DHCP 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 ArticleAssign 3G Modem to a virtual machine
Hello, I Have a PCMCIA modem (3G-UMTS) which allow me to gain direct access to internet.The modem is correctly visible on Windows, and work perfectly.I have a LAN network wich work fine. The LAN...
View Articlepinging between two virtual machines
Hi forum, I have two virtual machines both have Windows 2003 Server sp2. I need both virtual machines can ping each other. I have tried and only one can ping the other one. Both virtual...
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...
View ArticleSilent install with vmware-install.pl
Hi. I'd like to install VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz( I have a special reason thant cat not install rpm on my box). So, Are there any ideas to silient install with vmware-install.pl ?...
View ArticleNeed to manually uninstall VMWare Server from Windows XP box
Greetings all, I had previously installed VMWare server 1.0.1-29996 on a Windows XP host machine on the D: drive (that is, the program files were on D:). The hard disk which held the D: partition...
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...
View ArticleVmWare networking problems
Hi, I have Centos 5.1 (64 bit) host (VmWare Server 1.0.6), and I want to have (finally) 4 guests on it 2 WinXP guests (with SQL Server 2005 Express) and 2 Centos 5.1 guests (both 32 bit). I started...
View Articlevmdk consistency problems
We have hundreds of servers running vmware server. Every so often (several times a month) one of our servers will fail to start a vm with consistency errors on a vmdk file. We are unsure of why we are...
View ArticleVirtualizing Physical Hard Drive
Hi, i currently have a Windows Server Setup on a machine and want to virtualize it on to another server. How do i do this using VMware Server? i want to make the physical hard drive in to a virtual...
View ArticleVMDB Failure, I cant power on, vmware server 1.0
Dear member I was running this 2003 server since from 2006 in vmware server 1.0, on Last friaday i did shutdown for cold backup, after that i cant power on any more, I am getting VMDB failure, I dont...
View Articlemounting nfs folder (in VM)
Pro and Cons? My host system is CentOS 5.5, my guests are also CentOS 5.5 Disk performances of VMs is very poor when I have more that 3 VM, so I Thinked to use NFS for mount at least /home of...
View Articlentldr file missing
I'm using VMWare server 1.0.10 build-203137 and I'm having issues. Basically I have a Symantec Ghost server running on a Windows XP SP3 box. I want to virtualize that machine for backup capabilities....
View ArticleVMware Server Console: Wrong keyboard settings on ASUS EEE
Hello ! I am using a small ASUS EEE (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic - Kernel 2.6.31) with VMware Server Console. Suddenly the keyboard won't work on the Windows XP guest operation system. The keys 'Q', 'W', 'E',...
View ArticleI cannot ping my guest operating systems via Bridged Network Connection
Hi Everyone, Here are the details:Host - Windows 7 - Firewall is turned on - has static IPGuest OS 1 - Windows Server 2008 R2 - Firewall is turned off - has static IPGuest OS 2 - Windows Server 2008 R2...
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 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...
View ArticleVMEM Files Linux vs. Windows
So, I spent serveral days last week playing around with the pros and cons of running a Linux (CentOS) vs a Windows (Server 2003) host. One thing that was frustrating me was that I couldn't find a...
View ArticleVMWare Server 1.04, no network connection after guest VM reboot
Hi, We are running VMWare Server 1.0.4 on Windows 2003 x64 Standard. The problem is occuring on our Windows XP Vm's, when they are rebooted they cannot be contacted via the bridged network, no ping...
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