Server fails to boot when non-system volume is attached
We are currently receiving the following error from ESXi 5 upon booting one virtual machine:Event Details:Type:infoDescription:Message on Metric-Backup on esxi.spartan.local in ha-datacenter: There is...
View ArticleDL360G5 disk very slow
Hi all,I have just installed a dl360g5 with Esxi5.0 hypervisor.im trying to convert a vm onto it but its SO slow, i saw this post and wondered if it sounds right? :...
View ArticleVMWare Server 2.0-WIndows 2012 Server
Has anyone had any sucess creating a Windows 2012 VM on VMWare Server via loading an iso image? I tryied loading the iso but keep rebooting, reporting "Your PC Ran into a problem and needs to...
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vmdk file showing 0MB
I am unable to start my VM machine due to below error message "Reason: 19 (No such device).Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/4fc925da-08b6f598-348b-002564fd3fa1/ITS-Treasury/ITS-Treasury.vmdk' or one...
View ArticleAssign valid IP addresses to virtual machines
Hello every one, First of all I wanted to mention that I'm totally new to this virtualization thing and forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I'm really confused about that. So I have a dedicated...
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 ArticleWorkstation 9 and vmrun stop question
We're running a Windows Server 2012 and VMware Workstation 9.0.2 with 2 shared and 1 unshared VMs.The shared VMs are on the C: and the other VM is on the D:When I run "vmrun list" I get "Total running...
View ArticleGetting error "vcpu-0:DoubleFault @ 0x4020:0xc9420" on vmware server 1.0.6
I was having no issues with vmware on windows 7, recently i brought windows 8 and while trying to start vm i get this error message "vcpu-0:DoubleFault @ 0x4020:0xc9420". I am trying to open an...
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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 ArticleRevert to Snapshot not working properly
Hello everyone I've made a VM machine to make images on, to get as clean images as possible. And during this process I've taken alot of snapshots, and reverted, but now it seems that the reverting...
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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 ArticleUnable to browse internet from a VM on a private net connected to a router
I am trying to setup a test lab on a R410 running vmware server. My goal is to have multiple networks connected via a virtualrouter running Win 2008 R2 and RRAS router software. The physical box has a...
View ArticleThe drive cannot find the sector requested.
I have a Blackberry enterprise server, running in Windows 2003 SP2, running on VMWare Server2. When doing a snapshot backup using AppAssure Replay4 application I am getting the following error in the...
View ArticleConvert a virtual disk from growable to preallocated - Failure
Hi, I am using "vmware-vdiskmanager" to convert a virtual disk from growable to preallocated. I have had enough of the defrags and poor disk i/o. To do this I have copied the vmwaredisk.vmdk file of...
View ArticleVMware server 2.0.2 and Windows 2012 EN 64bit
Hi allCan anybody can help me with Windows 2012 64bit installation on the VMware ServerVersion 2.0.2Build 203138? I'm trying to install Windows 2012 from ISO image called:...
View Articlememory allocation with VMWare Server 2 on Linux
Hello there, I've recently applied performance tricks to enhance the IO subsystem on my vmware server 2 on linux, by putting in the /etc/vmware/conf file the followig lines: # Custom:tmpDirectory...
View ArticleChoosing the 'best' host OS for VMware Server 2.0 running on 64-bit hardware
I'm new to VMware and am looking for advice on which OS to choose as my WMware Server 2.0 host. My usage profile is to begin experimenting with VMware for software development and testing across...
View ArticleDataStore on portable drive not read
I have a VM on a portable drive. To add the VM to inventory, I had to create a datastore that points to the portable drive. On bootup of the server, the portable drive is not connected but is plugged...
View ArticleError trying to increase vmdk hard disk capacity "file already exists"
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...
View ArticleFirefox can't establish a connection to the server at yigal:8333
I am using XP. I had a similiar problem in the past, which was solved by creating a password for the administrator. I got this message again. The only change I ahev done lately was to install SP3....
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