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Experiences with Windows 7 as guest?

jh3141 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:26:23 GMT

Hi,

Has anyone got experience with using Win7 as a guest in VMWare Server 1? Does it work as expected, or are there any gotchas waiting for me? I've read that some peope had trouble getting networking to work, but as I'm planning on using it as a test environment for quarantining software to ensure it doesn't contain malware, I actually don't want networking... so are there any other issues I should know about?

WinDbg between two virtual machines (serial ports not working?)

bobdolebananaphone — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:55:24 GMT

I've followed the instructions here:

http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/devices_serial_debug_gsx.html

and here:

http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/devices_serial_connect2vms_gsx.html

I've tried naming my serial ports (sorry for the formatting, the forum filtered out the names before)

\ \ . \ pipe \ com_1 on both

\ \ . \ pipe \ com_2 on server and \ \ . \ pipe \ com_1 on the client

\ \ . \ pipe \ com2 on server, \ \ . \ pipe \ com1 on client

\ \ . \ pipe \ com1 on both (which is what I'm using now)

On the client I can start WinDbg 6.9.0003.113 (the newest at the time of writing) on the client, and if I select Kernel Debug and then whether I select the Pipe checkbox or not, and set the Port to just "com1" it will then say "Opened <newline> Waiting to reconnect" and then the bottom of the windbg window says "Debuggee not connected". I find this weird though that it's working with (and I define working as WinDbg as not giving an error, and the fact that I see the occasional flash of activity across the serial port status icon at the bottom of the vmware window). But I see no serial port activity on the server VM.

First can someone confirm whether I'm supposed to have the serial ports named the same thing on both VMs, and then can someone suggest a simple way to test that the connectivity is there, so I can see if it's that the serial ports aren't connected, or whether it's that the debuggee isn't set up to be debugged?

Thanks

Bob

Looking for method of installing 1.0.10 on OpenSuSE 11.2

goldeneye*007 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:26:22 GMT

Have tried make mrproper, make prepare, make cloneconfig.

vmware-config.pl fails trying to build vmmon. I assume may need some sort of any any patch.

Anything available?

Almost no Internet access on host but guests OK - ?

ipgman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:44:36 GMT

Hi,

Have a Windows 2003 R2 x64 host running VM server 1.08 with two guest Windows 2003 R2 servers. Internet access is fine from both guest servers but the host has almost no access. DNS appears to work fine returning an IP address but very little web browsing is possible. Ever seen that? Any ideas how to troubleshoot? The host server has teamed Intel gigabit NICs on the LAN (and full access to the LAN)

Thanks

cannot install vmware-1.0.10 on Ubuntu/Karmic/Kaola (9.10)

freelsjd — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:11:07 GMT

It is the usual problem with vmware. I cannot install it because I cannot compile the vm modules with the new kernel that comes with Karmic (2.6.31). I can downgrade to the 2.6.28 kernel that came with Jaunty (9.04) using the vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2 patch. However, this patch will not work with the new kernel 2.6.31. Are there any known fixes at this stage ?

How to increase the C: Drive space

Qas — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:38:45 GMT

Hi all

can any one please explain me or point me to a article on how can I increase my main C: Drive space on VMware Server 1,it running really low and i will be in trouble soon

Thank you

Qas

How do I increase the size/merge the partition of the VM hard disk?

a2thed — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:02:11 GMT

Hello:

I created a VM for the development team at my company but when it was created it was completed with an 8.0Gb hard disk and they would like to increase it to at least 100Gb. I was able to do this successfully but since the OS is Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition it shows up as a seperate partition rather than the original partition being 100Gb. How can I merge this new partition with the original existing 8.0Gb partition without losing any data that has all ready been started on the VM? Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

a2thed

Can't start VM with VMware Server 1.0.10 and Ubuntu 9.04

davidsi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:53:25 GMT

VMware server 1.0.9 was working on Ubuntu 9.04 with the vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz patch. Well, not everything - USB disks were not mounting. However, when I upgraded to 1.0.10 and applied the patch, I get an error message "Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an error: End of error message." when trying to start the VM. Does anyone have a clue why?

Thanks, David

Upgrading VMWare Server 1.5 to Latest Version of 2.*

NetzenSolutions — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:33:14 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I have the following virtual machines running in VMWare Server 1.5 on a CentOS 5.3 (x86_64) host OS:

-CentOS

-Windows 2003 SBS

-Windows XP

I am wondering can I do a straight upgrade to 2.* from 1.5? Is there any advice anyone can give me or a pointer to some documentation for this procedure? And has anyone done this successfully?

TIA

SMP with SLES 9 on VMware Server 1.04

Steimms — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:27:34 GMT

Hi folks.

I have a curious phenomenon on my VMware Server 1.04. It is a PL DL580 G5 with two dualcores Xeon 5160.

I run among others two linux guests on it, a sles 9 and a sles 10 vm. Both have assigned 2 vCPUs, but only the sles 10 vm discovers the second vcpu. Both vm's run on SMP-enabled kernel.

Is there any SMP support restriction for sles 9 operatingsystem? I haven't found something in the guestOS-guides...

Some data of the virtual machines:
SLES9:
cat /etc/SuSE-release

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586)
VERSION = 9
PATCHLEVEL = 4

uname -a

Linux some-sles9-vm 2.6.5-7.317-smp #1 SMP Tue May 26 14:27:51 UTC 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 2997.190
cache size : 4096 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss pni ds_cpl dca
bogomips : 7864.32

SLES10:
cat /etc/SuSE-release

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586)
VERSION = 10
PATCHLEVEL = 2

uname -a

Linux +some-sles10-vm* 2.6.16.60-0.39.3-smp #1 SMP Mon May 11 11:46:34 UTC 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 2999.322
cache size : 6144 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss lm constant_tsc pni > ds_cpl cx16 dca lahf_lm
bogomips : 6275.07

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 2999.322
cache size : 6144 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss lm constant_tsc pni > ds_cpl cx16 dca lahf_lm
bogomips : 7241.72

Looking forward for your answers.
Greetings,
Stephan

Linux - VMware Server 1.0.8 (Network)

iw4dy32c — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:32:52 GMT

Hello,

I have Linux server with VMware Server 1.0.8 .

When I creating a virtual machine, I can not "send" a PING to the virtual machine .

In the virtual machine, I have installed CentOS 5.3 (32bit).

In the virtual machine I have defined the addresses IP.

So, whey I can't "sent" a ping to the virtual machie?
I have to set something on the Linux server?

If something unintelligible tell me please.

Thanks!

Localhost on Virtual Machine

gawel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:41:40 GMT

Hello

I'm totally new in VMWare Server

I've installed OpenSUSE as virtual machine and then I've installed apache.

The problem is that I dont know how to connect with localhost from virtual machine in my browser.

I've tried to put virtual machine's IP in browser but it doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Regards

Gawel

Server 1.0.10 Modules Patch for 2.6.26 Kernel

ZankovStanislav — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:12:42 GMT

This patch is 'vmware-any-any-update117d.tar.gz', actually.

Original filenames of the split vmdk`s

pbroska — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:07:05 GMT

After fsck.ext3 all vmdk files were moved to lost+found with inode names. How is it possible to find out how the filenames must be? I know the names from an old backup but which file #23244?? is debian5-s001.vmdk. The size of all files is 2GB and i can`t find anything in the header. The files are all ok.

Network name is no longer available Win 2003 host/guest(s) on VMWare Server

Kallex — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:34:37 GMT

Hello!

I get errors of "The specified network name is no longer available" which seem to correlate to other people's problems about large fast file copying between guest and host.

The errors come from my backup cycles, that by the nature deal with fast and huge file copying.

I read out, that this seems to solve the issue even on Win2003 environments:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/Windows2000/AdminTips/Network/VMWareProblemWhenSavingLargeFiles.html

However I don't find my adapters on the registry list; I have custom bridged VMnet 2 & 3 to my physical adapters and only see the virtual ones VMnet 1 & 8 on the registry.

I am using VMWare Server 1.0.1 with two separate GLAN NICs. I got these errors also on Virtual Server 2005 (but less, which I'd guess could be caused by the fact that Virtual Server allows only 100Mbit network).

I'll try to tweak out "LargeSendOffload" and alike options on the real physical network cards, but any advice on getting to tune the thing properly are warmly welcome :)!

Br,

Kalle

Resizing disk space on vmware server

crisv8 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:24:45 GMT

Hi,

its possible to increse disk space in my virtual machine after it is already created and using ?

NFS Apache Log files

tazmarine — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:47:34 GMT

Hello all, I'm a new user of VMware virtual server and I'm trying to create a simple setup to run two Linux virtual servers each hosting an install of apache/php/mysql. One server will be used for production and the other server will be used for development. I've created two nfs shares on the host box (one for prod /webs/prod and one for devl /webs/devl) and mount them at boot on the respective virtual servers. The nfs shares hold the apache document root, log files, and mysql databases. Both servers run great but I'm seeing a small inconsistency with the logging. Not all the http requests are getting logged and can see this as I watch tail -f /webs/prod/log/access_log. There have been a couple times where I don't send any request for about 15 minutes then I send a couple and do an ls -l and the date/time stamp isn't updated. I do a tail on the access_log and it has the last log entry from 15 minutes ago. It does seem to log better when I tail -f it, almost like it fell asleep and I woke it up.

Just curious if anyone has seen this before. I did try and change some of the mount options but still see inconsistencies in the logging.

My server info is a Sun V20z server, dual amd processors, and 2GB of RAM. Host and client operating systems are RHEL 4 ES

Arrow keys problem in VMware Server Console 1.08 - 1.09 Linux

dn777 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:24:18 GMT

Hi,

After an upgrade sometimes ago I found a strange behavior regarding VMware Server Console 1.0.8. I tested VMware Server Console 1.0.9 and it behaves in the same way.

The problem is: arrow keys do not work correctly, and "Alt Gr" key does not work as expected (pressing "Alt Gr" + a key brings that like it is been pressed without "Alt Gr". Sometimes "Alt Gr" beahaves like "Enter")

The behaviour is always reproducible on all tested computers with VMware Server Console 1.08 - 1.09 on Linux and in all guests tested.

Client platform information:
VMware Server Console 1.0.8 build-126538 and 1.0.9 build-156507, openSUSE 11.1, Linux 2.6.27.23-0.1-default #1 SMP, KDE3 & KDE4

Server:
VMware-server-1.0.6-91891, openSUSE 11.0, Linux 2.6.25.20-0.1-pae #1 SMP

Guests:
Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003, Linux OpenSuSE 11.0 & 11.1

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Cannot access internet from guest

trevor-sch — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:48:31 GMT

There is no internet connectivity from the guest when using bridged, although changing it to NAT fixes the problem.

1. ipconfig on guest (bridged)

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : tools48
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : <company-name>.com
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : <company-name>.com

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Loopback Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-4C-4F-4F-50
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.10.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.0.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : <company-name>.com
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : AMD PCNET Family PCI Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-74-42-F7
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.34.7.236
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.34.6.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.160.29.64
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.160.29.90
10.168.29.87
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.160.26.101
Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 10.160.26.14
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:56:33 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, June 27, 2008 4:56:33 PM

2. ipconfig on guest (NAT)

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Loopback Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-4C-4F-4F-50
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.10.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.0.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : localdomain
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : AMD PCNET Family PCI Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-74-42-F7
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.175.128
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.175.2
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.175.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.175.2
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.175.2
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:39:26 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:09:26 PM

Active Directory

grim3r — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:57:54 GMT

i was just wondering if i set up windows 2008 server edition with active directories into vmware server 1 or player will it affect the local active directory on the domain, as i have serveral vbscript file i would like to test out on how they function but i dont want it damaging the main systems.

will it be safe to do so?

Thank you

remote power on /wake on lan

marksman — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:39:38 GMT

Hi all,

A few months ago I bought a new server (Intel Xeon x2, Windows 2003 server), to run several virtual machines on it under VMWare Server. Users logged into their VMs with RDP and everything was perfect.

However, a problem arised when the number of VMs grew up: the physical machine had not enough resources to keep every VM running and performance dropped. The solution seemed easy: just power off the VMs and start then only when needed, but my users don´t like it (they have little IT skills).

So the problem is: How to remote power on/wake on LAN a VM on a server easily? Can I run a remote script to power on a VMWare server Virtual machine?

Regards.

Help! My VM's intermittently lose network connectivity!

jl542uop — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:39:39 GMT

I have 10 hosts running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 32-bit.
These are running dual Quad-core procs and have 8GB+ of RAM each.

These hosts around 30 VM guests, mostly Windows server Standard 2003 32-bit, with a couple Windows 2008 servers and a couple CentOS linux systems.

My issue boils down to this:

I started noticing my servers were having poor performance despite monitoring them using Task Manager and seeing little to no activity. I installed WhatsUpGold and found that running a simple ping test, my VM's were all becoming inaccessible frequently. Sometimes for longer than 2 minutes. I can see them on the console just fine, and the hosts are accessible.

