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Another "bridge to wireless NIC - wrong windows host MAC is used" question
I have problems with bridging a VM's network card to the (wireless) network card of the Windows host, in such a way that packets from the VM actually use the VMware MAC address on outgoing packets (and...
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Add VMXNet and Heartbeat to Monowall!
I consider M0n0wall (http://www.m0n0.ch) one of the best VMs i have. Since it's appliance based and FreeBSD, vmware-tools won't install on it, so it doesn't have support for VMXnet. It runs on a...
View Articlehidden network adapters when importing from MS Virtual Machine to VMWare
When I converted my MS virtual machines to VMWare, ended up with hidden network adapters that are assigned the IP address it had when it was a MS virtual machine. When I try to set the IP address of...
View ArticleBare minimal Host OS
Hi If I want to run VMware Server using the absolute minimal OS, has someone an idea which packages are required on a linux host to make things work? Could I do without Xwin (or kde or whatever?). I...
View ArticleRemote desktop port3389
Does anyone know how to RDP into a windows guest box that is being natted by the host. I tried port forwarding port 3389 from the host OS which is debian, to the guest which is w2k3. That didn't...
View ArticleDestination host unreachable; cannot pass traffic through interface.
We have 1 HP dl385 running Windows 2003 R2 64 Bit Server Service Pack1 (up to date with patches). We have 3 guest vm servers running Windows 2003 Standard SP1 and they are all up to date with patches...
View ArticleVmware host rebooting periodically
I recently upgraded to the the latest release of Vmware and was updating my guests using windows update when a sudden crash and reboot happened during the final phase of .net 2.0 security update on one...
View Articleneed help to configure virtual network
Hi, I am new to this community, just started using vmware on windows xp.I want to setup a virtual network with host(xp), linux ES, win 2003 and a linux again. I set up one but among these virtual...
View ArticleError 193:%1 is not a valid Win32 application
Good afternoon! Environment: Win2kVMware GSXn 2.0.1 Build 2129 Just added a new physical HDD to my machine, copied my existing VMs to the new partition, and when I attempted to re-register the VM I am...
View ArticleVirtual Machine processor usage
I am currently evaluating GSX, and I can't seem to find an answer to this... If I have multiple VMs on a host server, and one of the VMs starts running at 100%CPU. How does this effect the host OS?How...
View Articlevmware management interface
i can't get my vmware management interface to work on a windows 2003 64-bit host I checked for listening ports and 8333 & 8222 are missing. Is the mgmt interface installed with the product or does...
View ArticleMigrating Red Hat + Informix
Hello I would like to migrate a Red Hat + Informix Application system from a physical server to a VMware virtual server. The VMware is going to be installed on an Windows 2003 Server.Reinstall the all...
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 ArticleVIDE: ATAPI DMA 0x25 Failed: key 0x2, asc 0x3a, ascq
Host OS: Server 2003 32bitVer: GSX 3.2Guest OS: Server 2003 32bit R2CPU: Dual Opteron 244'sRAM: 2Gig Just noticed one of my VM's shut down in the lab testing R2. What does this mean? Feb 24 13:11:07:...
View ArticleMouse pointer is missing after VMware tools installed
Hi, I installed VMware tools on WIn2003 guest OS, host is running on WIn2003 as well. After installation there is no mouse pointer anymore in console. I already put "video accelaration" to maximum as...
View ArticleCreating Virtual Disk
Hi Everyone, When I try to create a Virtual Machine with a virtual disk, then choosing "Allocate disk space now", the wizard start creating the disk but half way through an error message is displayed...
View ArticleWindows firewall blocking server console
I have installed VMware server on a windows XP (SP2) host. Not a supported configuration, but appears to run alright. I have only been able to use the server console remotely when windows firewall is...
View ArticleGets "Your version of VMware Tools is out of date"
Hi there, After installing the VMware Tools from the VM > Install VMware Tools menu, when I hover my mouse cursor or if I just take the focus away from my running VM guest, I see message in blue...
View ArticleWindows XP/IDE=OK XP/SCSI=BAD?
I have a Windows XP-IDE guest running in windows 2000/2003 with no problems. I try to install Windows XP-SCSI with buslogic or lsilogic and both fail to find the hard drive on the install. It does...
View Article"failed to change the VM to the expected power state" after VMimporter
Hello, I successfully imported LiveState image using VMImporter 2.0 and now when trying to start my machine it tells me "Operation failed to change the VM to the expected power state".Anybody know...
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