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Problems with upgrade a virtual machine from version 1.0 to 2.0

kaolsen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:19:07 GMT

I have a old VMware server version 1.p virtual machine which works fine, I have now installed Wmware 2.0 and trying to use my old machine, but with no luck.

accourding to the manual - it should be possiblle in the status area to choose "upgrade machine", but my wmware can not recognise the old machine and there are no upgrade link at all - only a remove link.

In the status field the Virtual Hardware Version only yields : "Unknown virtual machine".

What can I do ?

The Old version is VMware Server 1.0.1 build-29996 and the new version is VMware ServerVersion 2.0.0Build 122956.

VMWare Server 2.02 does not support 64 bit versions of CentOS 5.4

jmattson — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:09:29 GMT

No VMware product supports 64-bit guests on the Intel E5200 CPU.

More than one USB device at the same time

guyrleech — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:56:40 GMT

I've just plugged in two devices (MP3 players) and it allowed me to use them both at the same time (host is OpenSUSE 11.1 x64 with Server 2.0.2).

It's not a feature I use a lot but it works fairly well although you might have problems with high bandwidth devices. Virtual hardware need to be version 7 but the is is the default when using the web console so shouldn't be an issue.

This is with devices plugged into the host itself, if you want devices plugged into the client then you would need to look at running something like VMware View although RDP will pass through client mapped storage devices and printers, just not more "complex" devices, e.g. webcams.

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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CD/DVD ISO mounting

guyrleech — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:26:42 GMT

Unless you have a datastore in Server 2.x point to c:\ then this is why you can't browse to the ISO because it needs to be in a folder contained within a datastore. All storage in Server 2.x is done by means of datastores rather than absolute foldrs as this keeps it host netutral and compatible with the other products like SX and ESXi

I can't remember what the default location for the datastore ("standard") is on Windows hosts but it is contained within the file "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\datastores.xml" so either move the ISO to be within the folder that you chose as the root of the datstore (I usually create a folder called "ISO" and put them in there) or create a new datastore pointing at C:\ and use this datstore when mounting the ISO.

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463 does not run on Ubuntu 9.04 server 64bit

xplicit — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:13:37 GMT

Thanks,you comment points me to the solution:

on the Ubuntu 9.04 server 64 bit

file vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463
vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel
80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for
GNU/Linux 2.0.0, stripped

ldd vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463
not a dynamic executable

on the Ubuntu 9.04 desktop 32 bit

ldd /usr/bin/vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f9d000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e24000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f9e000)

So, it cannot find some libraries.I installed 32bit libraries on the 64-bit host

sudo aptitude install ia32-libs

and now vmware-guest64check runs on the 64-bit version of Ubuntu too

Web interface doesn't load - what's up ?

Doug_ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:32:20 GMT

Another thread with the same issue:

no login-fields at web-service, just blank
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1422899

Windows 7

virshu — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:52:22 GMT

10 months later, Windows 7 is now GA, but I still have the same problem. I am running VMWare Server 2.0.2 on a Vista 64bit host. I have Win2003, Win2008, Win2008R2, Fedora 10 and 11 (not all at the same time :D) . Anyway, Windows 7 installation ran without any problems. There are no visible errors when using; however, every few minutes the guest just freezes. I can see some suspicious messages in the log.

Anyway, I gave up... I was building it as a development machine; so I just rebuilt it as another Win2008R2. I am not even sure if Windows 7 as client is supported... it isn't in the list of OSes when I create a new VM...

Can't run a 64-bit guest on VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64

wila — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:34:45 GMT

Hi,

Even if the CPU is 64 bits capable and running a 64 bits host OS, you still need to enable the VT-extensions in the BIOS and then cold boot your server.
With cold boot I mean, take the power off your server and reboot it, just a plain restart isn't enough to change this setting.
For more info on this see: D-8978

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Mouse only in 640x480

ffrydrych — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:48:45 GMT

Found this from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1298781

It worked for me.

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I found a post in another forum, this works for me now:
Added these lines to my /usr/bin/firefox
export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
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All virtual machines do not progress beyond 95% power on

skytrench — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:57:31 GMT

I had this problem running vmserver 2 on a fedora9 machine. I'm not sure the fix applies to Vista, since it is the vmware-config.pl file that has a problem, resulting in no displaydevices vmon and freezing at 95%....very frustrating! Solution was to comment out the following lines in vmware-config.pl (before it is run obviously). The 3 red # need to be inserted (near line 4810).

Configuration related to the monitor

sub configure_mon {
if (configure_module('vmmon') eq 'no') {
module_error();
}

# if (is_dev_dynamic() eq 'yes') {
# Either the devfs" or "udev" filesystem is mounted on the "/dev" directory,
# so the "/dev/vmmon" block device file is magically created/removed when the
# "vmmon" module is loaded/unloaded (was bug 15571 and 72114)
# } else {
configure_dev('/dev/vmmon', 10, 165, 1);
# }
}

Good luck!

is the vdiskmanager-bug fixed in VMserver 2.0.2 ?

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:34:27 GMT

For any licence police watching ...

In case they are listening .. we are trying to find workarounds for known bugs here - so just shut up or fix them yourself

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Suspend script for Linux?

guyrleech — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:09:33 GMT

This is what I use:

 vmrun -T server -u vmware -p vmware -h https://127.0.0.1:8333/sdk list | fgrep -v "Total running VMs" | while read LINE
 do
             echo Suspending $LINE ...
             vmrun -T server -u vmware -p vmware -h https://127.0.0.1:8333/sdk suspend "$LINE"
 done

I've created a local account "vmware" with limited OS and VMware Server permissions to mitigate having to leave it unencrypted in scripts.

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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vmserver 2.02-203138 and 2x Xeon X5570

ophth1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:53:36 GMT

hi!
We've installed vmserver2 onto a windows 2008 enterprise Server R2 with 2x Xeon CPU X5570 and 48 GB RAM.
Installation showed no problem. However, looking in the VMserver interface, only 1 Xeon CPU and only 8 cores are listed!
Does anyone has an idea how to make vmserver find the other xeon cpu?
Thanks!!!!

p.s.: ESXi is not an option for different reasons at our machine...

