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2.0 Beta is terrible

VM Server 20 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:57:48 GMT

The web UI on 2.0 beta is terrible. I have tried installed 2.0 on multiple platforms and OS's without any improvement. Hopefully VMWare will be able to pull out of this crappy code in future versions. Otherwise company's such as Citrix (XenServer) and MS (hypervisor) will catch up quicker than anyone expected.

log in to Web UI as different user

d_a_n — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:43:57 GMT

I have to log in to the Web UI as root. I have two other users on the system but both get "access denied" when i try them. How can i get those to work?

Web UI on MAC OSX?

Tin Soldier — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:43:50 GMT

I actually really like the Web UI, but I would love to see it work on the Mac. Just wondering if a firefox plugin could be modded for it or something? We run all linux servers and Mac Laptops so it would be awesome to admin the servers without needing some kind of Windows.

Console plugin installation fails on Firefox 3.0 beta 3

RGehrig — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:29:26 GMT

When trying to install the console plug in in Firefox 3.0 beta 3 I receive the error below. The plugin install worked in Firefox 3 beta 2.

Firefox could not install this item because "install-ena..rdf" (provided by the item) is not well-formed or does not exist. Please contact the author about this problem.

Followed by

Firefox could not install the file at

https://roz:8333/ui/plugin/vmware-vmrc-win32-x86.xpi

because: Unexpected installation error
Review the Error Console log for more details.
-203

Are they going to bring back the Server Console?

bjrosen — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:33:51 GMT

Does VMware plan to bring back the Server Console? If so will it be in Beta 2? The reaction to the new Web based interface has been universally scathing, is anyone at Vmware aware of the level of discontent with the horrible web UI?

Console doesn't work with Firefox 2.0 (Linux)

jmmarton — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:05:48 GMT

Running Firefox 2.0.0.8 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 SP1. I have the "VMware Virtual Machine Remote Console Plug-in" installed (version 2.0.0.63231). However when I go to the console tab I just get a black screen. Seems to work ok with FF2 and IE6 on Windows, though.

Joe

How do I log in

lorenzosjb — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:41:13 GMT

Hi, I installed server 2 beta1 using Vista Home Premium SP1. I am using a administrator account.

How do I get into the administrator? Is there a default user and password or I have to edit a file.

Thanks and Regards,

Lorenzo

Web Gui not coming up after i certificate security warning

kevinhobson2000 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:44:04 GMT

Hi,

I have a problem which has suddenly started happening where after i click continue to the site.

I just get the status bar increasing but the UI doesnt actually come up it just seems to hang.

Does anybody have any ideas on how to resolve this im using windows VIsta 64 bit.

Thanks

Kev

VM console crashing in Virtual Infrastructure client 2.5

tsekulic — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:52:54 GMT

I run Server 2.0 beta on my Windows 2003 Enterprise Server x64 host.

Like a lot of people here, I too didn't like the Web console so Installed VI client 2.5 on my laptop running WinXP Pro 32 bit. However, every time I launch the console tab for any VM it crashes with different messages (please see attached screen shots).

The error messages are:

Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation

If I then click on the console tab again, the VI client then closes without any errors.

When I click on the Launch Console Window, I get different error message:

Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

When I Ok this message I then get:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object

I initially used VI 2.5 client that comes with Virtual Infrastructure 3.5. When it didn't work the first time I then re-installed it but I still got the same error message. I've also tried using VI 2.5 client that comes with Linux VMWare server 2.0 beta. I got the same error messages.

Does anyone know what maybe causing those errors?

I've also installed VI Client 2.5 inside a WinXP virtual machine running on the same VMWware 2.0 beta server. The console then worked fine.

Web UI Woes -- renders server 2.0 beta 1 unuseable

jimbo45 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:06:23 GMT

Hi all
I've too many probs with the Web UI for me to carry on using the beta until some issues here have been fixed.

My Host is Open SUSE 10.3 X_64 bit.

First I will say that Installation worked STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BOX --no problems whatsoever with kernel / incompatable modules etc etc (provided you have compiler C++/C and Make etc etc).
Now the problems

1) Web UI can only be accessed via Root (Ok this has been acknowledged and will be fixed later - but still not acceptable to have to use ROOT - even for a beta).

