Vmware server install fails on Debian 5 (Lenny)
Hi, I am getting the following error when trying to install VM server 1.0.8 onto Debian 5 (Lenny). Any help is greatly appreciated. What directory contains your desktop menu entry files? These...
View ArticleMounting USB device on Solaris VM?
Does anyone have a summary or web-link demonstrating how to get a Solaris 10 X64 VM to mount-up a USB device? I can setup the USB drive with either a NTFS volume or a UFS filesystem, whichever works...
View Articlevmon build fail Fedora 10
2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686 #1 SMP i686 athlon i386 GNU/LinuxVMware-server-1.0.8-126538.i386VMware-server-1.0.9-156507.i386 Short version: vmon build fails when running vmware-config.pl Long version:...
View Article.VMDK file now larger by 50% after running sdelete
Hello, We have 2 Virtual machines running VMWare Server 1.04, these run as W2K3 guests, the physical host that they reside on has run out of local disk space, so, I have copied one of the VM's off to...
View Articlekmode_exception_not_handled blue screen after Windows Update
After installing 6 updates for Windows 2000 Professional running in vmware Server and vmtools, my Windows show blue screen during bootup: STOP: 0x0000001E...
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 ArticleVM cannot boot anymore - PLEASE HELP!
Dear friends, I have a host machine with Ubuntu 7.10 which hosts using VMware Server 1.04 three virtual machines. One of them (Ubuntu 8.04 server) cannot boot anymore after a reboot of the host...
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vmware server wont restart after server relocation
Hi there, i'm running a vmware-server (1) on a fedora system. It worked fine for over a year now, but yesterday the company which hosted the server made a relocation of their equipment. Now my...
View ArticleVMware WS 7.1 and Error 1067
I have seen several posts on Error 1067 and encountered that on the latest and greated release. It is most likely my computer. I used to run VMware Server and it gave the same error as well. I...
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 ArticleVMware Tools in Puppy Linux 2.16
I am running VMware Server on Ubuntu Feisty (host) and have installed the latest version of Puppy Linux (2.16) as a guest. Getting VMware Tools installed took some figuring out and searching in various...
View ArticleUsing loopback adapter when disconnected from network
I am running VMware on a laptop with XP Pro as host and Windows Server 2003 w/Exchange as guest. Purpose is to demo Outlook/Exchange on the road. When I disconnect from my LAN the ethernet NIC is no...
View ArticleRamifications of changing "numvcpus" parameter on a guest
I have a guest machine(Windows 2003) that has the "numvcpus" parameter set to 2 in the VMX file. The host has 2 - Xeon HT procs, and i am runing 3 VMs currently on it. From reading through the forums i...
View ArticleSuspend guests on host shutdown?
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 ArticleBuffer I/O error on device sdx (vmware Server, Linux guest, Windows XP host)
Since installing vmware Server 1.0.4 build 56528 on a Windows XP host, I keep getting SCSI errors in my Linux 2.6.17-10-386 guest: dmesg output:17183434.356000 sd 0:0:5:5: Device not ready: <6>:...
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ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt when trying to boot from vmdk file.
I get the error ntoskrnl.exe file is missing or corrupt when trying to boot VM Server from the vmdk file. Any help would be appreciated on a fix. Thanks!
View ArticleProper Procedure for Cloning and Changing Host Name
VMWare's knowledgebase has different instructions for different versions of the product about how to clone, and none of those mention VMWare Server. What is the correct method to use to: 1) Clone a...
View ArticleHelp, how do i recreate a VMDK descriptor files please?
For some reasons, two of my VMDK descriptor files have become empty(i.e they are still there, they just contain NO data). I still have the actual VMDK flat data files (server (2)-flat.vmdk) etc... but...
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 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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