VMWare Server 1 - I deleted the snapshot, now getting error

ShawnG101 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:44:09 GMT

After realizing the mistake, I did attempt to edit the .VMSN file
and changed the
scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"
to
scsi0:1.present = "FALSE"

this does start the guest VM, however, the D drive of the guest is no more available.

vmware server2 not working with kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r8

sk8harddiefast — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:38:52 GMT

george@gentoo bin # ./vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines failed
Stopping VMware management services:
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
VMware Server Host Agent failed
Stopping VMware services:
VMware Authentication Daemon done
Virtual machine monitor done

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? yes yes

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8'

WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
from include/linux/module.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_module.h:27,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:26:
include/linux/mmzone.h:18:26: error: linux/bounds.h: No such file or directory
include/linux/mmzone.h:256:5: warning: "MAX_NR_ZONES" is not defined
In file included from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
from include/linux/module.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_module.h:27,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:26:
include/linux/mmzone.h:290: error: 'MAX_NR_ZONES' undeclared here (not in a function)
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:31:
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'
include/linux/poll.h:67: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_page.h:23,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:33:
include/linux/mm.h:446:63: warning: "NR_PAGEFLAGS" is not defined
include/linux/mm.h:494:62: warning: "NR_PAGEFLAGS" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU':
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriver_Ioctl':
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'euid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'egid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only~~ Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-products" and
"http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-tools".

Execution aborted.

vmware server2 not working with kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r8

sk8harddiefast — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:35:35 GMT

The System Very slow

nilsonchagas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:34:57 GMT

I restart de server. Always ok, tomorrow morning?? I dont know.

This week, I needed restart de vms everyday. Slow, the shared directory go on, etc.

Lost my ability to connect to my VM

JMNorris — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:10:05 GMT

I finally got mine fixed. I did the following. I don't know how much was actually necessary.

1. Renamed my virtual machine directory to save it as a backup. I called it C:\Virtual Machines Backup .

2. Reinstalled VM Server. The following procedure will cause your machine to forget its license information, so be sure you locate your license key before following it. A. I first uninstalled VM server. B. I used regedit to remove HKEY_CURENT_USER\Software\VMWare,Inc. and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\VMWare,Inc. BE SURE to back up the registry (from regedit: File->Export) before messing with it. C. I also deleted the folder
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\VMware . (Make sure you substitute your real username for USERNAME.) D. Reboot. E. I ran CCleaner ( http://www.ccleaner.com/ ). Select the Registry item al the left, press "Scan for issues", and finally "Fix selected issues ...". BE SURE to let the program make a backup of the registry. F. Install a fresh copy of VMServer.

3. Copied (not moved--I wanted to be safe) My VM subdirectory ( something like C:\Virtual Machines Backup\Ubuntu ) to the real VM directory (ending up with something like C:\Virtual Machines\Ubuntu ).

4. Ran Start->VMWare->VMWare Server->VMWare Server Home Page. I don't remember exactly what happened next. VMWare Server may have recognized the presence of an unregistered VM. Or I may have had to do something to force VMWare Server to recognize the VM. At any rate, it asked me whether this VM was copied or moved. Once you get there, you are on the right track. Say the VM was copied and finish the registration process.

5. Now that it was working, I deleted the backup VM at C:\Virtual Machines Backup\Ubuntu .

I may not have had to do ALL of that to get things to work. The following simpler procedure may have sufficed.

1. Step 1 above EXCEPT make sure that you have BOTH an empty C:\Virtual Machines\ AND C:\Virtual Machines Backup with your VM's as subdirectories.

2. Use Start->VMWare->VMWare Server->VMWare Server Home Page to remove (deregister) your VM (which now cannot be found). Then sign out.

3. Continue with Steps 3, 4, and 5 above.

Like I said, I don't know whether this would have been enough.

Good luck!

VM server 2.0 64bit windows host

mpg187 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:58:45 GMT

There isn't already one?

What section should I make it in?

Unable to log in

janlib — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:43:27 GMT

Hi,

You should use your system user(root) and password not community credentials.

J.

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Data1.cab corrupt on install

fsala1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:29:43 GMT

I had the same problem with VMware 2 and W2003.
The solution for this problem is:

Click Start -> Control Panel
Open Administrative Tools
Open Local Security Settings
Click Software Restriction Policies
If no software restrictions are defined, right click the Software Restriction Policies node and select New Software Restriction Policy
Double click Enforcement
Select "All users except local administrators"
Click OK
Reboot the machine

VMware Server 2.0.2 don't recognize 2nd QuadCore CPU

-Mathias- — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:51:01 GMT

Yes of course.

And the OS shows 2 CPU with 16 cores (all together).

Mathias

Virtual hardware upgrade - server 1 to server 2 - performance

NetzenSolutions — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:12:20 GMT

Thanks Guys,

I will stick with the V1 hardware then... I think it's version 4, the new is version 7.

I can't really see any benifit to changing it, based on the new features, reason I asked as that if it was much faster to run the new hardware I would of made the switch.

Thanks Again!

best practice for duplicating a virtual machine in VMWare Server?

guyrleech — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:26:52 GMT

If its Windows then my "templates" are not in a domain, on DHCP and Sysprep'd although it appears they don't need to be any more - http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx

I also add the following to my template .vmx files so that they automatically create new UUIDs rather than sitting their with the question about being copied or moved:

uuid.action = "create"

So for a new VM, I just use the host OS to create a new folder in my datastore, copy the template files in and then add it to the datastore as per the attached screenshot (or via browsing the datastore in the VI/vSphere client, right clicking on the .vmx and selecting to add to inventory).

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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No SSH possible between guest and LAN

AWo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:00:58 GMT

Check that the ssh client and server are using the same ssh protocol version.

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CentOS 5.4 Glibc version 2.5-34.x86_64 - VMWare Server 2.0.2 Managment Console Fails to Load

NetzenSolutions — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:12:16 GMT

Hi Guys,

I was planning on upgrading to centos 5.4 from 5.3 and read the release
notes which said to hold back glibc as it causes vmware-hostd to crash... I did
this before upgrading and also did a Google search which pointed me to this
blog post http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=844

I did the upgrade to CentOS 5.4 and installed VMWare Server 2.0.2, all
was well everything was working as it should be.

Two days later (this morning), I have attempted to login to the VMWare Management
Console, and it is failing to work... It mostly says "Loading..." in
the browser status and nothing more now it seems to make it to the login screen
and hang after I have entered the credentials.

All the VM's are still running at the moment, has anyone seen this
problem before?

Ok it just logged in... I have done nothing different apart from use the IP
this time, which I have done before about 15 times, yet this time it has logged
in.

