1. we are running VM server 1.0.5 on Windox XP SP2
2. we created VM and installed Fedora 8.
3. we installed vm tool kit on VM
4. failed to cut on Fedora 8 Vm and paste to windows xp.
Any suggestion?
TIA
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Server 1.0.5 hosted by Window XP and running Fedora 8 VM can't do cut and paste
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virtual machine performance optimization
Hello.
I have a problem when creating virtual machines because they run too slow. My main problem is that i run windows on my host computer and i have a bad graphics card (embedded on the motherboard actually), a cpu 3ghz and 1gb ram, so the vms i install are usually linux OS without X server. But again i have some annoying slowdowns on the virtual machine. Is there any options to improve the performance of my virtual machine beyond incrementing the cpu and memory assigned to it?
Thanks in advance.
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Anyone running Ubuntu and Vmware on a Sun T2000 ?
Any problems ?
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VMware server Networking Issues
I have two computers all hardwired. One machine is hosting the VMware server with the guest os as windows xp sp2. The other machine is a laptop and I want to be able to access the virtual machine from my laptop. I am not sure on how to setup the networking. The machine hosting the virtual machine has only one NIC.
How do I setup the Virtual Machine to talk to other computers on my network?
I still want the virtual machine to be "isolated" as in if it gets a virus or something that it will only happen on the virtual machine?
I have attached a picture of what I want to do. Please ask any questions and I will try to answer them as best as I can.
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how i shirink a virtual hard disk without vmwaretools on linux guest??
sorry for my english but...
how i shirink a virtual hard disk without vmwaretools on linux guest??
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newbie question - vmx error about not chaning the state to power on vm guest os
I'm runing RH Linux AS 5.0 / Kernel is 2.6.18.53.1.14 e15xen and it installed correctly.
I load VMserver and it seems to have installed correctly also.
I can start VMserver and create a guest os of MS server03. But when I power on the guest, I get an error of can not power on the guest OS. I tried running the command line and that still doesn't work.
Please help, I've been working on this for about two weeks now and have done several reinstalls of Linux and VM.
Thanks
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Is openSUSE 64bit fully supported by VMware Server 1.0.5 as a Host OS?
Prior to embarking on spending money at my ISP setup to reconfigre a managed server to be re-setup with a SUSE 64bit, is VMware Server 1.0.5 fully supported for SUSE 64bit as a Host OS?
Please do not suggest VMware Server Beta, as it not suitable for a production environment (Being a beta product, in rapid development, with beta timeouts etc)
Is there another 64bit Linux based OS that is fully supported?
I will look at moving to 32bit Ubuntu if I can't find a suitable linux Host OS in the 64bit flavor.
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VMware Server support for Windows Vista 64bit (QX9650 processor) host?
Will VMware Server run under the Windows Vista 64-bit host(with a QX9650 processor)? Version 2.x Beta or the existing 1.5 version? I can find all sorts of documentation on the guest OS supported, but very limited docs on supported host configurations/OSs.
Thanks
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Cannot Ping Cluster IP of Network Load Balanced VMs from outside of physical host server.
I have a Dell PE2850 with one of its two NICs enabled and assigned with a fixed IP.
On this host I'm running VMware Server 1.0.6
I'm then running two guest machines which are Windows 2003 Advanced RC with SP2
Each guest machine has two virtual NICs. One is bridged and has a fixed IP assigned with gateway,dns and wins details. The second is a Host Only set to DCHP.
Each guest machine is added onto the same domain as my host and the fixed IPs they have been assigned are on the same subnet.
Following the section on 'using network load balancing with VMware' in http://www.vmware.com/pdf/server_admin_manual.pdf I have created my cluster assigning a cluster IP and name, adding each of the guest machines as a host and adding the cluster IP as an additional IP on the bridged NIC for each.
I'm able to open Networking Load Balancing Manager on either of the guest machines and connect to my cluster and see both hosts (guest machines) as connected and converged.
I'm able to ping the cluster by name from either of the guest machines.
From the physical host server I'm not able to ping the cluster by name (which is not unexpected) but I can ping the cluster IP successfully.
However, my problem is that I cannot ping the cluster IP from any other physical machine on my domain, even if they are on the same subnet. Can anyone recommend why this may not be working.
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Failed To Start Error
I have just installed VMware GSX Server 3.1.0 but the "failed to Start" error keeps appearing.
