hi

sorry for my poor spelliing

im a little bit consued with wmvare sever 2, unlike vmware sever 1 i would log on as a local host and that was that.

but now i can't open vmware i open it and comes up with "page could not be displed" ???? what do i do

sorry im new too vmware 2.0 i really need vmware, by the way im using xp home

look at the attachment

thanks you replying:D

I'm trying to expand a SCSI VMDK on VMware Server 2 build 122956 running on Windows Server 2008 x64 that does not have any snapshots. When I shut down the VM, go to edit Hard Disk 1 (SCSI 0:0) and select Increase Capacity, add space and then hit OK I get the following error:

"Reconfigure Virtual Machine" failed to complete

Operation failed becuase file already exists

The guest is also Windows Server 2008 x64 and I have not been able to find any posts here or elsewhere indicating this error. Any help is much appreciated.

Hello,

Have someone experience with transmiting 802.1q tagged (VLAN) frames over vmnet interface (bridge to physical interface)?

I have a linux router in vmware, which is capable to send and receive this tagged traffic and I need to pass through this traffic from switch connected to physical interface to the router. The network interface used in that vmware is vmnet2, which is bridged to physical interface.

Host system is Windows Server 2003 RC2 and VMWareServer 2.0.

After allowing tagged traffic thru interface in Windows host (see http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/CS-005897.htm), I am able to see all packets in ethereal in Win, but tcpdump in vmware I gets no data/packet. Ping doesn't work neither. Can I do similar thing for vmnet interface?

Thank in advance

I'm running VMWare Server 2.0 on a Debian Linux (Lenny) machine with AMD64 processor and 2 GB RAM.  I have 3 Virtual Machines:  Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.4.1.  The VM's all seem to run pretty well at this point.

When I access the web Virtual Machine Infrastructure I immediately get an error.  Under details it says "ManagedObject not found".  I wasn't always getting this, it started about a week ago.  Also, the "Add Hardware" option on all 3 machines is gone.

If I click OK thirteen times (always 13) the error dialog goes away and all seems normal except I still don't have the "Add Hardware" option.  I can't see anything in the logs that looks like it relates to this.

I tried once copying a VM and adding it to inventory saying it was copied (not moved).  The "Add Hardware" option comes up when I do this but if I log out and then back in the problem returns.

If I start a VM from it's shortcut there is no apparent problem.  So losing the ability to add hardware is my main problem.

Any clues, hints, suggestions?

Since an unexpected reboot of the Linux machine (Ubuntu 8.10), the windows XP Professional that was installed in the vmware server 2 machine stopped working. Now everytimei turn it on, a blue screen appears, with the message "BAD_POOL_CALLER", and it keeps restarting itself. I am unable to start in safe mode, because the same blue screen appears...

Does anybody know the cause, or have any solution to repair the windows machine? I attached a snapshot of the error.

Thank you very much

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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?

I have an unknow virtual machine , i dont have the files and don´t have permission on it.

These are the permission i setted on it

I think that Usuarios group it's denying administrator role over all users.

I guess that deleting this permission i can delete this vm, beacause it says me  

PermissionDeniedException: Access denied.

When i tried to remove it.

Thanks all.

Hi,

I had VMWare Server 2.0 running on my CentOS small test server. I had a major crash, so I needed to migrate from the old, burned server (Pentium Dual Core, 2GB Ram) to an old legacy system (Pentium Celeron, 512 MB Ram). Before the crash I had paused a Virtual Machine running Windows XP Professional. After the crash, I'm unable to unpause it because all of my VMs were hardware-configured with 2 processors, but actually my new CPU has only one - I can't change the CPUs number until the VM is powered off, but it won't leave its "paused" status.

I tried most of the vmrun commands, including:

vmrun -T server -h https:// start "standard Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Professional.vmx"

Output: the system won't respond until Ctrl+C

Startup from the console displays an error saying that there's not enough CPUs to start the VM, according to its configuration.

Is there any way to get out of this?

Thanks in advance,

Marco

I am wondering about this question because I had to setup a couple of vmware server with non-standard ports, let's say 10902 and 20902.