So basically it seems like vmware-hostd is flaky on CentOS 5.4 even if glibc
is not upgraded.

I would appreciate your comments / feedback on this.

Thanks

KJS

memory allocation and performance

Antoninio — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:59:04 GMT

Hi,

I am experiencing some wierd memory behavior.

I have a Linux host 64bit (RHEL 5.3), 8GB RAM, Intel Dual Core 3GHz. VMWare Server 2.0.1.

I'm running 4 vms which totalize 7172MB of RAM configuration (3076+2560+1024+512). Reserved Memory is set to 7200.

Now, the wierd behavior is that I can see the correct amount of memory
from inside the vm, but from the host, top gives me (in bold the total
virtual memory per process) :
4220 root 5 -10 1956m 108m 94m S 13.3 1.4 269:24.61 vmware-vmx (3076MB vm)
4806 root 5 -10 1961m 174m 152m S 7.0 2.2 643:56.50 vmware-vmx (2560MB vm)
8730 root 5 -10 524m 211m 198m S 6.7 2.6 10:42.14 vmware-vmx (512MB vm)
4512 root 5 -10 1432m 1.0g 1.0g S 6.0 13.2 136:52.51 vmware-vmx (1024MB vm)

I have only partial memory
allocation while a want a total allocation from the beginning. This leads to very very poor performance after some time. Top also informs me that it is used a lot for io time wait :
Cpu(s): 1.2%us, 8.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.0%id, 69.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st

memory used and allocated inside the vm is higher than 1956MB, I have more than 2.5GB inside the guest. Here is the result of "free" in the 3GB linux guest :

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3107820 2918648 189172 0 110244 381580
-/+ buffers/cache: 2426824 680996
Swap: 2096440 76 2096364

For the 2 first vm I should have more than that amount of memory....

I would appreciate any feedback on similiar issue or explaination/solution about that.

Does anyone has been able to build guests with more than 2GB? This could help me to know if I'm doing something wrong.

Regards

Cannnot access vmware server web access

NetzenSolutions — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:35:06 GMT

This is a bug with Glibc version found in CentOS 5.4, I seem to be getting the same problem on CentOS 5.4 even though I held back Glibc during the upgrade to CentOS 5.4 from 5.3

For more infor on the problem please see... http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=844

HTH

Inaccessible Virtual Machine in Server2 on encrypted disk

rajeshkanattu — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:43:19 GMT

Hi All,

This is a know issue as per VMWare..http://www.vmware.com/support/server2/doc/releasenotes_vmserver2.html, check the 10th bullet point. You can try the workaround suggested by VMWare.. this works for me..

thank you
Rajesh

VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

tnine — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:35:20 GMT

Hi all,

I've run into this problem as well. However I was able to resolve it without the need to patch 2.0.2, or change system wide rpm files. I was able to only modify the .so files that vmware needs to run. I have posted instructions in this forum post on CentOS.

https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=23365&start=0#forumpost91494

Thanks to everyone for pointing out the original posts in the centos bug trackers, hopefully this will help someone else who gets stuck.

Random machine shutdown

Antoninio — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:36:06 GMT

Hi,

Well VMWS2 seems not to be stable on Centos 5.4... Some have found solutions but I bet they have quite a tunned system to get it work. Personally, I downgraded from RHEL5.4 to RHEL 5.3 because it was always crashing.

Did you look in your syslog. It is possible to have sometimes oom errors that leads to oomkiller killing the most memory consumming process (like a virtual machine )

vmware-hostd crashes repeatedly after upgrade to RHEL 5.4

BTtech — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:14:08 GMT

An update to the performance issues is that things have settled down. Hosts and guests are showing roughly the same performance (in the mid-term) as before. Having kept a close eye on these systems overnight and throughout today, if I see no further concerns I will be implementing the workaround on the rest of my hosts whether they have exhibited the issue or not.

Thanks!

Vmware Server 2.0.2 Memory Consumption

Antoninio — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:56:52 GMT

Hi,

I am experiencing some wierd memory behavior also but not the same as yours. I think it still might be related so I will respond here

I have a Linux host 64bit, 8GB RAM, Intel Dual Core 3GHz. VMWare Server 2.0.1.

I'm running 4 vms which totalize 7172MB of RAM configuration (3076+2560+1024+512). Reserved Memory is set to 7200.

Now, the wierd behavior is that I can see the correct amount of memory from inside the vm, but from the host, top gives me (in bold the total virtual memory per process) :
4220 root 5 -10 1956m 108m 94m S 13.3 1.4 269:24.61 vmware-vmx (3076MB vm)
4806 root 5 -10 1961m 174m 152m S 7.0 2.2 643:56.50 vmware-vmx (2560MB vm)
8730 root 5 -10 524m 211m 198m S 6.7 2.6 10:42.14 vmware-vmx (512MB vm)
4512 root 5 -10 1432m 1.0g 1.0g S 6.0 13.2 136:52.51 vmware-vmx (1024MB vm)

So my issue is kind of the opposite of yours, you have all the memory allocated while you don't want to but I have only partial memory allocation while a want a total allocation from the beginning.

For the 2 first vm I should have more than that amount of memory....

I would appreciate any feedback on similiar issue or explaination/solution about that.

Regards

VMware Server 2.0 does not see 8 cores on Intel i7, only 4

-Mathias- — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:20:10 GMT

Add me to the list,

with 2 Intel XEON 5520 quadcore CPUs and active hyperthreading.

SLES 11 shows 2 CPU and 16 cores.

VMware 2.0.2 Server shows 1 CPU 8 cores only

Mathias

VMware Server 2.0 processor limitation, quad-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504

-Mathias- — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:06:51 GMT

Same problem here.

IBM Server with Intel Xeon E5520.
2 QuadCore CPUs with hyperthreading active.

SLES 11 shows 2 CPU with 16 cores.

VMware server 2.0.2 shows 1 CPU with 8 cores

Mathias

User can not connect to VMware-Servers

edv_admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:36:59 GMT

Hello,

here fist some technical details:

Server: CentOS 5.2 - 64-bit

Within CentOS VMware Server 2.0.1 -> 1. NT-4 Server for Domain 2. Ubuntu-Server for database 3. DNS-Ubuntu-Server
On CentOS itself SAMBA is installed

Clients: WinXP Pro

First of all: Everything here is working fine but:

Two users should have the permission to restart/reset/shutdown the 3 Servers running in VMware.

Therefore I created a new profil/role and gave the permissions restart/shutdown and reset.

