hi
i read a few post about supporting ICH10R for vmware Esxi , so esxi cant work with ICH10R.
i want to know so can i install esxi with " 1 hard " without raid on this mainboard ( supermicro X8DT3 ) ?
whether this mainboard have another problem with esxi ?
whether there is way to support ICH10R ( Intel Matrix raid )?
i see a few driver for this matter but i dont have any idea.
please help me
sorry for poor english
Hello,
on VMware Server 2.0.2 for Windows i have the following setup:
Host: Windows Server 2008 R2
VM: Windows Server 2008 R2
The VM has a bridged network adapter with its own public IP-Address connected to the internet and a VPN incoming connection is ready on the VM.
And here comes the problem:
The host CAN connect to the VM via VPN PPTP, but from outside a client computer cannot - it fails with a timeout.
In detail:
A client (e.g. Win7) trying to connect via VPN (PPTP) hangs at "Verifying user name password..." and after two minutes, the connections gets closed error 619. On the Host this failed connection is logged as Event ID 20252 "The user connected to port VPN3-127 has been disconnected because the authentication process did not complete within the required amount of time."
Other VPN models, e.g. SSTP work without a problem.
I have tried any setting with total firewall off etc. so from now on I assume a problem with the vmware virtual network adapter. It seems to fail to read the GRE- or PPTP Protocol.
Hi everyone,
Im trying to copy a file from Host to Guest. Befor doing that, I reverted to a snapshot and started the machione with the nogui option (Everything over vmrun). But when Im trying to transfer the file, the error occurs, but the vmrun list command tells me that the vm is up and running!
Any ideas what it could be and how to fix it?
Greetz
Hi all
Can anybody can help me with Windows 2012 64bit installation on the VMware ServerVersion 2.0.2Build 203138?
I'm trying to install Windows 2012 from ISO image called: 9200.16384.WIN8_RTM.120725-1247_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-HRM_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV5.ISO downloaded from MS
Installation begins but Windows 2012 hangs after few seconds with something like blue screen and
information: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
I searched web for solution but it is hard to find proper solution in this case.
Thanks in advance
--
Artur Dębski
Hello every one,
First of all I wanted to mention that I'm totally new to this virtualization thing and forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I'm really confused about that. So I have a dedicated server with 5 valid IP addresses that clearly one of them is used for the host (the mentioned dedicated server), now I have 2 virtual machines on this host and I need to assign each machine a valid IP address, Can you please tell me how can I do that?
Thanks in advance
HI, im trying to set my some hp blade bl460c in a C7000 and i'm struggling with the iSCSI Hardware adapter.
I'm running VSphere ESXi 5.1 update 2 and have no trouble with FC adapter. Yet, the hardware iSCSI adapter won't show up on the host.
I tried different vib install to load the iSCSI driver from the vmware download section, but nothing worked so far. And the vib loaded made the host unreachale by the client... Received error 503, connection refused. Even by ssh... I stuggled as many command stated "Unable to connect to local host". I had to redo the blade profile and remove the iSCSI adapter to successfully log back on the blade and than run the command to remove the vib installed... ouch.
So... I was wondering if anyone successfully made it work! There an iSCSI accelerator in the c7000 and want to take advantage from it!
Hi All,
Do you have any experience to use more than 4 GB memory by a 64 bit guest on a 32 bit host OS?
The host computer is Intel Core2 Duo T6600 CPU with 4 GB phy. RAM, but I want to upgrade to 8GB. The host OS is FC9 32 bit, 2.6.26 kernel, with PAE on.
I use several math applications and I am thinking on to upgrade to VMWare Server 2.0 if I can use that benefits. I do not have time to reinstall the host os and use 64 bit now...Unfortunately I have not found any info about this subject in the docs.
Any infos and suggestions are welcome!
Kind regards,
Paul
vmWare Host Agent (vmware-hostd.exe) service allways hangs at startup on Windows Server 2003
Machine is an IBM Blade Server Windows Enterprise Server 2003 32 bit
vmware Server 2 installation was successfull.
all other vmware services start and stop properly (DHCP, NAT, Authorization Service, Web Access.