2) Konqueror browser doesn't show login screen at all. Firefox does however. Now whatever one thinks of the relative merits of various browsers one really shouldn't have to use 2 different browsers to get something to work. As a KDE user Konqueror whilst not having all the bells and whistles of firefox is very very convenient to use as it's integrated with the desktop - especially useful for double clicking a file and starting an application such as Open Office or even a Kaffeine when a DVD / mpeg2 file is clicked.

3) Can't browse for existing Virtual machines -- even when you create a "New datastore".
I've got a few VM's which should work with vmware server (and did with previous version). Even if you completely specify the full file / path it won't pick up an existing VM. It seems you can only create NEW VM's -- not a good idea if you have a few VM's with legacy hardware for which no drivers exist so re-installing the guest OS'es is not a solution.

I think perhaps a bit of the old Engineering methodology is needed here

by all means add functionality but essentially if it "aint broke" don't fix it.

Cheers

-K

ALSA Sound Support

wizkidcom — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:24:34 GMT

I just downloaded and I've looked through the Manual PDF, and there has been no discussion of if they have Linux ALSA support yet. So I suspect it's not there. Has anyone out there checked to see if they've added ALSA support, or is it still using the no longer supported OSS sound port. I hope they've finally added ALSA support, but it doesn't look like they have

Rich

vmware infrastuture web access

paucorre — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:55:52 GMT

I'm trying to run vmware server 2.0 beta and for some reason I can't access to the console of the virtual machines.

The server is installed in CentOS 5.0

I try to administer it from my machine a Windows Vista 32bit with SP1 when I use :

Internet explorer I have a problem with quickMksAx.dll and IE restart

Firefox can't install the plugin it give me an error "installation of msvcr71.dll faile. Error code - 202"

What is wrong in my instalation ?

thanks,

Paulo

Access denied with adminstrative user (Server 2 Beta 1 on Vista)

07Gti — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:54:52 GMT

I can not log into the page at all with the administrator account (bad user name or pass, but I can log into windows with it fine) or my account which simply says access denied. I have verified that I am in the Administrators group on the local box and I am.

Any Ideas?

Beta 2 on Windows 2008 Enterprise - Remote Console not connecting

chuck_2330 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:49:39 GMT

It probably serves me right for trying to run a beta product on a beta product but this has been driving me nuts.

I have installed Server Beta 2 on the Win2008 Server beta. Using a VM created with Workstation, everything appears to run OK but I get the following message when I try to connect to the console of the VM via the web UI:

"A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because the connected host has failed to respond". This message appears with both Firefox 2.0012 and IE7 running on XP Pro. The plugin appears to install correctly in both browsers.

Any ideas?

Greg

UPDATE

I hate it when I find the answer only a few minutes after posting! I needed to open up Port 902 as well. Doh!

IIS applications dont work when VMware is running

funky1974 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:01:17 GMT

I have installed the beta 2.0 version of vmware on a test server. not the web aps i have installed on IIS do not work. Is there a way to get these apps working side by side?

VMWare Server and Firefox black screen

villegente — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:16:51 GMT

Hello,

I use Ubuntu and Firefox 2.0.0.12. When I try to access to my virtual machine, I have a black screen and this error message :

villegente@pc-olivier:/etc/apache2$ firefox
VMRC:GetPluginComponentPath: found plugin file: /home/villegente/.mozilla/firefox/b04c9266.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/np-vmware-vmrc-2.0.0-63231.so
VMRC:GetPluginComponentPath: loading plugin components from /home/villegente/.mozilla/firefox/b04c9266.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc-2.0.0-63231/
VMRC:StartMksViewer: forking legacy delegate instance
VMRC:StartMksViewer: executing /home/villegente/.mozilla/firefox/b04c9266.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc-2.0.0-63231/vmware-vmrc-legacy using fd 74 for communication
/home/villegente/.mozilla/firefox/b04c9266.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc-2.0.0-63231/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: 427: -: not found
/home/villegente/.mozilla/firefox/b04c9266.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc-2.0.0-63231/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: 427: -: not found
/home/villegente/.mozilla/firefox/b04c9266.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc-2.0.0-63231/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: 427: -: not found
/home/villegente/.mozilla/firefox/b04c9266.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc-2.0.0-63231/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: 427: -: not found
/home/villegente/.mozilla/firefox/b04c9266.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc-2.0.0-63231/bin/vmware-vmrc-legacy: symbol lookup error: /home/villegente/.mozilla/firefox/b04c9266.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc-2.0.0-63231/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0: undefined symbol: _ZN4view10FieldEntry15on_size_requestEP15_GtkRequisition
villegente@pc-olivier:/etc/apache2$

Do you know the problem ?