VMware Console is installed on the 2 clients.

LogOn with the root-user from the clients to the 3 Servers works fine but not with the 2 users and I have no idea why... Password and/or name are wrong it says....

I guess it is a problem with the name and/or password but I have no idea why that is and how to solve that problem. There is no separate user/password file for WMware isn't it? I tried with the NT-Logons which also works for the Samba files fine. Is that the problem somehow? Or is it a bug?

Can anybody pls help me?

Thanks a lot!

Mutiple nics on host assign to specific virtual machine

AWo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:24:31 GMT

You need to create another bridge. Install the new NIC and then run the virtual network editor (Programs >
VMware Server > Manage Virtual Networks) to add it as a bridge.
Then you can configure each guest to use one of these bridges.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmserver2.pdf
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Error: Register Virtiual Machine

wynnep09 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:50:56 GMT

Hi,

I have recently upgraded Server 1.0 to Version 2.0 (latest download from the site). My Virtual machines will power up and appear to function without issue but I am seeing errors when I start the host. Details are as follows:

Task ID: Folder.registerVm
Target: vm
Status: Error
Triggered At: 11/18/09
Triggered by: Administrator
Completed At: 11/18/09

Description:
Adds an existing Virtual Machine to the folder

Error:
The object or item referred to could not be found.

Any help with clearing this errors would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
Paul.

vmware tools problems

SwineFlu — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:39:29 GMT

Here I sit a year later experiencing the same unbelievably irritating problem.

VMWare, what twilight zone do you live in that it is acceptable to break someone's SQL Server with this most idiotic deletion of a critical file.

The goodwill you have chosen to squander with me means that I won't be recommending your rubbish products to others. Is that what you want when the world economy is in a shambles and Microsoft and Citrix are biting hard into your market share?

I am appalled that this has not been fixed and that you continue to break your customer's servers. Someone deserves a thoroughly good backside-kicking session over this.

Thanks to those that answered this post and came up with the solution.

No thanks to VMWare for their ineptitude.

Failed to allocate main memory on a root NFS Linux host

agapelogos — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:07:06 GMT

I found this to work. Create a ramdisk (tmpfs) and mount it in the nfs /tmp folder.

MOUNTPOINT=/tmp/vmware-$USER
mkdir -p $MOUNTPOINT
sudo mount -t tmpfs -o mode=0700 tmpfs $MOUNTPOINT
sudo chown $USER $MOUNTPOINT

You could put this in a launcher script and configure sudo to run the launcher script with no password.

VMware Server 2 Networking

scotty p — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:27:57 GMT

Wow! That was it. I can't believe I had to restart the services. Once I did, I was able to assign the NIC to the other physical NICs.
Thanks a lot.

Cannot eject CD

UberTekGfx — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:23:55 GMT

OK..I thinkI have it figured out...

I edited the VM settings as shown in the attached screen shot. Basically I changed the CD/DVD drive to "Host Media" and to "Access the drive directly". I then rebooted the Host OS and now the CD/DVD drive ejects while the Client VM is running and accessing the inserted CD/DVD.

Thanks to all who responded with their diag idea.

BTW: If this issue crops up again I'll be sure to check if "imapi.sys" is running in the guest and see if killing it allows me to eject.

VMware tools doesn't compile in ubuntu 9.10

WebAngel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:25:37 GMT

Hi all,

using VMWare Server 2.0.1 on a Linux VM it makes available Tools 7.7.5.

While using a Ubuntu 9.10 as guest, it's impossible to build the vmware tools module for a list of compilation error (likes constants redefined and so on).

Anyone knows if there is a Workaround to gain the tools working? The vm seems to be OK, what i need is the cut and paste from the remote plugin...

Thanks in advance

AMD PCNet adapter not recognised under Windows 7

iburnell — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:30:23 GMT

Yes, I see where you're coming from Guy. Obviously this issue wouldn't occur in the real world only in VM

The create Virtual machine wizard was created chosing the XP O/S because it (was) running Windows XP . Then a new O/S is installed into that VM, so yes at the end of the day you've chosen a XP O/S for virtual but install Windows 7 into it. In fact that's exactly what I did when I was trying to resolve the issue. I created new VMs - one for Vista then installed Win7 - it worked. Then created new VM with the XP O/S choice (AMD PCnet card) and then again did a new install of Win 7 and it failed which is how I determined the error with the AMD network card type

Windows 7 Guest: A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing

Jim5529 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:14:39 GMT

I tried the same thing buy switching between the ISO and a burned image on a dvd. I just happened to still have the RC Version of Windows 7 as a ISO file. So at the point of the error I switched from using the RTM version to the RC version and the install completed.

Windows 7 ultimiate 64 bit as guest on Server 2003 host

TobiasKracht — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:13:56 GMT

As for me works perfectly. As VM is fully supported in Workstation 7.

StarWind Software R&D
http://www.starwindsoftware.com

VM SERVER 2.02 on 32 bit Vista-Hostd -WebGui Not working-XML File missing-Files in the hostd folder missing

MYVN123 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:51:56 GMT

Hello,
I have cleaned up entire VMWARE folder, uninstalled and re-installed multiple time, few strange things happen on Vista ( including cleaning registry)
1. No files in Hostd folders ?
2. I have not seen the vmware account that is generally created on XP install either.
3. VI client did not fix the issue either.
With no other flavor of vmware working on desktop OS ( atleast current versions of MS OS vista , this is a major blow)
It's dissapointing for vmware not to provide a stable working version of this product as this is primary means of learning vm for lots of end users, system admin, novice, dba's etc.
Any bad experiance with this server install will turn off users towards vmware they may eventually recommend to thier company.
Does the vmserver or new ESXi4 ( free version) work on desktop os or consumer CPU ? how is the windows 7 support ?

Host win-vista, guest Winxp, filesharing and internert sharing probs

guyrleech — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:58:07 GMT

If you have bridged or NAT networking in the guest then that should mean you can get internet access from the guest although it will depend a little on how the guest connects to the internet. Using NAT maybe easier as long as you don't want any unsolicited incoming traffic to the VM (such as SMB/CIFS file shares).

To share files from the host to the guest, just use regular file sharing (e.g. C$) but make sure that there is an exception in the windows firewall, or any other firewall/security product you are using, for file sharing. Try via IP address if it doesn't work by name. If you are using NAT networking in the guest then use the IP address of the host that is on the NAT network (probably the IP address for vmnet8 in from ipconfig on the host).

