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what tweaks to fastest guest networking?

ehall — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:31:19 GMT

I've got six XP guests running full time on a dual-Xeon XP host, and am trying to get them to network as fast as possible. I've already got three of the Intel dual-port MT gig ethernet cards, with each of the six gig ports dedicated to each of the VMs, so contention isn't a problem. Unfortunately, various benchmarking tools show the guests pushing about 250 Mb/s, while the host OS is able to push 350 Mb/s without any tweaking.

Anybody know any secrets here? I'm specifically looking for things like any special drivers or .vmx config statements and other tweaks related to VMware. I'll do the network optimizations separately.

Thanks!

Starting guest machine locks up for 20 seconds

xerces8 — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:46:52 GMT

Hi!

When I power on a virtual machine ba clicking the green "play" button in the toolbar, the VMware GUI freezes for about 15 seconds.
During that time the vmware-vmx.exe (IIRC) process eats 100% CPU.
After the 15 seconds everything goes on normally.

The about dialog says I have VMware Server Console 1.0.0 build-28343

I downloaded it a week ago (wasn't there version 1.0.1 already a while ago ???)
My host OS is win2000 SP4.

The freeze happens every time I start the host system (I only have one configured).

Regards,
David

PS: here is a part of the log, where the delay can be seen :

Feb 08 10:13:02: vmx| PowerOn
Feb 08 10:13:24: vmx| Host ACPI: can't find SRAT
Feb 08 10:13:24: vmx| HOST Windows version 5.0, build 2195, platform 2, "Service Pack 4", SMP

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xerces8

Cannot login in a Windows VM after changing the password

airizar — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:54:20 GMT

Hi,

I'have a PC running Linux RHEL4, hosting a VM running Windows XP Pro (I use vmserver). From the VM I have acces to our corporate network without problems.

So, after installation everything was OK until I've changed the windows network password. I did that change in a real PC (not the VM) while the VM was running. Now, If I logout from my VM and log in again, the system does not recognize the domain, does not let me in and pops up a message:

"Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domain controller is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not found"

At first I thought this was nothing to do with vmware but I've managed to replicate this problem in another VM, but not in real PCs.

To make things more confusing, I can login with my password to other VMs connected to the windows network, and of course any real PC.

So, by changing the password of a user in this very strange manner, the domain is no longer available in the VM that was running while the network password was being changed.

Any idea, suggestion, hint is welcome

Thanks

Andoni

How Do I Open The VMware Tools ?.

tickmike — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:55:19 GMT

I think I have installed the VMware tools ? But how do I tell and how do I access them ?.

Windows 2000 pro base and Ubuntu guest

Michael.

Vista Host OS & VM Incorrect MAC address

pfortunato — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:33:00 GMT

Not sure if anyone has seen this before, but I'll give it a shot.

I am running VMWare Server 1.0.1 build 29996 on Vista Business with all the current MS Critical Patches. On my host os, a PING to the IP of the first VM fails, as does all other traffic (DNS queries, WWW, etc). All 4 other VM's work correctly.

After some troubleshooting, all other VM's and my two other non-VM machines access the first VM fine. What seems to occur is on my Host OS the first VM "inherits" the MAC address of the default gateway rather than the MAC that shows up in IPCONFIG -ALL on the VM (and on the other non-host OS machines).

Out of desperation, is set the MAC address in the VM adapter within the first VM to no avail. The odd part is that if I shut down the first VM, the HOST OS (Vista) then shows the correct MAC address.

Anybody have any thoughts on this? I have even tried the Staples "Easy" button, but that didn't help either...

BUG!: VMware Server installation does not check for libxi so broken install

khermans@cisco.com — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:31:52 GMT

BUG!

The Vmware Server installation checks for numerous libraries, but leaves out libxi. I tested this on Ubuntu Edgy (Server). vmware -v shows that libxi is not available, yet installation completed successfully. This will affect later installations like the MUI because it thinks VMware is not properly installed...
--
Kristian Hermansen

Extending virtual disk problem

trungngo — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:01:40 GMT

I am running virtual server. I wanted to extend my virtual disk. I used vmware-vdiskmanager and i could see that the *flat.vmdk file sized did changed, but when i went into window i don't see the newly unallocated space in disk management. I attacked this vmdk file to another vm but i still don't see the new extended space.

Configuration for XEON Quad Core?

wylde342 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:33:24 GMT

What advice in terms of what to turn off/on do you have for a DL380G5 with an Intel Quad Core CPU? Is there anything I need to know? I'll be running 3-4 Windows Server guests and Windows 2003 Enterprise as a host - 4gb of ram.

Thanks!

Install vmware server on debian custom kernel.

grande — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:26:10 GMT

sarge-custom-0221.iso (downloaded from http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ ) because i need support for newer hardware, mainly SATA and Ethernet devices.

Kernel info:
vmware:/usr# uname -a
Linux vmware 2.6.20-1-686 #1 SMP Tue Feb 20 22:59:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

My problems occur when running /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl. I get the following error:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-1-686/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-1-686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:80:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: syntaksfejl before "compat_exit"
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/include/compat_kernel.h:21: advarsel: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `_syscall1'
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/include/compat_kernel.h:21: advarsel: function declaration isn't a prototype
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/include/compat_kernel.h:21: advarsel: `_syscall1' declared `static' but never defined
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Fejl 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Fejl 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-1-686'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Fejl 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/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

can anyone help me with this, im kinda stuck.

Run some VMs at the same time with the same vmdk image?

Peuj — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:18:36 GMT

Hi,

I would like to run some VMs at the same time which use the same vmdk image.
So I have created some vmx files which are set to use the vmdk in mode "independent-nonpersistent".
Everything seems to work well but I like to know if it's supported and if there are some other settings to change in the vmx files?

Thanks in advance

Exchange ESE 476 error

bunny101 — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:20:03 GMT

Good morning!

We just completed a migration of our main server to a VMware environment. The server is our domain controller as well as our Exchange server. We have cleaned up a few issues, but one remains. We get an error from ESE with an event id of 476. Microsoft's website says that this error is almost always a hardware-based error. This error is only since we have migrated the machine.

We plan to extract Exchange to its own virtual server, but don't want to create a new problem or migrate an existing problem. Is it possible that, during the migration, the Exchange database was crunched slightly? Would our preferred path be to create a new Exchange virtual server and migrate, or would database problems follow along?

Quick snapshot:

Host- Win2k3x64 Enterprise
8G RAM
Dual Gig Ethernet ports Teamed
Serial SCSI drives

Guest: Win2K3Standard SP1
3G RAM
VMWare Accelerated AMD PCNet
VMWare Virtual SCSI Disks

Migrated using VMWare Converter 3.0

Thanks very much in advance!

Gregg

Workaround for VMware Server not starting after upgrade

useResa — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:16:40 GMT

I have altered the /usr/lib/vmware/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh file as indicated in the last post of an earlier thread on the Server not starting after upgrade (see: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=504205).

This indeed resulted in the fact that the Server did start, however I have three questions based on this solution:
1. If you start the Server from the terminal you still see the same error message. So it seems as if this is a workaround and not a solution. Can someone please explain?
2. Should this problem be fixed, can these line then be removed from the file?
3. If the answer to question 2 is "Yes", how will we know when it is solved?

Some clarification will be appreciated.

1.0.1 Keys for 1.0.2 ?

e4gulf — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:03:13 GMT

Will the keys I have for 1.0.1 work with 1.0.2 or do I have to request new keys?

Thanks.

ESX 3.01 VMs to VMWare Server

Vitaly91 — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:07:04 GMT

Guys,

is it possible to migrate VMs that were created in ESX 3.01 environment to VMWare Server environment? If so, what's the best way to do it?

Also, can VMs in VMWare server be managed using VC 2.0 from ESX environment?

Thanks in advance for your help!

1.0.2

tempuseranp — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:34:30 GMT

Can anybody point me in the direction to download 1.0.2 for windows.
THe download page from VMserver has 1.0.2 listed but it takes you right to the 1.0.1 download page?

Vmware host rebooting periodically

Progressive — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:53:59 GMT

I recently upgraded to the the latest release of Vmware and was updating my guests using windows update when a sudden crash and reboot happened during the final phase of .net 2.0 security update on one of my guests.

Now my server reboots every so often for no reason and I've had two VM's crash from corrupted configuration files. I was successful in restoring a copy of a config file from my base config file I use to cloan VM's from.

I'm running Win Serv 2003 Standard w/ 3 gig duo processors and 4 gig of RAM.