Machine is:
Intel Xeon CPU E5430 @ 2.66, 8GB RAM 2 CPU's 4 Cores per CPU
Machine has a SAN (Qlogic Fibre Channel LSI Adapter 3000 series 4-port with 1064E -StorPort
Machine has 2 usb devices attached:
TEAC FD-05PUB USB Device (FDD)
HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8082N USB Device (DVD ROM)
Reading logs seems something related to SCSI Address... or maybe related do CDROM.
Allways hangs at same point.
Tested detaching usb devices and starting service, service hangs at the same point.
Any idea or advice apreciated. Thanks id advance.
vmware-hostd.exe logs says:
Log for VMware Server, pid=1920, version=2.0.0, build=build-122956, option=Release, section=1
Current working directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Datos de programa\VMware\VMware Server
Using netmap configuration file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Datos de programa\VMware\VMware Server\netmap.conf
2009-03-20 14:43:58.687 'Hostsvc::AutoStartManager' 3360 info VM autostart configuration: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Datos de programa\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\vmAutoStart.xml
Locale subsystem initialized from C:\Archivos de programa\VMware\VMware Server\locale\ with default locale en.
Using system libcrypto, version 9070AF
Successfully loaded the diskLib library
File Services initialized fmgr(class NfcSvc::NfcFileManager:035BCF20)
Proxy config filepath is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Datos de programa\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\proxy.xml
Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = false, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000
Initialized SSL context with version all
Host name: sase00760055.coremain.com
Environments file: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Datos de programa\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\environments.xml
HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.
Failed to enumerate parallel devices
HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.
Failed to enumerate parallel devices
HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.
Failed to enumerate parallel devices
HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.
Failed to enumerate parallel devices
Stats Depot has future timestamps. Discarding old statistics information
Reverting to default stats configuration
Maximum number of events: 1000
Vimsvc::HaLicenseManagerImpl::CheckAndSetEvalSource: skipped on this platform
Vimsvc::HaLicenseSourceImpl::LoadPseudoFeatures: skipped on this platform
Vimsvc::HaLicenseSourceImpl::Acquire: Attempting to acquire license for feature: vmwServer, need qty=1 licenses
Implement HostDeviceInfo_FindHostPciDevices
WMI_ConnectToWMI: Could not create namespace locator: 0x800401f0 0x00000000
FetchSystemInfo: Could not get model of host.
FetchSystemInfo: Could not get vendor of host.
Could not parse host UUID 'f9bf592c-aabb-4ec5-a385-691c978e186e'
HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 4 numThreadsPerCore 1.
HOSTINFO: This machine has 2 physical CPUS, 8 total cores, and 8 logical CPUs.
Foundry Init: setting up global state (1 threads)
Vix_InitializeGlobalState: Use Preference. vixLogLevel = 0
Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixDebugPanicOnVixAssert = 0
Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogRefcountOnFinalRelease = 0
HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.
HostDeviceInfoFindHostSCSIDevicesViaDosQuery: Could not get SCSI Address for device CdRom0
Everyone has their favorite list of performance tweaks for the old 1.0 Server product. MemTrimRate, pshare, etc.
Has anyone applied these tweaks to the 2.0 product? Do they still help with performance? Do they even still exist as tweaks?
I posted this question back in the RC2 forums and nobody ever responded. Is nobody interested in improving VM performance under 2.0?
Hi All..
I have read endless posts on sound issues but I still cannot solve my problem.
I have a CentOS 5.2 Host (64bit) with a windows XP professional guest (32bit).
On my host I have:
lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation ICH10 HD Audio Controller
For the guest I tried auto detect and /dev/dsp for the sound adapter. My XP guest looks like it has the PCI sound device properly installed and everything looks fine. I can do the volume control and everything.
The funny thing is, when I play some audio in the XP guest then I hear the sound on the host linux server.
