I am trying to create a new virtual machine on my Vmware 2 server that I just installed on Cent OS 5.1 and I cannot seem to access the datastores.

I have tried every angle but I get the same result.

Error

Exception of type Vmomi.Fault.InvalidArgument was thrown.

I did disable selinux, iptables, and did a yum update of gcc, make before installation. The installation went fine so far as I can tell and I was able to access it no problem with the Windows Virtual infrastructure Client version 2.0.2 just like I had on my ESX server.

Any help would be appreciated!!

Hi

I have a problem with enable HA

I have 2 ESX server with this IP:192.168.10.100 , 192.168.10.103 and one vCenter with IP 192.168.10.25

when i enable HA in this server Vcenetr can't enable HA.

note:the server 10.103 when didn't has a DNS HA run for this server  without any alarm but the server 10.100 have a problem but this have a DNS .

DNS do not have for run HA?if this true how remove DNS from this host because when i want remove DNS form DNS ant routing in configuration tab the OK bottom is disable .

note: in advanced tab in HA i set a Vcenter IP for Isolation Address .this is a True?because i don't understand Isolation address means

I So attach a picture in my configuration.

tank you for everything

I bought a new computer over the weekend and everything works fine EXCEPT the mouse ONLY when I'm on Facebook.  It works for a few seconds, stops for a long time and then continues.  Why does this happen and how can I fix this?  I'm using the mouse that came with the computer (HP) and I've tried the Logitech mouse I formally used.

Hallo,

need HELP.

i had 3 virtual machines (1xW2k3 DC and 2xW2k3 as an virtual Cluster) with Virtual Server 1.05 on my Laptop (XP SP2) created.

USB functions great.

Then our IT installs Vista SP1 on my Laptop. OK....no problem i thought...what a great optimism.

On the new installed Laptop i install the new Vmware Server 1.07 and import the old with Virtual Server 1.05 created virtual machines.

But after connecting an USB-Drive i wasn´t able to connect the device in the virtual machine...it was greyed out.

After severel trys to reanimate it i decide to install VMware Server 2.0. But the same Problem. In the Remote Console i can see what type of USB-Drive is connected like "Sandisk USB-Massstorage", but the connect Button is greyed out.

The problem i see is, that on the hostsystem the "VMmware USB-Device"-Driver is not installed and the guest-Systems think that he is installed.

All attempts were in vain to install this driver manually on the Laptop (host-system).

Can anyone help me?

Thanks Juergen

Hi,

if I run:  vmrun -T server -h https://intel-ht-005/sdk -u root -p passwd listRegisteredVM, I get this result:

Total registered VMs: 4

test/Clone of SLES10sp1-64bit.vmx

1/Clone of SLES10sp1-64bit.vmx

2/Clone of SLES10sp1-64bit.vmx

3/Clone of SLES10sp1-64bit.vmx

For God's sakes, what's with this editor Standard in the above output is enclosed in brackets.

Then I  run this command: vmrun -T server -h https://intel-ht-005/sdk -u root -p passwd -gu root -gp passwd runProgramInGuest "[standard] test/Clone of SLES10sp1-64bit.vmx" ifconfig

I get: Error: A file was not found 

Not sure if my syntax is wrong or what this error is trying to tell me, no matter what command I try (ifconfig, ls, echo) whatever, I get this error.

Thanks in advance

I needed to use a raw physical disk from within a VMware image.  This works in VMware Workstation and apparantly also in Server 1.x but somehow the ability to use physical disks was removed from the UI of Server 2.0. While I could find some posts about this on the forum none of them really helped me any further.  After a lot of fiddling and comparing with VMware Workstation I finally found how to make it work.  I hope this is usefull for somebody. If it isn't, just ignore me 

I used the following setup:

My server has 2 'disks': /dev/sda is a local raid used for storing the server os and guest images, /dev/sdb is a chunck of a SAN connected via fiberchannel which will be used by one particular guest called 'barbar'.

