How to Make Bootable CD for VMWare?
How do you make a Windows 2003 bootable CD work under VMWare? Microsoft sells the Winternals product now that they purchased them, and Winternals includes a bootable Windows 2003 image named ERD...
View ArticlePoor mans ESX
Anyone ever toy with the idea of making an ISO of a free linux distrabustion prebundled with vmware server alreadt configured. so you can pop in a cd install and be ready to build VM's anyone...
View ArticleBUG: Soft lockup detected on CPU
Hello, When running Centos 5 on Vmware using 2 CPUs I get the following kernel error:"BUG: Soft lockup detected on CPU#0!". ( I attached the error as copied from dmsg )The error shows up once in a few...
View ArticleAdd Guest mode to display full screen Suse 10
Hi all I cannot seem to display full screen modewith vmware server loaded onto Suse 10 when I start the virtual Machine and then try to switch to full screen I get this error Unable to find an...
View ArticleWin2K3 Host cannot ping RHEL4 Guests and vice versa
My configuration is as follows: Host : Win2K3 ServerVM S/W : VMware Server 1.0.2Guest1 : RHEL4 (RedHat Enterprise Linux 4)Guest2 : RHEL4 (RedHat Enterprise Linux 4)CPU : Intel Core2...
View Articleparted could not detect file system
I resized my disk on a linux vmserver. It went fine, but I am unable to get Parted to see the file system, so I can resize the /dev/sda2 partition. Any ideas how to get past this? (parted) check...
View ArticleVMware Server 1.0.3 - VMware Tools install problem and workaround
VMware-server-console-1.0.3-44356VMware-server-linux-client-1.0.3-44356 Client - Windows 98SE What it was doing was ... repeatedly accessing the virtual CD drive from the Windows guest after I gave the...
View ArticleVMWare Server Windows XP guest constantly accesses CDs
I have two DVD burners on my CentOS 5.0 host box and I'm running VMS 1.03 with a Windows XP guest. I noticed that the Windows guest was CONSTANTLY accessing the DVD drivers, like once per second. I...
View ArticleCentos Install on VMWare - Error just before Manual Disk Druid
Hi; This may be a VMWARE problem and not a Centos problem, so I'malso posting this to VMWARE forum site.Any help appreciated.Hi; This is first time attempting to install Centos using VMWareon my Laptop...
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 ArticleCentOS 5 kernel compiled with HZ=100...Yum repository
See these threads for background: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=58736http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=60462 I have setup a Yum repository with a custom kernel...
View ArticleAnyone solve this vmrun problem?
I've seen a number of posts on this problem with no solutions.. just try this and that and no one saying anything worked for them. Needless to say I tried everything I saw and still have the same...
View ArticleUSB drive sharing between guest and host?
It's not currently possible to use a USB device both in a VMware guest and in the host at the same time, correct? Per my observations, the guest takes the device away from the host OS when it powers up...
View Articlepros and cons of windows vs linux for new development environment
Ok guys this is another vmware server question in regards to running a linux host or windows host. I'm a windows admin right now I run a test enviroment on vmware server on windows server 2003. I will...
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Difference between Defrag & Shrink
I've searched the forum but cannot find a definitive explanation as to the differences between the Defrag and Shrink options wrt to my setup... First let me mention, I know the general concept of...
View ArticleDoes VMWare Server support Windows CE guests ?
Does VMWare server support Windows CE guests ? I apologise if this has already been addressed in another thread.
View ArticleKSH install on Service Console
I am having an issue installing TSM client 5.3.3. I am receiving the following error. usr/bin/ksh is needed by TIVsm-BA-5.3.3-0 Is it okay to install the ksh on ESX servers. Thanks
View Articletime issue on VMWare Server Linux with Linux Guest system
Hi everybody, I've got run out of ideas. But maybe I just have missed some vital information. If so, I would be pleased if someone could direct me to the right source. The same applies, if I posted...
View ArticleGuest will not turn off, only suspend
Hello! We are running VMWare server on SuSE Enterprise Server 10. We have two guests, both are Win2k3 Server. Everything works fine, except when you shut down one of the guests (Start,shutdown) it...
View Articlevmware-authd fails at system startup
Hello, on most system startups i get /var/log/messages: Dec 10 06:40:53 t300 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.Dec 10 06:40:58 t300 xinetd[5397]: Reading included configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/chargen...
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