Questions tagged [vmware-server]

A free-of-charge virtualization solution, which has now been discontinued.

VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products. Support ended on June 30, 2011.

http://www.vmware.com

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An efficient setup of several VPSs on one box?

I hope its ok to ask this question on serverfault, its not an actual fault but more of an implementation advice request. I would like to have a dedicated server that I can deploy my own VPSs on. These VPS will be various windows, Mac and Linux…
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does vmware server needs bare metal or can be installed on an existing OS

I am new to virtual stuff on Vmware sort of environment.I am basically testing Vmware and its various things for our needs.I have a linux 64 bit laptop.I want to know 1) The Vmware server can it be installed in this existing OS or I need to have…
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VMWare, Sql Server and Hardware Interrupts

I'm running a 2 processor VMWare server. We pushed it up from 1 core to 2 cores recently and noticed it is now generating large numbers of hardware interrupts, which is killing performance. Does anyone know why this is and how to fix it, short of…
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Windows Server 2008R2 - can't change or remove the default gateway

We've installed VMWare Server 2.0 on Windows 2008R2. After some time playing with it (actually only removing host-only and nat networks, and binding adapters to the specified vmnets) we've noticed a strange problem: if you change or remove the…
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VMware server 2.0 SYN/ACK repeating issues

VMWare Server 2.0.0 Build 122956 I am having some issues with connecting into a guest VM (Ubuntu linux 4.4.3-4 lucid) running under VMware 2.0 on a windows server host. All connections to and from the VM's work fine, except for FTP. I thought the…
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How to browse other real PC with Redhat Linux 5 installed in VM?

I need help on the following. I have configured Virtual Network Manager to choose VMnet0 which is bridged to Physical adapter. I have installed Redhat linux 5.0. I am able to get connected to outside world (internet) but, I need to list access other…
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How to not startx in hosted inux CentOS 5.5 ,and how to make full screen

Im beginner to VMWare player , im using CentOS 5.5 as the virtual OS and installed the VMWare Player in windows xp 32 bit And its working great , but when I like to start the GNUME gui to use x server its starting the GUI desktop right inside the…
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Timing out when reverting VM Image from command line with VMRun.exe

Every time I try to revert Virtual Machines from the command line on my server, with the machine powered ON or OFF, the vmrun.exe hits the timeout after about 1.5 minutes. Is there a way to work around this? Other than vSphere PowerCLI. Has anyone…
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VMWare->Xen migrated image does not boot

I've a Windows Server 2003 installation on VMWare Server 1. Using the instructions at http://ian.blenke.com/vmware/vmdk/xen/hvm/qemu I converted this virtual machine to a Xen image (Xen 3.3). However, I still get the 0x000007b bluescreen. As the…
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VMWare 2 Server for Linux conversion to Windows

We are current running a Linux Server with VMWare 2 Server to host a few Windows virtual machines. I've found the web interface that VMWare 2 Server uses to manage these virtual machines to be, let's just say, less than reliable. I'd like to…
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Setting number of CPU cores in VMware image

I have a laptop with a core2duo CPU. When I am setting up my Ubuntu VM, should I set it to have 2 cores or 1? Do you always set it to the number of cores your host has?
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Are independent persistent disks faster than dependent ones in vmware server 1?

Please can you help me compare disk types for vmware server? I know "independent nonpersistent" is slower. But what about "independent persistent" versus "dependent" (or how do you call this one?) What about raw disks (direct access to physical…
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Upgrading Guest operating system on VMWare image

We have a VMWare Server host, with around 3-4 virtualised machines on. Currently, 2 of them are running on Windows 2000 I want to upgrade them (in place upgrade) to Windows 2003 Is this possible? How would I go about doing this?
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Slow and fluctuating server network speeds in a new data center

We have a server running Windows storage server 2003 with: - an FTP server and - VMware Server running a VDS with apache (vds runs windows web 2003) This is in a data center and we just switched to a new network provider. Before the switch, things…
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VMWare Server w/USB 2.0 Scanner blue screening

I am running a VMWare Server 2.0 with guest OS of Windows XP SP3. I have a NeatCo scanner hooked up via USB 2.0 port. Since VMWare server 2.0 now supports USB 2.0, I am able to get the scanner to be recognized by the guest OS. When I go to scan,…
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