Thanks, Have a nice day,

clustering?

devzero — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:58:14 GMT

did anybody try clustering in 2.0beta?
does it still work as in 1.0.x or is it removed (as the manual doesn`t contain a word about)

error http 12031 trying to add a disk

Wizard113 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:30:21 GMT

Trying to add an existing disk (from server 1) to a new VM, and the UI bombs with an message describing http 12031.

The hostd.log has the following in it:

~~2008-03-13 02:22:15.566 'BaseLibs' 47521224472704 info~~ DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Descrip
torReadEncDescFromAIO: Encrypted descriptor above max size: 2147221
504
~~2008-03-13 02:22:15.566 'BaseLibs' 47521224472704 info~~ DISKLIB-LINK : "/vmdis
ks/Indico_DB_Server/Data-disk-f001.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is
not a virtual disk).
~~2008-03-13 02:22:15.566 'BaseLibs' 47521224472704 info~~ DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmdis
ks/Indico_DB_Server/Data-disk-f001.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is
not a virtual disk).
~~2008-03-13 02:22:15.566 'BaseLibs' 47521224472704 info~~ DISKLIB-LIB : Failed
to open '/vmdisks/Indico_DB_Server/Data-disk-f001.vmdk' with flags 0x11 (The fil
e specified is not a virtual disk).
~~2008-03-13 02:22:15.567 'BaseLibs' 47521224472704 info~~ DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Descrip
torReadEncDescFromAIO: Encrypted descriptor above max size: 2147221
504
~~2008-03-13 02:22:15.567 'BaseLibs' 47521224472704 info~~ DISKLIB-LINK : "/vmdis
ks/Indico_DB_Server/Data-disk-f002.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is
not a virtual disk).
~~2008-03-13 02:22:15.567 'BaseLibs' 47521224472704 info~~ DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmdis
ks/Indico_DB_Server/Data-disk-f002.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is
not a virtual disk).
~~2008-03-13 02:22:15.567 'BaseLibs' 47521224472704 info~~ DISKLIB-LIB : Failed
to open '/vmdisks/Indico_DB_Server/Data-disk-f002.vmdk' with flags 0x11 (The fil
e specified is not a virtual disk).
~~2008-03-13 02:22:15.568 'BaseLibs' 47521224472704 info~~ DISKLIB-LINK : "/vmdis
ks/Indico_DB_Server/Data-disk-f003.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is
not a virtual disk).
~~2008-03-13 02:22:15.568 'BaseLibs' 47521224472704 info~~ DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmdis
ks/Indico_DB_Server/Data-disk-f003.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is
not a virtual disk).
~~2008-03-13 02:22:15.568 'BaseLibs' 47521224472704 info~~ DISKLIB-LIB : Failed
to open '/vmdisks/Indico_DB_Server/Data-disk-f003.vmdk' with flags 0x11 (The fil
e specified is not a virtual disk).

Any ideas how I can add this disk? Other VMs have converted quite nicely.

Thanks,

David

How to change the certificate of the webui?

oliver.gehlert — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:51:12 GMT

The webui is quite unstable and is not so useable as the old rich client. But more important for me is changing the certificate for the ui website. How do i install my own certificate? Do i follow the same steps as for a plain Tomcat installation?

Changing certificates should be a (very) important point in the admin guide!

Thx

Oliver

Web service URL malformed

JanPihlgren — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:52:28 GMT

When I try to log in through VMware Infrastructure Web Access I get the following message:

Web service URL malformed

I'm running Mandriva Linux 2008.0 and I use Firefox as webbrowser.

