Hi all,

in vmware_server_vm_manual.pdf I found those fixed ip adresses which will be used on hostonly networks:

Table 7-1. Address Use on a Host-Only Network

Range                            Address use             Example

.255                       Broadcasting            192.168.0.255

But I need to build a hostonly network with other IPs in 10.44.18.0/255.255.254.0 :

10.44.19.70    Host machine

10.44.18.221   virtual machine 1

10.44.18.223   virtual machine 2

NO DHCP

This runs in a corporate environment and those are the IP adresses I must use (using individual adresses made me problems as vmware/linux somehow propagates those addresses to the outside which caused conflicts).

Is this possible and how?

Regards,

Robert

i just recently replaced the motherboard on my PC running ubuntu

8.04... i have a windows xp vm that is running under vmware server

v1.05... when i turn on the vm i get the following error message in

vmware server console:

The network bridge on device /dev/vmnet0 is temporarily down because

the bridged Ethernet interface is down. The virtual machine may not be

able to communicate with the host or with other machines on your

network.

i have tried removing and adding the network adapter in vmware server

and reconfiguring vmware server via the vmware-config.pl script but i

have had no luck thus far.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

Good Day!

I have a problem while building the cluster. Let me describe the situation:

My global task is to test how IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) would work in Microsoft Cluster. So, I need to build the cluster which consists of two nodes and dedicated domain controller. The picture of that scheme is presented below:

http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/superssr/68/s-619.jpg

I use the following software:

• 1) Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition on all three machines;

• 2) VMware Server 1.4 as base software to build virtual cluster;

• 3) WebSphere Application Server on cluster nodes.

I have divided the global task into several steps:

• 1) Create 3 virtual machines (their names: DC, HOST1, HOST2). Done;

• I have added one additional Ethernet adapter to HOST 1 and HOST 2 respectively. The Ethernet adapter # 1 is used to connect HOST1,2 to DC (192.168.230.x/24 network) and the added Ethernet adapter # 2 is used for cluster purposes, e.g. heartbeat (192.168.10.x/24 network);

• 2) Create domain (e.g. domain.com) and add HOST1 and HOST2 to this domain. Done;

• 3) Build up cluster (e.g. cluster). Not done;

• 4) Install and configure WAS. Not done.

The first two steps seem to be easy and I want to discuss the third step during that I have encountered some problems.

The first problem is that I don't have the shared storage that can be used by both cluster nodes HOST1 and HOST2. The solution was found:

• a) On HOST1 create two SCSI virtual disks (it's important to use another SCSI bus than SCSI 0, so I used SCSI1 bus): one disk (500Mb) is used for cluster and is called Quorum (SCSI1:1) and another disk (4Gb) is used for WAS (SCSI1:2);

• b) Add these disks to HOST2;

• c) Edit HOST1 and HOST2 .vmx files in the following way (add/edit the following lines):

• scsi1:1.deviceType = "plainDisk"

• scsi1:2.deviceType = "plainDisk"

• disk.locking = "False"

• scsi1.sharedBus = "virtual"

After that i power on HOST1 and get the second problem that I can't solve. The problem is that the Ethernet adapter # 1 has been disappeared. I can't find it in the device manager though I use "set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1" command; I can't find it's shortcut the "My network places" properties. I also can't ping DC and HOST2 from HOST1 (network 192.168.230.x) and ipconfig command returns only settings of Ethernet adapter # 2. The Ethernet adapter # 2 works properly. But instead of first adapter I now have Ethernet adapter # 3 which is not configured. You can see it below:

http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/superssr/68/s-618.jpg

I try to configure the Ethernet adapter # 3 and set the same ip-address that was assigned to Ethernet adapter # 1. Windows 2003 creates a warning window where it is written there that such ip-address is almost used by Ethernet adapter # 1.

This problem has the following consequences:

• 1) The connection between HOST 1 and DC (domain controller is broken);

• 2) I have new Ethernet adapter # 3 which I haven't added manually.

Here is .vmx file of HOST 1:

So, I have some questions:

• 1) What can be the reason of this and what is the solution to recover Ethernet adapter # 1?

