ESXi Server Backup
Hi AllI have installed vmware esxi4.0 server and then created virtual machines. Everything is perfectly working. Please help me how to take the backup of vm's. Do i need to take the backup of esxi...
View ArticleConverting Split Disk To Single File - Data Loss!
Hi, Something pretty strange happened to us today. In order to migrate from VMWARE SERVER 2 to ESXi when needed to convert from growable virtual disks split in 2gb files to a single file. We used...
View ArticlePort forwarding from Linksys WRT54G to VM with bridged NIC does not work
I have VMWare Server running on Windows 7 64-bit host. I built a CentOS55 vm and installed zimbra mailserver. All went fine. I have my vnic set to Bridged (vmnet0). I have given my zimbra server a...
View ArticleVMs do not shutdown
Dear community, my szenario:VMware Server 2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 hosting 4 VMsThe VMs are 1 Windows Server 2003 and 3 Windows XP. My Problem:Shutting down the Windows Server 2008 seems not to...
View ArticleUnable to browse internet from a VM on a private net connected to a router
I am trying to setup a test lab on a R410 running vmware server. My goal is to have multiple networks connected via a virtualrouter running Win 2008 R2 and RRAS router software. The physical box has a...
View ArticleGuest VM's Lagging
Hello All, I'm running VMware Server 2.0.0. I have had 12 guests running perfectly on this host. But right now I only have a few running and they have started to lag. I don't know where to start...
View ArticleSolution: "VMware Host Agent" service stops / crashes / runs for a short time...
Thanks to this forum and other sources on the internet, I managed to piece together a fix for VMware Server 2 not working.I was so glad to get this problem resolved that I thought I'd post this note,...
View ArticleHow can I access all my local drives from Virtual Machine
Hi there..... Iam a newbie here and just installed VMware Server 2.0.1 on my windows xp (Notebook). Guest os is Windows Server 2003. I have 3 partitions in my host computer. Those are C,D,E. Drives....
View ArticleUsing USB in VMWARE server 2. Host Vista Guest server 2003
Hi I desperately need some documents transferred off the guest OS server 2003 and onto the host OS Vista. I followed the instructions for adding the USB controller using add hardware wizard and...
View ArticleImpossible to get DHCP IP address on windows 2003 using bridge network
Hello,i'm using VMWARE server 2.0 and i need my virtual server 2003 SP2 to be part of the real network.I'm using VMNET0 to bridge my virtual card to the physical one.But I can not get any IP from my...
View ArticleQuad 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 ArticleVMware server 2.0.2 Bridged network not working
Hi, I've just installed VMware server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop and setted up 2 bridged network. One is bridged to a Ethernet card and the other one is bridged to a wireless card. My problem is...
View ArticleAcess Virtual Machine via Static IP From Home
Hello All, I will really appreciate if any one can please help me. I am running Centos 5.X enterprise and I have installed Vmware Server in there everything is fine I have also create another...
View ArticleHow to run image with .ovf?
I'm trying to load and run what is supposed to be a VMWare image but the .zip contains only a .vmdk and .ovf. There is no .vmx file. I have tried to install VMWare Server 2.0 and VMWare Player but...
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....
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Issues trying to SSH to virtual machine
Hi, First of all, my apologies if I've accidentially posted this in the wrong forumgroup, this is my first post here. I have been trying to search for a solution to my problem but I haven't managed to...
View ArticleHosting guest on an ssd drive (ocz enyo usb3 128gb)
Hi, I'm hosting a guest vm on the above ssd driveMy host OS is Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) The performance of the vm is pretty good, but every few minutes it hangs for a few seconds. I suspect this may be...
View ArticleCan't get rid of xxx-00001.vmdk file
I had all my guest OS data in one vmdk file (I'll call it server.vmdk) until last Tuesday, 12/14/10. Since then, the original server.vmdk file still exists with the date time stamp of 12/14/10. All...
View ArticleHaving some problems opening vmx files on VMware Server 2.0.2
I havve added a datastore which was used as a datastore from a previous install of Vmware Server 2.0.1. Now when I try and add a virtual machine to the inventory from the newly added datastore the...
View Articlemsg.vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort.rudeunplug strikes again
Hello, I get this message msg.vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort.rudeunplug:Operation on file "D:\Virtual_Machines\Arbeit\Arbeit.vmdk" failed.... The last thing I have done in this VM was installing Microsoft...
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