The mouse on my host os was defined as RH. When I changed it to LH mouse, I thought I would have to change it in the guest os as well, but apparently not.

If I also change the mouse setting in the guest os to LH, it negates the setting at the host level - i.e. although the mouse is defined as a LH mouse in the guest, it actually behaves as a RH mouse.

So the correct way is to set it on the host os and leave the guest os setting alone.

I have a host server running Server 08 and VMWARE Server 2.0.0

There is a VM on the host running Server 2003. It's been running for about 6 months great. No one has touched it. Recently, only the VM has started to have an extremely slow internet connection. Downloading a 1 MB file from the internet takes about 15 minutes. A 15 MB file takes 4 hours. About a month ago I could restart the VM and it would be good for about a week, then start slowing down more and more every day until it's just unusable.

I ran pings from the host machine's nic to the VM's NIC and attached as txt files. You'll see that on the host machine, 172.16.4.200 is the host IP assigned to the NIC I'm pinging from, and 172.16.4.101 is the VM's IP that is running on the host. It will succeed in pinging .101 sometimes, but frequently returns:

REPLY FROM 172.16.4.200: TTL Expired in transit.

Sometimes it even gives a request timed out, but it mostly alternates back and forth between replies from .101 (the VM) and TTL's from .200 (the host).

Sometimes it will just give pages of TTL's from .200 then eventually start replying from .101 as well.

The VM NIC is configured in Bridged mode. Like I said, it had been working fine for months, then this starts happening suddenly.

Since I know a 1 MB file from the internet takes 15 minutes on the VM to download, I tried copying files between the Host and the VM by browsing network shares between the boxes. Transferring from the VM to the Host over windows network shares takes about 1 minute for a 40 MB file. It's operating at about 1.2 megabytes per second on LAN file transfers. I tried it both ways, from the VM to the host and from the host to the VM. Same results.

It's strange that a direct file copy works MUCH faster than an internet download.

Downloading from the internet on the Host server for a 1 MB file takes about 15 seconds and is on a T-1 line. The default gateway for both the host and the VM is a Cisco 2900 series router that's working fine.

Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? My Microsoft Server event logs on the VM and Host are clean, I'm not seeing any errors there.

I was upgrade Server from 2.0 to 2.0.1. After this (I think), I can't connect to console any guest system with message: "Unable to connect to the MKS: Cannot connect to host :host-name-my-server: Unknown error 10061 (0x274d).".

What it mean?

Regards!

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!

All,

I spent several days combing the streets for a solution to this problem and thought id share.

My System

• AMD Phenom 9850 Quadcore (2.5 ghz)

• 4 GB Ram

• Fedora Core 10, 64 bit edition, all YUM updates

• Kernel ver 2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.x86_64 (as of this writing)

• I have dual nics in this machine and initially wanted to dedicate one of them (eth1) for VMware bridged use (i dont use NAT or host only networking ). I believe this ultimately caused some of my problems so i am now only using the main eth0

After installing Vmware Server 2.0.1 several times, I seemed to have random problems accessing the Vmware WebAccess console (i would get a blank page saying loading in the title bar). I checked all the basics (host file, no firewalls etc) and eventually ended up doing this to solve my problem

1. My Host file looks like this:

     127.0.0.1           superspartan64 localhost.localdomain localhost
                192.168.1.2      superspartan64

2. I COMPLETELY removed vmware first using the vmware-uninstall.pl script and then using a custom script i wrote (to REALLY clean the bugger off the system). That script is cleanVmware.sh:

     rm -rf /etc/vmware
                rm -rf /etc/pam.d/vmware*
                rm -rf /var/run/vmware*
                rm -rf /var/lib/vmware
                rm -rf /var/log/vmware
                rm -rf /usr/lib/vmware
                rm -rf /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware*
                rm -rf /tmp/web?ccess*

3. I reboot the system and made sure nothing was listening (netstat -na | grep LIST) and nothing was running (ps -ef | grep vm)

4. I then reinstalled the 64 bit version of vmware again. This time i installed everything to /usr/local/vmware/bin and /usr/local/vmware/sbin (i doubt this matters but im just being thorough in my problem resolution steps)

5. When prompted for networking I selected ONLY bridged networking and opted out of Host Only and NAT

5b. ALSO (and this may be unrelated) I selected new ports for the console and http access ports (902, 8222 and 8333). I used 9020, 9222 and 9333 respectively

6. I completed the install (entered the serial and let the various modules compile successfully)

7. At this point i attempted a /etc/init.d/vmware stop and noticed that not all of the vmware related processes shut down. In particular, vmware-hostd

( My theory is that this process NEVER cleanly shut down and the various starts and stops i was doing caused compound hanging errors. I was looking at some of the clutter in /var/run/vmware and noticed an a** load of session links). I believe these totally bogged up my Vmware Web Access somehow.