The call is:

http://localhost:8222

The browser respond with http://localhost:8222/ui/#

and the VMware Infrastructure Web Access is displayed.

I use my username and password I have when I log in to the system.

What and where do I have to correct the malformed URL?

Edited 2008-03-07

In the /var/log/vmware/webAccess/proxy.log I get the following message:

2008-03 09:28:41, 245, http-8308-Processor24<=>, RequestRequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : MalformedURLExeption For input string : "##{HTTP_PORT}##"

What's this and how to correct?

Message was edited by: JanPihlgren

Web Service Not Available

warriorforgod — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:48:28 GMT

I have installed beta 2 on ubuntu 7.10. IPv6 is disabled, xinetd is installed, I can connect to the web ui locally and remotely, but when I try and login I get web service not available. Any suggestions?

unable to login to webui (or potentially anything)

timball — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:36:51 GMT

I have installed VMware-server-e.x.p-63231.i386.tar.gz on a new ubuntu gutsy 7.10 install. I have a feeling that it has something to do w/ what the proxy.log says. More complete details follow. If anyone's really gonna email me please use: "timball" a t gmail_com (with out the quotes or spaces and replace _ appropriately)

When I try to login I get the following error: http://www.tux.org/~timball/pix/vmware-no-login-lovin.png

in my system logs I get something like this:

root@lewis:/var/log# tail -f syslog vmware/*.log vmware/webAccess/*.log

==> syslog <==
Mar 6 13:29:49 lewis /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd6782: Accepted password for user timball from 127.0.0.1

==> vmware/hostd-5.log <==
~~2008-03-06 13:29:49.874 'BaseLibs' 3068746640 info~~ UUID: SMBIOS UUID is reported as 'f4 16 56 40 97 98 11 dc-b7 d5 89 7e a3 ac 86 fd'.
~~2008-03-06 13:29:49.874 'BaseLibs' 3068746640 info~~ UUID: SMBIOS UUID is reported as 'f4 16 56 40 97 98 11 dc-b7 d5 89 7e a3 ac 86 fd'.
~~2008-03-06 13:29:49.899 'ha-eventmgr' 3069279120 info~~ Event 7 : Failed to login user timball@127.0.0.1: No permission
~~2008-03-06 13:29:49.900 'Vmomi' 3069279120 info~~ Activation N5Vmomi10ActivationE:0xa81d1f0 : Invoke done login on ~~vim.SessionManager:ha-sessionmgr~~
~~2008-03-06 13:29:49.900 'Vmomi' 3069279120 info~~ Throw vim.fault.NoPermission
~~2008-03-06 13:29:49.901 'Vmomi' 3069279120 info~~ Result:
(vim.fault.NoPermission) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
object = 'vim.Folder:ha-folder-root',
privilegeId = "System.View",
msg = ""
}

==> vmware/hostd.log <==
~~2008-03-06 13:29:49.874 'BaseLibs' 3068746640 info~~ UUID: SMBIOS UUID is reported as 'f4 16 56 40 97 98 11 dc-b7 d5 89 7e a3 ac 86 fd'.
~~2008-03-06 13:29:49.874 'BaseLibs' 3068746640 info~~ UUID: SMBIOS UUID is reported as 'f4 16 56 40 97 98 11 dc-b7 d5 89 7e a3 ac 86 fd'.
~~2008-03-06 13:29:49.899 'ha-eventmgr' 3069279120 info~~ Event 7 : Failed to login user timball@127.0.0.1: No permission
~~2008-03-06 13:29:49.900 'Vmomi' 3069279120 info~~ Activation N5Vmomi10ActivationE:0xa81d1f0 : Invoke done login on ~~vim.SessionManager:ha-sessionmgr~~
~~2008-03-06 13:29:49.900 'Vmomi' 3069279120 info~~ Throw vim.fault.NoPermission
~~2008-03-06 13:29:49.901 'Vmomi' 3069279120 info~~ Result:
(vim.fault.NoPermission) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
object = 'vim.Folder:ha-folder-root',
privilegeId = "System.View",
msg = ""
}

==> vmware/webAccess/proxy.log <==
2008-03-06 13:29:49,909,http-8308-Processor23<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : PermissionDeniedException Permission to perform this operation was denied.

