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Vlans in Windows with Intel 82567LM

August 28, 2009, 3:53 pm
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Previously I had an HP nc8240, with a realtek NIC.  It could do VLANs with the Realteck management software, and they worked in my VMs when mapped to VM NICs, but not great and I gave up on it.  I'm running windows XP sp3, and VMWare server 2.01.

 

 

Recently I got a Elitebook 8530p (upgrade from the nc8240), which has a Intel 82567LM NIC.  I installed the latest intel NIC and management software from Intel, setup the VLANs, and they work on my computer locally.

 

 

I then setup the Vlans to be mapped to VMnets using the windows network bridging tool.  VERY sadly, the VMs don't work on tagged Vlan NICs.  It's worth noting that I set one of my NICs to be 'untagged' with the intel software, and that NIC works fine.

 

 

Can I get my VMs to work on the tagged VLANs?  I wonder if the issue has something to do with the fact the VMs run in promiscuous mode (so I've heard) and perhaps that's a problem on the tagged VLAN nics?  Also, I read some people had problem with the intel vlans if the 'main' nic has anything running on it OTHER than the intel service - so I unchecked the vmware bridging service (I don't think that should matter though).

 

 

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Virtual Machine Backup

September 17, 2009, 4:42 am
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I have a server running Ubuntu 8.04 64Bit Server edition. This server hosts 3 different Virtual Machines 2 which are linux based and one which is Windows based. I would like to backup the complete Virtual Machines directory for safety purposes. When I do so it never seems to restore properly. Help!!!!!

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vmware server 2.x for windows - Windows 2003 server R2 "Terminal Services Printer Redirecting"

September 20, 2009, 7:49 am
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Hi All,

 

 

I'm new to vmware server 2.x.  I'm currently testing windows 2003 R2 server configured as a terminal server.  Has anyone experienced issue's with printer redirecting.  I can log onto the terminal server but my printers do not redirect.  Please help.  Thanks

 

 

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Autologin

September 23, 2009, 8:34 am
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Hello,

 

 

Is it possible to have VMSERVER 2 setup to do a AUTOLOGIN so I do not need to input this everytime? I like the shortcut that VMWARE creates but for me testing it is a hassle. If someone knows of a way I would appreciate any feedback.

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Fred

 

 

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"/tmp/vmware-root/" has less than 149 MB of free space ?

October 11, 2009, 4:14 pm
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HI

 

 

some times we have this problem ... i dont know how solve this problem

 

 

The directory "/tmp/vmware-root/" has less than 149 MB of free space.Running out

of free space in this directory may corrupt the virtual machine's RAM. This is

likely to cause the guest operating system to crash.To avoid these problems,

VMware recommends you move or delete files to free up space now. After you free

up space, select "Continue".To ignore this condition until you power off or

suspend the virtual machine, select "Ignore".

 

 

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Capture USB Device Data

October 15, 2009, 6:17 pm
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Hello,

 

 

  My host is Ubuntu 9.04 run windows xp as the guest.  I have a USB device connect to my Linux host that is being accessed, successfully, from the windows guest.  I would like to capture all the data being transfered to and from the device, preferably,on the Linux host.  If possible, I would prefer something similar to how you can capture ethernet traffic, without disrupting the flow.

 

 

 

 

 

  Any ideas or suggestions?

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

 

 

Harlan...

 

 

 

 

 

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Server 2.02 yields 'HTTP 12029' when adding a VM built in Fusion (Mac book Pro)

November 2, 2009, 8:07 am
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Hi

 

I am evaluating VMWare Server 2.02 and have come across this hiccup - its consistent and I've not found a solution on the net - I'd really appreciate a pointer here as its stopping us dead in our tracks

 

Setup:

Host : 64Bit Windows Server 2008 RC2 Enterprise

VMWare Server : 2.02

Guest : Windows Server 2003 SE

Guest built on : Mac Book Pro using VMWare Fusion 2.05 - runs fine on that platform

 

Action:

Add the VM from via VMWare Infrastructure Web Access client running on localhost, default port 8333

 

Yields :

The server could not complete a request (HTTP 12029 ).

 

The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request. If this problem persists, please contact your system administrator.

 

(also; VMWare Host service then requires a restart)

 

Notes:

I have tried it a few times (and upgraded VMWare server to the latest version), with three different VMs - same result

 

ExpertsExchange have a thread about this - someone else obviously has the same problem - but no solution unfortunately

 

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/Q_24649763.html

 

any ideas?

cheers

Phil

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Vmware server 202 and converter 401

November 12, 2009, 7:00 am
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Hello there,

I backed up a W2K server VM hosted on a VI3 environment using VCB and copied all the files[vmdk, vmx, etc] to a Vmware server 202 for off site disaster recovery.

On the Vmware server 202 I ran converter 4.0.1 and chose Configure the VM above , I specified different hostname, IP and chose a new SID, added to the domain, but when I try to run the converter it still sees original name, IP. Can someone point me in the right direction please.

