Vista - VMware Host Agent Service Hostd fails with Event ID 7024 error...
-Services-Windows could not start the VMware Host Agent on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer...
View ArticleDoes "options" work on vmware-vim-cmd command ?
I am wondering about this question because I had to setup a couple of vmware server with non-standard ports, let's say 10902 and 20902. No problems using web interface. but using command line doesn't...
View Articleterrible disk performance on Linux HOST - Windows GUEST
Hello all, best wishes for this new year , Stop me if I'm wrong, I've checked through the posts and it seems to be relatively well-admitted that Windows Guest on linux host suffers from disk IO...
View ArticleAdvanced Open File Backup
Is it a good idea to use Symantec Backup Exec with the Advanced Open File option to backup running Virtual Machine VMDK files?
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...
View ArticleWhich software can I use to monitor multiple VMs?
hey everyone i've got the free vmware server running on 3 machines: a win2k3 server, and 2 centOS servers. all work beautifully. I've been managing them using the web interface (serverip:8333)...
View ArticleVMDK recovery / vmware-mount: It is not safe to mount the virtual disk.
Hi, I'm trying to recover a vmdk from a VMWare Workstation VM which apparently wasn't shutdown cleanly. I'm using vmware-mount to mount it, but all options I tried so far have failed miserably. My main...
View ArticleChange vm properties values
Hi, Is there any way to change vm properties (amount of memory,virtual disk, MAC address, ...) through some API or script (without the help of the webinterface) and save these new values in the VMX...
View ArticleVMware server virtual disk creation wizard & utility don't know about...
VMware Server 2.0 running on Vista Ultimate. I have a small system drive mounted as C:, and many large drives mounted in the same file system: C:\vm\mnt\{sg32-a,sg32-b} etc. There is only 160GB free...
View ArticleVMnet vs. vlan
Hello,I kindly ask you one definitive answer to my question. The environment is an host (Fedora 9) with two NIC. The host is a firewall between eth0 (wan) and eth1 (lans).On eth1 there are five vlan...
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 ArticleVMW server 2 Web GUI doesn't listen on 8222 or 8333
Hi all, I have been installed a VMW server 2 X86_64 in a ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsty) server, all the process of installation and configuration follows normally, but at the end of these, when I try to access...
View ArticleMap or assign USB devices to virtual machines
Hi, I searched this for a while and didn't find any proper solution. Here is my case : I have three virtual machines, one under Linux, and two under WinXP. I also haveat least three USB devices...
View ArticleRunning out of free space in this directory may corrupt the virtual machine's...
I've been running vmware server 2 for like 6 months now and all of a sudden this week I keep getting this error in VMware Infrastructure Web Access. Its a popup question with Ignore and Continue as...
View ArticleHow many virtual machines can I create??
I would like to know how many guest OS's I can put on my server. Right now its running 3 very easily. The server is running Windows 2003 64 bit but the guest machines are running XP pro 32...
View ArticleHelp configuring dual nic host with VMware Server
Hi folks, I am running VMware server on a 64-bit CentOS box with dual ethernet adapters. Each adapter is connected to a router/cable modem going to different ISPs. Each router has a DHCP server...
View ArticleVM shuts down when copied using GPFS
Hi, I'm running VMWare Server 2 on Scientific Linux 4 (i.e. RedHat 4) Our main mounted file system is mounted using GPFS and I have been storing the VMs on the mounted file storage, most of the...
View ArticleFirefox 3.6 and vmware remote console doesn't open.
After upgrading to firefox 3.6 I can't open up my virtual machine through the browser. I downgraded to 3.5 and it worked. This is the message I get: Cannot access virtual machine console. The...
View ArticleVMGuest Freezes When Resizing Windows In Guest
My config: Windows Server 2008 R2 w/VMWare 2.0.2 on an AMD Athlon X2 w/Marvell NIC w/3 VLANs. The Guest is also Win2k8 R2 with Microsoft's Threat Management Gateway 2010. The guest freezes when I...
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Linear performance degredation over time after upgrade to 2.0.2
I've been using VMware server since the GSX 3.0 days... I've had it running on a personal server for a few years now(since v1.0). I noticed recently the VMs I have running have become increasingly...
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