• 2) I'm not really sure if the solution that I posted above is truly what I need to make shared disks that would be used in the cluster. So, can you review it and tell me what do think about it? The solution is shown below:

• scsi1:1.deviceType = "plainDisk"

• scsi1:2.deviceType = "plainDisk"

• disk.locking = "False"

• scsi1.sharedBus = "virtual"

Thank you.

Message was edited by: Rozhdestvenskiy.Sergey

When trying to install guest OS Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.6 for a new virtual machine under host OS XP Pro, I get the warning "No hard drives have been found - You probably need to manually choose device drivers for the installation to succeed."  XP control panel shows my hard drive hardware as Array, and the driver as IDE\DISKARRAY0.1.12_u\ (and a bunch of numbers)   I looked in the Linux setup dialog for a driver with a similar name, but found none.

Any ideas?  Thanks.

Mike.

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Hi everyone,

Can some take me through how am I go about to fix this

problem in  network using fedora 8?

I have got a set up of 4 machine working on vmware

environment, with firewall base in linux.

the configuration go as follow:

Guest OS1- Fedora-7 (External)

Vmnet1

IP Address 192.168.200.2

Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Defualt Gateway : 192.168.200.253

Guest OS2- Fedora-7 (Firewall)

vmnet 1

IP address: 192.168.200.253

SubnetM: 255.255.255.0

DefaultG: 192.168.200.254

vmnet 2

IP address: 192.168.201.253

SubnetM: 255.255.255.0

DefaultG: 192.168.200.254

vmnet 3

IP address: 192.168.202.253

SubnetM: 255.255.255.0

DefaultG: 192.168.200.254

Guest OS3 - Fedora - 7 ( DMZ )

vmnet 2

IP address: 192.168.201.2

SubnetM: 255.255.255.0

DefaultG: 192.168.200.253

Guest OS4 - Fedora ( Internal )

vmnet 3

IP address: 192.168.202.2

SubnetM: 255.255.255.0

DefaultG: 192.168.202.253

All the Guest OS Can ping the firewall but when I try to

forward the other Guest OS to ping different network it does forward it simple

says network unreachable.

My question is:

• Can
       we forward while using vmware?

• If
       we can how do we go about to do that?

• Do I
       have to Bridge the vmnet on the firewall?

• If  so can someone please help me on that ?

• Any
       other advice would be great full

Thanks all in Advance

Hey Everyone,

I get this error message on my Windows Server 2003 x64 VM, and i updated to version  1.6

The error message is "unable to view the virtual machine's screen: check to see if it is running in a local console".

It is running in a local console.

Thanks for th help!

Brandon

Hi

I'm new to VMware but am involved in setting up a lab environment to host machines requested by our colleagues across a large department. We are have 3 physical hosts to play with and we are trying to find a rationale for deciding how to allocate VMs to physical boxes. Apart from asking the user what the expected cpu\memory utilisation of their requested machine will be so that we can 'spread the load' can anyone suggest any more scientific ways in which we might decide how to allocate the machines? We will be hosting both Windows and unix\linux machines.

Cheers

Mike

I know the clock issue isn't abnormal and I have researched and tried the various methods of correcting the issue but with no luck.

The host is a Dell 2950 with 2 Dual Core CPU's running Linux  2.6.22.  I am running a Linux guest and the clock is tracking fairly acurately using the VMware tools.  I migrated (copied) a VM from Workstation to the Server, no complaints on the configuration and it boots fine.  The problem is that the clock runs at 1/4 real time.  It runs fine on the original Workstation (Windows XP based host).  I have tried the VMware tools time sync with host, i have re-installed VMware tools.  And as well I've tried another trick using Tardis 2000 to NTP sync the clock that i've used in the past when the clocks are running fast.  Oh lastly running VMware Server 1.0.7, any help is appreciated.

Andrew

Hello,

I've seen that VMWare now have released a free version of ESXi, which is great! I have a few questions concerning upgrade and setup:

• Can I use existing machines created and running on VMWare Server on VMWare ESXi?

• Is there support for redundancy (ex. two servers, both running ESXi - one goes down and the other takes over the VMs)?

• What is the recommended setup for backup on ESXi? If I have one physical machine with two disks, is it possible to mirror these?

• What about off-site backups?

Thanks in advance!

I'm using Vista Home Premium 32-Bit (SP1) as the host running VMware Server 1.0.7 and a guest machine with OpenSUSE 10.3 Linux.

