Greetings everyone!

       I am using VMWare Infrastructure Web Access w/ VMWare Server 2.0.0. This is on a Windows machine with CentOS as my virtual OS.

       Full screen mode (Cntrl-Alt-Enter) works to bring the remote console to full screen coverage, but the actual virtual OS remains the same size centered on the screen. I'd like to get the entire OS to full screen mode vice having the OS occupy the small center and the remaining screen real estate be black. Any help anyone can offer would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Hello Everyone,

I'm running VMware Server 2.0.1 on an RHEL 5 host. I wanted to change the configuration of VMware Server by running vmware-config.pl. As a result, I powered off all of the VMs and stopped the VMware service. Not having run vmware-config.pl yet, I just restarted my machine. On reboot, I stopped the VMware service, but it said FAILED. Curious as to why, I tried starting it. It told me that '/etc/vmware/locations' is missing. I went to check it out, and sure enough, it is missing. I didn't delete it, it seems like it just disappeared.

Now here's my problem: Because this file is missing, I cannot run 'vmware-config.pl' because it says the file is missing. I can't uninstall VMware and reinstall it because it says '/etc/vmware/locations' is missing. I can't just install it because RPM says its already installed.

Any help would greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Farzad

I'm experiencing a rather bizzare problem since I updated to RHEL 5.4 and vmware-Server.2.0.2 (rpm). vmware-config.pl completes without problems, but the webAccess console doesn't work at all.

If I ssh -D 1080 to the VMware host and point my browser to that socks proxy, I can get the web console to work, but if I try to connect to it from another hose it doesn't. I switched off iptables completely on the host, so that cannot be causing the problem. The only thing I can think of that could be the cause of the difference here is that from localhost the management console is available via http, while for a remote host it automatically redirects to https which fails, so the problem appears to be related to SSL.

Unfortunately, getting the VM console still doesn't work even when socks-proxying to the VMware host, the firefox plugin starts up but then errors out saying: "Error opening virtual machine 16: An internal error occured."

Connecting remotely to http://server:8222 redirects to https://server:8333/ui/ and that's where it all ends. First attempt generally leads to a page without the login window. Refreshing the page with Firefox ends up not succeeding at all, and reports "Connection interrupted. The document contains no data."

IE6 just outright crashes when trying to connect to https://server:8333.

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmrun fails with "Error: The specified service provider was not found"

IE8 volunteers a bit more information when it fails. The error list says:

Syntax error

.wbc.js Line: 1

Exception thrown and not caught

.jslib.js Line: 1

Code: 0 Char: 29644

URI:https://server:8333/ui/jslib-1.0.128374/.jslib.js

Finally - if I socks proxy to the VM host, and start up the VM that way, when trying to power down the VM, it locks the guest VMX process and the only way to kill it is to reboot the host. I have two similar systems, one 64-bit Core2 system with Intel VM extensions and one 32-bit P3 system without VM extensions, and they both fail in exactly the same way, both running VMware Server 2.0.2 on RHEL 5.4. 32-bit machine locked up the guest container with 32-bit RHEL 5.4, and the 64-bit did the same with 64-bit RHEL 5.4 guest.

Has anybody experienced anything like this before? Server 2.0.1 ran OK on RHEL 5.2 (before I updated the host OS), and I only observed the guest container lock-up once in the past, but now it happens consistently every time. Kernel/module compatibility problem, perhaps?

When I had Fedora installed directly on my computer at school I was able to print to our network printer (HP Laserjet 4000 Series shared on Windows Server 2003 server). However all the computers at school run Windows 7 64 Bit and if we need to use an OS for our courses (XP for XP Course, Server 2003 for Server Course, Fedora for Linux Course) we use VM Ware. So now we have Fedora running in VM Ware.

Neither my friend or I can print to the printer from Fedora in our VMs, but before I could print to it.

I don't see why it doesn't print as Fedora can connect to the network and internet just fine, but not the printer. It shouldn't matter as all it has to do is send the documents to the print server over TCP/IP...

Hello. This might sound trivial, but obviously I'm missing something here... So here's the setup :

I have a Windows 2008 server (Web Edition) ; this server has a network card that's got a public IP address working OK.

I have VMWare 2.0 installed on that server.

