Guest network connectivity lost during terminal services logon to host
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...
View Articlekernel 3.2 early excption 0d on vmware server and workstation
Hi all I'm running debian lenny on vmware server 2 and all is working fine with my built kernel 2.6.35-14. I have built a new kernel 3.2.31 with quite the same options and it crashes on boot with an...
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Bootmgr is missing on Windows 2008 server
Hi All, I am receiving this message on one of my vmware servers, and I am desperate to access this drive again as there are database files I need to access that I don't have a copy of anywhere else. I...
View Articlehelp with fixing Grain Table
Hi, I am working with a problem vmdk file. The good news is, no snapshots or other complications. The bad news is, I've taken this as far as I know to take it. I copied the vm to another machine and...
View ArticleCan this machine be saved?
I had a vmware machine sitting on a physical disk that died. The drive was sent for data recovery and the following files are toast (not getting them back):...
View ArticleVIA Nehemiah CPU, linux 2.6.26.5 and vmware Server 2.0
Hi! I am using vmware since about one year on my quite slow machine - worked great for small systems.Via Nehemiah 1GHz, 1GB RAM, Debian Etch with selfcompiled kernel 2.6.26.5. vmware server 1.0.4 run...
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Cannot connect to any USB device on my virtual machines
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...
View ArticleRandom BSOD on Virtual Server
I've recently joined a company and therefore inherited a number of Virtual machines but one in particular is causing me some concern as it randomly blue screens. The kernel memory dump exceeds 400Mb...
View ArticleCan't shutdown Virtual Machine via VMrun
I have a Windows Server 2003 as host, with VMware Server 2.0 (build 122956), with a Windows XP (SP3) installed as a virtual machine. I'm trying to shut down the image from the host, but I'm having no...
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Networking in a VM : can ping but can't browse !!!
Hello. This might sound trivial, but obviously I'm missing something here... So here's the setup : I have a Windows 2008 server (Web Edition) ; this server has a network card that's got a public IP...
View ArticleMigrate ProxMox VMs to VMWare???
I see plenty of links talking about how to migrate VMWare VMs to ProxMox, but I haven't been able to find even one in the other direction! Can anyone provide instructions for migrating a ProxMox VM to...
View Articledmp files being created after uninstall
Hello, I am not sure I am posting in the correct section but here goes.We have a few servers that started running out of space on the C drive. After investigating we found that VMWare was still sending...
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Virtual Machine suspends randomly?
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...
View ArticleThe network bridge on device vmnet0 is temporarily down. Why do I need to...
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...
View ArticleGPU passthrough with vmware
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...
View ArticleDuplicate network traffic from guest
When ever I ping something on the local LAN (or WAN), the replies are redirects from the HOST IP, then 4 duplicates of the reply packet from the correct IP. If I ping the host IP, they reply just fine....
View ArticleVMWare Host agent fail to start 0x40000015 0x781346b4
Hi everybody This post is not to send a question, but an answer ! Host OS : Windows XP SP3 I was using VMWare server 2.0 successfully for a while, when my company's laptop has to endure a rebuild.Since...
View ArticlePerformance tuning in Server 2.0
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...
View Articlevmware-cmd Utility Gone?
Not only that, but it seems vmware-mount has also vanished from VMware Server 2. The reason I'm looking for these is that I'm trying to port a backup script I wrote for VMware Server 2 wich stops,...
View ArticleMount a virtual disk?
Did I miss something? I used to down a VM and then mount its virtual disk in order to do a direct backup instead of a .vmdk backup. That doesn't seem to be possible with VMware Server 2? I even...
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