge), however the problem I am facing is vmware appears to be filtering packets to the guest OS. I have found...
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BUG? VMs are stuck due to miscalculation of free space
Lo, Every now and then I find some VMs stuck on my server. Running "vmware-cmd /.../*.vmx answer" shows: Temporary files for this virtual machine are stored in directory "/tmp/vmware-user", which is on...
View ArticlePerformance of VMware server on Fedora5 host dissapointing?
Hello,I got an installation of the latest vmware server release on a Fedora5 host. Sytem has got P4 3.0Ghz multi threading cpu with 2Gb of ram. I created three vm's. Two Fedora5 vm's and one w2k3...
View ArticleW2K3 constant reboot on linux host
I have a RHEL ES 4.3 install, with a W2K3 VM running, and everything has been working fine until this morning when the windows vm never stops rebooting. The system starts up, and usually gets to...
View ArticleVMware Server and server 2003 terminal server
Ok I have no tried everything and need help. I want to achieve the following..I want to let my students log on to a terminal server and all of them use VMware server at the same time using one image......
View ArticleThe maximum number of virtual machines is opened
When I try to start a machine I get this The maximum number of virtual machines is opened.You must close some virtual machines before opening new ones. I have no machines on right now. There are...
View ArticleCentos 4.4 bridged networking problem
I am trying to install vmware in Centos 4.4 ( RHEL clone )I used the rpm to installI ran /usr/sbin/vmware-config.plI enabled one of each type of interface bridged,nat and host onlynat and host only...
View ArticleUpgrade Linux tar.gz installation
Hi all, I installed VMWare Server 1.0.0 build-28343 on Linux (Fedora Core 3) from the tar.gz installer. I now want to upgrade to the new version. Strangely, there are no instructions on how to upgrade;...
View Articlew2k3 crashes on a suse 10.1 host
Last night a guest crashes and i don't know why. guest: w2k3 stdhost: suse 10.1 there's nothing in the windows event log. but i found something in /var/log/messages on the host: Oct 3 03:24:43...
View ArticleProblem "Expanding Files" on Vista 5728-16387 on Server 1.0.1, XP x64 host
I'm trying to install Vista 5728-16387 on VMware Server 1.0.1 hosted on XP x64, on a Dell Precision 380 w/4GB of RAM, single 500GB SATA drive, and VT enabled. I found out relatively quickly that I have...
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 ArticleError Connecting to Vmware Web Interface
I'm running VMware Server 1.0.1 on Slackware 11. I've installed pam according to the hints from this site: http://danieldekok.blogspot.com/2006/03/vmware-server-on-slackware-linux.html I have no...
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