Network name is no longer available Win 2003 host/guest(s) on VMWare Server
Hello! I get errors of "The specified network name is no longer available" which seem to correlate to other people's problems about large fast file copying between guest and host. The errors come from...
View ArticleCentOS 5 kernel compiled with HZ=100...Yum repository
See these threads for background: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=58736http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=60462 I have setup a Yum repository with a custom kernel...
View ArticleNumlock problem
I am running multiple servers using VMware. I have VMware Virtual Infrastructure client on my laptop and am attemping to log in to my servers. On one of the servers, the numlock seems to be activated....
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 ArticleHow Do I Access Port Forward NAT Externally?
I have a difficult time explaining my situation becuase of all the stress I am in right now, so please bear with me. Here is my setup: The VMware Server has 2 NIC, one for the Internet and the Other...
View ArticleProblem using LPT-PCI card - very urgent
Hello everybody, I've got a really annoying Problem going on. We are installing a Serverfor a customer and there is a Windows 98 virtual machine running inVMWare Server 1.0.9.A special software that...
View ArticleTwo NICs, Two IP's: How do I set it up?
I have two NIC's and each NIC has an ethernet wire connected (comming from a switch). With everything enabled ("Client for Microsofr Networks", "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)", etc) I am getting a...
View ArticlePoor Win2k8 x86 perfomance on VMware Server
I'm having troubles with poor Windows 2008 perfomance on VMware Server. The VMware Server is 1.0.6 (it's not administrated by me and I can'tupgrade version) and it runs on Windows 2003 x86. The slow...
View ArticleHard Disk Space reduction in ESXi 4.0
Hello, I am using VMWare ESXi 4.0 server. My hardware has 460 GB of hard disk and 16 GB of RAM. I have two virtual instances of VMware running Windows 2003 Server. I had configured 200 GB and...
View ArticleChange adapter after installation
I run Server Ver. 1 on WIndows XP. I have a phisical adapter that was used when I installed the client nachines. Now I work with a wireless adapter and can't comunicate between the host the these...
View ArticleNeed help urgently Please
Hi All, At where I work, we have a helpdesk computer which is running ubuntu 7.40, plus vmware 1.0.3 which has windows XP installed on it. Unfortunately we have to migrate to windows 7 (on a new...
View ArticleSetting up a new VM
Hi, I have setup VMWare Server on a Quad-Core system. When deciding to create a new VM, I am prompted to go through several settings. This has raised a couple of questions for me. 1) For...
View ArticleUnable to ping/ssh to Guest VM in NAT mode
I have used VMware-Server in the past on RHEL/Fedora host where the VM's were also RHEL/Fedora.I used NAT mode and was able to ssh between the VM's and host pretty easily Thinking on similar lines, I...
View ArticleUnable to check USB devices in Removable Devices list.
I recently inherited a project which uses Ubuntu 7.10 inside VMWare Server v. 1.0.4. I need to access a USB stick from Ubuntu, but are having a hard time doing so: 1. I insert the USB drive into my...
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Poor disk performance under linux, fine under windows. Benchmarks
After spending what now amounts to 4 weeks dealing with this issue. Get ready for a long post hopefully with lots of performance/throughput numbers. The challenge:Windows 2000 SP4 Guest >512MB RAM...
View ArticleWindows Server 2003 SP2 R2 X64 ENT - 64/32bit ubuntu fails to boot.
vmware server 1.0.9 build-15607 This is a fresh winserver 2003 install, 64bit, 8gb ram, i moved it from an old old old old old P4 HT server, that ran fine, just very slowly, well after i migrated my...
View ArticleBridged connection issues
Hello All, This is slighlty complex problem to explain, but am sure there might be a simple resolution for this issue. So please find the setup details: Setup: 2 laptops running vmware server 1.06...
View ArticleVM of Sun Solaris is not running after converting from VMware workstation to...
I have to convert the VMware workstation to ESX Server through ESX converter( SunSolaris was running on this VM ).After the conversion of this VM in ESX . Sun Solaris is rebooting again and again. I...
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Doubled ethernet traffic
Host based on CentOS 4.x VmWare Server 1.0.8 1 VM linux firewall with WAN (62.149.x.y) and 2 LAN NICs All Bridged (connected directly to the physical network); 192.168.1.1; 192.168.2.1. 3 VM...
View Articlevery slow after convert
I'm using Version 1.0.5 I used the convert utility to grow the size of my C Disk from 10 Gb to 25Gb The new machine was created without any problem and it was created fast enough. I started the VM...
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