Hard Disk Space reduction in ESXi 4.0
Hello, I am using VMWare ESXi 4.0 server. My hardware has 460 GB of hard disk and 16 GB of RAM. I have two virtual instances of VMware running Windows 2003 Server. I had configured 200 GB and...
View Articleguest (win2003) cannot ping host (linux) using hostonly
Hi, all, I've install the vmware-server-1.0.9 in centos 5.3 x64, create a hostonly vm - windows 2003. in host, ifconfig vmnet1: vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:01 inet...
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Corrupted VMDK, Snapshot and Defragment Issues
We have a Windows 2000 VM running in VMware Server 1. This VM's VMDK is make up of 17 separate vmdk files and the 13th vmdk file has been corrupted previously when the server encounter a power trip....
View ArticleRandom Network Disconnects
Greetings; I have a strange problem, I've tried searching the forums for an answer, forgive me if I've missed something. I have a Compaq server running VMWare Server Beta. (22874) My host is...
View ArticleNetwork name is no longer available Win 2003 host/guest(s) on VMWare Server
Hello! I get errors of "The specified network name is no longer available" which seem to correlate to other people's problems about large fast file copying between guest and host. The errors come from...
View ArticleSamba config for Windows in VMWare access to CentOS Linux box
I have tried to configure my CentOS4.4 Plus desktop for samba sharing with the VMWare Windows that runs on it. However, no matter what Ive done so far, I cant get the Windows to recognize this...
View Articleset_rtc_mmss: can't update from...
Several VMs running on at least one Server have this message repeated over and over on the console. One of them had some sort of stroke and died. Googling suggests that this is caused by ntpd trying...
View ArticleInsufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service...
Hello all, I am having an issue trying to copy/move large files "5-10+ gig" on a server running VM Server 1.0.3 ... Any large files copied locally or on network from or to the server will receive an...
View ArticleBuild a new VM from a snapshot
I have a VM with a fresh install of w2k3 with all the latest Microsoft updates. I made a snapshot of it. Can I create a brand new VM using this snapshot file? Is this the right way to do it? Thanks!
View ArticleUnable to access host's shared folders
Until yesterday I was able to access my Host's shared folders within the Guest operating system. I have tried (based on suggestions on this forum )reconfiguring the network support from Bridged to NAT...
View Articleshutdown of guest takes long / lot of disk-writes
Hello Community, first some information about my system: Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64 with kernel 2.6.24-21 VMWare Server 1.0.7 Intel Core2 Duo 2.66GHz Shutdown of a Windows2000 guest takes up to 10...
View ArticleVMWare Server: Dependency problem on 64-Bit Red Hat ES 4, EM64T
I just installed RH ES 4 on a new Dell box. VMWare Server reports a number of libraries not found, but locate finds the file.ie.:libX11.so.6 => not found but locate finds the filelocate...
View ArticleVMware *virtual* network card disconnects on bootup
Good day everyone, Hardware\Software Build: - VMWare Server 1.0.6 Build 91891- Host Machine: Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2- Guest Machine: Windows SBS 2003 SP2- Problem occurs every reboot- Host connects...
View ArticleCreating a Test Environment - Virtual Network Settings Questions
I would like to duplicate some of the machines in our production environment into a virtual environment for testing purposes. Most of our production machines are on the 192.168.2.0 network, including...
View ArticleHow to force shutdown suspended guest
Hello I am using VMware Server 1.01 on my Debian Etch machine.On the server there is a guest MS Windows Server 2003 R2 SP1. I create script on host server which suspends guest, makes backup of all...
View ArticleIIS Configuration Failed installing VMware Management Interface for VMware...
I'm installing VMware Server 1.0.5 on a Windows Server 2003 SP2 system. During the install of the VMware Management Interface I get the following error: Warning 25301. IIS configuration faield...
View ArticleProxy on Guest
I am using Server 2003 x64 on the host, and server 2003 standard on guests. My host has two NICS, one set to internal and one to external. I have a static IP on each of these, one points to the...
View ArticleVMServer v1.0.5-80187 Warning 25301. IIS configuration failed (131073)
Hi I "tried" to upgrade my VMware Server installation1.0.4-5652 to v1.0.5-80187. After deinstall the old Version and restart the error message VMServer v1.0.5-80187 Warning 25301. IIS configuration...
View ArticleXP Pro Guest cannot join Domain
Hello,RE: Announcement: << Read First >> Before posting questions1. VMware server 1.0.3 build-44356 for linux2. Host: Ubuntu 6.06 32 bit 2.6.15-28-3863. Guest: Windows XP Professional 32...
View ArticleBridged Networking doesn't work
Hi Community,i got following problem: when I use "Bridged Networking" my guest cannot connect to the LAN (doesn't get an IP from DHCP). When I set a static IP (see my ifconfig -a) I can ping the host...
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