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Trying to add a SCSI Tape drive

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I select Tape0 as the device to connect to the SCSI tape drive, but I get an error message as soon as I power on the vm:

 

 

Virtual device scsi1:0: Unable to open SCSI host device Tape0; the system returned "Could not find the file" for the specified filename.

Virtual device scsi1:0 will start disconnected.

 

 

Any ideas of how to correct this?

 

 


VM NIC shows 1 GB but physical NIC is set at 100/full

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running vm server 1.  The host physical is set 100/full.  But the vm nic is showing 1 gb connection.  Even changed the vm nic to 100 mbps and utp duplex it still shows 1 gb.  does it mean that it actually is trying to connect at 1 gb?  is it supposed run at the physical speed if set to use autodetect for "external PHY"?  since the physical nic is set at 100/full (switch port is also at 100/full) does the mismatch cause any conneciton problem?

 

 

Thanks.

 

 

David

 

 

Utilize more host CPU for guest VMs

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I have a Dell PowerEdge Server 2950 installed with 2 Quadcore Intel processors, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB hard disk space, installed with Windows Server 2003 R2 and have installed VMWare server console version 1.0.3 build 44356. I normally have 5-7 virtual machines powered on and the performance of the guest is very slow, most of the time the guest CPU is peaking at 90% while the Host CPU is hardly being utilizied and is always less than 10%.

 

 

Is there a way I can allocate more host CPU to the guest. I know with VMWare Server Console a guest VM can have maximum of 2 processors but this also does not help much. I want the host CPU to be allocated to guest so as to boost the VMs' performance .This server is dedicated for VMs only and there is no other application running. 

 

 

Do let me know if there are any limitations also with using VMWare Server Console.

 

 

How to increase or decrease linux vm Hard disk size.

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Hi,

 

 

 

 

 

Can any body guide me to edit the size of Linux vm using VM Converter , OR by any other way

 

 

Regards & Thanks

 

 

Yogesh S

 

 

Can't ping from one machine to another (via NAT)

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hello all helpers.

i have vmware server 1.0.6 on ubuntu 7.04 (i know it's not the newest systems.....)

i have one vm machine as astaro which have 4 network cards (1-bridge,3-NAT)

i have 3 more machine(DB,APP,WEB) with win-server 2000 that have 1 card each (all connect as NAT)

 

the problem:

i try to ping from DB to astaro - not working.

i try to ping from astaro to DB - works.

if i try pinging again from DB to astaro (after the astaro->DB ping) it works also, and i can get to the internet from DB (via the astaro)

after few minutes the connection is dead again.no internet,no ping.

 

here is ipconfig /all from DB

 

Windows 2000 IP Configuration

 

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : MSD-DB

        Primary DNS Suffix  . . . . . . . :

        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast

        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

 

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:

 

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter

        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-12-F8-1F

        DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.10.20.2

        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.10.20.254

        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.10.20.254

 

the astaro ifconfig -a is attached as image (sorry, i'm not too familiar with linux..)

 

eth0 is supposed to be the DB gateway

eth1 is connected to the outside net(brigde)

eth2, eth3 are for the APP and WEB servers.

Problem running VMWare Server Console 1.0.10 on Windows XP SP3

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Hi,

 

 

today I tried to start the VMWare Server Console 1.0.10 and recieved an error message on  each system I tried - all Windows XP SP3 with current Patch-Level. VMWare can't acces a file or path because of missing permissions, even if I'm working as local admin.

 

 

Because Google didn't help me, I deinstalled and reinstalled VMWare Server Console. Unfortunately the registration of the DLLs "vmappcfg.dll", "vmhwcfg.dll", "vmappsdk.dll" failed in the process with "error 1904" and "HRESULT -2147024891". I tried to manually register the DLLs with "regsvr32" without any success.

 

 

Perhaps both errors belong together, but I don't  have a clue.

 

 

VM cannot boot anymore - PLEASE HELP!

