VMWare performance counters not in host
Good morning! We just completed a migration of our main server to a VMWare environment. We want to monitor the guest OS performance in their virtual machines from the host Perfmon tool. According to...
View ArticleHelp with remuvable devices (Shut down)
Hi all.A few days ago i instaled virtual Windows XP SP2 on my machine , the host platform is Linux Mandriva. My printer&scanner is Canon MF3110, and Mandriva has no drivers for it, so i decided to...
View Articlevmdk-File corrupted after host crashed
Hi everybody, I can´t start my virtual machine - in the vm-console I always get this error:"unable to open either the disk /data1/win2004.vmdk or the redo log ./win2004.vmdk.REDO_jcswXA.Failed to...
View ArticleIdle CPU usage
I have a 4 core (8 way w/ hyperthreading) Xeon EMT with 32GB running VMware server beta (Windows 2003 x64 standard installed). There are 5 virtual machines running, all with VMtools installed....
View Article\\.host\shared folders not available?
shared folders with the host no longer work as they had in the past?
View ArticleVMware console command line switches
I am trying to get VMware server console to open and run a VM in full screen mode, by using a batch file. I have most of it working execpt the full screen portion. It seems that the -X switch isn't...
View Articlehow to limit the number of simultaneous user sessions to a VM?
Hello Is there any way of limiting simultaneous user sessions to a single virtual machine? I have a Virtual Server with several VM-s and users who connect occasionally to the virtual hosts to do some...
View ArticleSLES 10 and vmware tools installation
Hi there, can someone please offer some light on an issue I am currently having. I am installing SLES 10 into a VM, and it works well. I have installed the gcc compilers, and the kernel source so that...
View Article\Device\Scsi\symmpi1, did not respond within the timeout period.
I'm running VMware Server (free download). I have a Windows 2003 Enterprise edition, and running oracle grid 10g. I keep get multiple errors every couple of days. The server will stop responding,...
View ArticleWindows: P2V with nothing but NTBACKUP
I've recently duplicated our producion environment into VM's to allow us to test upgrades and patches without having to arrange outage windows, come in on the weekend or waste a night rebuilding a...
View ArticleHow do I create my own .FLP files ?
I need to create a .flp file to emulate a floppy disk in a NetWare server. Is there an app or tool to create a *.flp from a floppy disk ? GW
View Articlecomments in .vmx file
Is there a way of commenting out an entry in the VM's configuration file? I there a "comment character," like # or ; to use?
View ArticleServer build 20923 hangs, XP guest
Hi all, After being some time away from VMWare, just installed the new Serverand guest XP Pro.All went perfect until I did something (connected a LAN, or floppy or something else). Now the guest boots...
View ArticleVMXNET is it available in SUSE 10
I could not get this to come up. I had vlance and each time I rebooted I would lose my network connection. I am running GSX 3.2.0. I am just learning linux but a bit of help would be great, thanks
View ArticleOpenVPN routing problem
Hi, I am running vmware server on a Linux box which is also an OpenVPN server (subnet 10.33.0.x). The virtual machines are all behind vmnet8 (NAT) which has IP 192.168.33.1 (192.168.33.2 to the...
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 ArticleWindows Server 2003: Mouse Cursor Stuck in Bottom Right Corner
After converting my VMs from Virtual Server 2005 R2 I installed VMware Tools. Since installing the tools the mouse cursor is stuck in the bottom right corner from the console. The only functional way...
View ArticleUSB Webcam
Howdo Guru's, I have VMware Server 1.0 running on top of Fedora Core 5, with a Windows XP guest running on top of it. All is running fine with the world, I am still grinning at the low CPU utilisation...
View ArticleVMWare server causing Interrupt loss...constantly
I am running VMWare server on Debian Etch, with kernel 2.6.16-2-686-smp on a Dell PowerEdge 830 Pentium D 2.8GHz. The server itself runs fine, and I seem to be having no issues with it. However, this...
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