The error I see in the event log is:

System Error Category (102)

event ID 1003

Error code 0000004e, parameter1 0000009a, parameter2 00009778, parameter3 00000006, parameter4 00000002

Anyone experience anything like this?

Access Host disk from within vmware?

andy6387 — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:10:46 GMT

I tried searching through the forums as well as through google. I was wondering if it is possible to give a VM (specifically freeNAS) access to a host drive (or simply folder on a drive) whether it be through some configuration file or some other voodoo. I am hoping to setup a NAS, but i don't want to have the trouble of running a 600gb+ virtual harddrive.

MAC address conflicts

Chris Burton — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:24:12 GMT

We've had a question from our networking people who are concerned how VMWare autogenerates MAC addresses.

Does VMWare have a range of reserved addresses or are the addresses random?

If the addresses are random is their a possible conflict with physical NIC's?

Any help would be appreciated.

High Context switching on Vmware Server host

dilznik — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:15:03 GMT

Hi,

I've got a machine (2xDual Core Opteron, Centos 4.4 x86) running VMware Server 1.0.1 with reasonably high context switching (10K+) on the host with little load. It doesn't seem to be effecting guest performance as yet, however I'm finding it a little perpexing. I've been lurking around the forums looking for something similar but to little avail.

There are three guests running on the machine which are dns server and don't do much. Context switching inside the machines is minimal (max 10-50)

Here's a example of the vmstat, free and load average

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
0 0 100 1118844 76816 2154300 0 0 2 6 0 0 0 3 97 0
1 0 100 1118844 76816 2154300 0 0 0 32 3114 10814 0 3 96 0
0 0 100 1118844 76816 2154300 0 0 0 52 3075 10650 0 3 97 0
0 0 100 1118844 76816 2154300 0 0 0 20 3096 10927 1 3 96 0
0 0 100 1118844 76816 2154300 0 0 0 0 3076 10765 0 3 97 0
1 0 100 1118844 76816 2154300 0 0 0 0 3087 10676 0 3 97 0
0 0 100 1118844 76816 2154300 0 0 0 0 3068 10874 0 3 97 0
0 0 100 1118844 76816 2154300 0 0 0 0 3104 10391 0 3 97 0
0 0 100 1118844 76816 2154300 0 0 0 76 3106 8653 0 3 97 0
0 0 100 1118844 76816 2154300 0 0 0 0 3085 8888 0 3 97 0

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3522 2430 1092 0 75 2103
-/+ buffers/cache: 251 3271
Swap: 8189 0 8189

00:18:27 up 94 days, 13:36, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.22, 0.12

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks!

shrin, vmware-vdiskmanager, space not released

h.keil — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:57:28 GMT

I am using w2003 server as host and as guest. I want to reorganize a virtual disk which is defined as growable with 270 GB of size and split into 2GB slices.
Actually there are 21 GB used. The size of the vmdk-files is 33 GB. 12 GB where delete inside the guest.

I did the following procedure to reorganize the specified vmdk-files.

vmware-vdiskmanager -d e:\temp\w2003_disk2.vmdk
vmware-mount y: e:\temp\w2003_disk2.vmdk
vmware-vdiskmanager -p y:
vmware-mount y: /d
vmware-vdiskmanager -k e:\temp\w2003_disk2.vmdk

But unfortunatly the where only 0,2 GB of diskspace released.

Below you can see parts of the vdiskmanager.log.

Then I have mounted the virtual disk to another virtual machine.
If I do this procedure using the Gui (vmwaretools prepare to shrink etc.) there are 12 GB released.

What is the difference using the GUI and doing the reorganization offline using vdiskmanager ?????

Thanks in advance

H. Keil

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
log of first step (vdiskmanager -d)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Feb 27 16:02:47: app| Log for VMware Server pid=464 version=1.0.1 build=build-29996 option=Release
Feb 27 16:02:47: app| Scanning directory of file e:\temp\w2003_disk2.vmdk for vmx files.
Feb 27 16:02:47: app| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "w2003_disk2-s001.vmdk" (0x18)
Feb 27 16:02:47: app| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [1]: "w2003_disk2-s002.vmdk" (0x18)

...

Feb 27 16:02:49: app| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [136]: "w2003_disk2-s137.vmdk" (0x18)
Feb 27 16:02:49: app| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [137]: "w2003_disk2-s138.vmdk" (0x18)
Feb 27 16:02:49: app| DISKLIB-LINK : Opened 'e:\temp\w2003_disk2.vmdk' (0x18): twoGbMaxExtentSparse, 576716800 sectors / 281600 Mb.
Feb 27 16:02:49: app| DISKLIB-LIB : Opened "e:\temp\w2003_disk2.vmdk" (flags 0x18).
Feb 27 16:02:49: app| DISKLIB-LIB : Defragment chain 0032AB88.
Feb 27 16:34:21: app| AIOMGR-S : stat o=415 r=556794 w=1631415 i=0 br=35752745495 bw=37850567680

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
log of the second step (vdiskmanager -p)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Feb 27 16:34:33: app| Log for VMware Server pid=2384 version=1.0.1 build=build-29996 option=Release
Feb 27 16:34:34: app| Created wiper file 1

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
log of the third step (vdiskmanager -k)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Feb 27 16:34:49: app| Log for VMware Server pid=2372 version=1.0.1 build=build-29996 option=Release
Feb 27 16:34:49: app| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "w2003_disk2-s001.vmdk" (0x18)
Feb 27 16:34:49: app| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [1]: "w2003_disk2-s002.vmdk" (0x18)

...

Feb 27 16:34:51: app| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [137]: "w2003_disk2-s138.vmdk" (0x18)
Feb 27 16:34:51: app| DISKLIB-LINK : Opened 'e:\temp\w2003_disk2.vmdk' (0x18): twoGbMaxExtentSparse, 576716800 sectors / 281600 Mb.
Feb 27 16:34:51: app| DISKLIB-LIB : Opened "e:\temp\w2003_disk2.vmdk" (flags 0x18).
Feb 27 16:34:51: app| Scanning directory of file e:\temp\w2003_disk2.vmdk for vmx files.
Feb 27 16:34:51: app| DISKLIB-LIB : Shrink (Synchronous) chain 0032AB88.
Feb 27 17:07:07: app| AIOMGR-S : stat o=415 r=556794 w=1611321 i=0 br=35752745495 bw=37384172544

How to remove redundent snapshot (cannot via gui)

pjsmith — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:26:20 GMT

Hi,

I seem to have a couple snapshots on the disk which are being used as the main disks? These are taking a considerable amount of disk space and I want to get rid of them. The option in the gui to remove a snapshot is grayed out.

my data.vmdk hasn't been updated since 11/04/2006, but there is a data-s001.vmdk which has a current timestamp. The disk in use in the vmx is data-000001.vmdk.

How can I safely remove or recombine the snapshot? I've sure that before I updraded VMWare server to 1.1 the 'remove snapshot' was available but reported it could not be done due to lack of disk space.

Thanks for any advice.

Regards,

Paul

Vista Ultimate Upgrade Version

techdabbler — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:54:38 GMT

Has anyone installed the Vista Ultimate Upgrade version as a guest OS?

I have an unopened upgrade, and I'm wondering if I should return it and get the full version.

vmware server 1.02 how to install?

superdino — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:41:05 GMT

Hi,

i cannot find any upgrade instructions somewhere. Can you help me? I hope performance is also improved with this release.

I am currently running 1.01 on Suse 10.1

thanks

Run a script on VM startup ?

Peuj — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:44:29 GMT

Hi,

I've searched on the forum but I didn't really find what I need.

I would like to start some VMs machines at the same time and when the VMs are started the first time, run a script, which is on the Windows host machine, on each VMs.

My problem is to run the script on startup.

The VMs have all the same name and set to use DHCP.
As the host machine can be different I cannot use a script inside the VM to access a shared folder on the host machine.
So I thought to use the IP address of the VMs to run the script from the host to the VM with something like psexec. It works well but the problem is that I don't know the IP of the VMs (because of the DHCP).
So is there a way to get from the host the IP address of a started VM with some API?
Or does somebody has another idea to solve my problem?

Thanks in advance.

CCM on VMware server

pamarths — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:55:46 GMT

hi, I have a CCM5 server running on VMware sever. Host Operating system is Windows 2003 server.

Now the issue is, CCM server going down frequently (Host OS is running). I checked CCM logs and no error messages were found.

Can somebody help me in troubleshooting this issue?

