Move VM from AMD to INTEL causes infinite reboot cycle
Hi, I have copied a VM from an AMD based PC (CPU is TK55) to an Intel based PC (CPU is E5200) and when I start it up it constantly reboots after the Loading Windows Files bit with the progress bar...
View ArticleCannot register virtual machine in VMWare Server 2
Hi, all: I've created a virtual machine (OpenSuSE 12.1 32 bit) in VMWare Workstation 7; then I copied it to a VMWare Server 2 host. When I try to register the virtual machine via web, the server...
View ArticleVMtools 8.3.12 + Ubuntu 10.10 -- Install Problems
UBUNTU 10.10Linux Kernel 2.6.35-31-generic-pae Always used standard vmtools not open-vm-tools. We have several ubuntu linux servers that are not upgrading properly after the last ESXi updates to the...
View ArticleVMWare Host agent fail to start 0x40000015 0x781346b4
Hi everybody This post is not to send a question, but an answer ! Host OS : Windows XP SP3 I was using VMWare server 2.0 successfully for a while, when my company's laptop has to endure a rebuild.Since...
View ArticleServer fails to boot when non-system volume is attached
We are currently receiving the following error from ESXi 5 upon booting one virtual machine:Event Details:Type:infoDescription:Message on Metric-Backup on esxi.spartan.local in ha-datacenter: There is...
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...
View ArticleUbuntu 9.04 x64 vmnet0/bridge issues with VMWare Server 2.0
I'm running VMWare Server 2.0.1 on an Optiplex 755 running Ubuntu 9.04 x64. Everything installed OK, and I was able to get a few VM's running and bridged to my internal network via vmnet0 without any...
View ArticleFirefox 3.6 and vmware remote console doesn't open.
After upgrading to firefox 3.6 I can't open up my virtual machine through the browser. I downgraded to 3.5 and it worked. This is the message I get: Cannot access virtual machine console. The...
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 ArticleThe drive cannot find the sector requested.
I have a Blackberry enterprise server, running in Windows 2003 SP2, running on VMWare Server2. When doing a snapshot backup using AppAssure Replay4 application I am getting the following error in the...
View Articlemsg.vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort.rudeunplug:Operation on file
Hi FolksI have a guest operating server that keeps getting the error "msg.vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort.rudeunplug:Operation on file"If I abort and restart it comes up but can then for no reason get the...
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 ArticleVMWare 2.0 USB Scanner not working
I'm running VMWare 2.0 and have an XP Professional operating system. I'm trying to connect a USB Scanner (Canon 2580c) but the virtual machine doesn't seem to recognize it. It shows that the scanner...
View ArticleA connection to the host could not be established
I'm running windows xp on a ubuntu host and it was working fine until I tried to start xp from my desktop shortcut today. I get the error message "a connection to the host could not be...
View ArticleDirect 3d acceleration
I've tried researching this on my own and forgive me if I missed an obvious how-to but I'm attempting to enable direct3d acceleration on vmware server 2 beta. I see experimental support for VMW but...
View ArticlePls Help ; internet access issue from vmware linux guest on Vista host..
Hi All Following is my setup details. Internet connection : Mobile broadband (PPP) Server : windows Vista home premium Vmware server version 2.0 Guest machine : Linux ES 3.0 Pls help to configure...
View ArticleMultiple Vista Guest Are Very Slow
I'm testing the capabilities of running several VM develpoer machines. This would allow me to have remote employees that can VPN/Remote Desktop in and do their work. I set up a Server 2008 box...
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vmware-vmx-stat running all day, hogging up CPU to 100% and creating large...
One of my two VMs that were originally running on Fusion (converter) and is now running on Server 2 (Debian Host all 64B) winds up with a subfolder called stats (none of my other VMs have this) and it...
View ArticleVM freeze causing Host CPU soft lockup
Hi all, after seeing some similar issues as this one unanswered i am trying my luck... We have a Debian Lenny hosting one "big" Windows SBS 2008 Server, and from time to time this VM freezes up....
View Articlewindows 2003 guest with slow network speed
I have vmware server 2 installed on Windows 2008 host. There are a few windows 2003 enterprise guests and they all have poor utilization of my host network. My host has 1Gbps connection and it is...
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