Hi

I have an anoying problem where I can't bridge to a wireless (wlan0) interface. I've tried using two different

versions of vmware server on two different boxes....same story.

My setup:

      Fedora 8 x64 on AMD with RaLink RT2500 (using kernel module or compiled driver)                

Fedora 8 x64 Intel Core 2 duo with PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (standard built in kernel module) 

The wirless works fine on both systems. I can bridge my vmware to the "copper" nics (eth0) and everything

is fine......but for the life of me I am unable to bridge to the wireless interface (wlan0) on either system.

When bridged to the wireless (wlan0) interface, from the guest I can ping the "base" and from the base I can ping and ssh into

the guest .....but from the guest I can't ping my default router(adsl)......the "base" can ping the router and access the internet fine.

I have no firewall no iptables and do not use selinux.

Any ideas?

Thanks

I've followed the instructions here:

http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/devices_serial_debug_gsx.html

and here:

http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/devices_serial_connect2vms_gsx.html

I've tried naming my serial ports (sorry for the formatting, the forum filtered out the names before)

\ \ . \ pipe \ com_1 on  both

\ \ . \ pipe \ com_2 on server and \ \ . \ pipe \ com_1 on the client

\ \ . \ pipe \ com2 on server, \ \ . \ pipe \ com1 on client

\ \ . \ pipe \ com1 on both (which is what I'm using now)

On the client I can start WinDbg 6.9.0003.113 (the newest at the time of writing) on the client, and if I select Kernel Debug and then whether I select the Pipe checkbox or not, and set the Port to just "com1" it will then say "Opened <newline> Waiting to reconnect" and then the bottom of the windbg window says "Debuggee not connected". I find this weird though that it's working with (and I define working as WinDbg as not giving an error, and the fact that I see the occasional flash of activity across the serial port status icon at the bottom of the vmware window). But I see no serial port activity on the server VM.

First can someone confirm whether I'm supposed to have the serial ports named the same thing on both VMs, and then can someone suggest a simple way to test that the connectivity is there, so I can see if it's that the serial ports aren't connected, or whether it's that the debuggee isn't set up to be debugged?

Thanks

Bob

So, I spent serveral days last week playing around with the pros and cons of running a Linux (CentOS) vs a Windows (Server 2003) host. 

One thing that was frustrating me was that I couldn't find a way to get rid of the disk i/o by disabling the vmem files.  As many of your know you can disable this in your config, but in Linux it moves a file that appears of similar functionality to your /tmp directory and on Windows, at least from what I read, it moves into the pagefile.

This is where it get's interesting, if I disable the page file on the Windows server, I never see a change in my used disk space.  So, it would appear that disabling the pagefile on a Windows server host gets past the disk i/o (not to mentions disk space!) used by vmware for memory.  And, no it does not appear to use any more memory either!

So, as someone who until this point has always tried to run Linux for my VM Serer host, I'm wondering if anyone knows if this can be acheived on Linux?  Getting memory off the disk is way too much of a performance gain for me to ignore.

Thanks for exploring this topic with me.

Daniel

hello every body, i am using vmware server 1.0.2 and have created many machines with gues OS Windows Server 2003 and were running fine.

Untill recently, when i was working, i pressed Ctrl+z to undo but it did suspend the VM on which i was working. when i tried to resume it, it failed. i found a work around for. i created another VM and copied old files into the directory of new VM. so it started work fine. but the trouble did not go, anotha VM started to show a wierd behavior. one black blank screen. i tried to reset it. and it struck. now i could not even close it (cuz wen i tried to close it, it showed msg VM busy). so i restarted VM services.

damn, now, no machine is powering on, except one, which is already powered on.

it says, Virtual "Machine Failed to Start"

can anybody please, help me outta it. .....

Hi,

Have a Windows 2003 R2 x64 host running VM server 1.08 with two guest Windows 2003 R2 servers. Internet access is fine from both guest servers but the host has almost no access. DNS appears to work fine returning an IP address but very little web browsing is possible. Ever seen that? Any ideas how to troubleshoot? The host server has teamed Intel gigabit NICs on the LAN (and full access to the LAN)

Thanks

I'm using VMWare server 1.0.10 build-203137 and I'm having issues.  Basically I have a Symantec Ghost server running on a Windows XP SP3 box.  I want to virtualize that machine for backup capabilities.  I was able to virtualize the PC, but when I try and boot it in vmware server I get the following:

Windows failed to start.  A recent hardware or software change might be the cause, blah blah.

file:  \ntldr

Status: 0xc0000225

Info: the selected entry could not load because the application is missing or corrupt

does anyone have any idea how to fix this?  When I was converting the machine from physical to virtual it would constantly stop at 95-98% complete and then fail because of the system volume.  I made sure that I delesected and recovery partitions and I checked the boot.ini file and it was correct so I don't know if that had something to do with this or not.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks

Hi peoples,

I am confused as to whether jumbo frames are supported in VMware guests. Posts on the communities frequently suggest switching jumbo frames off, which implies that they should work, but my own experiments suggest not.

