Importing VHD Images into VMWare
Hi, We have been trying to import the MS Exchange Server 2007 VHD downloadable image into version VMWare server 1.0.5, but it was failing with the message "Cannot find virtual disk". We therefore...
View ArticleDelayed Write Failed Errors When Transferring Large Files to Host
Greetings, I've been attempting to resolve a problem for serveral weeks with Delayed Write Errors occuring on my guest OS (W2K3 64bit) when attempting to backup a large file (3-4GB) to a network share...
View ArticleBSOD then reboot. Too fast to read!
I have about 6 vm's that work on my Server 1.0.5, which were installed onto virtual disks from the get-go. I'm trying something new now, I've cloned a real disk (IDE 120G) from my old machine to run...
View ArticleProblem with USB attached external drive
I've seen this issue on a few posts in the Ubuntu forums but no solutions yet. I've installed VMware Server on my Ubuntu Linux laptop and copied a virtual machine to an external USB drive. The drive...
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 ......
View ArticleVM using too much disk space on host
Hi, I am running VMWare Server 1 and one of my VM's is using too much disk space. It's quite complicated but I will try to explain it the best that I can. The VM has three virtual HDD's, named...
View Articleshared folder in Vcenter or workstation
Can anyone help me to know how to shared a folder between 2 VMs using Vmware server or worskstation. thank y.
View ArticleHow to shrink a Linux Guest
Hi, I got a VMware Server on a Linux OS and now I won´t to shrink a Linux Guest on that server. The Linux Guest have 2 HDD´s. One small with 10GB an a big one with 200GB. And the second partition...
View Articlelinux guest video drivers
i have fedora12 x86 running as a guest. the server uses a nvidia card and i would like to install its drivers on the linux guest. but the nVidia driver install can't recognize the card as it is the...
View ArticleVM on a 10.10.10.x network
I have a VMWare server installed on a 10.10.10.x network and unfortunately I am not able to make it work. If I am setting the NIC to use NAT I do have internet connection but under the bridge setting...
View Article"Failed to lock the file" - can't start a guest anymore?
I installed VMWare server recently (running on Linux), and there, I installed Windows 2003.It worked smoothly for a couple of days, but yesterday, I rebooted the Linux server a couple of times, and the...
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 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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Failed to configure disk scsi0:0. The virtual machine cannot be powered on...
Hi, can anyone pls help me with this problem? I have a GSX 3.2 server (running on win2003 sp2 32-bit) that runs 2 VMs. One of the VMs runs Exchange 2003 SP2 (win2003 sp2) and has recently failed to...
View ArticleCreating a virtual machine using vix api
Hi, I want to know what is the vix api call to create a new virtual machine in vmware server. There are api calls available for connecting to a vm, pausing, suspending a virtual machine etc, But i...
View ArticleUnable to install Windows OS when using scsi drives
I've been using vmserver v 1.4 for a few months now. I recently upgraded to v 1.5. I wanted to create some new vm pcs. My delima is this I create a new VMusing scsi instead of ide. I load the scsi...
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Vmware Error While Trying To Run MacOSX Image
I am trying to open a Mac OSX VMware Image but VMware doesn't opens previously it was showing an error "Failed To Get the Locked Status Of CD-ROM" But now it doesn't give any error but Power Off...
View ArticleThis CPU is VT-capable???
I have installed VmServer on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. The OS is Windows 2003 Server Standard (Not the 64bits version).When I move an existing Virtual Machine to this host, and I start it the following...
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 ArticleVMWare Server is really slow
For some reason, My VM has become really tediously slow. The host is Windows 2003 x86 SP2 running VMware Server 1.0.3. The guest runs Windows XP SP2. For a while it's been running at normal speed,...
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