A free-of-charge virtualization solution, which has now been discontinued.
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What does this VMWare warning really mean? … “… Insufficient video RAM…”
Here is the actual warning from VMotiononing:
Warning message from xxxx-esxi16.xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx.edu: Insufficient video RAM. The maximum resolution of the virtual machine will be limited to ...
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2answers
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vmware server 2.0.2 error opening the remote virtual machine hostIP:8333/32 [closed]
I have installed vmware server 2.0.2 on CentOS 6.2. I hit the issue Error opening the remote virtual machine 192.168.1.91:8333\32: A connection to the host could not be established when powering on a ...
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2answers
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converting KVM virtual machines to VMware-vsphere
I am using KVM on Ubuntu Server 12.04 and Virtual Machines are running on it in LVM. I want to migrate of them to Vmware-vsphere. How can I achieve this. Can some one suggest as where do I begin?
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0answers
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CPU usage is more on the windows server 2008
I am developing a windows service which monitors some files and send them to some other application.I have developed using .NET3.5.
The problem I am facing is when I run this process in Windows 7 ...
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1answer
452 views
Whats the cause of VMWare esxi Ubuntu very slow disk performance (3MB/s)?
Currently I am running Zentyal Server(Ubuntu) as Guest on a esxi 5 host on a Adaptec raid controller RAID 10 with Enterprise WD hard drives, 8 Core CPU and 8 Gb of ram (I know a bit overkill) to ...
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1answer
119 views
Repairing corrupted VMWare Virtual Machine
I've got a Virtual Machine that got corrupted due to power failure. I couldn't re-attach it to the VMWare Server 2.0.2. Trying to do so is causing VMWare Host Agent to crash and the service is getting ...
3
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1answer
180 views
ESXi 5.1 on Poweredge 510 freezes after base-esx update
Background / Problem
Just experienced an issue where an ESXi host was upgraded from 5.0 --> 5.1 perfectly fine.
Then, I did a scan and remediated a patch (ESXi510-201210401-BG) Looking into the host ...
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2answers
527 views
VMWare Host Not Responding - VMs are Disconnected (ESXi 3.5)
I have inherited a VMWare environement ESX v3i 3.5.
I am not fluent with VMWare ESXi so bare with me.
Two days ago, when I opened Virtual Centre, one of the Hosts showed up as Not Responding.
The ...
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1answer
807 views
vCenter 5.1 SSO Configuration option not available in Web Client?
Problem
I just finished separately installing vCenter Server 5.1. I installed the components separately but on the same machine using a local SQL 2008 R2 DB (not SQL express).
Everything appears to ...
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2answers
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VMware ESXi 4.0 upgrade to ESXi 5.1 minimize VM downtime
I am looking for the least amount of down time to do the following:
Issue: One ESX Host running ESXi 4.0 (locally attached storage) with one VM running on it. This host needs to be updated to ESXi ...
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2answers
185 views
add space to virtual disk on vmware
I have a VMWare Server 3.5 system with 2 VMs. On one powered on vm I changed the disk size from 1TB to 1,5TB. But the vm didn't see any new unallocated space so that I reboot twice the server.
But ...
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1answer
131 views
Does Windows Server 2012 work on VMWare Server 2
VMWare Server 2.0 is non longer supported by VMWare but still available 'as is'.
Is it possible to run Windows Server 2012 standard on it?
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1answer
289 views
NTP server in Windows Server 2008 R2 [closed]
I would like to add a NTP server in our domain.
I have never created one of these before. Could someone help me out with a step by step guide in order to do this ?
My aim is to build this in a VM ...
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0answers
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vCenter server with both academic and Federal licensing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
Background
We have two servers running VMWare Academic licensing and just purchased two more under Federal licensing.
...
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1answer
805 views
VMWare vCenter: “incorrect username or password” when connecting to host
I have an existing vCenter server (v5.0) with two existing ESXi servers.
I recently installed ESXi v5.1 on two new servers.
I configured their hostnames, IPs, DNS, gateway, etc. and both pass their ...
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2answers
774 views
After manually moving a virtual machine from one host to another - unable to power on
I have 2 different VMware server hosts on 2 different geo-locations.
one of the machines, which is located in Paris has gone corrupted and i was given the task to copy this machine from the other ...