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Dear friends,

 

I have a host machine with Ubuntu 7.10 which hosts using VMware Server 1.04 three virtual machines. One of them (Ubuntu 8.04 server) cannot

boot anymore after a reboot of the host machine. After this reboot, a failed fsck was performed. During the vm boot I get the following:

 

Starting up...

Loading, please wait...

\[12.120266\] sd 2:0:0:0: \[sda\] Assuming drive cache: write through

\[12.121139\] sd 2:0:0:0: \[sda\] Assuming drive cache: write through

\[12.125371\] sd 2:0:1:0: \[sdb\] Assuming drive cache: write through

\[12.125725\] sd 2:0:1:0: \[sdb\] Assuming drive cache: write through

Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline

or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev

Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...

Found volume group "vmname" using metadata type lvm2

ALERT! /dev/mapper/vmname-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

 

BusyBox v1.1.3. (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in shell (ash)

Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

 

(initramfs)

 

"vmname" is the name of the vm, so it is logical that the vm cannot boot, since its root is missing.

 

I desperately need your help, since this vm hosts basic services of my organization. Is there any way to fix this problem?

 

Thank you in advance!

Error during attempted start of new VM Machine image

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HI all,

 

I am unable to get a new VM Machine to start (that I created today ).

 

I am not very savvy with VMWARE, so please excuse my apparent route level knowledge of (VMware), but I would greatly appreciate

your guidance in resolving this. Thank you for your help and guidence.

 

 

Scenariio

 

- I have a dual boot computer (XP\W2k3SP2)

- After configuring the W2k3 env the way I needed it, I created a NEW VM Machine and saved it then zipped it with RAR.

- It was a 40 GB VM machine allocation and after RAR zipped it, it was about 25 MB file.

- I copied that RAR zipped VM to the C Drive, Uncompressed and saw these files;

 

- W2K3ENTSP2_SQL2008SP2_SDM_R12.5.vmdk      --------- ( 1kb )

- W2K3ENTSP2_SQL2008SP2_SDM_R12.5-flat.vmdk     ----- ( 41,943,040 kb )

- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd          ---------  ( 0 kb )

- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd        -----------  ( 1 kb )

 

When I try to start up this VM machine ( first time) I am getting a few errors;

 

------------------------------------------------------------------

ERRORS

-----------------------------------------------------------------

 

- PXE-E53: No boot filename received

- PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.

- Operating system not found

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

FILES

 

W2K3ENTSP2_SQL2008SP2_SDM_R12.5.vmdk

************************************************************

# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=9cc5c340
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="monolithicFlat"

 

# Extent description
RW 83886080 FLAT "W2K3ENTSP2_SQL2008SP2_SDM_R12.5-flat.vmdk" 0

 

# The Disk Data Base
#DDB

 

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "5221"
ddb.geometry.heads = "255"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd

 

CONTENTS ARE BLANK

 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
numvcpus = "2"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "384"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "W2K3ENTSP2_SQL2008SP2_SDM_R12.5.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
displayName = "W2K3SP2_SQL2008SP2_SDM_R12.5"
guestOS = "winnetenterprise"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

 

Version - 1.05


Solution: VMWare Server 1.0.10 Console on Windows 7 64Bit

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Hello,

 

This entry is for all those people who want to use VMWare Server 1.0 with Windows 7 64Bit. I have wasted about 30 hours to come up with this recipe. I think I have a scenario that many others have, so I am sharing my findings.

 

Background: I have liked VMWare Server 1.0 free and used it for several years. I never liked VMWare Server 2.0 or free VSphere Hypervisor. Free VSphere Hypervisor has some really excellent and useful features, but I find it too complicated and time-consuming for my uses for several reasons - primarily backing up a VM and moving it between servers requires VMWare converter and a lot of manual steps.

