Hi there,

Anybody knows what this error message means:

"msg.vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort.rudeunplug:Operation

on file "
.\PhysicalDrive1" failed.

If the file resides on a remote file system, please make sure your

network connection and the server where this disk resides are

functioning properly. If the file resides on removable media, reattach

the media.

Choose Retry to attempt the operation again.

Choose Abort to terminate this session.

Choose Continue to forward the error to the guest operating system."

I guess it wants to say that there are problems with the disk attached to the guest. It happened before, I checked the disk for errors but none were found.I restarted the guest and after a couple of tries it was back on. Now it happened again.

Hello everyone,

I know this has been asked before, but I have a couple of additional things that I need to clarify.  I had a physical installation of Windows 7 on my laptop, which I converted to a vhd file using Disk2vhd.  Since that time, I've successfully used it with VMWare Player (the latest version), but want to use it with VMWare Server.  When I select it in the Hard Disks for the VM that I'm creating (I don't have the original vmx files anymore), it doesn't work.

Another issue is that I don't have enough space on my drive to convert the file (at least that I know of).  Currently the file is at 95GB, but it's been allocated out as a 289GB file (that was the original size of the hard drive).  I only have about 98G free on my hard drive.

So, my questions are, how do I import the vhd file into VMWare Server 2.0.2?  Will there be any issues with the fact that I had it running under VMWare Player (and have the VMWare Tools installed)?  Will I need more space than the 98G that I have available? (I can probably free up some space).  If I move it to a location where I have more space (a NFS or in my case, a Windows Home Server Share) can I do the conversion from my laptop (the computer without enough space currently)?

I don't have any .vpc files or anything else, just the vhd file.  Will that create any issues?

Thanks, and have a great day:)
Patrick.

I have VMware server 2.0.2 on the Windows 2008 R2 server

I tried to install VM “Windows 7 – 64 bit”

All procedure looks good, but it not finished.

It freeze in windows “Install Windows” on the step “Completing   Installation”

I repeated it some times.

Similar problem I received when tried to install Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine.

Have anybody ideas?

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.

I have searched and tried almost every solution I could. I still cannot get my VM to load. Here is some background. Upgraded to Windows home server 2011. Even with every precaution, my RAID failed. I recovered the Raid with ease. I used disk internals to recover my data. I recovered every bit of what i needed back, so I thought. I copied the VM data back over to my new dedicated drive, made a backup of the files on another drive. I added vmware server back to windows. I went to add the VM and bam crash. I have tried everything I have read, made a new VM copied my vmdk file over, crash. Tried mounting it, no go it crashes and generates a core file. I tried the VMware converter, does not generate the files.

I have a generic 40G non-allocated main file. All the hardware is the same.

What else I can I do to recover this VM. I need 1 directory from it, I do not care about the rest. This directory held all of my development. I am relatively new to this, but I felt  should try to fix this on my own. Now I need help.

I have the nvram, vmdk, vmsd, vmd, and vmxf  files. All the log files are there as well, but vmware.txt i see is corrupted at the bottom.

What else can be done to recover this?

The vmdk is quite large at 11G currently, so i did not include it.

Thank you in advance!

Scott

Hey all,

We had the VMWare folders hosting our virtual files accidentally deleted while the server was running.

We did not have a backup.

Fortunately, we were running Reiser-FS so we attempted a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree.

It found most, but not all, of our missing files easily. Except for the NT4 server (don't laugh) vmdk file. VMDK for the snapshots were intact, just the primary one was bad.

I managed to re-create it based on information from the forum. (see attached)

The next issue I had was that the base image was smaller than the snapshot - and nobody knows why (it was short around 1.7 MB). The previous logs that were archived indicate that the snapshot size _should_ be correct, but the base image do not match. After some experimentation, I edited the vmdk of the snapshot to have the sector numbers match the base image's new one, fixed the CID's, and then the VM managed to start. Lord only knows what this did to my snapshot.

The next issue was that the NTFS partition was corrupt. Got error messages regarding ntoskrnl.exe. In my experience, chkdsk needed to be run. This being NT4 Server, and my ERDs being long missing -  I tried an XP install disk and ran chkdsk. It did not find the NTFS partition.

Turned out the partition table was bad. Mounted a troubleshooting CD and ran TestDisk to fix the partition table. After this was done, ran the XP install disk and went to recovery console. Ran chkdsk /r twice, and my NTFS partition began to work again - bootex.log contains some things but no showstoppers.

As it stands, original partition table appears to be a primary DOS partition formatted FAT as boot partition, and then a logical partition formatted NTFS 1.2 inside a extended partition, as system.

At this point I can do data recovery from the NTFS partition - for example, mounting the vmdk's using vmware-mount. I can even see the most recend edited files of last week.

--------------

However - it is not booting into Windows.

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF2413BE0, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

CPUID:GenuineIntel 6.c.2 irql:0  SYSVER: 0xf0000565

Dll Base DateStmp - Name
80100000 416a9b06 - ntoskrnl.exe
80008000 36c4a0ae - Disk.sys
801f0000 373b4331 - Ftdisk.sys
80206000 36e5f31c - intlfxsr.sys
80010000 36c49893 - hal.dll
8000c000 375704e5 - CLASS2.SYS
801f8000 4431a335 - stcp2v30.sys
80208000 37c5705c - Ntfs.sys

If I run NT4 /sos, then I see it load the following drivers before BSOD'ing.