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0answers
166 views
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access not starting on Fedora 14
I am running a Fedora 14 server with VMware Server 2. When I initially installed VMware Server, everything was working fine. This included accessing Web Access on port 8333 (https) and 8222 (http).
...
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1answer
53 views
Local network cache of PHP and Apache2 on Win Server 2008 R2 [closed]
Software configuration :
I have a new server with Windows Server 2008 R2 installed via VMWare.
I have installed Apache2.2, PHP5.2 and MySQL5.5 as separate packages.
Issue :
On my first ...
3
votes
3answers
4k views
Is it possible to try Windows Server 2012 with VmWare Server 5.0?
I would like to try windows server 2012 rc using our vmware server 5.0 infrastructure.
The problem is that i can't install it because each time, the virtual machine reboot.
Is it vmware server 5 ...
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0answers
35 views
On VMWare Server, how can I specify which Ethernet port should be the one to be bridged?
My server has 4 ethernet ports; 1 uses a APIPA address to connect to a DroboElite (that's how they're designed to work), 1 is connected to the LAN, and the other two are unused currently.
The issue ...
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1answer
193 views
vmware unique cpu identifier
I'm looking for a way to generate, or derive, a unique CPU identifier. For example:
If SERVER_A uses vmotion from HOST_A to HOST_B, I want to be able to tell the differences between the cpus.
Any ...
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0answers
65 views
VMWare Server Guest Network connectivity
I have a server with VM Server 2 that runs 4 VMs. The issue I am having is that physical pc's cannot connect to file shares on the guest server pr the host. They can ping, see server in the network ...
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2answers
832 views
vmware server to esxi 5 blue screen
I have a server centos 5.5 running vmware server 2 on it. I decided to install esxi5 on a different machine and test it. I copied one of my virtual machines on esxi 5. But machine I copied gives a ...
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2answers
103 views
Ubuntu VM in Vmware running on top of Gentoo [closed]
I want to know if the following architechture is possible and if so, what is the best way to implement it? :
A dedicated server running a linux gentoo distribution on top of which I want to install a ...
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1answer
454 views
Giving a VM access to a physical NIC on the host
I am running VMware Server 2.0.2 with 2 VM's. One of the VM's I want to have bridged with the domain/primary NIC of the host which I have done successfully. I want the other VM to have access to only ...
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1answer
268 views
VMware 2.0.2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 - Guest 100% CPU, Host 8%
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 on 64bit machine with 16 GB RAM and 2 x E5620 CPUs. This host running VMware 2.0.2 with 5 guests:
3 x Windows 2008
2 x Windows 2000 (after p2v - VMware convertor)
...
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2answers
555 views
how to monitor select processes on centos 5.x host?
I would like to monitor a select group of processes, vmware vm's, running on my centos 6 host. "top" gives me most of what I want in that I can use -p to specify only those processes and -c to get ...
5
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6answers
425 views
SAN alternative for VMWare
Has anyone utilized something aside from a SAN to run their VMWare images off? We are looking to drop in two HP Servers and VMWare on them and run them off a SAN. Due to the cost of SAN though our CFO ...
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4answers
1k views
VMware Copy or Backup between Datastore
I have a situation that I need to copy all my virtual machine from the first datastore to the second datastore as backup.
What are the best practices to achieve this? I am newbie in VMware and eager ...
1
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1answer
108 views
VMWare Server 1.0.8 Host/Settings/Memory permissions error
Host is a Dell 2850 with 16 GB RAM running CentOS 5.x and VMWare Server 1.0.8, 300GB SCSI disks hosting 6 VMs (mixed Windows 2003 Server/CentOS 5.x guests.)
I'm wanting to change the Host memory ...
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1answer
440 views
Cloning a VPS into a local VM?
I've got a fun challenge for you all. A company I'm working with is setting up its development/release workflow and environments. The eventual production environment is a VPS hosted with a popular ...
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1answer
375 views
Can the stand alone VMware vCenter converter run locally and save to a windows file share on another machine
I need to backup a server before it is wiped for a new instalation of Windows 2008. We will be implementing vmware in the near future, so I thought I would just p2v the server. I have a share created ...