The ping test is failing on VM's about 300 times or more a day. They are frequently spread across multiple hosts, so I find it hard to blame hardware at this point.

Can anyone offer some insight as to what's going on?

Thanks!

server 1.0.10 NAT: DNS not working

xerces8 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:39:33 GMT

I just updated VMWare Server from 1.0.9 to 1.0.10 and now DNS does not work in guest that have set up NAT networking.

Tried Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, also Windows XP. All using default (automatic) network settings.

I can ping any numerical address, but DNS resolution does not work.
If I set manually a DNS server offered by my ISP in the guests, then it works.

Is this some regression with 1.0.10 ? I'm sure the same VM worked before the update.

Regards,
David

Anyone using VirtualCenter 1.4 with SQL Server 2005?

stanj — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:29:47 GMT

Has anyone tried VirtualCenter Server 1.x for VMware Server (1.x) with SQL Server 2005?

thanks

Bridged networking just quit!

SrMarcos — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:57:45 GMT

All:

I've found several threads on this with no real resolutions, so I'm posting this in the hopes someone has since found a resolution and can share it...or that VMWare has found the bug and fixed it.

I had been accessing some test VMs on my machine using VMWare Server regularly, then didn't for a couple of weeks. When I tried to do so yesterday, none of the guests can communicate with the host or other guests...and the host can't even ping any of the guests. Guest OSes include Win2003 and CentOS...and they all have the same problem.

Any ideas? I did try to switch to Host-only, as that had been mentioned in one of the threads. No go.

Please advise. I was testing this to provide a go/no-go on deploying VMWare at a client site, and now I feel I must strongly advise against its use in anything resembling a production environment...a shame, as until now, I had no major reservations with it. Ugh.

Thanks in advance...
Mark

No WebAccess to VMware Server 2

Samoht — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:39:27 GMT

Hi,

I am all out of ideas on this one. VMware server installed successfully, the license is installed etc.
But I cannot connect to the web interface on https://localhost:8333
I am running WMware Server 2.x on an Intel based work station under 64-bit Fedora 11.
The window pops up to ask for
"Login Name" and "Password"

but after submitting the info it times out and gives this response:

selinux is running in permissive mode
iptables are NOT running
tcpwrappers are NOT enabled!

file:///tmp/moz-screenshot-1.png!

Any help is appreciated.
P.S.: I know this is a forum about "VMware Server 1" but I couldn't find another forum which was even close to this one.

Where to begin?

DaveInNNJ — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:35:10 GMT

Hi Everyone,
I was hoping to get some guidance in that I'm trying to garner support for VMWare in a small software company, and I have some questions.

In the past we used VMWare server on Linux and had VMWare clients on Windows talking to it. This was because it was cheaper for software licensing costs.

Is that still available?

I'm getting some resistance in using VMWare for a testing platform because "the environment is not the same as a barebones Windows box". It's a manager with that opinion and I was wondering if there was a white paper that spoke to using VMWare for QA.

Is anyone using VMWare to deploy a production product (you know, like shipping a customer a pre-configured VMWare and calling it a product).

Thanks for any help,
David

Guest Time To Fast

VeGeTa-X — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:39:28 GMT

I need some help with my vmware guest 2003 server the clock is much faster than the host; my host system is a windows XP SP2 with a dual core amd operton processor. My vmware server application is version 1.3 and I have made the changes to my config.ini file as stated below. I have vmware tools installed on all vmware guest systems and the option for the time synchronization between the virtual computer and host is checked of; I have even changed the settings in windows time service and stopped that service and changed it from auto to manual. I have also searched this forum to see if I have missed a setting of some sort. Can someone let me know what I am missing? Thx

host.cpukHz = "1810000"
host.noTSC = "TRUE"
ptsc.noTSC = "TRUE"

Advanced VB script for backup of VMs on Windows hosts

saxa — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:30:11 GMT

Please advice. I worked about 5 days on it, and it's awesome, IMHO.

Read the leading comment attentively. Save the code as vm-backup.vbs. Enjoy. Share your comments.

[code]
' Copyleft saxa aka Alexander Kaufmann, 2006
'
' Written just for fun; total Open Source.
' Use it at your own risk.
'
' The script uses the VmCOM API for the virtual machine operations.
'
' The virtual machine *must* have the VMware Tools installed, in order to perform the
' shutdown and heartbeat operations correctly.
'
' DON'T APPLY THIS SCRIPT ON RUNNING VIRTUAL MACHINES WHICH DON'T HAVE THE VMWARE TOOLS INSTALLED.
'
' It works on Windows 2000 SP4 and newer; it doesn't use the NTBackup utility.
'
' The script runs on the local host only; it cannot be used to connect to a remote VMware Server.
' The script *can* backup to the network share, if you have the appropriate permissions to do it.
'
' For the backup jobs it uses the command line version of 7zip: get it on http://7zip.org/download.html.
' You need the "7-Zip Command Line Version". Or, just download the full install - there is also a 64 bit
' version available.
'
' We assume that the 7zip executable is included in your %PATH% variable.
' Most probably you already have a folder with your tools, where you will also save this script.
' We have on each of our servers the folder C:\Program files\myTools created and it is added to %PATH%.
'
' Please see Windows Help on how to add a folder to %PATH%.
'
' Here I go again (c) ;))
'
' To use the command line version of this script (non-interactive mode):
' We assuming that all of our .vmx files are named vm.vmx.
' The name itself doesn't matter, but it must be the same for every virtual machine.
' If you don't like vm.vmx, please change the following variable correspondingly.

vmfile = "vm.vmx"

' We also assume that all of your virtual machines are located in the appropriate subdirectories
' of *one* directory; in other words, we need a flat structure.
' See the variable "vmpath" and change it to your needs.
' Here is a sample of correct directory layout:
'
' D:\Virtual Machines\
' Virtual Machine 1\
' vm.vmx
' hdd1.vmdk
' hdd1-flat.vmdk
' hdd2.vmdk
' hdd2-flat.vmdk
' other_file.ext
' Virtual Machine 2\
' vm.vmx
' disks\
' some weird disk 1.vmdk
' some weird diskette.flp
'
' As you can see, subdirectories are also allowed. It's only important that your .vmx file is placed
' on the (in this sample) second level, say, the full path to .vmx must be
' D:\Virtual Machines\Virtual Machine X\vm.vmx for every virtual machine.
'
' The subdirectory where the virtual machine is located is very important for this script:
' it's the virtual machine's identifier.
' In our sample these are "Virtual Machine 1" and "Virtual Machine 2" respectively.
'
' You will start the script as follows:
'
' vm-backup.vbs "Virtual Machine 1"
'
' or
'
' vm-backup.vbs "Virtual Machine 2"
'
' to backup the Virtual Machine 1 or Virtual Machine 2.
'
' If you want to use the script in a sheduled task, you must use the following command line:
'
' wscript.exe vm-backup.vbs "Virtual Machine 1"
'
' to backup the Virtual Machine 1.
'
' The script does the following:
'
' The virtual machine gets the command to shut down it's operating system.
' The script waits 30 seconds and than checks the state of the virtual machine.
' If the vm still runs, the script waits 30 seconds more and so on.
' As soon as the vm is off, the script copies the vm's folder into the backup location
' (see the "bkpath" variable and change it if you would like to; UNC paths are accepted).
'
' If the vm couldn't be shut down, the mail is sent to the admin,
' the error is written in the Windows application log.
'
' After the copying is done, the vm receives the command to start, if it was running before the operation has begun.
' 30 seconds later, and then every 30 seconds, the script checks the heatbeat of the vm.
' As soon as the vm at 300 or more units of heartbeat, the script starts to create
' a compressed archive from a previously copied vm directory.
' At that point of time is the vm already up and running.
' A .zip archive receives the following name: YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS-Virtual Machine 1.zip
' The creation of the .zip file takes it's time: on Pentium 4 (with Hyperthreading, single core)
' 2.8 GHz machine with 3 GB RAM is the duration of compress operation on a virtual machine
' having 2 virtual HDDs at 16 and 36 GB was about 2 hours. Though it is worth the effort:
' the resulting file has the size of 3.6 GB: compare it to 52 GB uncompressed .
' So, after the .zip file is ready, the script checks if there were any errors produced by 7zip.
' If there are some, the Windows Application log is misused for the registration of them.
' If not, then we can safely delete the copy of the vm used as a source for compression
' and create the record of successful backup operation in the Application log.

' The interactive mode (if you start the script without any parameters) does the same.
' You can manually name your zip file.

' Added on 2006-10-16; now is in Beta-Testing

' It's also possible to run a script as following (quite interesting for "scripting of this script"):

' vm-backup.vbs "X:\Full Path To vmx File\My vmx file.vmx" "Y:\Full Path To Some zip File\bla\Any name.zip"

' The script will backup the directory "X:\Full Path To vmx File\" including all subdirectories.

' Why it's Beta:
' The script will *not* create the directory ""Y:\Full Path To Some zip File\bla\"

vmpath = "D:\Virtual Machines\"

' Please don't forget the ending backslash!
' vm -> Directory where the VM files are located: the machine name is received from the argument.

' bkpath -> Destination directory; here are temporary backups created,
' and here you will find your .zip files.
' The user who runs the script must have the write permissions on directory / network share.

bkpath = "E:\backups\"

' In the variable seven_zip_switch you can provide the additional switches for the command line of 7zip.
' The most thinkfully switch is " -v4g" (don't forget the leading space!). It causes the splitting of your
' archive into volumes at 4 GB. Please read the 7zip's manual about the -v switch.

seven_zip_switch = ""

adminmail = "mail@domain.com" 'Here you'll receive mail messages.

smtp = "smtp.domain.com" 'Your SMTP server must be able to relay the mails for your mail address. IP address is also OK.

On Error Resume Next

' Common definitions...

Set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set cp = CreateObject("VmCOM.VmConnectParams")
Set server = CreateObject("VmCOM.VmServerCtl")
Set thevm = CreateObject("VmCOM.VmCtl")
Set wshNet = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Set mailing = CreateObject("CDO.Message")

mailing.From = lcase(wshNet.UserName & "@" & wshNet.ComputerName & "." & wshNet.UserDomain)
mailing.To = adminmail
mailing.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
mailing.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = smtp
mailing.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25

header = "Backup Script for VMware Virtual Machines" 'Just the title for message boxes...

Function iso_date(byval dt)

' The function does nothing interesting...

dim y: y=year(dt)
dim m: m=month(dt)
dim d: d=day(dt)
dim h: h=hour(dt)
dim n: n=minute(dt)
dim s: s=second(dt)

if m < 10 then m="0" & m
if d < 10 then d="0" & d
if h < 10 then h="0" & h
if n < 10 then n="0" & m
if s < 10 then s="0" & s

iso_date = y & "-" & m & "-" & d & "-" & h & n & s

end Function

' Here we are getting the name of the VM delivered by the script argument; it must one or two.
' If there are two, it means, user want to define the VM and backup location manually.
' If there are more than two, it's an incorrect call.

Set args = WScript.Arguments

If args.Count=1 Then 'We are in the mode with predefined vm by parameter, way = "a(utomatic)"
vm = args(0)
vmfolder = vmpath & vm
vmfile = vmfolder & "\" & vmfile

zipfile = bkpath & vm & "-" & iso_date(now) & ".zip"

tmpfolder = bkpath & vm

way = "a"

ElseIf args.Count=0 Then 'We are in the interactive mode, way = "i(nteractive)"

vmfile = inputBox("Please enter the full path to the .vmx file of the virtual machine you want to backup:",header,vmpath)

' Quit if cancel

if vmfile = "" then

WScript.Quit

end if

vmfolder = fso.GetParentFolderName(vmfile)

vmparent = fso.GetParentFolderName(vmfolder)

vm = Replace(Replace(vmfolder, vmparent, ""),"\","")

bkfile = bkpath & vm & "-" & iso_date(now) & ".zip"

zipfile = inputBox("Now, please enter the full path to the .zip file the script will create:",header,bkfile)

' Quit if cancel

if zipfile = "" then

WScript.Quit

end if

tmpfolder = fso.GetParentFolderName(zipfile) & "\" & vm

way = "i"

' New Section: for working with 2 args

ElseIf args.Count=2 Then 'We are in the automatic mode with 2 Arguments: VM and backup location

vmfile = args(0)

vmfolder = fso.GetParentFolderName(vmfile)

vmparent = fso.GetParentFolderName(vmfolder)

vm = Replace(Replace(vmfolder, vmparent, ""),"\","")

' bkfile = bkpath & vm & "-" & iso_date(now) & ".zip"

zipfile = args(1)

tmpfolder = fso.GetParentFolderName(zipfile)

' Here we should check if the tmpfolder exists: dunno if it will be automatically created...
' If not, it should be created on this place programmatically...

way = "a"

' /New Section

Else

' There is more than one argument provided: write the error message into the application log and bye.
' There is no message box / email here.

errNoVMfile = "Incorrect Input." & VbCrLf & "The directory where the Virtual Machine files" & VbCrLf & "are resided must be provided as argument." & VbCrLf & "If the directory name contains spaces," & VbCrLf & "please add the " & Chr(34) & " sign at the beginning" & VbCrLf & "and at the end of the Virtual Machine's name." & VbCrLf & "The reading of the source code" & VbCrLf & "of the vm-backup.vbs script may help "

wshShell.LogEvent 1, errNoVMfile

WScript.Quit

End If

' Try to connect to server 10 times

connected = False
For tries_srv = 1 To 10
server.Connect cp
If Err.number = 0 Then
connected = True
Exit For
End If
WScript.Sleep 10000
Err.clear
Next

If Not connected Then

'Connection to server couldn't be established; we write something into the application log or/and send a message...

errNoConnectSRV = "The Backup Script for VMware Server couldn't create an appropriate connection." & VbCrLf & "Please check if all of the VMWare Services are up and running." & VbCrLf & "Please keep in mind, you can run this script on the local host only."

wshShell.LogEvent 1, errNoConnectSRV

mailing.Subject = header & ": Critical Error"
mailing.TextBody = errNoConnectSRV
mailing.Configuration.Fields.Update
mailing.Send

if way = "i" Then
crySRV = msgBox(errNoConnectSRV,vbCritical,header)
end if

WScript.Quit

End If

' Connect to the virtual machine. You remember, what the "vmfile" is?