8.To fix the above problem, i modified /etc/init.d/vmware as follows: (around line 898 where it says):

     

1. Stop host agent
                   vmware_stop_hostd()

                Underneath where it says vmware_run_vmsh_cmd  I added the following lines:

                pkill -9 vm
                rm -rf /var/run/vmware/hostd.PID

9. Now if you attempt to do a /etc/init.d/vmware stop the hostd service gets (albeit ungracefully) killed and the PID file removed. When you restart It all starts back up again

.......My vmware 2.0.1 system and access to the web interface seems to be fairly stable so far. If anyone wants to expand upon this please do so. Vmware definetely needs to get this resolved quick!

Also in case anyone is interested, Here is a great article on optimizing vmware server 2.x . I got about a 40% performance increase (approx) after implementing these tuning changes

Vmware Performance Tuning Primer

Thanks all

-roadhog

Hi,

I've just installed VMware server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop and setted up 2 bridged network. One is bridged to a Ethernet card and the other one is bridged to a wireless card. My problem is that my virtual machine are unable to connect to the bridged network. I can set up an IP and access it from the host computer but not from the other computer on the network. When I am trying to use DHCP to set up a connection, it failed. The connection work perfectly on the host but not in the guest. I've tried on both the ethernet and wireless and nothing is working.

Can someone help me? Why does my bridged network don't work?

Thanks.

I'm stuck since 2 days trying to have my Graphic card working in a Vmware host.

Specifications:

- Vvmware ESXi 5.0.0 running on Windows

- Ubuntu 10.04 running on host

- Graphic card: AMD Radeon 6900 Series

- Everything in 64 bits

Useful output :

   #lspci -v

    03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cayman PRO [AMD Radeon 6900 Series]

    Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device 186b

    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18

    Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]

    Memory at b2420000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]

    I/O ports at 4400 [size=256]

    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3

    Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00

    Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

    Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information <?>

    Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting <?>

    Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci

    Kernel modules: fglrx

I'm starting my ubuntu in text mode.

I try to have OpenCL running in my VM. I tried a lot of various tutorials with ati-stream and so on and nothing works.

Then I followed [This][1]

After I did it I got this message at startup:

       dmesg|grep radeon

         [    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.6  root=UUID=1b5bd568-6b7f-41c0-be1c-d69ae4f7e438 ro text splash  video=radeon:modeset=1

    [    0.000000]  Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.6  root=UUID=1b5bd568-6b7f-41c0-be1c-d69ae4f7e438 ro text splash  video=radeon:modeset=1

    [    2.670567] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.

    [    2.671623] radeon 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)

    [    2.672877] radeon 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18

    [    2.679567] radeon 0000:03:00.0: BAR 6: can't assign [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x0] (bogus alignment)

    [    2.680456] radeon 0000:03:00.0: BAR 6: can't assign [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x0] (bogus alignment)

    [    2.681299] [drm:radeon_get_bios] *ERROR* Unable to locate a BIOS ROM

    [    2.682179] radeon 0000:03:00.0: Fatal error during GPU init

    [    2.683291] [drm] radeon: finishing device.

    [    2.693101] radeon 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled

    [    2.696322] radeon: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -22

So, I know that the passthrough is working since I can see my graphic card in my host but I can't make it work right.

Can anyone help me? Ask me if you need more information!

  [1]: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40213&page=2

Hi friends ;

Host : windows 7

Guest : Linux 5.5

I am using virtual machine version 9 (brigged n/w)
I want to connect my vmware machine from putty without LAN connection.
I strongly believe it is possible. I dont know how can i do that ?
Always i am facing 'network unreachable'
Please help me ..

I have a client that would like to Install Red Hat Clustering Solution on VMware Environment. Does anyone know if Red hat Clustering is Supported on VMware? Thanks for your input.

G'day,

I'm running VMServer 2.0.1 on Ubuntu 9.0.4 (Jaunty) hosting CentOS 4.7 guest VMs.

I am continually seeing the following message when powering on a guest VM:

The network bridge on device vmnet0 is temporarily down because the bridged Ethernet interface is down. The virtual machine may not be able to communicate with the host or with other machines on your network.