My host OS is Windows XP SP3, as is the guest, and I am using VMware Server 1.0.7 with it's VMware Tools. I have a two gigabit ethernet cards, with one of them bridged to VMnet9. I have enabled jumbo frame support on the host computer, the VM's virtual E1000 is bound to VMnet9 and jumbo frames are enabled there too.

I have verified that I can send and recieve jumbo frames to and from another computer on my network (using ping -f -l 2000) and the camera (by streaming data). I have also verified that I cannot send jumbo frames between guest and host, guest and the other PC or guest and camera.

To give you some background, I have an application which I am developing in a VM. It processes data from a GigE vision camera source. When I run this on the host, it runs at the full rate of 60 frames per second, using 15% of the CPU with jumbo frames and 20% without. When running it in a VM however, the application drops frames (anywhere between 5% and 60% of them), the host sits at 75% CPU and the guest sits at 35%. It doesn't matter whether I enable or disable jumbo frames, it always runs like this.

• So can anyone confirm, is VMware Server 1.0.7 supposed to support jumbo frames?

* If so, can anyone suggest anything I might have forgotten to configure?* If not, is there a VMware product which does support jumbo frames in the way I want to use them?

Many thanks,

Mark..........

I upgraded my laptop from openSuSE 10.3 to 11.3. The compilation of the vmmon modules failed with the message:

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:146: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer                                                      

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:147: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type                                                      

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:150: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer                                                      

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:151: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type                                                      

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1670: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’

make[4]: *** /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o Fehler 1

make[3]: *** Fehler 2

make[2]: *** Fehler 2

make[1]: *** Fehler 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9-/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:146: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer                                                      

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:147: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type                                                      

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:150: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer                                                      

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:151: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type                                                      

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1670: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’

make[4]: *** /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o Fehler 1

make[3]: *** Fehler 2

make[2]: *** Fehler 2

make[1]: *** Fehler 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9-obj/i386/pae'

make: *** http://vmmon.ko Fehler 2

make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'

Unable to build the vmmon module.

obj/i386/pae'

make: *** http://vmmon.ko Fehler 2

make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'

Unable to build the vmmon module.

The update from VMware server 1.0.7 to 1.0.8 did not solve the problem - the error message was the same afterwards.

The problem seems not to be caused by the PAE support, because I tried with the default kernel, too. An update to VMware 2.0 is not the solution because of the lack of disk space.

Hi,

I am getting the following error when trying to install VM server 1.0.8 onto Debian 5 (Lenny).  Any help is greatly appreciated.

What directory contains your desktop menu entry files? These files have a

.desktop file extension. /usr/share/applications

In which directory do you want to install the application's icon?

/usr/share/pixmaps

Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your

running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for

your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)?

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "4.1.3", while you are trying to use

"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.3.2". This configuration is not recommended and

VMware Server may crash if you'll continue. Please try to use exactly same

compiler as one used for building your kernel. Do you want to go with compiler

"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.3.2" anyway? yes

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running

kernel? /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/build/include

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.

make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686'

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/Makefile:89: *** Inappropriate build environment: you wanted to use gcc version 4.3.2 while kernel attempts to use gcc version 4.1.3.

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/Makefile:91: *** For proper build you'll have to replace  gcc-4.1 with symbolic link to /usr/bin/gcc.  Stop.

make[1]: *** Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686'

make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2

make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'

Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please

visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and

"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

Thanks,

Wilson

Hi All,

I have set a password for my computer which has windows XP, But later on I forgot the password, and I tried every single password I can think of but no result. can anyone tell me how I crack the password, and get into the PC.

Thanks

Houman

Hit there,

first of all i want to excuse for my bad english ...

I got a big problem wir VMWare Server 1.0.8 running on a Debian Etch  2.6.18-6-amd64 System. The System is installed on Linux Raid Partitions (md0-md4) - I think this could be a hint ...

