SCSI bus reset logged in guest only
I have a Red Hat 6.2 guest running on RHEL 3.0 in VMware Server 1.0.1 on a machine with a 3ware SATA raid card set up with a SATA raid 5 set. The guest is using the BusLogic SCSI controler in the...
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 ArticleMalformed Response From Server
I've finally got everything running, but when I try to power on a VM, I get "Unable to change virtual machine power state. Malformed response from server" at the console, and a similar message is...
View ArticleVMware server memory controller service failed to start
Hi all, using VMware server 1.0.1 with host OS windows 2000 server and windows 2003 server. Running a guest with OS Windows XP I get an error message in the system log of the guest system from the...
View ArticleVirtual Network Settings.... are grayed out
I've just installed VM WARE SERVER with Red Hat Enterprise 4 as the host OS. The machine is a Dell Poweredge 2650 with Dual Xeon 2.2 GHz processors and Dual NICs. The problem I'm having is that the...
View ArticleRemote Client Download
Can someone point me to the Remote Client download for the VMWare server beta ? I can't find it anywhere. I did try the GSX Server client but it didn't work.
View ArticleVmware beta feedback survey on web does not work
1) Try and download Vmware server beta - asks you to provide feedback and when I click on feedback, takes me to a store logon where I need to register!2) After I register, I now get to the support page...
View ArticleAnother backup-the-VM angle: LVM snapshot & Rsync
OK, Still checking out real-time synchronisation (sync or async) possibilities for Vmware server VM's... all solutions seem quite complex to set up. Now I was wondering about a LVM snapshot/Rsync...
View Articlethe network bridge on device vmnet0 is not running
hii installed the last vmware server and i have this message:" the network bridge on device vmnet0 is not running" i tried to switch to manual bridging but he NIC is not available. I went to the...
View ArticleThe parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created
I have a problem with a server that won't start after a resize of the disk using vmware-vdiskmanager.Unfortunately I didn't knew that disks with a snapshot isn't supported, so I resized the disk anyway...
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Storport.sys crashes with 0xD1 on HOST when creating LARGE (15++GB) VMDKs
Hi, when I create a vmdk using the standard way "add ne hardware, hard disk, SCSI, blabla", and then set the size of the virtual disk to be above, say, 15 GBytes, it crashes. Not every time, but often....
View ArticleConnect Tape Drive to VM
I have a host machine to which I have recently installed an Adaptec SCSI card. I've installed VMWare GSX on this server and have a single VM running. How do I get the VM to read the new SCSI card, so I...
View ArticleTo Hyperthread or Not to Hyperthread
this may not be the best place to put this question because it's a HOST issue. but perhaps there's somebody out there who knows how to fix this: I want to create a linux based VMware Server host. I...
View ArticleTandberg LTO Tape SCSI Drive with IBM / Adaptec SCSI Controller
Our hardware:IBM X3650, 2x Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz, 6 GB RAM, Host: Win 2003 x64 Ent.1. Guest: Win 2003 x32 Std. for DC (Veritas Agent)2. GUest: Win 2003 x32 Ent. for Exchange (Veritas Agent)3. Guest: Win...
View ArticleQuestion regarding virtual machine BIOS options
Two quick questions: 1. If my VM HOST has ECC memory and I do not set the VM GUEST BIOS to recognize this via the menu: Advanced -> Advanced Chipset Control -> ECC Config | SERR signal...
View ArticleBest way to backup a VM daily, weekly etc
Hello, I have been wondering what a solid method to use for backing up a VM that is IN USE (sorry for the caps, but this is the main point of the question). I have a VM server that has just been a...
View ArticleExchange ESE 476 error
Good morning! We just completed a migration of our main server to a VMware environment. The server is our domain controller as well as our Exchange server. We have cleaned up a few issues, but one...
View Articlegsx 3.0 and vlans
im looking for a how to setup document or urli have configured the 3com switch and on the host i have 4 vlans setup under my intel 1000pro card but what do i do next with the server and network utility...
View ArticleVMnet Config Question
The VMnet adapters on my host machine (Win2k3) are running @ 100Mbit. Is it possible to run them @ 1000Mbit? I want to use iSCSI initiated from the guest OSes to the host as a target, but I would like...
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...
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