• Make sure the guest is powered off before making any changes

• The configuration of the VMware guest image is stored in the <guestname>.vmx file in the guests directory.  The virtual disk configuration consists of a few lines which read like this:

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scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:1.fileName = "barbar-0.vmdk"

scsi0:1.deviceType = "rawDisk"

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Note the '0:1' denotes the second disk on the first SCSI channel. This is because I'm using 2 disks in the guest: the virtual disk which will hold the OS and the physical disk which will show up as the second disk. 

• The vmx file does not contains any references to the actual physical disk I want to use (/dev/sdb). This information is stored in a second file (in this case barbar-0.vmdk)  This file looks like:

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1. Disk DescriptorFile

version=1

CID=e6704746

parentCID=ffffffff

createType="fullDevice"

1. Extent description

RW 419430400 FLAT "/dev/sdb" 0

1. The Disk Data Base

#DDB

ddb.toolsVersion = "0"

ddb.encoding = "UTF-8"

ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"

ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "63"

ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "255"

ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = "26108"

ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"

ddb.geometry.heads = "255"

ddb.geometry.cylinders = "26108"

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "6"

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Disk DescriptorFile  I have no idea what the first set of options do. I copied these from a Workstation 6.0.4 setup.

Extent description this line defines which physical device will be used.  In this case I'm using my secondary disk which is /dev/sdb.  The number is very importan, this is the size of the disk in 512b blocks. You can find this by doing 'fdisk /dev/sdb' on the server

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fdisk /dev/sdb

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 214.7 GB, 214748364800 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26108 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sdb1               1       26108   209712478+  fd  Linux raid autodetect

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214748364800 / 512 = 419430400

ddb.geometry*  make sure these also match the  geometry of the physical disk. Again you can get this from 'fdisk /dev/sdb' on the server.

The ddb.geometry* info seems to be less important, however the size in the Extent description should be correct otherwise the image won't start.

• now start the guest from the console.  The physical disk will not show up in the guest summary screen, however when you now run 'fdisk /dev/sdb' from within the guest you should see the partition table of the real physical disk

I hope this is useful to somebody

Nico

Hi,

My configuration is as follow:

Debian Etch x64 on an OVH dedicated server with a quad proc Intel xeon, 2x750GBHDD in SATA HARD RAID1, 4GB DDR2. ReiseFS filesystem for all partition except boot which is in ext3.

Two vritual machines stored on a 600GB datastore. One is using 50GB, the second one, 26GB. The datastore filesystem is ReiserFS.

The virtual Machines are both based on the same template, with Debian Etch x32.  Both are running Plesk 9.0. The VM disks are distributed in 4 VMDK each. One per partition. One for root, one for home, one for var and a last one for swap. 

Plesk Backup is using tar and gzip.

VM1 has 18 domaines, with average traffic. WM2 has almost no traffic at all.

When plesk backup is running, IOWAIT for VM1 goes up to 99.7% iowait permanently. IOWAIT for VM2 goes up to 99.7% as soon as there is any activity on it. And the host goes up to 40% iowait. It seems pretty c

Questions:

1. Could it be due to reiserFS ?

2. Is it a problem to run 4 vmdk per vm on the same host drive ?

3. How can I troubleshoot this ?

Plesk backup takes hours, and the sites are extreemely slow during that time.

Any help welcome.

hey everyone

i've got the free vmware server running on 3 machines: a win2k3 server, and 2 centOS servers.  all work beautifully.

I've been managing them using the web interface (serverip:8333) which is ok. I just got vmware infrastracture client which allows me to connect to one at a time. what software can i use to see all 3 servers and their clients, and run the same options (reports, load etc) as i can on vmware infrastracture client?

i followed the link to vmware infrastracture but i'm just completely confused. that seems like an entire package, looks like they want me to install all these licensing servers and god knows what on my servers. i just want the desktop client that handles multiple VMware servers. possible?

I am struggling here and really need help.I have Ubuntu 8.10 desktop installed and successfully installed VMware server 2.0. I built a Ubuntu guest VM and want to use my USB webcam in the VM but no matter what I try it doesn't work. Can someone tell me the specific steps in the host and in the guest to get a USB webcam working in a Ubuntu VM? It's a logitech 4000 webcam.

I've tried so many suggestions on these forums and the ubuntu forums to try and get it working and nothing has helped.