 

Problem:

  1. I want to run several VMs for developing and testing a software package.
  2. Usually I want these on a server because I have a fast server and fast connection.
  3. When I know I will need to work remotely without a fast connection, I want to copy some of the VMs and run them locally on my Laptop.
  4. Sometimes I want to access all VMs through VMWare Server. Other times I want to remote into a single VM with Remote Desktop.
  5. Sometimes I need to remote into my laptop from another location.
  6. This all worked beautifully when I had a Thinkpad with WinXP Pro 32, but stopped working when I upgraded to a Thinkpad with Windows 7 64Bit.

 

All of the following things fail or aren't supposed to work in the first place:

  1. Installing any version of VMWare Server on Windows 7 64Bit
  2. Installing just the client components from the VMWare Server 1.0 Complete installer
  3. Using VMWare Workstation to connect to a remote VM
  4. Using VMWare Player to connect to a remote VM.

 

It seems like a lot information is deliberately obfuscated to steer you to away fom VMWare server. I found that you can install the VMWare Server Console on Windows 7 64Bit if you use the client-only installer here:
http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-win32-client-1.0.10-203137.zip

 

Let me repeat, because I think this is the secret sauce that will help a lot of people: You can successfully installthe VMWare Server Console 1.0.10 on Windows 7 64Bit, but only if you use the link above for the client-only zip file.

 

There are 4 installers in the ZIP file. I found that only the Console installer is needed.

 

Solution - So here is the recipe I settled on:

  1. Server: AMD X6 6Core Server, Windows Server 2003 R2 SP3, 16GB RAM, running VMWare Server 1.0.10
  2. Client: Windows 7 Pro 64Bit, running VMWare Server Console 1.0.10 and VMWare Player
  3. I connect to all VMs by running VMWare Server Console 1.0.10 on my Windows 7 64Bit Thinkpad
  4. I also can connect to them individually using Remote Desktop (which enables Thinkpad middle button scrolling)
  5. When I need to work locally, I copy a selection of VMs to my Laptop and run them in VMWare Player. These can move back and forth to the Server seamlessly.

 

And one final note / wish list for the fine folks at VMWare: I would happily pay for VMWare Workstation if two enhancements could be made:

  1. Make VMWare Workstation able to connect to remote VMs. It should work like VMWare Server Console 1.0.10 and be able to connect to VMWare Server. vSphere Hypervisor, and VMs running on VMWare Workstation on remote computers.
  2. Fix Workstation so Thinkpad Touchpoint middle button scrolling works on VMs (local and remote). Middle button scrolling works across remote desktop, so I know it must be possible, but of course this could require Lenovo/Synaptics to make new drivers and might not be something VMWare can fix.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Mike

Bridge not working and can't ping gateway

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Hi everyone,

I wonder if you can help. This has baffled me.

 

I have a Centos5 host and a centos5 guest in vmserver 1.0.10. I have another gust XP.

I have two NICS eth0 and eth1[used for internet/don't care about it]

 

Host has ip 192.168.123.141 and gw 192.168.123.254

Guest has 192.168.123.146 and gw 192.168.123.254, bridge

XP guest has 192.168.8.2 and gw 192.168.8.1, host only

 

I can ping from XP>>host>>XP and access the webserver[host]

I can't ping host>>guest centos>>host. I can't even ping the gw .123.254 from either. I get Destination Host Unreachable

 

I have checked routing and it's correct, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts all correct, vmnet0 is mapped to eth0, ifconfig correct.

 

I need an apache webserver on host and another webserver on centos guest.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

How to set up PAM with Kerberos on Linux?

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All,

 

I've just set up VMWare Server 1.0.2 on a box running CentOS-64 4.4 (RHEL4 clone). I've configured Kerberos on the Host OS to allow local users to authenticate via their Kerberos password (i.e. "adduser johndoe" creates the user on the server but their password comes from the Kerberos server), but these users cannot log into the VMware Server Console. Full server-based users ("root" and a "vmware" user I created) can log in, but not the Kerb-Authenticated users.