If you are still having problems, please post more details of how your host and guest are connected/configured.

The user guide is also a great reference - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmserver2.pdf

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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how to disable snapshotting feature on host/per vm?

wila — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:03:00 GMT

Hi,

I haven't tried myself, but it seems you are looking for:

snapshot.disabled = "True"

See also:
http://www.sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-advanced.html#snapshot

Alternatively, you can also restrict this option on a per user bases.
From the administration menu in the web UI and then use manage roles.

Hope this helps,

--
Wil
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VI-Toolkit & scripts wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com

Vmware Server 2.0.1 - install license after the fact.

wila — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:11:03 GMT

Hi George,

o There used to be a delay on power up so you can actually read everything that flashes on the screen. I had used this to choose to upgrade the virtual bios of my VMs. This is gone now I think.

The functionality is still there, but it looks indeed that it isn't in the GUI at this moment.
You can always add it by hand to the vmx file after you have powered down your VM.
Add the line:

bios.bootDelay = "5000"

for a 5 second delay.

o I used to attach a real hard drive to my VMs but that seems to have disappeared as well. I needed this because a system I had that died, leaving a functional hard drive with important data on it. I just installed the hard drive and attached it to the VM and booted the whole hard drive.

I'm afraid that you are correct on this one. Running a VM via RDM mappings is indeed removed in version 2.
It is still part of VMware workstation, but I'm not sure if that is the answer you are waiting for.

Thanks MUCHLY for your help!

You are welcome, I'm glad to hear my feedback was useful for you.

--
Wil
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VI-Toolkit & scripts wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com

vmware-guestd high system cpu usage

ewwhite — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:44:52 GMT

Was this resolved with version 2.02 of vmware server?

Are backups better using "suspend" or "snapshot"? Win 2008 x64 host.

emcnally — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:41:44 GMT

-Host is Running 2.0.2 on Windows 2008 x64.
-Guest is Windows 2008 x32 with SQL Express 2005.
-Using Windows Server Backup (VSS volume backup) of host, backup scheduling and options controlled by Backup Assist.
-All disks are direct attached to host

I have been reading the forums and understand the vmware vss writer does not support x64 hosts yet. The SQL database must be protected properly.

I am looking at two options for a consistent backup, both would be activated by a script at the start and end of the backup job.

Option 1 (keeps machine live): use vmrun to make a snapshot at the start of the backup then to delete the snapshot at the end of the backup. My understanding is snapshots hurt performance, so I'll only have it in place during the backup. Also my understanding is a snapshot will capture the virtual machine's system memory to disk, which will be copied by the host backup, ensuring a consistent backup of MS-SQL.

example:  
vmrun.exe -T server -h https://srvaps.domain.com:8333/sdk -u domain\administrator -p **** snapshot "[standard] SRVPTOS\SRVPTOS.vmx" vsssnap
then on completion of the backup:
vmrun.exe -T server -h https://srvaps.domain.com:8333/sdk -u domain\administrator -p **** deletesnapshot "[standard] SRVPTOS\SRVPTOS.vmx" vsssnap

Option 2: Use vmrun to do a soft suspend of the VM before the backup and the to resume it at completion. Less desirable method because the machine is down during backup, but this seems to be the method I have been seeing on these forums.

 example:  
vmrun.exe -T server -h https://srvaps.domain.com:8333/sdk -u domain\administrator -p **** suspend "[standard] SRVPTOS\SRVPTOS.vmx" soft

I wonder if I am missing something when I think snapshot would be better? Any reason to prefer suspend over snapshot style backups? Would either of these present hidden problems for the SQL consistency?

Kind of new to anything other than VMWare workstation, thanks for any advice!

VMware Server 2.0.2 incompatable with Red Hat 5.4

dstoykov — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:21:13 GMT

Maybe you've hit this:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884

Try downgrading glibc, this worked for me.

weird screen corruption vmware server 2.0.2

tonyblackwell — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:20:24 GMT

Yes, the problem is in the guest window, running MS win 2000 professional edition. Yes, the current version of vmware tools is installed in it.

Everything behaves normally if I work in the upper left quarter of the guest window, but is corrupted as noted everywhere else - makes it completely unusable.
Thanks for your interest - we'd really like to get this working!
Tony

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Windows 7 - UI Stopped Working

voelkeml — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:19:17 GMT

Hi,

I just installed VMWare Server 2.0.2 on a Windows 7 Professional 32bit and got exactly the same problem. Is anyone out there with a solution?

Greetings,

Michael.

VMWARE SERVER WEB on Debian Lenny

jchatham — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:56:32 GMT

A quick google search turns up: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=803249#2 - which appears to answer your question exactly.

You could also use something like "sudo vmware-vim-cmd -U USERNAME vmsvc/power.on VMIDNUMBER" - to figure out the vm id number, run "sudo vmware-vim-cmd -U USERNAME vmsvc/getallvms".

Or you could use vmrun in a script, but I'd avoid that one since it requires you to include the password in the script.

Vmware Server 2.0.2 does not work with ubuntu 9.10 - kernel 2.6.31-14

jchatham — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:09:57 GMT

I'm guessing your instability is the same vmware-hostd crash issue I saw; I posted a potential solution here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/242151?tstart=0

The symptoms of a vmware-hostd crash are pretty straight forward: The VI web access interface, after a few operations, goes down and won't come back up without a /etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt start.

If this isn't the instability you're seeing, could we get more information on exactly what is failing for you?

Not able to download Vmware server 2

jssneeraj0107 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:14:27 GMT

Hi
I am trying to download vmware server2 via dap. I am getting following error " Authentication required ( download2.vmware.com ) ".

Kindly suggest.

Sincere Regards,
Neeraj

VMWare Server2 HOst and Guest 64Bit Server 2008

tsaenger127 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:25:13 GMT

Hello Community,

at the moment i found the solution.

I had to enable the VT-Option in my Bios.

After that, i can install my Hostsystem.

Thanks for help

Tobias

Which host is best to host VMware Server

guyrleech — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:43:02 GMT

I've used OpenSUSE for years, currently on 11.1 x64, and found it to be great but I have heard, on this community, that it won't run on 11.2 because of the newer kernel. There also seem to be some issues, again reported in this community, on x64 Windows hosts where VMs stick at 95% when starting. You can run x64 guests on a 32 bit Server 2.x installation as long as the host's chipset is x64 compatible.

