VCenter Server Service crashing
I'm new to supporting VCenter and on our VCenter Server, the VCenter Server Service keeps crashing at startup. I've attached our log file and I hope someone can help me out. Researching the various...
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ssh - server unexpectedly closed network connection
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...
View ArticleThe selected file is not a valid virtual disk file
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....
View ArticlevmWare Host Agent (vmware-hostd.exe) service hangs at startup on Windows...
vmWare Host Agent (vmware-hostd.exe) service allways hangs at startup on Windows Server 2003 Machine is an IBM Blade Server Windows Enterprise Server 2003 32 bitvmware Server 2 installation was...
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Vmware server 2 - Problem with snapshots
Hi,I have a problem regarding snapshots in a virtual machine.My server has the bellow identity:VMware Infrastructure Web AccessVersion 2.0.0Build 128374VMware ServerVersion 2.0.1Build 156745The...
View ArticleConstant NullPointerException: Operation failed. errors in web UI
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...
View ArticleWindows 2003 guest install painfully slow
Hi all, I am running VMware server 2.0 on a 3Ghz dual-core 64bit processor with 8gb of memory and 1tb of hard drive. I am trying to install Windows Server 2003 enterprise as a guest. I have tried both...
View ArticleDriver_IRQL_Not_Less_Or_Equal - Minidump attached
I have a Windows Server 2008 64bit Datacenter edition server running in a VMWare Server 2 environment with a RHEL 5 host. I have just set this machine up, and I'm getting a blue screen, seemingly at...
View Article"vmauthd event ID 100 - cannot connect to VMX" in event log & "Failed to read...
Hi, I have a problem with VMware server 2.0 running on Windows 2003: Guests do not start when VMware server starts. Instead vmauthd error is logged in event log and hostd.log. I already checked...
View ArticleStill Having Problems Installing 64 Bit Guest.
Ok, let's start over. I have a 64 bit Gateway, 6 megs of ram. It's an FX4710 - UB003A model, running Vista Premium Home 64 bit. I installed VMware Server 2. I can access the web access just fine....
View Articlemsg.vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort.rudeunplug:Operation on file...
Hi there, Anybody knows what this error message means: "msg.vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort.rudeunplug:Operationon file ".\PhysicalDrive1" failed.If the file resides on a remote file system, please make...
View ArticleVMWare Tools install hangs
Hello all - Bit of a VM newbie here, so please have mercy :). Running VMW Server 2.0 on Vista SP1 32-bit - no problems. Guest OS is fully patched W2k Pro, also running without problems (this is...
View ArticleHow to add vmnet10, 11, 12, 13...
Dear All, I would like to configure a number of custom networks within VMware Server 2.0 and have noted that the VMware Server 2.0 User Guide states that up to 255 virtual switches can be added under...
View ArticleVmrun shutdown of virtual guest not working for me in Server 2
I am trying to use the vmrun command line utility to force the shutdown of a running virtual machine under Vmware Server 2. The host system is Suse 10 and the guest is Wndows Server 2000. I am using...
View ArticleUbuntu 8.10 Webcam in VM?!?!?
I am struggling here and really need help.I have Ubuntu 8.10 desktop installed and successfully installed VMware server 2.0. I built a Ubuntu guest VM and want to use my USB webcam in the VM but no...
View ArticleIE 7 Crashes
Hi All, Trying to troubleshoot IE7's constant crashing. Checked for updates. Deleted VMware addon. Running Vista. Is there a fix? Thank you.
View Articleno login-fields at web-service, just blank
A few days ago I ran into the following problem: when try to logon to my vmware-server at https://myhost.com:8333 I only get a blank page but not the usual and expected login-window I tried...
View ArticleConvert ext3 image / loop to vmdk?
I'm in a little bit of a jam... without going into details I will explain this as simple as I can. I have a loop image (ext3) that resides on a windows share. I need to convert this to a...
View ArticleVMware tools cause net to cut out at boot
Hello folks, Might I say, I love VMware server 2.0, because vmware tools that fit into CentOS 5 make my day. On the other hand, the tools don't seem to work as well with CentOS 4 anymore... Here's...
View Articlerun vmware-vmx processes as non-root
I'm sure this question has been asked, but I have no idea of how to phrase my search. My issue is this - we have a NAS that's squashing root, the virtual machines reside on an NFS export on said NAS,...
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