Failed to lock file
I have a windows 2000 Virtual machine I setup on a VMware server. It was working fine but now it is giving me this error when I try to start the machine: Cannot open the disk '/vmdsk2/VM/Windows 2000...
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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 ArticleWindows 2003 Server Standard 32 bit as guest is very slow (hw acc ok)
Situation:Host: Hardware --> FS TX 150 S5 / Dual Core Xeon UP 3050 / 3 Gb Ram / HD 500 Gb SATA II.O.S --> Windows 2003 Server R2 Standard SP2 Guest:O.S. --> Windows 2003 Server R2 Standard SP2...
View ArticleVMware Management User Interface(MUI) optimization:
Hellow! VMware MUI is a great interface,However i normaly use the VM server Console More. I like the Fact that it shows the processor utilization and RAM utilization bar. I suppose there are other...
View ArticleVMWare Server is really slow
For some reason, My VM has become really tediously slow. The host is Windows 2003 x86 SP2 running VMware Server 1.0.3. The guest runs Windows XP SP2. For a while it's been running at normal speed,...
View ArticleP2V conversion of NT4 not booting
I converted a dual boot NT4(sp6) and win2k3 box but can only get the win2k3 to boot up. When I choose NT4 from the boot menu I get the STOP 0x0...7B error stating INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. This is a...
View ArticleVMNET bridged to Wrong ETH port
Hello all, I use VMWare in a production environment and if the servers reboot (You know when a moron unplug your rackmount server carefully plugged in a UPS) then My VMNET are scrambled.For instance...
View ArticleCannot open the disk 'P:\VMS01\vms01hdd02.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks...
The virtual hard disk was working fine before, it just happen when the host is restarted due to windows security patches. Once the host restarted, the above mention error happened. I had check out...
View ArticleVMware Server Windows 2003 Guest OS SCSI Driver
I have a Dell Poweredge 2950. This machine has (2) quad core processors, 8 gigs of ram, (2) dual port gigabit NIC's, and Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition for the Host OS. I recently uninstalled...
View ArticleDLT Tape Drive not recognized by guest OS
Hello, The host is Debian Linux 4. The guest is Windows Server 2003 Standard. The tape drive is a scsi DLT TH5BA-YF. The host recoginzes the drive fine. I ran a ' cat /proc/scsi/scsi ' and...
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 ArticleHow to change ip address of host for vmnet's instead of always being...
I'd like to number my host-only networks to match the vmnet id and use the same "address" (4th tuple) for all interfaces. As you see I'm using the 3rd tuple to carry the address now, first digit...
View ArticlePrivate Active Directory Domain Routed To Public Network
I did read the FAQ for this forum and have done a search...the FAQ did not answer my question and in each of the search results some detail would deviate from what I am attempting to do. Hence this...
View ArticleTime "loop" with Ubuntu server guest?
Hello, Having an odd problem. On two separate Ubuntu Server 7 guests, after they have been running for a few hours, the time seems to get stuck in a "loop". For example, on one of my VMs, the time now...
View ArticleWEB Access ports 8222 and 8333 aren't open after reboot
Hello, I have installed VMWare Server v1.0.4 on top of KUBUNTU LINUX - so far...all is good. I have installed the MUI and can attach to the server remotely using http://<hostname>:8222 and...
View Articlesharing guest OS folder with outside network
i am having a really strange issue with vmware. I have debian host OS, windows xp and windows 2003 server guest OSs with bridged networking setup for guests. Everything is fine when it comes to...
View ArticleAPI for dot net
Is there an api for VMWare Server that can be accesssed from a dot net program? It doesn't look like the VIX api can do this and it doesn't look like the VMWare Infrastructure SDK will work with...
View ArticleVirtual Fax Server
We are putting together a system using Server 1.04 and would like to set up a VM as a fax server. We plan on using Windows 2003 x64 as the host OS. Does anyone have a recommendation on if, or how this...
View ArticleHow to handle "unable to initialize snapshot tree Failed to lock the file"?
Hi folk, I faced very long snapping (>5 hrs., like hung) then it was power-off. The msg in vmware.log show ******************..vmx| VMXVmdbCbVmVmxChkptState: Updating with reqPath...
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VMWare Server virtual disk performance
Hello , Host System :===========I'm running vmware server 1.04 on linux slackware 12.0 (2.6.21.5-smp #3 SMP Tue Feb 5 13:34:52 CET 2008 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz GenuineIntel...
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