vmware-server

VMWare for test IIS Server

I'm wondering if anyone can help. I'd like to run IIS on a VMWare server, but I'd like to be able to access the IIS server on it using a browser on the PC. Can anyone tell me if this is possible? ...

Using an iso to create a VMware vmdk

Can anyone point me to some documentation about how I can use an Iso to create a Vmware environment. For instance, there's this guy who made his own version of Ubuntu, with loads of extra programs added. Before I try this, I'm gonna test it using vmware server. But I'm kinda confused as to how to do this with only the ISO file. ...

Traffic monitoring tools for VMWare Server?

We want to monitor traffic usage for each of our virtual machines - we need to generate a monthly traffic report (in terms of bytes, for billing purposes). How can we do this? Our platform is VMWare Server 2, using bridged interfaces on Windows Server 2003 thanks, ashley ...

vmrun tool usage

I have a vb script (that sets up the IIS). I need to run this vbscript inside the guest VM, from the Host box. How do i do this? I am tol vmrun.exe can do this. Any samples to get this done would be great help. I am running VMWare server 2 in host. ...

Remote Desktop access from windows VM running on linux host + vmware server 2

I am trying to access a windows VM through RDP. I am using NAT and a linux host. I am not getting a proper answer on the web. Can anyone help /? ...

vmware vim-cmd - segmentation fault

Hello, I am trying to manage a virtual machine running on Vmware ESXI using the VIM-CMD command and I am having problems with some operations. I can power on a specific server using the command 'VIM-CMD /VMSVC/POWER.ON 688' but cannot power off that server (command used:VIM-CMD /VMSVC/POWER.OFF 688) for example. In that case, I have a...

Network adapter disabled on VMWare Server Console 1.0.10 on XP

I have been running VMWare Server Console 1.0.10 for a while on my XP machine but a while ago I lost all communication between the host and the guests. The only reason I can see is that in Host->Virtual Network Settings, on the Host Virtual Adapters tab, both adapters (VMnet1 and VMnet8) are listed as Disabled. I can enable each one but ...

Virtualising servers on Mac OS

I need to virtualise Ubuntu 24/7 on my Mac. Is there a lite virtualisation piece of software that allows me to run it discretely? I do not want an interface... I will manage via SSH... I have been using VirtualBox but it always insists on having a window open... can I run a guest OS as a service?? VMWare server looks suitable but it's ...

WIndows 2003 Unresponsive on VMWare Server 2.0

I have had an installation of Windows 2003 ColdFusion and MS SQL 2000 running on VMWare Server 2. It has run perfectly for over a year. Now about every other day I have to restart the vmware service because the Windows server is unresponsive and unreachable. There is nothing in the event log on the Windows server and there is nothing of ...

VMWare Server 2 loses virtual machines after reboot

Hi guys! I have a very annoying bug in my VMware Server 2 installed on Ubuntu 9.10. Actually VMware was installed without any problem, it also works fine, but there is an issue: each time I start the web-interface after reboot it says: "The Datastore Browser could not successfully retrieve data from the server", so I need to delete and r...

In a virtual machine monitor such as VMware's ESXi Server, how are shadow page tables implemented?

My understanding is that VMMs such as VMware's ESXi Server maintain shadow page tables to map virtual page addresses of guest operating systems directly to machine (hardware) addresses. I've been told that shadow page tables are then used directly by the processor's paging hardware to allow memory accesses in the VM to execute without tr...

How to install MonoDevelop 2.2 in a Virtual Machine under Debian 5 stable ?

Hi everyone, My problem is I wish to install the new version of MonoDevelop 2.2 in my Debian vmware image. This version is not validate for the moment. Also I try to add in my sources.list in /etc/apt the following line : deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian squeeze like advise in the monodevelop website. The problem when I select m...

Can we upload applications developed by VMWARE server to App Store?

Hi Guys I am having one doubt using VMWare Server. I have developed applications using VMWare Server. Can i upload these applications to App Store? Is there any chance to apple that it can find the application is developed in VMWare Server and apple will reject this applications? Can any one please tell me? ...

Vmware Server 2.0.2 : Bind webAccess(bundled Tomcat) to only listen on 1IP

Hello, I recently installed VMware Server 2.0.2 on a Dedicated Server. My problem is that the Tomcat server bundled to serve the webAccess application is listening on all IPs on all interfaces. I would like to bind it to localhost only (So I could only access it while SSH tunneling) and prevent it from being accessed with the public IP....

Make vmrun.exe bypass Ctrl+Alt+Del login screen WITHOUT editing Guest Registry?

When automating some virtual machines with vmrun I am encountering the issue with not being able to bypass the Guest OS ctrl+alt+del login screen. For example vmrun.exe -gu user -gp pass -T server -h my.server.local:443/sdk -u admin -p pass runProgramInGuest "[datastore] path-to-VMX" iexplore will not proceed. Without me manually goin...

How can I disable PXE network booting through vSphere on a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi 4.1.0 as host??

How can I disable PXE network booting through vSphere on a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi 4.1.0 as host? ...