D:\WINNT\System32\ntoskrnl.exe
D:\WINNT\System32\hal.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\config\system
D:\WINNT\System32\config\system.alt
D:\WINNT\System32\c_1252.nls
D:\WINNT\System32\c_437.nls
D:\WINNT\System32\l_intl.nls
D:\WINNT\FONTS\fgaoem.fon
D:\WINNT\System32\DRIVERS\atapi.sys
D:\WINNT\System32\DRIVERS\SCSIPORT.SYS
D:\WINNT\System32\DRIVERS\buslogic.sys
D:\WINNT\System32\DRIVERS\SCSIPORT.SYS
D:\WINNT\System32\drivers\aic78u2.sys
D:\WINNT\System32\drivers\SCSIPORT.sus
D:\WINNT\System32\Drivers\Disk.sys
D:\WINNT\System32\Drivers\CLASS2.sys
D:\WINNT\System32\Drivers\Ftdisk.sys
D:\WINNT\System32\drivers\stcp2v30.sys
D:\WINNT\System32\Drivers\intlfxsr.sys
D:\WINNT\System32\Drivers\Ntfs.sys

Technically, no drivers have changed, so I don't need to insert the VMWare SCSI drivers or anything. Every NTFS checker program I know says the filesystem passes muster.

Any ideas? Advice? We learned our lesson on backups... I feel like I missed something important. Can I write the snapshot + base image out to a new clone image when the VMDK sector numbers don't match?

Below are copies of my vmdk files, the most recent successful log, and a directory tree. Filenames have been changed.

- Greg

I've got a new install of ESXi 4.1 on an HP Proliant DL180 G6.  I've spun up a few VM's, but I am seeing absurd latency in the disks, the read latency stays around 30 ms, and the write stays around 60 ms with Spikes into the 400-500+ range whenever one of these VM's are doing anything related to writing or reading anything but the smallest amount of data.

The storage is local and these are 7200 RPM SATA drives, and to make it worse, they're in a RAID 5, so, I was expecting to see some latency, but I believe what I'm experiencing is way higher than it should be.  Is what I'm experiencing to be expected considering the disks I'm using or is there something I need to look at?

I have a 4GB RAM on the Virtual server but the problem is the process is more than 4GB on the task bak. I installed Tomcat 5, Mirth and MySQL, and if I use the application I developed, the application runs slower and the process runs more than 4GB. What can I do Please?

Hi

I have installed vmware server 2.0.2 on windiows 7 ultimate

I have created one vm and put network setting as bridged network its not ping the host

I change the mode to host only it able to ping the host but not abel to access the host using unc path

I have local area connection connected to broadband modem

Can some one help me how to establish the communication/netwoerk betn host and guest?

I have a very strange problem with VMWare Server 2 running on Windows Server 2008.

I have a VM running linux in the NAT network. From this VM, I am able to make outbound UDP connections (eg. a DNS query to an external nameserver works just fine). I am also able to set up port forwarding (both TCP as UDP) to the VM, for instance I can connect over SSH to my VM through the hosts' IP address. The only thing I can't do, is make an outbound TCP connection from the VM to the internet.

I have done some extensive testing on the host using Wireshark.

I can see the SYN packet from the VM go over the vmnet8 adapter. This SYN is then sent over my phisical network adapter. I also receive the ACK,SYN back from the external host over the physical network adapter. I do NOT see the ACK,SYN go back over the vmnet8 to the VM.

I have tried disabling the firewall on both the host as the VM, but the problem is exactly the same. This makes me believe that the problem is somewhere to be looked for in the VMWare NAT service. I have already tried the repair option of the VMWare installer, but even after repairing, the problem is still there. I've also tried putting the NAT on a different VMNet interface and assign new subnets, but that did not work either.

I've created another VM, and it is showing exactly the same issue.

Does anyone have an idea of what might be wrong?

Dear VMWare community,

I wanted to expand the virtual disc of a vm. I'm using VMWare Server 2 on Windows 7 (64-bit) and the vm runs Ubuntu 10.04. I had assigmed 20GB for the vmdk but I run out of space so I wanted to increase it. I used both the command line and the GUI to do it, but both fail.

I get an "Unknown error 0x45d000900000001 always at 73% (even if I change the exteded size)

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Server>vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 32GB "C:\Virtual Machines\ubuntu 10.04\ubuntu 10.04.vmdk"
  Grow: 73% done.Failed to expand the disk 'C:\Virtual Machines\ubuntu 10.04\ubuntu 10.04.vmdk': Unknown error (0x45d000900000001).

I tried the same command for a second vm I had and it worked without any problem.