' Try to connect to vm 10 times

connected_m = False
For tries_vm = 1 To 10
thevm.Connect cp, vmfile
If Err.number = 0 Then
connected_m = True
Exit For
End If
WScript.Sleep 1000
Err.clear
Next

If Not connected_m Then

'Connection to vm couldn't be established; we write something into the application log or/and send a message...

errNoConnectVM = "The Backup Script for VMware Server couldn't connect to the virtual machine " & vmfile & "." & VbCrLf & "Please check if the path to .vmx file correct is and if the virtual machine is registered on your server." & VbCrLf & "Please keep in mind, you can run this script on the local host only."

wshShell.LogEvent 1, errNoConnectVM

mailing.Subject = header & ": Critical Error"
mailing.TextBody = errNoConnectVM
mailing.Configuration.Fields.Update
mailing.Send

if way = "i" Then
cryVM = msgBox(errNoConnectVM,vbCritical,header)
end if

WScript.Quit

End If

' Enough with checking
' Get the ExecutionState of the vm to know if it must be started after backup complete

' Const vmExecutionState_Off = 2
' Const vmExecutionState_On = 1
' Const vmExecutionState_Stuck = 4
' Const vmExecutionState_Suspended = 3
' Const vmExecutionState_Unknown = 5

' now we need only 2 states

ps = thevm.ExecutionState

if ps = 1 then

was_on = true ' It must be powered on after backup

elseIf ps = 2 then

was_on = false ' After backup do nothing

else

' If vm stucks, suspended or in unknown state... Who needs such backups? We create some errors.

errState = "The Backup Script for VMware Server couldn't get the correct state of the virtual machine " & vmfile & "." & VbCrLf & "Correct states are on and off only." & VbCrLf & "A vm with pending question, such as new SID after copying or moving, cannot be backed up, too."

wshShell.LogEvent 1, errState

mailing.Subject = header & ": Critical Error"
mailing.TextBody = errState
mailing.Configuration.Fields.Update
mailing.Send

if way = "i" Then
cryVM = msgBox(errState,vbCritical,header)
end if

WScript.Quit

end If

' Heartbeat. It's the approximate number of seconds from the start of VMWare Tools inside the vm.

hb = thevm.Heartbeat

if was_on = true then

if hb < 1 then ' VMWare Tools not installed or cannnot be contacted...

' VM without VMWare Tools can only be backed up if it was off...

errTools = "The Backup Script for VMware Server couldn't contact the VMWare Tools on the virtual machine " & vmfile & "." & VbCrLf & "Therefore it cannot be shut down correctly." & VbCrLf & "Please shut down the vm manually. Afterwards it can be backed up."

wshShell.LogEvent 1, errTools

mailing.Subject = header & ": Critical Error"
mailing.TextBody = errTools
mailing.Configuration.Fields.Update
mailing.Send

if way = "i" Then
cryTools = msgBox(errTools,vbCritical,header)
end if

WScript.Quit

end if

end if

' start/stop
' Const vmPowerOpMode_Hard = 1
' Const vmPowerOpMode_Soft = 2
' Const vmPowerOpMode_TrySoft = 3

' Now stopping...

getoff = thevm.stop(2)

isoff = False

For tries_off = 1 To 10
ps = thevm.ExecutionState
If ps = 2 Then
isoff = True
Exit For
End If
WScript.Sleep 60 * 1000
ps = 0

Next

If Not isoff Then

'The vm couldn't be shut down: very critical...

errNoShutDown = "The Backup Script for VMware Server couldn't shut down the virtual machine " & vmfile & "." & VbCrLf & " in a reasonable time." & VbCrLf & "Please check it's state."

wshShell.LogEvent 1, errNoShutDown

mailing.Subject = header & ": Critical Error"
mailing.TextBody = errNoShutDown
mailing.Configuration.Fields.Update
mailing.Send

if way = "i" Then
cryNoShutDown = msgBox(errNoShutDown,vbCritical,header)
end if

WScript.Quit

end if

' Machine is shut down and can be copied

copyVM = fso.CopyFolder(vmfolder,tmpfolder) 'checked

' Machine copied!

if was_on = true then 'Power on the vm if it was on

geton = thevm.start(2)

' Wait until the heartbeat becomes more than 300

ison = False

For tries_on = 1 To 20
hbs = thevm.Heartbeat
If hbs > 300 Then
ison = True
Exit For
End If
WScript.Sleep 30 * 1000
hbs = 0

Next

If Not ison Then

'The vm couldn't be start up: very critical...

errNoStart = "The Backup Script for VMware Server couldn't power on the virtual machine " & vmfile & "." & VbCrLf & " in a reasonable time. Maybe the machine could not start the VMWare Tools." & VbCrLf & "Please check it's state and / oder configuration."

wshShell.LogEvent 1, errNoStart

mailing.Subject = header & ": Critical Error"
mailing.TextBody = errNoStart
mailing.Configuration.Fields.Update
mailing.Send

if way = "i" Then
cryNoStart = msgBox(errNoStart,vbCritical,header)
end if

WScript.Quit

end if

end if

' Now the vm is up and running. It is copied and ready to be compressed

backup_string = "7za a -tzip " & chr(34) & zipfile & chr(34) & " " & chr(34) & tmpfolder & "\*" & chr(34) & seven_zip_switch

' Now create the archive...

backup_vm = wshshell.Run(backup_string,0,true)

if backup_vm > 0 then

' The zip file wasn't created

errNozip = "The Backup Script for VMware Server couldn't create a zip file." & VbCrLf & "Please check if you have enough disk space on " & tmpfolder & " and run / shedule the backup script again."

wshShell.LogEvent 1, errNozip

mailing.Subject = header & ": Critical Error"
mailing.TextBody = errNozip
mailing.Configuration.Fields.Update
mailing.Send

if way = "i" Then
cryNoZip = msgBox(errNozip,vbCritical,header)
end if

WScript.Quit

end if

' Now delete the temporary backup folder...

deltmp = fso.deleteFolder(tmpfolder) 'should be ok

' And send some messages.

success_message = "The Backup Script for VMware Server backed up the virtual machine " & vmfile & " successfully." & VbCrLf & "Backup is saved as " & zipfile & "."

wshShell.LogEvent 0, success_message

mailing.Subject = header & ": Operation Successfully Completed"
mailing.TextBody = success_message
mailing.Configuration.Fields.Update
mailing.Send

if way = "i" Then
cryS = msgBox(success_message,vbExclamation,header)
end if

WScript.Quit [/code]

Message was edited by:
RDPetruska
Updated Script by Saxa

DNS on VMware-NAT stops working

davidiw — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:31:35 GMT

On a set of clusters we're working with the VMware-NAT stops working with DNS. Watching the packets using tcpdump, we see them go out but never comes a response. This is true regardless if we use the VMware-NAT DNS server or a real DNS server. Restarting the vmnet-natd process fixes the issue. This is with version 1.0.2 of the VMware Server running on a Debian 4.0 host running a custom 2.4.34 Kernel. Does anyone know of a solution or some pointers?

Regards,
David

Cannot connect local Vsphere Client drive to VM

Jam3s — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:41:48 GMT

Hello, I've done some searching on this issue, but has anyone ever seen this particular error? Attached. Thanks.

VMDK files causing serious issues—any ideas?

MaaWaa — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:25:41 GMT

Vital statistics

VMWare Server version: 1.0.4
Host OS: MS Server 2003 SP2
Processor type: 64 bit

The problem

I have inherited what might well be the virtual server setup from Hell. For some reason known only to my predecessor and God, VMWare was set up to take automatic snapshots, completely unchecked; although I put a stop to this immediately I found out, there are currently 76 VMDK files, each fairly large, taking up a total of 370GB of space on the host system.

Combined with the other three VMs hosted on that server, we now have only 38MB (yes, you read that right) of space on the hard disk. As you might guess, this is causing very serious and critical stability issues on the host OS, and I need to delete the snapshots and hopefully consolidate some of those VMDK files as a matter of urgency.

Having done some research on this, it appears that it is not a straightforward operation, especially when critically pressed for space. (Literally, almost everything on that server is critical, and a good deal is taken up by the other VMs.) I know this is a common topic; I am simply hoping for some advice, suggestions, ideas or even just some more pointers on how to go about this. Note that we do have a robust 1TB NAS available for the operation, if that is any help. One possibility I have considered is shutting down the other two VMs and moving them to the NAS to free up some space for consolidation, although they are pretty small compared to the other VM; this is unlikely to clear up more than a few GBs. Ideally, it would be possible to move the larger VM's files onto the NAS while I get rid of the snapshots offline, but I am not sure if this is even possible.

I know it seems a little late to be worrying about this, but like I said: I inherited the setup very recently, and now I'm left with the unenviable task of restoring it to some semblance of stability!

Unable to run installer VMware Server 1.0.7 on Windows

vmwarenovice123 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:44:33 GMT

Hi Experts,

Can you please advise me what might the problem with my system....

I am trying to install VMware Server 1.0.7, but when I run the .exe the installer flashesh on the screen and disapears.

I had it installed, but I preinstalled windows, and now I have this problem.

What I did so far for troubleshooting:

start in save mode with netweokring - the installation started but stopped with some error in the middle of the process

installed older jre 1.4.2_19 - no success

trying to install only VMware player - no success, installer flashesh again

Please help on this, I really need badly this installation.

Thank you in advance for the support!

Unable to run VMware services

bdmbrij — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:05:36 GMT

Hi,

I have recently installed VMware server 1.0.9 on my XPSP2 machine and was able to create Virtual machines. But all services have been stopped after a reboot and I am not able to run VMware on my system. All 4 services are stopped. I got the error code 1603 when I try to restart the services.

I am using AVG free antivirus if that is a matter of concern.

Please help asap.

Sincerely,

Brij Mohan

DHCP Server don´t release IP to the host

david1987 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:17:05 GMT

Hi!

Scenario: I have a DHCP server configured in a Fedora 11 on a virtual machine..The server release IP´s to the PC´s whose are connected to the ad-hoc created in the Windows Vista (under the virtual machine with Fedora 11). But the Vista don´t get any IP it´s like the SO is blocking the service from the DHCP server of the virtual machine.

Any sugestions?

Thanks

Weird behavior when forwarding port 25

thed0nd — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:21:13 GMT

Hello gurus,

I run VMware Server 1.01 on a linux box where a few VMs are NATed.

It's been running perfect for 3 years or so, until I needed to forward port 25 to one of the VMs.

I am not new to NAT and port forwarding under VMware Server + Linux : Ive been forwarding ports from start and always got it to work nicely.

Today, i needed to forward port 25, and after configurint it, NAT completely stopped working for all VMs. If I make it port 24 or 26 for example, it runs fine again.

Any idea why that is and possible workarounds?

Thanks !

Compatible Databases

stanj1 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:09:47 GMT

The VMware VirtualCenter 1.4 User Guide states that SQL Server 2000 is supported but I have heard somewhere that SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 can be used.

Does anyone know if SQL Server 2005 or 2008 can be used as the database for Virtual Center 1.4?

thanks

Error revertToSnapshot VIX API 1.7

mic21 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:06:03 GMT

Hi,

When I run the command:

vmrun -T server -h "http_address" -u userHost -p passwordHost revertToSnapshot "file.vmx" snapshot_name

I get the following error:

One of the parameters was not valid.

