ubuntu guest on ubuntu Host network problem
Hi all, i'm nearly new to the vmware server under linux host. I have used it before on windows xp host. Now i have this scenario. Host ubuntu 7.041 1gig ethernet card used with 2 vlan (eth0,...
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 ArticleExtending VM: can't extend logical volume
I have a RHEL VM which was 20Gb. It was running out of room and needs to be increased to 40Gb. I have successfully made the preallocated space increase using the following: vmware-vdiskmanager -x...
View ArticleVMEM Files Linux vs. Windows
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...
View ArticleInsufficient permission to access file
Hello! I'm using PCLinuxOS 2007 and VMware server 1.0.4 build-56528. I installed vmware from my superuser console and made the guest machine public. For some reason though I'm getting this error...
View ArticleRecover data from vmdk files
I realize this has been posted several times before, but this situation is slight different. I'm not have any luck and thought i would post. I have a vmware-server that had a corrupted file system. I...
View ArticleVMware Tools - You do not have permission to perform this operation
I have VMWare server (1.03 build 44356) installed on a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 Server, we currently only have 1 guest which is a Windows 2000 Server SP4. Everything is working fine for the most part...
View ArticleVM remains Stuck... (Input/output error)
Problem: Guest will not power on. It remains in a "Stuck" state. Issuing the vmware-cmd /path/vm.vmx answer returns the following: Question (id = 186134308) :Operation on file...
View ArticleAssign 3G Modem to a virtual machine
Hello, I Have a PCMCIA modem (3G-UMTS) which allow me to gain direct access to internet.The modem is correctly visible on Windows, and work perfectly.I have a LAN network wich work fine. The LAN...
View ArticleBitdefender Internet Security 2008 and VMWare Server
Hi, I want to check with you guys to see if you guys have have any issues with this. I recently upgraded my Bitdefenter Antivirus v10 Plus to Bitdefenter Internet Security 2008 ( both have Antivirus,...
View ArticleYour Computer does not support Long Mode. Use a 32bit Distribution.
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...
View ArticleDisable host file cache for guest machine
Hello, Is there a way for vmware to not cache the vmdk hard disk files? I run some benchmarks in vmware-servers and I need all the files to be read from the disk all the time. The host is linux...
View ArticleUnable to increase disk space....
Hi!when i try to increase the disk i get"Failed to analyze snapshot chain ............""Will not be able to make an informed decision based on partial information."(Vmware server)I cant remove the...
View Articlepiix4_smbus 000:00:07.3: host SMBus controller not enabled! (message)
Hello All. I'm running VMware Server Console,1.0.4 build-56528 on Ubuntu 8.0464Bit / 2.6.24-16-generic. I created an other ubuntu image running 7.10 and I installed alfresco (to demo). Everything...
View ArticleVmware Server Monitoring tools
I would like to hear from other community members using vmware server which vmware monitoring tools you are using? (What do they monitor and how effective do you find them to be)
View ArticleWhere do I get Vmware tools MSI ?
I'm trying to capture a Vista build via SMS on Vmware Server. I find that it cannot get an IP address so it fails. After the fact if I fire up Vista it shows unknown ethernet controller. If I install...
View Articlescsi_id does not return any identifier
Hello, I use VMware Server 1.0.5 on OEL 5.1 (32bit, kernel 2.6.18-53). All guests run OEL 5.1 as well. The box is used for testing Oracle. I cannot use scsi_id to get an identifier so that udev could...
View ArticleVM and Floppy Drive detection problems
Hi, I hope someone has an idea to my problem, because its driving me around the bend!! I'm running VMWare Server on a Windows Server 2003 SP2 host. The Vm is also running Server2003 SP2. I am trying...
View ArticleIs it possible to use parallel port dongles in a virtual machine?
We have an old Windows NT4 machine running an old application with an parallel port dongle. We don't trust the old hardware so we want to move this machine to a VMware machine. Is it possible to use a...
View ArticleSlow performance with RAM > 1.3GB
I am running a XP Virtual machine on VMWARE 1.06 server running on a Core 2 Duo processor with 4GB physical RAM laptop. Increasing the RAM on the VM to anything higher than 1.3GB tremendously slows...
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