NTVDM encountered a hard error
System is Dual 3.4 GHz Xeon - 6 GB RAM - SATA HDD's Running VMWare Server RC 1 on Windows Server 2003 Enteprise R2 Host. VM's are Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP1 or Windows Server 2003 Enterprise...
View ArticleHow to install modem in VMWare Server Beta
HI, I have installed the VMWare Server installed on my office laptop having following 2 modems installed on my host OS (XP)1 - Actiontec internal modem - Connected to COM32 - PCMCIA Model card...
View Articlevmauthd error
Hi, I am getting an error in eventlog "EventID(100) in Source(vmauthd) not found. I can't start any of my vmimages and I am not sure how would I go by troubleshooting thie error? I googled on this...
View ArticleTCP/IP Offloading
Is this possible with Server Beta? I have an Intel Pro/1000 MT dual port server adapter that does support this in hardware, and both the host and all guests are Windows 2003 Server. I have seen several...
View ArticleVMWare Server Virtual Network Editor
How do I get the Virtual Network Editor (GUI) to come up in VMware server for linux. My VM menu does not have the option and I was able to bring up by mistake with a mis-typed shortcut. Any help will...
View Articlemultiple snapshot - it is possible
I found the way how to make multiple snapshots on VMware Server.After creating first snapshot the vmsd and vmsn files are created as well as disks snapshots.To make second snapshot (from the previous...
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Instructions for installing VMWare tools on OpenBSD (no X windows)
I tested this on OpenBSD 3.9, 32-bit on a 64-bit Linux host. The installation CD/floppy for OpenBSD 64-bit would not boot at all on my system with a Pentium D 950 CPU. I don't install X windows on my...
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 Article"Unable to change virtual machine power state. The process exited with..."
Hi all, i've istalled on my Fedora 3 pc (with a little help from our admin, i haven't root rights for my machine...). After installation everything was ok. I could install and work with vms. It was...
View ArticleWhy can't VM host ping guest VM or guest VM ping other guest VM?
We are running VM Server on a Windows 2003 Server machine with one network card. There are 2 VM's running Windows 2003 Server. From other external machines I can access the VM host machine and both...
View ArticleBooting a guest from USB-rawdisk
In case anybody is interested: I just managed to boot a 2k3 guest from a USB-rawdisk.All you have to do is rewrite the rawdisk descriptorfile so that it uses an IDE-geometry instead of the...
View ArticleTerrible keyboard+mouse+display lag
I'm getting absolutely awful keyboard/mouse lag inside my Linux (2.6.16 kernel) guest OS (yes, I have tools installed). Keys will often repeat themselves (just typing "ls" results in "lllssssss"), the...
View ArticleCopy VM and Rename Hard Disks
Using VMware Server 1.0.1, I have created a VM as a base installation for Win2K3. This machine is named Vulcan and has a logical hard disk Vulcan - System.vmdk. I need to use this as the base for...
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 Article8GB RAM Host: Windows 2000 Server Standard: /pae?
Dear NG, I have an Windows 2000 Server (STD) Host running with VM-Ware Server with physical 3GB RAM. Now I will upgrade the to 8GB RAM. Windows 2000 Server Standard does not support more than 4GB RAM...
View Articlebest hard drive/RAID configuration?
Wer'e just setting up a new Dell 2900 w/- 4gb and 5 hard drives; 2 x 80Gb configured as RAID 1 (so 80Gb total), and 3 x 160Gb in RAID 5 (so 320Gb total). I'm wondering about the best way to set up the...
View ArticleDual Monitor Support
I have a VM Citrix box. We currently use a product called UltraMon for dual dispaly on standard desktops. I'd like the Citrix users to be able to use a dual dispaly for multiple applications. When I...
View ArticleMy Virtual Windows XP machine takes up too much space
I have a virtual Windows XP machine running on VMware Server with Ubuntu 6.06 as the guest. The virtual machine runs perfect. I have alloted 8GB to the machine. However when it takes up 15GB on the...
View ArticleMemory Swapping
Hi,I was looking at one of the servers we have (2 CPU Intel with 8 virtual Windows 2000 running). The server has 16 GB of RAM and image is allocated 700MB to 2 GB. Each images application uses a...
View ArticleCaught signal 15
I am using VMServer for Linux on CentOS. I was trying to copy a folder from one VM session to another using SCP. Both are using bridged networking. After copying about 500MB, the machine being copied...
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