What can I do? Please Help me!

Thank, mic

What does numIOs mean

rakshit — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:39:26 GMT

I am running vmware server 1.0.3 on a Linux host wih a freebsd guest. Sometimes the guest becomes really slow. I have already created the /dev/shm anf tuned other parameters. I want to understand

waht does the below line in the vmware log mean? Is it indicative of lots of random writes?

DISKLIB-LIB :numIOs = 81050000 numMergedIOs = 19697 numSplitIOs = 2356

Running Server 2008 R2 x64 on VMServer 1.0.7?

ventevoj — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:48:21 GMT

I just loaded up Server 2008 R2 x64 on my VMWare Server 1.0.7 box. The install went fine, though I cant seem to get any network connectivity? I am running the guest OS as Server 2003 x64 and I made sure that the Ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" was in the vmx file. The NIC and the the NIC drivers load up fine and seem to be working correctly. I have the guest set to bridged networking. The guest OS just deems my internal network as unidentified. When I click on the doagnose it seems to find a gateway issue, though the gateway is correct? I have another Server 2008 x64 (Non R2) running on my system with the same settings and it is working great. I just cannot seem to find why I cannot get a network connection to work?

Thanks for any info!

John

Windows 2003 SP2 Support?

tsmerian — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:46:37 GMT

Hi gang,

OK, so I know my corporation is only like a year behind here, but we are planning on upgrading some Windows 2003 machines to Service Pack 2. Some of these machines are VMware Server hosts (and a couple are GSX). According to the system documentation for host system requirements, only Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 is supported. Is this indeed true?

Thanks for the feedback in advance!

Install VMware Server 1 on Windows 7 as host

AntonioBakula — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:16:04 GMT

I am using Windows 7 as main OS for some time now, and can't get VMware to work, I tried version 2 but not luck either. With version 1 Server Console won't even show, it takes one processor core to 100% usage and nothing happens after that, I tried to wait like 20 minutes. Compatibility mode and admin rights didn't do the trick, all the same. Is there some advice or workaround ?

btw. I will really prefer Server 1 , but will use Server 2 if no other option

thanks !

very slow after convert

smarcoux — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:14:37 GMT

I'm using Version 1.0.5

I used the convert utility to grow the size of my C Disk from 10 Gb to 25Gb

The new machine was created without any problem and it was created fast enough.

I started the VM and now every program in it takes forever to run...

Is there a way to boost the speed? or at least make it go as fast as it was before the convert?

I have 4 gb memory in the main computer and 2gb are used for that VM.

NIC Drivers for WIndows 7

garystark — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:54:54 GMT

When will network adaptor drivers be available for Windows 7 Beta as a guest OS?

I've just installed a W7 guest using an XP base from the wizard, but it cannot locate any network drivers. Should I have done the installation from the Vista starting point in the New VM wizard?

Need help urgently Please

houman2009 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:23:05 GMT

Hi All,

At where I work, we have a helpdesk computer which is running ubuntu 7.40, plus vmware 1.0.3 which has windows XP installed on it.

Unfortunately we have to migrate to windows 7 (on a new computer) and now we are lost. I installed ubuntu 8.10 on a new machine, plus vmware 1.0.7, and now trying to install windows 7. We have installed windows 7 several times but it keeps crashing. Can someone please tell me what is not compatible with what and how we can find a way around this. Need to finish this by Monday mornning.

Many thanks

Houman

Network problem with virtual nic

davide1980 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:57:18 GMT

We have a problem with VMware Server 1.0.7, installed on CentOS 5. Occasionally the virtual nic go down and up, we cannot understand why.

The logs are:

/var/log/messages

Oct 22 12:10:57 bzvm1 ntpd3590: sendto(213.249.66.35) (fd=21): Invalid argument
Oct 22 12:12:24 bzvm1 ntpd3590: sendto(212.113.164.13) (fd=21): Invalid argument
Oct 22 12:25:40 bzvm1 xinetd3572: START: vmware-authd pid=22047 from=172.16.0.134
Oct 22 12:25:41 bzvm1 xinetd3572: EXIT: vmware-authd status=0 pid=22047 duration=1(sec)
Oct 22 12:25:51 bzvm1 xinetd3572: START: vmware-authd pid=22048 from=172.16.0.134
Oct 22 12:25:51 bzvm1 xinetd3572: EXIT: vmware-authd status=0 pid=22048 duration=0(sec)
Oct 22 12:25:56 bzvm1 xinetd3572: START: vmware-authd pid=22050 from=172.16.0.134
Oct 22 12:25:57 bzvm1 xinetd3572: EXIT: vmware-authd status=0 pid=22050 duration=1(sec)
Oct 22 12:26:00 bzvm1 xinetd3572: START: vmware-authd pid=22051 from=172.16.0.134
Oct 22 12:26:00 bzvm1 xinetd3572: EXIT: vmware-authd status=0 pid=22051 duration=0(sec)
Oct 22 12:26:29 bzvm1 ntpd3590: sendto(213.179.228.6) (fd=21): Invalid argument

/var/log/vmware/vmware-serverd.log

Oct 21 11:37:05: app| SP: Deleting user session: 0 username: root
Oct 22 12:25:41: app| New connection on socket server-vmdb from host 172.16.0.134 (ip address: 172.16.0.134) , user: root
Oct 22 12:25:41: app| SP: New user session for user: root, pos: 0
Oct 22 12:25:41: app| The vm-list file has changed! Reloading the list of registered vms
Oct 22 14:20:28: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Oct 22 14:20:28: app| SP: Deleting user session: 0 username: root

Could you please help us to investigate and try to solve this issue, for now is very important.

Thanks and best regards

Netware guest hangs on host boot.

averylarry — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:13:48 GMT

I have 2 separate clients with this problem. Running VMWare server 1.0.4 on good new hardware. Host OS is Ubuntu Fiesty at one site and OES Linux 10.2 (I think? Or 10.1) at the other. Everything is running as root (and all files are owned by root). Both sites are running a Netware 6.5 SP 7 plus updates guest. At both sites, when the host is rebooted, the guest begins to boot and gets to the Netware screen that says "Press ESC to abort boot . . ." -- which is a normal Netware screen. At this point the guest has booted into DOS and run an autoexec.bat file which loads the Netware server. The Netware server has started up but is not continuing to boot -- it seems to be hung up. Interestingly, the guest is not dead. I can hit alt-shift-shift-esc and get to the Netware debugger screen, where I can (q)uit the server and go back out into DOS. However, if I try to load the Netware server again from the command line, it hangs at the same spot. All I have to do is power off the guest and power it back on and it'll boot normally.

Obviously this isn't ideal as a power outage or something in the middle of the night would mean my VM won't start up until I can connect and reset it manually. I've let the guest sit there for quite some time and it doesn't do anything past that point.

Any ideas?

Issue: Bind guest NICs to seperate host NICs fails

Jimmy1969 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:14:18 GMT

Hi,

Host system: Ubuntu 8.04 with 2.6.24-24-generic kernel
Three NICs: One dedicated for host, and two bridged for guest
VMware Server: 1.0.9 build-156507
Guest system: ClarkConnect Community 5.0 (linux firewall application configured with two NICs)

Issue: Cannot get guest system to bind to two seperate host NIC's. Instead it binds both virtual guest NICs to same host NIC.

For the purpose of testing the firewall connection has been changed: Public interface NIC is connected to the private sub-net.
This is to simplify testing of the assigned actual MAC addresses assigned and host NIC used.

Host network set-up
ifconfig (+edited+)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5b:bc:b3:8c
(used as first bridged guest NIC)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:b5:cd:12:5c
inet addr:10.0.69.200 Bcast:10.0.69.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
(used as host's NIC)
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:a6:79:6f:3e
(used as second bridged guest NIC)

Host Virtual Network Set-up
Host NIC eth0 bridged to /dev/vmnet0 and eth2 bridged to/dev/vmnet2:

ps -efw | grep vmnet
root 21692 1 0 18:26 pts/2 00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid /dev/vmnet0 eth0
root 21696 1 0 18:26 pts/2 00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-2.pid /dev/vmnet2 eth2

I have not installed the vmware tools on the guest. Read about installing them to run using driver EthernetX.virtualDev = "e1000", but to my understanding this is primarily to get a GB eth device which is not required for my set-up. An attempt to install vmware tools failed as vmware-config-tools.pl script returned compilation errors.

Guest Network Set-up
Note: both MAC addresses below has been changed by adding MACADDR in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth per device.
ifconfig (+edited+)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1C:DF:04:FC:75
inet addr:10.0.69.215 Bcast:10.0.69.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
(used as public gateway NIC)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:FF:FF:FF
inet addr:10.0.69.1 Bcast:10.0.69.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
(used as private gateway NIC)

Failed Test Case #1
Attempt to ping public firewall and private firewall addresses. Expected result: reply from different MAC addresses.
ARPING 10.0.69.1 from 10.0.69.200 eth0
Unicast reply from 10.0.69.1 00:1C:DF:04:FC:75 1.428ms
ARPING 10.0.69.215 from 10.0.69.200 eth0
Unicast reply from 10.0.69.215 00:1C:DF:04:FC:75 1.418ms
Result: Failed - both public and private firewall IP address reply using same MAC address.

Failed Test Case #2
Pulling out LAN cable from public NIC (i e eth0 on host system/ eth0 on guest system).
Expected result: no ping reply.
sudo arping 10.0.69.215
ARPING 10.0.69.215 from 10.0.69.200 eth0
Unicast reply from 10.0.69.215 00:1C:DF:04:FC:75 4.761ms
Result: Failed - gust public NIC binds to same physical host NIC as used by gust private NIC.

Remaining Questions
Q1) Have I missed any steps to I set-up the guest virtual network to be bridged directly to host NIC's eth0 and eth2?
Q2) Are there any known issues with bridged networking for WMware Server 1.0.9

All relevant feedback is welcomed!

//Jimmy

Lost Server Farms

stanj — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:37:21 GMT

I started up VMware Virtula Center 1.4 and received and error - failed to create accept socket.

I rebooted the server, checked settings, etc. Still. would not start.

I searched the VMware sites and a suggestion was to re-install (repair) the VMware Server,

So, I reinstalled with the repair option and went through the screens accepting ok and VMware Server starts.

However, when I open the VMware Manager, all of my Server Farms and Groups are no longer present.

Is there a way to recover them?

VMWare Server and IPTables...

betam4x — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:29:39 GMT

Hello everyone,

I recently installed VMWare Server on a fresh CentOS 5 dedicated server and have networking set for bridged networking. CentOS automatically enables IPTables with a default ruleset that should allow outbound traffic. However, in the VM I cannot do anything outside of pinging remote machines. If i disable IPTables the problem goes away. I've tweaked the rules a bit with no success. As i have little experience with IPTables i may be missing something. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to allow my VM to access the internet?

No networking on guest restart. Help!

hux2000 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:59:43 GMT

I've noticed this on a number of VMware Server 1.x systems, where the host is WinXP (SP3) and the guest is Ubuntu Server (6.06, 8.04, or 9.04). Using bridged networking, the guest occasionally loses its network connection when it restarts. As far as the guest itself is concerned, everything is normal, i.e. the following are all correctly configured:

/etc/network/interfaces
/etc/hosts
/etc/hostname
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Additionally, ifconfig shows an apparently correct IP address, netmask, etc., and /var/log/messages reports "eth0: link up". However, there is no network connection: ping, nslookup, etc., all fail and the guest cannot be reached from any other computer on the network. If the guest is restarted again, then sometimes that fixes the problem and sometimes it doesn't; it seems pretty random. For what it's worth, I've seen this behavior on two different VMware server installations on two different WinXP boxes, but I've never seen it when the host is a Linux box. Migrating everything to VMware Server 2 is not an option at this time.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Is there a fix for it?

VM clock runs too fast

caillerbranche — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:02:37 GMT

I've tried everything in the world! Hopefully there is someone from Mars out there who can help me though....

Setup:

VMware Server 1.0.3 on SuSE Linux (edit: uname -a = Linux vmserver1 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp #1 SMP Mon Jul 3 18:25:39 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)

VM with Ubuntu Server 8.04 (uname -a = Linux warba 2.6.24-23-server #1 SMP Thu Nov 27 19:19:15 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux)

Problem:

The system clock of the VM runs way too fast! (~13 secs per minute).

What I've tried:

First, I installed ntpd (apt-get install ntp) and configured it as follows:

server yukon
server 0.ch.pool.ntp.org
server 1.ch.pool.ntp.org
server 2.ch.pool.ntp.org
server 3.ch.pool.ntp.org
server ntp.ubuntu.com

yukon is our domain controller.
Initially, I corrected the clock using
ntpdate yukon
which worked fine. Afterwards I started the ntpd service.

After some days I found that the clock still ran too fast.

