Best 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 ArticleGuest OS loses network connectivity.
Kooky stuff. We have an Exchange 2007 server running as a guest on a Win2003 x64 server running VMware server 1.0.4 build-56528. Almost daily, and typically in the morning, the Exchange server will...
View ArticleDelayed Write Failed Errors When Transferring Large Files to Host
Greetings, I've been attempting to resolve a problem for serveral weeks with Delayed Write Errors occuring on my guest OS (W2K3 64bit) when attempting to backup a large file (3-4GB) to a network share...
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...
View Article"X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication" and VMWare Server...
I am sure people have seen this error a million times and read many articles on how to correct X11 authentication errors. I know the solutions and that is not really the issue here. My discussion is...
View ArticleAMD vs. Intel
I have been using VMware Workstation and VMware Server for many years on Intel CPUs.Now I am going to buy a new PC to run either 32bit and 64bit Windows and Linux virtual machines.What can be possible...
View ArticleAttaching a partition of a physical disk as a holder for ISO image
I was determined this morning to use a disk with the ISO image in order to install windows. Here is how I tried to do it. using the configuration editor on the new quest VM, I started to add a new...
View ArticleBUG !? - Virtual switch stops forwarding packets to guest
hi ! if you were hit by the "sudden loss of network connectivity" and want to discuss how to solve that by switching the hosts nic or doing some other magic - please go here:...
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 ArticleNat configuration for external access, nat.conf
Hi! I have adedicated server with only one external IP, I've just installed a virtualvmware server , I'm trying to configurethat for an external access with NATnetworking, but I can't acces....
View Articleblank interface on remote console 1.06
when logging on to the console, i get asked the usual, local or remote. i then log on and the interface goes blank (white) after a few seconds. the process usuage then goes high and i can't get...
View ArticleHELP! Iptables not working due to VMNET config? trying to open port 80 on...
Hi, This has been driving me crazy, its just not working like I think its supposed to. x.x.x.x is my EXTERNAL Internet IP address on CENTOS5-vmware-HOST. I want to load from public internet...
View ArticleAfter installing VMWare Tools and rebooting, the VM blue screens in a loop
I am done with my ESX 3.5 eval so I am using the latest VMWare Converter to convert machines away from ESX to VMWare Server 1.0.6. Everything is fine, the conversion works, the VM starts (Windows 2003...
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 ArticleRemoving Snaphot
Recently I took the snapshot and noticed that it was keep growing so I did some testing and bring the production server down and tried to remove the snapshot from the VMWare Server console.After...
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 ArticleVMware server in infrastructure with VLANs problem
Until now, in our company, we have something like network with a lot of d-link switches and so on. Now we make a new infrastructure with one cisco switch for every floor of the building, two core optic...
View Articlevm server console and linux xkbmap settings
We run VMware Server on a Linux host - in my case Ubuntu 8.04 (which I know is not officially supported.......). This post is submitted because the issue is also a problem on support distributions...
View ArticleUSB activation key not mapping through to guest
Hello all, Host Specs, Windows 2008 x64 standard server, BEEFY! Dell 840, RAID 5, 8 GB. Single guest, Windows 2003 SBS x86 *32 bit VMWare server 1.0.6 One of the server products on the guest...
View Articlevmwareuser.exe on a Terminal Server
Hello, is it realy nescessery that the vmwareuser.exe is started for every user on a Terminal Server. I suspect performance issues when 20+ users are logged on to this system. I user VMware Server...
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