VMWare server bridged networking problems...
Hi everybody, I'm writing in this section, but I experienced this problem also with VMWare Server 1.x.. So, My problem is: Server HP DL380G5 with Win 2003 ENG STD x86 installed on the bare metal...
View ArticleThe network bridge on device vmnet0 is temporarily down because the bridged...
I have instaled Vmware server 2.01 in Ubuntu 9.04 - Jaunty Jackalope, but the virtual machines have problems to connect : "The network bridge on device vmnet0 is temporarily down because thebridged...
View ArticleMonitoring bandwidth usage of VMs in a Windows host
Hi, I have a Windows Server 2003 x64 with VMware Server 2 installed on it and a few virtual machines running. I need to know how can I monitor bandwidth usage of this virtual machines? I have limited...
View ArticleBridged Networking not working
i have used workstation and server and can't get the bridged network to work for the guest OS. I don't have any firewalls and the guest OS gets DHCP info but can't connect to the DNS server. I am at a...
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...
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 ArticleVCenter Server Service crashing
I'm new to supporting VCenter and on our VCenter Server, the VCenter Server Service keeps crashing at startup. I've attached our log file and I hope someone can help me out. Researching the various...
View Article"vmauthd event ID 100 - cannot connect to VMX" in event log & "Failed to read...
Hi, I have a problem with VMware server 2.0 running on Windows 2003: Guests do not start when VMware server starts. Instead vmauthd error is logged in event log and hostd.log. I already checked...
View ArticleVM Guest keeps going into suspend mode when left idle.
Hi all. I have a Windows 2003 Server running VMWare Server 2. I have a Windows 2008 Server x32 running as a guest, heres my problem: When I leave my guest running idle after a while it goes into...
View ArticleGuest Swapping vs. Host Swapping
Since my host is low on physical RAM I unfortunately need to allow swapping. There are two options that I can do: I could tell the guest's OS to swap, so it will use the virtual disk to swap. *I...
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...
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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...
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ssh - server unexpectedly closed network connection
Hi, I'm unable to connect via SSH to one of my hosts using putty. The others are fine. Tried from different clients, same result. I can putty into my vMA 4 server and ssh root@hostname to get a...
View ArticleVMWare Server - Guest OS does not startup after Host system reboots
I have an issue where the only running Guest OS within VMWare Server does not start up after the host reboots. I have looked into this and I already applied the following settings for the guest VM;...
View Articlelinux kernel panic only in VMWare environment (CentOS 5.3)
I i'm trying to install CentOS 5.3 in VMWare Server 2.x. The host system is running Windows 2000 SP4 with an AMD Athelon XP 1800 CPU, 1G RAM and an NVidia FX5200. Every time i try to install CentOS 5.3...
View ArticleHow to Install Ubuntu Linux on Windows XP using VMware Server - Thanks to...
Ubuntu linux installation is painless as explained in this document. Ubuntu is a valuable and completely free distribution of Linux. It is open-source and software libre meaning that it's free of any...
View ArticleWindows 2003 Standard 4 CPU 4 GB memory limitation
Windows 2003 Standard has a 4 cpu and 4 GB memory recognition limitation. But when virtualizing a physical server that is running Windows 2003 Standard, would it be possible to allocate more than 4...
View ArticleVMs power on stuck at 95%
Hello virtual people, I have a serious issue with VMware Server 2 on Windows Vista x64. When I try to power on a virtual machine, it stucks at 95% on the "Power On Virtual Machine" task. It...
View ArticleFreeBSD bridging questions
A few things - Should the IP be bound on the windows host (produces "[arp] is using my ip !" in the guest)?What netmask should I use? What gateway should I use? (A vmware one if one exists, or the...
View ArticleFind IPs of currently running vms?
Hi, I'd like to be able to generate on the host a list of the IP addresses of all currently running VMs. Is there a way to do this? I know I can manually look in the /etc/vmware/vmnet*/dhcp.leases...
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