Thanks,
Sitaram

SOLUTION -> 511 Error connecting to ....\vmserverdWin32.exe process

primobruno — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:46:36 GMT

Hi ppl:

Since this is my first post, i'd like to congratulate the VMware TEAM for the amazing software they developed over the years.
Thank YOU ALL !!!!

Since i've installed the free version of VMware Server (VMware-server-installer-1.0.1-29996.exe) , i've been "disturb" with the "511 Error connecting to C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\vmserverdWin32.exe process".

I've looked everywere for a patch but didn't found any solution.
Tryed, also, starting/stoping/delaying vmware_services,rebooting machine,granted admin_priveleges to __vmware_user__ and nothing worked.

So, everytime the error occured i had to reinstall the application (15mins) using the "repair mode".
This was very boring and took me 15mins everytime i wanted to run vmware server.

SO...i kept looking on the internet for a solution and our friend google pointed to this page:
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1147507&page=3

The solution is quite simple:
1st - Download "Extensible Performance Counter List (exctrlst.exe)" from this link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=7FF99683-B7EC-4DA6-92AB-793193604BA4
2nd - Run exctrlst, change the Sort Order to "Counter ID" and look for a counter named PerfOS.dll. Select that counter and see if "Performance Counters Enabled" is checked off.
If it isn't, then put a check there. Then restart the "VMware Authorization Service." Check the event logs to see if the error occurs again.

How to use NAT?

DaPrince — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:54:13 GMT

I'm going to make a virtual setup with VM server. This is the scenario.

Host OS: Win XP SP2 (portable with one network-adapter)
Guest OS: Win2003 (srv-qa)
Tasks for OS:
- IIS

10-15 clients (must be able to connect to the internet)

This setup must be on a separate network than the normal network, which means either routing (RAS with W2003) or perhaps NAT from the VM-setup instead of using a router that NAT's the internal network.

I have tried to use NAT on the VM-networkadapter. This worked fine, I can connect to the internet from the internal network through the HOST-system. But I'm afraid that the DCHP-service will broadcast addresses on the external net (Host-system network) which is very bad!! (I don't dare to try :-| )

If You get what I'm trying to write - do You think this is possible? (I think I might run into trouble with only one adapter)

Shrinking virtual disks on Linux host machines without X

mBf — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:01:21 GMT

I have a RHEL machine running VMware GSX 3.2 server. The machine has two physical disks, each is 75G syze and mounted as / and /home2. I have a virtual machine running Linux Fedora 5 on that server, with two virtual disks not preallocated and of the size 80GB each. I use LVM2 on these two virtual disks on the linux guest and have the virtual disks located on /bluh and /home2/bluh respectively.

The first virtual disk kept growing until it couldnt fill up the actual physical disk on the host machine in /bluh. I thought that when the guest OS cannot write on this disk any longer, it would continue on the other disk which is located on /home2/bluh on the host machine but appearently that's not the case and the guest OS keeps crashing.

I thought about deleting some data from the guest OS and then shrinking the virtual disk using vmware-vdiskmanager but i figured out later that vdiskmanager shrinking option is not supported on linux hosts. Also i think that the process is very dangerous considering that the guest OS is utilizing LVM2.

I tried installing vmware-tools on the guest OS trying to shrink the disk, in spite of the risks involved, but i figured out that it is impossible without installing X first, which cannot be done due to the lack of disk space.

Is there anyway to shrink the virtual disk without the X server on the linux host?
What procedures can i take to resolve the problem?

TIA

Linux VMware Server Console - Virtual Machine can't power on

tomalo — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:00:03 GMT

Hi,

I have installed VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386.rpm on my linux machine with kernel 2.6.16.38. I have created Virtual Machine, but VM can't power on.
I don't get error message box (only black screen by 1-2 sec).

/var/log/vmware/vmvare-served.log:
(...)

Feb 28 12:48:46: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Feb 28 12:48:49: app| Adding to list of running vms: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows 2000 Professional/Windows 2000 Professional.vmx
Feb 28 12:48:50: app| VMServerd IPC closed the connection with thread /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows 2000 Professional/Windows 2000 Professional.vmx (0x830
Feb 28 12:48:50: app| Lost connection to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows 2000 Professional/Windows 2000 Professional.vmx (/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/W
Feb 28 12:48:50: app| vmserverd: Could not connect to virtual machine /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows 2000 Professional/Windows 2000 Professional.vmx : Conn
Feb 28 12:48:50: app| Failed to connect to vm: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows 2000 Professional/Windows 2000 Professional.vmx
Feb 28 12:48:50: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Feb 28 12:48:50: app| Operation failed to change the VM to the expected power state.
Feb 28 12:48:51: app| OvlHostStartIo: errno 104
Feb 28 12:48:51: app| vmdbPipe_Streams: Couldn't read
Feb 28 12:48:51: app| Vmdb_IsSet failed: /db/connection/#57/type/sub/mountState/new/ (A one-of constraint has been violated)
Feb 28 12:48:51: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Feb 28 12:48:51: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Feb 28 12:48:52: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Feb 28 12:48:56: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Feb 28 12:48:56: app| SP: Deleting user session: 0 username: root

Where is error?

Note: check the Server download page

kbq — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:48:50 GMT

for bug fix updates... (Server 1.0.2)

No new hosts or guests to speak of. Please review the release notes for info.

KevinG or one of our other demi-gods will provide official notice in due fashion!

Kevin Q
CPD QA

possible to run vmware server guest images on bare metal?

vperris — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:17:35 GMT

One of my users wanted to know if there is a way to take
her vmware server images and copy them to another
system and run them as 'bare metal'.

They have measured the overhead of the hosted
architecture and don't like it compared to bare
metal, but want to keep a library of vmware server
guests and copy them to another system and run
them bare-metal one at a time.

Anyone out there know if this is possible, and if so,
what did you use to set it up?

Thanks....Vicki

can't see new virtual hard drive

ppberns — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:40:25 GMT

I am running kubuntu with vmware server and have winxp as my guest os. I have it loaded and running. I created a new virtual ide drive for it in vmware server and it shows up when I boot winxp as new hardware but I cannot see it as a new drive letter. I can go into hardware wizard and it tells me it's there but I can't access it. Am I supposed to see it as another drive letter? Or do I just see it when the system starts using it for extra space? All I wanted was to set it up as another drive with it's own drive letter but no matter what I did I couldn't get it to show up that way.
Any pointers?

Thanks

GSX 3.0 VMs start then terminate in RH 4 as host

merrittr — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:48:13 GMT

I had a test dev machine up and running RH 4 as with 3 vms ( 1 windows the other 2 rh linux). Now when I go to start a Vm I get the console breifly and then it powers itself of??? any idea whats going wrong this was previously working. see log entry below

Feb 27 17:21:06: | ----------------------------
Feb 27 17:21:06: | AdapterType: lsilogic
Feb 27 17:21:06: | CreateType: twoGbMaxExtentFlat
Feb 27 17:21:06: | descriptorFile: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/test/test.vmdk
Feb 27 17:21:06: | capacity: 16777216
Feb 27 17:21:06: | allocate: TRUE
Feb 27 17:21:06: app| The vm-list file has changed! Reloading the list of registered vms
Feb 27 17:21:06: app| Failed to lookup owner for: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/tsql/tsql.vmx. Reason: No such file or directory
Feb 27 17:21:06: app| Could not get canonical path for /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/tsql/tsql.vmx: No such file or directory
Feb 27 17:21:06: app| Error Adding vm: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/tsql/tsql.vmx
Feb 27 17:21:06: app| Failed to lookup owner for: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/engrcpas/engrcpas.vmx. Reason: No such file or directory
Feb 27 17:21:06: app| Could not get canonical path for /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/engrcpas/engrcpas.vmx: No such file or directory
Feb 27 17:21:06: app| Error Adding vm: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/engrcpas/engrcpas.vmx
Feb 27 17:24:44: | VMHSWorkerMain done : thread id = 3662
Feb 27 17:24:47: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Feb 27 17:25:26: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Feb 27 17:25:31: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Feb 27 17:25:31: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Feb 27 17:25:33: app| Adding to list of running vms: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/test/test.vmx
Feb 27 17:25:33: app| Attempting to launch vmx : /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/test/test.vmx
Feb 27 17:25:34: app| New connection on socket server-vmxvmdb from host localhost (ip address: local) , user: root
Feb 27 17:25:34: app| Connection from : /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/test/test.vmx
Feb 27 17:25:34: app| Setting up autoDetect info.
Feb 27 17:25:34: app| VMServerdConnect: connecting to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/test/test.vmx
Feb 27 17:25:34: app| Connected to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/test/test.vmx
Feb 27 17:25:34: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Feb 27 17:25:35: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Feb 27 17:25:35: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOn.
Feb 27 17:25:35: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Feb 27 17:25:35: app| OvlHostStartIo: errno 104
Feb 27 17:25:35: app| vmdbPipe_Streams: Couldn't read
Feb 27 17:25:35: app| VMHS: Connection to VM broken: cfg: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/test/test.vmx; error: Pipe: Read failed; state: 3
Feb 27 17:25:36: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Feb 27 17:25:36: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Feb 27 17:25:36: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Feb 27 17:25:36: app| cleanup: cleaned up 2 objects
Feb 27 17:25:36: app| VMServerd IPC closed the connection with thread /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/test/test.vmx (0x8302aa8)
Feb 27 17:25:36: app| Lost connection to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/test/test.vmx (/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/test/test.vmx) unexpectedly.
Feb 27 17:25:36: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Feb 27 17:25:36: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Feb 27 17:25:51: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Feb 27 17:25:51: app| SP: Deleting user session: 1 username: root
Feb 27 17:26:06: app| VmsdRegister: Config file has changed: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/test/test.vmx

