USB Printers under WinXP in VMWare
Folks, I have recently installed VMWare under Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) and then installed WinXP Home into a virtual machine. I have been having a lot of trouble getting USB printers working inside the...
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 Article64-bit Guest OS on a 32-bit Host OS? Is it possible?
Hi, I have VMWare Server 1.0.2 on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 (32-bit) with 8GB RAM. When I looked up the CPU (Xeon 2.8GHz) on Intel's site, it looks like it supports EM64T... I'm wondering...
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VMWare Server USB problems - strange
Hi, I have VMWare running on a host Windows Server 2008 and guest OS is Windows XP Pro. I want to use my USB Dongle (Aladdin) and USB Memory stick in my guest OS. They both work perfectly in...
View ArticleWinDbg between two virtual machines (serial ports not working?)
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...
View Articleexternal USB drive as raw disk
Hi I was looking for the solution but couldn't find it. I have VMware server 1.0.6 installed on Windows XP. Since VM machine I created has slow performance I was thinking about using raw disk...
View ArticleHard Disk Space reduction in ESXi 4.0
Hello, I am using VMWare ESXi 4.0 server. My hardware has 460 GB of hard disk and 16 GB of RAM. I have two virtual instances of VMware running Windows 2003 Server. I had configured 200 GB and...
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ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt when trying to boot from vmdk file.
I get the error ntoskrnl.exe file is missing or corrupt when trying to boot VM Server from the vmdk file. Any help would be appreciated on a fix. Thanks!
View ArticleCan`t run the Windows server 2012 on Vmware due to 32x processor
Hello guys, I have a 32 bit laptop which I install Vmware vitual box on it .I`m trying to practice on server 2012 using this vmware , but because I have 32 bit processor , i can`t host the server and...
View ArticleSamba config for Windows in VMWare access to CentOS Linux box
I have tried to configure my CentOS4.4 Plus desktop for samba sharing with the VMWare Windows that runs on it. However, no matter what Ive done so far, I cant get the Windows to recognize this...
View ArticleCannot see usb device in redhat linux guest
Hi,I have created a linux vm machine on my windows host. However I cannot see the usb device in linux.Can someone suggest any pointers to start looking how to fix. Thanks In Advance David
View ArticleSuspend guests on host shutdown?
I've noticed that shutting down or restarting my server takes a very long time. Over five minutes is not uncommon. The only thing I can to blame is VMWare Server (1.0.3) which has a running guest while...
View ArticleIncompatible CMOS
I moved a VM from a SUSE Linux machine over FTP to a W2k3 machine. When I try to start up the VM I get the following error. "The CMOS of this Virtual Machine is incompatible with the current version...
View Articlevirtual server keeps losing network connection
I have virtual server setup on a windows server 2003 platform. I used VM converter to transfer one of my servers to a VM. It all works well all day long but every morning I come back into work the...
View ArticleUnable to ping/ssh to Guest VM in NAT mode
I have used VMware-Server in the past on RHEL/Fedora host where the VM's were also RHEL/Fedora.I used NAT mode and was able to ssh between the VM's and host pretty easily Thinking on similar lines, I...
View ArticleCannot disable automatic bridging - Also how to change VNet subnet?
Hi, First question: Host operating system is Windows Server 2003 standard. New installation of VMWare server. Host has 2 network cards on different subnets. I don't want automatic bridging to one of...
View ArticleCannot open VMparport driver for
hi i have this configuration: * Host is Windows Server 2003 Ent. with 2 adapter pci-x for add 2 parallel port* Guest is Windows Xp (bios setting of parallel port are set to bidirectional ) and when...
View ArticleUnder heavy I/O load on virt mach the virtual Network loses connection
I am running vmware server 1.0.3 on a host running Windows 2003 Server Enterprise X64 SP2. The box is a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with dual quad processors and 12 gigabytes of RAM. The virtual machine is...
View ArticleCannot access internet from guest
There is no internet connectivity from the guest when using bridged, although changing it to NAT fixes the problem. 1. ipconfig on guest (bridged) Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . ....
View ArticleUnable to get info for disk (IDE 0:0) ..can't open .vmdk .. The parent of...
Hi there. I have had a hellatious day working with VMware Server. I am running VMware-server-1.0.6-91891 on CentOS 5.3. Originally this morning, the system was running 2.0.2, but today I couldn't get...
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