Help , Problem to log with Access Web interface vmware server 2 beta

ben_global — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:12:44 GMT

Hey all, someone can help me, Ihave problem to lo into web access vmware server 2 beta ... the message is Acces denied

Add existing disk always defaults to SCSI even if it is an IDE disk

Demyte — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:12:43 GMT

hi,

I am running VMWare Server 2.0 ( Beta | 11/13/07 | Build 63231).

I have an existing machine I built in this version that has a single IDE disk.

When i copy the VM files to a new directory, rename them and then add it to the inventory. After that I remove the existing disk and add the correct one, but it always adds it as a SCSI disk, not as the IDE disk it is.

Centos Linux VMServer 2.0 Web gui freeze

LKPDsmith — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:33:43 GMT

The web gui on a centos box froze, also webmin gui froze. All VM's continued to run without problem.

Platform: Centos 5.1 (Linux 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 on an x86_64 ) 2 CPU AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ 8Gbyte memory; no graphic interface - no firewall - no selinux - a minimal install with no other services.

13 vm's running; variety of XP, Centos, server 2003, ubuntu; mix of 32 and 64 bit; everything runs fine

VMware Infrastructure Client 2.5 from VMware-server-e.x.p-63231.i386.tar.gz does connect and control VM's.

Cure: on linux command line in ssh session run:

~~root@xxxxx~~ /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart

This restarts the web interface, which freed up the web gui and the webmin gui.

Anyone else with a freeze? Any idea why?

Cant get guest to boot

mike240se — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:23:10 GMT

Hi, Im having trouble with getting into the guest os. I installed vmware server 2.0 beta 1 on ubuntu 7.10 x64. I had it installed on this same machine before, but i did a reformat and reinstall. I reinstalled ubuntu 7.10 and server 2.0 beta 1 again. Before it would give me a x64 error booting windows server 2003 because virtualization wasnt working. i reinstalled but turned out to be a bios update needed.

so now i reinstalled and am trying to boot an os, any os. i setup the vm just as before and mounted an iso and tried to boot and when it connects to the console i just get a black screen with an underscore at the top left corner. i tried on 2 machines to access the console to rule out firefox or plugin issues. i then tried booting a different os iso and then i tried mutliple 32bit isos then i tried booting from the cdrom. nothing worked. the virtual machine just will not post. i get no vmware bios, i get nothing just the _. its starting to get annoying. anyhelp please.

thanks

mike

How to make second "bridged" or "custom" network in VM Server 2 beta on a host windows platform using WebUI?

igmikor — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:12:55 GMT

Hi to all.

When i installed VM Server 2 beta on windows platform (XP or server 2k3), i have gotten several errors with MSIEXEC.EXE (missing MSVCR80.DLL) but VM Server 2 beta is work after the installing.
I am use FireFox 2.0.12 to connect VM Server 2 beta WebUI. I have made virtual machine. When I tried to add the second NIC, I have received trouble.

I modified network using "Manager Virtual Network" software. I enabled vmnet0 and vmnet2 and disabled all other (vmnet1, vmnet8).

I can add second BRIDGET NIC in WebUI, but when guest OS has started I cannot to ping host from guest OS in same network (all IP address for NICs on host OS and guest OS are correct).

Only first BRIDGET inteface can do it - to get access from bridget NIC guest to bridget NIC host.

Somobody knows how to make second WORKING "bridged" or "custom" network in VM Server 2 beta on a host windows platform using WebUI to make it worked?

PS: i know how to do it by using a correction in several configuration's WebUI files (see the picture). But is is non standart method.

Dual Monitor issue with Full Screen Display

Tim Walsh — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:27:10 GMT

I've noticed that when I go to full screen on my workstation and then go back to a windowed screen my dual monitor display settings are reset to a single monitor. I have to manually reset my display settings to enable the second monitor again. I'm running on a WinXP SP2 workstation. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Has anyone come up with a solution?

web service not available

alkhodarev — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:38:04 GMT

During the log-in operation (web interface of ver 2.0) i get following message: "Web service not available". How to make it available?

Thank you in advance.

Alex

VIC to connect to VMware Server 2.0b on WinXP...

gummeson — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:23:27 GMT

Hello!

