Windows 2000 or 2003 -- is upgading to 2003 to get advantage of HT worth it
I have a question. We have several Dell 2650's/2850's which are dual Xeon servers running Windows 2000 GSX Server 3.1. Is it worth the time to upgrade these machines to Windows 2003 to be able to...
View ArticleWhy MSCluster Nodes down
I've installed Windows2003 failover cluster(2 node) and Windows2000 Domain Controller on GSX server. All virtual machines dont access outside network (i configured network adapters host only)....
View ArticleVM disk choice, contigous or split?
This isn't really a problem, but what are the benefits/drawbacks of the different configurations of the VM disks?The host o/s is Linux, it can do huge files. Still GSX suggests 2GB files as default...
View ArticleGetting Physical disk to work
I got vmware workstation up and running on my AMD64 based gentoo box with 2.6 kernel without incident. I installed winxp in a virtual window and it worked well(except no sound) but what I really need...
View ArticleNAT and host address problems
Hello, I have GSX 3.1 server setup on a SUSE 9.1 host, I am using a Windows 2003 Enterprise VM to test some software. I however can't seem to get the virtual network to function correctly. I am...
View ArticleExpanding Virtual disk errors
I'm trying to expand a virtual disk but I'm getting the following error. Using log file C:\DOCUME1\xxxxxxx\LOCALS1\Temp\1\vdiskmanager.logFailed to open the disk 'Exchange Server-flat.vmdk' : The file...
View ArticleClock sync
Hi One of my server is having a clock sync problem. The Fedora server is sitting on a RH9 VMWare GSX host. Linux guest on a linux host has a known problem(is it?) of having the time being accelerated...
View ArticleProblem with increasing the virtual disk
I tried increasing the virtual disk's size via the vdiskmanager. In DOS, after running the ff command in the directory where vmware-vdiskmanager resides:vmware-vdiskmanager -x 16GB...
View Articlecan't find LPT port
My LPT port works fine on the host (win server 2003).But I can't see it in the guest (win2k).I have tried to add it in settings but when I have to choose which port to use there is only an empty...
View ArticleVM Dont't start
I've a box HP DL740 8xCpu 24Gb ram with Windows2003 EE, with GSX 3.1The problem is that im unable to star any VM, when i press the start button, the machine dont start and it writes this log on Event...
View ArticleWindows: P2V with nothing but NTBACKUP
I've recently duplicated our producion environment into VM's to allow us to test upgrades and patches without having to arrange outage windows, come in on the weekend or waste a night rebuilding a...
View ArticleLarger than 2 GB vmdk files on Fedora Core 3
How come when creating a new virtual disk it has to split the disk into 2GB files? As far as I know, Linux's ext3 filesystem supports files larger than 2GB yet GSX 3.1 running on Fedora doesn't think so.
View ArticleAutomated VM creation
Hi, Is there any way to programmatically create VM's in VMWare Server using the Perl or COM APIs? I see samples for controlling existing VM's, but none for manipulating settings or creating new ones?...
View ArticleVNware Server SMP support question
Hi, Can someone please tell me:How many VMware Server VMs can be created on one CPU? I heard between 2-8. Is that correct? Is that per CPU or per CPU core (if I have a dual core CPU)? Does VMware...
View ArticleSnapShot manager
Is snapshot manager not available in the beta version?Is there a way to save off for later restore of a snapshot manually?
View ArticleError encountered while saving suspend file-(take2)
The original thread is having difficulty dealing with the full vmware.log text that I pasted into the body of one of the replies. I've reported that to the admin.... until then I'll continue discussion...
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Vanilla Install Does Not Run - Any ideas?
D/L and Installed VMServer (GSX) and have also unzipped a prepared virtual machine (SUSE with mySQL). Running on Win-XP and when I try to start the VM, all I get is an error: "Operation Failed to...
View ArticleIDE vs SCSI Performance with Windows
I have reviewed many of the posts in the forum, and it appears that SCSI virtual disks should have performance advantages versus IDE virtual disks, so I re-made my Windows 2003 VM (which originally was...
View ArticleVMXNET is it available in SUSE 10
I could not get this to come up. I had vlance and each time I rebooted I would lose my network connection. I am running GSX 3.2.0. I am just learning linux but a bit of help would be great, thanks
View ArticleApplication Failure. hr = 0x80004003: (null)
I installed EXP 20923/Beta 1 on my laptop for testing and to learn about the product prior to using on the live servers (Laptop is WinXP with SP2). As per the info provided I logged on with the local...
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