Do I have to absolutly use sysprep after I deploy a windows template? If I dont! what are the positives and negitives?
hi again.. my host os is windows xp.. and my guest os in vmware is vista... this is how i setup connection host with guest.. xp local area connection ip: 192.168.10.2 default gateway : 192.168.10.3 loopback adaptor ip : 192.168.10.3 default gateway : ...
Microsoft is saying that they won't support VMware software: "Microsoft does not test or support Microsoft software running together with non-Microsoft hardware or virtualization software". (Source : http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=897615.) I would take it this means that I cannot install MS...
I get the following error message "The VMware Infrastructure Web Service is not responding" when i try to access VMware infrastructure web server after installing VMware server 2.0 Any suggestions?
I'm experiencing a problem with VMware Server on a Linux machine. I've installed VMware Server 2.0 and the VMware MUI on a Linux 64-bit server. I am able to bring up the web access GUI and enter the user "root" and the password for "root", but I am getting the following error: "The server was...
For partitioning VMWare ESX Server 3.5 during installation do you have to use the default configuration or can you edit it. If you can edit it does anyone have any recommeneded schemes to use? Thanks
I have a Dell Power Edge 600SC server with a RAID card. At the install screen, I press ALT-F1 and I see that the megaraid2 drivers load, but the installation still cannot find a supported device to install too. user submitted question
We recently received the following question through the www.SearchServerVirtualization.com "Contact Us" Email address: I am running VMware on a linux machine. I cannot communicate through serial port COM1 when working in VMware. It says " Unable to connect to port COM1". Is there any specific...
Is there a set of tools that I can install to configure VMware server without IIS?
I have setup vmware server 2.0 for Fedora 9 64 bit and also installed vmware-mui for the management interface. I have specified "root" as the login for the web access. I can bring up the UI, but when entered the user "root" and passowrd for "root", I am getting the below error: "The server was...
I have tried removing my VMDatastore1 in order to recreate it and increase the block size. I am getting the following message ' ERROR DURING THE CONFIGURATION OF HOST: DESTROYVMFSDATASTORE: CANT DELETE PARTITION 3 ON LUN vmhba2:0:0'. Is this some sort of registry from when it was first created? On...
Hi, I have recently installed the HP intergrated ESX3i. The install created datastores unlike the server version. The problem with this is that it creates a 1mb block size by default, thus limiting the size of your vmdk file in that datastore to 256mb, for file and print servers this is not...
My corporate mail server requires all connections use SSL. How can I configure my Virtual Center's SMTP settings to make use of port 443? I cannot find any detailed documentation for SMTP configuration. My VC is v2.5 update 3.
I have a Windows 2000 server virtual machine running in VMware, which is running low on free space on its C: drive. Do you know of a way to increase the size of this C: drive system volume? I can easily increase the size of the space available to the virtual machine from within the VMware...
Currently have a virtual installation of SME 7.3 on Centos64/Vmware server for the last year Interested in hearing about the free virtual platform, the ESXi hypervisor What is the difference from the Vmware server that I am running ? Is it true that the ESXi hypervisor will be able to run direct...
I am wanting to create a cluster of 12 physical machines to be able to run multiple virtual machines. For instance a windows 2003 server running exchange 2003. An linux server running mysql, and perhaps a few others but all in seperate controllable virtual machines that span and use the power of...
I want to convert a RHEL 2 this is a physical machine to virtual machine, how to do it ?. In docs of vmware only can convert winXX.
I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to configure failover networking using 4 Cisco IGESM switches in the 4 bays. Currently, I have all 4 ports on each switch configured for GEC, but if a switch fails, there is no failover to one of the other switches. Switch1 is for Service Console, Switch2...
we have three servers. Two are running on vm. Are their any advantages or disadvantages to do this


