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Re: Guest VM Settings Migrator 1.0

John — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:13:14 -0000

This is great. Thanks for sharing it !

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

Cogs66 — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:08:29 -0000

Hey Dave. Thank you so much, solution2 worked perfectly.

Andy

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

Trent Doyle — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:30:24 -0000

I appreciate your work on this. I was trying to get vmware server to work on centos 5.5 and was about to pull my hair out over it....

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

Apendleton — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:26:41 -0000

Solution 2 saved the day for me.

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

varun — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:49:39 -0000

Thanks Dave. Your post helped solve my problem. Option 2 worked for me as well.

varun

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

Joe Auty — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:48:50 -0000

David,

You are my favorite person in the world right now! I had one of those super frustrating, super stressful all-nighters tonight trying to deal with one set of problems and causing another by upgrading CentOS from 5.2 to 5.5. It took me *forever* to think of Googling for CentOS 5.5. specific problems since I figured that VMWare Server is so self-contained that the OS it runs on is pretty much irrelevant so long as the kernel modules work. I was obviously wrong!

I can go back to breathing again, thanks again for this very thoughtful and detailed fix!

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

farewelldave — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:09:19 -0000

I know that there are problems with the 3.6 version of Firefox, so you may check from a lesser version and/or try from another system other than the VMware Host.

Re: Guest VM Settings Migrator 1.0

farewelldave — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:07:09 -0000

Yes, I'm sure that there are ways to make this better, but for the client I was working with at the time, this saved quite a bit of time, and proved a dirt-simple way to have quick access to the common processes used during VM Migration.

Re: Traffic in Joplin, MO

seopilot — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:56:19 -0000

Thank you this nice post.

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

Eric — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:42:37 -0000

Thanks Dave,

Option 2 worked very well for me.

Eric

Re: Guest VM Settings Migrator 1.0

Ivan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:55:42 -0000

Alon,

Am i correct in saying that script is great providing you have not renamed your connection originally.

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

cyberbot — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:57:13 -0000

Thank you for the nice trick
i didnt get this step
Step 1: Go to /etc/yum.repos.d and copy the file CentOS-Base.repo to CentOS53-Base.repo

i can browse to /etc/yum.repos.d
but you mean rename the centos-base.repo to Centos53-base.repo?
i didnt get it thank you

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

SJUTECH — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:38:23 -0000

FYI - Centos has taken the 5.3 Mirror down and has not added it to there Vault... So the Downgrade will not work unless you make a small change to the CentOS53-Base.repo.

I found that there is one US located mirror that is 50.3 days out of sync and still has the repositories on it for the 5.3 release (http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/c.... So I had to make the Following Adjustments on my recent build of VMserver:

[base53]
name=CentOS-5.3 - Base
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?...
baseurl=http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/c...
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#released updates
[updates53]
name=CentOS-5.3 - Updates
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?...
baseurl=http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/c...
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons53]
name=CentOS-5.3 - Addons
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?...
baseurl=http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/c...
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras53]
name=CentOS-5.3 - Extras
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?...
baseurl=http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/c...
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus53]
name=CentOS-5.3 - Plus
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?...
baseurl=http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/c...
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#contrib - packages by Centos Users
[contrib53]
name=CentOS-5.3 - Contrib
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?...
baseurl=http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/c...
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

What I Did was:

I commentted out the Mirrorlist line and uncommented the baseurl and then set it to look at the http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/c..." Directoryname" and then I was able to sucessfully downgrade to the 2.5-34.el5_3.1 glibc files.

I also made a slight cahnge to the yum.conf:

instead of exclude=glibc glibc-common glibc-devel glibc-headers glibc-utils nscd

I am using exclude=*2.5-42* to exclude jsut the package that is the issue allowing me to still get all the glibc updates for centos 5.3.

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

farewelldave — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:04:48 -0000

I may be misreading your comment, however it appears that you are upset in what you are expressing as not giving credit to the CentOS Bugs page regarding glibc problems with VMware Server? I simply summarized info into an easily read and followed post. The Bugs page you linked does have a good amount of info, however I got the main content from several posts on the VMware communities forum, and simply made a page for the ease of most users that don't have a lot of experience with Linux and needed an easy to follow solution. Thanks

Re: VMware Server 2 on Linux Host with Parallel Port Passthrough

Vps Hosting — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:22:44 -0000

Thanks for your tutorial it helps me not to repeat the same mistake.

www.vpswebserver.com

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

RevRagnarok — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:46:36 -0000

Nice of you to source your info that we put together for you - http://bugs.centos.org/view.ph...

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

Dan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:52:22 -0000

Hello Dave - thanks for the info. After a day of hacking with both solutions (and reversing the hacks), I somehow figured out the non-ssl and 8222 port access via ff. Actually before I figured that out, my solution was to initialize my vms via vmrun (without the ff ui). All's well that ends well... I cannot believe that an 'official' fix hasn't been implemented yet. Sorry, I should have posted my experiences; however, I overspent my time credit just getting my server back to where it was prior to the CentOS 5.4 upgrade... DOH! If I could humbly make a recommendation - maybe add the http://<host_ip_address>:8222/ui tip to your post? I think this would really help folks out. Thanks again Dave...</host_ip_address>

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

farewelldave — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:32:07 -0000

Dan, I'm aware of a problem if you're using Firefox on the host to go to the 8333 (HTTPS) port. You have to use the 8222 (HTTP) port to access from the host. I would try from a different system on the LAN and try to hit that web address (http://<host_ip_address>:8222/ui)</host_ip_address>

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

Dan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:14:25 -0000

Hello. I've tried option 2 four times; however, I keep getting a blank Web page when accessing the Web agent. Very frustrated, and I'm hoping someone can help. Thanks.

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

haraldvillemoes — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:37:13 -0000

Worked fine for me - thanks

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

farewelldave — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:18:57 -0000

I have posted this link to one thread there at VMware Communities. However, is there a place for these types of posts? I didn't want to start a "VMware blog" as I already have one. Based on their forum structure of each thread being a 'question' that can be 'answered', I didn't think it would be proper to start a thread with an 'answer'. Let me know if you have any ideas. Just here to help.

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

SJUTECH — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:31:38 -0000

Dave,

Thanks for the info.. It is working great now. I was at a loss to what the issue was and spent alot of time on google looking for the answer.

Have you thought about positng this to VMware communities? I found that Fedora core 12 same issues with the glibc files being updated.

Great Job on this post it has been a life saver. I was about to roll back to centos 5.2 or Fedors core 10.

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

farewelldave — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:48:22 -0000

You are correct. I have edited the post to reflect the typo correction. Thanks.

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

SJUTECH — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:14:11 -0000

Found 1 issue witht the exclude line in the yum.conf file:

exclude=glibc glibc-common glibc-devel glibc-headers glibc-utils nscd

what was fixed is the glibc=headers and added glibc-utils since I was still getting updates after that casued it to break the VMserver.

this line should exclude all glibc

Re: VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

sjutech — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:03:26 -0000

Solution 1: I fololwed the instructions and all was working well... So i took a shot and ran yum update. Even after excluding the glibc and glic-common files from the YUM.repose.conf i ran the YUM updates and it somehow updated the glibc files again.

Is there additional files that need to be excluded to be sure this is not a problem?