What am I missing?
Regards
MM
I
This is probably a very simple question and I
think I'm just overlooking something, but where the hell is the
interface for the VM?
I was able to install the software following the method I found here: http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-mandriva-one-2009.0-gnome-p6
But for some reason, I just can't find the interface of my VM. I've
set up the VM correctly and everything. When I start/power-on the VM, I
can hear my Host CPU working and the CD spinning (installing XP onto
VM) but I don't get a window pop-up or whatever is supposed to happen
for the interface with the Guest OS.
What am I missing??
THIS IS ON LINUX (MANDRIVA ONE 2009)
Lately I've migrated two running (w2003) servers to VMWare Server 2.
Om the host machine (w2003) I am using NTBackup to backup the virtual machine as VMWare server supports VSS backups.
However on both machines I receive the following error on every backup:
"VMware VSS Writer" has reported an error 0x800423f3. The Volume Shadow Copy operation can be retried.
I followed the VMWare documentation on using NTBackup with Vmware Server 2 and started the VMWare VSS Writer inside the guest. I configured the config file for overwriting the generated snapshot.
Furthermore I tried to enable Shadow Copying on all drives on the Host and the Guest hoping it would work, defragmented all drives, but still no luck.
I can't believe that I am the only one having this problem on the first two servers I migrate.
I have installed VMWare Server 2.0. I have a problem when I am connecting to the VMware® Remote Console. The window is appearing blank.
I have one VM Machine with Red Hat 4 AS working well in another workstation and it works perfectly. When i copied to the new VMWare server I was unable to access the Virtual Machine. I decided to recreate this machine from scratch and the same problem was coming with my new machine. From this machine I am able to access another VMWare Server and connect to some VMachines that I have in there.
I would love to be able to open the VMWare Remote Console and to work with my virtual machines. Any advise? IS something that I can do to fix this situation?
This is the copy of the Current UI log file
Nov 26 12:13:45.733: player| Log for VMware Remote Console pid=6052 version=2.5.0 build=build-122581 option=Release
Nov 26 12:13:45.736: player| Host codepage=windows-1252 encoding=windows-1252
Nov 26 12:13:45.737: player| VMware Remote Console: VMware virtual machine player
Nov 26 12:13:45.737: player| Command line: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\VMware Remote Console Plug-in\vmware-vmrc.exe" "-h" "5680-w2k8:8333" "-p" XXX "-M" "16"
Nov 26 12:13:45.757: player| Using system libcrypto, version 9070CF
Nov 26 12:13:45.859: player| Could not open registry path: Software\Thinprint, ret = 2
Nov 26 12:13:46.497: player| Debug VMX was requested, but not present. Using standard VMX.
Nov 26 12:13:46.498: player| Stats VMX was requested, but not present. Using standard VMX.
Nov 26 12:13:46.669: player| HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.
Nov 26 12:13:46.670: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostDisks: CreateFile
.\PhysicalDrive0 failed: Access is denied
Nov 26 12:13:46.670: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostDisks: CreateFile
.\PhysicalDrive1 failed: Access is denied
Nov 26 12:13:46.864: player| HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1.
Nov 26 12:13:46.864: player| HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.
