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I have the exact same problem, though my setup is slightly different. In my case, the vc is not accessible from the outside, so I used ssh tunneling (port 443). All is well, except for vm conso... See more...
I have the exact same problem, though my setup is slightly different. In my case, the vc is not accessible from the outside, so I used ssh tunneling (port 443). All is well, except for vm console access. I believe it has something to do with port 901 and 902, and I could not figure out way to pass these ports at the same time as I am using 443. Since from VC itself I can access the vm consoles fine, I wonder if it is just a matter of proxying or tunneling though the vc server in order to make the vm console accessible to vi client in this case. Any advice as how to do this would be greatly appreciated. I thought vmware could just allow everything flow thru port 443, but somehow vm console does not. Thanks for any ideas, --John
actually i found out that it is a known problem. it has something to do with xeon processor and newer kernel. the solution is using a single vcpu [http://ubuntuforums.org/showth... See more...
actually i found out that it is a known problem. it has something to do with xeon processor and newer kernel. the solution is using a single vcpu [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=882246|http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=882246&highlight=ubuntuhardydell+esx] so far, no one seems to know how to use more than 1 vcpu for ubuntu hardy heron on these 64bit xeon boxes in ESX 3. this is a fairly common hw platform and ubuntu is a top linux distribution, so it is a bit odd.
I installed the server with all default options except for adding ssh server from stock server installation disk. The guest server runs fine for a while, and then both the guest and... See more...
I installed the server with all default options except for adding ssh server from stock server installation disk. The guest server runs fine for a while, and then both the guest and host cpu and memory will suddenly (the performance monitoring lines are almost vertical) max out, and the vm will just freeze. There is no load in the vm. The same guest cloned to r905, however, works just fine. vmware-tools installation has no effect (before and after, the vm behaves exactly the same way). other distributions (centos 5.2, suse 10) that i tested do not have this problem on any hosts. i googled and searched the kb without finding anything. ubuntu 64 bit is in the installation list so i assume it is supported. neither the guest vmware.log nor the host log shows anything. the host continues to run other guests just fine any help is greatly appreciated. ~$ uname -a Linux sv4vweb151 2.6.24-19-server #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 18:43:06 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux ~$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 8.04.1 \n \l
Another reasonof using moderate sized luns is just the proverbial not putting all your eggs (or rather vms) in one lun thing. The more vm you have, you would suffer more losses when the lun gets ... See more...
Another reasonof using moderate sized luns is just the proverbial not putting all your eggs (or rather vms) in one lun thing. The more vm you have, you would suffer more losses when the lun gets corrupted, which unfortunately does occur.
If you have another server with nearly identical configuration (if not identical, then you have much more work or the task is impossible, as esxi has no notion of preserving local esx disk), yo... See more...
If you have another server with nearly identical configuration (if not identical, then you have much more work or the task is impossible, as esxi has no notion of preserving local esx disk), you can install esxi in that server, use something like partimage to image all the non-vmfs partitions, and restore these partitions in to esx server. this requires that the esx server has enough non-vmfs disk space to accommodate all the non-vmfs esxi disk partitions, because the target partition size for restoration should be the same or larger.
I figured out my problem. It seems that after vmware-tools installation eth0 became eth1 I had to use static mac address in the configuration and add HWADDR="macaddress" to force it to be e... See more...
I figured out my problem. It seems that after vmware-tools installation eth0 became eth1 I had to use static mac address in the configuration and add HWADDR="macaddress" to force it to be eth0 again. Now it works. It took me a while to realize that this is what is going on.
got exactly the same thing with mandriva2007 guest. actually it works on the first boot after installation of guest, but it got lost after a reboot. dmesg | grep eth0 shows it is present as pc... See more...
got exactly the same thing with mandriva2007 guest. actually it works on the first boot after installation of guest, but it got lost after a reboot. dmesg | grep eth0 shows it is present as pcnet32 pcnet32 kernel module is also loaded fine. weird problem.