Performance guide under linux
Hi folks I realised there are various hints and tips around to tune host os and vms under linux. Has anybody a good source, book, how-to? Some hints I found here:...
View ArticleUnable to access serial ports on a VM
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...
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 ArticleGetting msg.uuid.altered every time vmware server restarts
Each time my Windows Server 2008 R2 host restarts, the guest operating system clients running on vmware server fail to start. They get the following error message: msg.uuid.altered:This virtual...
View ArticleWhen NAT is used Guest OS can't setup TCP connection but UDP is ok
I'm using VMWare Server 2 on WIndows 7 x64 and set up VM with NAT connection to the host. However I just found I can connect to outside with UDP from the VM but TCP connections always fail....
View ArticleMultiple guests on a single host
We have a production machine with Linux64 installed on it. It has two good processors and 4GB of memory. I installed one guest OS (Linux64), and alloted it 1.5G of memory. It worked fine. Then I...
View ArticleCannot create a virtual machine in a datastore on a networked nas
Hi, I'm running Vmware server 2 on a Windows 2003 R2 host. I'm trying to create a Windows 2008 guest on a networked NAS (a WD MyBook II) with 2048 GB RAM, 75 GB disk, but after I click "Finish"...
View ArticleRouter Not Showing Vmware Machine
Good Day Folks, Please excuse my naive questions. I am very new to vmware and in most of the IT world. I did tried searching for this topic and was unsuccessfull in finding one. I have installed VMWARE...
View ArticleVMware Server 2 - web interface - login without typing username and password ?
Hi all!Is there any way to login to Vmware Server 2 web interfaceas appropriate user without entering username and password ? (i want to simplify login to web interface of VMware Server 2) The same...
View Articlenetwork repeating missmatch issues
VMWare Server 2.0.0 Build 122956 I am having some issues with connection into a guest VM (Ubuntu linux 4.4.3-4 lucid) running under VMware 2.0 on a windows server host.All connection to and from the...
View Articlesupermicro X8DT3
hi i read a few post about supporting ICH10R for vmware Esxi , so esxi cant work with ICH10R.i want to know so can i install esxi with " 1 hard " without raid on this mainboard ( supermicro X8DT3 ) ?...
View Articlemsg.vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort.rudeunplug:Operation on file
Hi FolksI have a guest operating server that keeps getting the error "msg.vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort.rudeunplug:Operation on file"If I abort and restart it comes up but can then for no reason get the...
View ArticleApplication running slow on Vmware server
I have a 4GB RAM on the Virtual server but the problem is the process is more than 4GB on the task bak. I installed Tomcat 5, Mirth and MySQL, and if I use the application I developed, the application...
View Articlewatchdog for guest os
Is there a watchdog available for the guest os or can it be added ?
View Article'operating system not found' message after image restore
I'm new to to VMware server. I used Drive Image xml to image my Windows 2003 server and then booted to the Ulitmate Boot CD for Windows in the VM to restore the image.I used windows disk manager to...
View ArticleNAT Problem, but only TCP (UDP working)
I have a very strange problem with VMWare Server 2 running on Windows Server 2008. I have a VM running linux in the NAT network. From this VM, I am able to make outbound UDP connections (eg. a DNS...
View ArticleSlow VM XP Clients
Good morning, Thank you very much for leting me join your forum. I'm a newbie on vmware, I've been working with virtualbox since 5 years and now I'm trying vmware to migrate my servers. I have the...
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 ArticleHow to access a powered on VM on VW Server?
Hi, I have a propably very simple problem.I converted a VM Player CentOS VM machine into a VM Server one on a win7/64 host system.I had expected that I see the guest system starting when I power it on...
View ArticleSlow performance under heavy graphic load
Hi, all: We've been using VMWare Server and VMWare Workstation for more than 6 years in our manual and automated testing procedure, and I'm a real fan of VMWare products, they're incredibly good and...
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