vmnetDHCP "dispatch: Timeout waiting for input data"

Copied a vm from vmware Workstation (5.5.1) to vmware Server (1.0.2).

Booted it.

I see vmnetDHCP error as above show up in the host event log.

?

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        P22

Hi All,

I have a CentOs 4.4 Host with both Linux & MS guests.  I have TS & FTP running on a MS guests.  I configured the Nat to forward both these ports to the respective guests & all was working. 

Recently, aka 2 times this week, that port forward has been failing & both the FTP & TS have been denied.  One fix I have found is to kill the vmnet Nat daemon's process & restart.  Then all is back up... 

Anyone have any clues of where I should look for a cause for this issue?  Am I "overworking" the nat with all this traffic?

Open to ideas....

Thanks!

I have installed some FreeBSD VM's and I keep seeing high CPU utilization.  By high I mean 22-25 percent constantly.  My linux and even windows VM's are in the 5-6 percent rage at the most.  Even when it's idle.  Anyone know why this keeps happening?

I have a guest machine(Windows 2003) that has the "numvcpus" parameter set to 2 in the VMX file. The host has 2 - Xeon HT procs, and i am runing 3 VMs currently on it. From reading through the forums i have gathered that i would probably be better off running it with 1 vCPU.

If i power down the machine and change the parameter to 1, will i have problems with the guest when i start it?

Thanks,

JZ

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        JonZ

Hi,

I have an issue where my VMware Server Console running on XP will not remotely connect to the VMware Server running on Fedora 5.

I have checked the xinetd.config

#

\# Simple configuration file for xinetd

#

\# Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/

defaults

{

        instances               = 60

        log_type                = SYSLOG authpriv

        log_on_success          = HOST PID

        log_on_failure          = HOST

        cps                     = 25 30

}

includedir /etc/xinetd.d

and /etc/xinetd.d/vmware-authd files

\# default: on

\# description: The VMware remote access authentification daemon

service vmware-authd

{

    disable         = no

    port            = 904

    socket_type     = stream

    protocol        = tcp

    wait            = no

    user            = root

    server          = /usr/sbin/vmware-authd

    type            = unlisted

}

xinetd is running and /etc/services contain the following entries for ports 902 and 904

ideafarm-chat   902/tcp                         # IDEAFARM-CHAT

ideafarm-chat   902/udp                         # IDEAFARM-CHAT

.....

vmware-authd 902/tcp

vmware-authd 904/tcp

do I need to remove the IDEAFARM entries from /etc/services?

VMware Server 1.03 on Vista Ultimate 32-bit host with a Windows 2003 Server guest.

I can't get USB to work, anyone else with Vista able to get it to work?  I realize Vista is an unsupported host, no need to remind me.

I DID add USB Controller to the VM and it is listed as "Present".

The Guest finds a USB controller, "Intel(R) 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller" and also "USB Root Hub".

Here are the issues I am having:

1. Very often, VMware does not see my USB devices.  Under Removable Devices->USB Devices is a grayed out "Empty".  To make my USB devices show up requires shutting down the guest, and restarting it.

2. Once I have restarted and my USB devices show up in the VMware menu, nothing happens.  I go to Removable Devices->USB Devices and then select "Cambridge Silicon Radio USB Device" for example.  Nothing happens.  No check appears to the left of it.  Nothing happens on the Guest.  I can do it over and over or select any of the 4 other devices in the list and also nothing happens.  There is an empty space to the left of the device that looks like a checkbox should show up there, but it doesn't.  When I click on one, the menu just goes away.

Is this a known issue with Vista, am I doing something wrong, did I miss a step, or something else?

For some reason, My VM has become really tediously slow. The host is Windows 2003 x86 SP2 running VMware Server 1.0.3. The guest runs Windows XP SP2.

For a while it's been running at normal speed, which is slow. Screen updates is about 1fps, but the rest is good and workable. Funny thing is, screen updates bumps to about 20fps when I move the mouse??! I hope the mouse is not considered the only input device that needs a responsive UI?? I mean, come on, I have gigabit network here. I'm certain VMware can do 100fps continuously with this kind of bandwidth. At least Remote desktop works MUCH more responsive, even when not moving the mouse.

Anyhow, now comes the really biting part... At this moment the VM is running so slow I can't even work with it. The VM misses 3 out of every 4 mouseclicks, some keystrokes are missed, screen updates is less than 0.5fps and most of them are partial, and the CPU seems like a P200 or something. On the server, nothing strange is going on. Plenty free memory, plenty CPU time unused. Ditto on the guest. The harddisk is nearly idle, and network shouldn't cause performance problems, as mentioned earlier.