That's my vmx file in case you need it:

.encoding = "windows-1253"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
nvram = "ubuntu 10.04.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
ft.secondary0.enabled = "TRUE"
tools.upgrade.policy = "useGlobal"
powerType.powerOff = "hard"
powerType.powerOn = "hard"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "soft"

displayName = "ubuntu 10.04"
extendedConfigFile = "ubuntu 10.04.vmxf"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.sharedBus = "none"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "2048"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "ubuntu 10.04.vmdk"
scsi0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "D:"
ide1:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"
ide1:0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ethernet0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"
ethernet0.features = "1"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.networkName = "Bridged"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
usb.present = "TRUE"
guestOS = "ubuntu"
uuid.location = "56 4d 94 92 db 83 84 28-2c 0b fa 5f 79 80 a8 37"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 94 92 db 83 84 28-2c 0b fa 5f 79 80 a8 37"
vc.uuid = "52 12 c8 30 14 8a 74 08-4b e7 69 6d 58 d6 88 1a"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:80:a8:37"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmci0.id = "2038474807"

tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
usb:1.present = "TRUE"
usb:1.deviceType = "hub"

debugStub.linuxOffsets = "0x0,0xffffffff,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0"

ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

Good morning,

Thank you very much for leting me join your forum. I'm a newbie on vmware, I've been working with virtualbox since 5 years and now I'm trying vmware to migrate my servers. I have the following issue: I use a virtual machine and after installing the vmtools it's very slow yet, when you clic menus you have tu wait 2 or 3 seconds for it to open, or when you open a program it makes you wait a lot, etc.

If i open a 2nd virtual machine the first is slower.

I have an IBM M3 x3200 with 8 Gb RAM and Xeon with virtualization technology.

I thought it could be the virtualization not being well configures (in the bios is activated).

This vmware server is 2.0 and running under Debian Linux Lenny.

Before I had ubunu server running virtualbox and had no performance issues.

Do you have any clues? Or know if this problem was already reported?

Thank you very much,...

Kind regards,

Matias

I have a Blackberry enterprise server, running in Windows 2003 SP2, running on VMWare Server2. When doing a snapshot backup using AppAssure Replay4 application I am getting the following error in the Windows event viewer:

Thread: 5604

Logger: tevolib.tpalt

Context: PG=VolsWithInterval720Minutes Volume=\\?\Volume{54531876-fe55-11db-8f46-00188b19c44c}\ DriveLetter=G:

Source Location: TransmitPacketsAlternative.cpp:584

Details:

Transmission of snapshot data failed. Check the AppAssure event log on the Replay Core for more details. - The drive cannot find the sector requested.

The last statement says the drive cannot find the sector requested. It is a virtual machine, it has no physical drives. What does this error mean?

During Host Profile configuration I have the following error:

"DNS configuration doesn't match the specification".

I read the followind link http://communities.vmware.com/thread/345272 but it does not correct the problem.

Can someone hav ethe same problem? What can I do?

Hi all

We have a Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 host with 48GB memory, First data partition is 375GB (RAID1 120GB free) and second is 558GB (RAID1 50GB free)

Windows is managing the paging file and has set a 50GB pagefile on each data partition.

VMware server has 40GB reserved and is set to fit all virtual machine memory into reserved host ram.

We currently have 8 VMs running without an issue, using 32GB

When we start up a 9th, it takes a long time to load up and there is a significant amount of Hard Faults/sec that eventually recede to zero (after about 15/20 minutes) but performance of the 9th and the other VMs is affected - high CPU and poor overall performance exhibited as websites are slow to respond and timeout.

During all this the host CPU is not stressed

The VM starting up runs perfectly fine on my local machine using VMware player, and is a sysprepped image of the the other VMs.

Does anyone have any observations on why the disk thrashing is occuring and what I can do to remedy it?

Thanks

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

Hi Guys,

I'm quite new when it comes to VMWare and I am running vmware server 2.0.

I have a virtual machine that has been humming away nicely for a long time and was setup quite a while a go to host some software I use.

The hard disk space was creeping up so I went to extend the hard disk size using vmware-diskmanager. At this stage, I realized I was actually using a snapshot, and had been for a very long time.

When I went to increase the hard drive size of the snapshot, it wouldn't let me, because it was a snap shot, so I did it on the original vmdk successfully.

When I try fire up the snapshot, it shows the "hardisk is invalid".

This is obviously due to the hard disk size being different on both snapshots. I didn't realize this would cause an issue as the walkthroughs I read through didn't say anything about it.

Now, I am stuck with a snapshot I cant open, and a base vmdk I cant seem to shrink back to the original size.

It says "a file access error occurred on the host or guest operating system" when I try to use vmware-vdiskmanager on it to shrink it back to 30GB.

I desperately need to at least get the data out of the snapshot. Id love to actually fix it up completley if possible.

If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.

Using VMware Server 2.0.2

Downloaded Ubuntu Deskop 12.04 twice and get this same error when trying to create the VM:

See attachment.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ray

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

Help, Anyone

I'm using VMWare Server 2.0.  I went through the process of creating a guest OS and I'm going through the wizard.

I'm at the CD/DVD drive section and I'm attempting to select an .ISO image to install from.  However, when I type in

location of the file I get a msg saying it doesn't exist even though it does.  And when I browse there is still no

option to locate the physical .iso on my disk.

Has anyone else had this issue or know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks