Questions tagged [vmware-server]
A free-of-charge virtualization solution, which has now been discontinued.
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Can VMWare Server 2.0 be useful in Production for easing backups?
Let's run this idea by the group here.
I am thinking about using VMWare Server in production to host
a 2008 Domain Controller with DHCP and DNS,
a 2008 member server with WSUS, some virus ...
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Copy VMWare Instances that are in Active Directry
Is there any way to be able to automate the cloning of Windows XP VMWare Machines that are part of an Active Directory domain?
The machines are part of a testing infrastructure. They should have the ...
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Does VMWare Server run on a Windows 7 Host Machine?
I'm currently running Vista Ultimate but I'm thinking about updating to Windows 7. Vista was not supported a host systems with VMWare Server (free version).
Question: Does the latest version of ...
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Creating and Promoting new DC/DNS win2k3 server as ESX host
I have a win2k3 stnd dc/ dns as a vm server (1.0). I recently upgraded to Vsphere4 and want to move the dc to a new vm on our new ESX host. I've read that converting a dc vm is not the best idea and ...
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Any way to stop VMwareUser process from crashing and consuming 99% of CPU?
I'm running Windows Server 2008 x32 under VMware Workstation v6.5.2.
VMwareUser.exe process crashes regularly, and uses 95% of CPU until its shut down manually.
When I shut down VMwareUser, I ...
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How can I keep my vmware guest process fully resident in memory on Ubuntu linux host?
I am running a single Windows XP guest instance on a Ubuntu Desktop Linux (8.04) host via VMWare Server (2.0.0). When I initially start up the guest, it puts roughly 1.2GB of memory resident for the ...
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Does the VMWare Server 2.0 BIOS support USB?
I have a VMWare Server 2.0 installation. I have a USB hard drive plugged into the host and the USB device attached to a VM. I would like to be able to boot from one of the partitions on my USB drive....
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vCenter in a ESXI host that it manages
We have 2 physical servers (A and B), each with ESXI 7.0 installed. We'd like to manage them with vCenter. Can we install vCenter on one of those servers? Is it advisable?
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VMWare NAT releasing SYN packets from guest but not admitting SYN/ACK packets to guest
VMWare Server 2.0.2
Host OS is Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Guest OS is Windows XP
I am using VMWare VMNet8, the NAT network. The VM guests can't see out to the network around the VM host.
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Issues with VMWare 2.0.2 installation on CentOS 6.3
I have an i7 machine (server) and on which I am running CentOS 6.3. I am trying to install VMWare 2.0.2.0 and I am having problems in identifying the headers for C Compilers when doing the ...
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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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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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Small ISP Bringing email in house [closed]
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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Mount Physical Drive to VMWare Server
I'm running VMWare Server 2.0.2 on Server 2008 (Standard). I can also run Hyper-V if I need to.
Anyways, I have three old hard drives that came out from our previous Cent OS system. I wanted to read ...
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Convert an OVF file for use in VMWare Server
I have a virtual appliance OVF File and I am trying to figure out how to use it in VMWare Server. I saw this article that describes using the VMWare Converter tool but when I try to select my OVA file ...
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Manage VMWare Server with PowerShell and Console App for Free
I just installed VMWare Server on Windows 2008 R2. This is the the free version of VMWare. Are there any management tools I can download and use (that are free) to manage the VM's or am I stuck with ...
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Debian Squeeze - install older kernel
I've installed debian Squeeze with kernel 2.6.32-5 and I need to install Vmware on it. The problem is that I can't compile the kernel module that is needed to run vmware. I've dug through every ...
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Linux hangs on boot in VMware saying: Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)
I am having a problem booting RHEL 6 Beta in VMware Server 1.0.10
My Host OS is Windows XP Pro SP2.
When I try to boot linux, I get this on screen:
Loading vmlinuz................................
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Network organization with VMWare Server 2
I am not a System Administrator, but
I have a task:
Exists server with local ip adress (Host A).
On Host A installed VMWare Server 2.0.
I have 4 VM on this server:
1) Oracle DB Server 1
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VMWare Server 2 Web Interface not loading
I am having an issue with VMWare Server 2 running on a Windows SBS 2008 host.
I can browse to https://server:8333/ and if I view source I can see that the page has loaded, but the redirection and ...
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Migrating OEM software for testing environment...or probably not!
I need to create a "Lab" environment of my production 2003 domain server with Exchange2003, before purchasing new hardware & software to migrate in real-time.
I installed VMware onto my laptop ...
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Vmware server: Browser does not load user interface
I have the latest vmware server isntalled on ubuntu 8.04 lts 64 bit. I access the user interface over this url, which matches my ip and port settings: https://10.1.1.99:11222/ui
Sometimes it works in ...
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Can I map several physical interfaces to a single vmware vmnet interface?
I am using a rack mounted device that has 10 Ethernet ports built into it. For 8 of the ports, I would like to bind them to a single vwmare-server-2.0 virtual network interface, so that I can, in ...
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Very poor guest performance in VMware Server 2
I'm running VMware Server 2.0.2 on my dual core Athlon server with 4 GB RAM and a RAID1 with two 400 GB SATA hard disks. This server's running three VMs at a time.
The host system is a Debian 5 x64 ...
