VMware 2.0.2

Windows 7

I've attached the vmware settings box for the drive and the win7 properties tab for the drive. This worked fine yesterday. I confirmed in the host machine that the disc in the drive is fine. I also rebooted the host machine with the disc in the drive, and it booted up into the Ubuntu install which is on the disc.

I've tried playing with the settings. Access directly or ATA emulation, IDE 1, Device 0, or IDE 0, Device 0 but nothing seems to work. When the VM is running, the device shows as connected and there is the option to disconnect under the Devices tab on the console. I also successfully mounted the drive in another VM, Centos 6.0.4, and could view the dir/files on it. Anything else to check/configure? Thanks.

Mark

I've a couple of old "lock" files from a long-dead host backup that I'd like to delete. However, whenever I attempt to delete them I get messages that indicate that I cannot do so.

Using a Windows 7 box I've tried the following (as a domain administrator):

Created a mapped drive (Z:) to the location (\\nasbox\VM).

Tried a simple "right-click and delete" - I get a message that indicates that the file is open in another program (it's not).

Run a subinacl command to grant full control of the file to the domain administrator - I get an error message that reads "Error : 1314 A required privilege is not held by the client".

Using a Linux box I've tried the following (as "root"):

Mounted the location to a mount point (/mnt/nasbox)

Ran an "ls -l" command to determine the owner and group of the file(s) - owner and group are "root", permissions are 0444.

Attempted a "chmod 666" of the files - I get an error message that indicates that permission is denied.

Attempted an "rm --force" of the file(s) - I get an error message that indicates that permission is denied.

It's not that these lock files take up a lot of disk space - they're only 11 bytes each. But they're unneccessary and, well, they make the directory look "messy".

Any ideas on how I can get rid of the files in question?

Thanks in advance.

We have a

Dell Precision R5500 Workstation.

Dual Intel Xeon X5690, 3.46 GHz, 12M Cache, 6.40 GT/s Intel QPI, Dell
Precision R5500.

24GB DDR3 ECC RDIMM Memory,1333MHz,6X4GB,Dell Precision TX500.

Windows 7 Professional,No Media, 64-bit,Fixed Precision.

16TB (14x 1.2TB 10K RPM SAS 6Gbps 2.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive)

I just want to know if the ESX-I 5.5 can be installed successfully on this Rack server? There are references to the T5500, but if anyone knows, is the only difference between the T5500 and R5500, the tower and rack configuration?

Thanks, I appreciate any inputs

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 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.

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?

I am running VMware server 2 on Ubuntu server 8.10.  My VMware server is running several Cisco UC7 (Call Manager) appliances which are connected to a Cisco switch through a VMware bridged interface.  On the switch I am getting these errors:

00:31:54: %CDP-4-DUPLEX_MISMATCH: duplex mismatch discovered on FastEthernet1/0/2 (not half duplex), with cucm7a eth0 (half duplex)

I have tried changing all the switch configurations (half/full, auto) and the host (half/full, auto) but this doesn't fix the problem.  I have also fixed the Ethernet card hardware in the server using "ethtool" in Ubuntu to 100/full.  The interface seems to be working OK (traffic passes), but it is just trying to get rid of these messages...

I read somewhere that this is a problem with the virtual switch inside VMware, but I can't find how to change the duplex settings. 

The strange thing is that my Windows hosts in the same VMware server are not reporting any duplex problems.  Could that be because they are running VMware tools?  I can't install VMware tools in the other hosts as they are locked Linux-based appliances.

Thanks in advance...

Please help me. I have server under Linux Debian etch. On server I have 1 real ip 88.190.88.88 and additional network (static NAT?) 88.190.90.64/29. I need give real IP for each virtual machine. But cant resove this... maximum result is - I see from VM only host with real IP.

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!

Hi All,

I am new to VMWare server, so bare with me if I sound a bit nooby.

I have a server running Windows 2003 SE 32 bit. I used Windows WMware converter Standalone to create a VM from the physical machine. I selected VMware Servwer 2.x as the target environment. Then I disconnected the drives for the Windows server, put in a new one and installed RH Linux 64bit OS, and the VMware Server 64 bit for it. I got it all up and running without any issues.

However, the Windows VM won't start, throwing out the error shown on the attached PDF file. It is a startup blue screen warning of a serious error and that it is shutting down to avoid damage to the Windows system. It suggests reviewing the hard drive setup. It gets as far as throwing up the very first Windows 2003 Server logo witrh the little activity bar cycling about twice before the blue screen appears.

Is this a reasonable thing to expect to be able to do? That is, to "clone" a Windows system using the Windows version of WMWare Converter Standalone, and copy the resulting files to a Linux system running VMware server? The hardware is the same hardware that the "real" Windows server runs on. The .VMX  file is alos attached.

