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VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products.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.
Questions tagged [vmware-server]
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VMWare Server 2.0 auto start VM
I have a production server running vmware server 2.0. I want one of the VM's (company intranet) to power on automatically if the host server is rebooted. I searched online and found references to an autostart setting for the global configuration…
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cloning mac address of physical server converted into vmware server
We've recently converted a physical Windows Server 2003 into vmware using P2V. However, one of the pieces of software on the 2003 machine are still looking for the old server's network MAC address in order to run. I've read several articles where…
user24981
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Restart ESXi from remote while having a PSOD
I wondered if it is possible to access some functions of a ESXi Server over the network, while the server has a PSOD.
The Server is running ESXi 5.1.
The server cannot be pinged, but is there some kind of network debug function?
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VMware Vsphere Monitoring and Alerting Network Outage
I am trying to set up an alert to email out when any of our VMs lose network connectivity. I'm trying the following settings but I do not get any alerts when I kill the network connection.
Alarm Type: Virtual Machine
Monitor for specific events…
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vmware esxi host ha state in election
In my Vmware Esxi server 5.1 , 2 host machines which are added as cluster ,there HA state is turned to ELection .I tried Reconfiguring the vsphere for HA it is not working .In cluster it shows issue as
vcenter server is unable to find a master…
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running virtualbox/vmware from livecd
Are there any livecds/liveusbs with virtualbox or vmware (or similar) installed on them? I wonder if i could have livecd with virtualbox which i could use to boot my vdi images without configuring host...
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How to stop VMWare Host that keeps going into pause mode?
Every so often while doing some work in a test/lab environment I've been having some of the servers or clients being paused in VMWare and it's been driving me a bit nuts.
In the event log they show up as "Virtual machine is suspended" by the user…
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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 on via the kvm switch, this appears to complete…
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Corrupt vmware vmdk file
We're running VMware Server 2.0 as the host, and Windows 2003 as the guest. We started getting the error message below. From some quick searching it appears that we probably have a corrupt vmdk file. Any suggestions on tools to check the…
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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 to learn about it.
I've tried a suggestion from:…
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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, what guests you have on those hosts, notes about…
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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 snapshots, and it seriously slows down the host…
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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 VMware Server (yes, I know it is discontinued),…
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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 logs, in hopes of providing better/more reliable…
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Error in MSVCR80.dll causing vmware-hostd to crash
This morning VMWare web interface didn't work when I fired up my machine. After some investigation I find the following in the event log:
Faulting application name: vmware-hostd.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4ade2d25
Faulting module name:…
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