In the past, I could solve this by rebooting the guest, but that trick no longer works. I'm certainly not going to reboot the server just for this, therefor I need a graceful solution.

So here come the questions:

1) Why is VMware so slow when running at "normal" speed?

2) Why does the guest become so unworkable and tediously slow for no reason?

I am running VMware Server 1.0.4 and have a machine with two modems in it.  One is on COM3 and the other on COM5.  I have two WinXP guest OSes set up and would like to use one modem in one and the other modem in the other.  I can not get this to work, when the first OS boots, it successfully grabs the serial port assigned to the modem and there are not issues.  When the second OS boots, it cannot attach to the serial port.  Has anyone gotten something like this working or know how to do so?

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

Are there any third party add-ins to suppost SCSI reservations and SCSI3 PGRs for vmdisks?

Even SCSI reservation doesnt work in 1.03 and 1.04 of VMWare server. I thought it did.

Hi all,

I've been several days strugling to get a PPPoE broadband ADSL connection working from within a WinXPSP2 guest running on VMware Server 1.0.4. I've read many postings here but my problem seems to be bit different and I guess is not very difficult to solve, is just that I may be missing something...

Facts:

1) The host OS (WinXPSP2) connects OK (i.e. Broadband connection, PPPoE)

2) A WinXPSP2 guest running on MS Virtual PC connects OK. (using Bridged networking)

3) If I use ICS on the host to share the Internet connection, the WinXPSP2 guest on VMware access the Internet perfectly.

4) A WinFLP guest running on VMware Server 1.0.4 does not connect too.

My deductions:

1) -> Means there are no problems with the broadband connection itself.

3) -> Means that the guest NIC is correctly bridged to the host

2) -> Means that MS Virtual PC PPPoE connection works from the guest so there are no problems with WinXPSP2 firewalls, etc.

4) -> Means that it is most probably a VMWare problem specifically at network layer 2. Something is blocking the layer 2 packets when encapsulating PPP either inbound or outbound

Looking forward to your comments/advice,

Best,

Endo

I am having difficulties getting getting a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE PCI card detected/noticed on a Windows VMWARE instance. The host OS (running vmware server) is Ubuntu and can see / and use the hardware just fine. Does anybody have any solutions or suggestions.

Thanks

We are running vmware server 1.05 on an Ubuntu Linux Host. Our Virtual pc's are win 2000. Are there any tips on how to make them run faster?

thanks

Hi,

I just recently installed VMware and i can't seem to get the network section working for Windows XP home.

I read somewhere XP Pro just works and there might be issues with XP home?

Most people recommend using NAT off the bat but the option is greyed out under my Ethernet adaptor under Network Connection.

How are you meant to set up VMware so that Windows Home can connect through your ADSL router?

Also im not sure how the IP addresses should be structured, VMware network settings for the different virtual networks are 192.168.. subnets but my local network is 10.0.0.*

I have tried for about 6 hours no luck, any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Franco

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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

Please consider the following:

Running VMWare Server 1.0.9 on a Vista Business host - name: VMWAREHOST

Guest is Windows XP - name: VMWAREGUEST

Using Network Bridging.

I have SQL Server 2005 installed on both host and guest.

Firewalls are turned off for troubleshooting.

My problem is that I can't connect to the host SQL Server from the guest, or to the guest SQL Sever from the host.The odd thing is that I can connect to either from another (third) machine. This third machine is on a separate physical box and isn't running VMWare - name THIRDMACHINE.

I have zeroed in on what seems to be a UDP port filtering problem. I am using the portquery application to troubleshoot.(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832919

When I portquery from the guest to the host, it looks like this.

======================================

C:\>portqry -n VMWAREHOST -p UDP -e 1434

Querying target system called:

VMWAREHOST

Attempting to resolve name to IP address...

Name resolved to 192.168.3.80

querying...

UDP port 1434 (ms-sql-m service): LISTENING or FILTERED

Sending SQL Server query to UDP port 1434...

UDP port 1434 (ms-sql-m service): FILTERED

======================================

When I portquery from the host to the guest - something similar.

======================================

C:\>portqry -n VMWAREGUEST -p UDP -e 1434

Querying target system called:

VMWAREGUEST

Attempting to resolve name to IP address...

Name resolved to 192.168.3.157

querying...

UDP port 1434 (ms-sql-m service): LISTENING or FILTERED

Sending SQL Server query to UDP port 1434...

UDP port 1434 (ms-sql-m service): FILTERED

====================================== 

However!!! And this is the thing. When I portqery either the host or the guest from THIRDMACHINE, everything looks fine!!!