Nov 26 12:13:48.539: player| Foundry Init: setting up global state (0 threads)
Nov 26 12:13:48.539: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: Use Preference. vixLogLevel = 0
Nov 26 12:13:48.539: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixDebugPanicOnVixAssert = 0
Nov 26 12:13:48.539: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogRefcountOnFinalRelease = 0
Nov 26 12:13:48.539: player| LOCALE windows-1252 -> NULL User=409 System=409
Nov 26 12:13:48.550: player| VixHost_ConnectEx: version -1, hostType 3, hostName (null), hostPort 0, options 515
Nov 26 12:13:48.779: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=1
Nov 26 12:13:48.823: player| REM-USB: Initializing 'Generic' backend
Nov 26 12:13:48.826: player| USBGW: hcmon open failed:5
Nov 26 12:13:48.826: player| REM-USB: Unable to initialize 'Generic' backend
Nov 26 12:13:48.877: player| IMonikerImpl::vmClientCore::MonikerImpl<class PlayerDisp>::GetTimeOfLastChange invoked
Nov 26 12:13:48.878: player| vmClientCore::VMControl::Connect: hostname = 5680-w2k8:8333, cloneticket = 78D392CB-27F1-48C1-81A8-FCBBD183D3BE, moid = 16
Nov 26 12:13:48.881: player| Resolving IP address for hostname 5680-w2k8
Nov 26 12:13:48.889: player| Resolved IPv6 address, ignoring
Nov 26 12:13:48.889: player| Resolved IPv6 address, ignoring
Nov 26 12:13:48.889: player| Resolved IPv6 address, ignoring
Nov 26 12:13:48.889: player| Resolved to 10.10.100.124
Nov 26 12:13:49.055: player| vmClientCore::VMControl::UpdateConnectionState: connection state changed: old state is 0 and new state is 1
Nov 26 12:13:49.055: player| vmClientCore::VMControl::UpdateConnectionState: connection state 1 fired
Nov 26 12:13:49.277: player| vmClientCore::VMControl::OnHostOpened
Nov 26 12:13:49.278: player| vmClientCore::VMControl::UpdateConnectionState: connection state changed: old state is 1 and new state is 1
Nov 26 12:13:49.308: player| vmClientCore::VMControl::UpdateConnectionState: connection state changed: old state is 1 and new state is 1
Nov 26 12:13:49.465: player| vmClientCore::VMControl::OnHostOpenVMDone
Nov 26 12:13:49.553: player| vmClientCore::VMControl::UpdateConnectionState: connection state changed: old state is 1 and new state is 1
Nov 26 12:13:53.381: player| vmClientCore::VMControl::UpdateConnectionState: connection state changed: old state is 1 and new state is 2
Nov 26 12:13:53.381: player| vmClientCore::VMControl::UpdateConnectionState: connection state 2 fired
Nov 26 12:14:08.645: player| PlayerFrame::OnGrabStateChanged
Nov 26 12:14:24.504: player| PlayerFrame::OnGrabStateChanged
Nov 26 12:14:25.568: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:17:45.871: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=1
Nov 26 12:17:53.072: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: action=0
Nov 26 12:17:53.072: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: Ungrab MKS
Nov 26 12:17:53.072: player| PlayerApp::SetGrab ignore ungrab (currently ungrabbed)
Nov 26 12:17:56.117: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:20:25.748: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:22:01.025: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:24:07.080: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:24:18.243: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:25:42.402: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:25:55.641: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:34:26.052: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: action=0
Nov 26 12:34:26.052: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: Ungrab MKS
Nov 26 12:34:26.052: player| PlayerApp::SetGrab ignore ungrab (currently ungrabbed)
Nov 26 12:34:26.061: player| OnCommand: unknown command 0x111, 15, 0
Nov 26 12:34:27.021: player| PlayerFrame::OnGrabStateChanged
Nov 26 12:34:35.637: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:34:35.639: player| PlayerFrame::OnGrabStateChanged
Nov 26 12:34:37.964: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=1
Nov 26 12:34:38.046: player| PlayerFrame::OnGrabStateChanged
Nov 26 12:34:41.172: player| PlayerFrame::OnGrabStateChanged
Nov 26 12:34:41.906: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:35:08.040: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=1
Nov 26 12:35:15.035: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:35:36.273: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=1
Nov 26 12:35:53.887: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:36:17.927: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=1
Nov 26 12:36:27.789: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:36:36.238: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=1
Nov 26 12:36:43.044: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:36:48.517: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=1
Nov 26 12:37:00.714: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:43:04.363: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=1
Nov 26 12:43:06.016: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Nov 26 12:43:10.434: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=1
Nov 26 12:43:10.437: player| CheckFocus: bad focus, resetting
Nov 26 12:43:10.437: player| PlayerFrame::NoFocusNotify: no focus, resetting
Nov 26 12:43:10.438: player| PlayerFrame::NoFocusNotify: No dialog - doing nothing!
