Expert advice needed for implementation
Ill try not to bore you with the long story, so heres the short version: Im a student in a student information assurance research lab shared by 3 colleges. We dont have the money for ESX (more so...
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 ArticleMissing /dev/vmnet1 etc.
Hi, I've installed VMWare Server RC2 on Centos 4.3 and I'm not sure it's installed correctly. I've set it up with bridged networking, and it has installed a /dev/vmnet0, but no other adapters. When I...
View ArticleTwo Vista Guests in VMware Server = G'bye Host
I've been using VMware server since it was GSX, and I've never had any issues like I'm about to describe... But here goes: 1. Running VMware Server 1.0.. latest build.2. Have lots of guest machines.....
View ArticleVMware tools - svga driver won't install
Hello, I recently moved an XP VM from workstation 5.5 to VMware server. The machine boots ok but I cannot install the vmware tools. At first I tried upgrading the tools and that didn't work, so I...
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 Articleinsufficient virtual memory issues and file I/O problems
Since moving to the new VMware Gold edition (version 1.0) on our hosts we have begun to see a lot of our jobs error out with insufficient virtual memory issues and file I/O problems. We saw it for the...
View ArticleBest way for host NIC configuration? (Linux host)
I'm running the latest version of Server on CentOS Linux 4.3 x86_64. I've installed extra NICs to have a total of three. Up until today, I couldn't get VMware to cooperate with the other NICs for any...
View ArticleWindows 2003 DC FSMO clock running slow
Host = Ubuntu Dapper 2.6.15-23-serverGuest1 = Windows 2003 R1 running DC and FSMO rolesGuest2 = Windows XP SP2 After reading all info regarding slow guests, I'm still having trouble with my Guest1. If...
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 ArticleIP address \*.*.*.254 is reserved on vmnet ?
Hello. I installed and configured VMware Server 1.0.1 with only host-only network.My vmnet1 interface was assigned 192.168.159.1/24 as followsspirit:/home/vmware # ifconfig vmnet1vmnet1 Link...
View ArticleClearing Pending VM Guest I/O
Hi ,I want to clear pending I/O of VM guest from VM Host..do you know about the API or some other means through which i can clear pending I/O of VM guest from VMware Host
View Articleno information on vmware site
Can anyone explain what these parameter are doing. I tried to found about these on vmware site but couldn't get any information diskLib.dataCacheMaxReadAheadSize = "0"diskLib.dataCacheMinReadAheadSize...
View ArticleVirtual machines freezing suddenly
Hello everybody, we are testing VMWare Server 1.0.1.29996 running on a DELL PowerEdge 850 (Pentium D 830, 3.0GHz, 2GB RAM) with Windows 2003 R2 Host. Currently we are running two VM's with Windows NT...
View ArticleGetting Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred.. HELP!
We're running GSX Server 3.2.0 and I'm using VMware Server Console 1.0.1 build -29996. Anyway I'm getting the error Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred and my Console shuts down. I...
View ArticleVirtual guest able to use Pci PVR cards
Will a virtual linux guest (Ubuntu, Fedora) detect and use a PVR card.Example: TVTuner card connected in a PCI slot (Hauppauge PVR-250) The card would be recognized by the Ubuntu host. I'm curious if...
View Articlepossible to run vmware server guest images on bare metal?
One of my users wanted to know if there is a way to takeher vmware server images and copy them to anothersystem and run them as 'bare metal'. They have measured the overhead of the hosted architecture...
View ArticleHigh Context switching on Vmware Server host
Hi, I've got a machine (2xDual Core Opteron, Centos 4.4 x86) running VMware Server 1.0.1 with reasonably high context switching (10K+) on the host with little load. It doesn't seem to be effecting...
View ArticleSCO Xenix 3.2.2, SCO Openserver 5.0.7 with serial ports as guests
I haven't seem anything that says I can or can't install SCO Xenix 3.2.2 or SCO Openserver 5.0.7 both with serial ports such as Stallion card as guest OSes. Has anyone done this?
View Article100% cpu load all the time - how to fix?
Hello, I have installed Vmware SRV on a AMD Athlon 64 3700 Mhz. The SRV has 2 GB Ram, 2x300 SATA disks, and runs under Suse Linux 10.1 32bit. I have 3 hosts on that machine, all 3 have 500 MB Ram...
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