Im running 3 VMs (2 x Debian, 1 x WinXP)  inside the Server - from now on without any Problems...

Since yesterday I get Messages like the following from my Debain Clients:

mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=cec78300)

sd 0:0:0:0:

command: Write(10): 2a 00 00 2e 60 c1 00 00 10 00

mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x004b): SCSI IOC Terminated

mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=cec78300)

This message sometimes ends in crashing the whole host system. Can't stop the Instances, or VMWare Server ...

This errors occur on both Debian VMs - the WinXP Maschine sometimes freezes.

I can reproduce this errors when copying a Backup of a Client onto a samba share inside of the Debian VM - the strange one on this is: the other Debian VM (without a samba shares) brings the same messages, without being busy ...

I already googled about this error. The solution was to copy the SCSI Drives (which i use in both Debian systems) to new IDE drives ... seems like VMWare Server got Problems with the SCSI on heavy load (especially on Debian?).

I don't think I can handle this copying from SCSI to IDE, so I'd like to ask if there is an easier way to get my VMs working stable again...

Is this a general fail of the Server or just on special installations (maybe because of the linux software raid?

If you need any further iformation about my setup please ask me ...

Thanks a lot

killer6666

I have VM installed on OpenSuse 11.1. I have created a MSDOS 6.2 Guest OS. When I install VMTools it gives a error "Sorry, the VMware Tools package is not available for this guest operating system".

From your list of supported list of vm's MSDOS 6.2 is one of them.

Please help.

Siddharth

hello,

i'm using VMWare Server 1.09 on SLES 10 SP2 host. I also have a SLES 10 SP2 guest . While this guest is running, i see a kernel-thread named . Also i don't have the possibility to access my hardware-glock using hwclock:

pc53082:/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/vm53200-3 # hwclock --debug

hwclock from util-linux-2.12r

hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=16: Device or resource busy.

No usable clock interface found.

Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.

When i shutdown the guest, the kernel-thread disappears, and it is possible to use hwclock:

pc53082:/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/vm53200-3 # hwclock --debug

hwclock from util-linux-2.12r

Using /dev/rtc interface to clock.

Last drift adjustment done at 1248339221 seconds after 1969

Last calibration done at 1248339221 seconds after 1969

Hardware clock is on local time

Assuming hardware clock is kept in local time.

Waiting for clock tick...

/dev/rtc does not have interrupt functions. Waiting in loop for time from /dev/rtc to change

...got clock tick

Time read from Hardware Clock: 2009/07/23 11:23:56

Hw clock time : 2009/07/23 11:23:56 = 1248341036 seconds since 1969

Thu Jul 23 11:23:56 2009  -0.393177 seconds

I read that i can prevent a guest from using /dev/rtc, but i don't know how. Can anyone help me ?

Thanks in advance.

Bernd

I just did this - and thought others might benefit:

vi /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.30/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c

find this existing line:-

struct mm_struct init_mm = INIT_MM(init_mm);

and add this line after it:-

EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(init_mm); /* will be removed in 2.6.26 */

rebuild kernel (make; make install; reboot)

rpm -ivh VMware-server-1.0.9-156507.i386.rpm

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/

tar xvfj /tmp/vmware-update-2.6.29-5.5.9-3.tar.bz2

cd vmware-update-2.6.29-5.5.9/

./runme.pl

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/

tar xvf vmmon.tar

vi vmmon-only/Makefile

Comment-out ("#") lines 25 and 28, the "ifndef VMWARE_VER" and matching "endif" lines.

tar cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only

vmware-config.pl

Hi,

Host system: Ubuntu 8.04 with 2.6.24-24-generic kernel

Three NICs: One dedicated for host, and two bridged for guest

VMware Server: 1.0.9 build-156507

Guest system: ClarkConnect Community 5.0 (linux firewall application configured with two NICs)

Issue:  Cannot get guest system to bind to two seperate host NIC's. Instead it binds both virtual guest NICs to same host NIC.

For the purpose of testing the firewall connection has been changed: Public interface NIC is connected to the private sub-net.

This is to simplify testing of the assigned actual MAC addresses assigned and host NIC used.

