VMware Server installs as Workstation
Hi,I just installed VMware Server on a Debian Sarge. Installation worked fine. Then I tried to install the MUI. But it proclaimed: VMware Server must be installed on this machine for the VMware...
View ArticleSupport for thin clients via RDP
Does the server product offer native RDP support; I know it has its own client for remote access of machines. I have been doing some research on thin client machines such as...
View ArticleSlow VM because of I/O on host system? (VMEM file)
Hello! VM: Windows XPHost: Linux 64bit, 2.6.15.6System: Opteron 175, 4 GB RAM, 2 fast disks in RAID0 I noticed a huge performance hit in the VM when the host system does disk I/O. Whenever I have some...
View ArticleConsole Access
I have an XP (SP2) laptop, connecting to a RHEL3.0 server running VMware Server beta. I have installed everything on the server side, and can access the console of the guests from any location, except...
View ArticleConfirm: scsi virtual disk size limit is 256GB?
The VM creation UI limits the disk size to 256GB. Is this a hard limit? My workaround was to create two 200GB drives and tell Windows to span them as one 400GB. Somewhat related, why is it that even...
View ArticleWin XP Host: Wireless Bridge
Hello, I am using Windows XP as a Host OS on an IBM X41 Tablet and have Ubuntu 5.10 installed as a Guest OS using the latest VMWare Server Beta. My setup includes a bridged network. I was wondering if...
View ArticleWindows - write caching off
I recently set up a Windows 2003 64-bit server, with one virtual host, also Windows 2003 64-bit. The performance was terrible. Both servers would run, but when any load was put on them - copying...
View ArticleUnable to use multiple interfaces / VMNet
We are trying to set up the VMWare Server Beta 2 on a Linux host to use multiple bridged interfaces: "The following bridged networks have been defined:. vmnet0 is bridged to eth0. vmnet1 is bridged to...
View ArticleGuest can't ping Host on bridged network; can ping other devices on network
Ok, this is the ODDEST thing. First, the problem and then I will give you my configuration.... My Guest machine can ping other devices on the physical network but cannot ping the host machine at all....
View ArticleVMWare-Tools on SuSE 10.0 and 10.1: Problem with YAST
A friendly hello to anybody reading this.First of all excuse my english as it is not my native language. I have a VMWare Server build 23869 on Windows XP(same happens on Workstation 5.5) and created a...
View ArticleDoes VMware Server support an IEEE-1394 FireWire Interface?
I am running VMware Server on RedHat Linux Enterprise 4.0. I created a Virtual Machine on VMware, running MS Windows XP Professional and am running an MS Windows application in the MS Visual Studio...
View Articlevmware-serverd uses primary console ttyS0, gets SIGHUP on creating vm
Hi all I have a Linux server (Debian 3.1, kernel 2.6.8-2-686-smp) on which I've installed VMWare server. The server is configured with a serial console on ttyS0 to permit remote management - the kernel...
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QnD VM Clone Bash Script
All, Below is my quick and dirty script to clone virtual machines that I use with VMware Server Beta/RC running on a Linux host. I KNOW it can be improved (by leaps and bounds), but "it works for me"...
View ArticleAny success using DriveImage XML images in a VM?
Hi all! I'm new to the forum and have already posted 1 question. I was extremely surprised by the speed and accuracy of forum replies (even though my issue ultimately did not have to do with the...
View ArticleIndependent-Persistent Virtual Hard Disk
If you would like to create a VM without[/i] the snapshot feature, so that the information is immediately written to the virtual HDs, is the setting Independent-Persistent[/b] correct? For example, if...
View ArticleWhy can't VM host ping guest VM or guest VM ping other guest VM?
We are running VM Server on a Windows 2003 Server machine with one network card. There are 2 VM's running Windows 2003 Server. From other external machines I can access the VM host machine and both...
View Articlevmware-vmx process is running on 100% cpu after copying vm image from dev.
Hello, I've run into very interesting problem: vmware-vmx process is running on 100% cpu after copying vm image from dev box to production. Dev Host: 2 x Xeon, 1GB, Debian 3.1 kernel 2.6.8, vmware...
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 ArticleVMSS file...ok to delete?
My virtual server is running (ie not in suspended state) but for some reason, the VMSS file is still there? any ideas why? Can I delete it?
View ArticleIndependent 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...
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