======================================

C:\>portqry -n VMWAREGUEST -p UDP -e 1434

Querying target system called:

VMWAREGUEST

Attempting to resolve name to IP address...

Name resolved to 192.168.3.157

querying...

UDP port 1434 (ms-sql-m service): LISTENING or FILTERED

Sending SQL Server query to UDP port 1434...

Server's response:

ServerName VMWAREGUEST

InstanceName SQL2005

IsClustered No

Version 9.00.1399.06

tcp 1458

np
VMWAREGUEST\pipe\MSSQL$SQL2005\sql\query

==== End of SQL Server query response ====

So any ideas what's happening here? Does VMWare do some kind of automatic UPD port filtering? Can I disable it? A few post mention "promiscuous mode", but in no great detail - and it seems as though "promiscusous" is the default setting.

Hi,

After a few years running a windows 2003 server as guest on vwware server 1 and ubuntu 7.04, yesterday failed to start up.

I see a blue start up screen with the message UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_DEVICE,

Aftter googling a while I see It can be solved using chkdsk.

But I failed trying to start from safe mode, and after using the windows 2003 cd to use the recovery console I receive the next messege

"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer"

I also use a windows 7 dvd to run recovery but it didn't show the partition.

Please somebody has any idea how to solve this?

Any help will be aprecciated

TIA

Jesus

Hi all,

I've set up a series of Windows Server 2003 (both enterprise and R2) VMWare virtual server machines with SQL 2000 SP4 installed.

We use a third party tool called DBGhost which builds databases from scripts and also compares baseline databases and current versions to create delta scripts.

Problem is, whilst DBGhost works just fine on the same setup using Microsoft Virtual Server, in VMWare I am getting SQL Assertion problems which cause SQL Server to stop and DBGhost to fail.

The event log messages on my virtual server after the issue look like this:

17066 :

SQL Server Assertion: File: <umsio.cpp>, line=563

Failed Assertion = 'm_busyCnt == 1'.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

followed by:

17310 :

SqlDumpExceptionHandler: Process 2032 generated fatal exception c000001d EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION. SQL Server is terminating this process.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I've tried rebuilding the image from scratch so I know this isnt just a problem with this instance. We've also been using it for ages on real servers with no problem.

Anyone got any ideas? I've seen some suggestions that this error appears on non virtual servers with multiple processors and is due to parellel processing issues - could it be something to do with VMWare Server's experimental 2 processor stuff... although I have the machines set to use only 1 processor in the settings.

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers

Luke

As I was recommended to open a new thread here for this issue that it seems happened to some people and even seems to have been used to point out a VMWare issue in a (tendentious) url=http://servervirtualization.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/06/04/vmware-esx-configuration-cost-problems-spur-users-switch-to-microsoft-virtual-server/?track=NL-653&ad=590818&asrc=EM_NLT_1536458&uid=5716822virtualization comparison with MS product[/url], I'm just doing that. Hope all the info is enough but you're free to ask for more and I will promptly answer if I can give it.

This issue doesn't only happen with this setup alone. It happens with two other hardware with same setup but one with two guests with Windows 2003 Server R2 SP2 and another with two Windows 2000 Server SP4 as the one detailed here.

HOST[/b]

DELL PowerEdge 2950 2 Dual Core Xeon

Connected to an SMC Tiger 1000 switch

Using Windows 2003 Server R2 English x64 SP2 with all updates to date

Using VMWare Server 1.0.3 build 44356

Windows IP Configuration

   Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : troya

   Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : domain.com.ar

   Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid

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

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

   DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : domain.com.ar

                                       com.ar

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8

   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-08

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

   IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.204.1

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

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

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1

   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-01

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

   IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.19.1

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

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

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE (NDIS VBD Client)

   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-18-8B-3C-5C-CC

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

   IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.16

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

   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.3

   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.250

                                       192.168.1.15[/code]

GUEST[/b]

Dual Processor with 40Gb preallocated disk

Using bridged networking

Using Windows 2000 Server Spanish SP4 with al updates to date

Configuración IP de Windows 2000

        Nombre del host . . . . . . . . . . . : olimpo

        Sufijo DNS principal  . . . . . . . . : domain.com.ar

        Tipo de nodo. . . . . . . . . . . . . : Híbrido

        Enrutamiento de IP habilitado . . . . : No

        Proxy de WINS habilitado. . . . . . . : No

        Lista de búsqueda de sufijos DNS. . . : domain.com.ar

                                                com.ar

Ethernet adaptador Conexión de área local:

        Sufijo DNS específico de la conexión. :