Version mismatch with vmmon module

edbrnst — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:24:54 GMT

I am trying to VMware Server 1.0.1 for Linux. Without the any-to-any patch this thing wouldn't even compile on my system (Debian Stable on a x86 box; Self-Build. 2.6.20 Kernel).. So I installed the any to any patch. Now the compilation of the kernel modules work, but there are several error Messages in the VMWare log, when I try to boot a virtual machine:

=====
Feb 12 15:13:09: app| Msg_Post: Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 138.0, got 137.0.
Feb 12 15:13:09: app| You have an incorrect version of the `vmmon' kernel module.
Feb 12 15:13:09: app| Try reinstalling VMware Server.
=====

What can I do about this and what is wrong with the any-to-any module?

Snow Flakes on screen

fundman — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:46:48 GMT

I have to terminal server into my server running VMware server. Once I open the administration tool so that I can connect to my VMS', each individual servers background has a hazy display. I have vmware tools installed for the VMS.

Has anyone else seen this?

Problems creating new VM's

garryc — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:02:35 GMT

Hi All

I've run into an issue trying to create a new VM and can't seem to find an answer.

Server is an HP DL360 dual processor, 8GB ram...etc. so lots of power. Installed is VMware server version 1.0.1-29996. 2 VM's have already been created but that was some time ago.

Today I tried to create a new Windows 2003 x64 server VM following my normal process but when I get to the end I receive an error "The file handle is invalid", event viewer contains an error "vmauthd - Process failed with error 6". I also tried to copy a .vmdk file but received an error "Failed to retrieve disk information for <file> VMDB Failure"

I tried to do a repair on the VMWare installation but that has not resolved the issue.

Any help in this would be greatly appriciated

thanx

Error message on Shrink command

wallyd — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:11:23 GMT

I have a Win2k3 Guest running on an XP host computer.

The host is a Dual PIV 4.0 Ghz with 1 Gb of RAM.

The Guest is running some DB software that has been allowed to grow out of control. Currently I have a 500 Gb SATA disk (O: drive) where the guest resides. It is taking up 397 Gb of that space. I've removed some of the old junk and pared down the DB to a more manageable level.

In the process that cleared up 119 Gb of space. I want to reclaim this space on the disk so I ran the Shrink command from VMWare tools.

It goes through it's "Preparing for Shrinking" phase, but then I get an error message "There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation".

Any help is greatly appreciated.

-josh

DST patch for GSX 2.5.1?

sallylee — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:07:34 GMT

Hi everyone,

I have recently adopted an old box running GSX 2.5.1 and new to the virutal server managment. Since March is coming soon so I am doing all the DST patches for all the machines. Surfing VM site I did find the link for GSX 2.5.1 has one DST patch for temp fix the problem yet it's not indicating what OS it is for. Mine is GSX 2.5.1 build 5336 on Windows 2000 SP4. Just wondering if anyone knows the patch published on the website is also applied to my GSX on Windows environment? If so, what is the correct way to apply the patch and what impact that will be? Will I lose all the virual servers I have already created?

Thanks in andvance for any help.

Regards,
Sally

Changing Memory Permissions in VMWare Guest OS -- How?

Delphi123 — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:18:01 GMT

Dear friends:

I installed VMWare in PCLinuxOS and then installed WinXP and PCBSD as two guest OS in VMWare, each in its own virtual machine. Due to limited physical memory, I make sure to run only one guest OS at a time.

The total amount of real Ram on my computer is 512 MB of Rambus Rimmm memory. I also have a swap file in PCLinux of 3 GB.

I tried to change the memory settings for the guest OS (i.e. PCBSD) in VMWare in order allow more power to PCBSD when I am using it. However, when I tried to do this I was told that I didn't have permission to do this. How do I change this in order to get permission to modify the settings?

Please see screenshot at:

http://www.websher.net/tmp/vmware1.png

Thank you.

Benjamin

Message was edited by:
Delphi123

Management of VM's

tempuseranp — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:16:45 GMT

Does anyone know if HP makes manangement agents for VM's.

I need a way to monitor the availablility, CPU, memory usage, etc of my VM's

Thanks

64 bit virutal machines

goku — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:45:42 GMT

I have a dell poweredge sc 420 I installed a intel a p4 intel 3.2 that is a 64 bit chip. I'm also running the newest version of vmware server and I still can't run 64 bit virtual machines my host os is windows server 2003 enterprise 64 bit edtion. I also ran the vmware 64bit checker from this link
http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/drivers_tools.html and it told me that guest 64 bit vms were not support. Can someone tell me what the deal is with this I assumed if you have a 64 bit cpu than you should be able to do 64 bit vms. BTW this is the chip I bought

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116231

Run VMware Server on XP-Host and Linux Guest ?

-m — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:42:28 GMT

Hi,
I'm a newbie in this forum. At work we use VMware Workstation on our RedHat Linux to emulate Win2000.
Now I saw that VMware Server is given away for free.

My question:
Am I able to run on a XP-Professional host a Linux guest system ?

Or is it only the other way round (Linux-Host and XP-Guest) possible ?

Or is neither of the two possible, because beside VMware Server I would need as well VMware Workstation (which is not for free).

-m

Once again: Connecting to Server 1.x from VirtualCenter 2.x

lan — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:56:04 GMT

are there any news about this issue?

i heard about an updated agent for the server which should be compatible with virtual center 2. but i cannot find anything about it here.

Can not start vm after a power shutdown

vmquestion — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:06:33 GMT

After a unplanned power cut to my GSX 3.2.1, I can't start the vm that was running during the power cut. I get only this error

Unable to open either the disk or the redo log Failed to configure disk scsi0:0. The virtual machine cannot be powered on with an unconfigured disk.

I have copied this vm to another directory and tried to edit the vmx file.

I took a snapshot 6 days before the power cut and was hoping that I could at least restore the machine to this day. Any suggestion what to do?

Virtual NIC uses eth1 when I'd prefer eth0

lordelph — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:52:25 GMT

Running an Ubuntu 6.06LTS VM under a Windows 2000 hosted VMWare Server the VM used eth0 for bridged networking successfully.

If I transfer the same VM to an Ubuntu 6.06LTS based VMWare Server, the VM uses eth1 instead

I want to try and keep things consistent, is there anyway I can force the VM to use eth0 for its bridged networking?

Receive sound error when starting VM.

mpicklesimer — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:14:33 GMT

Hi all. I'm running the latest version of VMWare Server on Gentoo with a Windows XP guest. I've added a sound device to the VM and tried both "Auto Detect" and "/dev/dsp". However, both options give the error "Failed to open sound device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy. Virtual device sound will start disconnected" when I power on the guest. I verified that /dev/dsp exists (it exists as a symlink to /dev/sound/dsp) and sound works in the host OS. I've also output /dev/urandom to the /dev/dsp device and that does work. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

How to access .vmdk file throw vm server

srkreddy79 — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:17:00 GMT

can any one please guide me how to access vm ware virtual disk file(.vmdk)
form vm server.

we got .vmdk file to local machine but unable to access the file can any one please guide me.

Convert GSX VM's to ESX ...

bncsd — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:23:17 GMT

Hi all,
I need to convert a few VM's running on GSX 3.1 to ESX server. I am using PSFTP utility to copy the GSX VMDK file to the ESX server. Note, the VM are configured with SCSI. But, it's 10GB in size.