The work-around I've discovered is to restart the vmware services, i.e.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware stop

Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines:

  Virtual machines                                                    done

Stopping VMware management services:

VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access

  VMware Server Host Agent                                            done

Stopping VMware services:

  VMware Authentication Daemon                                        done

  Virtual machine communication interface                             done

  Virtual machine monitor                                             done

  Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0                                   done

  Host network detection                                              done

  DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1                                          done

  Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1                                 done

  DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8                                          done

  NAT service on /dev/vmnet8                                          done

  Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8                                 done

  Virtual ethernet                                                    done

$ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start

Starting VMware services:

  Virtual machine monitor                                             done

  Virtual machine communication interface                             done

  Virtual ethernet                                                    done

  Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0                                   done

  Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background)                    done

  DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1                                          done

  Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background)                    done

  DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8                                          done

  NAT service on /dev/vmnet8                                          done

  VMware Server Authentication Daemon (background)                    done

  Shared Memory Available                                             done

Starting VMware management services:

  VMware Server Host Agent (background)                               done

  VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access

Starting VMware autostart virtual machines:

Virtual machines                                                    done

Output from ifconfig and ps -ef |grep vmnet is given below.

Why isn't vmnet0 available after booting, and how can I make it so?

Thanks,

Chris.

$ ifconfig -a

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1e:0b:35:d5:12 

inet addr:10.1.1.2  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0

inet6 addr: fe80::21e:bff:fe35:d512/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

RX packets:1354 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:1798 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

RX bytes:383251 (383.2 KB)  TX bytes:1126131 (1.1 MB)

Memory:f0500000-f0520000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 

inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

RX packets:6225 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:6225 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:4962948 (4.9 MB)  TX bytes:4962948 (4.9 MB)

pan0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 96:e2:2c:be:eb:c6 

BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

vmnet1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:01 

inet addr:172.16.181.1  Bcast:172.16.181.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

vmnet8    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:08 

inet addr:192.168.60.1  Bcast:192.168.60.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

$ ps -ef |grep vmnet

root      2885     1  0 11:45 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid -n 0 -i eth0

root      2900     1  0 11:45 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-netifup -d /var/run/vmnet-netifup-vmnet1.pid /dev/vmnet1 vmnet1

root      2911     1  0 11:45 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet1.pid vmnet1

root      2927     1  0 11:45 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-netifup -d /var/run/vmnet-netifup-vmnet8.pid /dev/vmnet8 vmnet8

root      2943     1  0 11:45 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.pid vmnet8

root      2948     1  0 11:45 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-natd -d /var/run/vmnet-natd-8.pid -m /var/run/vmnet-natd-8.mac -c /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf

I am running a CentOS 5.5 system which does NOT support VT Technology, so I am unable to use Xen HV. I am very happy with OpenVZ other than the fact that it doesn't support Windows, only Linux.

I'd like to have VMWare Server 2.x installed, but it appears that OpenVZ changes the Kernel to, in my case, 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6. The default kernel on my system is 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.i386.

If I change grub to load 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.i386, VMWare will work but OpenVZ will not. If I change grub to load 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6, OpenVZ will work, but VMWare will not.

If I try to run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl while in the 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6 kernel, I get an error of:

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your

running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for

your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)?

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running

kernel? /usr/src/linux/include

So, to resolve this... I've ran the following commands and rebooted... did not resolve:

yum install ovzkernel-devel

yum install kernel-devel

yum install gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake

Each of those installed, but did not resolve the issue.

I've ran the command:

rpm -qil kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5

which provided me a long list of files, but when I ran the following commands, I got:

# rpm -qil kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.i386

package kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.i386 is not installed

# rpm -qil kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6

package kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6 is not installed

I've also tried running:

yum install kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6

which resulted in:

No package kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6 available.

I'm so lost as what to do now... is there anyway I can compile both of the kernels together somehow? Thanks in advance for any information you might be able to provide me in regards to this issue!

Hi,

I'm new to VMWare and haven't installed any softaware in a few years.

I have downloaded and installed VMware 2.0 on my laptop which is running Windows 7 Enterprise.

The installation completed successfully and rebooted without an issue.

When I click on the icon to go to the VMware Server Home page I get the following error which I am unable to resolve:-

The device or resource (mw7sisuox4hwzy) is not set up to accept connections on port "8333" (where mw7sisuox4hwzy is my hostname).

Can someone assist me.

Thanks

Hi,

I'm unable to connect via SSH to one of my hosts using putty. The others are fine. Tried from different clients, same result.

I can putty into my vMA 4 server and ssh root@hostname to get a connection no problem but not directly from putty

This tells me that SSH service is fine.

