Network is very slow
I have just recently installed an Ubuntu host running VMware Server v1.0.3. The host has 5GB of RAM and two Xeon 2.40GHz CPUs. There are only two VMs on the host, both of them a result of P2V of the...
View ArticleBuffer I/O error on device sdx (vmware Server, Linux guest, Windows XP host)
Since installing vmware Server 1.0.4 build 56528 on a Windows XP host, I keep getting SCSI errors in my Linux 2.6.17-10-386 guest: dmesg output:17183434.356000 sd 0:0:5:5: Device not ready: <6>:...
View ArticleGuest clock runs 10x normal in dos mode under 98
System is a AMD 64. Vmware version is 1.0.4. I have a system that runs a win98 guest under red Hat Enterprise 5. This is the only guest on this machine and the only other thing running is the Linux...
View ArticleSuSE Linux host with guest VM on Physicaql disk
I have a dual boot IBM Think Centre desktop system. One of the installed systems is OpenSuse 10.3. I have installed VMware-Server and created a WinXP Home VM guest using a virtual disk. That guest...
View ArticleMemTrimRate question
by default my memTrimRate is set to -1. Based on some threads i have read i changed it to MemTrimRate = "0" and it has improved performance. My question however is exactley what is it doing? I've...
View Articlecannot open/create log file
Cannot open/create log file 'C:\Documents and Settings\???\LOCALS~1\Temp\vmware-SYSTEM\vmware-SYSTEM-3808.log':The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrectUnable to open log file...
View ArticleVmware Server and IntelliType
I've installed the VM Server, in which I'm running and XP VM. All seems fine except it's not recognizing my IntelliType keyboard. I've checked all the settings, and tried several different ones, to no...
View ArticleVMware Server protocol failure in circuit setup problem
So when I'm trying to rsh from my VMware SuSE 10.2 Host to my VMware SuSE 10.2 Guest on that box a simple command like 'rsh host-name ls' does it time out with a 'protocol failure in circuit setup' on...
View ArticleGuest will not turn off, only suspend
Hello! We are running VMWare server on SuSE Enterprise Server 10. We have two guests, both are Win2k3 Server. Everything works fine, except when you shut down one of the guests (Start,shutdown) it...
View ArticleAcronis to VMWare
I am in a ASAP situation with a Windows 2000 server. I have a dead motherboard in the server and need to get a VM up and running ASAP. I was able to get an image of the server via Acronis 9.1...
View ArticleTrouble installing CentOS 5 on VMWare 1.04 - No valid devices found (virtual...
I have a Dell Latitude D830 laptop with Intel Core2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2 GHz with 2 GB RAM, a 120 GB hard drive on an Intel 82801 HEM/HBM SATA AHCI controller & 256mb NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M gaphics...
View ArticleBash backup script
I have been tweaking a script to backup VM's for a couple of months now. Attached is a copy of where i am at currently with it. Our Host is running Ubuntu 6.06LTS. Since this is a Bash script it should...
View ArticleSlow Disk IO in VMs when running VMware Server on Windows 64-bit Host OS
~This problem exists on all versions of VMware Server including 1.0.3 and 1.0.4. I have verified that it still exists on the 2.0 Beta. Problem: Approximately 80 to 100% increase in Disk I/O within a...
View ArticleGetting the following error when starting Vmware Workstation 6.0.0 build 45731
Failed to retrieve token for VMware user: Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer (1385) Any ideas, all the information I have received on the...
View ArticleWindows 2003 64-bit and VMWare server 1.0.4
I installed VMware Server 1.0.4 on a 64-bit server, however all the processes are 32-bit when I look in task manager. When I run a 64-bit guest, does it go down to 32-bit and then back up again to...
View ArticleSymmpi 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 ArticleYour Computer does not support Long Mode. Use a 32bit Distribution.
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 that has 2 3.0 Ghz dual core Xeon processors, with 4 GB of Ram. I want to use VMware ESX 3.5 Server for Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5 64 bit. When I start the Virtual...
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 ArticleImporting VHD Images into VMWare
Hi, We have been trying to import the MS Exchange Server 2007 VHD downloadable image into version VMWare server 1.0.5, but it was failing with the message "Cannot find virtual disk". We therefore...
View ArticleFirefox Flashblock plugin blocks console
Hello all This is just to inform people who might have the same problem I had with Ubuntu 8.04, VMware Server 2.0 Beta2 and Firefox 3.0 Beta 5. Whenever I tried to connect the virtual machine console I...
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