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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 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 ArticleGrab Input Error
Hi, Whenever I power-on a virtual machine and try clicking on it, VMware displays an error saying it could not grab the input device. It displays this error message: Failed to create DirectInput...
View ArticleMirroring Dynamic Disks
Hello, I was trying to create a mirrored Virtual Disk in a Virtual Machine. I converted both the virtual disks to dynamic disks and then tried to make the second one a mirror of the first one. I am...
View ArticleProcess cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion
Why am I getting the following error.....Operation on file ".\Windows XP Professional.vmdk" failed (The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file.Pressing...
View Articlevirtual machines permissions
hi. i have a gsx server 3.2 in a windows 2000 Server host.this gsx have 4 VM windows XP. i need a way to disable user to power off the VMs. I setup some permissons on files of each VM, and have success...
View ArticleVirtual Clusters?
Can either WS and Server support virtual clusters? I would be creating virtual nodes using Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows Server 2003 Enterprise.
View Article/dev/vmnet* gets deleted on reboot
I have a GSX host with the following strange error: I set up vmnet0 to eth0, vmnet2 to eth1, both bridged. There are two client systems, both using vmnet5 to speak to each other. Now sometimes during...
View ArticleVery high load in linux host - about 40% of CPU is "system"
Dear forum, I do have the following situation: 1 HP DL380 Server2 XEON 3GHz CPUHyperthreading is enabled3GByte RAM170GB RAID1 SCSI The Host-OS is SLES9, VMWare GSX Server 3.2 bigone:~ # uname -aLinux...
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 ArticleBUG: vmnet-bridge bond0.xyz VLAN - too long interface name, not working
I have GSX Server v3.2.1 running on Linux (RHEL4) host. I have bonded 2 NIC's as bond0, and created couple of VLANs.. bond0.12 and bond0.234 bond0.12 is bridged to vmnet0bond0.234 is bridged to vmnet2...
View Articlevmscsi disk errors in event log...
I'm getting 2 errors repeatedly in my event logs across my machines.. first issource: vmscsitype: errorevent ID: 9description The device \device\scsi\vmscsi1, did not respond within the timeout period...
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 ArticleServer build 22874 on Fedora Core 5 with any-any-update101?
Anyone got this to work? \# ./runme.plUpdating /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl ... unknown version When running vmware-config.pl, it can't find kernel modules, and still thinks they are in...
View ArticleRemove Disks or Other Media
Hi,I'm new here, so if this post is in the wrong place, please forgive me, thanks!I installed VMWare Server exp build 22874 and attempted to install Windows 2000 Server in a VM. I have the server cd...
View Article950 GB limit? That's no good.
Is looks like in VMware Server, that there's a limit of to the size of virtual disks. SCSI/IDE appear to be 950GB. Does anyone know if this limit will be raised anytime soon? Windows 2003 Pre-SP1 can...
View ArticleGuests do not start anymore... VMware Server RC1 Build 24927
Hello, after updating to the RC1 I can't start my virtual machines any more ;( Host: Windows 2000 Server; domain member. While booting, I get the message produced by host: "At least one service or...
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VMWare and MS Virtual Server
I'm definitely virtualizing -- no doubt about it -- but now that BOTH VMWare and Microsoft have free virtualization platforms I'm having a hard time deciding. BOTH have some good features that I...
View ArticleError on Fedora Core 5 installation
I'm try to install Vmware-server on fedora core 5 machine. After installation of rpm package of VMware-server i run the patch http://tredosoft.com/files/download/vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz and...
View ArticleDifference between Workstation and Server
Does anyone know the real difference between VmWare Workstation 5 and VmWare Server, as far as I can see they both sit on Windows 2003 and there is no real different apart from workstation can have...
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