err installing open-vm-tools & Fedora 16
i try installing open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873 on fedora 16 xfce. i got it to configure (with many dependencies via yum install). now when i execute make i'm returned the following error regarding...
View ArticleDisk thrashing on Host and poor guest performance
Hi all We have a Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 host with 48GB memory, First data partition is 375GB (RAID1 120GB free) and second is 558GB (RAID1 50GB free)Windows is managing the paging file and has...
View ArticleVMware server and installed memory on the x86 32bit system
Hi allSituation looks as follows:- I have destop Dell - Ultra Small Form Factor - with 8GB RAM and 32bit Windows 7 installed- on that desktop VMware serwer 2.0.2 is installed- on that VMware serwer...
View ArticleVista - 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 ArticlePermissions problem! I locked myself out of one of the images.
Greetings, I did a bone-headed thing... I was expirementing with permissions and in one of my "test" images I added "Users role Read-Only on This object" but I didn't realize that as an "Administrator"...
View ArticleHELP!!! Server 2.x, Server 2003 guest - Install tools, guest hangs on reboot
As the title suggests, as soon as I install the vmware tools and reboot, the guest hangs on "Preparing network connections..." If I let it sit for a long time (30 mins), I'll get a logon prompt, then...
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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 ArticleMore than 4GB memory on 32bit Linux with VMWare Server 2?
Hi All, Do you have any experience to use more than 4 GB memory by a 64 bit guest on a 32 bit host OS? The host computer is Intel Core2 Duo T6600 CPU with 4 GB phy. RAM, but I want to upgrade to...
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HOWTO: using a raw disk in VMware Server 2.0
I needed to use a raw physical disk from within a VMware image. This works in VMware Workstation and apparantly also in Server 1.x but somehow the ability to use physical disks was removed from the...
View ArticleNew install Cannot access data stores
I am trying to create a new virtual machine on my Vmware 2 server that I just installed on Cent OS 5.1 and I cannot seem to access the datastores. I have tried every angle but I get the same result....
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...
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virtual machine startups hang at 95% on Windows Server 2008 x64 host
I have seen lots of threads regarding this, but no recent ones. This problem hit me a few months ago. Only solution was to rebuild the host from scratch and re-install latest VMWare server 2.0 build....
View ArticleInternet Explorer 8 RC1 - Server 2 Homepage hang
I installed IE8 last week, and ave been struggling with a "hang" opening the VMWare Server Homepage on my primary workstation (Vista Ultimate 64). I finally determined that the cause was IE8 (by...
View Article[VMware server 2.0] Unable to browse datastore on Debian 5.0
Hi everybody, I've installed VMWare server 2.0 on a amd64 based pc under GNU/Linux Debian 5.0 with 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel. When i try to browse datastore in VMWare VI client 2.0, i've got the...
View ArticleUnable To Remove Datastore-The Resource Is In Use
I am unable to remove a datastore from VMWare Server 2. It keeps throwing back an error: The resource is in Use. Is there a way to remove it manually? I'm new with VMWare Server. Any help would...
View Article32bit Windows 2003 Server Won't Start
Hi All, I am new to VMWare server, so bare with me if I sound a bit nooby. I have a server running Windows 2003 SE 32 bit. I used Windows WMware converter Standalone to create a VM from the...
View ArticleMissing "/etc/vmware/locations" file
Hello Everyone, I'm running VMware Server 2.0.1 on an RHEL 5 host. I wanted to change the configuration of VMware Server by running vmware-config.pl. As a result, I powered off all of the VMs and...
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 ArticleIPv6 connectivity between guest and host
Hi all, Hope I got the right place, I find this forum structure very confusing. Anyway. Situation is this: I have a dual-stack network using router advertisments, putting all systems on the...
View ArticleHuge .vmdk (13.2 GB) - "Underlying file system does not support files that...
I am having trouble with our Mail Server running on a VM under VMWare Server 2. - For some reason, I was not able to log into VMware Infrastructure Web Access. I noticed that the VMware Host Agent was...
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