Thanks!

Ubuntu linux installation is painless as explained in this document. Ubuntu is a valuable and completely free distribution of Linux. It is open-source and software libre meaning that it's free of any limitations that GPL or LGPL may pose. Like other Linux distributions, Ubuntu will enable you to text your applications in Linux.

Challenge

The common challenge for many users is that fact that one must either configure dual-boot into windows or Ubuntu Linux, or set-aside a PC for use with this operating system. Often, especially for smaller companies and consultancies that may not have the resources, it is not possible to set-aside a PC system just for testing or learning Linux if that is not the popular platform within the organisation. Also, it may sometimes be necessary to switch between several operating system during development or testing, and this may not be possible in dual-boot environments, or if you are away from the office (in a situation where it's not possible to have your multiple systems).

Solution

To enable to simultaneously use of multiple operating systems on on computer, there are a number of low-level applications in the market; especially for Apple Computers to run Windows (More of these will be added especially now that Apple is using Intel Chips and shipping Microsoft Windows bundled with their new systems). Besides the fact that it costs money to enable Windows to run on a Mac, this feature did not exist on Windows Systems to enable them to run other OS for free until VMware started distributing it's Server.

Installation Procedure

• Download and install the VMWare Server (You will be required to create an account in order to receive a registration key - necessary to run the software)

• Install the server software (this will take a long time and also ask you to close common applications such as Mozilla, Outlook, OpenOffice)

• Enter the product registration key when requested

• You are not equipped with the VMWare server and you are ready to install operating systems

Installing Ubuntu Linux in the VMWare server

1. Start the VMWare Server and from the home menu, select 'New Virtual Machine' and follow the instructions that follow to install a CD of Ubuntu Linux (If the CD auto-launches within Windows, cancel it and DO NOT install it in Windows lest you erase your physical disk)

2. Make sure that you allocate enough disk space for the Ubuntu Linux installation partitions without compromising the other windows applications on your system (make the decision based on how much idle disk-space you have).

3. Whenever Ubuntu 'talks' of formating the drive and erasing all information, do not be scared, it's only taking about the space allocated to it within the VMWare virtual machine environment

4. The Ubuntu Linux installation will take some time to complete, and it's not any different or complex compared to installing Windows XP

5. Make choices for screen-resolution, networking and RAM usage based on the resources that your system has, how often you will be using Ubuntu Linux Compared to your Windows applications, and your network setup

6. When done, Ubuntu will restart the machine (all within the VMWare virtual machine without restarting your physical PC) and you should have a nice working installation of Ubuntu Linux within your Windows O

7. The VMWare Server allows you to break free from the Ubuntu Linux or any other Virtual machine you may be using (to use your physical Windows machine) by pressing CONTROL + ALT

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Hello,

  I am running VMWare Server 2 on Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit.  I have the OpenVPN server running, which has been running for over 2 years, even with an Linux distrobution change, and it has been rock solid.

  The server runs the OpenVPN server, VMWare server, and several other things, all without any problems.  My configurations for the server and clients are below.  All the physical clients can connect without any problems, and they are able to communicate through the VPN.

  Recently, I needed to add a couple of virtual clients (one Gentoo and more Ubuntu 8.04 32 & 64-bit).  The virtual clients can connect to the VPN server and talk seemlessly, but the virtual clients are not able to talk to the physical clients through the VPN.

  I have another VMWare Server (2) running on another computer and I was able to get a virtual computer (test) running on that server to communicate with all of the physical computers, but again, not the other virtual ones.  This test system is also running Ubuntu 8.04 (32-bit) and using the same configuration files.

  Every computer (physical or virtual) has their own certificates; no sharing allowed.

  This is what I need to resolve and I am looking for suggestions.  Please let me know what other information you may need.  In the information below, I have changed some of the informationn for security reasons such as system names, certificate names, public IP addresses, etc.

Thanks,

Harlan...