I'd then stick with what you are most knowledgeable on and feel most comfortable maintaining and supporting.

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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Install VM in VMware Server

guyrleech — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:28:36 GMT

Have you looked at the user's guide - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmserver2.pdf - it's a mine of information?

Have you got as far as logging on to the web interface to manage it - use an administrative account with non-blank password by pointing a web browser at https://yourserver:8333 and watching out for self-signed certificates? Once in there is it fairly easy to create a new VM, add some media (physical CD/DVD or ISO image) to it and boot it so it installs, once you have installed the remote console plugin on the machine you are doing the management from so you can see the console of the VM.

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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vmware 2.0.2,configure network is not showing

guyrleech — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:19:43 GMT

For the host or the guest? For the host, run vmnetcfg.exe, as an administrator, and you will need to restart the VMware Host Agent service for the changes you make to take effect. For the guest, highlight the VM in the left pane of the web interface and you should be able to see the existing NICs in the middle, and change them, or add new ones from the "Add Hardware" option on the right hand side.

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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VMWare server 2.0.2 failed to start up on Suse Linux ES 10 64-bit on Intel.

davidyuz — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:29:24 GMT

Hi all, I recently installed VMware server 2.0.2 on Suse Linux ES 10 Intel 64-bit. The installation went fine and I ran vmware-config.pl script as instructed. That part ran successfully and VMWare server started up fine. The only problem is that if I rebooted the machine, it would fail to start up again. It keeps saying to run vmware-config.pl script again as it was not configured correctly. If I run the script again manually, it starts up. As long as I don't reboot the machine, it would keep running.

Anyone runs into this issue and how to resolve it? Please advise. Thanks.

David.

Problema con tarjeta de red en Maquina virtual

rtule — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:40:04 GMT

que tal espero me puedan ayudar tengo un vmware server 2.02 y tengo dos maquinas virtuales instaladas una de ellas funciona a la perfección la otra simplemente no se conecta a red reconoce todo pero le doy un ping a otro equipo y no puedo salir estoy usando bridge para la conexion

alguien que me pueda dar un tip

Upgrading from VMServer 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 on Windows

VMServerNewby — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:46:51 GMT

Sorry it took me a while to get back to this thread. I'm using Windows 2003 SP2 server. Was hoping someone with the same OS had tried it.

Sure would be nice if VMWare would provide documentation on these topics.

VMware Host Agent Not starting when server is rebooted

h0ward — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:10:41 GMT

I have encountered the same problem. The event log reported "The service did not respond to the start of control request in a timely fashion." So i think this is a timing issue during boot up.

My fix is to set the Recovery mode in service.msc: First failure to "Restart the Service", and Restart service after 1 minutes. That seems to give the computer enough time to boot up to a point where the VMware Host Agent can start normally.

Netware guest won't shutdown with vmrun

averylarry — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:02:06 GMT

I'm using vmrun to shutdown my guests for backup purposes. I recently installed a new 2.0.2 server and moved a few guests onto it from an old 1.0.6 server.

vmrun stop "[standard] guest.vmx" soft

works fine with my windows guests. The Netware guest does nothing. I can see the attempt scroll by in the web console (no errors), but the vmrun command sits there for a very (I've waited 30 minutes) long time and does nothing. The guest itself does not seem to do anything. I've tried:

vmrun stop "[standard] guest.vmx" hard

with the exact same results. I upgraded the vmtools (which are running) with no change in behavior. The only thing I haven't tried is upgrading the hardware version -- but I'm very reluctant to try that since the backup plan if the host has problems is to use the old (but still running) 1.0.6 server, so I want to leave the hardware version compatible with the older server platform (I can always reinstall vmtools).

Infrastructure Web access login disappears

kvwake — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:56:09 GMT

This thread is a little old, but I'm finding the same errors above while using vmware server 2.02 on a rhel5.3 system. Still digging through logs to try and find out what's causing vmware-mgmt to keep going down. At random times vmware-hostd listening on 8333 will exit; restarting the service brings everything back up. Seems to happen more often when using the webAccess/tomcat page. Using the console as stand-alone with the web browser closed doesn't seem to increase the rate of failure. Having a VM running or having all VMs stopped doesn't seem to change the failure rate. Anyone else finding this?

Upgrade to Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

codework — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:13:49 GMT

I am currently running VMware Server 2.0 on my Vista machine (Q6600 @ 2.40GHz / 4GB). Sometimes, my machine gets really laggy when I have more than 2 Vmwares turned on.

I will be upgrading to Windows 7 very shortly.

My question is, should I upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit? I want to be able to add more RAM to the machine to boost the performance. If I upgrade to WIndows 7 64-bit, I will most likely add 4GB of RAM to make it 8GB.

Do you think this will increase the performance of my VMware Server?

Let me know your suggestions. Thanks.

VMware consol looses focus

phd1234 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:47:35 GMT

Hi,

I have the same problem using vmware server 2.0.2. host OS: Ubuntu 9.10 64bit with kernel 2.6.31. Guest OSes: SUSE, Debian, Gentoo, Windows 7 Trial.

Mouse loses focus as soon as I leave the upper left area of appr.. 640x480pixel. This is also the same bug as described in thread "Mouse only in 640x480" http://communities.vmware.com/message/1385500#1385500

Is there any news on this bug?

If there is any further info required to solve this issue don't hesitate to ask.

regards,

Patrick

Windows 7 64bit NAT Broken

PipeSmokingMario — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:30:32 GMT

i am having this problem too on w2k8r2,
i tried the *NdisDeviceType =1, but NAT doesnt run ....

Mario

Guest frozen after Windows 7 64 bit host resume from sleep

tazzydemon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:12:05 GMT

Dear All

I am now running Server 2 on RTM Windows7 64bit host. This is on an AMD powered HP laptop as a development box. It has 4g of ram.

I have the customary problem of NAT not working, but more annoyingly when I put the host to sleep and then resume (I have it set to semi hibernate so it goes to full hibernate after a few hours) the Centos 5.4 guest I have running is frozen and cannot be accessed in any way. It requires a restart.

More amazingly, I restored my original Vista 32 bit box (with VMware on it which as you might imaging glugged things up for a while!) to a Virtual Machine on the same host. This guest comes out of host sleep fully working.

Any ideas?

HostOnly not Working with Debian as Host and Guest

rmarsac — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:01:58 GMT

Hi!

