VMware Server and changing DNS domain from localdomain
I installed VMware Server 1.0.1 on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition with a NAT network. Noticed that DNS domain is localdomain by default. ipconfig /all shows Prmary DNS suffix, DNS Suffix search...
View ArticleWindows XP terrible slow as a guest
Hi all, I have setup a Windows XP guest on a debian host using vmware server 1.0.1. All works ok, except viedo acceleration. Windows is terribly sloow open menus, checkboxes, etc ... Somebody knows...
View Articleerror loading operating system
Had a systems disk failure on my primary VM box.I moved the disk that contains the Guest OS' to another server. OS1 = 2003 Enterprise - 2 virtual IDE DisksOS2 = 2003 Enterprise - 2 virtual IDE Disks...
View ArticleW2k3 / Network drive: MRxSmb keeps crashing, disconnecting
Hi All, I have a guest and host both Win server 2003. The network drive that I share between them keeps crashing out, throwing event id 50, MRxSmb: "\{Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save...
View ArticleWin98 Guest OS has high utilization of the host CPU
I have a Win98 guest machine setup for a legacy application (DOS based), the application is run across the network by other Win 98 workstations. The problem is that the 98 guest easily consumes 100% of...
View Articleproblem after unexpected shutdown of host.
i have this in the vmware.log of a windows xp guest: Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx| DISK: OPEN ide0:0 '/opt/raid0/VirtualMachines/europa/Windows XP Professional.vmdk' persistent R\[(null)]Jan 08 20:06:18: vmx|...
View ArticleVirtual Machine not starting (No error message)
When i try and start a Virtual Machine sometimes the virtual machine will not start. The screen with the "start" and "Edit" turns to the blank screen, but then nothing else happens, the usual HDD,...
View ArticleVMware Server unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
Hello all. Seems that I included too much info in my last post so I'll start small. We have a Windows 2k3 VM server running on Ubuntu (2.6.15-27-amd64-server). Three times in the past 5 days the 2k3...
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VMServer Error: Cannot open the disk 'xxxx'...Failed to Lock the file
Hello, When I tried to startup my VM on VMServer running 1.01 build 29996 I get the following error: Cannot open the disk ' C:\....vdmk' or one of the snapshots it depends on. Reason: Failed to lock...
View Articlesplitting the virtual disk into 2GB files
is there a benefit in (terms of disk i/o) to splitting the virtual disk into 2GB files?
View ArticleChanging disk from persistent to non persistent for cluster enviroment
When I create a virtual disk, I don't have the option to change the disk from persistent to non persistent (the whole box is greyed out)...any ideas? Thanks, Lance
View ArticleBattery Backup for a VM
Is there a way, say through the USB port, to allow the VM to attach to the hosts APC battery backup and thus allow the VM to shut down before the host does? Is there a way to have VMWare Server be...
View ArticleWindows 2003 Routing.
I have a little problem, and cant see what it wrong. I have a complete Virtual Environment of 7 servers with there own Domain Controller etc running on a VMNet 7 I need the entire environment to be...
View Articleshrink, defrag, size not reduced
I am using windows 2003 server as host and as guest. I have virtual growable disks splitted in 2 GB slices. One vmdk-file has 25 GB of size. I have deleted files some files in the guest system. So I...
View ArticleVM keeps getting kicked out of the domain
I am running a VM setup for software build automation. I setup each VM as an independent Windows 2000 Advanced Server build machine (all cloned from a common snapshot and renamed using sysprep). I...
View ArticleCan't uninstall - server won't stop all running instances
Hi,I am trying to update to the new version for my Ubuntu Breezy Host. When running the install script (with sudo) I get: \------...Stopping all virtual machines...
View ArticleInstalling VMware Server on CENTOS 4.3 on AMD x86_64
I'm having a bit of difficulty running vmware-config.pl I get the following output: The correct version of one or more libraries needed to run VMware Server may bemissing. This is the output of ldd...
View ArticleCan NFS work over NAT to share host files with guests?
I'm not an NFS nor a network expert, so I need some help with this. I usually use NAT networking with my VMware guests. I need to share files on my host with my two VMware guests, and since Server...
View ArticleVMware keeps trying a network boot
Im a vmware newbie and I was trying to install XP Pro onto my Linux box but every time I try and power on the virtual machine VMWare tries to do a network boot even though the CD is in the tray and...
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...
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