Then I have a VM running a Windows 2003 SBS setup. The network card in the VM is using VMWare's NAT. For convenience I have setup Window 2003 to use a manual IP address rather than a DHCP-obtained one, but that makes no difference with regards to the issue.

The problem :

- within the VM, I can ping outside (like ping www.google.com works allright), DNS requests are resolved Ok (as in ping www.google.com works ) ; querying a DNS on the Internet using nslookup works Ok as well.

- I can not browse outside !? with IE

- I have tried telnetting known working servers on various ports (25, 80, 21, 110...) with no success at all

FWIW, I can also rdp into the Windows 2003 client from anywhere on the Internet, having forwarded the appropriate port in VMWare's NAT configuration.

So far, this sounds like a firewall issue. The thing is, the firewall in the Windows 2003 client is disabled and I tried with the Windows 2008 firewall disabled as well. No luck.

Ideas welcome...

Z.

Hi all,

Hope I got the right place, I find this forum structure very confusing.  Anyway.  Situation is this:

I have a dual-stack network using router advertisments, putting all systems on the 2001:388:d000:1100::/64 IPv6 subnet.

No firewalls are enabled on any of the systems within the network (any firewalling is being done at the border router).

VMWare Server 2.0 runs on an AMD64 desktop atop Gentoo Linux.  Hostname: beast.redhatters.yi.org, IPs: 192.168.64.32 and 2001:388:d000:1100:6ef0:49ff:feef:847c.

Two VMWare guests run atop the server:

• training3.redhatters.yi.org, IPs: 192.168.64.33 and 2001:388:d000:1100:6ef0:49ff:feef:847c/64 running Windows 2003 Server
• metermaster.redhatters.yi.org, IPs: 192.168.64.35 and 2001:388:d000:1100:6ef0:49ff:feef:847c running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Other systems on the same network:

• My P4 laptop, vk4mslp2.redhatters.yi.org, IPs: 192.168.64.38 and 2001:388:d000:1100:208:dff:fe5c:851, running Gentoo
• My netbook, zhouman.redhatters.yi.org, IPs: 192.168.64.36 and 2001:388:d000:1100:223:8bff:fe35:6f71, running Gentoo

I am using bridged networking, connecting the guests to the same physical LAN as the host and other systems.

The guests are able to talk to every other IPv6 capable host without issues.  The Ubuntu VM frequently connects to the local Ubuntu mirror (on AARnet) via IPv6 when downloading updates, no problems there.  Windows 2003 can also be accessed using RDP via IPv6 (using portproxy on the Windows guest) from either of the laptop or the netbook.  e.g.

zhouman ~ # netstat -anlp | grep rdesktop
tcp6       0      0 2001:388:d000:110:37329 2001:388:d000:1100:3389 ESTABLISHED 17978/rdesktop  

The guests however will not communicate with the host, nor vice versa, via IPv6.  Via v4, everything is rosy, everything works.  But when communicating between the host and guests, IPv6 traffic just stalls:

stuartl@beast ~ $ ssh -4 root@metermaster
Linux metermaster 2.6.32-28-generic-pae #55-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 10 22:34:08 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS

Welcome to Ubuntu!
* Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

0 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.

Last login: Thu Feb 24 04:44:37 2011 from beast.local
root@metermaster:~# logout
Connection to metermaster closed.

stuartl@beast ~ $ ssh -6 root@metermaster
ssh: connect to host metermaster port 22: Connection timed out

Yet it works elsewhere:

stuartl@beast ~ $ ssh -6 zhouman
Last login: Thu Feb 24 13:46:17 EST 2011 on : 0

KeyChain 2.6.8; http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/
Copyright 2002-2004 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL

* Found existing ssh-agent (1628)
* Found existing gpg-agent (1656)
* Known ssh key: /home/stuartl/.ssh/id_dsa

stuartl@zhouman ~ $ ssh -6 root@metermaster
The authenticity of host 'metermaster (2001:388:d000:1100:20c:29ff:fee0:c5b8)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is f6:d6:4a:90:2a:a8:5e:a3:7a:b1:7c:ba:ea:71:5e:11.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'metermaster,2001:388:d000:1100:20c:29ff:fee0:c5b8' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Linux metermaster 2.6.32-28-generic-pae #55-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 10 22:34:08 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS

Welcome to Ubuntu!
* Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

0 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.

