vmware-config problem (vmnet host only addresses don't get right ip address
When trying to configure the vmnet private host addresses, the addresses always end up as the first host on the subnet (.1), rather than the IP as requested. Can someone fix this please? Host: Fedora...
View ArticleCARP+FreeBSD in VMware on LINUX. \[CARP: Common Address Redundancy Protocol]
=========================================================CARP+FreeBSD in VMware on LINUX. \[CARP: Common Address Redundancy Protocol]=========================================================Scenario:...
View ArticleCaught signal 7 -- tid 11598 on SLES9 sp3
Hi guys, We are trying to run VMware on Novell OES (SLES9 sp3). But every time we start a virtual machine (even a new empty one) we get that signal 7. We are running kernel 2.6.5-7.252-bigsmp, and that...
View ArticleError starting Registration Service
Hi I uninstalled RC2 and installed 1.0 on a Pentium D, 2Gb RAM, 2X160 Gb hd, Windows 2000 Server All patches.Now the Registration Service doesn't start anymore, Error 1053 and a message like "the...
View Articlekeyboard freezes in MS-Dos bootup
I'm sure this is a silly question, but I am trying VMS for the first time, and all I wanted to do is install DOS! But while it seems I can boot dos from floppy, the keyboard freezes. Indeed, the...
View ArticleFailed to open sound device /dev/dsp: No such device
Hello All,I installed vmware server on my kubuntu 6.06 system. My windows xp guest system works fine except that it has no sound. My host system sound works fine. When I added the guest sound adaptor I...
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 ArticleDomain controller for a test domain on the same subnet as production domain
Hello all, Maybe not VMWare related, but one of the users here is looking to use VMWare to install and configure a test Windows Server 2003 domain controller say test.com and set it up on the local...
View ArticleWeb Console problem
I have two VMWare Server 1.0 hosts, neither of which have working web consoles. When I try to pull up the web management console using a browser, nothing loads. It does show VMWare Management...
View ArticleSlow Time with FreeBSD 6.1 guest on VMware Server 1.0.0 build-28343
Hello, My FreeBSD 6.1 guest on VMware Server 1.0.0 build-28343 (Windows XP SP2 host) runs far too slowly. I'm not seeing the sorts of kernel error messages I used to see with earlier versions of...
View ArticleError - "Cannot open disk ... Reason: The partition table on the physical..
I have VMWare Server on an Ubuntu 6.06 machine. I had set up a disk with 15 GB and needed more space so I set up another with 25 and then copied everything over. Now I want to delete the smaller...
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Compressing VM folder to boost performance?
I heard someone saying that compressing the Virtual Machine folder in the host system (Windows Server host) would improve performance of that guest VM. I am willing to test this, but maybe lots of...
View ArticleUSB and Active Sync
Has anyone tried this on an XP guest?I'm thinking about creating an XP guest with MS Office and Outlook on it and MS Active Sync for a PDA (Sprint PPC-6700) and synching from the Guest OS. If you had...
View ArticleBest way for host NIC configuration? (Linux host)
I'm running the latest version of Server on CentOS Linux 4.3 x86_64. I've installed extra NICs to have a total of three. Up until today, I couldn't get VMware to cooperate with the other NICs for any...
View ArticleGuest on NFS shares & failures
I was wondering what will happen if you run a guest on a NFS share somewhere, and the NFS server drops away for a while, or permanently. Will the guest hang, or fail immediatly? Reason why I ask is...
View ArticleProblem with copying files from Host to Guest
Hello, i have a Host with Win2k3 and a Guest with Win2k3... Now i have mount a drive from the Host in the Guest. When i try copy a large file from this mounted drive to the guests drive c: within the...
View ArticlePoor perfomance on host and guest.
Hi All,I am using a dual Xeon with 4Gig Ram. HDD is a 1,4TB raid5 on a 9550SX-8LP 3Ware controller. The host OS is SuSE 10.1 and the newest VMServer. Guests are Win 2003 SB server and two Win 2003...
View Articlesimple script shut down one VM, wait, start again??
Hi, I searched this forum and didn't find anything.... What I want is a pre- and post-backup script that stops the VM guest, the backup runs, then the VM guest gets started again. The host is Ubuntu...
View ArticleCannot start vmware-server-console
When i try to run it i get this vmware-server-console/usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information...
View Article\Device\Scsi\symmpi1, did not respond within the timeout period.
I'm running VMware Server (free download). I have a Windows 2003 Enterprise edition, and running oracle grid 10g. I keep get multiple errors every couple of days. The server will stop responding,...
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