Connecting audio: device ID out of range on your system
I'm Running VMWare Server 1.0.3 on Windows 2003 SP2, VMWare Server Console 1.0.3 on Windows XP x64 SP2, and a guest OS with Windows XP SP2. When trying to add an audio device, I cannot select a host...
View ArticleHow many VM's per processor
I am having trouble finding documentation on the VMware website about how many VM's can be run per processor. Given that the processors are all above 3 GHz, how many VM's can be run per processor?...
View Articlevmware server stuck on Windows Server 2003 startup screen, help!
i installed vmware server and downloaded Windows 2003 Server from microsoft and loaded it on my vmware server. It starts and installs all networking devices etc but when it reboots it gets stuck on the...
View ArticleSnapshots eating my disk space
Hi, Recently I enabled the Snapshot feature in my VMWare Server. My problem is that my disk space is hitting the limits, even, after deleting some files or old VM directories. Now I am getting...
View ArticleCopying a virtual server and networking problems
Hello, I'm using VMWare-Server for a very short time, then I'm sorry if my question seems to be stupid. I would like to make some test of virtualisation and High-disponibility of a mysql-server...
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VMware Server 1.0.4: Host Hardware Question
Will VMware Server 1.0.4 work on the following hardware: 2x Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5320 PC? Based on available documentation it should work with Multiprocessor systems and well as dial-cores CPU's. I...
View ArticleGuest OS' clock runs too fast
I have looked for solutions for this problem, but haven't found one that works for this system. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. The clock of the guest OS runs around 1.5x faster than...
View ArticleNot enough physical memory is availible to power on...
Host is Fedora 7 64bit, 2GB RAM, vmware server 1.0.4. VMWare is configured to reserve 1593MB RAM and allow most virtual machine memory to be swapped. Everything is a clean install of both Fedora and...
View ArticleHow to change ip address of host for vmnet's instead of always being...
I'd like to number my host-only networks to match the vmnet id and use the same "address" (4th tuple) for all interfaces. As you see I'm using the 3rd tuple to carry the address now, first digit...
View ArticleInsufficient permission to access file
Hello! I'm using PCLinuxOS 2007 and VMware server 1.0.4 build-56528. I installed vmware from my superuser console and made the guest machine public. For some reason though I'm getting this error...
View ArticleCan't attach console to VM through MUI
Hi there,I'm looking at options that will let me control my virtual machine from anywhere with internet access, as securely as possible. So far the best way seems to be connecting to the virtuals via...
View ArticleScript to "renice" VM processes
I thought I would share a script I wrote with the community in hopes someone can benefit from it. This script reads in all registered VM's, the determines the current state of the machine. If the...
View ArticleNTFS (Disk) Allocation Size
Recently I have made changes to the disk configurations of disks which hold the VMDK files of my VM Guests. By matching the NTFS Allocation Size to match that of my RAID controller (64K) I have gained...
View ArticleGUEST CPU Performance slow on Xeon - Windows 2003
I just setup a VMWare Server Solution with a brand new Dell PE 2850, dual Xeon CPU, RAID 5 SAS drives, and 4GB of RAM. I have two VM's, both Win2k3 SP2, the host is Win2k3 Sp2 as well. One VM is SBS...
View ArticleNo communication on Bridged ethernet (almost)
I say almost because the guest can ping the host and the host can ping the guest, but there is no other communication. The guest OS will not pick up an address with the network's DHCP server. I've...
View ArticleVMware Server unrecoverable error: (vmx)
Please Help. I have been running VM Server for about 9 months with no problems, but now after a HOST server crash I find myself with a VM Server that wont start with what appears to be corrupt disk...
View ArticleMAC address problems after copying VM
I have a VM that I use as a template to replicate new VMs from. I copied the VM to another directory with all files intact, etc, modified the configuration file and removed all ethernet0 entries and...
View Articleslow back up
Hello We have a number of site using vmware server that operate without issue. I have one site where a backup running on the client takes 15 hours per 100GB. The backup app is ntbackup. We are backing...
View ArticleUbuntu 7.10: "64-bit guest operation systems are not supported by this host...
I just installed a fresh 7.10 server on a AMD Phenom Quad-Core Processor machine .. I'm getting the "64-bit guest operation systems are not supported by this host and will not run." when I try to...
View ArticleIssue: disk size reported incorrectly
I have this configuration - physical disk 500GB -> 476 GB effective - 1° partition 25GB 2° partition 440GB in VMWare server I define an IDE disk as "Use physical disk" then "Use individual...
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