 

I'm assuming my solution lies somewhere in the /etc/vmware/pam.d/vmware-authd file, but I haven't found mention of this anywhere in the documentation aside from the "VMware Server for Linux uses Pluggable Authentication Modules" blurb in the Server Admin guide.

 

Help?

 

\- John

Error in VMWare Virtual Ethernet Adapters

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I am using VMWare Server on Windows XP. After upgrading to 1.0.3 (I did an uninstall before upgrade), I no longer see VMnet1 and VMnet8 network adapters. I device manager, the VMWare Virtual Ethernet Adapter Devices have an exclamation mark. When I click properties, I see the following error:

 

"The device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for the device. (Code 31)"

 

"Click Troubleshooting to start troubleshooting for the device."

 

When I click Troubleshooting, a window appear with empty content.

 

In driver detail, I have 3 files, all with version 4.0.0.0

c:\windows\system32\drivers\vmnet.sys

c:\windows\system32\drivers\vmnetadapter.sys

c:\windows\system32\vnetinst.dll

 

I've already tried to clean up the settings (e.g., /c option, disabling anti-virus), but nothing helps.

 

Then I tried VMWare player 2.0, the same problem except the version of network drivers become 4.0.1.0

 

Any solution?

MemTrimRate question

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by default my memTrimRate is set to -1.   Based on some threads i have read i changed it to MemTrimRate = "0" and it has improved performance. My question however is exactley what is it doing?  I've noticed that my Total Kernel memory has increased as a result, the VM is running much better but need to understand what changing -1 to 0 is doing.

 

 

 

 

 

thanks,

 

 

pete

 

 

NFS Apache Log files

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Hello all, I'm a new user of VMware virtual server and I'm trying to create a simple setup to run two Linux virtual servers each hosting an install of apache/php/mysql.  One server will be used for production and the other server will be used for development.  I've created two nfs shares on the host box (one for prod /webs/prod and one for devl /webs/devl) and mount them at boot on the respective virtual servers.  The nfs shares hold the apache document root, log files, and mysql databases.  Both servers run great but I'm seeing a small inconsistency with the logging.  Not all the http requests are getting logged and can see this as I watch tail -f /webs/prod/log/access_log.  There have been a couple times where I don't send any request for about 15 minutes then I send a couple and do an ls -l and the date/time stamp isn't updated.  I do a tail on the access_log and it has the last log entry from 15 minutes ago.  It does seem to log better when I tail -f it, almost like it fell asleep and I woke it up.

 

Just curious if anyone has seen this before.  I did try and change some of the mount options but still see inconsistencies in the logging. 

 

 

My server info is a Sun V20z server, dual amd processors, and 2GB of RAM.  Host and client operating systems are RHEL 4 ES

 

 

Installing VMWare Tools with CactiEZ

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Hello,

 

 

I'm running CactiEZ which runs on CentOS 4.3.  The host OS is Windows XP SP3.  When I try to install VMWare tools from within the VMWare GUI, nothing happens on the virtual machine console.  How can I install VMWare tools onto my VM?

 

 

Thanks!

 

 


Task Manager Physical Memory Usage Not Matching Process Usage

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I have seen this topic discussed her before, but I didn't get a clear understanding what is going on here.

 

 

- I have a windows server 2008 with 8GB or ram configured, with limit set to unlimited, and reservation set to 8GB.

- When looking at Task Manager, I see Physical Memory at 88%, and the the bar reads out to 7.10GB.

- When adding up all the Processes usage of memory, it only comes to around 2GB.

- In another thread i read this was because there was a limit set, and ballooning started.

- I monitor the server via SNMP, and am alerted out all the time that this server reaches over 90% ram utilization.

 

- Is the Guest Server's Task Manager's Physical Memory usage correct?

- If it is not, and is caused by the ESX host, how can i correct this to properly monitor the Guest Server.

 

 

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Very slow performance / frequent freezes of VMs both in VMware Server and VMware Player

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Hi there!

