multiple 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...
View ArticleHow to optimize Display-Speed (Compression)?
Hi, I am running RC2. I reach the server via DSL 1MBit and 58ms latencyBUT working in VMWares guest OS (Win XP) is painfully slow.One cannot work economical at that slow video-refresh-speed.Is there a...
View ArticleHow to unlock a Win2K3 virtual machine
Hi, I have a Win 2003 Server virtual machine set up on my VMWare server. It seems to have locked up after a system reboot. I can access it through the VMWare console, but I get the message that the...
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 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 ArticleVMNet adapters registering in my DNS server
I have VM Server installed on a server that is also running a DNS server. How can I stop VMNet adapters registering?VMServer 1Windows Server2003AD and DNS installed
View ArticleOptimize Host Windows Standard 2003 Server x64 version for VMware Server
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with 24 GB of RAM and a 3.2 GHZ dual core Xeon processor for now to add a 2nd Xeon processor later. There are 4 - 146 GB, SAS, 15K RPM hard drives in a RAID 5...
View ArticleHow to convert the RDM to vmdk files?
How to convert the RDM to vmdk files? I have a vmware server on the suse host,in the vmware server,there is a vm with RDM,now, i want to change the RDM to vmdk file,how to do? Thanks!
View ArticleThe parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created
I have a problem with a server that won't start after a resize of the disk using vmware-vdiskmanager.Unfortunately I didn't knew that disks with a snapshot isn't supported, so I resized the disk anyway...
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Storport.sys crashes with 0xD1 on HOST when creating LARGE (15++GB) VMDKs
Hi, when I create a vmdk using the standard way "add ne hardware, hard disk, SCSI, blabla", and then set the size of the virtual disk to be above, say, 15 GBytes, it crashes. Not every time, but often....
View ArticleSMP dual core high CPU usage on VM guests
If I boot the system into the SMP Kernel, VM Guests CPU usages average 20-70 percent. If on the other hand I boot into a non-SMP Kernel, usage will average 4-22 percent. My question is, in order to get...
View ArticleScreen resolution
Hello, I have installed vmware server 1.0.1 on opensuse 10.1 and then installed cento 4.2 to a virtual machine. On the server side I have an ati 9000 radeon fully accelerated and know matter what I do...
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 ArticleLarge files in /tmp ! What is the reason ?
Hi @all, I have a quetsion regarding vmware. My host os: SLES9 SP3. When i take a look at df -h i see the following: Size used...
View ArticleCan VMWS handle host with 802.1Q network ability?
I purchased a PCMCIA network card based on the RealTek 8169 chipset. I am hosting VMWare Server on a Win XP laptop as a portable "proof of concept" toolkit. This same card when booted under Linux runs...
View ArticleHow to retrieve password of Virtual machine?
How can we retrieve the password of Virtual machine?Windows 2003 server and CentOS virtual machine. Please suggest.Thanks.
View Article"The partition table is invalid" error with a new physical drive
Hi, all. Recently I tried to use VMWare Server and got the following problem. Several days of googling and searching this forum did not give a nice solution about this problem. My system has two hard...
View ArticleVMware server memory controller service failed to start
Hi all, using VMware server 1.0.1 with host OS windows 2000 server and windows 2003 server. Running a guest with OS Windows XP I get an error message in the system log of the guest system from the...
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 Articledisabling VMware DHCP server
Hello How may I be sure that VMware Server 1.0.1 DHCP Server is disabled? I have no VMnet1 or VMnet8 configured in my system. I had VMnet 1 but deleted it but I´m unsure I can get my host machine...
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