I have been using VMware Server 2.0b on a Ubuntu 7.1 server host for months now in my cheap "home setup". I use both the VMware Infastructure Client (VIC) 2.5 and the integrated tomcat web UI for management without any bigger problems (other than compatibility with IE on Vista etc...;-)

However, just installed the VMware Server 2.0b windows version on my XP desktop at work...and the VIC can't connect to it. (Web UI works as expected.)

I just wan't to know if anybody else use the quirky setup with VIC 2.5 to a VMware server 2.0b on Windows XP desktop? And if it is supposed to work...;-)

Regards

/Jesper

New Virtual Machine...

UlrichCM — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:11:42 GMT

I'm sorry about my poor english. I wan't to give some hints:

Going backwards will loose some things i've already entered (disk size)
I use special folders wich are already created if i choose it, i will get an error message (file already exists)
If i enter a file name there will be no extension
If i hit return in the file name field nothing happens, i had to click OK

After successfull creation i continue work with VMware Infrastructure Client.

Great Product i think.

ActiveX crashes on attempt to remote console

ixtab — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:03:11 GMT

When I accessed the Console via the Web UI for the first time it installed an ActiveX control (quickMksAx.dll), that went fine.

But then when it tries to run it keeps crashing IE with the attached error (screen capture attached).

Does anyone know how I can uninstall the ActiveX control (it does not show on the add/remove programs)? now it won't let me reinstall it because whenever I go to the Console it thinks it is already installed and crashes on start.

Using IE7 on XP SP2

Any idea?

Thanks!

Ix.

Using console remotely

tnine — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:03:37 GMT

Hi all,

I've just installed the latest download of vmware server 2 beta. Despite the numerous protests of the web interface, it makes managing our distributed environment very easy. I as well as several other developers are running OS X 10.5. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.11, whenever I click on the console tab, I just get the vmware logo, nothing else. Is there a specific firefox plugin I need to install, or will this not work if the native client console isn't installed?

Thanks,

Todd

List of supported Web browsers?

GerhardSchneider — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:38:26 GMT

Is there a list of supported web browsers for non-Microsoft OS?

I'm interested in browsers where the VM Console isn't showing a blank screen with a single white dot only.

Thank you in advance!

Gerhard Schneider

Add Existing Virtual Machine dialog hangs

Kimbotha — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:38:42 GMT

I am having problems adding the main virtual machine I used to use under VMware server 1.0.4 to the new web UI.

I have checked that the correct parent directory is set as a datastore and I can browse to the directory below my VMX file, but as soon as I select the directory that contains the VMX file, the dialog just sits there with "Loading..." in the central Contents column and the icon rotating next to it.

I have attached a hostd-trace.log and hostd-6.log files along with a screenshot. I would attach the webAccess/proxy.log file but it seems I can only attach a maximum of 3 files and I am not sure what use it would be.

I am running Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) 32bit as the host and have changed the /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml file to accept my username as the authorised DataUser as described in a different thread.

Is there another way to add the existing VMX to the list of guests without using the web UI?

Version 2 Beta.

IanEH — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:57:50 GMT

Im new to VM. Seemed sensible to start with the latest release. 2.0 Beta. I found it a little clunky to be honest but like the overall product. After reading some comments in this forum I decided to try 1.04.

I realize of course that a lot of time and effort has been put into 2.0, but I have to say that 1.04 works... works well, and is a lot more user freindly in my opinion. Dev boys... can you keep the IIS snap in idea?

Usually if you try a new product then see the old one, you're kinda glad you have the new one. Sorry chaps I uninstalled 2.0 and am happily playing with 1.04. Sorry.

how connect external USB drive

scooke — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:46:56 GMT

Hello,

I currently use the VMware Infrastructure client because working via webinterface is a hell...

Now I added a USB controller to my VM properties ans I also can see my external drive in the right screen. But how do I connect to it in the VM?

Tnx

Adding or Create virtual Machin problem

moktin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:13:51 GMT

Hello everybody,

After some problem to install vmware-server 2.0 on a mandriva 2008...

I've always some problemes with the web ui.

When I try to create a virtual machine, the pop up which appear, never stop loading.