No problems using web interface. but using command line doesn't work, and always produce:

Failed to connect: Cannot connect to host localhost: Connection refused

So I "discovered" the existance of oprtions, specifically -O option, and I tried it ....with no results !

vmware-vim-cmd -O 20902 -d verbose vmsvc/getallvms

Current working directory: /vmware/backupjobs

Using system libcrypto, version 90808F

Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000

CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectTCP failed

CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed

Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed

Cnx_Connect: Error message: Cannot connect to host localhost: Connection refused

Failed to connect: Cannot connect to host localhost: Connection refused

Also the opposite, on a "standard" configured vmware 2.0 server using port 902, If I issue a

vmware-vim-cmd -O 9102 -d verbose vmsvc/getallvms

I can connect (and in principle I shouldn't). Also trying to give a bad username or bad password (-U and -P options) on a standard vmware server doesn't produce any error

So it seems to me that all the options are not used at all.

Am I missing anything or actually they don't work ?

thanks,

Andrea

Hi. I looked for somewhere on the website to send VM server 2 feedback but couldn't find anywhere, so I guess this is it.

I almost installed vmware server 2 on my workstation at work the other day, but was cautioned by someone who had tried it. So I thought I'd better try it at home first. I've installed it on my Ubuntu 64bit laptop now (AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 with 1G RAM). I've found it fairly unusable.

On trying to install my first guest OS the interface was very

slow, but that didn't really worry me. I should only be using it to

get the guest OS installed. But I tried booting the guest off

a Knoppix install CD and the processor went to 100% utilisation and X

becaome unuseable. I lef it for an hour or so but it was frozen (mouse

still moved, but no keyboard response). I tried again with a Debian

install CD and got the same problem. I removed VM server 2 and tried to

install version 1. But it had 32-bit library issues. I re-installed

version 2 and tried the Debian installer again. This time the install

went straight through and I thought all was well. I created two more VMs and copied the disk images from the first one over them to save time.

Opening the first console window through the interface was fairly fast, but opening a second one takes around 5 minutes, and often results in an error saying the connection timed out. (this is a connection to localhost). Closing the failed window and trying again sometimes works, but just as often X has become unusable again so I have to logout and try again.

I think that tying the UI to a browser is a bad idea. You could have kept it as a standalone app and still launched it from the browser? Firefox is a great browser but it leaks memory like a sieve. Trying to run it for an hour or more is a bit of a stretch. Is there a way to launch the plugin standalone?

Hello,

My server just was cut off and when it restarted it gave following message:

VMControl error -16: Virtual machine requires user input to continue

so I did:

vmware-cmd  start

I received the same answer

VMControl error -16: Virtual machine requires user input to continue

What do I have to do?

Thanks for help

Roland

(I've searched the forum, but it doesn't seem this question has been asked.)

I'm using Windows Server 2003.  I need to provide my own portal page at port 80.  Why?  Because the https port is at 8333 and it's not easy for people to remember.  So I create a sort of portal/home page at normal port (ie 80) to guide my users -- they just need to type http://servername/ without any specific port number.  And moreover, in the portal page, I've also written down a lot of informations related to the VMWare Server in that server, so they don't have to search elsewhere.

Right now, I had to install IIS6 in order to serve only this page at port 80.  I'm wondering if it's possible to make VMWare Server's web server (that's Tomcat, right?) to serve port 80 too.  I could see that port 8222 is served for redirection, so why not another 80?

Someone knows how to do?

TIA

I've figured out how to install Cisco CallManager 4.1 on my laptop using VMWare (on a virtual Windows 2000 Server). For those of you knowledgeable, how would I then connect to my home router/switch lab? Straight-through cable to my switch, then to my router? Another way? I'm a bit confused at this point.

Thanks.

Hi,

after running our inhouse system for years without any problems, now one guest (WIN SBS2003) crashes randomly.

The following error is logged:

*Message from *** : *** VMware Server internal monitor error *** vcpu-0:ASSERT vmcore/vmm/main/irq.c:72 bugNr=2293*

I am running out of ideas, so any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

Marc

Environment:

Vmware Server 2 - Build 122589

The used host os is Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 7) running on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with 8Gb of ram.

