Physical disk share issue between host and guest
Hello, Host: Windows Server 2003 SP1 with VMware Server 1 (28343)Guest: Windows XP Pro SP2 I share one of my physical disks on my host to the guest as entire disk (I tried too with just the partition...
View ArticleTemporarily turn off VMware server ?
Is it possible to temporarily turn off (stop running) VMware server ? I am not using it all the time, so it is just wasting resources (RAM mostly) for it s background services, like VMware...
View ArticleIBM 4690 Supermarket Application as guest
I am trying to boot an image of an IBM 4690 Supermarket Application OS into VMWARE Server. I used LiveView to create a VM from a DD image of the hard drive.The system boots to a blank screen with an...
View ArticleCreating a virtual linux router
Hi,I have an intranet Linux server with 2 NICs, one is the Internet NIC and the other the intranet NIC. I'm thinking of creating a Linux VM that will be used a router, so, the Linux client will have to...
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 Articlepoor guest network transfer performance - TCP connections dropped
The network transfer speeds to/from the guest machine seem to be alright. Not great, but alright. My problem seems to be more time related than anything else. The longer the TCP connection remains...
View Articleno .vmx file after creationo f the VM
Hi, I've tried to install another OS (FC 6) as guest under FC6 host but at each time I've tried there was no .vmx file.I've to precise that I've tried with creation of a full disk an with a non ful...
View ArticleHow to automatically answer a question of vmware-cmd answer command
Hi, I am writing a shell script that need copy a VM to another host and restart the new VM on the new host. However, I am stuck with how to answer the following question automatically in the shell...
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...
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Vista Host OS & VM Incorrect MAC address
Not sure if anyone has seen this before, but I'll give it a shot. I am running VMWare Server 1.0.1 build 29996 on Vista Business with all the current MS Critical Patches. On my host os, a PING to...
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 ArticleGraceful shutdown, or power off?
We're having a discussion here at work about patching VMWare hosts and guests. The way I've always done it is to log on to each VM and shut it down like a physical server, make sure they are set to...
View Articlevmware-cmd stop soft/trysoft timeout
Has anyone had an issue with the vmware-cmd stop soft' command is issued from the hostOS, the guestOS properly shuts down gracefully, but the poweroff never occurs. After about 2 minutes or so the...
View Articlepopulate a vmdk file using raw binary data from system disk
Hi: I have GSX 3.1 installed on SLES 9 server. I created a windows XP virtual machine. Now I scanned a windows XP system disk using my own tool and stored block-by-block binary data of the whole disk...
View Articlevirtual machine config file is invalid
Hi I started getting that error for reasons that are beyond me yesterday. Today I got fed up with it and simply copied another virtual machine. I adjusted the VMs name and hardware and started the VM....
View ArticleFreeBSD: lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer
VMware-gsx-3.1.0-9089 based on RH9.Guest OS: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8. Periodicaly in kernel messages:lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive bufferlnc0: Missed packet -- no receive bufferlnc0: Missed packet...
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...
View ArticleCannot suspend - "Error saving suspend file .\suse linux.vmss"
I'm having a bit of trouble with Vmware server on my Windows XP host (and client). The OS in the virtual machine is SuSE 10.0-OSS. The VM files are stored on a directory of a removable USB hard disk...
View ArticleVMWare server license key????
The installation guide for the server beta says that the license key I enter should be the one I got by email. What??? I never got any email. How is this supposed to work?
View ArticleData transfer host-guest
Hello!I installed the VMware Server and build a virtual maschine with XP (Pro) as system. Host system is also XP (Home). Now I want to transfer data and software from the host to the guest, so that I...
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