Cannot enter Serial number for VMWare Server Console on Vista
I have downloaded the version (currently downloadable) and installed it on my Vista Ultimate laptop. The installation went smoothly. I have registered and gotten a Serial # from the VMWare site. The...
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 ArticleHow do you suspend guest vm's when the host shuts down?
I know how to shut down a guest VM when the host shuts down but I would really rather just suspend the guests. Is there an easy way to do that? If it requires a script, can someone provide a URL with...
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 ArticleNetwork - physical to /dev/vmnet mappings?
Where are these mappings controlled? After installing Server 1.0.3, I went from using ethX directly to bonding. I cannot get networking inside of VMs working... I have a feeling it's because the...
View ArticleWhat is VMnet all about?
As a total beginner to VMWare (and to networking in general, as well) and am therefore confused as to why my VMWare host OS has one or more VMnet ethernet interfaces created (e.g. VMnet1, VMnet8, etc)....
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 ArticleWidescreen resolution "Resolution.KVM"
Hello, I am running Vmware server on a Linux host, running a vmware Windows XP pro iamge from the linux host. The linux host is running at the resolution 1360x768. I also want that the windows xp...
View ArticleMaximum hard disk size limitation?
Back in the GSX day, I seem to recall a 256 GB size limitation on virtual hard disk drives. Does that limit no longer exist with VMware Server? Is there any limit now (of course, notwithstanding the...
View ArticleError: Insufficient System Resources
We get the error insufficient resources available... after about 24 hours of run time. Task Manager shows less than half of the available memory (physical + virtual) used. The box is running the...
View ArticleVMware Server on Debian Etch fails to install
Hi everybody, trying to install VMware Server on Debian Etch 4.0 on a Dual Xeon 64Bit Machine (Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz) runs in this error: The correct version of one or more libraries needed...
View ArticleCan NOT print from 16bit DOS app through windows RDP
Hello I used P2V to covert a physical up machine that was running legacy 16bit dos app to a virtual guest. The user now accesses this virtual guest through windows Remote Desktop. The computer...
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 ArticleHow do you identify the VM within Virtual Server (i.e. the vmware-vmx.exe file)
This doesn't happen often, but on occassion I have a VM lockup within Virtual Server (1.0.4). I'll run "pslist servername vmware" (a pstools utility) to find the PID of the vmware-vmx.exe file of the...
View ArticleDuplicate neame exists on the network
We recently upgraded to a new primary domain controller and demoted the old primary to secondary. Since this, all of our virtual machines give an error that a duplicate name exists on the network. I...
View ArticleDHCP not working in Guests
I am running into a problem where DHCP is not working in my guest VMs. I am running VMWare Server 1.0.4 on a Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 system with SP2. If I manually configure my guests with a...
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 ArticleEvent Viewer Error vmauthd (EventID 100)
Hi, I've installed VMW Server 1.0.4 b56528 on WinXP Pro SP2. Freshly installed VMW Server and after resetting the computer (without even running VMW Console) I get an application event error. here are...
View ArticleWindows server 2008 install hangs on "windows is loading files"
Hi, I try to install Win 2008 RTM on my vmware server 1.0.4 (and 1.0.3) on Debian (2.6.24). When I boot it, it hangs on the "Windows is loading files" screen, and I never get the installation...
View Articlevmnet bridged interface not functioning
On my VMWare Server, I am trying to map vmnet0 and vmnet2 to eth2 and eth3, respectively, as bridged adapters. I am not having much success. I am using vmware-config.pl to change the mapping. I have no...
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