Last login: Thu Feb 24 04:57:24 2011 from beast.local
root@metermaster:~#

Has anyone struck this before and have any ideas what might be causing this?  It's getting a little irritating having to force IPv4 all the time.

I am trying to determine if Server 2 has the capability of using VT-D (Intel's directed I/O) to passthrough a network adapter (or other pci-based hardware).  I can't seem to find documentation as to whether Server actually supports that or not.  I know that ESXi does, and I've used RHEL 6 to do it, but I was looking more for something to run on top of windows, hence Server. 

Does anyone know for certain?

Hi,

I am using "vmware-vdiskmanager" to convert a virtual disk from growable to preallocated. I have had enough of the defrags and poor disk i/o.

To do this I have copied the vmwaredisk.vmdk file of 8.5 GB to D:\Dump, because spaces in (sub)Folder and File names are causing other problems (the D partition has 189 GB FREE space) and want the new file vmwaredisk_2.vmdk to be created in the same folder by putting in Command Prompt:

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager -r D:\Dump\vmwaredisk.vmdk -t 2 D:\Dump\vmwaredisk_2.vmdk

Now I keep getting the same error message below (and I know I should have more than enough FREE space). Why is it telling me that the disk is full?

Creating disk 'D:\Dump\VMwareDisk_2.vmdk'

Failed to convert disk: An error occurred while writing a file; the disk is full
. Data has not been saved. Free some space and try again (0xd00000008).

Please your help because I really don't know what to do anymore!

Many thanks in advance,

Erik

We are currently receiving the following error from ESXi 5 upon booting one virtual machine:

We have a PowerVault MD3200 directly attached via SAS to the server.  The above error is in relation to vmhba2:c0:T0:L3 in ESXi.  No other virtual machines are affected.  Last check on hard drive space was yesterday and there was 200 GB’s free on the drive through the host OS.  We have removed this hard drive volume from the ESXi configuration (see attached screen shot) and the server boots successfully.  How do we repair or fix the volume that is affected.

Hi everyone,

I have been trying to get host-only networking working for two days now.

This is my setup:

Host: Debian 6.0.5, 64bit; VMware Server 2.0.2 build-203138; located in a data center

Guest: CentOS 6.2, 64bit

Host-only subnet is 172.16.1.* (VMNet 1). For testing purposes, I added NAT which is 172.16.8.* (VMNet8).

From my guest, I can ping 172.16.8.2. Pinging 172.168.1.1 does not work.

From my host, I cannot ping any of the guest IPs: 172.16.8.128 (which is assigned via VMWare-DHCP) results in 100% packet loss (but this is okay, since NAT only works in the opposite direction). Pinging 172.16.1.128 (again, assigned via VMWare-DHCP) also results in 100% packet loss.

Here is some (hopefully useful) information:

Host:

# uname -a
Linux Debian-60-squeeze-64-LAMP 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:00:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# /etc/init.d/vmware status
At least one instance of VMware Server is still running.
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 is running
Host network detection is not running
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 is running
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 is running
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 is running
NAT networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running
Module vmmon loaded
Module vmnet loaded

I'm wondering about that "Host network detection is not running" message, but googling around I didn't find any fix for that.

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
XX.XX.43.160    XX.XX.43.161    255.255.255.224 UG    0      0        0 eth0
XX.XX.43.160    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.224 U     0      0        0 eth0
172.16.1.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 vmnet1
172.16.8.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 vmnet8
0.0.0.0         XX.XX.43.161    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

# ifconfig vmnet1
vmnet1    Link encap:AMPR NET/ROM  HWaddr          inet addr:172.16.1.1  Mask:255.255.255.0          UP RUNNING  MTU:0  Metric:1          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0          TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
# ifconfig vmnet8
vmnet8    Link encap:AMPR NET/ROM  HWaddr          inet addr:172.16.8.1  Mask:255.255.255.0          UP RUNNING  MTU:0  Metric:1          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0          TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

# cat Guest.vmx | grep -i ether
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.features = "1"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.networkName = "NAT"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:ca:ac:12"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ethernet1.present = "TRUE"
ethernet1.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"
ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet1.features = "1"
ethernet1.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet1.networkName = "HostOnly"
ethernet1.addressType = "generated"
ethernet1.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:ca:ac:1c"
ethernet1.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = "10"

And routes from my guest:

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
172.16.1.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth5
172.16.8.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth4
0.0.0.0         172.16.8.2      0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth4

Do you need any further information? Please help me fix this problem.