 

I'm running 2 VMs on VMware Server 1.0.4, which in turn is running on a Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 32 bit, all patches and SPs. One VM is Windows Server 2003 SP2, the other Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2, both have the latest VMware Tools installed.

 

 

Problem description:

 

o The VMs have a very slow performance but not permanently. Everything is super-slow, even opening the Start Menu. Sometimes the VMs freeze for some minutes. Booting one of them up takes up to 10 minutes most of the times (not always).

o Sometimes the VMs seem to be catching up, that means, the updating of the graph in taskmgr.exe is like 5 Hz instead of the usual 1 Hz. Also the progress bar of the Windows-VGA-boot-screen is sometimes for a few seconds speeding up much (going faster than normal).

o Disk speed as well as network speed itself is okay, I can copy a 250 MiB Service Pack from a network location to the virtualized disk at 16 MiB/s. However, decompressing the Service Pack on the virtualized disk takes an hour, where on the host itself it would take less than 4 minutes.

o Enough RAM is available too. Despite the VM being very slow, the CPU utilization seen in taskmgr.exe both on the host and inside the VMs is always below 30%.

o One of the VMs originally ran on a P4 host much faster (the host had less RAM, frequency, HDD speed, NIC speed).

o I also started the VMs in VMware Player on the same WSS 2k3 host, same issues.

o Before I tried it using VMware Server 1.0.3, same issues.

 

 

The hardware of the underlying host:

 

o Pentium D 930 Dual-Core Processor @ 3 Ghz (»Presler«)

o Intel Server Mainboard (SE7230NH1)

o 3 GiB of RAM

o The VMs are hosted on an NTFS-Partition on a RAID-1 consisting of 2x 500 GB 7200 RPM Hitachi HDDs.

o The host system in general seems to be very fast, both in response time and in transfer speed (target of the D2D backup).

 

 

Measures I already tried, but without improvement:

 

o Disable EIST (Enhanced Intel SpeedStep) in the BIOS. No improvement. CPU-Z shows the host CPU changing frequency between 2,3 and 2,99 GHz all the time, however Speedswitch XP shows the host CPU always at 2,99 GHz, regardless of the BIOS setting. Is there any way to disable SpeedStep on the software level of W2k3, in case the BIOS setting doesn't work? Is there any more reliable tool to determine, if SpeedStep is active?

 

o Use different HDD to host VMs.

 

o Change the memory allocation of the VMs and assigning permanent non-swapped RAM.

 

o Adding these setting in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Server\config.ini:

   host.cpukHz = "2990000"

   host.noTSC = "TRUE"

   ptsc.noTSC = "TRUE"

 

o Adding these setting in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Server\config.ini:

   host.cpukHz = "2000000"

   host.noTSC = "TRUE"

   ptsc.noTSC = "TRUE"

 

o Enable time synchronization between the virtual machine and the host operating system.

 

o There is no option to enable Intel VT in the BIOS (latest release), although the CPU supports it.

 

o Add physical RAM on the host (originally 1 GiB, enough for one VM, now 3 GiB for two VMs).

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm in despair! :_| Does anybody have suggestions? Thanks in advance!

 

asklucas

Host crashs every 2 days

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Hello,

 

i have a w2k3 Enterprise X64 Host (Dell PE 1955, DUAL XEON 5160, 8GB RAM, QLogic HBA on EMC CX500), VMWare Server 1.0.3

 

Every few days the system crashes. it writes a MEM-Dump, reboots and restarts the VMs (Guests with SLES, W2K3, W2K).

 

the system is Up2date with servicepacks from MS and drivers from DELL.