Thank you

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Fedora Unable to print to Network Printer

December 2, 2009, 2:31 pm
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When I had Fedora installed directly on my computer at school I was able to print to our network printer (HP Laserjet 4000 Series shared on Windows Server 2003 server). However all the computers at school run Windows 7 64 Bit and if we need to use an OS for our courses (XP for XP Course, Server 2003 for Server Course, Fedora for Linux Course) we use VM Ware. So now we have Fedora running in VM Ware.

 

Neither my friend or I can print to the printer from Fedora in our VMs, but before I could print to it.

 

 

I don't see why it doesn't print as Fedora can connect to the network and internet just fine, but not the printer. It shouldn't matter as all it has to do is send the documents to the print server over TCP/IP...

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Memory usage on VMware Server 2.02

December 17, 2009, 12:55 am
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Hello,

 

I have set the limit of my Guest OS memory to 256MB and it is taking twice as much memory, when I look at my processes. Im using Debian Lenny on Host and Guest OS is the same. What could be the problem? I have read that it shouldn't take more, than you allocate.

 

Here's my Host ps aux report:

 

 

 

And VMware WebUI is showing that the guest is taking about 33MB of memory.

 

 

 

 

http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-1443946-8073/Untitled2.png 

 

 

 

 

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Unable to access serial ports on a VM

December 21, 2009, 8:15 am
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Hi,

 

I'm using VMWare Server 2 on a Windows 2003 server. This server has a Digiboard device, a box with 16 serial ports connected to the computer via a serial connection :

 

Server ---> com 1 / com 2 -

> Digiboard -

> 16 serial ports

 

Everything works fine on the server, i can use the serial ports (which have modems at their backs). I'd like to dispatch the serial ports to 3 virtual machines and leave 4 to the physical one. I've set up a new 2003 virtual machine with the following configuration :

 

serial0.present = "TRUE"

serial0.fileType = "device"

serial0.fileName = "COM7"

serial0.tryNoRxLoss = "FALSE"

serial0.autodetect = "FALSE"

serial0.startConnected = true

serial0.allowGuestConnectionControl = true

 

serial1.present = "TRUE"

serial1.fileType = "device"

serial1.fileName = "COM8"

serial1.tryNoRxLoss = "FALSE"

serial1.autodetect = "FALSE"

serial1.startConnected = true

serial1.allowGuestConnectionControl = true

 

serial2.present = "TRUE"

serial2.fileType = "device"

serial2.fileName = "COM9"

serial2.tryNoRxLoss = "FALSE"

serial2.autodetect = "FALSE"

serial2.startConnected = true

serial2.allowGuestConnectionControl = true

 

serial3.present = "TRUE"

serial3.fileType = "device"

serial3.fileName = "COM10"

serial3.tryNoRxLoss = "FALSE"

serial3.autodetect = "FALSE"

serial3.startConnected = true

serial3.allowGuestConnectionControl = true

 

Everything is up (i can see the serial ports are conencted on the VMWare interface and in the VMtools), but I don't see any COM ports on the virtual server. All I have is the usual COM1, COM2, LPT1. Moreover, the applications I have on the server which normally use com ports to communicate don't see these 4 ports.

 

 

Does anyone have an idea to make this work ?

 

Thank you !

 

Nicolas

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VMserver 2.0.2 and Windows 2008 32Bit Guest

December 22, 2009, 7:50 am
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Good morning,

 

Running VMware Server v2.0.2 on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bits and have created two guest VMs as follows:

 

1 VCPU

1 Gb RAM

10 Gb vHDD

Windows 2008 Standard Server 32 bits

VMware Tools

 

Issues : 

Whenever I try to update each VM (via Windows Update) the VMs freezes (VMs only) when asking to restart the server. 

 

1 - My host (Win7) keeps on running and I not limited nor get any BSOD nor any slowdowns with the rest of my desktop apps (Outlook, IE, Firefox, etc..).

 

2 - CPU usage is low, so I now the VM is not consuming my CPU.

 

3 - HDD usage is low

 

4 - VMware server Web Access is unresponsive and I can`t log back into my VMware Infrastructure Web Access, error as follows:

"The server could not complete a request (HTTP 0).  The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request.  If this problem persists, please contact the administrator."

 

5 - If I try to shutdown my host... it just gets stuck at the "shutdown" message and nothing else happens.

 

6 - When I reboot the Host and restart the VMs, the Windows Update (on the VM) continues like it has completed a graceful shutdown!  No errors or nothing in the like (but goes back to item 4).

 

Has anyone experienced something like this ?

 

Kind regards,

 

Luis

 

Message was edited by: gatox

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Template creation in VMWare Server 2

January 22, 2010, 11:21 am
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Does anybody know how to create templates in VMWare Server 2.  This feature is in the User Guide, but I can't seem to find the Template menu items nor the commands in the Command tab.  Help will be much appreciated.

