Hi,
I installed Solaris 10 under VMware server 1.0.4. It worked perfectly. I then installed VMware Tools. After root, Solaris was up. But it doesn't respond to any mouse clicks and keyboard input. I chose 1024X768 resolution during the VMware Tools install. But the resolution is pretty bug. The login panel is located at the lower right corner on the screen.
How can I get it to work? Or at least, how can I un-install VMware Tools?
Thanks in advance!
Does anyone know if there is a setting in the .vmx file to change the BIOS reported serial number to a specific value? Most of our asset management systems are indexed off of this value and what VMWare reports (ex. VMware-56 4d 74 ed 14 c5 18 51-f9 52 d3 af 1c fb 88 6f) is simply too long - not to mention the problems introduced by including spaces. I have gone through the FAQs supplied by this forum and can't seem to find any mention of this setting.
Ideally, I would like to progamatically create a Serial Number based off of the host machines Serial Number. For example, if the host machine has a BIOS reported serial number of GFD30SA, then the first VM could be GFD30SA-VM1, then next GFD30SA-VM2, etc.
I understand that the host name of the PC within the OS can bet set to anything I want, but our processes look to the BIOS to get the value to ensure that regardless of the host name, we will be able to track an asset.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Afternoon,
Trying to see if VMware supports or if there is a way to emulate other MFG BIOS. Reason I ask we have some Cisco products that we would like to run in a VM but the product has a check to look for an HP server bios. So is there a way we can download the HP bios and VMWARE emulate it? Any ideas?
Thank you
Tony
Hi,
I have recently deployed server Vmware Server 1.0.4 on my XP Pro SP2 machine. The machine had a dirty shutdown while one of the guests was running. After rebooting the system all attempts to start the Vm guest again results in a "Virtual machine config file is invalid" pop-up box to appear. I'm attaching the contents of the guest's ".vmx" file below. I have tried moving all ".lck" and ".vmem" files out of the guest's directory and I still recieve the same error message. I have since moved all ".lck" and ".vmem" files back to the original location.
Any assistance will be greatly appreaciated. Thx
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "1392"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "Ubuntu.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
displayName = "Ubuntu_OpenBravo_Dev"
guestOS = "ubuntu"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
scsi0:0.redo = ".\Ubuntu.vmdk.REDO_a06956"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d 79 24 77 5c dd 68-08 db 04 bf 1d a2 20 45"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 79 24 77 5c dd 68-08 db 04 bf 1d a2 20 45"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:a2:20:45"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
checkpoint.vmState = ""
scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:1.fileName = "Ubuntu (2).vmdk"
scsi0:1.redo = ".\Ubuntu (2).vmdk.REDO_a06956"
scsi0:0.mode = "independent-nonpersistent"
scsi0:1.mode = "independent-nonpersistent"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
I'm running VMware server 1.0.4. I have a virtual machine running windows server 2003. The current disk size is about 155GB and I want to crease it 45GB to 200GB or so, I have 70GB free so I have enough space.
So I run: vmware-vdiskmanager -x 200Gb machine.vmdk
But I get "Failed to expand the disk 'machine.vmdk': There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation (13)."
Any idea why? Why can't it just make it bigger? Does it need a bunch of working space too?
My vdiskmanager.log:
Jun 09 00:53:50: app| Log for VMware Server pid=352 version=1.0.1 build=build-29996 option=Release
Jun 09 00:53:52: app| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened : "Filesystem.vmdk" (0x18)
Jun 09 00:53:52: app| DISKLIB-LINK : Opened 'Filesystem.vmdk' (0x18): monolithicSparse, 314572800 sectors / 153600 Mb.
Jun 09 00:53:52: app| DISKLIB-LIB : Opened "Filesystem.vmdk" (flags 0x18).
Jun 09 00:53:52: app| Scanning directory of file Filesystem.vmdk for vmx files.