Thank you in advance,

Chris

We are facing temporary resource constraints and wish to move VMs from our cloud ESXi environment to a vmware server 2.0 environment.  We have a 500Mbps link between the two.

What are the options for doing so and the pros/cons?  Each server has a total disk size of < 100GB and they are simple Web/DB servers.

Thanks

I was having no issues with vmware on windows 7, recently i brought windows 8 and while trying to start vm i get this error message "vcpu-0:DoubleFault @ 0x4020:0xc9420".

I am trying to open an existing Linux (RHEL), it starts normally and after a minute it throws the error message. i had tried to install new one(Red hat linux), still the same error. (I had tried by disabling digital diver enforcement).

Can anyone please let me know the solution for it.

Okay, I am getting a replacment for my little 4 core 1U machine that I have run for the last 18 months and getting a large 16 core 48G machine, and now I have to figure out how to best utilize it.  Here is the issue, and I am interested in what people think. 

The machine is supported with ESXi (in fact could have been purchased with it preinstalled) and comes with 500+G of SAS storage.  The virtual machines I am moving however are on VMware Server 2.0 RC 1, which means I will have to rebuild all them as they are HW Type 7, which isn't supported on ESXi.  I have 14 virtual machines today, and this represents several weeks of rebuilding if I have to start from ground zero.  Understand that the new server was sort of a surprise to me, I thought I was just going to be geting 2 more 1U pancake servers, so I hadn't been planning for this change. 

The PROs for ESXi is the performance characteristics and bare metal install, but the big CON for ESXi is I have no Windows in my arsenal.  My two workstations are pure Linux machines, 13 of the 14 virtual machines are Linux and the 1 Windows virtual machine is fully taxed and belongs to another team who will likely be taking their license when their project ends.  I have no money to buy additional licenses but may be able to get buy with a trial license till the beginning of the year when I may be able to acquire a Windows license.  I know that next year some time VMware is supposed to have a control center for Linux for ESX, but I have to do something this year and would hate to have to do it twice.

Does it really make that much difference in performance, given that I am going from 4 cores to 16 cores, to jump to ESXi find a way to wrangle up the Windows license to manage it temporarily until the Linx client comes along and I can hopefully hook that into IBM System Director (the literature on IBM System Director seems to indicate that I need the VMware console as well as IBM Director).  What do you all think?

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Services

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Windows could not start the VMware Host Agent on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code -1.

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OK  

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I installed VMware-server-2.0.0-116503 on Dell Inspiron 518 Quad Core Vista Home Premium back in October. It worked and I installed XP VM which also worked. I got distracted and just got back to it today and I can't get the Host Service to start. I uninstalled and reinstalled twice. Searched forums - can't find anything pertinent. Discovered a new build VMware-server-2.0.0-122956 so downloaded it, uninstalled rebooted, installed, rebooted and still no start.

Are there any wise souls out there?

Hello virtual people,

I have a serious issue with VMware Server 2 on Windows Vista x64.

When I try to power on a virtual machine, it stucks at 95% on the "Power On Virtual Machine" task.

It happens with all of my VMs, Windows and non-Windows.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling VMware Server but the issue won't solve

Do you have any clue on how to solve this ?

Here is attached a sample log...

The following command always hangs there, i also tried use WEBGUI to stop the computer, failed too.

vmrun -T server -h https://172.17.5.111:8333/sdk -u root -p aaaa stop "[vm] WindowsXP Professional x86/WindowsXP Professional x86.vmx" hard

Does any one meet this before?