Second, I installed the vmware tools and added the following line to the VM's vmx file:
tools.syncTime = "TRUE" (edit: had written "FALSE" by error. Of course I set it to TRUE)

After a reboot, the clock seemed to go fine. Indeed, after weeks, it had still the correct time.

Then some day, I rebooted the server, and - bang - the clock ran too fast again.
However, a simple "Restart guest" in the VMware Server Console helped.

Recently, I had a kernal panic for whatever reason. After a reboot of the VM, the clock ran too fast again. This time, a hundered and one reboots wouldn't help.

After some research, I found that the VMware time synchronization should never have worked at all theoretically, since it only corrects the guest time if that one is behind the host time, which is not the case in my scenario.

After more research, I tried the following kernel options in /boot/grub/menu.lst:

clocksource=pit
clocksource=acpi_pm

Neither of these had any effect. The latter was taken from http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006427 .

Then I tried once more using ntpd

Again, I consulted http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006427 and found that ntpd might have failed due to the large drifts. I added the line:
tinker panic 0
to the top of the ntp.conf file and restarted ntpd.

Still the same issue.

In short, all the hints I have found so far did not solve this issue.

Can anybody help me?

Thx, caillerbranche

Current ntp.conf:

GSX issues

kriscrandall — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:35:21 GMT

Failed to defragment "/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Utils2/Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmdk":

The specified virtual disk needs repair.

how do i fix this any clues would be apprecited.

Krs

How to migrate Vmware server 1.x GUEST to vmware 2.x

rixs — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:11:24 GMT

Bonjour,

Je souhaite migrer mes machines virtuelles actuellement sur hote ubuntu (avec vmware server 1.x) vers une autre hote (locale pour l'instant) ubuntu vmware 2.0

J'essaye d'utiliser vmware converter, mais sans succès, j'ai le message d'erreur suivant au lancement (impossible de lancer le service manuellement) : "Unable to start vmware vcenter converter. You will not be able to connect to local server"

Dois je installer le vmware converter sur les machines hôtes?

Tenez moi au courat

Hi Guy's

I need to convert my vmware server 1.x virtual machines to an other vmware server 2.x (all on ubuntu). I want to convert machine in running mode, i try to use vmware converter, but when i launch it i have an error "Unable to start vmware vcenter converter. You will not be able to connect to local server".

I have installed vmware converter on my notebook (just a client of my network)

If you have an idea, i taking it

------plan de situation / situation's dagrams

("ubuntu host with my virtual machines 1.x")<-------------->('internet")<------------>("router nat")<--------------> (my notebook and on an other PC a new vmware virtual server 2.x)

I only install vmware converter on my notebook? it's enough to migrate virtual machines?

thanks / Merci

No DVD: "Cannot connect to virtual device ide1:0"

bosborne — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:34:14 GMT

Community,

New to VMware fusion, perhaps this is a simple one: I have a new MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard), with VMware Fusion. I'd expect that when I'm in Windows and I insert a DVD, like the one I have to install Microsoft Office, that the DVD would appear in Windows. It does not. When I select the command "Connect CD/DVD" I get the message "cannot connect to virtual device ide1:0". Also "no corresponding device is available on the host".

Thank you.

Isolated internal network?

MDaize — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:58:03 GMT

Hi there,

Just to start out, I am kinda-new to the whole VMware community. I have been playing with VMware for quite some time through evaluations and the like

I am currently trying to get a VMware Server setup so that I can progress with playing with an evaluation copy of Server 2003 for achieving my MCSA/MCSE certifications. I am currently running 64bit Ubuntu 7.10 and have already successfully installed Server 2003 64bit R2.

After doing some extensive searching, I have yet to find answers that would be able to solve the problem I am experiencing.

What I am wanting to do, is be able to run several guest o/s's - server 2003 for AD/exchange server, and possibly 1 or 2 guest XP/vista for integration with the AD setup... however, the trick is, I dont want any of them to have any form of outside internet. I want these guests to be connected to each other via virtual switch... From what I have read, I need to assign them to any of the custom interfaces VMnet2-7, is this the correct way of doing so? If not, how would I go about doing that?

From what I read, in I need to create a network interface using the custom interface, and in trying to do so, it gives me a warning: "Could not open /dev/vmnet#: No such file or directory. Virtual device Ethernet0 will start disconnected"

I was looking at creating the vmnet interface using the configuration script however it makes me tell it either to bridge, nat, etc. and asks for an IP address w/subnet. I am looking to make one of the virtual servers the DHCP server rather then the vmware dhcp giving out ip addresses.

Is there a way of doing such actions?

Thanks for any responses in advance!
Matthew Daize

Creating a virtual machine using vix api

Nisha Patwa — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:53:24 GMT

Hi,

I want to know what is the vix api call to create a new virtual machine in vmware server.

There are api calls available for connecting to a vm, pausing, suspending a virtual machine etc,

But i do not find anything on how to create a new virtual machine using vix api.

Can anyone please give me along with the example code?

.VMDK file now larger by 50% after running sdelete

JClark_FJS — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:11:18 GMT

Hello,

We have 2 Virtual machines running VMWare Server 1.04, these run as W2K3 guests, the physical host that they reside on has run out of local disk space, so, I have copied one of the VM's off to another server so that we could try shrinking the VM's.

On one of the VM's this is what happened, it didn't happen on the other VM when we did the same steps

1. The .vmdk file is set to have a maximum size of 65gb,current size of the .vmdk was approx. 35gb, the guest has 2 NTFS partitions (C: & D:) that are approx. 35gb in used space.
2. From within the W2K3 guest, we deleted any redundant log files etc, and then defrag'd both the partitions.
3. I then ran sdelete -c c:, followed by sdelete -c d:, followed by sdelete -z c: and then finally sdelete -z d:
4. Once the VM had been closed I noticed that the size was of the .vmdk file was now 57gb!!!!, even though from within the w2k3 guest the used space within partition are the same size(s) as before. #1.
5. I have also run vmware-vdiskmanager -d and also vmware-vdiskmanager -p , followed by vmware-vdiskmanager -k to shrink the file but to no joy.

Does anyone now why the file size of the vmdk has increased, and more importantly how I can get it back to 35gb size in order for me to copy it back to it's proper host.

Many thanks

Jon

Moving a VM with RDMs attached-encountering problems

jojo2000 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:27:18 GMT

I'm trying to move a VM from one storage bucket to another one that is attached to a different SAN. I have been using SVMotion for most of the moves but we're seeing issues with moving VMs that have a large amount of RDMs attached to them. Basically, the SVMotion GUI won't let me do the move because it's counting the space of the RDMs when computing space requirements. Now I am trying to manually copy the folder for the VM and move it to another location but the RDM pointer files are huge and it's like it's trying to move all that stuff as well. We're running 3.5. Has anyone dealt with this?

How to fine tune the Vmware Server Setup in windows Host

Narasimhan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:52:19 GMT

Hello ,

can some one explain how to fine tune the Vmware Server edition in windows host?

VMWare Oracle RAC with OCFS2 - SCSI BUG?

robertortel — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:15:57 GMT

Hi,

I have installed a 2 node Oracle RAC 10G R2 on VMWare Server 1.0.3. The Host OS is

[vmware@leih0421 rac2]$ uname -a
Linux leih0421 2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Sun Oct 15 15:13:57 PDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

This is Oracle Unbreakable Linux (RHEL R4U4 64Bit). Hardware is a Core 2 Duo.

The Guest OS on both nodes is:

[oracle@leih0421-v2 ~]$ uname -a
Linux leih0421-v2 2.6.9-55.0.0.0.2.EL #1 Wed May 2 14:55:28 PDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

This is Oracle Unbreakable Linux (RHEL R4U5 32Bit).

When putting oracle load to the cluster all night the cluster (mostly only one node, but sometimes both) crashes with the following messages in the log file:

Jun 28 04:06:07: vcpu-0| SCSI DISK: Calling write lock 0x0xe9f9a008 callback.
Jun 28 04:06:07: vcpu-0| SCSI DISK: Calling write lock 0x0xe9f9a008 callback.
Jun 28 04:06:08: vcpu-0|
Jun 28 04:06:08: vcpu-0| <<< Log Throttled >>>
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| NOT_IMPLEMENTED /build/mts/release/bora-44356/pompeii2005/bora/devices/scsi/scsiDisk.c:2875 bugNr=41568
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace:
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[0] 0xe8209b48 eip 0x805af90
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[1] 0xe8209f68 eip 0x80c03fb
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[2] 0xe8209f98 eip 0x809b587
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[3] 0xe8209fb8 eip 0x809a5ca
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[4] 0xe8209fe8 eip 0x809a8f0
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[5] 0xe820a028 eip 0x80915fc
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[6] 0xe820a058 eip 0x80783bc
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[7] 0xe820a078 eip 0x816732f
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[8] 0xe820a098 eip 0x81673d3
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[9] 0xe820a0e8 eip 0x81983f0
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[10] 0xe820a108 eip 0x81d02dd
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[11] 0xe820a138 eip 0x81d0231
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[12] 0xe820a168 eip 0x81d03cd
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[13] 0xe820a188 eip 0x81cfa55
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[14] 0xe820a1a8 eip 0x8084390
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[15] 0xe820a1c8 eip 0x81989fa
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[16] 0xe820a1e8 eip 0x8084390
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[17] 0xe820a208 eip 0x821a200
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[18] 0xe820a228 eip 0x8169b4b
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[19] 0xe820a248 eip 0x816cacb
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[20] 0xe820a268 eip 0x80787dc
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[21] 0xe820a278 eip 0x809199e
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[22] 0xe820a298 eip 0x809a656
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[23] 0xe820a2d8 eip 0x809ca76
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[24] 0xe820a2f8 eip 0x809a6e0
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[25] 0xe820a318 eip 0x809e802
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[26] 0xe820a358 eip 0x819d585
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[27] 0xe820a378 eip 0x82bc57f
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[28] 0xe820a398 eip 0x82bcb79
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[29] 0xe820a3c8 eip 0x82c554b
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[30] 0xe820a3d8 eip 0x82bcc61
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[31] 0xe820a448 eip 0x8068449
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[32] 0xe820a4c8 eip 0x42f371
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Backtrace[33] 00000000 eip 0x387ffe
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Core dump limit is 51200 kb.
Jun 28 04:09:19: vcpu-0| Attempting to dump core...
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0| Msg_Post: Error
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0| [msg.log.error.unrecoverable] VMware Server unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0| NOT_IMPLEMENTED /build/mts/release/bora-44356/pompeii2005/bora/devices/scsi/scsiDisk.c:2875 bugNr=41568
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0| [msg.panic.haveLog] A log file is available in "/export/virtual_maschines/oel4-rac/rac1/vmware.log". [msg.panic.haveCore] A core file is available in "/export/virtual_maschines/oel4-rac/rac1/core.10020". [msg.panic.requestSupport.withLogAndCore] Please request support and include the contents of the log file and core file. [msg.panic.requestSupport.linux]
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0| To collect files to submit to VMware support, run vm-support.
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0| [msg.panic.response] We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0| ----------------------------------------
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0| POST(no connection): VMware Server unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0| NOT_IMPLEMENTED /build/mts/release/bora-44356/pompeii2005/bora/devices/scsi/scsiDisk.c:2875 bugNr=41568
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0| A log file is available in "/export/virtual_maschines/oel4-rac/rac1/vmware.log". A core file is available in "/export/virtual_maschines/oel4-rac/rac1/core.10020". Please request support and include the contents of the log file and core file.
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0| To collect files to submit to VMware support, run vm-support.
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0| We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.
Jun 28 04:09:20: vcpu-0|
Jun 28 04:09:20: vmx| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#2| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#8| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#15| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#14| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#16| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#0| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#17| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#10| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#7| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#6| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#12| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: mks| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#4| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#18| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#20| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#9| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#1| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#19| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#13| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#5| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#11| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Jun 28 04:09:20: IO#3| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died

I have OCFS2 under suspicion for this, but I am not sure as the log does not show which SCSI disk caused the error. In /var/log/messages in one guest I see some ocfs2 messages, but those only appear after the other guest node crashed silently without messages in /var/log/messages.