Here is my log:
Jun 25 09:32:53: vmui| Log for VMware GSX Server pid=1956 version=3.1.0 build=build-9089 option=Release.3.1.0 Jun 25 09:32:56: vmui| VmdbCnxRecvSection failed: STATUS (-37) Permission denied Jun 25 09:32:56: vmui| VmhsHostInfoPopulateHardwareNicCB Failed: Permission denied
My virtual machine set up is Windows XP ProfessionalAnd my notebook is AMD Athlon X2 1.8GHz with 2GB Ram
Thanks
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Can Ping but not Connect between Host and Guest
Hey All,
I am using bridged networking, both host and guest are using XP Professional.
I can ping from guest to host and host to guest, but I can't open a TCP/IP connection either way.
Neither have XP firewall running.
One thing of interest is if I do a simple ping 10.5.36.205(Host to Guest) it works fine, however if I use the nmap utility "nmap 10.5.36.205" it says the connection could not be made.
Any thoughts?
Thank you,
Kyle
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Question on moving a VM to another machine.
Would there be any problem moving a linux VM created on a machine with an Intel P3 to another machine with a Intel Xeon 5130? Both machines are running the same version of VMware Server. I haven't made the VM yet but I am trying to plan for any problems I might have.
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Fix IP Addresse [solved]
I've been looking in you archives for a couple of hours now and I don't understand how this problem never happend before.
I am running vmware server console (1.0.5) on windows xp SP2. My gust OS is Gentoo 2.4.24-r5. To use the internet on my windoes xp machine I must use a fix IP address. When I installed the new vm I picked Bridge Connection for my VM to have access to the internet. I set the VM with the same ip address, mask, and dns addresses. but when I load my of I get the following error:
Starting eth0
Bringing up eth0
a.b.c.d //where a.b.c.d is my fix ip address
a.b.c.d already taken on eth0 //normal xp is usning that address too.
ERROR: cannot start netmount as net.eth0 could not start
eth0 is the only card avilable to me any guess what I did wrong?
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Vmware server 1.6 Cent OS 5.1 Cannot get UI to work
Hello all,
I am hoping that some of you here will be able to shed some light on an issue I am having. When I was using 1.04 and 1.05 I didnt have this problem and when I started over with a fresh install of Cent OS 5.1 and Fresh install of vmware server 1.06 I can not get the web gui to install, nor can I get the windows client that used to work to even connect to the 1.06 server....
I know when untaring the server in the docs directory there is a windows client .exe file so thats what I have been trying to use. When trying to install the webgui it says there is no vmware server installed....
I even tried installing the new Beta 2.0 RC 1 and got the same results.... It has to be something that I am doing incorrectly because the beta 2.0 RC1 has the web ui built in right?
Any assistance would be greatly appriciated I can post some info in here I just didn't know where to start.
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VM + Global IP (without bridged mode)
Hello.
I need some help setting up network connections with a debian host+guest setup.
Basically my server provider doesn't allow the use of 'bridged mode' so I am forced to either use NAT or Host-Only networking.
I have 2 ip addresses xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy. The xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP is currently 'attached' to the main server.
The yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy can be attached to the main server using eth0:0 and specifiying the address in /etc/network/interfaces.
I however would like the yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy IP to be routed to my VM as if it were setup in bridged mode. All traffic for the IP will go to the VM and all traffic from the VM will appear to come from the IP.
I have experimented with many different configurations and everything suggested by my server provider (who are not very helpful) but I cannot get it to work!
If you would like any info on what I have tried let me know otherwise any and all (complete) suggestions are welcomed
Thanks.
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HOW to team up the NICs in Vmware server ?
what r benifits associated with this??
Thanks
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my converted vmdk disk are slow ?
hello, i use vmware server 1.06 on a hp DL380 G5 quad core with RaID 1+0 SAS drives and 10gb RAM. the host OS is Centos 5.2 with PAE kernel.
I imported 4 virtual machines (2 win2Ksrv and 2 linux centos)
the 2 linux were moved using reinstallation/copy and the performance is ok.
The 2 windows machines were converted using vmware converter, and the real old machines were using scsi raid 1 drives.
the conversion were dificult, i had a blue screen at reboot and had to repair windows using the install CD.
now the machine works but disk performance is very bad when i copy large file (100mb).
i did a test with a openoffice installer.exe (100mb),when i duplicate it on the converted drive it takes more than 20 seconds to copy itself.
i created for test another scsi virtual drive, mounted and formated in ntfs in my converted VM and the duplication is less than 2 seconds when i use this virtual drive.
my converted machines are preallocated one and semms to use virtual scsi buslogic drivers.
i moved the problematic VM on my mac using vmware fusion. and the problem is the same (slow copy on converted image but fast on a new created image)
what can i do ? i cannot defragment these vm since they are preallocated ?
any ideas ?
i can copy all my content to a newly created vmdk but i'll probably have to redo all rights and shares...