When I try to add a virturtual machine, then, select the datastore, the same problem, the pop up never stop loading.

Any idea about that problem ?

Thank you

Server beta 2 - it almost works

Wonko the Sane — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:54:42 GMT

I downloaded and installed beta2 on my Ubuntu 7.10 machine.

The machine I use is a Dell Latitude D620, Duo Core. Ubuntu runs great on it and Compiz does as well.

After initial confusion about the interface, I was able to login to the web ui as "root" - however, as has been the case for many folks here, when I'd start a machine I'd get the error about the Localhost being unreachable. I did most of the things suggested, such as changing the authorization.xml from root to username and disabling IPv6.

About the webgui - it looks sorta neat, but after the aforementioned error, the screen goes black and that's about it. It seems as though a lot of this is probably the plugin. What I'd like to see would be either an option for a console as before and/or the webgui.

I ended up having to revert to 1.04 because I didn't figure out how to get past the black screen.

If they can make the webgui run reliably, I'd use it - especially since it does seem to offer a full screen mode too. If anyone has found a way around that issue, please post it.

Problem with logon (web UI)

Harald Heigl — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:34:05 GMT

I wanted to test VMWare-ServerBeta and so I downloaded it two days ago (build 63231)

I was surprised that there is only a webinterface (besides the VI-client, which I will try later), though there still exists a vmware.exe in the install directory (it's said as obsolete and also crashes, doesn't work, I know its beta, but I would delete it, it confused me, before I read the discussions and the release notes carefully)

Okay, back to my problem:

I installed at WinXP, let the defaults at port 8222, 8333. Installation process had no problem (except with usb and vmnet1 and vmnet8 windows said its not genuine software, ok continued the installation and didn't seem to be a problem)

Restart, Apache/tomcat started (also tomcat5.exe in taskmanager)

I started all windows-services starting with "VMWARE ..." (because of the problems later in this post, I thought they would vanish)

1) VMware Server Home Page:

opens IE:

https://localhost:8333/ui

result: page not found

2) So I go to Start --> Programs --> "VMWARE Web Access" --> Web Access

IE opens: http://127.0.0.1:8308/ui/# (where does this port come from and whats the difference to interface that should come on 8222 and 8333)

result: website opens asking for credentials

Administrator and my passwort --> "Web
service not available."

Which webservice? I can access the tomcat, I can access the logon-side at port 8308.

My configuration:

New installed winxp-sp2 on my test-computer,

visual-studio 2005 (with sql express) is also isntalled, I disabled sql express-services, though they shouldn't use the same ports as vmware, didn't help anyway.

Any help would be appreciated!

Harry

WebUI - the end of VMware server?

BurningSensation — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:37:05 GMT

Plain and simple. If the web UI is the only method of administering
VMware server I won't use it. The hypervisor in Windows Server 2008
will accomplish much the same goals and is designed to work well with
at least one browser. I would have thought that VMware could learn
from the mistakes Microsoft made when they released many of their admin
consoles web based. It doesn't work! Even Microsoft is doing an
about-face and bringing back MMC administration. Don't shoot
yourselves in the foot and make those of us who support VMware everyday
look bad by releasing VMware server with the WebUI as the primary means
of using the product. The management capabilities and advanced
functionality is what differentiates VMware server from the other host
based hypervisors, the WebUI eliminates these advantages, not to
mention the tomcat5 server it runs on is chewing up 275MB of system
memory with no VMs running and no connections.

Web UI Fankle

sjreilly — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:22:50 GMT

Just thought I'd try Server 2 Beta on my CentOS 4.6 AMD 4600+ Dual CPU workstation having used Workstation, Player and Server for a number of years.

After the initial RPM install and connection to the UI I found that I could do little more than add/remove Datastores.

Trying create new or add existing VM's either produced a windows unable to Browse to where the existing VM's were or sat there with a lovely, spinning Loading icon at the top of a window and nothing else.

I also found that changing the UI's port (to 8080 for example) failed to connect. In fact setting it back to 80 also failed to connect but I was able to get in through 443.

So, in conclusion, I've been able to access the UI but no VM's

What am I doing wrong?

