Missing 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 ArticleInstalling VMware Server on a Windows 2003 Server in a domain?
Hi! As I'm reading the "VMware Server RC 2 Administration Guide", I now stumpled upon the following on page 41: NOTE On a Windows Server 2003 host, you must be logged on as a localadministrator (that...
View Article511 error conecting to
I started wmware server console and when I tried to connect to localhost there is an error: 511 Error connecting to C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\vmserverdWin32.exe process. What do that...
View Article2 usb port limitation?
Does anyone have any information on VMware Server and built-in limitations concerning allowed number of usb ports and if there are ways to work around or change? I'm building a client as part of a...
View ArticleVirtual Machine not starting after update to VMWare Server 1.0 (final)
After upgrading from a Beta build of VMWare Server to the final version one of my virtual machines does not boot with the following error: \[msg.log.error.unrecoverable] VMware Server unrecoverable...
View ArticleBridged networking: LAN works but no Internet
Hello!I have the newest release of VMware Server running on a Win2k3 SBS host with 1GB Ram and two network cards.NIC1:192.168.100.1 (DHCP Server for network)6MBit DSL NIC2:192.168.100.253 (static...
View Articlevmxnet or pcnet32
Hardware: Compaq DL385 2 dual core 275 Opterons with 8GB of RAM. Vmware Host: RHEL 4 update 3 x86_64 running VMware-server-1.0.0-28343.i386 Vmware Guest: RHEL 4 update 3 i686 athlon i386 running...
View ArticleSlow Windows XP Guest Performance under Windows 2003 64bit Host
I am having slow performance when running Windows XP 32 bit SP2 under VMware Server 1.0. In particular, the mouse tracking seems to really lag. I do not have this problem with Windows Server 2003...
View ArticleCan't power up virtual machine (Failed to lock the file)
I just installed VMware Server 1.0.0 build-28343 on my Linux workstation (kubuntu Dapper) with MS Windows XP Professional as the guest OS. All was working fine but now I find I can't power up the vm....
View ArticleProblems with NCS and VMware Server
I'm trying to setup a 2 node cluster using VMware Server but have run intoa problem. Both servers (NW65 SP5) are up and running and I've followed theVMware admin guide to create the shared disks. Both...
View ArticleVMware console command line switches
I am trying to get VMware server console to open and run a VM in full screen mode, by using a batch file. I have most of it working execpt the full screen portion. It seems that the -X switch isn't...
View ArticleWhat's up with SLOW!!! host to guest networking? Even with TSO off!
Host:Dell PC gx270 or 280,P4-2.8 Ghz, 512k cache1 gig RAM40 gig OS80 gig VMSLED 10 (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop) Linux 2.6.16.21-0.13-default Guest:OpenSUSE 10.1 (minimal install, text only)e1000 NIC...
View ArticleMinimum System Requirements For Server
I want to setup a Vmserver machine, but I only need to run a few of the appliances (janusVM,FreeNas,and maybe one or two others). I want to use a small formfactor pc to do this. Would this work on a...
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Success with Ghost2k3 and VMImporter
Hello all, I wanted to share our success story with virtualising a SBS2003 server with you. Maybe it will help other people looking to do the same. We had: \- One SBS2003 physical server\- One other...
View ArticleXFS filesystem problems
I'm using VMware server 1.0.1 on Fedora Core 5 host system. When the VM disks images are on a XFS filesystem my system crashes, mostly with high memory usage with big disk activity.The sistem returned...
View Articlewindows 98: no fixed disks present
I tried to install win98se on vmware server. after boot with a win98se bootcd, it gives me "no fixed disks present" when try to use fdisk. What could be wrong? btw, I have installed win2k/xp on this...
View ArticleCreating virtual disk very slow if >8GB
Dear all, i've just installed vmware server on a windows 2003 entreprise X64 R2 server. The configuration is : a tyan VX50 with 4Xopterons 880 and a adaptec S2820SA for a RAID 5 EE of 8 Maxtor 400GB....
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VMware Server Console RootKit Vulnerability ??
Hi all, I am posting this comment to see if there isn't a security hole in the VMware Server Console Connection. It seems that a RootKit called: sucKIT (Version 1.3a, Jun 5 2006)...
View Articlesuspended VM doesn't want to resume but can't reset it either.
So, I suspended a VM and now it can't resume, fails with vmdb error after about 5 minutes, during which time vmware-serverd is doing nothing but spinning on CPU doing time() and read() repeatedly...
View ArticleVMware Server: Intel VT supported & x86_64
Hello, I read that "VMware Server" has Intel VT (Virtualization Technology) support. However, how do I find out if it is activated ? I downloaded from the web site version 1.0.1. This build is for...
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