Jun 09 00:53:52: app| baseDir = 'N:\', vmx file = 'Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx'
Jun 09 00:53:52: app| Search start: 'N:\Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx', baseDiskOnly
Jun 09 00:53:52: app| Search result: inTree , isCurrent , isLegacy , states: 1
Jun 09 00:53:52: app| Search analysis: disk file found as part of current state.
Jun 09 00:53:54: app| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened : "Filesystem.vmdk" (0)
Jun 09 00:53:54: app| DISKLIB-LINK : Opened 'N:\Filesystem.vmdk' (0): monolithicSparse, 314572800 sectors / 153600 Mb.
Jun 09 00:53:54: app| DISKLIB-LIB : Opened "N:\Filesystem.vmdk" (flags 0).
Jun 09 00:53:54: app| DISKLIB-LIB : Growing disk 'N:\Filesystem.vmdk' : createType = monolithicSparse
Jun 09 00:53:54: app| DISKLIB-LIB : Growing disk 'N:\Filesystem.vmdk' : capacity = 314572800 sectors - 150.0 Gb
Jun 09 00:53:54: app| DISKLIB-LIB : Growing disk 'N:\Filesystem.vmdk' : new capacity = 419430400 sectors - 200.0 Gb
Jun 09 00:53:54: app| DISKLIB-LIB : Unable to grow disk 'N:\Filesystem.vmdk' : There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation (13).
Jun 09 00:53:54: app| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to grow disk 'N:\Filesystem.vmdk' : There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation (13).
Jun 09 00:53:54: app| AIOMGR-U : stat o=1 r=304 w=2 i=0 br=19718912 bw=1024
Jun 09 00:53:54: app| AIOMGR-S : stat o=3 r=310 w=2 i=0 br=19744512 bw=1024
Hi to all,
I am running VM Server 1.08 version on XP Pro SP3 PC.
Situation:
Main OS (XP PRO SP3) running IE browser - HTTP webpage can be anything, i.e http://www.vmware.com or http://www.microsoft.com and so on....
VM XP Pro (SP2) session running with 192Mb Memory allocated, Network set to NAT mode for "split tunnelling" requirements for VPN connectivity, which works fine 100% of time.
When I start IE browser on the main OS, I can type in characters with no issues when the Main OS IE browser is showing or selecting http:// based webpages. As soon as the MAIN OS IE site changes ot a https:// webpage, I cannot type any keyboard characters within the VM, whether in a DOS prompt, notepad, wordpad etc.... whilst the main OS IE session is running.
Once I either change to a http:// webpage or click the "back" button in the IE browser to "go back to a http:// site", I can then type in characters from keyboard in the VM session.
Mouse based clicks, movement, resizing and general mouse functions work fine, in either event.
Can you provide any information / advice or any areas, options and solution I should be checking to resolve this issue. This would be appreciated.
Many thanks,
Tom.
Hello and thank you for your time,
I have a host machine with 10 NICs and I am trying to set up a virtual Windows Domain (complete with DC, DNS, Exchange, workstations, etc) and I want it to be completely seperate from the rest of my network. I am having some trouble figuring out how to make this happen.
I have been able to make the VM's talk to eachother and the rest of the corporate network but, I want to cut off access to the corporate network. My initial thought was to set vmnet9 to be bridged directly to one of the NICs (Intel 5) and have that NIC plugged into my external firewall. However, I could not figure out what IP addresses to assign to the virtual network adapter and the physical network adapter. Let's say I want to use 172.16.1.0/24 as my virtual network address space, what IP do I assign to the physical network adapter? What IP do I assign to the firewall port? Keep in mind that there will be multiple VM's on this network, so do I need to setup NAT? If I use vmnet8, then they will have access to the internal network (which is exactly what I don't want).
Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated!
Hello all,
My CID's are out of order in my *.vmdk files and I need to modify them. However I can't just open up the file in notepad as it's over 60GB. My RAM runs out when trying to open it in VIM and I can only view the lines I need to change with cygwin (head --lines=15 Virtual\ Machine.vmdk).
Any suggestion on how I can get the head of the file in windows to modify it? I've been looking for a solution for hours on the internet!
Thanks!