 

the system error code is mostly like: (sorry german language-pack is installed

 

Ereignistyp:     Fehler

Ereignisquelle:     System Error

Ereigniskategorie:     (102)

Ereigniskennung:     1003

Datum:          18.06.2007

Zeit:          08:15:06

Benutzer:          Nicht zutreffend

Computer:     VMSRV02

Beschreibung:

Fehlercode 000000000000003b, 1. Parameter 00000000c0000005, 2. Parameter fffff80001295c96, 3. Parameter fffffadf2457f9f0, 4. Parameter 0000000000000000.

 

Weitere Informationen über die Hilfe- und Supportdienste erhalten Sie unter http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Daten:

0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45   System E

0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72   rror  Er

0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65   ror code

0018: 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 30    0000000

0020: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 33   00000003

0028: 62 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d   b  Param

0030: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 30   eters 00

0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 63 30   000000c0

0040: 30 30 30 30 30 35 2c 20   000005,

0048: 66 66 66 66 66 38 30 30   fffff800

0050: 30 31 32 39 35 63 39 36   01295c96

0058: 2c 20 66 66 66 66 66 61   , fffffa

0060: 64 66 32 34 35 37 66 39   df2457f9

0068: 66 30 2c 20 30 30 30 30   f0, 0000

0070: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30   00000000

0078: 30 30 30 30               0000   

 

 

i have analyzed some dumpfiles wit windbg from Microsoft.

in most cases  Windbg says:

 

Loading User Symbols

Loading unloaded module list

......

*******************************************************************************

\*                                                                             *

\*                        Bugcheck Analysis                                    *

\*                                                                             *

*******************************************************************************

 

Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.

 

BugCheck 4E, \{7, 26b32, 1, 0}

 

Unable to load image \??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\vmx86.sys, Win32 error 0n2

\*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for vmx86.sys

\*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for vmx86.sys

Probably caused by : vmx86.sys ( vmx86+5e58 )

 

Followup: MachineOwner

\----


 

0: kd> !analyze -v

*******************************************************************************

\*                                                                             *

\*                        Bugcheck Analysis                                    *

\*                                                                             *

*******************************************************************************

 

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT (4e)

Typically caused by drivers passing bad memory descriptor lists (ie: calling

MmUnlockPages twice with the same list, etc).  If a kernel debugger is

available get the stack trace.

Arguments:

Arg1: 0000000000000007, A driver has unlocked a page more times than it locked it

Arg2: 0000000000026b32, page frame number

Arg3: 0000000000000001, current share count

Arg4: 0000000000000000, 0

 

Debugging Details:

\----


 

 

OVERLAPPED_MODULE: Address regions for 'vmx86' and 'Serial.SYS' overlap

 

BUGCHECK_STR:  0x4E_7

 

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT:  1

 

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  DRIVER_FAULT_SERVER_MINIDUMP

 

PROCESS_NAME:  vmware-vmx.exe

 

CURRENT_IRQL:  2

 

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER:  from fffff80001087515 to fffff8000102e950

 

STACK_TEXT:

 

... (i skip this here) ...

 

STACK_COMMAND:  kb

FOLLOWUP_IP:

vmx86+5e58

fffffadf`24fb8e58 ??              ???

 

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX:  3

 

FOLLOWUP_NAME:  MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: vmx86

IMAGE_NAME:  vmx86.sys

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP:  461ef0dc

SYMBOL_NAME:  vmx86+5e58

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x4E_7_vmx86+5e58

BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x4E_7_vmx86+5e58

 

 

has anyone the same problem or a suggestion/solution for this

 

Thanks

Stefan

High CPU Wait

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Hello all!

 

Our shop has been using VM Server for a year or so now with no problems to speak of. Recently we have added a terminal services server that our office employees connect to. Since bringing this server online we have been experiencing high "pockets" of CPU Wait %'s.