The Linux guest is running Samba for file sharing with the Windows host and another copy of OpenSUSE 10.3 Linux is running under Microsoft VirtualPC.

I ran Wireshark to analyze all packets coming through on ports 137, 138 and 139 (NetBIOS). I have 3 copies of Wireshark running: 1 on the host machine

Vista Home Premium 32-bit (SP1) , 1 in OpenSUSE 10.3 running as a guest of Microsoft VirtualPC and another running in OpenSUSE 10.3 as a guest of

VMware Server 1.0.7.

The NetBIOS broadcasts come in as UDP packets on port 137 and Wireshark reports inside OpenSUSE 10.3 inside VMware as Checksum incorrect

(maybe caused by "UDP checksum offload?") . This results in the host PC name never being resolved in the Samba Network Servers list in Nautilus.

However, the exact same copy of OpenSUSE 10.3 running inside Microsoft VirtualPC resolves the UDP broadcast packets fine and shows the Vista

PC host name in the Samba Network Servers list and I can open it up and browse the shared folders.

I went into the NIC Configure -&gt; Advanced tab and changed the UDP Checksum Offload (IPv4) from Rx & Tx Enabled to Disabled and a few moments later,

OpenSUSE 10.3 under VMware began to get the UDP broadcasts properly (as shown in Wireshark) without the checksum errors and then Samba showed

the Vista host PC name in the Network Servers list and I was able to browse the shared folders.

I think this is a deficiency with VMware Server when using Bridged Networking that is failing to accept the UDP broadcast packets when UDP checksum offload

is enabled. Microsoft VirtualPC doesn't seem to have any issues with the checksum offload feature of Vista at all.

Can anyone explain why I have to disable UDP checksum offload in Vista to make this work for VMware Server? Will VMware Server address this in an upcoming

bug fix?

Thank you!

Hi,

I have a stand alone solaris 10 server and ip address is 192.168.123.112.  I have  vmware server ver  1.6 installed on vista home prm. and a linux  server is  installed on the vmware. The Linux server has ip address as 192.168.21.110  Ethernet is set as NAT.

I can ping 192.168.123.112 (solaris 10) from linux server (192.168.21.110). But I cannot ping Linux server (192.168.21.110) from 192.168.123.112 (solaris 10).

Solaris route table info:

netstat -r

Routing Table: IPv4

  Destination           Gateway           Flags  Ref     Use     Interface

-

-

-

-

-

-

default              192.168.123.254      UG        1        402

192.168.0.0          solaris2-priv        U         1         70 vfe0

192.168.123.0        solaris2             U         1         33 nfo0

192.168.123.0        solaris2             U         1          0 nfo0:1

BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST.NET solaris2             U         1          0 nfo0

localhost            localhost            UH       31     215920 lo0

Linux route table ino:

Destionation     Gateway      Genmask

192.168.21.0       *                      255.255.255.0

169.254.0.0         *                       255.255.0.0

default                 192.168.21.2   0.0.0.0

no firewalls in between systems. How can I ping linux from solaris os?

Thanks

I am running ESX 2.0(soon to be replaced by ESX 3) I have 3 VM's running on the esx server. They all boot up. I can access the vm's from the web interface on the esx server. I can ping the ESX server but the VM's cannot get out to the network. All NIC's are green. Any thoughts?

My environment:

Vmware Server 1.0.8 build-126538

Host OS 2.6.27.15-78.2.23.fc9.x86_64 

I determid that vmrun seem not to create snapshots anymore.

Creating snapshots from server console works as expected. But if I try to create snapshots via a batch script with the vmrun command I determined unexpected behaviours.

I determined the following issues:

When Vmhost is running:

$ vmrun list

==&gt; returning correctly the path of the virtual machine

$ vmrun snapshot &lt;path_to_virtual_machine&gt;

==&gt; returning   'Error: Command failed: The system returned an error. Communication with the virtual machine may have been interrupted' ($?=255)

Within vmware_served.log I see the following message:

&gt; Cmd /vm/#34c59e515c0ccb4d/cmd/##96_55/op/createSnapshot/ failed: Can't create snapshot while powered on for this virtual machine.│

&gt; Fe│Feb 22 14:57:15: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF      

That's a little bit strange since vmrun cannot handle offline or supended machines. If virtual machines are suspended or offline, than 'vmrun list' returns 'Total running VMs: 0'.

