Domain Controller Virtualization
I have been tasked with the virtualization of 6 Windows 2003 domain controllers. Two root DCs, 2 DCs for child domain 1 and 2 DCs for child domain 2. The initial plan I had was to set up two DCs as...
View Articlechange behaviour of vmnet interface in linux
is it possible to make the vmnet interface do mac learning and make it behave like a switch?? it appear now to act like a hub broadcasting packets to all virtual machines...
View ArticleNetwork is very slow
I have just recently installed an Ubuntu host running VMware Server v1.0.3. The host has 5GB of RAM and two Xeon 2.40GHz CPUs. There are only two VMs on the host, both of them a result of P2V of the...
View ArticleUnable to view the virtual machine's screen
Since updating my host OS to Ubuntu 7.10, and VMware Server to 1.04 I only get a black screen from the Server Console, and this message: "Unable to view the virtual machine's screen: You need execute...
View ArticleGuest OS' clock runs too fast
I have looked for solutions for this problem, but haven't found one that works for this system. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. The clock of the guest OS runs around 1.5x faster than...
View ArticleDuplicate neame exists on the network
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...
View ArticleRAM limit in Ver 1 (3.6GB) Ver 2 (8GB) - WHY?
Can someone explain to me why there is even a limit on how much VMWare Server will ALLOW users to allocate to guest VM's?I find it kind of "Microsoftish" to enforce the limits. Many users out here have...
View ArticleEvent Viewer Error vmauthd (EventID 100)
Hi, I've installed VMW Server 1.0.4 b56528 on WinXP Pro SP2. Freshly installed VMW Server and after resetting the computer (without even running VMW Console) I get an application event error. here are...
View ArticleWindows server 2008 install hangs on "windows is loading files"
Hi, I try to install Win 2008 RTM on my vmware server 1.0.4 (and 1.0.3) on Debian (2.6.24). When I boot it, it hangs on the "Windows is loading files" screen, and I never get the installation...
View ArticleLinux LVM Snapshot VM Backup Script
I thought it might be useful to someone so I'm posting the perl script I use to do daily backups of my Virtual Machines. The script handles running machines by suspending them, taking an LVM snapshot,...
View ArticleUnable to install Windows OS when using scsi drives
I've been using vmserver v 1.4 for a few months now. I recently upgraded to v 1.5. I wanted to create some new vm pcs. My delima is this I create a new VMusing scsi instead of ide. I load the scsi...
View ArticleHow to Use Ghost Image to load OS on VMWare Server 1.04
I have a ghost image of vista with *.gho extension, How can I use it to load on VMWare? I tried VM Convertor but it's not recognizing the .gho format.
View ArticleNo local host option
I was using VMware Server 1.0.4 build 56528 in Win XP SP3. I got a new PC (Vista Business 64) so I decided to get the latest version, 1.0.5 build 80187. It is installed but there is no Local Host...
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...
View ArticleCan't install VMWare due to XP Persmissions?
Trying to install VMServer 1.0.6 or 2.0 Beta on a XP Pro machine and get the same error just after I launch the installer: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not...
View ArticleRemoved snapshot, how to remove the -00001.vmdk file?
Hello everyone, I have a VM in VMWare server which I used to have a snapshot on. I have since deleted the snapshot, but I see that it left behind a file 120gb-000001.vmdk, which i assume was the data...
View ArticleWindows Firewall on Host is blocking RDP to Guest
I have installed VMWare Server 1.0.6-91891. My host is Vista Ultimate and the guest is Windows Server 2003 Standard. The host is running Windows Firewall. My problem is that I cannot bring up a...
View Articlemy converted vmdk disk are slow ?
hello, i use vmware server 1.06 on a hp DL380 G5 quad core with RaID 1+0 SAS drives and 10gb RAM. the host OS is Centos 5.2 with PAE kernel. I imported 4 virtual machines (2 win2Ksrv and 2 linux...
View ArticleCan't connect to VMWare Server localhost
Hi, I have tried this many times. I installed VMware server. And from the vmware console, there's no option to connec to localhost. I noticed that VMware Authorization service and VMware...
View ArticleVMware Tools on Endian Firewall
Recently set up an Endian VM and have it acting as my firewall/router for my home network. I'm curious if anyone has ever tried to get VMware Tools installed on it? It appears to be some flavor of...
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