VMWare Server is really slow
For some reason, My VM has become really tediously slow. The host is Windows 2003 x86 SP2 running VMware Server 1.0.3. The guest runs Windows XP SP2. For a while it's been running at normal speed,...
View ArticlePPPoE: MS Virtual PC works - VMWare Server doesn't
Hi all, I've been several days strugling to get a PPPoE broadband ADSL connection working from within a WinXPSP2 guest running on VMware Server 1.0.4. I've read many postings here but my problem...
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 ArticleConvert IDE virtual disk to SCSI
I have a host running VMware Server v1.02. On that host I have a virtual machine running Windows Server 2003 with a single IDE disk (drive1.vmdk). I would like to move this virtual machine to an ESX...
View ArticleTCP SOCKET ERROR while powering on a vm using vix api
Hi I have been trying to poweron a vm using the vixcom api , but when i try to poweron the vm ,it gives me the error with the error code ERROR CODE:14010 there was a problem in communication .please...
View ArticleMachine just shutdown!
Last night I had a long night moving around disks and the lie on a GSX box, converting non-preallocated disks to preallocated etc. After I had the DBA team check the machine and we did some other...
View ArticleBridged networking just quit!
All: I've found several threads on this with no real resolutions, so I'm posting this in the hopes someone has since found a resolution and can share it...or that VMWare has found the bug and fixed it....
View Article2003 routing remote access strangeness
I have a 2003 host with two interfaces, LAN(10.0.1.1) and WAN(10.0.0.23). On this there's running a 2003 vm, with one interface named LAN(10.0.1.77). host can ping vm(10.0.1.77), and vm can ping...
View Articlehow to install a AMD PCnet Ethernet adapter in virtual WinNT4 machine
I have an old Windows NT4 partition that I wanted to set up as a virtual machine. I did so and everything went smoothly and I can boot it as a virtual machine - and installed vmtools - but there is...
View ArticleSCSI LUNs in VMs?
Hi,I need to connect and use a HP DAT Changer in a NetWare 5.1 VM.Thanks to other topics here, I already created a generic SCSI device in the VM and I can see and use the drive (SCSI node...
View ArticleHeavy disk access causes VMware Server to crash Linux 2.6.17
I am running Linux Fc5 2.6.17-2174 on a Tyan 2665 mobo with 4GB memory, dual xeon. I run several virtual machines (win2k3 server) as guests on this vmware server 1.0 host. Everything works great...
View ArticleSQL Server assertion problem when using DBGhost
Hi all, I've set up a series of Windows Server 2003 (both enterprise and R2) VMWare virtual server machines with SQL 2000 SP4 installed. We use a third party tool called DBGhost which builds databases...
View Articlevmware-config.pl failed on Fedora Core 6
VMware Server 1.0.1 works very smoothly on Fedora Core 5, and vmware-config.pl runs successfully every time I go through a kernel update. But after I upgraded my system to Fedora Core 6,...
View ArticleVMWare Server locking up entire laptop
Recently I have been frequently faced with the fact that using a VM completely freezes my laptop. The only way to resolve this situation is to completely power down the laptop (using the power button,...
View ArticleSound?
Hey. I'm running VMWare Server 1.0.2 on Windows Vista, and running XP Pro on the VMWare Server program. My question is - how do I get sound? I can't install the drivers for my sound card (part of my...
View ArticleSuse 10.1 install on Xp problems
Well I'll try this again. I'm new to vmware and was up late last night trying to get Suse installed on vmware server. my earlier question might not have been too clear. I was installing suse 10.1 as...
View ArticleWindows vs. Linux
Is there any document out there that tells if it is better to install Windows or linux as the base OS for the server ( for Virtual Server - free ). If you ask a windows person and ask a linux person...
View ArticleNo sound!
I don't get this. I installed Windows 2000 on the VMware server and I installed the VMware tool. Windows 2000 runs perfectly in the VMware, except for one thing, it has no sound. I went toe the Sounds...
View ArticleNFS and VMX File Owner
I'm new to NFS and what I am trying to do is transfer all of my VMs to a NAS box and then mount them on my VMWare server (Mandriva 2007) box via a NFS mount. So far, the NFS mount seems to be fine...
View ArticleHow to force shutdown suspended guest
Hello I am using VMware Server 1.01 on my Debian Etch machine.On the server there is a guest MS Windows Server 2003 R2 SP1. I create script on host server which suspends guest, makes backup of all...
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