Checked the sshd_config settings

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

Original Link - http://cmsproducer.com/Ubuntu-Linux-Windows-VMware-Server

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Since an unexpected reboot of the Linux machine (Ubuntu 8.10), the windows XP Professional that was installed in the vmware server 2 machine stopped working. Now everytimei turn it on, a blue screen appears, with the message "BAD_POOL_CALLER", and it keeps restarting itself. I am unable to start in safe mode, because the same blue screen appears...

Does anybody know the cause, or have any solution to repair the windows machine? I attached a snapshot of the error.

Thank you very much

In vmserver 1 docs, there was clear instructions how to use it, but not in vmserver 2. I tried to guess it, and result is close, but no cigar:

My home machine has vmserver2 installed  (Fedora 10, x64) and I need to access my work, using the ssh tunnel through the firewall. Defaulr vmserver ports are already in use, so I selected arbitrary 11111 and forwarded to the server (also Linux, RHEL4, x64). The GUI works ok, but obviously clicking on the console opens it with 8333 port (bug number 1), which is local server. So I asked it to create desktop link:

/x/u/tad/.mozilla/firefox/m4lpb8dy.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc -h "localhost:8333" -M "16"

and edited it changing 8333 to 11111

Double click and I have the login window, it accepts proper credentials and displays proper name of VM, but then it pops the message about 'incorrect MKS login' (or something similar) and then it dies. Clicking again has different effect - it gets stuck in connecting progress bar. So there is a bug number 2.

I tried to figure out if there is additional port to forward (maybe 902 ?) but I found no way to supply new port id to vmrc - obviously I have to use different local port, because 902 on a localhost is taken.

BTW - The same situation may happen without the tunnel, when I try to open console on remote server, using host which also has server installed - all applications will be confused which one is local and which is remote.

We recently upgraded our VMWare Server 1.x installations to VMWare Server 2.x, and we're looking into how to emulate the Raw VMDK capability of VMWare Server 1.x. With the most recent installation, we're trying to use SCSI Generic Passthrough to reveal a connected iSCSI disk to a virtual machine.

It seemed to work perfectly until I tried to copy data onto the scsi device. Most data copies perfectly, but I quickly start receiving Buffer I/O errors on the disk.

Dmesg shows the following:

 

sd 0:0:1:0: Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready sd 0:0:1:0: Device not ready: Add. Sense: No additional sense information

end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 15919695

sd 0:0:1:0: Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready sd 0:0:1:0: Device not ready: Add. Sense: No additional sense information

end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 15919991

sd 0:0:1:0: Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready sd 0:0:1:0: Device not ready: Add. Sense: No additional sense information

end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 19951423

 

vmware.log for the virtual machine shows the following:

 

Jan 07 13:10:20.716: vmx| SCSI PASSTHRU (scsi0:1): ioctl (SG_IO) returned Numerical argument out of domain : 8450.

Jan 07 13:10:20.716: vmx| SCSI PASSTHRU (scsi0:1): ioctl (SG_IO) returned Numerical argument out of domain : 8450.

Jan 07 13:10:20.716: vmx| SCSI PASSTHRU (scsi0:1): ioctl (SG_IO) returned Numerical argument out of domain : 8450.

 

Does anyone have any insight into why this is happening?

Message was edited by: WalterHuf, remove automatic links

Hi All,

We've just deployed two Solaris 10 VM boxes and have found that the /hgfs (host-guest file system) mount causes problems with our backup software. I'd like to disable this if possible so that our backups can run as normal.

I've done a 'umount /hgfs' and then removed the associated folder but it still comes back. It doesn't exist at all in \etc\vfstab but still re-appears whenever the box is restarted.

Help!

EDIT: Would unticking all of the 'vmware tool' options under 'Inventory -&gt; Virtual Machine -&gt; Edit Settings' make a difference?

Hello virtual people,

I have a serious issue with VMware Server 2 on Windows Vista x64.

When I try to power on a virtual machine, it stucks at 95% on the "Power On Virtual Machine" task.

It happens with all of my VMs, Windows and non-Windows.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling VMware Server but the issue won't solve

Do you have any clue on how to solve this ?

Here is attached a sample log...

This one is driving me nuts, I have a virtual machine that randomly suspends itself. I checked the power options inside the VM, it's not set to any power plans (it should stay on).

I checked the logs on the host and there's no specific events that could've caused this, and the only thing I can see is within the vmx's log that the VMTools initiated the suspend call. I thought this was isolated to this particular VM, but the problem has spread to the other VMs right now, to a lesser frequency.