Hardware: Dell SC1420, Dual Core Xeon, 3Mhz, 4GB RAM, 1TB single SATA drive (under the Linux config), two SATA drives (under the Windows Server Config).

Thanks in advance for any advice for what I am trying.

Bill

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?

Hi,

I have a problem regarding snapshots in a virtual machine.

My server has the bellow  identity:

VMware Infrastructure Web AccessVersion 2.0.0Build 128374

VMware ServerVersion 2.0.1Build 156745

The virtual machine has two disks, one 140GB and one 65GB. My problem resides to the first one that included OS files too.

When I opened the folder of that disk, I found all these:

From a little search I did I found that there are some snapshots in that VM but here:

looks like there is no snapshot...

I tried stopping the machine and by using vmware-vdiskmanager.exe tool to merge all disk files to one (since no snapshots seems to exist) but the result when I used the new file, was a disk more that a year old.

Is there any way to merge all the old snapshots in order to create one disk file in the end?

Here are some more info:

file.vmsd content:

.encoding = "windows-1252"

snapshot.lastUID = "2"

snapshot.numSnapshots = "0"

snapshot.current = "0"

snapshot0.uid = "2"

snapshot0.filename = "COMPASS new sharepoint 2010-Snapshot2.vmsn"

snapshot0.displayName = "VMware Server Undopoint"

snapshot0.description = "Snapshot Description."

snapshot0.createTimeHigh = "315877"

snapshot0.createTimeLow = "-1914644888"

snapshot0.numDisks = "1"

snapshot0.disk0.fileName = "COMPASS new sharepoint 2010-000001.vmdk"

snapshot0.disk0.node = "scsi0:0"

snapshot0.disk1.fileName = "COMPASS new sharepoint 2010_3.vmdk"

snapshot0.disk1.node = "scsi0:1"

snapshot.needConsolidate = "TRUE"

snapshot0.type = "1"

file.vmxf content:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<Foundry>

<VM>

<VMId type="string">52 0e 7f 58 6d 3e b7 63-e0 64 e0 80 58 2f 38 ad</VMId>

<ClientMetaData>

<clientMetaDataAttributes/>

<HistoryEventList/></ClientMetaData>

<vmxPathName type="string">COMPASS new sharepoint 2010.vmx</vmxPathName></VM></Foundry>

file.vmx contents:

.encoding = "windows-1252"

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 = "COMPASS new sharepoint 2010.nvram"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"

ft.secondary0.enabled = "TRUE"

tools.upgrade.policy = "useGlobal"

powerType.powerOff = "soft"

powerType.powerOn = "hard"

powerType.suspend = "hard"

powerType.reset = "soft"

displayName = "COMPASS new sharepoint 2010"

extendedConfigFile = "COMPASS new sharepoint 2010.vmxf"

numvcpus = "2"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0.sharedBus = "none"

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"

memsize = "4096"

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.fileName = "COMPASS new sharepoint 2010-000002.vmdk"

scsi0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"

ide1:0.present = "FALSE"

ide1:0.fileName = "F:\Sharepoint\Compass\Windows 2008 server R2-x64_<removed_product_id>.iso"

ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"

ide1:0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

ethernet0.features = "1"

ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"

ethernet0.networkName = "VMnet3"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

usb.present = "TRUE"

ehci.present = "TRUE"

guestOS = "longhorn-64"

uuid.location = "56 4d 10 6b c3 c6 13 02-f4 24 f7 02 9f f7 e0 ff"

uuid.bios = "56 4d 10 6b c3 c6 13 02-f4 24 f7 02 9f f7 e0 ff"

vc.uuid = "52 6c 4e 1f 8a 99 31 ba-30 28 b7 5f fe 1e 91 45"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:f7:e0:ff"

scsi0:0.redo = ""

vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"

pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"

pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"

pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"

pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"

pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"

scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "160"

usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"

ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"

ehci.pciSlotNumber = "34"

vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "35"

scsi0.sasWWID = "50 05 05 64 a6 b3 ee 50"

usb:0.present = "TRUE"

usb:1.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

vmci0.id = "-1611144961"

tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"

usb:1.deviceType = "hub"

usb:0.deviceType = "mouse"

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"

scsi0:1.fileName = "E:\Compass_F\Compass_Backup_Disk.vmdk"

scsi0:1.mode = "persistent"

scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:1.redo = ""

scsi0:1.writeThrough = "TRUE"

Thanks in advance,

Argiris

Message was edited by: a.p. - Removed the Windows product ID from the mapped .iso file name

I have this weird problem with a guest computer that poweres down every 2 hours according to web management. In the details it says "powered down by guest " (i cant remember exact wording, but it indicates it was a local shutdown)

The twist is that the machine is not really powered off, it is running silently, it can be accesed thru VNC and FTP.
A "power on " restores acces to it, and it runs as before, all programs remain open etc.

