vmware server parallel port
I am running Windows server 2003 as host and guest.The host has lpt2 and lpt3 parallel ports. I have reinstalled vmware server because I installed these ports after installing vmware server. I have...
View ArticleUnable to change the access rights of the file
I have a FAT32 partition which I use to share files between Windows&Linux.And on this FAT32 partition I also would like to have my virtual machine files.But this is the error I get when in...
View ArticleLoading VM with WinPE - LSI SCSI driver not loading
Good day, I'm trying to test out WinPE to do our system loads and I'm testing it first on a VM running on VMware Server. I have the WinPE environment loading and I get the command prompt and the...
View Articlevmdk file signature and offset needed for data recovery!?
Hello,We have suffered file system corruption on a raid volume with 3x virtual machines on it.We are using data recovery software (EasyRecovery Pro) to find data on what is now identified as a RAW disk...
View ArticleVirtual machine Config File is Invalid
I had a USB drive go offline due to a power outage. It contained a nice VM that when I start it now I get "Virtual Machine Config File is Invalid" Looking at the config file, it is toast: INDX(...
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software raid devices and vmware raw disks
Hi! I'm using vmware gsx server 2.51 and would like toadd a raw disk to the configuration of one of my guestoperating systems. I can add /dev/hdX and /dev/sdX devices without problems,but when I try to...
View ArticleNot enough memoery error with muchmemeory free
I am using GSX server 3.0 on A Win2K host with 4GB of physical memory. I have the memory reserved for VMWare session set to the maximum, about 3.7 GB and allow maximum swapping of vmware sessions....
View ArticleUnknown VMware User Process ??
Hey all, The registry(RUN section) has an entry for a process called:C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareUser.exe Just wondering what this process is for? Anyone know what disabling this feature...
View ArticleIP address on host and guest
I am missing the basics of how this works and i need help. running a linux host and a linux guest with 2 NICs. i want the host and guest to each use 1 nic and have their own ip address. So the host...
View Articlegsx 3.0 and vlans
im looking for a how to setup document or urli have configured the 3com switch and on the host i have 4 vlans setup under my intel 1000pro card but what do i do next with the server and network utility...
View ArticleEmulating SCSI Controllers
Hi, Is it possible to configure a virtual SCSI Controller withoutactually having the physical hardware installed on the host GSX Server. I assume not ??? I want to practice configuring RAID arrays. Can...
View Article511 vmware-serverd service is not running
"511 vmware-serverd service is not running." This is the message i've got after trying to connect to local computer. PentiumIII 900 mhzWindows XP SP28 GB harddisk512 MB memoryGSX Server 3.2.0...
View ArticleCopying a Large File on a Windows Server 2003 Host to Guest fails...
Host OS: 2003 Server Ent x64Guest OS: 2003 Server EntGSX ver 3.2 I have a problem in GSX 3.2. From within the guest machine, I right click copy a large file that is located on the host machine, I get...
View ArticleAdding NIC 2 - Guest OS (2K3 SP1) halts at acpitabl.dat
Running GSX Server v3.2.1 build 19281 When attempting to add a NIC (either vmxnet or vlance) the Guest OS (Windows 2003 SP1) halts at the splash screen. Logging appears to show the halt at...
View Articlenot able to increase virtual disk space
hi, i am not able to increase virtual disk space\[from 7gb (single file) to 10gb], i have tried the following commandvmware-vdiskmanager -x 10GB filename.vmdkgetting the following error:"There is not...
View ArticleSharing parallel port between 2 VMs
With GSX server, it was possible to share the host machine's parallel port between two VMs. Now, with Virtual Server that seems to be a problem. Starting a VM that uses the parallel port seems to...
View ArticleVirtual Network Settings.... are grayed out
I've just installed VM WARE SERVER with Red Hat Enterprise 4 as the host OS. The machine is a Dell Poweredge 2650 with Dual Xeon 2.2 GHz processors and Dual NICs. The problem I'm having is that the...
View ArticleVMware Server Console frequent crashes with remote access
Let me confess one thing first: I am running Server, and hence all my VMs, on XP Pro so I realise that isn't an officially supported configuration. Has anyone had any problems with frequent "sort of...
View ArticleSerial number
Maybe I missed something....I d'l the free version of VMware server and when I install it, I am asked for a serial number. There isn't one on the download page.Where could I find the serial number?...
View ArticleMalformed Response From Server
I've finally got everything running, but when I try to power on a VM, I get "Unable to change virtual machine power state. Malformed response from server" at the console, and a similar message is...
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