Since my /vmimages is less than 10GB. So, I copy the GSX VMDK file to vmfs/vmhba0:0:0:11 folder. This is where problem start?

When I use the vmfstools -i Test_C_Drive-flat.vmdk Win2k3-DEV.vmdk - note, the source and target are on the same directory (vmfs/vmhba0:0:0:11). I got the following error:

[root@PHXESX-PN01 vmhba0:0:0:11]# vmkfstools -i Test_C_Drive-flat.vmdk vmfs/vmhba0:0:0:11/SDECTPD02V2.vmdk
Invalid file specification: vmfs/vmhba0:0:0:11/SDECTPD02V2.vmdk
(The console OS cannot overwrite VMFS partitions)
[root@PHXESX-PN01 vmhba0:0:0:11]#

[root@PHXESX-PN01 vmhba0:0:0:11]# vmkfstools -i Test_C_Drive-flat.vmdk SDECTPD02V2.vmdk
Invalid file specification: SDECTPD02V2.vmdk
(The console OS cannot overwrite VMFS partitions)
[root@PHXESX-PN01 vmhba0:0:0:11]#

Why it said "Invalid file specification..."

And "The console OS cannot overwrite VMFS partitions"? Is this meant I could not have the source and target VMDK files on the same folder? Which is I really screwed? As I don't have any place that have more than 10GB of FREE space.

BTW, the command "df -m" does not display how much disk space for vmfs partition? Is other command listed the folder and it size (used/free).

TIA

Newer Version?

esnmb — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:47:25 GMT

It's been some time since VMware Server saw an update. Any ideas on the next version and feature? Possible Vista support?

Help with remuvable devices (Shut down)

serhio — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:05:07 GMT

Hi all.
A few days ago i instaled virtual Windows XP SP2 on my machine , the host platform is Linux Mandriva.

My printer&scanner is Canon MF3110, and Mandriva has no drivers for it, so i decided to install Windows for printing and scaning files.

When i connected for the first time the USB cable from printer to the computer, windows showed me that "he see it" and propose to install drivers for it.
I installed allright. BUT when i tried to push PRINT in Notepad - all screen became blue , and showed me the Error !

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER

If this is the first time..............
.............

Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000FE (0x00000005, 0x818650E0, 0x80867112, 0x81734C90)

Begining dump phisical memory..............

Please if some one has meet with such problem before tell me what i can do?

Thanks

P.S. Sorry for bad english.

Revert Snapshot "VMDB Failure" "Snapshots are not allowed...

unficyp — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:55:36 GMT

Hi,

i'm using Vmware Server 1.0.1 on Redhat Linux.
I installed SLES 10 in the virtual machine,shut down and took a snapshot.
I assume that this was fine,because i didnt get any error messages.
Virtual Machine restartet -> messed up a installation within the guest OS -> Shut down -> Revert to Snapshot.

Error:
VMDB Failure
Snapshots are not allowed on this virtual machine

What now ?
I need this guest os to be reverted to the snapshot....any ideas ?
Why didn't i get any error messages during the creatin of the snapshot ?

regards
gw

Executing the function of checking the currently active virtual machine

wongyantin — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:40:40 GMT

I've got a problem in executing the function of checking the currently running virtual mahine. I've created a program and when it reaches the function it will crash or terminate unexpectedly. The error states that there's a System.NullReferenceException.

I am currently using VMWare 1.0.0 and i've used the example indicated in the VIX API

What are the possible problems?

thanks!

USB devices

u19809 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:15:32 GMT

I have added a USB controller to my machine.

I want to connect connect to my IPAQ and to my MP3 player. However I fail with both.

The devices are detected by the host as 'full speed' (= 2.0 ?) uhci_hcd devices.

However in the VM->removable devices->USB the menu is empty.

/proc/bus/usb is mounted.

dual booting

u19809 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:10:47 GMT

Hi all,

I have installed XP/Home on my linux host using a physical disk (/dev/sda1). that disk is a SATA disk which is recognized as a SCSI disk under my host.

To get XP installed I had to install 'special' SCSI drivers for XP to recognize that physical partition. This is all OK now.

However as a gamer I would also like to boot that physical partition natively. I have created a second hardware profile in XP so that I can choose between VMWare XP and Native XP. However - I think - because of the SATA/SCSI drivers, the native XP/Home boot fails with a blue screen which disappears ever so quickly (i.e. unreadable).

So, my question. How can I create a dual boot environment

Virtual guest able to use Pci PVR cards

legtod2 — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:06:23 GMT

Will a virtual linux guest (Ubuntu, Fedora) detect and use a PVR card.
Example: TVTuner card connected in a PCI slot (Hauppauge PVR-250)

The card would be recognized by the Ubuntu host.

I'm curious if this is a resource that would need to be enabled by the VM.

I'm looking to test versions of the Mythtv application amoung controlled VM linux client.

Mythtv is a linux based Home Personal Video Recorder and thought of as a Home PC Entertainment system.

vista - can't connect to host

ybajwa — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:15:10 GMT

Please help, getting this error when connecting from server console

"No connection could be made because the target machine actively
refused it"

I've allowed vwmare server console to bypass firewall, disabled windows defender, and disabled UAC.

I'm new to using vmware, is there some service that should be running? i've only allowed the console to bypass firewall,

not sure how to proceed, any help appreciated, thank you

ESX in Desktop Machines

Ahsan1234 — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:34:50 GMT

Is there any system that I can buy from Fry's/Office Depot or any local shop, where I can install VMWare ESX server 3.

I need to get it up an running quickly. If you know if any partner who are selling pre-installed virtual appliance, please do send me the pointer also.

Appreciate your help.

Ahsan

x64 driver for VMware NIC in Longhorn Server Beta 2

cooltrance — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:11:00 GMT

Can anyone point me to a driver I can use for the VMware NIC in my LH B2 guest?

Thanks!

Can't SSH to VM via SSL VPN Tunnel

pete brady — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:46:38 GMT

I'm attempting to SSH in to a SUSE Linux 10 VM over an SSL Tunnel via an AEP Netilla SSL VPN box. VMWare Server is running on SUSE10.

SSH connections from the local network are fine. However when connecting across the SSL Tunnel I get an SSH login prompt but authentication fails. Logs on the VM indicate the connection is timing out:

Fatal: Timeout before authentication for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Any suggestions?

Guest OS Shutdown Automatically

mystupid — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:58:23 GMT

Hi all,

I installed the latest VMServer onto SLES8 SP2 and installed a virtual server running SLES8 SP2 and Oracle database.
I'm having a problem whereby the virtual server will shutdown by itself every few days. Then I need to start it using the console.

Anybody having the same issue and how to resolve it?

shrink, defrag, size not reduced

h.keil — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:07:56 GMT

I am using windows 2003 server as host and as guest. I have virtual growable disks splitted in 2 GB slices.

One vmdk-file has 25 GB of size. I have deleted files some files in the guest system. So I have released 5 GB of space.

Over the weekend there was running a scpript on the host to reorganize the vmdk-files.

First I have used the following command to defrag the virtual disk:

vmware-vmdiskmanager - d disk1.vmdk

After that I want to shrink the virtual disk using this command:

vmware-vmdiskmanager -k disk1.vmdk

But unfortunatly the size is not reduced. What is wrong ?
Shoult I first shrink an then defrag ?
Are there any other options which I should activate ?

Thanks in advance

H. Keil

Best way to backup a VM daily, weekly etc

gcoleman — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:58:52 GMT

Hello,

I have been wondering what a solid method to use for backing up a VM that is IN USE (sorry for the caps, but this is the main point of the question).

I have a VM server that has just been a champ. Everything runs great, and I dread the day that the drive containing the VM dies, or worse, some Windows OS problem on the VM.

I have tried Livestate within the VM, but during test restores, it has been incredibly unreliable.

I even used Livestate and VMware together, to open images, and unfortunately on a Domain controller, it fails most of the time.

I have tried Windows Backup, with its Volume Shadowing technology (same as in Livestate) but this has a tendency to fail or corrupt the source and backup image.

Maybe I am simply doing something wrong, but any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you

Bandwidth/data accounting

bradk — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:41:20 GMT

Hi,

I need to be able to monitor bandwidth usage of each virtual machine. So far, searches have come up blank. I am currently using the free VMware server.

I do not want to monitor them by SNMP etc, as this would require access to the virtual machine. I need to be able to monitor via the host. So far, I have found the /proc/vmnet/ directory, contains valuable info, but it is in 'packets' not bytes.

Is there any solution to be able to monitor bandwidth usage per virtual machine?