This is my vmx file for one node:

#!/opt/vmware/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
memsize = "1536"
ide0:0.present = "FALSE"
ide0:0.fileName = "/dev/cdrom"
ide0:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"
ide0:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ide1:0.present = "FALSE"
ide1:0.fileName = "/export/Enterprise-R4-U5-i386-disc3.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide0:1.present = "FALSE"
ide0:1.fileName = "/export/Enterprise-R4-U5-i386-disc2.iso"
ide0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide1:1.present = "FALSE"
ide1:1.fileName = "/export/Enterprise-R4-U5-i386-disc4.iso"
ide1:1.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"
displayName = "rac1"
guestOS = "rhel4"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "soft"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "hard"
disk.locking = "FALSE"
diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = "0"
disklib.dataCacheMaxReadAheadSize="0"
disklib.dataCacheMinReadAheadSize="0"
disklib.dataCachePageSize="4096"
disklib.maxUnsyncedWrites="0"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "localdisk.vmdk"
scsi0:0.writeThrough = "FALSE"
scsi0:0.deviceType = "disk"
scsi0:1.present = "FALSE"
scsi0:1.fileName = "/export/virtual_maschines/oel4-rac/SharedDisks/asmdisk4.vmdk"
scsi0:1.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi0:1.redo = ""
scsi1.sharedBus = "virtual"
scsi1.present = "TRUE"
scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
scsi1:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi1:0.fileName = "../SharedDisks/ocfs2disk.vmdk"
scsi1:0.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi1:0.deviceType = "disk"
scsi1:1.present = "TRUE"
scsi1:1.fileName = "../SharedDisks/asmdisk1.vmdk"
scsi1:1.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi1:1.deviceType = "disk"
scsi1:2.present = "TRUE"
scsi1:2.fileName = "../SharedDisks/asmdisk2.vmdk"
scsi1:2.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi1:2.deviceType = "disk"
scsi1:3.present = "TRUE"
scsi1:3.fileName = "../SharedDisks/asmdisk3.vmdk"
scsi1:3.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi1:3.deviceType = "disk"
scsi1:4.present = "FALSE"
scsi1:4.fileName = "../SharedDisks/asmdisk4.vmdk"
scsi1:4.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi1:4.deviceType = "disk"
scsi1:5.present = "FALSE"
scsi1:5.fileName = "../SharedDisks/asmdisk5.vmdk"
scsi1:5.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi1:5.deviceType = "disk"
scsi1:15.present = "FALSE"
scsi1:15.fileName = "/export/virtual_maschines/oel4-rac/SharedDisks/asmdisk4.vmdk"
scsi1:15.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi1:15.redo = ""
scsi0:0.redo = ""
scsi1:0.redo = ""
scsi1:1.redo = ""
scsi1:2.redo = ""
scsi1:3.redo = ""
scsi1:4.redo = ""
scsi1:5.redo = ""
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
Ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
Ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:50:67:36"
Ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
Ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
Ethernet1.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:50:67:40"
Ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = "10"
Ethernet1.present = "TRUE"
Ethernet1.connectionType = "hostonly"
Ethernet1.addressType = "generated"
Ethernet2.present = "TRUE"
Ethernet2.connectionType = "bridged"
Ethernet2.addressType = "generated"
Ethernet2.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:50:67:4a"
Ethernet2.generatedAddressOffset = "20"
uuid.location = "56 4d e8 cc d4 80 31 06-00 b3 aa 7c 1d 50 67 36"
uuid.bios = "56 4d e8 cc d4 80 31 06-00 b3 aa 7c 1d 50 67 36"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
sharedFolder.maxNum = "1"
sharedFolder0.present = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.enabled = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.readAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.writeAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.hostPath = "/tmp"
sharedFolder0.guestName = "Shared"
sharedFolder0.expiration = "never"
snapshot.disabled = "TRUE"
autostop = "softpoweroff"
autostart = "none"
autostart.order = "0"
autostop.order = "0"
autostart.delay = "120"
autostop.delay = "60"
autostartContinueWhenToolsRun = "FALSE"
workingDir = "."
annotation = "Node 1 of a Oracle 10g RAC"
toolScripts.afterPowerOn = "TRUE"
toolScripts.afterResume = "TRUE"
toolScripts.beforeSuspend = "TRUE"
toolScripts.beforePowerOff = "TRUE"
reslck.timeout = 300
mainmem.usenamedfile="FALSE"

This is the vmdk file for my ocfs2 disk:

# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=7771c02a
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="monolithicFlat"
# Extent description
RW 1048576 FLAT "ocfs2disk-flat.vmdk" 0
# The Disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "32"
ddb.geometry.heads = "64"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "512"
ddb.toolsVersion = "6532"
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"

This is the OCFS2 version I am using:

[oracle@leih0421-v2 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ocfs
ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.0.0.2.EL-1.2.5-1
ocfs2console-1.2.4-1
ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.0.0.2.ELsmp-1.2.5-1
ocfs2-2.6.9-42.EL-1.2.5-1
ocfs2-tools-1.2.4-1
ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.0.0.2.ELhugemem-1.2.5-1

Help or advice needed to make this cluster more stable and to prevent nightly crashes.

Robert

PS: Issues happened also with VMWare Server 1.0.2 and Guest OS RHEL R4U4. Tried the updates, but those had no effect.

Message was edited by:
robertortel

reslck.timeout

brhynold — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:59:32 GMT

How do I set the reslck.timeout in the vmx file for my clustered servers. Is it as simple as setting reslck.timeout = <number> in vmx. I have looked high and low only for this parameter and have yet to find information on the parameter.

I have a 2 node RAC cluster setup that is working great as long as I don't try to do too much at once. If I do I one of the nodes crash with the following message in the logfile:

[msg.scsi.reservation.locktimeoutrecover] This virtual machine has been unresponsive for more than 20 seconds and has caused another virtual machine sharing a disk with it via SCSI reservations to believe it has died. It is therefore unsafe for this virtual machine to resume activity, and this virtual machine will now terminate. If a 20 second delay is not long enough to be an accurate 'death heuristic' it can be changed by setting the "reslck.timeout" configuration variable. It is extremely unlikely that this should ever be necessary.

I need to increase the 20 second default to at least 2 minutes to allow me to actually use my cluster.

Thanks

Duplicate neame exists on the network

DWagnerNIT — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:25:54 GMT

We recently upgraded to a new primary domain controller and demoted the old primary to secondary. Since this, all of our virtual machines give an error that a duplicate name exists on the network. I have tried running NewSID on them and changing the name, but the error still occurs. Once it gets stuck as one name, you cannot chnae the name to something else, as it gives and error that I am not connected to the domain because of a duplicate name and tells me to change the name of the machine... which is what I'm trying to do. I can get the name changed if I move the machine off the domain, disable the network card, then rename the machine and rejoin it to the domain after reeenabling the NIC. Once it's back on with the new name, it STILL says there is a duplicate. I have deleted all DNS records and computer accounts for the machine in AD. Anyone have any ideas?

Widnows 2008 Guest Nic doesn't see driver

Vmware_Moron — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:34:29 GMT

I'm running Server 1.04 and it will not allow me to install vmware tools to my windows server 2008 guest.

What is the work around??

Thanks!

use higher resolution with vmware console than the host

krangrion — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:36:53 GMT

Hi there,

i installed vmware 1.07 on ubuntu server 8.04 with resolution of 1280x768. the problem is that when using vmware console with another computer whith 1920x1440 resolution, i can't use the full screen option, but i can set the guest's resolution to 1920x1440. Do some one know if its possible to handle this

tanks

64 bit host machine/Vmware compatibility

DizzyWheels — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:35:16 GMT

Hello,

I am currently using a 32 bit host machine with Vmware Server on it, and run virtualized Windows Server '03, Windows XP and Vyatta Router on it. Would like to upgrade to a new PC (Dell with an Intel Processor) with 64 bit Windows 7 on it, what issues might arise with the 64 bit host machine. I am a college student and use VMware as part of the learning process.

Thanks

Setting up a new VM

BladeR1 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:23:06 GMT

Hi,

I have setup VMWare Server on a Quad-Core system. When deciding to create a new VM, I am prompted to go through several settings. This has raised a couple of questions for me.

1) For Processors, how do I decide whether to choose 1 or 2? Also, isn't processor the physical CPU so how does 2 get displayed? Would I get better performance if I chose 2?

2) What is a recommended amount of memory to assign? I have 4gb RAM and intend to use VM at a time.

3) Do I have to add a virtual hard disk? What is a virtual hard disk exactly (I have a new physical HD to store stuff on the guests).

Thanks

Please help

houman2009 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:26:10 GMT

Hi All,

At where I work, we have a helpdesk computer which is running ubuntu 7.40, plus vmware 1.0.3 which has windows XP installed on it.

Many thanks

Houman

Doubled ethernet traffic

VM-Paul — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:56:45 GMT

Host based on CentOS 4.x

VmWare Server 1.0.8

1 VM linux firewall with WAN (62.149.x.y) and 2 LAN NICs All Bridged (connected directly to the physical network); 192.168.1.1; 192.168.2.1.

3 VM server (2 Linux, 1 Win 2003 but think this is not relevant); having IP 192.168.1.11, 192.168.1.12, 192.168.2.11 with GW the VM Linux firewall 192.168.n.1

I put my externals IP on the WAN of the virtual firewall and redirect the required ports to the right server. All work fine ... but ...

I noticied that with this topology all traffic to the host system's nic is double accounted .

If my VMs generate 5 mbit of traffic, On the hosts's ethernet I have 10 mbit.

Better solution without changing too much my topology?

Regards, P.

Linux LVM Snapshot VM Backup Script

bradsjm — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:11:21 GMT

I thought it might be useful to someone so I'm posting the perl script I use to do daily backups of my Virtual Machines.

The script handles running machines by suspending them, taking an LVM snapshot, then resuming the VM and doing a backup of the snapshot. This gives me a window of less than 60 seconds of downtime per running virtual machine. You will need to customize this to your own LVM volume names, paths, etc.

Note: The editor seems to modify the text so I have attached the script.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#

VM Server Virtual Machine Snapshot Backups

#

use VMware::VmPerl;
use VMware::VmPerl::VM;
use VMware::VmPerl::Server;
use VMware::VmPerl::ConnectParams;
use File::Basename;
use strict;

my $backupdir = "/vm/Backups/daily";
my $log_file = "/var/log/vmware/vmbackup.log";

my ($server, $vm);

my $server_name = undef;
my $user = undef;
my $passwd = undef;

Use the default port of 902. Change this if your port is different.

my $port = 902;

open LOG, ">>$log_file";
log_stuff( "Starting backups" );

#

Connect to VMware Server

#
my $connect_params = VMware::VmPerl::ConnectParams::new($server_name,$port,$user,$passwd);
$server = VMware::VmPerl::Server::new();

if (!$server->connect($connect_params)) {
my ($error_number, $error_string) = $server->get_last_error();
log_stuff( "Connect to server: $error_number: $error_string\n" );
die "Could not connect to server: Error $error_number: $error_string\n";
}

#

Get list of Virtual Machines

#
my @vmlist = $server->registered_vm_names();
if (!defined($vmlist[0])) {
my ($error_number, $error_string) = $server->get_last_error();
log_stuff( "get_vms: $error_number: $error_string" );
die "Could not get list of VMs from server: Error $error_number: $error_string\n";
}

#

Virtual Machine Backup

#
foreach my $conf (@vmlist) {
my ($name,$vmdir,$suffix) = fileparse($conf, '\..*' );

connect to virtual machine

$vm = VMware::VmPerl::VM::new();
if (!$vm->connect($connect_params, $conf)) {
my ($error_number, $error_string) = $vm->get_last_error();
log_stuff( "Connect to $conf: $error_number: $error_string\n" );
die "Could not connect to $conf: Error $error_number: $error_string\n";
}

Get the virtual machine display name

my $displayName = $vm->get_config("displayName");
$displayName =~ s/\()//g; # remove special characters

Build the path for the backup filename

my $backup = "$backupdir/$displayName.tar.gz";

Get the current state for the virtual machine

my $state = $vm->get_execution_state();

Log what we are doing

log_stuff( "$displayName: Starting backup" );

handle virtual machines that are running by using lvm snapshot with a suspend

if ( $state eq VM_EXECUTION_STATE_ON )
{
log_stuff( "$displayName: Suspending Virtual Machine" );
if (!$vm->suspend()) {
my ($error_number, $error_string) = $vm->get_last_error();
log_stuff( "suspend $conf: $error_number: $error_string\n" );
}
else
{
log_stuff( "$displayName: Creating LVM Snapshot" );
log_stuff( `lvremove -f /dev/data/vmsnapshot` );
log_stuff( `lvcreate -L9.85G -s -n vmsnapshot /dev/data/vmware` );

log_stuff( "$displayName: Resuming Virtual Machine" );
if (!$vm->start()) {
my ($error_number, $error_string) = $vm->get_last_error();
log_stuff( "start $conf: $error_number: $error_string\n" );
}

log_stuff( "$displayName: Mounting LVM Snapshot" );
log_stuff( `mount -t ext3 -v -r /dev/data/vmsnapshot /mnt` );

fix directory to use the snapshot instead of the actual file

$vmdir =~ s!/vm/Machines!/mnt!g;
log_stuff( "$displayName: Backup $vmdir -> $backup.tmp" );
log_stuff( `tar czpf $backup.tmp -C $vmdir .` );

log_stuff( "$displayName: Removing LVM Snapshot" );
log_stuff( `umount -v /mnt` );
log_stuff( `lvremove -f /dev/data/vmsnapshot` );
}
}
else
{

regular backup of suspended or offline machines

log_stuff( "$displayName: Backup $vmdir -> $backup.tmp" );
log_stuff( `tar czpf $backup.tmp -C $vmdir .` );
}

log_stuff( "$displayName: Moving $backup.tmp to $backup" );
log_stuff( `mv -vf $backup.tmp $backup` );
log_stuff( "$displayName: Backup Completed" );
$vm->disconnect();
}

#

Logging

#
sub log_stuff
{
my $msg = shift();

if ( $msg )
{
chomp($msg);
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=localtime(time);
printf LOG "%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d $msg\n", $year+1900,$mon+1,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec;
}
}

Destroys the server object, thus disconnecting from the server.