Problems started after a server crash.
The hardware was changed (identical server), but some bios sn &mac adresses have changed, could this be cause of problem?

Initially the virtual machines wouldnt start because files were locked, i renamed the lock files and that problem vanished.

Running server 2.0.2 on a proliant ml350 g5

Any suggestions are highly appreciated !

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?

I have done an RPM install of Server 2.0 on a fresh install of CentOS 5.2.

After the initial config, when I attempt to connect to http://127.0.0.1:8222, I get the Web Access login. When I login I get an error:

The VMware Infrastructure Web Service at "http://localhost:8222/sdk" is not responding (Connection Refused)

The troubleshooting I've done so far is:

vmware-auth is listening on port 902, webAccess is listening on port 8308, vmware-hostd is listening on ports 8222 and 8333.

The hostd  log contains no errors and ends with:

--2008-10-02 11:23:34.032 'App' 3086161600 info-- BEGIN SERVICES

The webAccess proxy.log contains only this error:

[2008-10-02 10:45:40,123,http-8308-1&lt;=&gt;,RequestProcessor] Error processing action request /action/login : [ConnectException] Connection refused

Does anyone have a suggestion for my next step?

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

"Reconfigure Virtual Machine" failed to complete

Operation failed becuase file already exists

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

Dear all,

I have a problem by getting an IP adress from an DHCP Server. Some informations regarding my network:

• DSL Router for Internet Access as gateway, 192.168.191.100, DHCP disabled

• host with 2003 Server standard edition 32bit SP2, quad core a 2,83GHz, 4GB RAM, IP: 192.168.191.6, 255.255.255.0, GW: 192.168.191.100, DNS: 192.168.191.8, WINS 192.168.191.8 all manual configured, vmnet0 bridged, no other vmnetx configured, all adapter removed, NAT and DHCP disabled in "Manage virtual networks"

• VMWare Server2 with guest SBS 2003 R2 SP2, network adapter "VMware accelerated AMD PCnet" bridged, IP: 192.168.191.8, 255.255.255.0, GW: 192.168.191.100, DNS: 192.168.191.8, WINS 192.168.191.8 all manual configured; 3GB RAM, 2 processors

• Konfiguration of the SBS2003: DC with DNS and DHCP Server aktiv/running; network with 7 XP prof. clients.

For the moment I have the network of all clients manual configured due to the fact that they don't get an IP Address. I made a failure during connecting of the configured host to the network. The mentioned DSL router was before configured as DHCP Server (in the previous net with an old 2000 Server) and I changed them after I saw that the SBS DHCP Server was deactivated.

So all seems to be running well except the point with the IP Address and another strange effect which I think have to do with a not correct network too:

• The clients are in the domain and getting access to the DC

• The access is sometimes very slow, independent of using word or other non-office applications. Network traffic is zero. I changed the clients network configuration from "Standart" to "Activate NETBIOS of TCP/IP" but it doesn't improved that behaviour.

Hopefully somebody can give some hints for solving my problems.

best regards

Reinardo

Hi,

I use VMware server 2.0 (build 122589) on Windows VISTA 32 bits. The guest OS is Windows XP SP3.

When I connect a iPod Touch on the guest machine, after few seconds, there is all times a Windows blue screen with the BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER code. I have connected 2 differents digital cameras and the crash does not append.

Technical information :

STOP: 0x000000FE (0x00000005, 0x8228F0E0, 0x80867112, 0x822FFF70)

Is anybody has an idea?

Thanks

Hi!

I need to add a few GB to a virtual disk. First of all vmware-vdiskmanager  expects a whole lot of libs in /usr/local/bin/libdir/lib but ok. Those libs are actually located in /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib so i fixed taht inital problem with:

mkdir /usr/local/bin/libdir  

ln -s /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib /usr/local/bin/libdir/lib

After that I was able to run

vmware-vdiskmanager -x 150GB "/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk"

However, vdiskmanager doesn't work for me. It fails with "DISKLIB-LIB   : Failed to grow disk '/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk' : Read beyond the end of file (2311)."

This is the full content of /tmp/vmware-root/vdiskmanager.log:

VMware VixDiskLib (1.0) Release build-122956

System libcrypto.so.6 library is older than our library (90802F &lt; 90808F)

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened : "ICR SAP-CRM 7.0.vmdk" (0x1a)

DISKLIB-LINK  : Opened '/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk' (0x1a): monolithicSparse, 266338304 sectors / 127 GB.