Host network set-up

ifconfig (edited)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:5b:bc:b3:8c 

(used as first bridged guest NIC)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:b5:cd:12:5c 

inet addr:10.0.69.200  Bcast:10.0.69.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

(used as host's NIC)

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0e:a6:79:6f:3e 

(used as second bridged guest NIC)  

Host Virtual Network Set-up

Host NIC eth0 bridged to /dev/vmnet0 and eth2 bridged to/dev/vmnet2:

ps -efw | grep vmnet

root     21692     1  0 18:26 pts/2    00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid /dev/vmnet0 eth0

root     21696     1  0 18:26 pts/2    00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-2.pid /dev/vmnet2 eth2

I have not installed the vmware tools on the guest. Read about installing them to run using driver EthernetX.virtualDev = "e1000", but to my understanding this is primarily to get a GB eth device which is not required for my set-up. An attempt to install vmware tools failed as vmware-config-tools.pl script returned compilation errors.

Guest Network Set-up

Note: both MAC addresses below has been changed by adding MACADDR in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth per device.

ifconfig (edited)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1C:DF:04:FC:75

inet addr:10.0.69.215  Bcast:10.0.69.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

(used as public gateway NIC)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:FF:FF:FF

inet addr:10.0.69.1  Bcast:10.0.69.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

(used asprivate gatewayNIC)

Failed Test Case #1

Attempt to ping public firewall and private firewall addresses. Expected result: reply from different MAC addresses.

ARPING 10.0.69.1 from 10.0.69.200 eth0

Unicast reply from 10.0.69.1 00:1C:DF:04:FC:75  1.428ms

ARPING 10.0.69.215 from 10.0.69.200 eth0

Unicast reply from 10.0.69.215 00:1C:DF:04:FC:75  1.418ms

Result: Failed - both public and private firewall IP address reply using same MAC address.

Failed Test Case #2

Pulling out LAN cable from public NIC (i e eth0 on host system/ eth0 on guest system).

Expected result: no ping reply.

sudo arping 10.0.69.215

ARPING 10.0.69.215 from 10.0.69.200 eth0

Unicast reply from 10.0.69.215 00:1C:DF:04:FC:75  4.761ms

Result: Failed - gust public NIC binds to same physical host NIC as used by gust private NIC.

Remaining Questions

Q1) Have I missed any steps  to I set-up the guest virtual network to be bridged directly to host NIC's eth0 and eth2?

Q2) Are there any known issues with bridged networking for WMware Server 1.0.9

All relevant feedback is welcomed!

//Jimmy

I have to convert the VMware workstation to ESX Server through ESX converter( SunSolaris  was running on this VM ).After the conversion of this VM in ESX . Sun Solaris is rebooting again and again.

I am new in ESX.Please Help

Hi all,

This is a "where do I ask this question" kinda question... =-)

Please forgive me if my terminologies are incorrect; I'm familiar with V-machines, but not to the scale of which I'm about to describe.

I've come across some Sun Sparc boxes that I would like to string together into one big clustered/balanced VMware server, for the purpose of spannig/sharing all the CPU & disk resources. The primary purpose will be to run v-machines with Windows XP Pro & Windows Server 2003, however *Nix and v-applicances are also a possibility.

How do I do this? =-)

Hello,

I am using VMWare Server 1.09x on two Dell 390 Workstations with Windows Server 2003 R2SP2 x32 (fully patched). I was running out of space on one of the physical workstations that is running two VM's. After moving one of the VM's to the other physical Workstation, and accessing the VMWare Console via the Web Interface, I went to Auto Startup/Shutdown because I want all the VM's to startup in the event that the real server has to reboot.

This worked fine prior to the move. Now when I try to set the recently copied/moved VM to Auto Start, it shows in the list as ANY ORDER, which I did not set, and it shows the other VM that resides there. I chose the EDIT option to assign a boot order but only one VM shows, the one that was there all along, the recently moved one is not an option at all, it doesn't exist. Going back to the main menu shows the recently moved VM still in the Any Order state.

Upon a reboot of the physical machine, the recently moved VM will NOT start up and requres a manual startup. Any way to fix this?

Thank you!

Hi !

I installed on Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop (32bit) vmware-server-console 1.0.10 (tested 1.0.6, 1.0.7 and 1.0.9) without any problem.

I ran it without any problem for a couple of days.

Today I update Ubuntu kernel to 2.6.35.22 and it is not possible to start vmware-server-console anymore.

I receive the following error:

$ sudo vmware-server-console

/usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_mapped_file_unref

No reference found on Google.

Any ideas ?

Thanks

GG

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)