convert xen vm's to vmware server
Hi Folks, on some older machines i have some xen vm's running in a test environment (xen2.x and xen 3.x). Now I would like to convert some of my xen vm's into vmware vm's but i have no idea how to...
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Hello, I have some network problems between the host (Ubuntu 7.04 with Vmware server 1.03) and the guest (Windows 2003 server Standard). I use bridged networking between the two machines. All other...
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 ArticleOutput error...
I have VM Server 1.03 installed on my WinXP Professional and i am trying to install WinXP Pro as a guest OS from the Norton Ghost but i keep on getting this error: [Output error to the following...
View ArticleWindows NT 3.51 on VMWare is it possible.
Has anyone one gotten Microsoft Windows 3.51 Server running on VMWare Server? If so, can you please explain how you did it? I tryed using VMWare Converter, but it does not allow Windows 3.51 Server....
View ArticleRed Hat 7.3 P2V
I need to clone a Red Hat 7.3 host into a VM. I'm working with http://www.tienhuis.nl/archives/17 The physical machine has two partitions, one for / and one for /home So I partitioned the disk in the...
View ArticleVLANs on Dell PowerEdge 2950 - causing ARP problems
I have a Dell PE 2950 running VMWare Server 1.0.3 and it is running great. The issue is what it's doing to our routers and the rest of our network. I has been randomly stealing IP addresses from...
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 Articlelinux probes nonexisting scsi units
Hi! I noticed that if I boot linux (for example PartedMagic pmagic-1.8.iso : http://www.download.com/Parted-Magic/3000-2094-10663999.html ) it probes a lot of scsi devices and therefore needs ages to...
View ArticleCentOS updates break VMware server?
Hi all - This may be a bit of an obvious question, with an even more obvious answer, but I'm going to toss it out there anyway.... I have had VM Server running on a CentOS 5 box for a few weeks now,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Suggesting RPC Problems Due to VMWare Server
We are having a problem with running a domain controller on Windows 2003 Server as a virtual machine under VMWare Server. Our exact configuration is an HP DL585 with eight processor cores running...
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 Articleset affinity on vmware-vmx.exe
on a dual core laptop is there any benefit to setting the Affinity for the vmware-vmx.exe services to cpu 0- and then set your VM to use both processors? or is there no negative impact having the...
View ArticleVMware guest stops responding to network requests and then starts working...
Hi All, We've purchased a Dell PowerEdge 1950 and we've been trying for couple of weeks to run 2 Windows 2003 guest OSs. The virtual machines run fine for an undefined period of time and then...
View Articlevmware-vmx process spewing gettimeofday() calls
Hello, I've installed VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.10 (kernel 2.6.22-14-server) using the version from the Ubuntu repository then used a CentOS 5 appliance as a guest OS. As soon as the guest OS was...
View Articleduplicate address detected with Linux host/guest
Hi all, i've got this question for you: I have VMware server 1.0.4 and a number of linux and windows VMs on it. Everytime I start networking on linux machines, I get "duplicate address detected"...
View ArticleHow to monitor VMWARE Machines from Zabbix
Hi Someone using zabbix to monitoring vmware virtual machine? Regards, Albert
View ArticleNFS Apache Log files
Hello all, I'm a new user of VMware virtual server and I'm trying to create a simple setup to run two Linux virtual servers each hosting an install of apache/php/mysql. One server will be used for...
View ArticleCannot access Oracle DB Console from HOST OS by browser
Hi, My DEV env is: Host OS is WinXPVMWARE Server 1.0.4Linux Guest ( Kernel:2.6.9-42). The network type is host-only. There is no problem to connect my Linux Guest via SSH (port 22) from host. I...
View ArticleVMware tools won't install - RHEL 5 host, Server 1.04, RHEL 5 guest - all...
The VMware Service console acts like the tools are being installed. Specifically - the choice toggles from the VM Menu between Install VMWare Tools - AND - Canel VMware tools install. However, the...
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