Used kernel version: 2.6.9-78.0.17.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Mar 5 04:58:34 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

All data is stored on Dell MD1000 (SAS).

Virtual hardware has been upgraded to version 7.

All drivers are up to date. Recommended dell patches haven been applied.

The config file of the problematic guest:

.encoding = "UTF-8"

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "7"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

memsize = "1536"

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.fileName = "Windows Server 2003 Small Business.vmdk"

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"

ide1:0.fileName = "E:"

ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"

Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

displayName = "*****"

guestOS = "winnetbusiness"

priority.grabbed = "normal"

priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

ide1:0.exclusive = "FALSE"

ide1:0.clientDevice = "TRUE"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:1.fileName = "Dynamic_Data_1.vmdk"

scsi0:2.present = "FALSE"

scsi0:2.fileName = "/dev/sg4"

scsi0:0.redo = ""

scsi0:1.redo = ""

scsi0:2.redo = ""

ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

uuid.location = "56 4d 3c 54 6d 9d f6 67-a8 db 91 07 e8 ea 1c 9d"

uuid.bios = "56 4d 3c 54 6d 9d f6 67-a8 db 91 07 e8 ea 1c 9d"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:ea:1c:9d"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

tools.syncTime = "TRUE"

ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE"

checkpoint.vmState = ""

checkpoint.vmState.readOnly = "FALSE"

autostart = "poweron"

autostop = "softpoweroff"

autostart.order = "10"

autostop.order = "10"

Ethernet1.present = "FALSE"

ethernet1.addressType = "generated"

ethernet1.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:ea:1c:a7"

ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = "10"

scsi0:2.deviceType = "scsi-passthru"

scsi0:3.present = "FALSE"

scsi0:3.deviceType = "scsi-passthru"

scsi0:3.fileName = "/dev/sg5"

scsi0:4.present = "FALSE"

scsi0:4.deviceType = "scsi-passthru"

scsi0:4.fileName = "/dev/sg4"

scsi0:5.present = "FALSE"

scsi0:5.deviceType = "scsi-passthru"

scsi0:5.fileName = "/dev/sg5"

scsi1.present = "TRUE"

scsi1:1.present = "FALSE"

scsi1:1.deviceType = "scsi-passthru"

scsi1:1.fileName = "/dev/sg4"

scsi1:5.present = "FALSE"

scsi1:5.deviceType = "scsi-passthru"

scsi1:5.fileName = "/dev/sg5"

scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

usb.present = "FALSE"

gui.exitOnCLIHLT = "FALSE"

usb.autoConnect.device0 = "path:4/1 autoclean:1"

extendedConfigFile = "Windows Server 2003 Small Business.vmxf"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"

tools.upgrade.policy = "manual"

vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "16777216"

mks.enable3d = "TRUE"

pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"

vmci0.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"

pciBridge4.functions = "8"

pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"

pciBridge5.functions = "8"

pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"

pciBridge6.functions = "8"

pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"

pciBridge7.functions = "8"

pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"

scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"

scsi1.pciSlotNumber = "32"

ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"

vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "34"

vmci0.id = "-387310435"

I've been running vmware server 2 for like 6 months now and all of a sudden this week I keep getting this error in VMware Infrastructure Web Access.  Its a popup question with Ignore and Continue as the answers, the question is this:

msg.mainMemPosix.noSpace:The
directory "/tmp/vmware-root/" has less than 150 MB of free space.
Running out of free space in this directory may corrupt the virtual
machine's RAM. This is likely to cause the guest operating system to
crash.
To avoid these problems, VMware recommends you move or delete files to
free up space now. After you free up space, select "Continue".
To ignore this condition until you power off or suspend the virtual
machine, select "Ignore".

I've rebooted the guest and the host, the problem comes back within an hour.  I did some research online and found some options to add to the .vmx file:

mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
tmpDirectory = "/home/vmware/tmp"
workingDir = "."

