SCSI Errors after upgrading to 1.0.4 on Debian Etch
Hello, after upgrading from VMWare Server 1.0.3 to 1.0.4 on Debian Etch I had serious errors in VMWare guests. The Guests are running Debian Etch too. They have one SCSI disk image with BusLogic...
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 ArticleVM ware server version 1.0.10
I am trying to migrate a server off vmware server version 1.0.6. I was able to find an installer for 1.0.7, but not 1.0.10 which according to a website is the last version of the 1 branch. I havent...
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 Articledevice symppi did not respond within timeout period
I have a VMWare server running on Windows 2003 with a Windows 2003 guest. The host machine uses SAS RAID5 storage. When the guest operating system is backing up, or does other disk-intensive things,...
View ArticleVMWare backup script on Linux host
Below is a backup script that I have created for backing up vmware instances on a Linux machine. Note that it requires the quest OS to have vmware tools installed in order to suspend it....
View ArticleNat/Port Forwarding Issue
Hi All, I have a CentOs 4.4 Host with both Linux & MS guests. I have TS & FTP running on a MS guests. I configured the Nat to forward both these ports to the respective guests & all was...
View ArticleIs disk mode configuration avaliable in VMWare Server?
I was looking to investigate the performance of an independent non-persistent, however the configuration options seems to be greyed out when I go to create a new disk. Is this functionality available...
View ArticleAutofit Window and Autofit Guest not working
I run VMware Server 1.0.3 build-44356 on Ubuntu Feisty as host. The guest I am running is Xubuntu Gutsy. The issue I am having is that the Autofit (both Window and Guest) seem not to be working. Is...
View ArticleFreeBSD high CPU utilization
I have installed some FreeBSD VM's and I keep seeing high CPU utilization. By high I mean 22-25 percent constantly. My linux and even windows VM's are in the 5-6 percent rage at the most. Even when...
View ArticleHow to get VMserver to see more than 4GB of RAM
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server running Windows Server 2003 Standard R2 with 8 GB of RAM installed. VMware will only see 4 GB of this memory. I know that the limit for Windows Server 2003...
View ArticleVMWare Oracle RAC with OCFS2 - SCSI BUG?
Hi, I have installed a 2 node Oracle RAC 10G R2 on VMWare Server 1.0.3. The Host OS is \[vmware@leih0421 rac2]$ uname -aLinux leih0421 2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Sun Oct 15 15:13:57 PDT 2006 x86_64...
View ArticleBridged networking just quit!
All: I've found several threads on this with no real resolutions, so I'm posting this in the hopes someone has since found a resolution and can share it...or that VMWare has found the bug and fixed it....
View Articledefining IP Address and DNS configration on VMWare server?
plz suggest as mentioned in subject. We have SuSe LINUX Version ans wants to define IP Address and DNS setting. We get some error which looks like as resulted due to IP or DNS setting. Message was...
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Poor networking performance, and surprinsingly high load
Hello, I am running Vmware server on an Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) server, with mixed (k)Ubuntu server/desktop 32/64bits as guests. The host is a SUN server, dual Opteron dual cores (first generation, so...
View ArticleUSB device issues - Specifically Sony ICD Voice Recorder
I am running VMWare 1.0.3 build-44356My host OS is Kubuntu Linux Dapper 6.06 kernel 2.6.15-27-386My guest OS is Windows XP Professional SP2 Hardware - Sony ICD-P28 series recorder using Sony Digital...
View Articleubiquitous "Cannot open disk ....Reason:Failed to lock the file"
I am running server 1.0.3 build-44356 with Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop x86 64 with XP as the guest. I changed the destination for snapshots earlier to move it elsewhere on the network. Tried to login...
View ArticleBest file system for linux guest operating system
Hello, I was wondering if there are opinions about what file system is best to use inside Linux quest OS. As a matter of host, I personally prefer to use a xfs for the partition containing my vmdk...
View Articlevmware server internal monitor error
Hi guys i have this problem for a while nowi think it might have to do with my host video card but i have o idea now my guest servers turn off suddenlymy log give this error Sep 18 06:03:11: vcpu-0|...
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...
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