Server configuration:

port 1194

proto tcp

dev tap

ca /etc/openvpn/vpn/ca.crt

cert /etc/openvpn/vpn/server.crt

key /etc/openvpn/vpn/server.key  # This file should be kept secret

dh /etc/openvpn/vpn/dh2048.pem

server 10.8.1.0 255.255.255.0

ifconfig-pool-persist /var/log/openvpn/ipp.txt

push "route 10.8.1.0 255.255.255.252"

client-config-dir /etc/openvpn/vpn/clients

route 10.8.1.0 255.255.255.0

client-to-client

keepalive 10 120

tls-auth /etc/openvpn/vpn/private.key 0 # This file is secret

cipher DES-EDE3-CBC  # Triple-DES

comp-lzo

user nobody

group nogroup

persist-key

persist-tun

status /var/log/openvpn/openvpn-status.log

log-append  /var/log/openvpn/openvpn.log

verb 4

Virtual client configuration:

client

dev tap

proto tcp

remote server1.vpn 1194

remote server3.vpn 1194

resolv-retry infinite

nobind

user nobody

group nogroup

persist-key

persist-tun

mute-replay-warnings

ca /etc/openvpn/vpn/ca.crt

cert /etc/openvpn/vpn/vclient.crt

key /etc/openvpn/vpn/vclient.key

ns-cert-type server

tls-auth /etc/openvpn/vpn/private.key 1

cipher DES-EDE3-CBC

comp-lzo

log-append /var/log/openvpn/openvpn.log

verb 4

tun-mtu 1500

tun-mtu-extra 32

mssfix 1400

key-method 2

pull

Physical client configuration:

client

dev tap

proto tcp

remote server1.vpn 1194

remote server3.vpn 1194

resolv-retry infinite

nobind

user nobody

group nogroup

persist-key

persist-tun

mute-replay-warnings

ca /etc/openvpn/vpn/ca.crt

cert /etc/openvpn/vpn/pclient.crt

key /etc/openvpn/vpn/pclient.key

ns-cert-type server

tls-auth /etc/openvpn/vpn/private.key 1

cipher DES-EDE3-CBC

comp-lzo

log-append /var/log/openvpn/openvpn.log

verb 4

tun-mtu 1500

tun-mtu-extra 32

mssfix 1400

key-method 2

pull

Hi everybody,

I've installed VMWare server 2.0 on a amd64 based pc under GNU/Linux Debian 5.0 with 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel.

When i try to browse datastore in VMWare VI client 2.0, i've got the "Exception of type Vmomi.Fault.InvalidArgument was thrown", and nothing is displayed in the Datastore browser.

When this occur, i've got " GetParameters failed for method search: Not initialized: boolean fileOwner" in /var/log/vmware/hostd.log

I've try multiples things, like change datastore owner, change vmware user (actually root), change rights on datastore, declare another datastore, etc...

Linked to this, when i try to "Add Virtual Machine to Inventory" in mui, it is loading infinitely...

I have searched on all ressources on the web include this community forum but it seems i'm alone in this situation.

If i can help, i've also got this errors :

'Proxysvc Req00006' 1081608528 warning] PendingServerStrm: server read-initiate error: Bad file descriptor

'App' 1078045008 error] An error occurred while loading configuration "/usr/lib/vmware/settings",not all entries are being read. It is strongly encouraged that you manually inspect the file and fix any corruptions.

Best regards - Vincent ravier

Hi,

I've had Vmware 2 running very nicely on a couple of Slackware Linux boxes.  For various other reasons I have now implemented an LDAP backend for authentication (pam_ldap, nss_ldap etc etc).  This meant I had to re-install several packages to make them pam aware (samba in particular).

since re-installing and getting the pam/nss authentication running vmware will not start up.  Everything reports OK until it gets to starting the virtual machines which bomb out with a FAILED message.

The only clue I can see is in the syslog which gets the lines :

VMware[init]: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Vmacore::NotInitializedException'

VMware[init]:   what():  Not initialized

VMware[init]: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S90vmware: line 80:  3787 Aborted                 "$func" "$@"

All other messages seem to be fairly OK.

The httpd server does not appear to be running either at this point.

I have re-installed VMWare - but no difference.

Any clues would be most welcome,

TIA,

Grep.

