Quad Core host - disable or enable hyperthreading?
Dear all, Thanks for taking the time. New to the forum and to VMs. I have read up as much as I can before posting but are not 100% sure of the answer to my question. I know with old Intel...
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...
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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 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 ArticleESXi or VMware Server on Big Machine
Okay, I am getting a replacment for my little 4 core 1U machine that I have run for the last 18 months and getting a large 16 core 48G machine, and now I have to figure out how to best utilize it....
View ArticleManagedObject Not Found error...
I'm running VMWare Server 2.0 on a Debian Linux (Lenny) machine with AMD64 processor and 2 GB RAM. I have 3 Virtual Machines: Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.4.1. The VM's all seem to run...
View ArticleRemote Console Error - unable to connect to the mks: login...
FIXED: Apparently there was a corrupted file in one of my VMs. After rebooting and deleting the VM (deleting inside VMServer did not work, I had to manually delete the files), I could remote to the...
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...
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Problems with WMWare Server 2.0 and the VMware® Remote Console - blank screen
I have installed VMWare Server 2.0. I have a problem when I am connecting to the VMware® Remote Console. The window is appearing blank. I have one VM Machine with Red Hat 4 AS working well in...
View Article100% IOWAIT in virtual machine, 40% in host
Hi, My configuration is as follow: Debian Etch x64 on an OVH dedicated server with a quad proc Intel xeon, 2x750GBHDD in SATA HARD RAID1, 4GB DDR2. ReiseFS filesystem for all partition except boot...
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 ArticleHost lost network connection if using bridge-nic
Hello, I have a problem with my VMware Server 2 on host running WinXP/SP3.I using a Marvell Yukon onboard nic. The Marvell nic on host is connected to a few vlans. A virtual machine using two...
View ArticleNew to VMWare, need help on getting the correct products
Hi everyone. I'm new to VMWare. We are a very small business and I am looking to use VMWare to achieve a very basic disaster recovery procedure for us. With the free VMWare Server and VMWare player...
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 ArticleRestoring Admin Permissions
Hi All, i seemed to have messed up pretty bad and have tried all i can before posting, problem is after installing Server 2 on Windows, i could log into the Web Access fine and needed to add a new user...
View ArticleDumping a virtual machine image to SCCM 2007
Hello everyone I'm trying to dump a referance machine that I've made with VMware Server 2.0, but the boot image doesnt have the necessary network drivers to boot the machine up. Where do I find these...
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...
View Articlevmware server 2.0.2 doesnt start anymore on Win 7 64
Hi all,until last week i had Vmware Server 2.0.2 running perfectly on my Windows 7 64 bit machine. After the last patch day it will not start anymore. I already deinstalled and reinstalled it, no...
View ArticleBIOS .bios440 has unexpected file size
Hi, I have just installed VM Server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 and tried to open an existing guest. However on start up I get the following error: BIOS .bios440 has unexpected file size...
View ArticleVMWare Server 2 Multiple NIC Bridging Issue
Alright. I've read lots and lots and lots about this on the 'net and on Communities, here, but I can't seem to solve this problem. I've got a Windows 2003 64bit VMWare server. It's configured with 2...
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