> Hi,
> Installed Vrtual Server 2005 R2 since last 6 months & working fine. But
> after shuting down all guest OSand the host OS on Saturday due to some
> maint, and restarting today the host OS and all 5 guest OS it there is no
> network available. The server is Dell 2950 which has dual network card ,
> assigned 1 NIC to host OS and 1 NIC to all 5 guest OS which is working fine
> but performance has drastically reduced and this was not the way i had
> configured during the installation.
> I tried to manually assign 1 NIC to 2 Guest OS but than the connection to
> host OS is lost and the server itself is unavailable on network. What could
> be the issue and how it can resolved.
>
> Best Regards,
> DD
>
>
>

>
>> Hi,
>> Installed Vrtual Server 2005 R2 since last 6 months & working fine. But
>> after shuting down all guest OSand the host OS on Saturday due to some
>> maint, and restarting today the host OS and all 5 guest OS it there is no
>> network available. The server is Dell 2950 which has dual network card ,
>> assigned 1 NIC to host OS and 1 NIC to all 5 guest OS which is working fine
>> but performance has drastically reduced and this was not the way i had
>> configured during the installation.
>> I tried to manually assign 1 NIC to 2 Guest OS but than the connection to
>> host OS is lost and the server itself is unavailable on network. What could
>> be the issue and how it can resolved.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> DD
>similar issue here...with HP DL385G1 host servers.
>
>disabled the nic teaming...for now...but still the HOST looses
>networkconnectivity after the host/guests are online for a couple of hours....
>
>no solution yet...
>
>need serious help on this one
>

> >"DD" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> Installed Vrtual Server 2005 R2 since last 6 months & working fine. But
> >> after shuting down all guest OSand the host OS on Saturday due to some
> >> maint, and restarting today the host OS and all 5 guest OS it there is no
> >> network available. The server is Dell 2950 which has dual network card ,
> >> assigned 1 NIC to host OS and 1 NIC to all 5 guest OS which is working fine
> >> but performance has drastically reduced and this was not the way i had
> >> configured during the installation.
> >> I tried to manually assign 1 NIC to 2 Guest OS but than the connection to
> >> host OS is lost and the server itself is unavailable on network. What could
> >> be the issue and how it can resolved.
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> DD
> On Fri, 9 May 2008 02:36:00 -0700, green
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
> >similar issue here...with HP DL385G1 host servers.
> >
> >disabled the nic teaming...for now...but still the HOST looses
> >networkconnectivity after the host/guests are online for a couple of hours....
> >
> >no solution yet...
> >
> >need serious help on this one
> >
> Have you tried updating the NIC drivers on your host system?
> I installed VS2005R2SP1 on an XP-Pro PC the other day and *all*
> network connectivity disappeared on the host! After uninstalling
> VS2005 and power cycling the PC I was back with working networking
> again.
> Then I searched for an updated NIC driver and installed it.
> After that the VS2005 install worked and there was no more any network
> issues.
>
>
> Bo Berglund
>