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VMWare Raw Device Mapping Not Working
While I'm waiting for VMWare support to get back to me, I thought I'd ask here. I have a 400 gig LUN presented from a fiber channel SAN to my VMWare host. It's legacy from another virtualization ...
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NAT and vmware 2.x
Usually with vmware server 1.x I used NAT mode so that I can reach guest from host and it did work well.
Some days ago I upgrade to vmware server 2.x and I noticed that with NAT mode now I cannot ...
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CPU load high when accessing host disks from guest
I've been trying out VMware server for a while using different guest OS. On all of them I've seen the same thing - a lot of CPU is used when accessing the host's disks from the guest. The System ...
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Ram question in VMware Server 2
I understand from the VMware Server 2 documentation that VMware Server 2 is capable of running a 64-bit guest OS underneath a 32-bit host OS, as long as the hardware running the box is 64-bit capable.
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VMware Server 2 under 32 bit OS and more than 4G RAM crashes
We have VMware Server 2 running under a 32 bit OS (Ubuntu Hardy) installed by our provider. PAE is enabled, so we could exceed the 32 bit 4G limit.
However, when we let install 4G more RAM to a ...
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vmware vs normal server
what is a good benchmark for me to run on my old server and my new vmware server? I want to verify that I have not lost any performance between the two
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VMware Server Host-Only Network Routing
I have a windows 2008 web server machine running VMware server. I have 3 VM's - All 3 are test servers so security isn't really a concern... each of them running windows 2008 standard and some of them ...
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Which is easier scaled - LAMP, or LAP + MySQL on seperate VM's?
Which is easier to scale later on - 1 server with a full LAMP stack directly on the OS, or 1 server running VMWare Server 2 with 2 VM's - one running apache and PHP, and the other MySQL.
The ...
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VMWare Server - Invalid Virtual Machine
I recently ran VM Ware converter, to convert a server to a VM.
I stored this on a network shared folder.
(it's around 300gb total size)
I've then set this up as a DataStore in VMWare server (this is ...
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VMWare Server MUI Login Help
I'm very new to VMWare server, or at least, installing it and I'm having issues with the MUI. I have read many places that generally speaking, the root user is the only one that can access the MUI ...
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VMWare Server VM Network Utilization
I run multiple blogs atop VMWare Server. I have been looking for a good way to monitor the bandwidth each of these blogs uses.
I would especially like a tool that allows me to count the bandwidth ...
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VMWare Server 2.0 Physical disks
I have a machine setup with VMWare Server 2.0. There are several VMs running on the VMWare server and I have several physical drives. I would like to give one of the VMs exclusive access to one ...
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Windows 7 On VMWare Server 2.0 Sound Card [closed]
I've dug though the internet but haven't been able to confirm this one way or the other so I figured I'd try here.
I have VMWare Server 2.0 and I've installed Windows 7.0 RC 64bit on it.
Host OS is ...
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Destination Net Unreachable on an ubuntu VMWare cloud virtual machine
I am configuring a virtual machine to host an API for an application.
I entered the vCloud director page and followed these steps:
Generated the edges network
Created a VDC organization network (192....
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How to assign full processor(cores/sockets) to a VM? VMware
Trying to use VMware. Using Ryzen 9 5950X(16 cores / 32 threads).
The question is how to assign all cores/threads properly to a VM? Were trying different configurations of "Number of Processors&...
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Getting the name of the Snapshot from a specific VM?
How can I get the name of the snapshot that the particular machine is using?
I have tried:
Get-VM -Name vdix-test-01 | Get-Snapshot
but it returns blank..
I am trying to retrieve the name of the ...
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Can I delete SSOServer Logs? (VMware)
I have a client that has a large amount of log files within the SSOServer Logs folder. I want to compress/delete these files so that it makes room. Will this affect VMware? Most are text docs but some ...
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Service listening on 8333 leading to vmware-hostd.exe process (VMWare Server 1.0/Windows)
Have been using VMWare Server 1.0 (Windows server host) (previously setup by a partner of mine) for quite some time now and decided to dig more into processes / memory management.
I have been using ...
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What version of libc.so is compiled in ESXI 6
In ESXI 6.0 what is the version of the library at '/lib64/libc.so.6'. This would be most helpful if someone could run that and post the info. For example my ESXI 5.5 current has:
GNU C Library vmware ...
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How can I tell which customization specification has been applied to a deployed VMware VM?
I have inherited a load of virtual machines deployed from templates in VMware. Is there a way that I can tell which customization specification was applied to them during the process?
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Switching to HP microserver [duplicate]
I wonder if anybody have experience with migrating to the latest Gen8 HP microserver from existing architectures.
http://www.storagereview.com/hp_proliant_microserver_gen8_review
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MySql/RedHat, High I/O Wait ... for a few hours... then disappears
I've got a RH server as a VMWare instance logging GPS fixes 24x7. The transaction volume hasn't changed over the months (in fact I am pruning the transaction table more aggressively now) with only ...
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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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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.
The ...
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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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iexplore.exe crashes upon login of vmware-server [closed]
Can some one help resolve, create a process to debug this problem? The server meets the minimum hardware requirements of VMWare Server and there is only one VM running on the server. The ...
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