I'm having a trouble trying to communicate my Guest VM and my Host via HostOnly networking, this is the scenario:

Host: Debian 5 Lenny with VMware Server 2

Making an ifconfig:

vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:01
inet addr:192.168.85.1 Bcast:192.168.85.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:266553 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2513 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Routing tables:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
172.16.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.85.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1
192.168.119.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8
default 172.16.0.100 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

Guest VM: Debian 4 Etch with 2 network interfaces (eth0 is Bridged, eth1 is HostOnly):

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:C4:C0:38
inet addr:172.16.0.2 Bcast:172.26.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fec4:c038/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4493707 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5434191 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1661658055 (1.5 GiB) TX bytes:4849996319 (4.5 GiB)
Base address:0x2000 Memory:d8940000-d8960000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:C4:C0:42
inet addr:192.168.85.129 Bcast:192.168.85.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fec4:c042/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:249643 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:152016 (148.4 KiB) TX bytes:21350070 (20.3 MiB)
Base address:0x2040 Memory:d8960000-d8980000

Typing route:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
172.16.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.85.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
default 172.16.0.100 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

If I try to launch a ping from de guest VM, this is what I get:

# ping 192.168.85.1
PING 192.168.85.1 (192.168.85.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.85.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4003ms

Pinging the Guest from the Host, this is what I get:

# ping 192.168.85.129
PING 192.168.85.129 (192.168.85.129) 56(84) bytes of data.
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
--- 192.168.85.129 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3016ms

I've googled but I've found just nothing. I don't know where is the problem. Both Host and GuestVM have the Linux Firewall disabled.

Could you, please, post me any idea?

Thank you for your time!!

Rod.

damaged .vmdk file

calaver4 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:51:29 GMT

My PC had problems with RAID 5 disks array, now I've a damaged .vmdk file that cannot be started with VMware server neither mounted with vmware-mount. Are there any procedures or tools to repair the .vmdk file?

When I try to add this damaged virtual machine to VMware server inventory nothing happen, no error, no crash... nothing
When I try vmware-mount, on centOS 5.3 and VMware server 2.01, I got " A system call has failed" error.

Thanks in advance.

VMWare Converter Will Not Install On Windows 2000 SP4 Server

focustechnology — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:02:09 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to convert a windows 2000 SP4 server to a VMWare image to run it on VMWare server on another physical machine.
I have tried to install the converter but it just gets close to the end of the installation and rolls back the actions and the install fails with a message saying that the installation was interrupted.
There are no pending reboots and the server is patched to the latest updates.
The server has SQL 2000 on it and not much else.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

VMware on Fedora 11

munnanepali99 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:47:26 GMT

Hello folks,

I have downloaded and installing VMware server 2 on Fedora11 and I am running into these errors

Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines FAILED
Stopping VMware management services:
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
VMware Server Host Agent FAILED
Stopping VMware services:
VMware Authentication Daemon OK
Virtual machine monitor OK

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? yes

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "4.4.0", while you are trying to use
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.4.1". This configuration is not recommended and
VMware Server may crash if you'll continue. Please try to use exactly same
compiler as one used for building your kernel. Do you want to go with compiler
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.4.1" anyway? no yes

I have installed the vmware any-any-update115 patch and ran the runme.pl also, but its the same still

Is there anything I am missing...Thanks a lot

Munna Singh

What's the best free solution for Win2K server?

AWo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:10:25 GMT

Are you unhappy with VMware 2 on W2K? I guess you are thinking about ESXi as this is the only other free VMware virtualization plattform.
Why do you feel the need to change? Are there issues? Or are you just thinking about improving the whole thing?
If you move to ESXi you must be aware that you loose the W2K host as a server itself.

AWo
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VMWare Server 2 (Ubuntu 9.10 x64) DHCP Issues

MrNorm — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:02:33 GMT

Sorry to be a pain. Anybody got any ideas on this?

Currently have a really basic firewall in place and it's really struggling!

Cheers,
Ollie

Vmware Server 2.0.2 on 2008 R2 as host OS

PipeSmokingMario — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:58:34 GMT

Is anyone successfully using 2.0.2 on 2008 R2 (german and english)
Networking (NAT) doesnt run, no connection via NAT
The display of a XP guest is very very poor, only with acceleration disabled acceptable.

The *NdisDeviceType = 1 RegPatch didnt solve the problem.

Any Idea ??

VMware server wiped host operating system during build of guest

daveyboi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:06:03 GMT

Ah well, thank you very much for your help!

I have just created a whole new guest and it has built successfully.

I still cant believe it happened, and i will definitly be checking my vmx files before attempting any future rebuilds.

Cheers!

Dave

VMWare 2.0.2 and CentOS 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5

Gle2nM — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:04:29 GMT

The exact same thing happened to me. I am running Centos 5.3. I have two virtual machines installed on the host. Both are running XP. Even though i can no longer connect to these machines using the VMware Web Interface, the machines are still running. The only way to regain access to the web interface temporarily is to reboot the host. Running vmware-config.pl (as root) to force a shutdown and restart does not help. I get the message "Unable to stop services for VMWare server.

If anyone has any ideas how to fix this, I would be most appreciative.

CentOS 5.3 + kernel-2.6.18-164 + vmware-server-2.0.1-156745: vmware-config.pl compilation error

pixel_paul — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:24:59 GMT

I should read this:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3977

cant login to vmware server 2, just installed on vista

thoughts — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:04:13 GMT

yeah that worked perfectly. enabled it and then added pass, then it worked. thanks.
this is stupid tho. lol

VSS - Snapshot

NeoTitan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:05:17 GMT

Hi AWo,

thanks for answer.

The OS is W2003.

Thanks in advance.

install failure on ubuntu

MonsterMaxx — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:18:16 GMT

Ubuntu 9.10 fail.

root@MythTV-SRV:/home/software# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines failed
Stopping VMware management services:
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
VMware Server Host Agent failed
Stopping VMware services:
VMware Authentication Daemon done
Virtual machine monitor done

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? yes

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:31:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:70: note: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vmware.h:38,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:99:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_types.h:108:7: warning: "__FreeBSD__" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vcpuset.h:103,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/modulecall.h:37,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./common/vmx86.h:33,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:29,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:101:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:329:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:333:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:401:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:407:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:506:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:595:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:684:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:773:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:775:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:860:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:862:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:945:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:947:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1028:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1030:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1223:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1227:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1536:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1663:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_asm.h:46,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/rateconv.h:45,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/modulecall.h:40,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./common/vmx86.h:33,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:29,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:101:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_asm_x86.h:62:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_asm_x86.h:177:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_asm_x86.h:346:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_asm_x86.h:453:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm.h:43,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:103:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:486:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:779:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:820:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:922:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:119:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./common/hostif.h:53:7: warning: "WINNT_DDK" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU’:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘euid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘uid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘fsuid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘uid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘egid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘gid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘fsgid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘gid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only~~ Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-products" and
"http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-tools".