DISKLIB-LIB   : Opened "/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk" (flags 0x1a).

Scanning directory of file /path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk for vmx files.

baseDir = '/path/to/virtual machine/', vmx file = 'virtual machine.vmx'

Search start:      '/path/to/virtual machine/virtual machine.vmx', baseDiskOnly

Search result:     inTree , isCurrent , isLegacy , states: 1

Search analysis:   disk file found as part of current state.

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened : "virtual disk.vmdk" (0x18)

DISKLIB-LINK  : Opened '/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk' (0x18): monolithicSparse, 266338304 sectors / 127 GB.

DISKLIB-LIB   : Opened "/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk" (flags 0x18).

DISKLIB-LIB   : Growing disk '/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk' : createType = monolithicSparse

DISKLIB-LIB   : Growing disk '/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk' : capacity = 266338304 sectors - 127 GB

DISKLIB-LIB   : Growing disk '/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk' : new capacity = 314572800 sectors - 150 GB

DISKLIB-LIB   : CREATE: "/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk.dfgshkgrw-tmp" -- monolithicSparse capacity=314572800 (150 GB) adapter=lsilogic grainSize=128

DISKLIB-LIB   : CREATE: "/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk.dfgshkgrw-tmp" -- monolithicSparse capacity=314572800 (150 GB) adapter=lsilogic grainSize=128

DISKLIB-LINK  : "/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk.dfgshkgrw-tmp" : creation successful.

UUID: SMBIOS UUID is reported as '00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 f0 ab 0c 00 c0 4d'.

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened : "virtual disk.vmdk.dfgshkgrw-tmp" (0x10)

DISKLIB-LINK  : Opened '/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk.dfgshkgrw-tmp' (0x10): monolithicSparse, 314572800 sectors / 150 GB.

DISKLIB-LIB   : Opened "/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk.dfgshkgrw-tmp" (flags 0x10).

DISKLIB-DDB   : "geometry.cylinders" = "16578" (was "19581")

DISKLIB-LIB   : Failed to clone : Read beyond the end of file (2311).

DISKLIB-LIB   : Unable to grow disk '/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk' : Read beyond the end of file (2311).

DISKLIB-LIB   : Failed to grow disk '/path/to/virtual machine/virtual disk.vmdk' : Read beyond the end of file (2311).

And these are the few human readable line of virtual disk.vmdk:

1. Disk DescriptorFile

version=1

encoding="UTF-8"

CID=e5993c45

parentCID=ffffffff

createType="monolithicSparse"

1. Extent description

RW 266338304 SPARSE "virtual disk.vmdk"

1. The Disk Data Base

#DDB

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "7"

ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 97 7a 37 e7 77-84 32 80 28 34 b9 a2 86"

ddb.geometry.cylinders = "16578"

ddb.geometry.heads = "255"

ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"

ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"

ddb.toolsVersion = "7396"

Can anybody help me with this? I seem to be the only one who experienced problems before the disk is resized.

Thanks in advance

Martin

I can't find anything like this on the web, and I have posted to the Ubuntu discussion forums with little success so far, but here goes:

I am running Ubuntu 8.10 desktop (2.6.27-14 generic), with VMware server 2.0. VMware server had some issues with it's networking and hung ubuntu (I know, I was surprised to see that happen), so I had to hard power down my system.

When it came back up, a file system check found tons of lost inodes and moved half my system to lostfound (many many gigs). I backed up the lostfound directory to a portable hard drive.

I installed ubuntu 8.10 on a new partition, upgraded it to 27-14, and copied system files and user information to the broken one in order to get it stable. I was then able to login to my broken system and found some major damage. To the tune of my start-up scripts being gone, many of the progs in etc and bin/sbin being gone, vmware server barely being there at all - only my powered off Virtual Machine directories were left intact with their files still there.

My main problem is that I need to recover my Windows 2003 Server virtual machine, which is gone. I have been able to find the files (from lostfound, Ie. #3122949 (2.4Gb) for another VM (my Apache rpath linux web server which hosts some ESX backup files) which isn't as important. I have 3 months of data in my Win2k3 VM that I need to recover (3 months since my last backup to external media), but I can't find any files large enough in my lostfound that could be the Win2k3 VM files. My local backup directories are also gone, as are my snapshots which were in my Win2k3 Virtual Machine's directory, which is gone.

Can anyone tell me what I can do with my system to try to find the VM? Understandably, the directories that contained my running VM's became derefenced/lost when the system crashed. This is a huge heartache for me because I have some deliverables that I need to recover for a very important client.

Please advise ASAP!!

Thanks,

SypsG