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2answers
634 views
Vmware Server reports 100Mb NIC when it's actually 1Gb
I have a VMWare Server installed on my Windows Server.
I just noticed my main switch is 1Gbit but my VMWare Network Adapter VMNet 1 and VMNet8 are both 100Mbit.
Why might that be?
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2answers
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Which is better, Split or Monolithic VMware disk in a production enviroment?
Ok, so I have read a bunch of material on-line and curious as to your thoughts on split vs monolithic disk in a production environment.
We are going to be building the VM server on a server that has ...
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1answer
144 views
Small ISP Bringing email in house
I work for a small ISP.
We currently outsource our customer email management and hosting.
Because of customer service issues and management requests, we are looking at ideas of bringing email ...
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1answer
79 views
With VMware 5, how does memory pooling works across clusters
With new memory entitlement in vSphere 5, if I have 2 clusters configured with the same license level. Would my memory entitlement be calculated separately for each cluster, or will it pool everything ...
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1answer
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Can I vMotion between Standard and enterprise hosts?
I plan on having one Enterprise host, and a few Standard licensed hosts. Will I be able to vmotion between these 2 types of servers? I know that the memory pool will be counted separately, but can't ...
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4answers
257 views
How to confirm I'm on a VMWare powered VPS?
I chose a new VPS host partially based on their use of VMware.
I have no reason to doubt that is the case, but would like to know if there is a way I can very the virtuilization platform from inside ...
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2answers
547 views
How to free snapshot disk space in VMware?
Our guest machines in ESXi server has lot of snapshots. While I am deleting them, they are merging. So I am in doubt whether deleting snapshot would help me gain disk space.
Can any one clarify ...
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1answer
2k views
How to install VMware server 2 on Ubuntu server 11.10 ?
I am trying to install VMWare server 2 on Ubuntu server 11.10, however I am getting error which seems many people are having problem with:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:40: fatal ...
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votes
0answers
346 views
“Error: Unknown error” when trying to start virtual machine from VMware server
Problem
We are running VMware Server 2.0.0 build-116503 on a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server. There is a virtual machine installed, running Lotus Domino on Windows Server 2003.
Ever since a sudden power ...
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2answers
4k views
How to setup a daily backup virtual machine running on VMWare?
My company has a VMWare server. We run 6-8 virtual machine. I would like to perform daily backup them in a storage server.
How to do this with VMWare? Is there some "component" I don't know ? Or ...
2
votes
5answers
384 views
How to keep track of vm hosts and guests and IP addresses?
Internally, we have several VM hosts. We are constantly provisioning new guests on these hosts. What tool to you guys use to keep track of what hosts hosts you have out there, the host system stats, ...
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2answers
104 views
Network issue migrating an VMWare guest to an OpenVZ container
I've migrated a server from vmware to openvz, both are running on the same physical host (I plan to eliminate vmware). If I give the new openvz container a new IP anybody on the LAN and outside ...
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3answers
348 views
Fastest/best way to run headless Windows VM under Linux
I have some remote Linux servers on which I wish to run a Windows-only application.
I don't want to stop running Linux on any of the servers because they do other Linux-only things, so I am thinking ...
2
votes
2answers
291 views
Disable automatic snapshots on vmware server
Is there a way turn off the automatic snapshot feature in vmware server? (Or is that a bad idea for some reason?) We have the files on the machine backed up separately, so I don't see the need for ...
3
votes
1answer
167 views
Run more than one Hypervisor
Is it possible to run more than one hypervisor on a single machine?
We already have a server running Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, but our linux based VMs are not very stable.
I would like to try ...
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1answer
145 views
Windows VMWare Server 2.0 Connect CDROM from command-line
How do I connect/disconnect a CDROM drive from a virtual machine from the command-line? I don't see anything in the VIX reference.
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0answers
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How to copy files from one Host to another esxi 4.1
I have 2 VM ware host machine ( .110 and .115 ) which are running many virtual machine.
Both the servers are having datastore.
I have an ISO file on the Datastore 1 and i want to copy that to the ...
3
votes
2answers
175 views
How should I filter my VMWare Logs? What should I search for? What should I exclude?
My VMWare logs are full of SSL errors and some other things that appear less than important. (e.g. SSL Errors from the admin console)
What is the best way to extract valuable information from these ...
