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VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products.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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Can't get an Internet connection on VmWare

I'm running openSuse 11.1 on VmWare and I can't get on internet. I'm at home, no ports blocked or anything, I've tried every single ethernet option, nothing works. Can anybody point me at settings I might be missing?
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64bit VM guest on Server 2 performance horrible if >2GB RAM

We're a software development shop, and we're experimenting with VMWare Server 2 on Windows XP Professional/32 (corporate standard, can't get away from it) with Windows 2008 x64 as guest for 64-bit testing. We're using VS2008. This is obviously on…
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VMware ESXi to VMware Server and back again?

Running a single ESXi 4.0 server with 5 clients. Due to some unfortunately drive failures and firmware bugs I've got corruption in the direct attached RAID 1+0 array that holds my VMs. HP assures me the only fix is to rebuild the array. I need to…
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Manage multiple VMware Server installations through one web interface

I have 5 physical machines running VMware Server 2. Each one runs 6-10 VMs. I sometimes forget which host machine is running a particular VM so I often find myself logging into each host trying to find the VM I'm looking for. I've noticed that…
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Upgrading VMWare Server 1.0.x to 2.0.x?

Im running a bunch of different developement server images, both windows and linux images, on VMWare Server 1.0.9 on a Windows Server 2003. Is there any reasons to upgrade to 2.0.x? And is there any risks in upgrading or in staying on 1.0.9? Edit:…
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Performance tweaks and upgrades for VMWare Server 2

Our software department has a server running VMWare Server 2. We typically have 8-10 VMs running as test environments (Win XP and Server 08) for various versions of our software, and one VM that is used as a build server (Win XP). The host is…
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Windows 2003 - Isolate mailserver on webserver with VMware Server

I've a Virtual Private Server with Windows 2003 and root access. This server mainly acts as a web hosting machine (IIS, Apache). Additionally it is used as a mail server. Is it possible to isolate a mailserver (for example HMailServer) by using…
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VMWare Server with multiple processors

I have a new linux machine with two Core Duo CPUs. However, VMWare Server only recognizes one. In the host summary it shows: Processors: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz 1 CPU x 2 Cores On another machine, it shows: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU…
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parallel vms in VMWare Server - how to configure network so they can ping each other?

I'm using VMWare Server (currently on Version 1.0.7) and have two VMs that I would like to run at the same time. However, I'm having problems in setting them up so they can ping each other. I've configured them to use 'Bridged' networking. They…
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Cannot Join a Domain on VM

I have installed Windows 2003 server R2 on a VM. This VM is running on Windows XP PRO. When i try to make this XP Pro PC join the domain on the VM it tries to locate the server and gives me the following error message " The specified network name is…
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Vmware server 2.x remote console on firefox fails when VM does not come up

The Vmware server 2.x remote console on firefox fails when a VM does not come up. But this is when I need it to see what happens. The client that does not come up is windwos server 2003. The same situation, but another firefox windwo active (the…
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Can i host /install sharepoint in such case?

I have installed the windows XP on which i have the VMWare as virtual server. I want to install / Host the sharepoint in such scenario in VMWare . Is that possible ?
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Where can I download VMWare Tools for 1.x?

Please can you show me where I can download the latest Version of VMWare Tools for the following Client: Server is Windows 2003 32 bit with VMWare Server 1.x (Yes, I know 1.x is old. We will upgrade later soon but not now.) Client is Windows 2003…
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Sharing the network between 2 VMware hosts

I have 2 linux servers which do run VMware server. My question about this is it possible to create a shared NAT/host-only network for the 2 VMware servers so that the VMware guest of both servers are on the same internal network?
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I need to get VMWare Server running inside of a VMWare ESXi virtual machine

Yes, I know running a virtual machine inside of a virtual machine is a bad idea. Yes, I know it will be very slow. However, our production system required VMs in VMWare server and I do not want to setup a real server for each of our developers for…
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