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VMWare Server DNS issue

January 29, 2010, 4:12 pm
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I initially had</span>internet access on the VM using bridged mode, but now can only access sites via IP address.  E.g., "ping 74.125.67.100" is successful.  But ping www.google.com comes back with "could not find host".  If I use NAT, it successfully pings www.google.com, but get no response on an nslookup or http request.

 

 

The host is a Windows 7 64 bit with a Broadcom ethernet adapter accessing the internet without issue.  I'm using the latest release of Server 2.0.

 

 

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks.

 

 

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Bridged Networking not working

February 5, 2010, 7:59 am
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i have used workstation and server and can't get the bridged network to work for the guest OS. I don't have any firewalls and the guest OS gets DHCP info but can't connect to the DNS server. I am at a loss. Is there some kind of imcompatibility with certain NICs? I even tried Sun Virtual box and it doesn't work there either. I need to know if i should get a new NIC or if there is another option i am missing.

 

 

 

 

 

edit: i did install another NIC and the problem persists. it definitely seems like a problem on the Host OS. I have the same identical setup on a home computer and it works fine. the PC that has the issue is on a windows domain, running Win 7 64 bit.

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Closing a window in Vista jumps to VM rather than to desktop

February 20, 2010, 1:47 pm
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I'm running Server 2 on Vista.  Whenever I close a Vista window I expect to see the Vista desktop.  However, if there is a VM console (or RDP session to a VM) running, the VM automatically jumps to the foreground.  Do others experience this?  Is there a workaround?

 

 

Also, at some point I'll probably upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. Have others found that this is a more stable environment for an OS-based version of VMware like Server2?

 

 

Bob Simon

 

 

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How do I load a driver for a HP DL380 G5 SCSI when installing Server 2008 R2 as a Guest?

February 25, 2010, 5:46 am
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When I boot the Server 2008 R2 ISO as a Guest OS under Vmware Server 2.0, the first screen I see after I select to 'Install' is a screen which says 'Select the driver to be installed'.  None of my available disks are recognized or displayed even though Im running instances of Server 2000 and Server 2003 as guests.  Im trying to do this on a HP DL380 G5 x64 with Virtualization turned on and a logical array of RAID 0+1.

 

Any ideas on how I get my disks to be recognized during install?  Attached is a screen-shot of what I see.

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Ambiguous /proc/cpuinfo for 2 guests on same host

April 8, 2010, 7:34 pm
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Hello,

 

I have 2 RHEL hosts running on the same windows host. I see a mis-match between the clock speed of the 2 guests:

 

# cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0

vendor_id       : GenuineIntel

cpu family      : 6

model           : 30

model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU       Q 720  @ 1.60GHz

stepping : 5

cpuMHz         : 1617.592

cache size      : 6144 KB

fdiv_bug : no

hlt_bug         : no

f00f_bug        : no

coma_bug : no

fpu             : yes

fpu_exception   : yes

cpuid level     : 11

wp              : yes

flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss nx lm constant_tsc up pni cx16 lahf_lm

bogomips : 3204.05

 

# cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0

vendor_id       : GenuineIntel

cpu family      : 6

model    : 30

model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU       Q 720  @ 1.60GHz

stepping        : 5

cpu MHz         : 1599.085

cache size      : 6144 KB

fdiv_bug        : no

hlt_bug         : no

f00f_bug : no

coma_bug        : no

fpu             : yes

fpu_exception : yes

cpuid level     : 11

wp              : yes

flags       : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss nx lm constant_tsc up pni cx16 lahf_lm

bogomips        : 3203.98

 

I have highlighted the difference. Is there a way to keep both of them on the same clock speed.

 

BTW - I have already made the necessary change in the VMWare config file as below:

 

host.cpukHz = "1600000"

host.noTSC = "TRUE"

ptsc.noTSC = "TRUE"

 

I guess this mismatch of clock speed @ the Guest OS level throws the 2 guest clocks out of sync and it

is very important that both stay on the same time

 

Thanks in advance for your suggestions

Arindam

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VMware Server 2 on Windows 7 Host

April 14, 2010, 8:23 am
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There are seversl posts on problems installing VMware server on Windows 7. 

 

 

I have been trying to do it, but I am not able to get the guest operating system to boot.

 

 

I would like to get a definative answer as to whether or not Windows Server is compatable with a Windows 7 host.

 

 

I have been trying to install a  Windows 2000 Guest.

 

 

Thanks

 

 

Bill Bos 

 

 

 

 

 

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VMWare Server 2.0 - really slow boot

May 12, 2010, 2:45 am
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Good morning all,

 

 

We're running a VMware server 2.0 on a windows 2003 enterprise host.  The host has 20gb of RAM, 2 quad core 3.0 ghz processors and a 3 disk RAID 5 array.

 

 

The speed of the virtual machines to boot is incredibly slow.  We're talking over 20 minutes for a standard windows 2003 virtual machine!  There's a few servers running currently (five) but we're not overcommited on resources that I can see.

 

 

I'd love to get some tips on where I can start looking for where the problem might lie.

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Tom

 

 

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