Environment:

Host: Windows 2008 Enterprise x64, VMWare Server 2, running 4 total Virtual Machine, Quad Core Xeon 2.8ghz, 16GB RAM

Guest: Windows 2003 Enterprise x86 SP2, using 2 proc threads, 2GB RAM, virtualized from physical machine by VMware vCenter.

Log from the vmx:

Mar 13 20:32:25.277: vmx| scsi0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.563 seconds (ok)

Mar 13 20:35:13.132: vmx| TOOLS sending 'OS_Suspend' (5) state change request

Mar 13 20:35:14.031: vcpu-0| TOOLS state change 5 returned status 1

Mar 13 20:35:14.036: vcpu-0| CPT current = 0, requesting 1

Mar 13 20:35:14.036: vcpu-0| Sync monModules(1).

Mar 13 20:35:14.036: vcpu-0| Done Sync monModules(1).

Mar 13 20:35:14.036: vcpu-1| Sync monModules(1).

Mar 13 20:35:14.036: vcpu-1| Done Sync monModules(1).

Mar 13 20:35:14.036: vmx| CPT: monitor ACKing mode 1

Mar 13 20:35:14.106: vmx| CPT current = 1, requesting 2

Mar 13 20:35:14.106: vmx| CPT: monitor ACKing mode 2

Mar 13 20:35:14.106: vmx| CPT current = 2, requesting 3

Mar 13 20:35:14.141: vcpu-0| Cpt monModules(3).

Mar 13 20:35:14.146: vcpu-0| Done Cpt monModules(3).

Mar 13 20:35:14.181: vcpu-1| Cpt monModules(3).

Mar 13 20:35:14.181: vcpu-1| Done Cpt monModules(3).

Mar 13 20:35:14.181: vmx| CPT: monitor ACKing mode 3

Mar 13 20:35:14.181: vmx| DUMPER: Modifying checkpoint file .\SBDIVAPP01.vmss

Mar 13 20:35:14.181: vmx| Checkpointed in VMware Server, 2.0.0 build-122956, build-122956, Windows Host

Mar 13 20:35:14.191: vmx| BusMemSample: checkpoint 3 initPercent 5 touched 52428

Mar 13 20:35:14.191: vmx| MM: Renamed D:\Virtual Machines\SBDIVAPP01\SBDIVAPP01.vmem to .\SBDIVAPP01.vmem

Mar 13 20:35:14.436: vmx| GuestMsg: Channel 0, Cannot unpost because the previous post is already completed

Mar 13 20:35:14.436: vmx| GuestRpc: Channel 0 reinitialized.

Mar 13 20:35:14.436: vmx| GuestMsg: Channel 1, Cannot unpost because the previous post is already completed

Mar 13 20:35:14.436: vmx| GuestRpc: Channel 1 reinitialized.

Mar 13 20:35:18.091: vmx| Stopping VCPU threads...

Mar 13 20:35:18.171: mks| SOCKET 3 (1624) recv error 10054: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

Mar 13 20:35:18.171: mks| SOCKET 3 (1624) destroying VNC backend on socket error: 1

Mar 13 20:35:18.176: mks| MKS switching absolute mouse off

Mar 13 20:35:19.096: mks| MKSHostOps_Exit3D: 1, 0

Mar 13 20:35:19.096: mks| Async MKS thread is exiting

Mar 13 20:35:19.096: vmx| USB: Disconnecting device 0x200000010e0f0002

Mar 13 20:35:19.096: vmx| USB: Disconnecting device 0x400000010e0f0003

Mar 13 20:35:19.116: vmx| MKS local poweroff

Mar 13 20:35:19.121: vmx| AIOWIN32C: asyncOps=929142 syncOps=0 bufSize=300Kb fixedOps=25681 sgOps=809264 sgOn=1

Mar 13 20:35:19.121: aioCompletion| AIO thread processed 929142 completions

Mar 13 20:35:19.121: vmx| AIOWIN32: asyncOps=0 syncOps=0 bufSize=0Kb delayed=0 fixed=0 sgOp=0 sgOn=1

Mar 13 20:35:19.121: vmx| WORKER: asyncOps=126192 maxActiveOps=1 maxPending=0 maxCompleted=0

Mar 13 20:35:19.641: vmx| Transitioned vmx/execState/val to suspended

Mar 13 20:35:19.966: vmx| vmdbPipe_Streams: Couldn't read

Mar 13 20:35:19.966: vmx| VMX idle exit

Mar 13 20:35:19.966: vmx| Flushing VMX VMDB connections

Mar 13 20:35:19.966: vmx| IPC_exit: disconnecting all threads

Mar 13 20:35:19.966: vmx| VMX exit (0).

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.