VMWare performance counters not in host
Good morning! We just completed a migration of our main server to a VMWare environment. We want to monitor the guest OS performance in their virtual machines from the host Perfmon tool. According to...
View ArticleHelp with remuvable devices (Shut down)
Hi all.A few days ago i instaled virtual Windows XP SP2 on my machine , the host platform is Linux Mandriva. My printer&scanner is Canon MF3110, and Mandriva has no drivers for it, so i decided to...
View Articlevmdk-File corrupted after host crashed
Hi everybody, I can´t start my virtual machine - in the vm-console I always get this error:"unable to open either the disk /data1/win2004.vmdk or the redo log ./win2004.vmdk.REDO_jcswXA.Failed to...
View ArticleIdle CPU usage
I have a 4 core (8 way w/ hyperthreading) Xeon EMT with 32GB running VMware server beta (Windows 2003 x64 standard installed). There are 5 virtual machines running, all with VMtools installed....
View Article\\.host\shared folders not available?
shared folders with the host no longer work as they had in the past?
View ArticleVMware console command line switches
I am trying to get VMware server console to open and run a VM in full screen mode, by using a batch file. I have most of it working execpt the full screen portion. It seems that the -X switch isn't...
View Articlehow to limit the number of simultaneous user sessions to a VM?
Hello Is there any way of limiting simultaneous user sessions to a single virtual machine? I have a Virtual Server with several VM-s and users who connect occasionally to the virtual hosts to do some...
View ArticleSLES 10 and vmware tools installation
Hi there, can someone please offer some light on an issue I am currently having. I am installing SLES 10 into a VM, and it works well. I have installed the gcc compilers, and the kernel source so that...
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 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 Articlemy VM make a long beep beep beep sound evey boot time
how can i keep My PC Speaker Silent on Boot Time
View ArticleInstalling GSX onto Debian with 64bit kernel and 32bit userland
Hi all, Petr mentioned in one of his posts that it's possible to run VMware on Debian with a 64bit kernel and a 32bit userland. Has anyone done this? When I ran vmware-config.pl it errored on...
View ArticleVMWare Server & SELinux
What does the following mean? \[vmware@localhost ~]$ vmware & 7182\[vmware@localhost ~]$ Using log file /tmp/vmware-vmware/ui-7196.loglibhal.c 644 : Error connecting to system bus: An SELinux...
View Articlekeystrokes to multiple VMs?
In our test labs the KVMs that we use have a broadcast feature which allows the same keystrokes to be sent to all machines connected to the kvm. This feature is very useful when installing software or...
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 ArticleA question about changes in .vmdk files
Hello all, I'm currently making some extensive tests and benchmarks with copying and syncronizing .vmdk files. Running rsync between two linux guests on two different hosts (one windows, one linux), I...
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