VMWare Server Disk Performance
Hi Guys... This one has me completely stumped! Upgraded from VMWare Server to VMWare Server 2 beta (on a Suse Linux 11.0 Host), and now my guest disk speed has slowed down to a crawl. I've done all the...
View ArticleBUG: AMD Phenom 64-bit Guests "not supported" on VMware Server 1.0.7 Linux...
There was another thread on this a long time ago, but I think the conclusion was incorrect, so I am starting another one. It appears that there is a bug in VMware Server, at least up through 1.0.7,...
View ArticleI want to restore snapshots faster ...
Hi all. I have a demo laptop that uses a VM image of Windows 2003 with Active Directory. I built it the way I wanted and created a snapshot. It takes about 12 minutes for the snapshot to load (768...
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 ArticleLogging Off of the Host
So, I built a windows 2003 sever and installed VMWare Server. The purpose of this server is to allow students who don't have an office in our department access to a remote desktop from home. To...
View ArticleOperation on file "\\.\PhysicalDrive0" failed (Access is denied).
Using Server 1.0.8 on Vista Home Prem 32bit. I have the drive from a previous computer that ran XP in this, too, and I want to boot it up in vmware. The drive is unmapped in windows but every time I...
View ArticleVMware Vsphere ESXi 4.0 MKS errors
Thanks in advance for your help. Running static IP with dhcp reservation. Made DNS entry and is able to ping With the Vsphere 4.0 console it gives a hyphen that is blinking.With the VMware Go it...
View ArticleVMDB Failure, I cant power on, vmware server 1.0
Dear member I was running this 2003 server since from 2006 in vmware server 1.0, on Last friaday i did shutdown for cold backup, after that i cant power on any more, I am getting VMDB failure, I dont...
View Articlentldr file missing
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....
View ArticleCannot connect to Host, error msgs
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...
View ArticleAudio Device on High Definition Audio Bus
I have 2 XP workstations I have converted to Virtual.Both now have "Audio Device on High Definition Audio Bus" with yellow explination mark in device manager.One machine was a Dell Optiplex 755 and the...
View Articlewindows 2003 guest unmountable_boot_device
Hi, After a few years running a windows 2003 server as guest on vwware server 1 and ubuntu 7.04, yesterday failed to start up.I see a blue start up screen with the message UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_DEVICE,...
View ArticleJava process demoted to single CPU
Java process demoted to single CPU please help on this issue. I take care of a production enterprise application , it is a java process quite complex that is a middleware application. The process runs...
View ArticleAdvice om my propsed setup..
I would like some advice on my proposed VMware server setup.. We have 5 light and 3 heavy users of our network and servers.. We have 3 servers that I want to "Virtualise" onto one physical server.....
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Poor disk performance under linux, fine under windows. Benchmarks
After spending what now amounts to 4 weeks dealing with this issue. Get ready for a long post hopefully with lots of performance/throughput numbers. The challenge:Windows 2000 SP4 Guest >512MB RAM...
View ArticleCritical bug in vmware server, SQL assertion problem
I am having this problem too...And it is a production server, I'm in trouble Just to register, and in hope vmware will correct the problem, I'm facing same problem as:...
View ArticleSilent install with vmware-install.pl
Hi. I'd like to install VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz( I have a special reason thant cat not install rpm on my box). So, Are there any ideas to silient install with vmware-install.pl ?...
View Articlecan't bridge to wlan0
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:...
View ArticleDoes VMWare Server support .vhd files (MS Virtual PC)?
Does VMWare Server support .vhd files (MS Virtual PC)? I downloaded the free .vhd image of XPSP3+IE8beta2 from Microsoft web site, but VMWare says it's not a valid image. Why?
View ArticleHost and Guest Cannot Communicate Over Network Shares
I have seen many posting to this problem, but no resolutions. I have a Windows 2003 R2 32 bit Host running VMWare Server.On this VMWare Host I am running 1 guest (Windows Server 2003 R2 64 bit).A...
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