I had vmware workstation running and my server 2008 was running and working fine. In order to make sure the server runs as a service on start up I did some research and found out that vmware server allows for this to happen. So I downloaded vmware server and am not having a lot of trouble. vmware server seems to be old and doesn't support somethings like 4 processors... not a big deal.
Problem is, I power on the server but it doesn't really work. If I use the consol window and watch the server boot, it will work better but still doesn't work properly. The server ping is really high when i ping it and my sharepoint server takes a good 5 minutes to load up, it's empty so it really shouldn't take so long. this was all working fine under workstation 8.
what am I doing wrong? is there a way to run my vmware server as a service and not deal with this headache? I remember finding a script that allowed virtualbox to do this. Should I just convert my vm to a virtualbox vm and not deal with the headache?
I know too many questions. If you could point me to your favorite noobie guide that would be great. I am in the middle of reading the manual for vmware server.
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I had vmware workstation running and my server 2008 was running and working fine. In order to make sure the server runs as a service on start up I did some research and found out that vmware server allows for this to happen. So I downloaded vmware server and am not having a lot of trouble. vmware server seems to be old and doesn't support somethings like 4 processors... not a big deal.
Problem is, I power on the server but it doesn't really work. If I use the consol window and watch the server boot, it will work better but still doesn't work properly. The server ping is really high when i ping it and my sharepoint server takes a good 5 minutes to load up, it's empty so it really shouldn't take so long. this was all working fine under workstation 8.
what am I doing wrong? is there a way to run my vmware server as a service and not deal with this headache? I remember finding a script that allowed virtualbox to do this. Should I just convert my vm to a virtualbox vm and not deal with the headache?
I know too many questions. If you could point me to your favorite noobie guide that would be great. I am in the middle of reading the manual for vmware server.
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