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5 Replies Last post: May 10, 2008 6:07 AM by badria  
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badria
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Apr 21, 2008 9:35 AM

newbie to VMware.. plzzzz help :(


hi to all...

very happy to find this place.. hope to find answer to my Q..

i downloaded VMware workstation 6 .. 2 days back... just to learn on windows server services(DNS,DHCP, AD..etc)

my host pc is running vista ultimat... + 2 Vnet ( win 2003 ent & xp pro).. all bridge network.

the problem is that

1- performance is SLOW :( on both vm ...though i have 2 G of RAM on host + enough disck space)

2- when i run command prompt from xp po... it knows win2003 and host... but win2003 knows host and doesn't connect to xp pro?????)


plz help :(

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Jonathan Summers
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1. May 7, 2008 1:23 PM in response to: badria
Re: newbie to VMware.. plzzzz help :(
Are you accessesing the vm via a 300 baud modem?
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Oliphant
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2. May 8, 2008 2:03 AM in response to: badria
Re: newbie to VMware.. plzzzz help :(

Slow performance: have you checked vista to see if there is a bottleneck somewhere i.e., memory, processor

win2003: How are you trying to connect? Are you pinging or browsing?

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Cedric Adams
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3. May 8, 2008 1:39 PM in response to: badria
Re: newbie to VMware.. plzzzz help :(
Might be a silly question, but have you loaded the VM tools on your VMs? With them you should get the correct NIC, and prompted to set the hardware acceleration.
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deepak
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4. May 9, 2008 1:09 AM in response to: badria
Re: newbie to VMware.. plzzzz help :(
Hi Badria,

Since you are telling the performance is slow in both the VMs... i would like to know how mach memory have you allocated to the VMs..... if you have given 512 MB for each VM then its obvious there will be slow p/f... bec vista requires a min of 1 GB ram......
try giving 256 mb ram for xp and 640mb for w2003... so that the vista host can take some 1+ gb ram.........

Also try to disable the firewall in both the VMs ... may be you can get the connectivity......

regards,
greendayusa@gmail.com
Deepak.A
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badria
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5. May 10, 2008 6:07 AM in response to: deepak
Re: newbie to VMware.. plzzzz help :(

hi everybody :)


thank you for your replies...

i have solved the problem of connectivity... by just creating a shared folder in both host o/s and virtual o/s... and then try to login to both folders remotly!!... sounds stupid or silly!! but it WORKS..

again... thanx for suuport


badria

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