IO throughput issues with VMWare Server 2 and SLES 11 on Host and RedHat on...
I am unsure if this is the best way to measure this but I have VMWare Server 2 installed on an SLES 11 (64-bit) host. This host has 6 GB of ram with 5 GB allocated for VMWare. I have 2 SATA disks...
View ArticleMultiple application developers on one screaming vmware server
I have a group of 10 (with growth expected to 16 or so) developers. I want to give them each a screaming desktop machine (quad core 3.0 gigaherts, 64 bit, 4-8 gig or memory) OR a screaming virtual...
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VMware Server 2 - network connectivity gone after install
Hello I'm running a server with Windows 2003 and recently obtained VMware Server 2 to test out virtual machines. After installing VMware and rebooting, the machine informed me that a service failed to...
View ArticleServer keeps crashing
I have been trying to use Vmware server for a couple of years now and am about to throw in the towel and re-invest in new hardware to get stable servers again so any help would be greatly...
View ArticleIPCOP on vmware
Hi guys, I am trying to install ipcop on my server using vmware. Ipcop requires 2 Seperate network adapters (red-the modem/internet and green- the network) On my server i have 1 onboard network...
View ArticleVMWare Server 2 - Performance/extreme lags
HelloCommunity, I have aproblem with my vmware server 2, because of the bad performance. Its impossibleto work with one guest, the ping is increasing like hell after starting oneguest (<1 to...
View ArticleThis is a 32 bit machine. You cannot create a 64 bit machine here.
I have a Supermicro model number X7DW3 64 bit server with intel xeon cpu e5410 @233 gz quad core . I have installed SUSE 10 sp2 64 bit on it with VMWARE 2.0 (free version). I was able to create a...
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Can't configure VMware Server 2 to use NAT
I have installed VMware Server 2, but cannot configure it to use NAT. I ran the Virtual Network editor as administrator, but still had no luck. Can anyone help? I would be very grateful. Below...
View ArticleNetwork troubles : Unable to update software in Linux VmWare image through...
Hi, I installed VMWare Server and the DebianVirtual Machine. I'm running in bridged mode. While network access seems to be fine via Firefox the Synaptic Package Manager, apt-get and Update Manager are...
View ArticleHost Only network: Unable to ping Fedora Core 11 guest/host
Hi All, On a Fedora Core 11 machine, I have set up a host only network with Fedora Core 11 also as guest. Host (Fedora Core 11):vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:01 inet...
View Articlevmdk file size issue
Hello All, Thanks for looking or replying to this issue. I have a virtual machine with 2 disk allocated as C: 10 GB and D: 20 GB. Virtual machine is not utilizing all allocated space and only 50% of...
View ArticlePIng vm to vm on different hosts - is this impossible?
I have noticed that A VM on one host cannot ping a VM on another host, even though they are connected to the same physical network and on the same subnet. Is this just not possible or is there a way to...
View Articlevmrun - Error: The specified service provider was not found
Hi, i've installed vmware-server 2 on Gentoo 2008.0. Installed Versions: vmware-server 2.0.1.156745-r3 vmware-modules 1.0.0.24 vmware-vix 1.6.2.156745-r2 Everything works fine from a remote machine,...
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Confirmation of firewall configuration please.
Comrades, I have recently moved my dedicated IPCop firewall onto a spare server as a VM under VMWare server 2. Everything seems to be working as required but i have some concerns regarding security of...
View ArticleCannot ping vm host - destination host unreachable
HiI'm a newbie to vmware.I am setting it up for oracle rac usage and am following an official guide etc. I have set up 2 x Linux Servers, both with bridged networking and each with static i.p.'s. Now...
View ArticleConstant NullPointerException: Operation failed. errors in web UI
I just did a fresh install of VMware 2.0 on a single core Athlon server using Fedora Core 9. I have another FC9 server running vmware more stable then this though it still flakes out at times. This...
View ArticleVirtual Disk larger than what was allocated to the guest
Hi I have a 64bit WinXP guest with a 120gb assigned as its logical drive. The virtual disk on the host is currently 155 gigs. The guest OS is only using about 50% of that 120gbs. Thoughts?
View ArticleVMware Server 2.0.1 - Can I Use Image from Mac on an XP box?
VMware server 2.0.1 Mac OSX laptop has working version of Windows XP hosted on it. I created a share on another XP host laptop, and copied the XP image from Mac host to XP host. I now have XP image...
View ArticlePoweredge 2500 server installing XP pro
In order to consolidate space in the server room I want to install VMserver on a Windows 2003 server OS then run three XP pro guest operating systems for remote users.
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...
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