# ll

total 18072004

-rwxrr  1 root wheel   536870912 Mar 24 18:05 564d8066-29fd-b894-9f6a-a1a3237ca555.vmem

-rw-------  1 root  root   1073741824 Apr 10 08:51 564dc07b-7483-39bd-d2ed-03b765d6612e.vmem

drwxrwxrwx  2 root  root         4096 Apr 10 08:51 564dc07b-7483-39bd-d2ed-03b765d6612e.vmem.lck

-rwxrr  1 root wheel           9 Mar 16 18:58 _desktop.ini

-rw-rr  1 root  root        47987 Apr  9 19:19 vmware-0.log

-rw-rr  1 root  root        49013 Apr  9 19:18 vmware-1.log

-rwxrr  1 root  root       236962 Mar 24 18:05 vmware-2.log

-rw-rr  1 root  root       166426 Apr 10 10:49 vmware.log

-rwxrr  1 root  root  16542203904 Apr 10 10:53 WindowsXP Professional x86-000001.vmdk

drwxrwxrwx  2 root  root         4096 Apr 10 08:51 WindowsXP Professional x86-000001.vmdk.lck

-rwxrr  1 root  root         8684 Apr 10 08:52 WindowsXP Professional x86.nvram

-rwxrr  1 root  root        27548 Sep  5  2008 WindowsXP Professional x86-Snapshot1.vmsn

-rwxrr  1 root  root   1407713280 Apr  9 19:17 WindowsXP Professional x86.vmdk

drwxrwxrwx  2 root  root         4096 Apr 10 08:51 WindowsXP Professional x86.vmdk.lck

-rwxrr  1 root wheel         481 Sep  5  2008 WindowsXP Professional x86.vmsd

-rwxrr  1 root  root         2408 Apr 10 08:51 WindowsXP Professional x86.vmx

-rwxrr  1 root wheel         281 Apr  9 19:17 WindowsXP Professional x86.vmxf

I have instaled Vmware server 2.01 in Ubuntu 9.04 - Jaunty Jackalope, but  the virtual machines have problems to connect : "The network bridge on device vmnet0 is temporarily down because the

bridged Ethernet interface is down. The virtual machine may not be able

to communicate with the host or with other machines on your network".

When I try to config again the vmware with "sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl", appears the next:

The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were

not installed by the VMware Installer. 

Please remove them then run this installer again.

vmci

vmnet

vmmon

I.e. - 'rm /lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/misc/&lt;ModuleName&gt;.{o,ko}'

Execution aborted.

Thanks.

Hello,

I'm trying to move a windows 2003 vm server to a new host.  The new host is configured, and ready to go.  Both are on x64.  When I start up the vm server on the new faster host, it shows that it's loading in the console, then it just stops loading with a blue screen error.

STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}  The session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000026c (0x0000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down.

And it will reboot,and go through the same thing.

I thought moving a vm server would be an easy thing, that's the reason I was trying out the vmware to begin with, in case you need to move it, you can just move it to a new hardware without issues, but now am I going to have to live with the vm server staying on an old slow server, and not being able to move it to a new faster server?  Any help and or suggestions is appriecated

I'm trying to create a new VM and have started with this command

ovftool  untanble.ova vi://username:password@ESXhost

I've tried all sorts of options after the command but it always returns:

     Error: Curl error: Couldn't resolve host name

What does this mean?

Thanks,

Brian

Greetings,

I have VMware Server 2.0.2 Build 203138 running on a Windows Server 2003 32-bit host. The guest is a RHEL 5 guest that's actually running CentOS 5 (currently 5.7). Everything is fine as far as operations go.

However, for the life of me I cannot get the host to GRACEFULLY shut down the guest when the host goes down for a halt or reboot. I have VMware Tools installed on the guest. If I use the VMware web console to shut down the guest, it gracefully shuts down and all is fine. If I reboot the host, once it's up it DOES start the guest (I did configure "allow guests to start/stop automatically") and such.

Again, upon host reboot, the *startup* of the guest works fine--it automatically starts once the host is up, and all is well.

The only piece of the puzzle, then, concerns a graceful shutdown *when the host shuts down*. If I login to the host OS and do a reboot, it just dives right down and my guest essentially dies as if it was unplugged--no graceful shutdown.

As mentioned, it DOES gracefully shutdown the guest on-demand, but I am trying to make sure that if, for some reason, the host OS is rebooted, the guest OS gets a nice clean, graceful reboot, rather than a midstream death.

I have tried every config I can find, and I even reinstalled VMware Server to make SURE I checked the box "Allow guests to start/stop automatically" *at install time* and, indeed, that didn't change it: auto-boots work fine, but graceful shutdowns upon host OS shutdown do not.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dan