Hi all,

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

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

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

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

Two VMWare guests run atop the server:

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

Other systems on the same network:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yet it works elsewhere:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I amn new to vmware server. Got it installed, and created a few vm's. Each vm has it's own static ip address in bridged mode.

We can connect to the server to browser shared folders, install programs, get online etc. All seemed great. We can ping the server with ip or wins names.

We created a few mapped drives like we have on the non virtual machines, and that worked great.Our goal was to run Quickbooks on these virtual machines. We have an older version that doesnt work with W7, and we are not buying new qb licenses just to get the never version.

Now to what doesnt work;

We mapped the qb folder as usual, and qb even loads, for a minute. Then it gets disconnected. Sometimes it works for 30 seconds, sometimes 3 seconds.

We have another program that run from the server. When it loads it gets the "Error performing inpage operation" and it doesnt even start. This program isnt insyalled on the vm, it just liked to the exe on the server.

This same setup works fine as a regular workstation. We made a copy of a working workstation that is this vm.

We looked into wins, dns, and mtu issues. All look fine. MTU was 1472 + 28 to get us back to 1500. The server MTU is 1500 and i read somewhere the vm should match the host.

This vm is running as a guest on the host server where the network shares are. The trafic doesnt have to go far. No firewall on this server, and no firewall on the vm.

I'm new to to VMware server. I used Drive Image xml to image my Windows 2003 server and then booted to the Ulitmate Boot CD for Windows in the VM to restore the image.

I used windows disk manager to mark the C partition active, but when I boot to the VM it tries to do a network boot.

I was able to install an XP VM without any problems and noticed that its drive type is listed as IDE while the 2003 server is SCSI.

Any ideas?

Hi

I have several dell servers running VMware server 2.0.2 on Windows server 2008 R2

On each of these servers I have three or four guests, some guests are running windows server 2003 and others running windows server 2008.

We remote administer the Dell physical host servers using terminal services.

Frequently when we log into the host servers we get the following issue

1 – The terminal server session will wait for up to 60 seconds with the message “Please wait for the user profile service”

2 – While the terminal server session to the host has the message, all network connectivity to the guest machines on the host is lost.

3 – When the terminal server session finally logs on to the hosts, network connectivity to the guests resumes.

There are no events or errors in the logs to indicate where the problem may lay.

We have many physical servers that reside in the same domain, both server 2003 and server 2008, but none of them ever experience any issues with terminal services. Only VMware host servers behave this way, and all of them behave the same.

Any suggestions please?

Oddly complex question, but if it wasn't, I'd have figured it out after having tried to fix it for 6 hours.... -_-

Anyhow, I'm trying to run a server on the virtual machine. The VM is on a bridged connection to the router, and registered on the router to be in a DMZ.

I am trying to have [program 2] loop out to the WAN (internet) IP address, and connect to my WAN address to [program 1] at the specified port.

[Program 1] recognizes [program 2], and it successfully connects, but it's registering as a connection for 192.168.1.1 (my router's IP).

In other words, it looks like it's not actually going to the internet, and just hitting the router and getting directed back without being registered as WAN.
When using VMWare, can you directly DMZ the bridged IP, or does the firewall protecting the host computer hold back the signal?

I'm using VMWare version 7.1.4, because it worked for another program, and don't know what version I can update to for free.
Any help would be appreciated, especially ASAP, because I was supposed to have this up last night! @_@ lol

Has anyone had any sucess creating a Windows 2012 VM on VMWare Server via loading an iso image?  I tryied loading the iso but keep rebooting, reporting "Your PC Ran into a problem and needs to restart....

Hi!,

   I'm having a problem with one of my virtual machines on VMWARE Server 2.

Suddenly, after a server crash, the machine didn't boot up correctly. Apparently something went wrong with the hard disk. I tried to remove and add again the hard disk, however, when I tried to add it it says:

"The selected file is not a valid virtual disk file. Please choose a different name"

Attached there are vmx, vmxf and vmdk files.

Any hint about this?

Hello All,

I'm running VMware Server 2.0.0. I have had 12 guests running perfectly on this host. But right now I only have a few running and they have started to lag. I don't know where to start trouble shooting. Seems like it would be a memory issue but all guests seem to be running at less than half of the allotted memory. I'm sorry this seems vague but I really do not know where to start, I know my host has the capabilities to run these guests but something has happened where they are running very slow.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

any hint to this error in my log. thanks in advance.

Sep 18 23:54:35.523: vmx| VMXVmdb_LoadRawConfig: Loading raw config

Sep 18 23:54:35.523: vmx| CnxHandleConnection: WSASocket returned error 10022.

Sep 18 23:54:35.523: vmx| VMAutomation: Cnx_CompleteAsyncOperation() failed.

Sep 18 23:54:35.710: vmx| VMXVmdbCbVmVmxExecState: Exec state change requested to state poweredOn without reset, soft.

Sep 18 23:54:35.710: vmx| TOOLS delaying state change request to state 3

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?

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

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

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

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

In VMware Server 2, how to I set a guest to automatically restart (or not restart) when the host is restarted?

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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 a dual drive (RAID1) Linux server which I need to convert to vmware guest.

To begin with, I have yet to find a way of converting Linux machines, but one with dual drives which are SCSI no less?

Mike

I try to install ESXi on a Server2 with W2kSP4 as Host. CPU is a VT-enabled E6600 and i get following:

: vmx| CPU0: PMC: IA32, CORE 2

: vmx| CPU1: PMC: IA32, CORE 2

: vmx| MONITOR MODE: allowed modes          : BT

: vmx| MONITOR MODE: user requested modes   : HWMMU

: vmx| MONITOR MODE: guestOS preferred modes: BT HWMMU HV

: vmx| Msg_Hint: msg.cpuid.HVwithPV (sent)

: vmx| Hardware virtualization is incompatible with paravirtualization. Using software virtualization instead.

