Newbie Qs: On Host ShutDown, Power controls?
I'm new to using VMware GSX server and I'm trying to understand the difference between "Power off virtual machine" and "Shut down guest operating system" in the "On host shutdown" configuration option....
View Article0x0000007B when booting Windows XP as guest OS
Hi all. I am facing problems starting Windows XP as guest OS in VMWare Server Beta. My host OS is Linux (Debian Etch) with Grub as boot loader. Windows is installed on its own partition, so that I can...
View ArticleHow do I backup vmware server running on w2k3 host- HELP!
Hi everyone, I have searched the forms and looked at documentation on how to backup a VMware server but still can not really figure it out... i am sorry if there is a proper post out there answering my...
View ArticleBridged Networking - No route to host
Hi all,I have a Linux FC4 host system set up with bridged networking (no NAT and no host-to-host) I have a WinXP and a Debian OpenACS VM running with full networking configured and working properly (I...
View Articlecopy & paste between guest and host
I have been searching the forum, but could not find an appropriate answer to my question. Therefor I decided to post my question. Sorry if the answer could be found. I am running VMWare Server Console...
View ArticleRemote Console shows only Black Screen
Hi All, I've done a fair amount of searching and haven't found a solution yet to my problem. I'm trying to use GSX 3.2 (eval) and have no problems setting up and using virtual machines from my host...
View ArticleCannot find or download vdiskmanager.exe utility
Hi, can anyone point me in the right direction to download and install vdiskmanager.exe Don't know whether I am being stupid but cannot find it anywhere on my pc or the internet. I have installed GSX...
View ArticleVmware in vectorlinux
I was looking for a lightweight linux distro for testing vmware gsx server.I found vectorlinux with XFCE4 desktop. When installing a c compiler will not be found, so i setted the CC variable to...
View ArticleMaximum number of Virtual Machines per host Cpu
I would like to know if there is a documentation for the maximum (recomended) number of virtual machines that can be run per host Cpu. I heard that as per the recomended usage we can have upto 4...
View Articleunable to add second node to cluster
Hi, With space it does not work. Have problem inserting to existing forum, so create a new froum topic. The quorum resource is "Local Quorum". (hr=00000000, \{102439CC-67FA-48A6-AB0D-31DF047FC5E6},...
View ArticleCannot suspend - "Error saving suspend file .\suse linux.vmss"
I'm having a bit of trouble with Vmware server on my Windows XP host (and client). The OS in the virtual machine is SuSE 10.0-OSS. The VM files are stored on a directory of a removable USB hard disk...
View ArticleAuto-start VMs on host boot-up (Linux Host, Windows Guests)
Hello, I am trying out VMWare Server Beta running on Linux (Debian Sarge) host. Install went smoothly (I had compilers and kernel-headers available. Fantastic install system BTW, sweet). I connect...
View ArticleVIDE: ATAPI DMA 0x25 Failed: key 0x2, asc 0x3a, ascq
Host OS: Server 2003 32bitVer: GSX 3.2Guest OS: Server 2003 32bit R2CPU: Dual Opteron 244'sRAM: 2Gig Just noticed one of my VM's shut down in the lab testing R2. What does this mean? Feb 24 13:11:07:...
View ArticleDISK: Failed to open disk; missing snapshot file
All, I was recently preparing a web server when I hit the dual cpu bug. I got a new license before I read the answers on the forum regarding the matter. Then I reduced my number of cpu's to one and...
View ArticleRunning Apache 2 under VM Server Beta problem
I am running a VMware Server Beta version and the guest OS is Fedora Core 4. The host is Windows XP Pro SP 2. Fedora has IP address of 192.168.248.128. I can ping it from Windows cmd line. I can ping...
View ArticleSuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. Can't install on GSX Server 3.2.0
Hi! Trying to install SLES 9.1 on GSX Server 3.2.0. I specified iso-image SLES-9-SP-1-i386-RC5-CD1.iso in settings of Virtual machine CD-drive. It started fine until "Make sure that CD number 1 is in...
View ArticleCSRSS.EXE causing high CPU utilization during disk access using "dir"
Build is beta 22009 Host infoPropriatary hardwareQuad Xeon 2.8Ghz processors8GB RAMWin2003 Enterprise Server Guest info4x -- Win2003 Std & 1 Win2KPro WorkstationSingle Processor allocated to each...
View ArticleCan 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...
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Rebooting Guest Servers takes forever & poor overall performance
Hello, Hoping that someone can point me in the right direction... Summary of environment: HP DL385 Dual Processor server, Opteron 2.4Ghz Processors16GB Ram1.2TB Disks - 300GB - RAID 1 and 900GB - RAID...
View ArticleI can't Copy & Paste from host to geust
First of let me say say I am totally new to using VM's. Host machine is Win xp Prof (fully updated)VM server version exp 23869 on a LOCAL NETWORK (I am downloading RC1 at this moment) VM's installed...
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