Nov 26 12:43:10.438: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: action=0
Nov 26 12:43:10.438: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: Ungrab MKS
Nov 26 12:43:10.438: player| PlayerApp::SetGrab ignore ungrab (currently ungrabbed)
Nov 26 12:43:10.450: player| PlayerFrame::OnGrabStateChanged
Nov 26 12:43:14.294: player| PlayerFrame::OnGrabStateChanged
Nov 26 12:43:19.799: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: action=0
Nov 26 12:43:19.799: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: Ungrab MKS
Nov 26 12:43:19.799: player| PlayerApp::SetGrab ignore ungrab (currently ungrabbed)
Nov 26 12:43:25.231: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: action=0
Nov 26 12:43:25.231: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: Ungrab MKS
Nov 26 12:43:25.231: player| PlayerApp::SetGrab ignore ungrab (currently ungrabbed)
Nov 26 12:43:25.242: player| OnCommand: unknown command 0x111, 15, 0
Nov 26 12:43:25.985: player| PlayerFrame::OnActivateApp: m_bActive=0
Thanks in Advance
Paulo
Hi,
I would like to set custom SSL certificate for Server 2.0.0. I already have generated new .cer and .key files via my Certificate Authority.
I have replaced
/etc/vmware/ssl/rui.crt
/etc/vmware/ssl/rui.key
with the new files and restarted the VMware Server.
Server loads up OK, but the web interface does not. The log in /var/log/vmware/hostd.log shows:
error: Crypto Exception: error:0906A068:PEM routines:PEM_do_header:bad password read
Looks like something with the certificate password. Where do I put the password that I set for the certificate when I generated it via my Certificate Authority?
Are there any special requirements to use custom SSL certificates. 1024 or 2048 bits?
Any help would be appreciated.
Kind regards, Marko.
Hello,
I am running the following:
snake vmware # vmware -v
VMware Server 2.0.0 build-122956
snake vmware # uname -a
Linux snake.kw 2.6.18-92.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 19:22:41 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
snake vmware # cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.2 (Final)
I am having issues trying to add a new Virutal Switch. Am I going about this the wrong way - or is it even supported?
/$ hostsvc/net/vswitch_add vmnet2
2009-02-08 16:22:42.681 'App' 3086431936 warning- ============BEGIN FAILED METHOD CALL DUMP============
2009-02-08 16:22:42.681 'App' 3086431936 warning- Invoking on vim.host.NetworkSystem:networkSystem
2009-02-08 16:22:42.681 'App' 3086431936 warning- Arg vswitchName:
"vmnet2"
2009-02-08 16:22:42.681 'App' 3086431936 warning-- Arg spec:
2009-02-08 16:22:42.681 'App' 3086431936 warning- Fault Msg: "The operation is not supported on the object."
2009-02-08 16:22:42.681 'App' 3086431936 warning- ============END FAILED METHOD CALL DUMP============
(vmodl.fault.NotSupported) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
msg = "The operation is not supported on the object."
}
The reason for this - I would like to set up a new HostOnly network adapter on the system. I cannot see a way to do this via the VI Web Access console.
I'm more than happy to be told to RTFM, if the appropriate section of the FM is highlighted
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin
I am running Windows Vista Enterprise x64 as my host. I have an XP .x32 guest running on it that i use to VPN into my work from home. The issue is that on those days when i have to go into the office that same XP guest won't connect to the wireless network at work. My Vista host connects fine in either location but the guest will only connect if I am at home. I checked out my virtual network settings and it is set to automatically detect network. I changed it once and selected that vmnet0 always use my wireless NIC but that did help either. I created the guest while i was at home but i would think as long as my host is connected to a particular network the guest wouldn't mind which one.
Has anyone seen this issue before.
Thanks...