: vmx|

: vmx| MONITOR MODE: filtered list          : BT

: vmx| HV Settings: virtual exec = 'software'; virtual mmu = 'software'

A Suse10.2_64bit-VM on the same host has an other problem and i think it will be caused by the same reason.

The log contains only one difference:

: vmx| CPU0: PMC: IA32, CORE 2

: vmx| CPU1: PMC: IA32, CORE 2

: vmx| MONITOR MODE: allowed modes          : BT HV

: vmx| MONITOR MODE: user requested modes   : HWMMU

: vmx| MONITOR MODE: guestOS preferred modes: HWMMU BT HV

: vmx| Msg_Hint: msg.cpuid.HVwithPV (sent)

: vmx| Hardware virtualization is incompatible with paravirtualization. Using software virtualization instead.

: vmx|

: vmx| MONITOR MODE: filtered list          : BT HV

: vmx| HV Settings: virtual exec = 'dynamic'; virtual mmu = 'software'

Both VMs have the same entries with:

: vmx| DICT       monitor.virtual_mmu = hardware: vmx| DICT monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = true: vmx| DICT      monitor.virtual_exec = hardware

Any ideas, hints or a solution?

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?

First post here...hope someone can help.  I am running vmware fusion on my macbook and currently have 2 windows xp OS's running on it.  I am able to access the one OS, but the other one is now asking me to press crtl/alt/del then a username and password.  I've tried every username and password I use, and just simply 'admin', but nothing seems to work. 

Is there a way to bypass this login screen, or maybe access the files via one of the other OS's??

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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.

Hi guys,

I have problem to move/copy vmware Server 2.0 vm from one physical server to another.

Orig physical server: Intel 1530CLR server with WinXP x64 Pro installed.

Destination server: Intel 1530AHLX server with WinServer 2003 R2 x64 installed.

On both servers VMware server 2.0 installed. VM's OS is RHEL ES 4.4 32bit.

The VM works perfectly on the orig server, but I have to move it to another machine. I switched off the VM, copied the whole directory to the same path on the destination server. Then I'm trying to add the VM in VMware server 2.0.

I'm receiving the following error:

<quote>The selected virtual machine is not recognized on this system. The cause of this problem may be that the virtual machine's .vmx file is corrupted, or that the virtual machine version is newer than is recognized by the host. You can remove the virtual machine from the inventory if you believe that it is not recoverable.Click the link below to remove the virtual machine from the inventory.Remove Virtual MachineTo help diagnose the issue, you can check the virtual machine files at their last known location: "[Virtual Machines] VSTESTS/VSTESTS.vmx" </quote>

Another thing which I tried to do is to create new VM and to attach the .vmdk file.. but another error here: "The selected file is not a valid virtual disk file. Please choose a different one"..

However, I uninstalled (on the destination server) the VMware server, and installed VMware player - and hooray!.. the VM is running.

It's not a specific Virtual Machine, because I tried to copy another two VM, and same result here..

So, the conclusion is that it's not a hardware fault (it works on VMware Player), but some annoying configuration miss.

I have these files within the VM folder:

ILLINUXVS01.nvram

ILLINUXVS01.vmdk

ILLINUXVS01.vmsd

ILLINUXVS01.vmxf

ILLINUXVS01-flat.vmdk

vmware-0.log

vmware-1.log

vmware-2.log

vmware.log

VSTESTS.vmsd

VSTESTS.vmx

VSTESTS.vmxf

This is the content of VSTESTS.vmx file:

.encoding = "windows-1255"

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 = "ILLINUXVS01.nvram"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"

ft.secondary0.enabled = "TRUE"

tools.upgrade.policy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle"

powerType.powerOff = "soft"

powerType.powerOn = "hard"

powerType.suspend = "hard"

powerType.reset = "soft"

displayName = "VSTESTS"

extendedConfigFile = "VSTESTS.vmxf"

memsize = "512"

ide0:0.present = "TRUE"

ide0:0.fileName = "ILLINUXVS01.vmdk"

ide0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"

ide1:0.fileName = "D:\Virtual Machines\Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4 Update 4 (x86)\RHEL4-U4-i386-ES-disc4.iso"

ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"

ide1:0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"

ethernet0.features = "1"

ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"

ethernet0.networkName = "Bridged"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

usb.present = "TRUE"

ehci.present = "TRUE"

guestOS = "rhel4"

uuid.location = "56 4d d2 68 6f 66 55 1f-82 95 43 f3 d6 03 76 70"

uuid.bios = "56 4d d2 68 6f 66 55 1f-82 95 43 f3 d6 03 76 70"

vc.uuid = "52 4d 4b 87 e8 36 f2 12-fd 23 1d 81 48 71 f6 5b"

ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:03:76:70"

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"

ide0:0.redo = ""

vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"

pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"

pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"

pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"

pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"

pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"

usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"

ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"

ehci.pciSlotNumber = "34"

vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "35"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

vmci0.id = "2040435782"

Please advise,

Thanks.

I just did a fresh install of VMware 2.0 on a single core Athlon server using Fedora Core 9.  I have another FC9 server running vmware more stable then this though it still flakes out at times.

This new install howeever spurts out the NullPointerException: Operation failed. error pretty much all the time.

Also it hangs at "loading"  and I have to hit refresh.  Has anyone encountered this before?