This error occur when the virtual floppy auto install did not unmounted properly. Simply do the following : 1. Shutdown the virtual machine 2. Disconnect the virtual floppy drive or set the drive to use the system floppy instead of image 3. Then, boot you’re guest and try again to install VMware Tools If theses… Read More »
Using VMware Server on RedHat Enterprise Linux, you may expect this error in log file /var/log/secure : PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix2.so PAM [error: /lib/security/pam_unix2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix2.so Actually, this error does not seem to affect the functionality of VMware Server. To work around… Read More »
VMware Server performance can be improved in so many ways… there are some recomendation that I’ve discovered when I was using this product at large before moving them to ESXi : Use preallocated virtual disk Use as less virtual hardware as possible – do not add unneeded hardware Use ext4 or XFS filesystem (if host… Read More »
VMware allow four type of virtual disk (vmdk) : 0 : single growable virtual disk 1 : growable virtual disk split in 2Gb files 2 : single preallocated virtual disk 3 : preallocated virtual disk split in 2Gb files vmware-vdiskmanager -r <source-disk> -t <type> <target-disk> Now, if you want to convert your growable disk into… Read More »
Latest VMware Workstation (such as VMware-Workstation-Full-7.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle) can be uninstalled using the following command on a Linux host : vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation You may have a look at the list of VMware product installed and their version using this command : vmware-installer -l
To right click on Windows object on Parallels Desktop with Mac OSX coherence mode, just press the following key : SHIFT + CONTROL + Click on the object.
Considering that you have a supported CPU with VT enabled, you may have a look at the guest configuration file (.vmx) and make sure theses value are correct : guestOS = “darwin-64” ich7m.present = “TRUE” smc.present = “FALSE” keyboard.vusb.enable = “TRUE” mouse.vusb.enable = “TRUE” monitor.virtual_exec = “hardware” monitor.virtual_mmu = “software”
Using the VMware Server 2 Web management interface, you may get the following error trying to access to the virtual machine console: Cannot connect to host hostname: Unknown error 10060 (0x274c) The problem is that the console port is probably blocked by the firewall. You need to have the Web interface port (TCP-8333 or 8333… Read More »
With VMware Server 2 Web interface, you get this message when trying to open a virtual machine console: Error opening the remote virtual machine hostname:8333/16 The host name could not be resolved. This error happen when no DNS server is configured on the network interface of your workstation (not the server itself). Just add… Read More »