VMWare Server DNS issue
I initially had</span>internet access on the VM using bridged mode, but now can only access sites via IP address. E.g., "ping 74.125.67.100" is successful. But ping www.google.com comes back...
View Articlehow to refresh the DataStore from command line interface CLI
Dear Friends I'm using VMWare Server 2.0 on a debian linux server. I need to be able to refresh the datastore from the command line, this because I need to put the refresh command inside a bash...
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...
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Awful SMB/CIFS performance from *BSD guests using host-only network
Hi all, I'm running VMWare Server 2.0.2 under Windows 2008 Server R2. The host server is presenting some file shares via CIFS (fallback to SMB). I am attempting to create a guest which can access file...
View ArticleGuest can't be reached from the outside
Here's my situation. I have 3 network interfaces on one NIC.They all three have a different IP: eth0 eth0:1eth0:2 eth0 and eth0:1 both are being used by IP's for some server services. Now I...
View ArticleWindows Server 2003 Virtual Guest Ignores Bond0
CentOS 5.6Vmware Server 2.0.2 Originally had Vmware host using eth0 and Windows Server 2003 guest was bridged to that. After successfully configuring ethernet bonding (mode=5 miimon=100)...
View ArticleMigrate ProxMox VMs to VMWare???
I see plenty of links talking about how to migrate VMWare VMs to ProxMox, but I haven't been able to find even one in the other direction! Can anyone provide instructions for migrating a ProxMox VM to...
View ArticleVM hangs 95% - host windows 7 - 64bit
Hi all, I'm looking for solution for this problem. Many people had this problem, butI'm try to do many thing to solve it, but.... I'm trying to create a VM CentOS 4.8 (red hat) 32-bit, but on start up...
View ArticleNetworking for 2 VM Guests
Hello All, I have a Windows host with VMWare Server installed. I've deployed 2 VM Images (guests: 1 windows and 1 Linux). I wish to network both these VMs so they can ping/talk to each other. Any...
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 ArticleGuest OS (Linux Debian and Windows Server 2003 R2) stop for no reason
Hi I am running a Host on Windows 2003 Enterprise R2 - 64 bits on a Dell 2950, dual Xeon processors and 32 gig ram I currently have to guest os Debian and Windows standard 2003 R2) I don't know...
View ArticleVMs dying during large data transfers
I recently built a new machine with an AMD X2 64bit 7850, M3N78-VM mobo, 4gigs of RAM, and 2x 1TB drives on a RAID 1. Base OS is a fresh Fedora 11 install with Vmware Server 2 (and...
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 ArticleVMWare Server Access failure
Hi there, I'm in a bit of a pickle...... I have a Domain Controller running server 2003SP2 virtualised on vmware server. its a site i have recently taken over support for.... the phsical server is a...
View Articlevmnet0 subnet 255.2.. / Limited or no connectivity
We have installed VMware server 2.0 on 64 bit Windows Server 2003. The vmnet0 is appearing with a strange subnet mask of 255.255.255.255and we can't find out why. VM guests getting Limited or...
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Alert: Datastore usage on disk
I have some alarms/alerts in vSphere for two servers that say "Alert" and "Datastore usage on disk" I am not sure what these mean, since its a vague alert and I can't view any information about this...
View ArticleOut of diskspace Due to Snapshot
Running VMware Server 2 , and created snapshot two years ago, VMDK's have overgrown, (2.6tb in total) have 130gb left is it possible to remove (Roll back Snapshot) of about 1.4tb, and any idea of time...
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 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 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...
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