-jp
Hi All,
I'm a noob so I appologize for possibly not being clear in explaining my problem.
I have run VMWare Server 1.0.4 on my Windows 7 host using Windows XP as guests just fine for a year now.
Out of the blue when I open up VM Ware Server and click connect to host I am getting error messages and cannot connect to host. I tried reinstalling Server and still get the message. Here is the error I get when I try to start a VM:
Cannot truncate log file 'G:\Toran - VM\vmware.log': Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
I tried today to download vmware server 1.0.10, but the download link location on the download page (https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=SERVER1010&productId=25) points to https://www.vmware.com/go/getserver. This unfortunately does not have links for VMware server 1.0 (any release). Can someone please fix this? I know VMware server 1.0 is outdated, but the fabulous tool liveview depends on it.
Does anyone know of a working download link?
Hello guys,
I have a 32 bit laptop which I install Vmware vitual box on it .
I`m trying to practice on server 2012 using this vmware , but because I have 32 bit processor , i can`t host the server and run it in the Vmware.
Any one have any idea or software I can use to run the new server on my machine.
Will apprrecaite your quick reply
L.
Hi guys any help would be appreciated on this one we had a production server reboot on us over the weekend with the following message below it looks like VM-tools rebooted the server can i stop this from occurring again do i need to change so setting ?
"The process C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\vmtoolsd.exe (server name) has initiated the restart of computer server name on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: Legacy API shutdown
Reason Code: 0x80070000
Shutdown Type: restart"
I have 1.0.2 runing on SLES 10. When I attempt to connect with VMware Server Console on Windows XP I get the following error regardless of what userid I try:
***********************************************************
There was a problem connecting:
Cannot connect to host X.X.X.X: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
***********************************************************
The VMware-mui error log has:
\[Fri Apr 27 13:37:45 2007] \[error] ModVmdb load: Address of ModVmdb_InitCore: 0xb7c3eeb0\n
\[Fri Apr 27 13:37:45 2007] \[notice] Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_perl/1.28 mod_ssl/2.8.20 OpenSSL/0.9.7d configured -- resuming normal operations
\[Fri Apr 27 13:37:45 2007] \[notice] Accept mutex: fcntl (Default: sysvsem)
\[Fri Apr 27 13:38:11 2007] \[error] \[client 160.253.80.166] File does not exist: /usr/lib/vmware-mui/apache/htdocs/favicon.ico
\[Fri Apr 27 13:38:14 2007] \[warn] Invalid session key (1) <>.\n
\[Fri Apr 27 13:38:14 2007] \[warn] Invalid session key (1) <>.\n
\[Fri Apr 27 13:38:28 2007] \[warn] Invalid session key (1) <>.\n
vmware-serverd.log has:
Apr 27 13:55:43: app| Accepted new connection at 37 for thread server (0x830222c)
Apr 27 13:55:43: app| IPC version negotiation version: VMServerd returning 2.1 to server
Apr 27 13:55:43: app| IPC vmcontrol-temp version: VMServerd returning 11.4 to server that tried 11.4
Apr 27 13:55:43: app| VMServerd IPC closed the connection with thread server (0x830222c)
Apr 27 13:55:43: app| VMServerd: server disconnected.
Any clues?
Has anyone managed to get ISA 2006 firewall working as a routing firewall between virtual machines running under VMWare Server, installed on the same host computer that runs ISA 2006?
I would not use bridged or NAT networking, but would instead set up private virtual adapters for each virtual computer, so that it would exactly replicate attaching a computer to a subnet behind a firewall.
I have successfully done this with several firewalls now using VMWare and it has given very good results. I have not had luck getting this to work with ISA 2006 though and would like to know if there is a trick. With ISA 2006, the firewall monitor shows the packets that are authorized by ISA network and firewall rules opening and closing connections. But the target virtual machines never receive the packets.
VMControl error -2: Network failure: Failed to create socket to connect to vmware-authd (error 10106)
I am trying to run vmware-cmd from a java program, I am getting the above error.
Anyone knows why?
