Symmpi and Disk errors filling system log
All - In the past month we have had to VM Guests hosted by two different VMWare Servers running v1.0 and v1.0.2. The VM guests exhibit Event ID 11 and Event ID 15. Event ID 11: The driver detected a...
View ArticleNot enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine. -...
Hello, I've got some new trouble with my vmware server 1.0.4 under OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on an IBM x3400 server. Worked fine for months until I installed a security update from Novell/sue which...
View ArticleTo install a virtual firewall on a Linux server
I have a Linux server running with Vmware server. (Centos 5.1/64) There is a 32 bit Linux distro running as guest. At the present I have only one network adapter and everything woks quite fine. Can...
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 ArticleVMware Server 1.0.3 Uninstall Problem
Hello.. I recently installed VMware Server 1.0.3 on a Windows XP Pro machine. I was having trouble making things work so I uninstalled the program from Add/Remove Programs in control panel. I decided...
View ArticleBest Practices for guest swap size?
Is there a guide with, or a discussion about, a recommendation of swap partition size for a guest O/S? It somehow seems wrong to allocate virtual disk for the possibility of swapping for a virtual...
View ArticleFailed to build vmmon module on Fedora 8 x64?
Hi, I'm trying to get VMWare Server 1.0.4 working on Fedora 8 x64, and when I run vmware-config.pl I get the following errors when compiling the vmmon module: - What is the location of the directory...
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 ArticleCreating a Test Environment - Virtual Network Settings Questions
I would like to duplicate some of the machines in our production environment into a virtual environment for testing purposes. Most of our production machines are on the 192.168.2.0 network, including...
View Articlecan't bridge to wlan0
Hi I have an anoying problem where I can't bridge to a wireless (wlan0) interface. I've tried using two different versions of vmware server on two different boxes....same story. My setup:...
View Articleunable to add virtual machine to the inventory
Hi all. I had a Red Hat Linux 2.6.9-67.ELsmp. And i have problems with the vmware server. When I use the vmware console i don't why but 2 VM didn't appear anymore. I already search in this forum...
View Articlevmware refuses host-software/fake-raid as physical guest-disk?
I run a linux host-server (vmware-server 1.0.6) and need to setup a VM with 500GB mirrored harddisk. So I decided to use a physical disk and not a virtualdisk for performance-issues and my plan was...
View ArticleCannot access internet from guest
There is no internet connectivity from the guest when using bridged, although changing it to NAT fixes the problem. 1. ipconfig on guest (bridged) Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . ....
View ArticleGBit for VMnet1 (Host-only) adapter?
Hi! I'm running backup jobs from guest systems to the host (via VMnet1). Works fine, but unfortunately only at 100Mbps. It's rather slow (~9Mbps, 85% utilisation) while at the client side I can see...
View ArticleBridge with wlan0 does not work
Hi. I installed VMware Server 1.06 on my Ubuntu 8.04 system and I configured the /dev/vmnet2 interface bridged with wlan0. The wlan0 interface works perfectly, but the vmnet2 interface does not...
View Articlevmcontrol error -7: timeout
Sorry... I'm sure this must have been covered somewhere but I can't find the answer... I found several posts with the same question but none seemed to have a good conclusion as a hard stop is not what...
View ArticleCan't install VMWare due to XP Persmissions?
Trying to install VMServer 1.0.6 or 2.0 Beta on a XP Pro machine and get the same error just after I launch the installer: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not...
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 ArticleVMWare modules do not compile on latest debian 2.6.26-1 kernel
Debian OS up to date: cat /etc/issue.net Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid uname -aLinux apn.it 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 12:56:41 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Vmware version:...
View ArticleFixed size vs. expandable virtual disks
I was wondering exactly what the performance hit is for a virtual server that uses "expandable" virtual disks. Is there an inherent performance hit, or only when the drive needs to actually expand?...
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