Performance tuning in Server 2.0
Everyone has their favorite list of performance tweaks for the old 1.0 Server product. MemTrimRate, pshare, etc. Has anyone applied these tweaks to the 2.0 product? Do they still help with...
View ArticleBest disk setup for performance
Hi All, I've got a 4x quad core Windows 2003 64bit server with 12 Gig RAM. It's got a dozen or so Virtual Machines set up although they are not all likely to be powered on a t the same time. Even...
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...
View ArticleopenSuSE not a supported Host OS in Server 2.0?? Why?
At least according to the VMware Server User's Guide for 2.0. It was in 1.x....
View Articlemassive problems with duplicate acknowledge pakets
We got massive problems with duplicate acknowledge pakets. All offload-functions on host-NIC(RTL) and the virtual NIC (Intel) are disabled. Host: Win2008 VmwareServer 2.0Guest: Win2008http, ftp e.g....
View ArticleBridged Network not working with wifi card in Linux host
I have installed vmware server 2 in Ubuntu Server 8.04 with both Bridged Network and NAT. Both VM Networks are the default ones and are configured to use my wifi. The problem is that within my VMs, I...
View ArticleError: Insufficient permissions in host operating system on Server 2003 x64 Host
I am running several virtual machines on a Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 server with 8GB of memory and an Intel E5335 Quad Core CPU. Ever since the upgrade to VMWare's free Server 2.0, I cannot get the...
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...
View ArticleWhat hardware information can I get from a guest OS
Hi, My application is using hardware information such as CPU name or chipset information. I have 3 questions.1. Are these different from the ones I can get when I install an OS without virtualization?...
View ArticleProblem with creating Virtual Machine, datastore and adding an existing...
OK, sorry if someone else has already posted this somewhere or the sollution has been posted but I am currently unable to find any such post after a whole day of searching. Anyway, I recently upgraded...
View ArticleCannot add a physical network adapter (Custom network adapter in 1.0.x) to my...
I wanted to setup a guest and assign a custom network card, cause the guest was to be used in a DMZ zone. But it seems that this option have been removed. Am I the only one in need of this facility?...
View ArticleVMware Server 2.0 bridging not working
Hello, To give you some quick background we have been using VMware for about a year or two now as our development environment. It was perfect most of the time but on occasion the network bridging...
View ArticleHost Name and Login Screen?
I have used Server 1 but Server two has me confused. During Installation the program asked me for host name and user name, I have no idea what taht meant so I just hit return. Then when I started...
View ArticleMount a virtual disk?
Did I miss something? I used to down a VM and then mount its virtual disk in order to do a direct backup instead of a .vmdk backup. That doesn't seem to be possible with VMware Server 2? I even...
View ArticleDriver_IRQL_Not_Less_Or_Equal - Minidump attached
I have a Windows Server 2008 64bit Datacenter edition server running in a VMWare Server 2 environment with a RHEL 5 host. I have just set this machine up, and I'm getting a blue screen, seemingly at...
View ArticleVMWare Server 2.0 is still BETA!
Since a few weeks I experienced a nasty bug in VMware 2.0. All my virtual machines starting up for 95% and than stay that way. They run, but thats all. No possibility of managing the VMs through the...
View ArticleCan't login to Web Access after new install
I have done an RPM install of Server 2.0 on a fresh install of CentOS 5.2. After the initial config, when I attempt to connect to http://127.0.0.1:8222, I get the Web Access login. When I login I get...
View ArticleVMWare Server 2.0 Install from .ISO
Help, Anyone I'm using VMWare Server 2.0. I went through the process of creating a guest OS and I'm going through the wizard.I'm at the CD/DVD drive section and I'm attempting to select an .ISO image...
View Articlestarting vmware sever 2
hi sorry for my poor spelliing im a little bit consued with wmvare sever 2, unlike vmware sever 1 i would log on as a local host and that was that. but now i can't open vmware i open it and comes...
View ArticleHow to move Guest OS images?
I need to be able to move my guest OS images from one drive to another, however when I do this VMWare Server is no longer able to recognize them, and I cannot start them up. I have even tried...
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