I'm running VMWare Server 2.0.1 on an Optiplex 755 running Ubuntu 9.04 x64. Everything installed OK, and I was able to get a few VM's running and bridged to my internal network via vmnet0 without any issue. The problem occurs when I reboot the host, somehow it loses connection to the bridge. All of the guest OS's cannot obtain ip addresses from my dhcp server, when they could before I rebooted. To fix this, I have to re-run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl, and it is ok until the hosts reboots again, I don't even have to reconfigure the network settings at all.
I did read a couple of other posts saying to check for a process that says '/usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid -n 0 -i eth0', and that is there, both before and after reboots.
I can set it up as NAT and everything works fine both before and after reboots.
Is there something I'm missing here? Anyone have any ideas? Thank you for any help.
My question comes from the world of academia, I am part of a gradutate student project at UCSD conducting networking benchmarks in virtualized environments.
Our experiments yielded interesting results for the following configuration for guest OS TCP loopback and guest to guest communication throughput measurements:
Intel Quad Core Xeon Machine 2.66Ghz, 32GB Ram, Ubuntu 8.04 running Vmware server 2 with two identical guest operating systems assigned 2GB RAM each. VMware tools are installed. TCP benchmarks was performed with netperf and lmbench utilities.
What we observed is that the host operating system running on bare metal achieved 10Gb/s loopback throughput, while the guest achieved 15Gb/s. Guest to guest communication on the same machine saw order of magnitude lower throughput of 1.2Gb/s. It was quite surprising to see the guest outperforming the host, and also to see the impressive throughput disappear for guest-guest communication.
We are in the process of ruling out design flaws in our experiment, but at the same time we would like to know if anyone else has made such observations, or if there are any plausible explanation of our results. We have gone over the VMware networking whitepapers and the discussions on virtual switches but would like to hear from the community.
Any help / insight / links would be greatly appreciated!
G'day,
I'm running VMServer 2.0.1 on Ubuntu 9.0.4 (Jaunty) hosting CentOS 4.7 guest VMs.
I am continually seeing the following message when powering on a guest VM:
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.
The work-around I've discovered is to restart the vmware services, i.e.
$ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware stop
Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines done
Stopping VMware management services:
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
VMware Server Host Agent done
Stopping VMware services:
VMware Authentication Daemon done
Virtual machine communication interface done
Virtual machine monitor done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Host network detection done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done
Virtual ethernet done
$ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual machine communication interface done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
VMware Server Authentication Daemon (background) done
Shared Memory Available done
Starting VMware management services:
VMware Server Host Agent (background) done
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
Starting VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines done
Output from ifconfig and ps -ef |grep vmnet is given below.
Why isn't vmnet0 available after booting, and how can I make it so?
Thanks,
Chris.
$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:0b:35:d5:12
inet addr:10.1.1.2 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:bff:fe35:d512/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1354 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1798 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:383251 (383.2 KB) TX bytes:1126131 (1.1 MB)
Memory:f0500000-f0520000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6225 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6225 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4962948 (4.9 MB) TX bytes:4962948 (4.9 MB)
pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 96:e2:2c:be:eb:c6
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:01
inet addr:172.16.181.1 Bcast:172.16.181.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:08
inet addr:192.168.60.1 Bcast:192.168.60.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
$ ps -ef |grep vmnet
root 2885 1 0 11:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid -n 0 -i eth0
root 2900 1 0 11:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-netifup -d /var/run/vmnet-netifup-vmnet1.pid /dev/vmnet1 vmnet1
root 2911 1 0 11:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet1.pid vmnet1
root 2927 1 0 11:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-netifup -d /var/run/vmnet-netifup-vmnet8.pid /dev/vmnet8 vmnet8
root 2943 1 0 11:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.pid vmnet8
root 2948 1 0 11:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-natd -d /var/run/vmnet-natd-8.pid -m /var/run/vmnet-natd-8.mac -c /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf
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/<ModuleName>.{o,ko}'
Execution aborted.
Thanks.