Cheers,

Brad

VMWare performance counters not in host

bunny101 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:58:56 GMT

Good morning!

We just completed a migration of our main server to a VMWare environment. We want to monitor the guest OS performance in their virtual machines from the host Perfmon tool. According to the server_admin document (pg. 151 English edition) we should be able to access the statistics from VMWare performance counters added to the Host machine. Those counters don't show up.

Quick snapshot:

Host- Win2k3x64 Enterprise
8G RAM
Dual Gig Ethernet ports Teamed
Serial SCSI drives

Guest: Win2K3Standard SP1
3G RAM
VMWare Accelerated AMD PCNet
VMWare Virtual SCSI Disks

Migrated using VMWare Converter 3.0

Problem:
The VMWare performance counters do not show up in the Host Perfmon tool. I'd like very much to monitor the primary performance statistics for network traffic and disk and memory performance shown by the virtual machines.

Object: To tune performance on the virtual machines preparatory to installing/migrating new machines to the virtual server.

Thanks very much in advance!

Gregg

Compiling and Executing VIX Program

wongyantin — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:13:25 GMT

Hello, I'm a newbie in using VMWare.. and I can't understand the references given. I just want to ask how to compile my code to link in vix.lib statically and set your runtime environment to include DLLs.

thanks!

i really need ur help
hope u guys can reply asap

Godbless =)

how to justify 1 VMware server for 3 VMs vs. 3 separate single servers??

tlyczko — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:14:11 GMT

Hello,

I've asked for one server to run VMware Server and 3 VMs.
I kind of got a 'yes,' plus a request for what it costs for 3 single servers.
So far I have thought of several advantages of virtualizing:

1. Less power usage (700 or 800 watts vs. 2100 to 2400 watts)

2. Less heat (a/c in server room doesn't have to work so hard, saves $$)

3. More complete usage of CPU and RAM (dual Xeons, 8 GB RAM), should easily do 3 VMs (SharePoint WSS 3.0 front end, SQL Server 2005, WSUS)

4. Less noise (smile! I know it's not that important! smile!)

5. About 25% less money for one server vs. 3 single servers -- they have the funds to buy 3 boxes if they want

6. One less UPS I have to buy

7. Less backup software to buy -- use the VBscript backup routine developed by someone here for Windows hosts (I prefer Linux host but Windows host will be 50% cheaper)

8. Same number of Win2k3 licenses

9. This server will have headroom to add a 4th server by adding more RAM

10. Easier to do disaster recovery so long as the VM has been backed up (to NAS)

11. More consistent installation and less maintenance by using 'master template' for the OS and same drivers (even if all three single servers are the same, they would have different amounts of RAM, hard drives, etc.)

Can anyone else offer ideas or suggest where I can look for more ideas??

Thank you, Tom

Need Help To Install VMware Tools In Ubuntu.

tickmike — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:34:38 GMT

Hello All.
I have STF but can not find what I want.
I have a windows 2000 pro base and a ubuntu 6.1 as a guest with the VMware 1.0.1 free server on a test machine .
I have installed the VMware tools into the 'tmp' folder .
I'm very new to Linux and ubuntu , can someone help me make the tools run at start up please. (step by step guide).

Michael

vmware-mount hangs when used remotely?

Superpig — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:45:36 GMT

Host: Windows Server 2003 Standard
Guest: Windows Server 2003 Standard
VM: VMWare Server 1.0.0

I'm trying to write a little website, served by IIS6+ASP on the host, that can control the guest. I've got basic power state changes working fine, but I'm running into problems with mounting disks. When the machine is off, I want to be able to click a button on my site that will mount one of the virtual drives on the host, do some stuff in the mounted volume, then unmount it again.

What I'm seeing is vmware-mount.exe appearing to hang when launched from ASP. I hit the button on my page, and my code launches vmware-mount (using WScript.Shell.Run), and Task Manager shows a new instance of vmware-mount appearing in the process list (running under the Network Service account). But it just sits there, with 4MB of allocated memory and 0% CPU usage.

Anyone got any idea why it's not working? The exact same commands run without a problem when I punch them into the 'Run' dialog.

Suse Enterprise Server 10 install

ZacharyD — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:05:44 GMT

Are there any know issues with Suse Enterprise Server 10 and VMware Server? When i try to install the OS on VM Server it doesn't find any Software packages on the dvd iso i have loaded. I am wondering if this is a conflict with VM Server or if my iso is bad. Please help ASAP

Thanks, Zach

Vmware bridging problems.....

bishoptf — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:09:09 GMT

It appears that I have an issue when using vmware bridging...I have a host machine running myth and vmware the issue is when the database is moved from the host machine to one of the vm's I start having network issues to the physical interface of the host machine, dropping lots of packets (the one that is also bridging to the vm's). However, I don not have any issues when pinging to any of the vm machines (no loss, even though the physical interface is not responding). Now the twist, If I make the vm's a host network and manually create a Linux bridge and add the physical and vm interfaces to the bridge it works without any problems, but this makes the configurations more complicated for startup, etc. What I would like to know is there a way I can I can debug this to try to see what is going on.....My host system is fedora core 6 and other wise works very well with all of the vm machines.

Minimum pre-allocated disk size

topokin — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:23:38 GMT

The default suggested pre-allocated disk size when creating a VMs on W2K3 host is 8GB, but I sometimes reduce this size to 4 or 5 as needed.

My question is, should there be any performance degration in not using the minimum default size. Or would it be advisable to use the suggested minimum disk size?

Thanks,
topokin

increasing size of virtual disk

xybal — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:08:35 GMT

Hi,

I'm using vmware server free edition.
I've made a partion of 7 Gb for a special install of Linux + applacations but it's now full and I would like to increase the size of this partition (to 10 Gb for eg). The partition type is pre-allocated and I'm using Linux FC6
I've the same question to reduce the size ?

Thx

Problems virtualizing RH9 physical server

jkhardy95 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:14:54 GMT

I'm running VMWare Server 1.0.1 build 29996 on CentOS4 and I've been trying to virtualize a Red Hat 9 physical server running on a Dell PowerEdge 4400 (circa 2000'ish). It has a lot of custom code on it so I want to convert it to a virtual machine now as opposed to building a new vm and recreating all the code.

Using Ghost I've created an image of the physical drive and then mounted another virtual disk and then ghosted the image to the virtual disk. I created the virtual disk with an LSILogic controller, however when I boot the server it comes up with the following message:

VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00

Since this is old hardware I'm thinking it needs a BusLogic controller because the LSILogic controller doesn't work. Do I need to go into rescue mode and using mkinitrd create a new initrd with the BusLogic controllers? What are the controllers that I need to preload? Or am I totally going down the wrong path?

Vista as a Guest OS Under Linux

techdabbler — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:13:44 GMT

I want to run Vista as a guest OS under Linux and I'd like to know the best distribution and the best configuration.

I am worried about two main things: device availability and licensing.

1) I have been using Suse for a good while, currently 10.2. But I've had some problems with USB. There seems to be a problem with VMServer making USB available to guest operating systems. It can be solved, I've read, by building a custom kernel. But I'd rather use a kernel out of the box. If anyone knows of a linux distribution that maximizes the devices available to the guest OS - I'd like to know.

2) One way to ensure maximum device availability is to set up a dual boot and run Vista under VMServer or native, depending on how much control I need to give Vista. Has anyone done this successfully? I've tried the dual boot option with Windows XP and gotten a message something like "you must activate before logging on for the first time" - followed by refusal to take my key.

Windows System Resource Manager

bunny101 — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:06:21 GMT

I am going to upgrade my Win2003 base server to 2K3 Enterprise R2. Should go OK, but the package also includes the Windows System Resource Manager.

Has anyone installed this on their base or virtual machines? How badly would it hose up my virtuals?

Thanks in advance!

Gregg

Export or backup a virtual machine

syl20 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:06:34 GMT

Hello

Sorry for my faults I usually do not speak English......

I will wish to know if it is possible to make safeguard of virtual machine with vmware server or vmware converter 3?

The goal is to be able to safeguard a virtual machine (linux or win) on CD/DVD and of being able to reimport it later if need be.

I will like to also know if it were possible to safeguard a machine to reimport it on VM ware server of another PC

thank's a lot

Networking is sluggish and buggy

Bart22 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:03:00 GMT

I have vmware server set up with NAT forwarding port 21 for ftp. The network should allow me to get about 10 mbit up and down, however when I try to fetch something from the ftp, the speed stays around 20 Kb/s. Monitoring the bandwidth for the Guest OS, it shows spikes of about 700kbps every few seconds which average out to roughly 20k/s. Sometimes the networking goes down all together and I need to restart the vmware service.