 

Here is some information about the OS's and Hardware we are working with:

 

Host Server Hardware:[/b]

2x 3.6ghz Xeon

2x 146g 15k U320 in RAID1 array

9 gigs RAM

 

Host OS:[/b]

RHELv4

2.6.17-1.2174_FC5

 

Guest OS:[/b]

Windows 2000 Server

 

 

Following is vmstat ouput:[/b]

1  0    112 1095988  52568 7440736    0    0     0    78 2534 11092  1 13  6  0  0

0  0    112 1095988  52576 7440728    0    0     0    52 2514 10978  1 11 88  0  0

4  0    112 1095988  52576 7440728    0    0     0   196 2522 10525  1 19 80  0  0

0  0    112 1095988  52576 7440728    0    0     0   130 2506 11107  1 13 85  0  0

1  0    112 1095988  52584 7440720    0    0     0    86 2520 10829  1 13 86  0  0

0  0    112 1095448  52588 7440716    0    0   274    60 2573 11255  1 14 84  1  0

0  0    112 1095448  52596 7440708    0    0     0   112 2447 11081  1 11 88  0  0

1  0    112 1095448  52596 7440708    0    0     0     8 2556 11355  1 12 87  0  0

1  4    112 1095076  52596 7440708    0    0     0  6132 2575 11009  1 15 75  8  0

0  4    112 1095076  52604 7440700    0    0     0  1824 2578 11225  1 14 35 51  0

0  5    112 1095076  52604 7440700    0    0    34  1620 2501 10949  1 13 31 55  0

0  6    112 1094896  52612 7440692    0    0    96  1934 2447 10806  0 11 31 58  0

0  5    112 1094836  52612 7440692    0    0    34  1908 2459 10459  1 15 41 43  0

0  3    112 1094836  52612 7440692    0    0     0  2006 2482 10722  1 13 23 64  0

1  2    112 1094836  52620 7440684    0    0     0  1906 2552 10957  1 12 39 48  0

1  0    112 1094836  52620 7440684    0    0     0   834 2498 11188  1 20 56 22  0[/i][/b]

2  0    112 1094836  52628 7440676    0    0     0   124 2602 11085  1 21 78  0  0

1  0    112 1094836  52628 7440676    0    0     0  1440 2483 11841  1 13 86  1  0

2  0    112 1094712  52628 7440676    0    0     0    28 2526 11058  1 11 88  0  0

3  0    112 1094712  52636 7440668    0    0     0   198 2500 11007  1 12 87  0  0

0  0    112 1094092  52636 7440668    0    0     0    12 2485 10810  1 11 88  0  0

0  0    112 1093968  52644 7440660    0    0     0    92 2450 10793  1 10 90  0  0

0  0    112 1093968  52644 7440660    0    0     0     4 2466 11255  0 11 89  0  0

0  0    112 1093968  52644 7440660    0    0     0    34 2635 10806  1 13 86  0  0

0  0    112 1093968  52652 7440652    0    0     0    26 2448 11004  1 13 86  0  0

1  0    112 1093968  52652 7440652    0    0     0  1116 2565 10954  1 14 85  0  0

1  0    112 1093968  52652 7440652    0    0     0    10 2434 11258  0 11 88  0  0

 

 

I have been able to isolate that most of it happens when someone logs into the guest, and then again when they fire up an application.

 

I added the following statements to the .vmx file:[/b]

mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"

sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"

MemTrimRate = "0"

 

It didn't seem to help the situation at all.

 

 

 

 

I am at a loss as to where to go at this point. Any suggestions would be greatly[/i] apprciated!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks in advance for any help,

Jon Ziminsky

CPS Distributors, Inc.

Denver, Co.

 

PS. If you need more information, please let me know and i will provide with whatever you need to help me diagnose this!

VMware Server won't install on 64-bit Linux box

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We are running the 64-bit version of CentOS 5 and I  have installed VMware server 1.0.3 on this box. However, when I tried to run the  installer complained that vmware-config.pl script to complete the installation, it complained that it could not find a suitable vmmon module for the kernel I'm using. As I indicated, I am running a 64 bit OS, and the kernel version is 2.6.18-8-el5 x86_64. What do I need to do to get VMware Server fully installed on this system?

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