Port 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 ArticleVmware Host Freezes for Minutes when USB External Drive is Attached
Upon plugging in a USB external hard drive to a Vmware host running Server 2.0 the host will hang for approximately 2-3 minutes. Performance manager within Windows (this occurs on both Windows 7 and...
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 ArticleIPv6 connectivity between guest and host
Hi all, Hope I got the right place, I find this forum structure very confusing. Anyway. Situation is this: I have a dual-stack network using router advertisments, putting all systems on the...
View Articlevmware-vdiskmanager.exe Syntax
Hello, I use the vmware Server 2 and I try to expand an diskvolume. The Syntax should be: vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 36GB myDisk.vmdkI tryed vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 100Gb w2k8.vmdk and get 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 ArticleWHS 2011 install
Hi,I am trying to install Windows Home Server 2011. I have mounted the drive containing my install DVD and when I start it it comes up, loads the windows files acts like its starting windows (to start...
View Articlemulticast subscription cannot transfer from the guest OS to host OS?
I have a Linux OS hosted on a XP box. When I start a program receiving UDP packets on a multicast address, like 224.2.2.2, it fails. netstat -g shows this Linux system successfully registers the...
View ArticleShrink image - unwanted spaces?
I created a virtual image of 500GB and install windows 2003 and MS SQL application. At some points the SQL application is using 400GB storage. Which cause the .vmdk images to be 400GB. now I cleared up...
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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 ArticleUnable to delete "lock" files
I've a couple of old "lock" files from a long-dead host backup that I'd like to delete. However, whenever I attempt to delete them I get messages that indicate that I cannot do so. Using a Windows 7...
View ArticlePerformance 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 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 ArticleVMware Server VMs - Network adaptor disconnected - help needed please
Hi everyone! I have previously set-up VMware Server running two virtual machines as testing environments. The VMs are running Windows XP Pro (Service Pack 2). The VMware server itself is sat on...
View ArticleVmrun shutdown of virtual guest not working for me in Server 2
I am trying to use the vmrun command line utility to force the shutdown of a running virtual machine under Vmware Server 2. The host system is Suse 10 and the guest is Wndows Server 2000. I am using...
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 ArticleMap or assign USB devices to virtual machines
Hi, I searched this for a while and didn't find any proper solution. Here is my case : I have three virtual machines, one under Linux, and two under WinXP. I also haveat least three USB devices...
View ArticleSetting up a WIndows network/Domain
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a mini test network (for mcsa training) I have installed a Server 2003 Std as a virtual machine (On a 64 bit vista ultimate machine). I believe when I set the original...
View ArticleHow to access VM from network issue with NATTING , real IP vs Fake IP
Hi, I have below scenario Host: Windows XP Professional - version 2002 service pack 3 - in domain with static IP VM Version 2 with tools installed. VM : Windows 2003 server standard stand alone...
View Articlecan´t access my Virtual Machine from other computer within the network
Hi, I'm new in VMWare and I need help urgently!!! I downloaded VMWare Server, created a VM with CentOS 5.6 and I configured with bridged netowrking. I installed an apache server with tomcat and within...
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