Back in the GSX day, I seem to recall a 256 GB size limitation on virtual hard disk drives. Does that limit no longer exist with VMware Server? Is there any limit now (of course, notwithstanding the host server limits)?
Thanks!
I realize this has been posted several times before, but this situation is slight different. I'm not have any luck and thought i would post.
I have a vmware-server that had a corrupted file system. I was able to do a reiserfsck with -rebuild-tree to get some of the files to appear. Whether they are valid or not is yet to be known. One particular windows server is missing some backups. They only recovered files were vmdk's and vmware-1.log. This vmware log indicates that some of the vmdk's might be missing i have - 16 and the log shows up to 22. I would need to recreate the descriptor i'm sure, but not quite sure on how. This was originally created on an 1.0.2 or 3?? version of vmware-server. If anyone has any ideas, they would certainly be appreciated. I have attached the vmware-1.log if you would like to take a look.
Thank you
I recently P2V'd one of our terminal servers. It is running horribly slow.
Observations of the guest:
Hardware interrupts are ranging from 5-60% CPU utilization
Observation of the host:
It is running smoothly and not feeling a heavy load. Load avgs are in the 2.5 range.
I only have 7.6gigs out of 9gigs allocated to VM's
Network utilization is low
IO stats are not out of line
Specs of host:
Dual Xeon 3.2ghz - 9gigs RAM - Ubuntu Server 6.06LTS
Specs of guest:
Windows 2003 - 2.5gigs RAM
VMX file:
#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
memsize = "2576"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "0"
displayName = "Server_name"
guestOS = "winnetstandard"
numvcpus = "1"
tools.remindInstall = "FALSE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "server_name.vmdk"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
ide0:0.filename = "auto detect"
ide0:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic"
buslogic.noDriver = "FALSE"
uuid.location = "56 4d ca ba 3b 45 fe 60-b2 0f 9b 75 a6 4d 71 28"
uuid.bios = "56 4d ca ba 3b 45 fe 60-b2 0f 9b 75 a6 4d 71 28"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:4d:71:28"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"
workingDir = "."
ide0:0.startConnected = "FALSE"
checkpoint.vmState = ""
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
disable_acceleration = "FALSE"
snapshot.disabled = "TRUE"
Do you all think that the hardware interrupts could be caused by a driver issue? They seem to peak during logins and application starts...
Any input/insight into this situation are greatly appreciated.
JonZ
Hello All,
This server has been running fine for a long while and now, bang, massive amounts of Disk and symmpi Event log errors: driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1
Here's my config.
Host OS: Server 2003 EE SP2
Host Storage: RAID 1 SATA
Hypervisor: VM Server 1.06
Guest OS: Server 2003 EE SP2
Guest Storage: 3 virtual disks all on the same underlying Host Storage
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
~E
Guest Machine Event Log Errors:
Event Type:Error
Event Source:symmpi
Event Category:None
Event ID:15
Date:1/17/2011
Time:11:01:10 AM
User:N/A
Computer:
Description:
The device, \Device\Scsi\symmpi1, is not ready for access yet.
We have a Windows 2000 VM running in VMware Server 1. This VM's VMDK is make up of 17 separate vmdk files and the 13th vmdk file has been corrupted previously when the server encounter a power trip. This cause Windows 2000 unable to boot up at all.
It was partially resolve when I boot up the VM from Windows CD and run chkdsk to fix the inconsistency on the virtual harddisk. While Windows 2000 is working fine now, vmware server still prompts that a vmdk file failed the CRC check when we create a snapshot. So I just click abort. Now I am not able to power up this VM as it said that it can't lock the vmdk file. I also found many snapshots in this VM as well:
How do I revert back to the previous snapshot since the snapshot manager failed to capture the current snapshot to reverse it? Can I just amend the VM harddisk setting to point to w2k-00003.vmdk from w2k-00004.vmdk?
There are some additional files created from the failed snapshot:
btw, is there any way to cancel a defragment? It's stopping me from doing anything else!
I also heard that we should not do defrag on a vmdk file with snapshot. Why?