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Host is unreachable
Hi, all,
I'm new in this community and hope anyone can help...
My problem: I have created a win2k3 standard server (with Citrix) with vmconverter from a physical machine.
Than, I have started this virtual machine on my vmware server 1.0.6 installed on my PC (Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM) and all works fine.
I have made some changes (remove software, install Office etc.), and it runs without problems.
Than, I think I install another vmware server on a big machine (Intel Xeon, 4 processor 8GB RAM)copy my Win2K3 virtual machine to this
new server and it must run verry fast, but, after I start this virtual Win2K3 server, the performance of the host is absolutely going down,
so tha a hard reset was necessary.
I tested this on other server machines - but the same.
Today I have converted the virtual machine into a new one, with a fixed disk size of 50GB, but after about 80% the host hangs again.
Does anyone know a tool for checking the vmware diskfile offline?
Regards
vozzibaer
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Issues with bridging between guest and host network adapters
First let me explain the configuration I use:
I have Windows 2003 Server R2 running on Quad Core Xeon and 4GB of RAM. I have only one network adapter - Marvell Yukon 88E8056, latest Win2003 driver version -10.64.2.3.
What I want to achieve:
I want to have access to multiple private customer's networks from this single machine. Since the network adapter supports 802.1q (VLAN tagging), I can configure the port of the switch I'm connected to as 802.1q trunk, put whatever VLAN I need on it and create virtual network adapters in Windows, each one associated with a certain VLAN ID. With this scenario everything works fine - I can have access to multiple networks in different VLANs and each one is in different subnet. So far so good - still nothing related to VMWare The problem arises when I want to access overlapping customer networks, beyond the subnet of a given VLAN. If I need access to network 192.168.1.0/24 on Customer #1 behind virtual network adapter #1 or to the same subnet 192.168.1.0/24 on Customer #2 behind virtual network adapter #2 there is no way the OS can distinguish which network adapter to route the packets to. So, I've decided to use VMWare Server (1.0.7 latest build) and create a virtual machine for each customer. Then I bridge each VM network adapter to a specific virtual adapter (with specific VLAN ID) on the host OS.
Now, in theory, I can access overlapping subnets since each customer VLAN is directly associated/bridged via the host virtual adapter to a given VM.
What's the issue:
I have three customer networks => three virtual network adapters on the host OS => three VMs. When the bridging on a given VM is configured with one of the host's virtual adapters, all communication through all host virtual adapters stops! Let's say none of the three VM's is powered up and there is a separate continuous ping issued from the guest OS through all three virtual adapters - and it works fine, I'm pinging the default gateway of each subnet behind each virtual adapter.
I power up one VM and as soon as the OS boots up and the VM network adapter (bridged to virtual adapter on the host) comes alive - all ping stops trough all virtual adapters on the host - and there is no ping between the guest OS and the host OS or to any IP form the certain VLAN. I shut down the VM or just disable its network adapter - and the ping goes again!
Any ideas what might be the problem? Some kind of spanning-tree protocol on Windows?
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IGMPv3 membership report not recognised by virtual network
I'm doing some work with multicast which involves two Linux guests, one acting as a client receiving multicast streams of data, the other acting as a router. The two are connected using a host only vmnet.
For test purposes I'm using the mgen application to join a multicast group on a virtual network interface in the client guest.
Running netstat -g shows that the client's network interface is joined to the group.
Using tcpdump in the client guest I can see a membership report leave the client on the correct interface, but tcpdump in the router guest doesn't show the membership report arriving.
Running vmnet-sniffer against the vmnet on the host shows the membership reports appearing on the vmnet, but shows an 'unknown protocol 2' message against the packet.
Can anyone help me work out why my membership reports are not reaching the router?
Is IGMPv3 is supported by vmware server and vmnets? If so, then why might I get the 'unknown protocol message'?
If IGMPv3 isn't supported then how can I use multicast on a host-only network?
Thanks
Phil
- Running vmware server 1.06 on a Linux host, Dell Poweredge 1950 with 2 Xeons and 4 nics.
- 2 x Centos 5 guests connected to each other using host-only networking. Both guests also have a bridged interface onto a real network.
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