Independent and persistent disks
Weird situation I have. I am not sure it is by design or it is a bug in VMWare Sever. I created an independent persistent second harddrive for a Windows XP Pro guest OS. (The host is also XP Pro). I...
View Articleguest ipconfig renew on GSX 3.1.0
Folks, I have a situation in which WinXP guest machines revert to a snapshot which may have a stale, no-good IP address. These guest machines are configured for DHCP. How can I have my guests do an...
View Articlevmware-user not running in ubuntu guest
Hi, I'm running an ubuntu feisty guest in vmware server 1.01, and the "autofit guest" doesn't work.I think it's because the vmware-user process stops when the session is launched. I've looked for this...
View ArticleProblems creating new VM's
Hi All I've run into an issue trying to create a new VM and can't seem to find an answer. Server is an HP DL360 dual processor, 8GB ram...etc. so lots of power. Installed is VMware server version...
View ArticleRed Hat 9 on GSX causes odd Network issues
Basically, I have 3 W2K3 instances and one RH9 instance running on a GSX server with a Pentium 2.4Ghz , 3GB of RAM and 120GB harddrive and some back-up drives etc. What happens is that the Windows...
View ArticleHorrible network performance w/ Intel Pro 1000 adapter installed in host
I have a Debian Linux host and a Windows XP Pro guest. I have the guest's NIC bridged to the NIC on the host. The host is also running Samba and I have a drive mapped from the host inside the guest....
View ArticleConnectivity Issues with VM Netware 4.11 server and VM XP SP2
Hi everyone, I'm running GSX 3.2.1, and VM'd a Netware 4.11 server and VM'd XP Pro. SP2. All running on the same host. The server is setup to use IPX and I've downloaded the client for the VM XP...
View Articlevmwsvr console turns off numlock led when moving mouse from guest to host
vmwsvr host : desktop pc P4 2G RAM xubuntu 6.06 vmwsvr 1.0.1 numlock =ONvmwsvr guest : xubuntu 6.06 with vmwtools numlock=ON when i move mouse from within guest to the host server console "window...
View ArticleHigh Guest CPU, low HOST CPU
I have the following set up: Host server - Dual 2.8 GHz Xeon processor, 4 GB RAM, Windows 2000, GSX v 3.1.0 This hosts a single Guest operating system Guest - Windows 2000. I understand from the blurb...
View Articlevmware-cmd stop Does not Power off Win2k VM
GSX 3.1 Server install on RHEL 3 Upd 4 on PowerEdge 1850 with a Windows 2000 Server SP 0 VM. I am trying to use vmware-cmd stop to completely power off the VM but it does not appear to work. I have...
View ArticleGentoo 64-bit amd & GSX 3.2 - problem to login from remote console
I installed GSX 3.2 on Gentoo amd64 machine. Everything seems to be working except login from console.[/b]In /var/log/messages I recieve:[/b] Feb 1 17:22:34 localhost xinetd\[9150]: START:...
View ArticleUtil_GetSafeTmpDir: Failed to create a safe temporary directory,
I have been using vmware workstation and have just installed vmware server, but when I try to run it, it tell me that it can't create a directory in /tmp. I get this error before any connect console...
View ArticleGuest OS not restarted when reboot of host OS (Win2k3R2 host and guest)
VM newbie. Searched through existing post and have not found a solution. Upon reboot, the guest OS is not restarted. New machine. Opteron double core, 4Gb. Win2k3R2 installed as hostVMWare Server...
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Rebooting Guest Servers takes forever & poor overall performance
Hello, Hoping that someone can point me in the right direction... Summary of environment: HP DL385 Dual Processor server, Opteron 2.4Ghz Processors16GB Ram1.2TB Disks - 300GB - RAID 1 and 900GB - RAID...
View ArticleHow to set up samba?
Could someone give me a start on setting up file sharing between a linux host and windows or linux guest? Previous topics say that samba is the way to go, so I read the VMware server virtual machine...
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 ArticleTime on guests slowly gaining - I've tried everything...
To hopefully avoid getting the most common advice I have seen posted in the forums, yes I have already tried the following: http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1420 I have...
View ArticleVmware Server NOT registering USB Hard Drive
Greetings all. I've loaded VMware Server Beta 2 on top of SLES10. All seem to be working fine, except I have an External Western Digital Hard Drive, that I access with USB2. I've added the USB Device...
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...
View ArticleUndocumented vmx entries
I am setting up a "SAN in a can" to test Linux multipathing and cluster filesystems. I will have two VMs, each running iSCSI target software, sharing a virtual disk. I've read the clustering section...
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