ntldr is missing
I have installed VM Server 1.0.4. i then installed a virtual server, 2003 standard. It started sucessfully the first time. The second time I started the server, I get the "ntldr is missing message. I...
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 ArticleHow to assign Physical Network Card to Virtual Machine
Hi Everyone, I just want to ask on how can I assign physical network card in my virtual machine? My objective is to assign a public IP address to my Virtual machine and directly connect it to my...
View ArticleCan`t run the Windows server 2012 on Vmware due to 32x processor
Hello guys, I have a 32 bit laptop which I install Vmware vitual box on it .I`m trying to practice on server 2012 using this vmware , but because I have 32 bit processor , i can`t host the server and...
View ArticleCan not access guest from host or host from guest.
Hello, I can't acess my guest system from my host nor can I access my host from my guest. Both the host and the guest are Windows 2003 R2. I can ping both directions but if I try to access a file share...
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 ArticleHow to Use Ghost Image to load OS on VMWare Server 1.04
I have a ghost image of vista with *.gho extension, How can I use it to load on VMWare? I tried VM Convertor but it's not recognizing the .gho format.
View ArticleDeleting Disk after VM Removed from Inventory
I removed a few VMs from inventory when I should have instead deleted them from the disk. How can I delete them from the disk now that they no longer appear in inventory? I am running VMWare Server...
View ArticleHow to remove an old network card after VMware Conversion
Hi, I used VMware Convertor to import an physical Windows 2000 Server into VMServer 1.0.6. However, when I enters a static IP address on its emulated network cards, the IP address is assigned to...
View ArticleThe server could not complete a request (HTTP 0).
I have been running the latest build of VMware Server 2.0 BETA for quite some time now, but out of the blue I started to have issues logging into the VMware Infrastructure Web Site. Host: Windows XP...
View ArticleThe parent of this virtual disk could not be opened.
I have been getting symmpi errors on my Exchange 2003 VMs and so have been getting paranoid about them. Last night my main Exchange server crashed, so I started to look at the complete copy I took of...
View Articlemultiple .vmdk files
Hi, I'm using VMware Server v1.0.4. I started with a single virtual disk file (.vmdk file) 2 years ago. Now my folder contains 18 .vmdk files for this single environment (please see attachment). How...
View Article64-bit guest operating systems are not supported?? Opposite to vmware guideline?
Hi, I have installed VMware Server 1.0.6 on a WIndows 2003 Standard x64 machine. When I tried to create a new virtual machine with a guest of 64-bit (i.e. Windows 2003 Server x64) on the VM Server,...
View ArticleRemoved snapshot, how to remove the -00001.vmdk file?
Hello everyone, I have a VM in VMWare server which I used to have a snapshot on. I have since deleted the snapshot, but I see that it left behind a file 120gb-000001.vmdk, which i assume was the data...
View Articleguest os can`t telnet or ftp to host os
my host os is ubuntu 7.04my guest are xp ubuntu 7.04 centos 5but all my guest os can`t telnet or ftp to host os ping is ok telnet to other host is ok guest telnet to guest is ok any one can help me...
View ArticleConvert Physical Linux Machine to Virtual
Hey all.... What can I use to convert a physical Linux machine to a virtual? i know you can convert windows but I can't seem to find anything for Linux. Thanks
View ArticleHow to autostart Guest after power-on host?
Hello! Sorry for my bad English. I wish to guest system will start after start host system automatically (best if full screen). Or maybe guest system will start in full screen after icon click only?...
View ArticleIs there a way to know the drive letter assigned to a VMDK file ?
Hi,this may be a silly question but after converting a physical to virtual, we want to distribute the vmdk disk files across multiple disks on the receiving server. So, we have mapped out a table with...
View ArticleHOW TO: VMware Server for beginners
Most of the questions you want to ask are probably already answered in one of the following resources. For those that aren't, the search feature of this forum is the next place to go. Failing that,...
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...
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