Guest OS: Windows 2000 Professional
Host OS: Debian Linux 3.1

Clustering question

lberlin — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:35:44 GMT

Is it possible in Server to create a Windows cluster pointing to a shared lun on a Clarion or does that require ESX?

VM running slow

topokin — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:25:24 GMT

I observed that VMs in VMnets other than Host, NAT or Bridge runs slower than normal.

I have a VM that runs very slow when configures with VMnet5, but when configured with Host, NAT or Bridge, the performance seems to be fine.

Is this a known issue.

Thanks,
topokin

Network Issue With Fedora Core 6!

abstractrude — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:16:15 GMT

Hello All.
I have turned here after giving up, I have a VM of Fedora Core 6, runs great on two of my machines. When moving to another machine I simply move the entire guest VM folder. I have been moving it back and fourth between workstations.

Anyway to my problem. I recently wanted to move this VM into workstation at work, to help with some network monitoring. When i move it to machines at work, I cannot get Networking to properly talk to the Network. Im pretty sure my VMWARE virtual network settings are correct, I am using a bridged connection as it willl need a true IP on the network.

When I move the VM to work it cannot talk to the local network, the weird thing is, when I go to get dhcp it trys to connect to an IP from the network I had it on before. Fedora prints some information that It cannot ping 192.168.1.1 which is the network it was on before. I am stuck at this point.

Summary

VM Ware Server

Fedora Core 6 networking does not work... Have the working ethernet adapter selected in the mange virtual networks menu, I really don't know why it wont talk on the network. Is there some sort of flushing I need to do?

-Trevor

I have run /etc.init.d/network restart

Running VMWARE on windows xp
Guest OS Fedora Core 6

wmware server eats 4gb of memory on vista x64

fmot — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:21:09 GMT

please take a look at this picture:

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/3655/vmwarebt1.png

so i have 4gb of ram and my virtual machine (ubuntu x64) has 512 mb. why vmware server eats all the hosts's memory when starting? this makes my high-end desktop cripple! finally it works but all the process takes about 3-4 minutes and later windows swaps for 5-10 minutes.

it has been tested many times. vmware server cripples my pc every time i reboot and run vmware console...

so... any suggestions?

Vmware Server Teaming / Bonding Multiple NICs in Linux

domenic — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:42:38 GMT

Is this supported? Has anyone had any luck implementing a simple Linux NIC bonding senario as is described here: ? http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-bond-or-team-multiple-network-interfaces-nic-into-single-interface.html

I followed this guide in bonding three nics on a Cent OS 4.4 Linux box (basically a free clone of Redhat Enterprrise) and eveything worked as advertised as far as Linux was concerned. I now had a virtual bond0 NIC (which aggregated three physical gig-e nics eth0, eth1, and eth2)

During the VMware Server install it recognize that I had multiple NICs and asked me which network interface I wanted to bridge to vmnet0. I selected bond0. Everything else completed as normal.

I then fired up WinPE in a VM to test everything out (I have done this many times before). If I drop to a dos box and do an IPconfig I see that the vm was properly assigned an IP address through DHCP (so far so good).

At this point if I try to ping my default gateway replys stop after three replys! I can repeat this / reboot the VM and like clockwork after the third ping reply the network stops responding. Why would vmnet0 work with the virtual bond0 for ony enough time to get an IP address via DHCP and reply to a few packets? Why is it dying?

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

DOM

Max amount of memory allocated to the virtual machine

Katrine — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:52:10 GMT

What is the maximum amount of memory that can be allocated to the virtual machine? I have 16 GBs of memory on the server but the vmware will not let me create a virtual machine with more than 3600 GBs of memory. Does anybody know whether there is a way to allocate more than 3600 gigs of memory to the virtual machine?

Can't access VM through Host with SSH

jakarta512 — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:22:10 GMT

I have installed VM on Ubuntu 6.06, the VM's OS is Ubuntu 6.10 with the following configuration

1. Networking Option : host only
2. Static IP on VM : 192.168.1.10
3. Gateway and DNS : 192.168.1.74 -> same with Host IP address

I assume that i can access the VM through ssh or telnet, but i just can't access it, the static ip just doesnt work at all

Is there any one knows the perfect configuration from VMware server so i can access the VM just like i access any other physical system

3 physical nic's and 2 vmnet bridges, 2nd bridge gets no connect.

Lancean — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:58:00 GMT

Hi

I was testing some stuff with vmware server 1.01 in linux debian etch and i got stuck on the following:

I have a machine with 3 physical nic's (eth0,eth1,eth2)

eth0 - wan (1 ip)
eth1 - lan - bridged vmnet0
eth2 - dmz - bridged vmnet1 (i've deleted HOST-only)

Here are some info:

ps axwww | grep -i bridge
8617 pts/4 S 0:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid /dev/vmnet0 eth1
8621 pts/4 S 0:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-1.pid /dev/vmnet1 eth2

ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:A6:4E:A9:86
inet addr:87.***.***.*** Bcast:87.***.***.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:a6ff:fe4e:a986/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:53568 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:72148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6262552 (5.9 MiB) TX bytes:16351424 (15.5 MiB)
Interrupt:193

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:47:22:81:64
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::203:47ff:fe22:8164/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3718548 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7437786 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:640355476 (610.6 MiB) TX bytes:1854233764 (1.7 GiB)

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:47:22:81:65
inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth3 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-E0-18-00-00-59-53-83-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:16156 (15.7 KiB) TX bytes:16156 (15.7 KiB)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet addr:192.168.10.1 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

No matter how much i try i can't get the eth2 bridge to ping outside it's own subnet, everything else works just fine. Anyone got any ideas?

I don't believe it's a limitation in vmware, i think more of a user error

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Lancean

VMware Server crashes on ldap query from Guest

orga|kp — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:14:35 GMT

Hi ppl,

im new here but i have got and very heavy problem:

If a Guest makes an ldap query (from phpmyldap) the WHOLE vmware Server crashes. All other VMs will powered off and the Server rebooting.

Background:

Guest: RH7 Linux padcacti1 2.6.19-1.2906.fc7 #0 SMP Sun Jan 7 21:38:23 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Host: Windows Server 2003 R2 (all updates and Patches)
VMware: VMware Server 1.0.1 build 29996
Hardware: HP DL380 G4, 3,5 GB RAM, RAID 1 and Gigabit Network with Teaming Mode (automaticaly)
Network: bridged

Exactly Windows Server log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 22.02.2007
Time: 09:27:35
User: N/A
Computer: WVMWARE1
Description:
Error code 000000d1, parameter1 00000006, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 f723b9e5.

On the BSOD you see that something is done with the ndis.sys but nothing more different.

2 other VMware Server (same hardware, only less RAM) with the same setup working fine (6 Linux VMs, 4 Windows VMs). And if i migrate this "evil" VM to the other Host it will crash too...

Any suggestions?

I tried:

* updating drivers -> fault

vmware installation issue in ubuntu dapper

seshomaru samma — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:17:29 GMT

i'm trying to install a vmware server on ubuntu dapper
got the same error on two different machines running dapper
one is a Dell desktop
one is a Lenovo laptop ( dapper fresh install )

first i installed linux-headers build-essential xinetd
then downloaded vmware server from http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
installed with sudo ./vmware-install.pl
instalation went smooth no errors
but when i run it i get :
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x092ddd98 ***

the vmware screen comes up but its totaly white and it freezes , can only be closed with xkill or the kill command

i suspect it might conflict with other programmes i have as i got the exact same result on two different machines

on my fresh install laptop i installed these programmes before vmware server:
gaim
flash plugins
all multimedia codecs, icluding dvd
hebrew/japanese/chinese support
xchat
camorama
kino
vlc
adobe reader plugin
gdesklets ( i had two desklets running at the time of installation)
xchm
abiword
mplayer
skype
j2se runtime environment

my kernel vesrion is 2.6.15-27-386
but i got the same bug on my other box about 6 month ago with a different kernel ,cant remeber...

i contacted the ubuntu developers but they said it's a vmware problem and i should post in the vmware forum

would be thankful for any help!
hope this info is sufficient
please contact me for more info

Guest copy from Host via Samba

alansecker — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:11:42 GMT

I have vmware server installed on Mandriva Linux 2007 (64) with Windows 98 SE as a guest. Samba server 3.0.2 is installed on the host and Windows can copy from host folders but incredibly slowly. How may I speed this up/find bottlenecks?