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 i'm trying to install CentOS 5.3 in VMWare Server 2.x. The host system is running Windows 2000 SP4 with an AMD Athelon XP 1800 CPU, 1G RAM and an NVidia FX5200. Every time i try to install CentOS 5.3  the result is always the same, a kernel panic/kernel oops. I have other VM's running in the same host hardware without problem, but those VM's are running FC4 and previous RedHat versions.

As far i can diagnose the problem doesn't seams to be CentOS related. I believe this is true because i have tried to install CentOS 5.3 directly in the host system and i can reach the step where the partitions are created, stage that i can't reach when trying to install CentOS 5.3 in my VMWare Server 2.0 virtual machine.

I have tried to raise the RAM in use by the guest OS, but the problem persists. I have tried to disable acpi (setting the acpi=no as a boot option), doing the install using text mode, but the same problem, kernel panic.

Acording to the kernel panic diagnostic info the problem happens in function xor_sse_2.

The call trace shows the following:

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apic_timer_interrupt

xor_sse_2

do_xor_speed

calibrate_xor_block

sys_init_module

syscall_call

Code: Bad EIP value

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I have upploaded the kernel panic message as it has been printed in the VMWare Console.

I have tried to disable all kinds of acceleration in the VM configuration, changed the SCSI vitual controller type from BusLogic to LSI, but the same issue. I have searched for the functions reported in the call trace, and it seams that calibrate_xor_block is used inside module/driver md, so this must be a virtual hardware issue (disk, cdrom, etc). I have changed the virtual CDrom hardware from IDE to SCSI and now the guest OS can't find the CDRom nor the hard disk, but there is also no kernel panic!. Is there any LSI driver disk that can be used so the virtual SCSI cdrom and hardisk can be accessed?

Does any one has any hint?

Thanks

Mike

I've been having this problem for a while. Sometimes when I try to login or even after I login I get kicked out of the web GUI with "web service not available" message. I've seen this posted all over when doing a google search and seems like the problem existed even in beta before 2.0 was released.

The hostd.log was useless. But, I did find the following entries in proxy.log at the moment this failure happens:

Updates thread error notification. PrevError=null, NewError=RuntimeFault, NewErrorMessage=spec

Error processing action request /view/fetch : spec

Fetching propertySet failed for id = 2120

Error processing action request /view/fetch : javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Number of parameters passed in (3) doesn't match the number of IN/INOUT parameters (2) frm the addParameter() calls

The last line to me seems to hint at a possible bug? Anybody know of a resolution to this problem? I'm on VMware Server 2.0.1, running on CentOS 5.3/x86_64.

TIA

Hi All,

is there any Workaround or Issue in Using vSphere Client with VmWare Server 2?

Thanks

Sebastian

Greetings,

I did a bone-headed thing... I was expirementing with permissions and in one of my "test" images I added "Users role Read-Only on This object" but I didn't realize that as an "Administrator" I am also a user and that "deny" permissions supersede allow permissions. Now I have no way to go back and delete that permission on the users group! I'd happily just delete this VM from my inventory but it won't let me do that either.

How do I remove the permission or remove the VM from my inventory? This is very frustrating!

Thanks!

I am investigating a use of VMWare Server on a machine I am responsible for developing some device management related solutions for. I found out that the enable/disable script we use (which makes use of Microsoft's devcon) runs into problems when VMWare Server has been installed. In particular, it will not renable devices which have been disabled until a restart. Device manager claims this is because the drivers are already loaded (which is unlikely to be true, because the devices do not work). I tracked the culprit as apparently VMWare's hcmon.sys. Removing this driver seems to solve the problem I was having. However, I do not know whether doing such is recommended or the like. What happens if I remove this driver? What functionality do I lose? Is there a danger of VM instability? Are there other concerns?

I've tried researching this on my own and forgive me if I missed an obvious how-to but I'm attempting to enable direct3d acceleration on vmware server 2 beta.  I see experimental support for VMW but not for VMS2... can anyone confirm its not supported so I can try a different route? 

I havre debian lenny (amd64) as my host and xp 32 bit as the vm (missed the article on getting 64bit on as vm through bios... next time)

thanks for any help!