Trying to generate nevertheless a snapshot shows the same error mentioned above.

Please could someone point me wahts causing the issue.

Thanks in advance, ABT

Hi, had two VMs go down just now with the server events log stating:

Message on UntangleReach: VMware Server unrecoverable error: (vmx)

ASSERT d:/build/ob/bora-203138/bora/vmx/main/pollVMX.c:3028 bugNr=5543

A log file is available in "C:\Virtual Machines\untangleReach\vmware.log".  A core file is available in "C:\Virtual Machines\untangleReach\vmware-vmx-2936.dmp".  Please request support and include the contents of the log file and core file. 

To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly.

We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

What would be my next steps regarding understanding this error, and preventing it happening again?

Many Thanks.

Geraint Jones

IT Teacher Ysgol Gyfun Cymer Rhondda.

Message was edited by: GJonesYsgolCymer:  Sorry just realised this is in Server 1 discussion, should be under Server 2, can an admin move please? Thanks.

Hi all,

I know not supported but I really want to ask.

I have installed a host of RHEL 5.4 and vmware server 1.0.10, running some windows XP/2003 guest.

At first a few days it was alright. But after around a week the guest started to behave strange.

Network discoonected, when login VM console, it just back to normal for a while, and this situation loops.

I found in the host, the situation happened when the guest consuming the CPU. But when I login to window guest, it just quite like idle.

However, the server also as as http and samba but no performance issue like vm server.

The most interesting is when I reboot the host, it become normal again for a few days, then again slow performance.

I have updated to the kernel as i thought the issue but the problem still there.

The host hardware AMD Athlon X2 w/4G ram,

was using for the same function but fedora 6 (kernel 2.6.22? I forgot) and VM 1.0.7 with no such problems.

The kernel now using is 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5PAE, 32bit, memory setting 3G for vm server.

Hope anyone have the same issue tell me how to solve it. Thx

Hi all,

As the title ,

Can vmware server 1.0.10 run Windows XP SP3 with the resolution 1920x1080?

I installed VMware server 1.0.10 on Windows server 2003. and run windows XP SP1 on the vm.

After I installed the vmware tools for the windows xp, I didn't see the resolution 1920x1080 selection.

Does the vmware server 1.0.10 support this resolution 1920x1080.

if anyone knows the answer, please tell me.

thanks

Bowing Chen

Hello,

I am running VM Ware Server 1.0.4

Recently there was a problem with my host Windows, I had to repair it. Since then I cannot connect to host in VM Ware. When I click connect to host there are blank fields where before everything was filled in for me. I am just trying to connect to local host.

I have tried reinstalling Server twice but it did not solve the problem. I don't know what to do from here, maybe you guys can help me out.

thanks.

I have been running Gentoo Linux via VMware Server on Win XP for a few months now with now problems.  I recently attemped to move the VM to another computer to get the load off my workstation, however I ran into a bit of a struggle.  I did not have enough disk space to copy all of the snapshots to the new computer, so I copied the main vmdk file and the last (what I thought was anyway) snapshot.  But obviously it wasn't since 0001.vmdk is less than 0003.vmdk.  Now when I tried to pick the latest snapshot as the disk in the preferences of VMware Server it says,"

Failed to retrieve disk information for "C:\VM Machines\Gentoo HD 1-000003.vmdk":

The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created.

First off what does that mean.  And second, what can I do to fix this since this last snapshot had about a month's worth of reports in a mysql database...

As a total beginner to VMWare (and to networking in general, as well) and am therefore confused as to why my VMWare host OS has one or more VMnet ethernet interfaces created (e.g. VMnet1, VMnet8, etc).

Why would you want/need to have one of these? Why would you want/need multiple of them?

The fact that DHCP is disabled on these interfaces, does that mean that you cannot use DHCP on the guest OSs, or is it saying something different?

Minor question: How can you configure the specifics of them, such as choosing the IP address, netmask, etc?

The VMware Service console acts like the tools are being installed. Specifically - the choice toggles from the VM Menu between Install VMWare Tools - AND - Canel VMware tools install.

However, the virtual CD never seems to get mounted.

Any ideas?