        Descripción . . . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter

        Dirección física. . . . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-2C-89-BB

        DHCP habilitado . . . . . . . . . . . : No

        Dirección IP. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.10

        Máscara de subred . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

        Puerta de enlace predeterminada . . . : 192.168.1.3

        Servidores DNS. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.250

                                                192.168.1.15[/code]

#######################################

\####### OLIMPO.vmx

#######

\#### generated by VMX Builder RDP/UH ##

\####### identity/general ##############

displayName = "OLIMPO"

\# Platform = Server

\# Version = 1.x

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "4"

guestOS = "win2000serv"

workingDir = "."

numvcpus ="2"

memsize = "3328"

\####### ide-controllers ###############

ide0.present = "TRUE"

ide1.present = "TRUE"

\####### ide-disks #####################

ide0:0.present = "FALSE"

ide0:1.present = "FALSE"

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"

ide1:0.fileName = "D:\Images\falsecd.iso"

ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE"

ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"

ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

ide1:0.exclusive = "FALSE"

ide1:1.present = "FALSE"

\####### scsi-controllers ##############

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic"

\####### scsi-disks ####################

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.fileName = "OLIMPO.vmdk"

scsi0:0.mode = "persistent"

scsi0:0.deviceType = "disk"

\####### nics ##########################

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.startConnected = "TRUE"

ethernet0.virtualDev = "vlance"

ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"

ethernet0.vnet = "VMnet0"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:2c:89:bb"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

\####### display #######################

svga.maxWidth = "2360"

svga.maxHeight = "1770"

svga.vramSize = "16777216"

mks.enable3d = "FALSE"

\####### mouse/keyboard ################

vmmouse.present = "TRUE"

\####### advanced stuff ################

gui.powerOnAtStartup = "FALSE"

gui.fullScreenAtPowerOn = "FALSE"

gui.exitAtPowerOff = "FALSE"

powerType.powerOff = "soft"

powerType.reset = "soft"

toolScripts.afterPowerOn = "FALSE"

toolScripts.afterResume = "FALSE"

toolScripts.beforeSuspend = "FALSE"

toolScripts.beforePowerOff = "FALSE"

isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "TRUE"

snapshot.disabled = "TRUE"

snapshot.Action = "prompt"

isolation.tools.dnd.disable = "FALSE"

isolation.tools.paste.disable = "FALSE"

isolation.tools.copy.disable = "FALSE"

priority.grabbed = "high"

priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

debug = "FALSE"

disable_acceleration = "FALSE"

MemTrimRate = "30"

logging = "TRUE"

monitor_control.log_vmsample = "FALSE"

templateVM = "FALSE"

\##### other params from old file ######

processor0.use = "FALSE"

processor1.use = "FALSE"

processor2.use = "TRUE"

processor3.use = "TRUE"

redoLogDir = "."

uuid.location = "56 4d df 08 d3 86 31 c7-50 f8 ad df 51 2c 89 bb"

uuid.bios = "56 4d df 08 d3 86 31 c7-50 f8 ad df 51 2c 89 bb"

undopoints.seqNum = "0"

scsi0:0.redo = ""

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"

undopoint.restoreFromCheckpoint = "FALSE"

undopoint.checkpointedOnline = "TRUE"

undopoint.disableSnapshots = "true"

undopoint.action = "prompt"

gui.exitOnCLIHLT = "TRUE"

nvram = "win2000serv.nvram"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

autostart = "poweron"

autostop = "softpoweroff"

\####### end of file ###################[/code]

We recently upgraded to a new primary domain controller and demoted the old primary to secondary.  Since this, all of our virtual machines give an error that a duplicate name exists on the network.  I have tried running NewSID on them and changing the name, but the error still occurs.  Once it gets stuck as one name, you cannot chnae the name to something else, as it gives and error that I am not connected to the domain because of a duplicate name and tells me to change the name of the machine... which is what I'm trying to do.  I can get the name changed if I move the machine off the domain, disable the network card, then rename the machine and rejoin it to the domain after reeenabling the NIC.  Once it's back on with the new name, it STILL says there is a duplicate.  I have deleted all DNS records and computer accounts for the machine in AD.  Anyone have any ideas?

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 that has 2  3.0 Ghz dual core Xeon processors, with 4 GB of Ram.  I want to use VMware ESX 3.5 Server for Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5 64 bit.  When I start the Virtual machine I get "Your Computer does not support Long mode.  Use a 32bit distribution."  I installed Windows 2003 server 64bit and it worked just fine, then I tried Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5 64 bit, and worked as well.

What do I have to do to make it work?