$server->disconnect();
undef $server;

log_stuff( "Completed backups" );
close LOG;

vmrun "revertToSnapshot" not working using non-root account even though "start" and "stop" are working.

misterkutz — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:03:43 GMT

Hi - i am trying to get the "revertToSnapshot" command working for vmrun (running it from inside a perl script).
I've been trawling through Google but there does not seem to be an answer i can find, hence why i am posting here as a last resort

The command line is in the format:
vmrun -h 127.0.0.1 -u nonrootuser -p nonrootpassword revertToSnapshot /full/path/to/image/vmxfile.vmx

The error message i get back is:
"Error: Command failed: The system returned an error. Communication with the virtual machine may have been interrupted"

Inside the /var/log/vmware/ vmware-serverd.log file, i see the following readouts:

"Oct 02 21:47:06: app| New connection on socket server-vmdb from host localhost (ip address: 127.0.0.1) , user: nonrootuser
Oct 02 21:47:06: app| SP: New user session for user: nonrootuser, pos: 1
Oct 02 21:47:06: app| The vm-list file has changed! Reloading the list of registered vms
Oct 02 21:47:06: app| SP: Rejecting command base on path: : 1
Oct 02 21:47:06: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Oct 02 21:47:06: app| SP: Deleting user session: 1 username: nonrootuser "

However, when i replace "revertToSnapshot" with "start" or "stop", vmrun allows the "nonrootuser" to start and stop the VM.
It is only giving me an error on "revertToSnapshot" - but i really need to use "revertToSnapshot" and not "start" or "stop".

I have tried vmrun with "revertToSnapshot" and passing the credentials "-u nonrootuser -p nonrootpassword" while being logged into a BASH terminal shell under both the "root" and "nonrootuser" accounts and the result is always the same: "start" or "stop" are allowed but not "revertToSnapshot".

FYI, I am using VMware-server 1.0.9 installed on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and i've confirmed that the vmx file has read-execute permissions for the others group (chmod o+xr).

Changing all files inside the VM's directory to become read-execute for others (chmod o+xr) does not help, nor does changing the ownership of the files from root to nonrootuser, i.e. chown nonrootuser:nonrootuser <filenames> (in fact, the latter is a step backward because it causes vmrun to fail when run by root).

I have also tried adding "nonrootuser" to have no-password-required access to vmrun under /etc/sudoers and running vmrun using sudo but the problem is still there: "start" and "stop" work while "revertToSnapshot" returns the error message.

What i would greatly appreciate is if anyone can tell me:

(1) whether vmrun "revertToSnapshot" works when run with non-root credentials at all?

(2) If yes, how do we make it work with a non-root credential being passed using the -u and -p flags (bearing in mind that i have already done the checking as described above).

Thanks in advance!

MK

Windows 2008 64 bit not loading

commsol — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:47:52 GMT

Have a Poweredge 2800 server running the newest version of ESXi and after setting up a VM and trying to boot off of a Windows 2008 server CD without Hyper-V, I get a 64 bit error like you would get if the hardware doesn't support it. I booted the CD straight off of the server and it loads just fine. I tried all the other 64 bit server options in the manager including 2003 but no go same error. Ideas?

VMWare Server y HP Storageworks ultrium 920/960

JjFbCn — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:27:03 GMT

Hi, currently I have the backups server virtualized, I use ARCServe on a Windows Server over VMWare server 1.8, and it have attached a tapedrive HP DAT72 SCSI.

As this tapedrive has become obsolete for us I'm looking for other tapedrive with more capacity as it is the HP Storageworks Ultrium 920 and 960.

Anybody knows if there could be some compatibility issues between VMWare Server 1.8 and the tapedrive HP Storageworks 920 or 960 SCSI?

The host and guest OS are Windows Server 2003.

Thank you in advance,

vmdk files and deletion

JBowes — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:38:29 GMT

Hi.

I have been using vmware server 1.x for about the last year for a testing environment. I have renamed a couple of machines from within the Console which has been fine. The one problem I need to resolve is regarding disk space and which files are required to be able to boot virtual machines. For example I have one server called test1.domain.com and the config file is named test1.domain.com.vmdk. I had renamed the machine from the Console's point of view which has no apparent ill effects on the server booting. However and here is the confusing part, I had at one point in time reinstalled the OS and the old vmdk (named tu1.domain.com.vmdk) still exists. So I was looking at why so much disk space is used as I am not taking snapshots. I don't have a lot of data on the server but it using about 90 gigs of space.

It seems as though the newer vmdk depends on the older vmdk as I have copied out the old related files only to have put them back.

I'd really like to reduce the amount of chunks that had been created. In either of the vmdk files, the createtype is "twoGbMaxExtentFlat".

How can I clean this up in a safe manner?

Thanks for any and all suggestions.

--james

vmware-mount problem

sandiego_f — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:20:03 GMT

Hello everybody,

i get the following error when i try to run the command "vmware-mount" (even without any options):

vmware-mount: error while loading shared libraries: libfuse.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i tried to solve it as the fuse-wiki sais: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FAQ but adding this line in "/etc/ld.so.conf" and reloading with ldconfig doesnt work...

any suggestions?

thanks

VM of Sun Solaris is not running after converting from VMware workstation to ESX Server

sadafkhan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:45:53 GMT

I have to convert the VMware workstation to ESX Server through ESX converter( SunSolaris was running on this VM ).After the conversion of this VM in ESX . Sun Solaris is rebooting again and again.

I am new in ESX.Please Help

How Do I Access Port Forward NAT Externally?

Nihal — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:21:40 GMT

I have a difficult time explaining my situation becuase of all the stress I am in right now, so please bear with me.

Here is my setup:

The VMware Server has 2 NIC, one for the Internet and the Other for my network. My internet gateway is through this Server. I installed Windows Server 2003 in a VMware guest because I want that to be a Terminal Server. First Problem, I can't get Internet, so I created another NAT interface in the VMware Server. Now the Internet Works, but I can't remote desktop it through the internet when I configure Remote Desktop to go through the IP of that VMware (the first interface is connected directly to the network) I told the VM to point to the Private Network Interface on the host, not the Internet Interface, still. It acts like there is no internet.

Now, heres what I did. I managed to Port Forward Port 3389 to 3390 using the VMware NAT Port Forward. I can access it on the Host Server, but I can't access it externally. How do I do this?

Someone please help. I am going crazy over this and can't find a solution. I never knew having a VMware server on an internet gateway would be so difficult.

VMware Server 2.0, Guest OS Auto Start?

Grax — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:43:28 GMT

I am running VMware Server 2.0 on a Windows 2003 Standard, x64 box. I have a guest Ubuntu 7.10 server configured. I can not find anywhere the option to have this server automaticlly turn on when host server is turnon/rebooted.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Andrew

Virtual Center for VM Server - "no licenses matching this serial number were found"

xroadtripx — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:44 GMT

I have tried everything and am obviously I am missing something. I am testing VMServer and Virtual Center- I have Virtual Server and Client loaded on the same machine. I also have my VMWare Server on the same machine. I am trying to add a host in VC and when I do I get a popup saying that I need to add a license. I have created a license text file in notepad in unicode w/ no spaces before or after. In that txt file I have put the serial number I received once I registered the product. The serial numbers I am using are the ones I received from the trial VC download and the agent . I even put in the number for VMserver. When I click to add the license I get this error message "no licenses matching this serial number were found". This error message also shows the first serial number I have put in the txt file. I have tried reinstalling VC getting new serial numbers, etc. I have also tried adding one serial number to a txt file with the same results. also when I click to register to the VC it says it is already registered so the SN must work. I would really appreciate any help. Thanks

SQL Server UDP Port filtered.

fergdeff — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:50:28 GMT

Please consider the following:

Running VMWare Server 1.0.9 on a Vista Business host - name: VMWAREHOST

Guest is Windows XP - name: VMWAREGUEST

Using Network Bridging.

I have SQL Server 2005 installed on both host and guest.

Firewalls are turned off for troubleshooting.

My problem is that I can't connect to the host SQL Server from the guest, or to the guest SQL Sever from the host.The odd thing is that I can connect to either from another (third) machine. This third machine is on a separate physical box and isn't running VMWare - name THIRDMACHINE.

I have zeroed in on what seems to be a UDP port filtering problem. I am using the portquery application to troubleshoot.(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832919

When I portquery from the guest to the host, it looks like this.

======================================

C:\>portqry -n VMWAREHOST -p UDP -e 1434

Querying target system called:

VMWAREHOST

Attempting to resolve name to IP address...

Name resolved to 192.168.3.80

querying...

UDP port 1434 (ms-sql-m service): LISTENING or FILTERED

Sending SQL Server query to UDP port 1434...

UDP port 1434 (ms-sql-m service): FILTERED

======================================

When I portquery from the host to the guest - something similar.

======================================

C:\>portqry -n VMWAREGUEST -p UDP -e 1434

Querying target system called:

VMWAREGUEST

Attempting to resolve name to IP address...

Name resolved to 192.168.3.157

querying...

UDP port 1434 (ms-sql-m service): LISTENING or FILTERED

Sending SQL Server query to UDP port 1434...

UDP port 1434 (ms-sql-m service): FILTERED

======================================

However!!! And this is the thing. When I portqery either the host or the guest from THIRDMACHINE, everything looks fine!!!

======================================

C:\>portqry -n VMWAREGUEST -p UDP -e 1434

Querying target system called:

VMWAREGUEST

Attempting to resolve name to IP address...

Name resolved to 192.168.3.157

querying...

UDP port 1434 (ms-sql-m service): LISTENING or FILTERED

Sending SQL Server query to UDP port 1434...

Server's response:

ServerName VMWAREGUEST
InstanceName SQL2005
IsClustered No
Version 9.00.1399.06
tcp 1458
np \\VMWAREGUEST\pipe\MSSQL$SQL2005\sql\query

==== End of SQL Server query response ====

So any ideas what's happening here? Does VMWare do some kind of automatic UPD port filtering? Can I disable it? A few post mention "promiscuous mode", but in no great detail - and it seems as though "promiscusous" is the default setting.

Manually force clock synchronization via vmtools from within Linux VM?

mudtoe — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:31:09 GMT

Hi folks:

Does anyone know if there is a way to manually force a clock synchronization via vmtools from within a Linux VM via command line so that it can be placed in a script? The problem I'm having is that my SMEServer VM is losing about 20 seconds per minute on the clock. I've tried all the normal things (e.g. clock=pmtmr, noapic, nosmp, etc.) without success. I'm pretty sure that the problem is that the version of Linux used by SMEServer is using 1000 timer interrupts per second to keep time, and it can't keep up. Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to swap out the O/S for one that uses fewer interrupts. I have vmtools setup to synchronize the time, and I've put the parameter tools.syncTime.period = "1" along with tools.syncTime = "TRUE" . However, it looks like the synchronization only happens at most once a minute, and I really would like it to happen about every 10 seconds at a minimum, due to the amount of drift. It appears that the syncTime.period setting doesn't have any effect. That being the case I was hoping to setup a cron job within the VM to cause vmtools from within the VM to initiate the time synchronization. I'm using version 1.07 of VMWare Server.

mudtoe

Fresh install // Can't connect

Moptop650 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:50:58 GMT

Hi,
First off, I'm new to VMWare Server, but not vmware in general. I just installd Vmware server on a Windows Server 2008 box. When I remote into the box I can connect to the VMs via them Vmware Server Console, but I cannot connect via the console, from other computers on the network.

Is there a place to change settings like this? I can't find where to configure remote connection settings?

Thanks,
Dave

Utilize more host CPU for guest VMs

Nikhil Patwa — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:59:12 GMT

I have a Dell PowerEdge Server 2950 installed with 2 Quadcore Intel processors, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB hard disk space, installed with Windows Server 2003 R2 and have installed VMWare server console version 1.0.3 build 44356. I normally have 5-7 virtual machines powered on and the performance of the guest is very slow, most of the time the guest CPU is peaking at 90% while the Host CPU is hardly being utilizied and is always less than 10%.

Is there a way I can allocate more host CPU to the guest. I know with VMWare Server Console a guest VM can have maximum of 2 processors but this also does not help much. I want the host CPU to be allocated to guest so as to boost the VMs' performance .This server is dedicated for VMs only and there is no other application running.