Problem with copying files from Host to Guest

rockie — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:24:21 GMT

Hello,

i have a Host with Win2k3 and a Guest with Win2k3...

Now i have mount a drive from the Host in the Guest. When i try copy a large file from this mounted drive to the guests drive c: within the windows explorer, i get this error:

"cannot copy file: The specified network name is no longer available"

But i can browse the mounted drive without any problems.

When i mount the guest drive c: in the host, i still can copy the file...

Whats going wrong? What can i do??

Thanks a lot

Andy
"Sorry for my bad english..."

Installing VMWare Server 1.0.1 on Fedora Core 6

rcman — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:08:32 GMT

Hello,

I have problems installing VMware Server on FC6. When running vmware-config.pl the script aborts execution at the point where a module is made. The message says there might be a slight difference in versions, but IMHO the versions are matching exactly. What do I do wrong?

Thanks in advance,

[root@fedora kernel]# vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor [ OK ]

Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries.

In which directory do you want to install the mime type icons?
[/usr/share/icons]

What directory contains your desktop menu entry files? These files have a
.desktop file extension. [/usr/share/applications]

In which directory do you want to install the application's icon?
[/usr/share/pixmaps]

Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

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? [/usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2911.fc6-i686/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 /usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2911.fc6-i686/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2911.fc6-i686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/hash.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/task.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmmon.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2911.fc6-i686'
cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon.o': -1 Invalid module format
There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration between the
set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may want to
rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

[root@fedora kernel]# rpm -qa|grep kernel
kernel-headers-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6
kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6
kernel-devel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6
[root@fedora kernel]# uname -a
Linux fedora 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 #1 SMP Sat Feb 10 15:03:33 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@fedora kernel]#

VMware creates .vmware directory at "/"(not "/root") when my system boot up

Kim Dong-Min — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:09:34 GMT

O/S: openSUSE 10.2
VMware product & ver.: VMware Server ver. 1.0.0 build 28343

When my system boot up or reboot, VMware creates .vmware directory at "/" not root's home dir.

I've been searching for the solution to fix this problem, but failed.

I found same issue related VMware Server RC1 in KB. There is no solution about this.

How can I fix this problem?

Please help me!

Thank you.

Consoles are black

tim_perdue — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:58:38 GMT

I can connect to the vmware server running on Fedora Core 5, and start/stop the vms, but the console remains black no matter what.

In order to connect to the server with the vmware client for windows, I had to manually enter the port number, like:

192.168.1.106:904

Leaving out the port number like that left it unable to connect, with a message about it being actively refused.

My other Fedora Core 3 server seems to work fine and the consoles show using the same client.

VMwk or server for a test server network to access internet

jlf4hm — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:10:12 GMT

I have a host Windows 2003 SP1, with one network card on my company's network. I would like to build a test AD domain in which a) the guest test systems can resolve each other and have network access to each other.. file shares etc b) also for the test systems to be able to access the corporate domain so as to remain current on MS and other OS patches through the internet c) able to exchange files with the host server in both directions.

I had ruled out bridged as that would require corporate IP's. That leaves me with NAT as far as I can figure out from reading the documentation. In the NAT'ed configuration I imagine I would have my test domain server be a DNS forwarder, so it can resolve the "internal" systems names and forward for those it does not.

In my attempts to get such a configuration working I get DNS timeouts from my clients. Once the lookup is in the DNS server's cache it will not time out.

While my preference is to have one NIC per server, I have even tried adding in another NIC but then I have challenges with name resolution.
1) What network configuration should I use and any specific recommendation around that
2) How can I transfer files between the host and guests if the host system is on a different network and VM Server does not support shared folders unlike VM Workstation?

Thank you in advance.

Server Console : Actively Refuses connection - when remoting to Linux

jdiefgoodwill — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:04:03 GMT

I have VMWare installed on my Linux box.

Everything seems to be working fine, but when I try to get connect to the Server Console Remotely, I receive the message - Could not connect because the remote server actively refused the connection.

I have no active firewall on the box; IPTables is set to accept on all interfaces (INPUT, FORWARD, and OUTPUT).

When I telnet to port 902 it says a similar message that the host refused the connection.

Localhost works fine, and I can connect to my windows box running VMWare from the Linux Box.

I've run out of reasons why I'm not connecting.

Thanks for the help!

problems connecting to server through console because of authorization

slampoud — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:30:38 GMT

Hi there,
I'm talking about a Windows XP Home system, with VMWare Server 1.0.1-29996, on which VMWare used to work and now does not. I have already tried "Repairing" the installation through the installer with no success.
When trying to connect to the VMWare server through the server console I get this message:
"There was a problem connecting: Cannot connect to host localhost: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. "
Sure enough, when looking at my services, VMWare's NAT, DHCP and virtual mount services are running, but Authorization and Registration (which depends on Auth) are not. When attempting to start Authorization, I get the service-specific error code 6000004. Starting of Registration also fails due to the dependency. The system logs don't contain any more information than the error code.

So, any ideas what this error code means and how to get rid of it?

Thanks in advance,

SL

PS: I realize the author of this thread seemed to be experiencing the same problem.

Cannot transfer large file

tractng — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:54:32 GMT

Guys,

When I am logged into my guest pc, I cannot transfer large file of 100+ MB(something in that neighborhood) from my host server.

I am getting the message below:

Cannot copy XXX: The specified network name is no longer available.

If i am in the host server, I can drop the file to the guess pc using the UNC.

Any idea?

Thanks,
Tony

vmware-user not running in ubuntu guest

botio — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:17:09 GMT

Hi,

I'm running an ubuntu feisty guest in vmware server 1.01, and the "autofit guest" doesn't work.
I think it's because the vmware-user process stops when the session is launched.

I've looked for this issue on this forum but haven't found anything similar.
I've made a symlink to vmware_drv.so in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.o, as I read vmware-user wouldn't start without it but it did not resolved the issue.

here is what I get when runnung vmware-user from a terminal:

Warning: Error in the RPC recieve loop: RpcIn: Unable to send
Warning: Another instance of VMwareUser may be running.

of course there is not any other vmware-user already running, only vmware-guestd:

ps -eaf|grep vm
root 8868 1 0 14:32 ? 00:00:02 /usr/sbin/vmware-guestd --background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid

does anyone has ever seen this? do you have any idea on what is causing this?

thanks for your attention.

Application Migration

Ahsan1234 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:38:50 GMT

I wanted to understand how Vmotion is getting deployed today with VMware software. Specific questions I have are as follows

1) In which scenarios customers are required to migrate their application ?

2) When DR sites takes over, how does the sessions gets routed to new site? Are you using Route Health Injection to inform the router?

3) How do you configure the policy ( ACL, Load Balancing, Firewall ) for DR site? Is it a manual process, or automated management systems are used here.

Thanks
Ahsan

MSVS R2 to VMWARE Server 1.0.1 migration

psraj — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:38:41 GMT

I am running MS Virtual server 2005 R2 on an XP Pro SP2 platform. The CPu is a P4(HT), 2.5GB RAM. I want to convert all my virtual servers to VMWare server 1.0.1. I installed the VMWare on the same box, and did an import. The import went through fine. Then I logged on to the console and installed the VMWare tools into the imported virtual server. After I install the VMWare tools, and reboot the server, the mouse is no longer functional in the virtual server console. I am able to move the mouse pointer inside the console, but no reaction to clicks. The keyboard seems to work fine. I have seen this same behavior on 3 three different hardware platforms, while trying to import from Microsoft virtual server r2 to VMWare 1.0.1. If I create a VMWare virtual server from scratch, everything is fine. Any suggestions on how to fix this. Thanks.

Blue Screen when starting VMWare Server

Hemijimi — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:34:24 GMT

I have VMWare server installed on a HP 570 with quad procs and 64 gig of ram running 2003 Ent.

I can create a VM but when you power it on, you get the Blue screen of death. Here is the info from the sys log.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 2/25/2007
Time: 9:53:24 AM
User: N/A
Computer: CMS084GSX1
Description:
Error code e0000001, parameter1 f310f0b2, parameter2 f3114890, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 00000000.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 65 30 30 30 30 30 30 e000000
0020: 31 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d 1 Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 66 33 eters f3
0030: 31 30 66 30 62 32 2c 20 10f0b2,
0038: 66 33 31 31 34 38 39 30 f3114890
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 30 2c 20 30 30 30 30 00, 0000
0050: 30 30 30 30 0000

This is a new installation required because of the need for usb support. There is nothing else on the server but the base OS and I have rebuilt the server just to make sure. Any help would be appreciated.