"Configuration file was created by VMware product with more features..."
I have received a VM from someone using Workstation 5. I tried to run in my GSX 3.2, but I get the message "[i]Unable to add virtual machine to the inventory. Configuration file was created by VMware...
View ArticleFedora Core FC5 SCSI to IDE disk migration
Hello all, I have installed a guest FC5 image on an IDE virtual disk and want to migrate that disk to SCSI. The disk conversion went fine. I used the procedure as described in this...
View Article/tmp is full and all vms are shutdown automatically
Hi,I installed GSX v3.2.1 in RH AS3.0 and had about 6 VMs.Yestoday, I found that all VMs were shutdowed.So, I checked the messages and I found something was odd.When I used command "lsof" to check out...
View ArticleHyperthreading
is hyperthreading a good thing for VMware? I have a Dell 1855,two 3.2Ghz processors with hyperthread turns on. running Windows 2003 Host, and the vmware-vmx.exe is always at 50% CPU usage. I gave guest...
View Articlesharing files between host and guest OS
I got my vmware server up and running. Now i am wondering is there a way to access the files on the host pc with the guest OS? My host OS is windows xp professional and my guest OS is suse 10.0....
View ArticleMissing 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 ArticleYour serial Number will expire in...
Hello, Today, when starting VMWare Server guest OS's, I am prompted with a dialog box: Your serial number will expire in 3 day(s).Be sure that your host's machine date and time are set corectly. I...
View ArticleVMWare Server Memory Issue
Good Afternoon, I have VMWare Installed , version build 24927. I have 5 Virtual machines running. VMserver is configured to run only on RAM. No Swap. Totaling 2036 MB of RAM. The host Machine as 3GB...
View Articletracing iowait
I have some question about a performance problems: we set up a vmware server on top of a SuSE 10.1 systemwith two opteron CPUs and 8GB of memory. Running vmwareserver, we currently run about 16 guest...
View ArticleSetup is starting windows hanging on Windows 2003R2 install
I have VMware server, latest load installed on a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 with all updates. Hardware is a Dell Poweredge 1400 with 1.2 G of memory and 80GB Sata drive. The base system works...
View ArticleIs host-only FASTER than bridge or nat ?????
Hello, Does anybody knows if is host-only option faster than other network options? I assume that since it does not have to get to the hardware level... Some metrics or numbers would be...
View ArticleIRQ issue in vmware server
I am using the latest vmware server (free version) on windows XP. Currently USB within vmware is using IRQ 9. I am running a custom USB app to test a device through vmware, and its having problems...
View Articlevmware networking/NAT issues
Hello- I am using vmware server 1.0.0, and am having an issue using NAT. When first setup, i was able to use the vmware host computer as a middle-man between my virtual environment and my actual...
View ArticleVMware Server VM with public IP help
Hi, I don't know if my problem is either with VMware configuration or with Windows 2003 configuration, but i want to setup a VM with a public IP (i have two public IP addresses, one of them is used by...
View ArticleExpand virtual disk with vmware-vdiskmanager.exe
Hello!I got a VM that was made in Workstation 4.5x. To be able to run the VM in Server 1.0, I had to upgrade the VM.Everything works fine, but I want to expand C:\ from 5GB to 10GB. The folder...
View Articlevmware bridged network not working
Hello, I used to have a windows xp installed on my vmware under linux, and it ran with bridged networking to my main network. The problem is, I have updated my machine's kernel and vmware, and also...
View ArticleHow do you merge multiple 2GB disk files to single monolithic vmdk file?
Has any body managed to merge multiple 2GB vmdk files into a single vmdk file as we are experiencing performance issues with a 100GB virtual machine exported from ESX to run on VMserver. Our 100GB disk...
View ArticleGuest Server Disk Space Allocation
I have a VMware server running on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition R2. Also, I have four guest servers running Windows 2003 Standard Edition. The question I have is related to the Hard Disk...
View ArticleVirtual Network Settings greyed out in VMware Server Console
Hi, I am using VMware Server v1.0.0 build-28343 on CentOS 4.3. CentOS was installed from the 'server' iso image When I ran vmware-config.pl I chose to automatically discover network addresses for NAT...
View ArticleOs9 possible?
Im trying to create a OS9 to run a legacy app that will only run in that enviroment I have a os9 install cd but the VM i created just doesnt want to seem to boot to the cd. any ideas (also is it...
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