Do let me know if there are any limitations also with using VMWare Server Console.

vmware server 1.0.9 :Cannot set more then 3600 MB

AMABO — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:33:26 GMT

I just set a new vmware machine with windows 2003 Enter on a host machine with Windows 2003 Enter and 8 Go.

I cannot set more then 3600 Mb for my VM server, why ?

any idea

Thank You

Risk of running Guest from higher version of VMware Server

fajarpri — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:37:10 GMT

Hi all,

I have a situation where I need to migrate a VM from VMware Server 1.0.7 to 1.0.2 (by copy paste the folders and files)

Is there any risk involved like incompatibility or corruption?

Thank you.

vmware-server-console login

zerointeger — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:26:02 GMT

I realize vmware-server-console is outdated but I have a need to utilize the console to connect to an existing server but cannot do so anylonger.

The version of the vmware server is 1.08 and the client is also 1.08.

I recieve errors of FAIL: vmware-authd address from=<ip-address>

I have followed a few guides in an attempt to get this to work from modifying the xinitd.d/vmware configuration file to modifying the /etc/pam.d/vmare config files.

The machine is not behind a firewall or anything else.

Any help is appreciated

Windows Server 2003 SP2 R2 X64 ENT - 64/32bit ubuntu fails to boot.

scribebox — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:01:48 GMT

vmware server 1.0.9 build-15607

This is a fresh winserver 2003 install, 64bit, 8gb ram, i moved it from an old old old old old P4 HT server, that ran fine, just very slowly, well after i migrated my previous xp sp3 32bit guest os over (which booted fine), i figured id fire up a 64bit ubuntu server and setup a squid cache, mounted the iso, got to the point selected my language, selected install, then BAM, blank screen... HMMMM i thought, maybe VT isnt enabled in bios, i go into BIOS, vt is on and running great? weird! i say screw it, try 32bit ubuntu server, SAME BEHAVIOR (9.04 on both of these). any ideas? is there some setting i need to change in the VMX file?

any help would be appreciated.

thanks!

Machine specs posted below.

Intel Core 2 Quad

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 (Build 3790)

CPU Arch : 1 CPU - 4 Cores - 4 Threads
CPU PSN : Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz
CPU EXT : MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 EM64T
CPUID : 6.7.A / Extended : 6.17
CPU Cache : L1 : 4 x 32 / 4 x 32 KB - L2 : 2 x 2048 KB
Core : Yorkfield (45 nm) / Stepping : R0

Freq : 1998.13 MHz (333.02 * 6)

MB Brand : Asus
MB Model : P5QL PRO
NB : Intel P45/P43 rev A3
SB : Intel 82801JR (ICH10R) rev 00

RAM : 8192 MB DDR2 Dual Channel
RAM Speed : 399.6 MHz (5:6) @ 5-5-5-15
Slot 1 : 2048MB (6400)
Slot 1 Manufacturer : G.Skill
Slot 2 : 2048MB (6400)
Slot 2 Manufacturer : G.Skill
Slot 3 : 2048MB (6400)
Slot 3 Manufacturer : G.Skill
Slot 4 : 2048MB (6400)
Slot 4 Manufacturer : G.Skill

problems backing up a vm

everyman — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:31:30 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to set up a working backup of a development vm running on VMware Server 1 under Red Hat. I copied all of the files from the working directory to the new one.

sudo cp * old new

However when I try to open the backup copy using the Server Console it says "you don't have permissions to perform this operation."

I was able to manually register the vm using

sudo vmware-cmd -s register <config_file_path>

When I go back to the console I can then see the backup vm directory and can open the VM, however I'm extremely limited in what I can do with it. I can't change the VM name, I can't take a snapshot etc...

It certainly seems like it's a file permissions issue, however the owner of the original files is root, and the owner of the new files is obviously also root. Neither VM is set as "private" in settings/options /permissions. I have full functionality in the original source VM. I can snap it, change the name etc. Why would the copy behave differently? Is there some important step that I'm leaving out?

Also for expediency, could someone tell me what the actual essential files are that need to be copied to do a backup? Assuming a snapshot has been taken but the system is currently in the state where it has been reverted to the latest snap is it still necessary to copy the snapshot files?

These are the files currently stored:

nvram

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition-000001.vmdk

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition.vmsd
vmware-0.log Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition-Snapshot19.vmem

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition.vmss
vmware-1.log Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition-Snapshot19.vmsn

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition.vmx
vmware-2.log Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition.vmdk

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition.vmx~
vmware.log Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition.vmem

Thanks for the help!!

Virtual machine freeze

Antoninio — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:51:49 GMT

I trying to troubleshoot some virtual machine freeze.

Here is my configuration :

VMware-Server 1.0.9, Red Hat Entreprise Linux 4.7

I have added the following lines in vmx file :

debug="TRUE"
logging="TRUE"
timeTracker.periodicStats="TRUE"
timeTracker.statInterval="60"

in my vm logs, I have (result of grep " 0 ints" *.log) :
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:46:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.95 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41472997 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:47:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.94 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41478998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:48:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.93 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41484998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:49:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.91 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41490998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:50:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.90 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41496998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:51:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.88 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41502998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:52:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.87 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41508998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:53:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.85 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41514998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:54:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.84 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41520998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:55:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.82 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41526998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:56:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.81 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41532998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:57:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.80 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41538998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:58:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.78 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41544998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 14:59:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.77 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41550998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 15:00:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.75 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41556998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 15:01:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.74 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41562998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 15:02:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.72 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41568998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry
vmware-1.log:Sep 28 15:03:48: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 0 ints, 0.00/sec, 99.71 avg, 100.00 req; 41454704 tot, 41574998 req; 11330 loprg, 11421 rtry

What I understand is that during 20 minutes, there is not a single timer interrupt that is sent to the virtual machine. I am not sure about the consequences of this, does the virtual machine just do nothing at all? Or is there only just a part of the virtualized systeme that is frozen?

More importantly, what can cause this freeze?

Thanks

Patch for linuxkernel 2.6.31?

foobar123456 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:18:29 GMT

hey I'm using VMware Player 1.09 (the last build) and the 2.6.31 @ debian squeeze.

You can see the compile log here:

http://mypaste.ja-s.de/1940

the problem is, that the asm/semaphore.h doesnt exist in newer kernel

I cant use Version 2 cause my taskmaster had some Version 1 licences and so I had to build the my Image in Version 1.

How can I fix my problem?

Strange behaviour of live-cds in virtual machines

tbordfeldt — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:09:50 GMT

Hello,

Host with windows xp pro and ubuntu 9.04 64 bit. In both OSs is VMWare Server 1.0.9 properly installed. Different virtual machines (windows, debian...) work also fine.

The following problem appears in both host-OS and in all virtual machines and with different live-cds:

I want to boot a virtual machine with a live-CD (i.e. gparted, ubuntu 9.04, knoppix 6) to change the partition sizes of the virtual machine. The virtual machine boots from cd. The start-screen appears. I can make different settings (language, boot options ...) and start the cd, but then the virtual machine hangs.

I tried the following settings to solve this problem, but nothing seems to help:

different cd settings in the virtual machines

mount iso-files of the live-cds

reduce the graphic settings of the host

Thank you very much

books software to start learning VMware

rezasaheban — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:25:25 GMT

Hi guys, I'm new to vertual server and VMware and I appritiate your help. I would like to learn VMware on my laptop please if there are good sources and books let me know. Also I was told there are some exams that I can get certified, do you know of any? Are there any sofware applications that I can buy and learn VMware with them?

Thanks a lot.

Any help appreciated . ubuntu server with asg virtual appliance as gateway

namakemono — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:15:25 GMT

I am sorry if this has already been answered, I have tried googeling and have already given up several times previously.

System:
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server running VMware server 1
3Nics: Wan, 100MB Lan, 1GB Lan
100MB Lan serves a WLAN router
1GB Lan goes directly to my workstation

The 3NIC setup is not so important right now, I just need to figure out the basic 2 NIC setup and take it from there.

Goal:
Run Astaro Security gateway as a virtual appliance to act as proxy/fw/dhcp and different stuff, I have ran Astaro on a seperate Machine earlier and know the basics there.

The main problem I am having is setting up networking with VMware server

My Current working config (Iptables dhcp etc on the Ubuntu system)
Wan: DHCP
100MB LAN : Static 192.168.0.1
1GB LAN : Static 192.168.1.1

How should i config with vmware-config.pl ?
And then the corresponding /etc/networking/interfaces in ubuntu ?

I also have services running on Ubuntu so how do I go about setting up VMware and still have access to ftp/rtorrent/ssh etc ?

Any help greatly appreciated, fumbling in the dark atm.
Namakemono

Can't Get Into Guest BIOS Through Console \!!!

dmiessler — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:03:57 GMT

I'm trying to change my boot order in a Linux guest so that I can boot to a rescue disk and fix my install. Unfortunately, the guest just flashes the option screen for a second before booting off the hard disk. I keep trying to grab input and press F2, but it never takes it.

Has anyone else seen this issue when working over a remote console connection? Is there a workaround? Any help would be MUCH appreciated. I need to get in and fix my kernel so it'll read SCSI disks...and until then I'm dead in the water.

...

Change adapter after installation

kishon — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:59:57 GMT

I run Server Ver. 1 on WIndows XP. I have a phisical adapter that was used when I installed the client nachines. Now I work with a wireless adapter and can't comunicate between the host the these machines.

Is there a way to overcome it?

Regards

Kishon

Vmware server 2.0 suspend problem with SCO unix 5.0.7

arisousa — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:36:37 GMT

I´m having an issue when backing up my virtual machine (SCO 5.07). Im running a scipt to suspend the VM to backit up with Backup exec, and then to resume the VM when the backup finishes, thing is that the VM resumes with the same time that it had when it was suspended, and for this reason the time is losing half an hour per day. the SCO VM doesn´t have access to the net, so i´m unable to configure a NTP server on the SCO machine. I´ve experimented with the shutdown and start commands these seem fine they get my host clock and reset the VM, but suspend doesn´t. Any ideas on how to workaround this problem, and use the suspend command?

Virtual Machine not opening after Defragment failed.

imthi76 — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:56:53 GMT

Cannot open the disk 'c:\my virtual machines\quasksrv\Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-cl1-000003.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Reason: The file specified is not a virtual disk.

I get this message and when I click "Start this virtual machine" and this is happening after I have abruptly stopped the Defragment process.

Please help me!

Event Viewer Error vmauthd (EventID 100)

juanl — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:40:45 GMT

Hi, I've installed VMW Server 1.0.4 b56528 on WinXP Pro SP2.

Freshly installed VMW Server and after resetting the computer (without even running VMW Console) I get an application event error.

here are 6 events that appear at once, every 5 seconds, flooding the event viewer.

1. Description:

The description for Event ID ( 100 ) in Source ( vmauthd ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Failed to read registry perf object Memory\Committed Bytes

2. Same description but: Failed to read registry perf object Memory\Pool Paged Bytes
3. Same description but: Failed to read registry perf object Memory\Pool Nonaged Bytes
4. Same description but: Failed to read registry perf object Memory\Pool Faults/sec
5 Same description but: Failed to read registry perf object Process\ID Process
6. Same description but: Failed to read registry perf object Memory\Cache Bytes

Already visited and performed actions explained here:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/421234?jsessionid=a172f2b198dde4f342f01d2c67ae99fb
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1154#1154
Re-entered a new serial.
Installed Extensible Performance Counter List (exctrlst.exe) and checked ALL the items on the list.
Stopped/Started (and restarted) all VMware services
vmware-authd.exe service is Logged On as Local System Account.
Disabled Antivirus and Firewall.

Stating the obviuos: If I stop the VMware Authorization Service, the problem goes away; then of course VMware is disconnected and doesn't function.

Services and running processes are shown on the attached file.

No success.

Please help.

Hard Disk Space reduction in ESXi 4.0

Madhukara — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:06:32 GMT

Hello,

I am using VMWare ESXi 4.0 server. My hardware has 460 GB of hard disk and 16 GB of RAM. I have two virtual instances of VMware running Windows 2003 Server. I had configured 200 GB and 235 GB of hard disk for VMware 1 and WMWare 2 instances respectively. Now I would like to create one more virtual machine. For which, I could able to decrease the already allocated memory to VMWare 1 and VMWare 2 boxes. Where as I am not able to decrease the hard disk space configured from both vmware machines.

How to decrease already configured Hard Disk space from a vmware virtual machine?

Thanks
Madhukar

Installing VMware Server on Vista Business 64-bit

derleinich — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:19:34 GMT

Hy there

I'm in big trouble.
Installing the VMware Server works fine. But after reboot it is not possible to connect to the localhost!
If I try to connect to another host, the connection is refused, although the data is correct.

So my question: What is wrong? Any ideas?

Please help me

PS: It is the same behavior with Version 1.0.0, 1.0.1 or 1.0.2

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