How to control boot device order
How do I force my virtual machine too boot from an installation CD instead of a hard disk drive? I've installed debian-etchy once and now I want to start from scratch and and re-install debian (I...
View ArticleCan't Get Into Guest BIOS Through Console \!!!
I'm trying to change my boot order in a Linux guest so that I can boot to a rescue disk and fix my install. Unfortunately, the guest just flashes the option screen for a second before booting off the...
View ArticleConvert Physical Linux Machine to Virtual
Hey all.... What can I use to convert a physical Linux machine to a virtual? i know you can convert windows but I can't seem to find anything for Linux. Thanks
View ArticleUnable to release cursor
I have installed a Windows 2003 Server guest on a SLES 9 linux host. But I cannot release the cursor from the guest window using CTRL+ALT to install the VM tools. Is this a bug or is there another...
View Articlecut-n-paste between guest & host
Hi, I remember that sometime back when I was using either VMware Workstation (at work), or was it VMware Server-freeone (at home), I was regularly able to do cut-n-paste between guestOS & hostOS...
View Articleconvert xen vm's to vmware server
Hi Folks, on some older machines i have some xen vm's running in a test environment (xen2.x and xen 3.x). Now I would like to convert some of my xen vm's into vmware vm's but i have no idea how to...
View ArticleDisable power-related keyboard shortcuts
Is there currently any way to disable the keyboard shortcuts related to power (Ctrl-E = Power Off, etc)? I connect to various linux machines and routinely use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+R to do...
View ArticleMaximum hard disk size limitation?
Back in the GSX day, I seem to recall a 256 GB size limitation on virtual hard disk drives. Does that limit no longer exist with VMware Server? Is there any limit now (of course, notwithstanding the...
View ArticlePoor Disk I/O Performance in CentOS 5 64-bit Guest...
Good morning all. I've got an odd disk performance issue in one of my VMware Server VMs that I'm hoping someone can give me some direction on. The host is a Dual Dual-Core Xeon system with 4Gb of RAM,...
View ArticleVMWARE Server best practice for Joining a Domain
Hi Can anyone help as to what is best practice for setting up physical VMWARE servers in a Windows Domain - should the physical server be part of (joined to) the DOMAIN or not - are there benefits or...
View ArticleVMware Server shared disk setting
Hi Everyone, I install SuSE Enterprise Server 10.1 on my laptop computer, with only 1 physical disk is available.I install VMware Server 1.0.4 on top of it. Then, I create 2 virtual systems of SuSE...
View ArticleHow do you bridge Public IP address to the host NIC and the guest NIC?
I have W2003 Server that has 2 phyical NICsOn one NIC, I assigned a private IP address and on the other NIC, I assigned a public IP address. I installed VMWare Server and created Guest OS of W2003...
View ArticleIIS Configuration Failed installing VMware Management Interface for VMware...
I'm installing VMware Server 1.0.5 on a Windows Server 2003 SP2 system. During the install of the VMware Management Interface I get the following error: Warning 25301. IIS configuration faield...
View ArticleCan't get 1200x800 resolution on Windows XP
Good morning. I installed VMWare Server 1.0.5 build-80187 and Windows XP Professional on top of it. I tried to set the screen resolution to the max resolution of my laptop, 1280x800. It doesn't...
View ArticleHow to remove an old network card after VMware Conversion
Hi, I used VMware Convertor to import an physical Windows 2000 Server into VMServer 1.0.6. However, when I enters a static IP address on its emulated network cards, the IP address is assigned to...
View Article64 bit guest on 32 bit Host
I have a brand new HP "Intel Xeon 64 bit" server running windows 2003 32 bit OS. Can I use the free version of VMware server to run a 64bit guest OS of Windows 2003 server? Thanks in advance for your...
View ArticleHow to use real disk with virtualized FreeNas
I'm running freenas on vmware server, and I need to use a couple of identical disks and use them in raid 1 via FreeNas software. This is my problem: how can I add a disk (two, actually) and use it as...
View Articlevmauthd cannot connect to VMX
Hello, I am running Vmware Server 1.0 and get this error in eventlog. It happens to every machine that autostarts after a reboot. Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: vmauthdEvent Category:...
View ArticleWindows 2008 VM Network Driver issue
Hi, Im trying to update the network driver on a freshly installed Windows 2008 Standard VM (on Windows 2008 Host, VMWare 1.0.6). Do i have to use the driver associated with my physical adapter...
View Articlevsocklib.dll
vsocklib.dll seem to come from VMWare. Das anybody has this dll on his system ? Does anybody know what it is for ? It appears to me that any of the starting services ... O23 - Service: VMware Agent...
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