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VMWare Server USB problems - strange
Hi, I have VMWare running on a host Windows Server 2008 and guest OS is Windows XP Pro. I want to use my USB Dongle (Aladdin) and USB Memory stick in my guest OS. They both work perfectly in...
View ArticleVMware Server dropping UDP broadcast packets due to checksum offload option...
I'm using Vista Home Premium 32-Bit (SP1) as the host running VMware Server 1.0.7 and a guest machine with OpenSUSE 10.3 Linux. The Linux guest is running Samba for file sharing with the Windows...
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 ArticleNo space left on device
I'm running VMWare Server 1.0.6. under Linux with a Windows XP image. Even after I delete files under Windows, VMWare does not remove the .vmdk files, it just keeps creating .vmdk files and after a...
View ArticleFile creation error - The specified network name is no longer available.
Hi, I can not copy any file from other (real) machines on any of my Virtuel machines (VmWare 1.0.3 build 44356) The error message is : File creation error - The specified network name is no longer...
View ArticleStrange errors with Windows PE (SCCM Image Capture task sequence)
I'm using VMWare Server 1.0.9 to run a test environment for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 OS Deployment, and I'm having all kinds of strange errors when capturing images in WinPE. A little...
View ArticleExtreme time drift on Linux guest
The most common solution to this problem is to disable NTP and install Vmware-tools. However, this is not an option for me, as I have no X server on my guest. I have added the following kernel...
View Articlevsocklib.dll
vsocklib.dll seem to come from VMWare. Das anybody has this dll on his system ? Does anybody know what it is for ? It appears to me that any of the starting services ... O23 - Service: VMware Agent...
View ArticleCan't open .vmdk or 1 of the snapshots it depends on. Reason: file specified...
I have recently posted another thread for a separate issue on VMware-server-1.0.6-91891 running on CentOS 5.3, this issue is different but stems from the same day. I posted there that I had downgraded...
View ArticleConvert from growable to preallocated?
Is it possible to convert a virtual disk from growable to preallocated? I have had enough of the defrags and poor disk i/o. I know the inverse is true with: vmware-vdiskmanager -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 0...
View ArticleUnable to release cursor
I have installed a Windows 2003 Server guest on a SLES 9 linux host. But I cannot release the cursor from the guest window using CTRL+ALT to install the VM tools. Is this a bug or is there another...
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...
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>:...
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 ArticleVirtualBox works but VMware doesn't
I have identical applications on identical guests (WinXp) connecting to the same DB on a linux host. On VirtualBox, this connection is established by entering the server address as the default gateway...
View ArticleVMware on server 2008
Is there something I need to do to get VM to run on Windows Server 2008? I went the the typical install and it apears to not be able to find the server. I see the server and the application pool...
View ArticleDisable host file cache for guest machine
Hello, Is there a way for vmware to not cache the vmdk hard disk files? I run some benchmarks in vmware-servers and I need all the files to be read from the disk all the time. The host is linux...
View Articleeth0 has different MAC address than expected
Hello, I use VMWare Server 1.0.6 on XP SP2 host. I created a VM CentOS 4.6 (I know it's not supported, but almost same as RHEL) with a fixed IP address, all works fine until I installed the VMWare...
View Article32bit Guest on 64bit Host
Hello, I'm trying to configure a 32bit Guest OS on a 64bit Host, and the guest always reports as 64Bit. (uname -m is always x86_64) Is there a property or setting in the .vmx I can change so that the...
View ArticleFILEIO: Failed to get a lock for file
I had a Windows 2003 VM running on an Ubuntu host that died on me. I'm now trying to boot up that VM on another Ubuntu machine running the same version of VMware Server 1.0.7 and I keep getting ......
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