Execution aborted.

suggestions?

Understanding Memory Utilization on VMWare Server

newvmguy12 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:29:45 GMT

Please assist.

Thanks.

Missing Datastore after reboot

guyrleech — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:41:27 GMT

You could set the VMware services to manual and then create a service that uses srvany.exe to run a script that just waits for say 60 seconds before then starting the VMware services via the "net" or "sc" commands.

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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VMWare Server Scripting

SpikyOyster — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:45:39 GMT

I did more testing, if I used IP address, it works. If I put the full domain name in example, pc1.broadband.com, it works. If I put only pc1 in the web address, it failed.

XP SP2 guest on Centos 5.2 Host - Guest not detecting ethernet link properly

C7 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:26:37 GMT

Anyone have any suggestions?

Virtual machines run extremely slow when console is accessed 2 Virtual Machines Windows Server 2008 64 bit, Windows Server 2003 32-bit , VMWare 2 for virtual machine

agnOstos — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:48:50 GMT

This fixed it for me as well!

Thank you!

There are alot of people looking for this resolution and it needs to be stickied or something.

Configuring VMware Server 2 in Ubuntu 9.10

Golem2885 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:17:12 GMT

This patch did also work for me : running kernel 2.6.31-14-generic with VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64

There is another interesting post, although it doesn't help either with making vsock modules properly (have a look to the scripts since post itself is not that verbose)

http://radu.cotescu.com/2009/10/30/how-to-install-vmware-server-2-0-x-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala

Golem

How to increase disk(vmdk) size

ChpTrk77 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:01:41 GMT

guyrleech:

Thanks for the tip. Your suggestion worked. AWo, as you can see from my post, I used the 3rd-party tool Gparted with no success. Disk Management saw the full size of the disk after I repartitioned, but the OS refused to recognize it. Using diskpart worked without issue. I booted from a 2008 install disk mapped from the client side (with no speed issues), ran diskpart from the command line and all is right in the world.

Thanks to the both of you for your suggestions.

how VMware Server use multiple threads?

bigt23 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:53:36 GMT

Hi,

I just noticed VMware Server is implemented with multiple kernel-level threads when watched from host OS.

In my platform (Fedora), more than 20 threads are created per guest OS.

Does anyone know how the tasks of guest OS are mapped to those threads on host OS?

If you could tell any documents, that will be a great help to me.

Thanks,

bigt23

The server was unable to process your log in request. Please check with your server administrator.

EduBManNJ — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:33:40 GMT

I am trying to access the VM Ware Server 2.0 UI and when I login this is message I receive. What should I do?

vmware server 2 netwok issue on host

guyrleech — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:09:37 GMT

How do you think I knew the answer? It happens to us all. Thanks for the points!

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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Memory and cpu usage question

AlejandroVK — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:02:58 GMT

Hi there,

First of all apologize if this has been asked alredy, but I can't seem to find the answer in the forums...

My host is a dual quad core Dell PowerEdge 2900 with 16GB RAM, since I installed vmware server 2 I'm running on memory consumption issues.....previously with Vmware Server 1 I could have like 15 guests running at the same time (with varying amounts of RAM, from 512 to 2GB) with no probs. Since I installed VmWare Server 2 I've seen that every time a guest is started all the memory is reserved in the host, although I selected ' Allow most virtual machine memory to be swapped' in the Host settings tab.

This is forcing the host to being able to run only a few guests at the same time when previously it could sustain many more with good performance. I installed 2.0.2 hoping it could solve this issue but no lack. Now my question is...is there any parameter I should modify in the guest configuration file to improve this?

I'm considering going back to VMware Server 1 since the perfomance was way better....

Best regards,

Alex

How to map VM to second network adapter on Host

guyrleech — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:42:26 GMT

VMware guests use virtual network adapters so you need to great a second bridged adapter on the host but how you do this depends on the host OS.

For Linux, just run vmware-config.pl and choose to create a second bridged network adapter, picking the correct physical one.

For Windows, run vmnetcfg.exe (as an admin), disable automatic bridging and then manually bridge the two physical NICs (i.e. create two VMnet* adapters with each mapping to a different physical NIC). You will also need to restart the VMware Host Agent and VMware Server Web Access services before these virtual adapters will be available for use.

Chapter 11 of the user guide is a good reference for all this - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmserver2.pdf

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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Trouble connecting to Domain "could not be contacted"

scottsee — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:42:33 GMT

Problem Resolved.

By going into the "Manage Virtual Networks" and Disabling HostOnly VMnet1 DHCP I was able communicate to my Domain Controler.

Additional mouse+keyboard

CuriosOne — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:13:57 GMT

I am working on doing the same thing. I am running Windows XP SP3 with VMware Sever 2.0.0.2643 installed, Ubuntu 9.10 is the Guest, though I want to try XP as Guest. I have managed to connect a second USB mouse to the Guest by adding a line to the advanced tab of the Guest configuration (line: "usb.generic.allowHID" Value: "true" (without quotes)) and then clicking on the USB Icon in the Management web page. Once the mouse is connected it no longer is available to the Host. I can move the mouse and click on things, but am unable to see the cursor (if anyone could advise me on how to fix this I would appreciate it). There are several other posts on these forms about doing the same thing, although not on Server. I hope this helps.

VMDK File Size Question

mphilli7823 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:46:55 GMT

I'm going to be upgrading my server soon to utilize some new space that was added to it. Currently the VM is configured with 2 vmdk files, one is 950GB, which was the old max vmdk file size way back in the 1.x days, and the other is 250GB. It seems now that their is no limit to the size of the vmdk file that I can create, or atleast I can create one that is 2TB. Would it be better to create multiple 1TB vmdk files or just create one that is the largest size possible? In my head I'm thinking that a single large vmdk file would increase the chances of corruption, but I'm wondering has anyone created a single large vmdk file in production and have they had any issues with it. Also I have a scripted once a week backup of everything, so if corruption issues were to occur, I can recover from backup. Any thoughts on this are greatly appreciated!