Booting a guest from USB-rawdisk
In case anybody is interested: I just managed to boot a 2k3 guest from a USB-rawdisk.All you have to do is rewrite the rawdisk descriptorfile so that it uses an IDE-geometry instead of the...
View ArticleCompact Virtual Disks
I have searched the web and this forum for an answer, but I have not been able to find one so far... Does anyone know of a way to compact virtual disks? I have a virtual drive that is 100GB but only...
View ArticleUsing vmware-cmd for scripting on Windows hosts: what does it return?
Hello, I'm trying to write an easy to use script for the backup purposes; I use WSH for it. I'd like to use the vmware-cmd for getting the state of my VMs, therefore I would like to know, what does the...
View ArticleAPI for snapshot/snapback
VMware Server has support for snapshot/snapback functionality, and the C API has support for invoking it. But I've found that vmware-cmd does not. Does anyone know why this is the case, or has anyone...
View ArticleDos network driver
I know It's old. I've been searching the net without finding a net-driver for dos.it's the executeable i'm looking for.like ne2100.com or am2100.com files has anyone seen/found or made this ? it's for...
View ArticleHost DIsk space issue with VMware
Host: Fedora Core 6Guest: Win XP Pro Problem:Guest Virtual disk set as 20GB, VM directory almost 40GBHost used disk space is excessive and causing issues e.g disk space at a critical level running over...
View ArticleMerge 2 vmdk's with different partitions to one vmdk
I've got a virtual machine that has had a 2nd virtual harddrive created and added to it. (ran out of room on the original partition before realizing that we could just grow the disk and expand the...
View ArticleBest file system for VMServer in Linux?
We have a few PE850 1U servers, Perc 3 add-in SCSI RAID-1, 1 x 3.8 CPU, 4GB RAM. While these have been running fine with SLES10 x64 and the ext3 f-s, I was wondering if there are better options....
View ArticleNeed virtual machine with public IP, only have one public IP available
I have a somewhat unique problem. One of the software packages that I would like to install in a VMWare virtual machine requires the machine to have a public IP assigned to it for licensing purposes....
View ArticleVirtual MAC address assigned inside guest OS not receiving packets
Hello I have a vmware server on Linux with two BSD guests. Each guest has its primary network interface bridged to the host's physical one, which is attached to a dumb switch. The guests arbitrate a...
View ArticleVirtual guest able to use Pci PVR cards
Will a virtual linux guest (Ubuntu, Fedora) detect and use a PVR card.Example: TVTuner card connected in a PCI slot (Hauppauge PVR-250) The card would be recognized by the Ubuntu host. I'm curious if...
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Issue with network disconnects with VMware Server and Ubuntu Server host
I wanted to say :Free vmserver and ubuntu server is shit! but i love the free vmware server!! but on my ubuntu server i get so many disconnects, i tried everything suggested on the VMware forums but i...
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...
View ArticleBlack Screen on console?
Hello Forum,i've VMWARE Console installed on my machine (XP Prof), and i get the connection to the server, but i see only a black screen from the virtual machines, but the server reacts on inputs or...
View Article.vmx config file continue to corrupt
Host is Linux RHL 3 Ent.Guest is Windows 2003 Server.There are two VMs in the host.2 Guest with 384Mb each.The host have 1Gb RAM. Every night the guest is suspended and the host makes backup of all vm...
View ArticleNewbie question
Hi,I have gsx installed on a server. I have installed virtual windows xp host. Is it possible to use this virtual host from another PC automatically.. ie, switch on remote pc and it connects to...
View Articlenetwork timeouts on VMs
Hi. I've got two identical host machines - HP DL360 with dual XEON CPUs, 8GB RAM. Running GSX 3.something. Frequently, periodically, I get VMs that appear to lag terribly on network traffic. Host OS...
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VMServerd Panic: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(5240):932
Hi, Would be very nice if anybody could help me out I just installed VMware-gsx-3.1.0-9089 on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1100) running RH AS 3, kernel 2.4.21-15. At startup time the vmware startup...
View ArticleVMware GSX and Intel PRO/1000 MT problem
Hello I have installed VMware GSX 3.2 in a Dell 6850 with 4 NICs, two Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit (on board) and two Intel PRO/1000 MT. When I create my VMnets using the Broadcoms they work ok, but...
View ArticleBlack screen on Virtual Machine console (remote)
All right folks, I've read about 12 other threads about this and nothing has worked to fix my problem. Loaded VM console on my workstation (XP x64) and connect to GSX 3.2.1 on 2003 x64 host.Try to open...
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