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VMWare Server doesn’t start virtual machine

May 30th, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments

Before I start my article, please note my system at the time I had problem

  • OS: Ubuntu 8.04 (Upgraded from 7.04)
  • PC: P4 3GHz CPU, 1.5Gb RAM, 500GB NTFS HDD
  • VMWare: VMWare Server 1.0.4 build-56528

Today, I tried to setup Ubuntu Server 8.04 on vmware server. I ‘ve got all the basic setup and virtual machine was created on the NFTS drive. For some reason I couldn’t get vmware server to start my newly created virtual machine.

First stope I did was close and reopen VMware Server and tro to start the virtual machine a few time but it didn’t help.

After a few click research, I’ve found the solution which cause by the way VMWare Server is using NTFS.

Solution

Thanks to NTFS-3G for the work-around (http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#vmware)

Workaround:

Set “mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE” in the .vmx file. It will disable paging files and VMware will work fine, often with much better performance.

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