Unfortunately none of these options helped.  I also tried mount --bind /tmp/vmware-root to a different partition but the /tmp partition still fills up with invisible vmware files.  How do I fix this problem?

I am unable to remove a datastore from VMWare Server 2.  It keeps throwing back an error:

The resource is in Use.

Is there a way to remove it manually? I'm new with VMWare Server.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You,

Rob

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?

I am running VMWare Server 2 on my Windows 7 Ultimate Host. What I am trying to do is run a virtual Windows Home Server on top of the W7 so that way I can have a media center/home server in one box. I have read about a bunch of people doing this successfully.

The issue that I am having is regarding to VMWare networking and my college campus (which I imagine is probably like many work environments). Our school requires us to register the computers (done by MAC address) via the web to be able to get on the network the first time you plug-in. This registration page automatically pops up if you are not registered and does not appear if you already are.

My problem is that I am unable to connect to the internet with any VMs that I try to create because their virtual mac addresses aren't registered. When using a Bridged Connection I am able to ping other local computers and successfully connect from the host to the VM's network shares, but I am unable to connect to the internet. The registration page does not come up, so I am unable to register.

NAT seems to connect to the internet sometimes, but I do not think this is a feasible way to use Win Home Server as its not visible on the network. Since the network does not see this VM, the registration page does not come with nat either.

I have tried cloning the MAC of the VM to my physical NIC but when I try to register it from the host it said my computer was already registered. I have also tried using the MAC from my physical NIC and putting it on the virtual adapter but it would not allow it, giving me a message it was not in the proper range of values.

Any help? Thanks!

I had all my guest OS data in one vmdk file (I'll call it server.vmdk) until last Tuesday, 12/14/10. Since then, the original server.vmdk file still exists with the date time stamp of 12/14/10.  All the changes made to this server since that time exist in a file called server-00001.vmdk.  How do I get the latest changes merged back into server.vmdk?

The only changes since 12/14/10 were in one database file, so I backed up the database file on a different server. I shut down the guest OS,  then told VMware to use the server.vmdk file for the hard disk instead of server-00001.vmdk.  When I booted up the guest OS, the database was dated 12/14/10, which is what I expected.  I then copied the databae back onto the guest OS.  Now, server.vmdk is still dated 12/14/10, and again the changes were posted to server-00001.vmdk.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Hi all,

I'm running VMWare Server 2.0.2 under Windows 2008 Server R2. The host server is presenting some file shares via CIFS (fallback to SMB).

I am attempting to create a guest which can access file shares on the host machine.

I have done this successfully with a Windows XP guest with the following configuration:-

Ethernet Interface 1 - VMNet Bridged - 192.168.10.xx/24 - gw 192.168.10.1 (NAT Router)

Ethernet Interface 2 - VMNet Host-Only - 192.168.81.xx/24 (Host is .1)

This XP guest can access the 10-space network fine and get out to the internet. It also has mapped drives to the Host IP on the 81-space. Performance is fine, almost running at gigabit line speed (or so taskmgr pretends) when copying files via cifs from the host to the guest.

Now, i'm trying to create an equivalent guest using *BSD. So far I have tried OpenBSD 4.8 with Sharity 3 (for CIFS client support) and FreeBSD 8.1-Release (using mount_smbfs). Guests are configured as per the XP VM with two network interfaces, one being vm-bridged, one vm-hostonly.

All networks are accessible from the guests and the relevant smb/cifs client is able to mount the shares on the host. The issue comes when a file copy is initiated. Speed, or lack of, seems to be around 25KB/sec. Upon checking network adapter usage on the host, the vmnet1 (host-only) adapter is barely used but I do see a very slight trickle of traffic on the main 10-space network adapter (on the host, to confirm).

I'm wondering if something is going wrong on these unix guests and SMB traffic is ending up going via the wrong interface. I've not done a packet trace yet to find out exactly what's going on but I will do as a last resort. Perhaps something like the initial handshake happens over the correct target IP but then something changes and the remainder goes via the wrong interface on the guest.

Is this is a common issue? Can I provide you folks with some outputs to help with resolving this issue?

Much appreciative of your help in advance

Regards