TIA

Steve

Can't get WebUI running on openSuSE 10.3 x64

downstairs — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:44:31 GMT

Hi,

i just installed vmware Server 2.0 beta on my openSuSE 10.3 (x64) machine).

While running vmware-config.pl, it asked me about the http and https ports, and i entered 8747 and 8748 as those (and 904 for the vmware-authd).

Now when i try to connect to WebUI using http://localhost:8747/ui, i can't connect.

If i type "netstat -n -l -p -t", i see that "webAccess" is listening at 127.0.0.1:8005, 0.0.0.0:8009 and 0.0.0.0:8308, so it seems to be clear that it can't anser on port 8747. But why?

My running vmware programs are as follows (according to "ps"):

mymachine:/usr/lib/vmware # ps ax|grep vmware

24340 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet1.pid vmnet1
24362 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.pid vmnet8
24367 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-natd -d /var/run/vmnet-natd-8.pid -m /var/run/vmnet-natd-8.mac -c /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf
24624 pts/7 S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/vmware-watchdog -s webAccess -u 30 -q 5 /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_07/bin/webAccess -server -Xincgc -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
24638 ? Ssl 0:12 /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_07/bin/webAccess -server -Xincgc -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start

So no vmware-hostd running.

This is what /var/log/vmware/hostd.log says:

mymachine:/usr/lib/vmware # cat /var/log/vmware/hostd.log
Log for VMware Server, pid=5535, version=e.x.p, build=build-63231, option=BETA, section=2
~~2008-01-28 07:55:58.589 'App' 46968086472896 info~~ Current working directory: /var/log/vmware
~~2008-01-28 07:55:58.590 'BaseLibs' 46968086472896 info~~ HOSTINFO: Seeing AMD CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1.
~~2008-01-28 07:55:58.781 'BaseLibs' 46968086472896 info~~ HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.
~~2008-01-28 07:55:58.782 'Handle checker' 46968086472896 info~~ Setting system limit of 2048
~~2008-01-28 07:55:58.782 'Handle checker' 46968086472896 info~~ Set system limit to 2048
~~2008-01-28 07:55:58.784 'App' 46968086472896 info~~ Trying blklistsvc
~~2008-01-28 07:55:58.784 'App' 46968086472896 info~~ Trying cimsvc
~~2008-01-28 07:55:58.784 'App' 46968086472896 info~~ Trying directorysvc
~~2008-01-28 07:55:58.784 'App' 46968086472896 info~~ Trying hostsvc
~~2008-01-28 07:55:59.803 'NetworkProvider' 46968086472896 info~~ Unable to load hardware info file /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
~~2008-01-28 07:55:59.975 'NetworkProvider' 46968086472896 info~~ Active ftp is 1
~~2008-01-28 07:55:59.976 'NetworkProvider' 46968086472896 info~~ Allowanyoui is 0
~~2008-01-28 07:55:59.976 'NetworkProvider' 46968086472896 info~~ udptimeout is 60
~~2008-01-28 07:56:00.120 'NetworkProvider' 46968086472896 info~~ SK: getdhcpspec returned true
~~2008-01-28 07:56:00.120 'NetworkProvider' 46968086472896 info~~ SK: getdhcpspec returned true
~~2008-01-28 07:56:00.197 'HostsvcPlugin' 46968086472896 warning~~ No advanced options found
~~2008-01-28 07:56:00.198 'StorageProvider' 46968086472896 warning~~ Deserialized nas datstore inventory is NULL
~~2008-01-28 07:56:08.114 'Hostsvc::AutoStartManager' 46968086472896 info~~ VM autostart configuration: /etc/vmware/hostd/vmAutoStart.xml
~~2008-01-28 07:56:08.904 'Locale' 46968086472896 info~~ Locale subsystem initialized from /usr/lib/vmware/hostd/locale/ with default locale en.
~~2008-01-28 07:56:08.904 'ResourcePool ha-root-pool' 46968086472896 info~~ Resource pool instantiated
~~2008-01-28 07:56:08.905 'ResourcePool ha-root-pool' 46968086472896 info~~ Refresh interval: 60 seconds
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.175 'HostsvcPlugin' 46968086472896 info~~ Plugin initialized
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.175 'App' 46968086472896 info~~ Trying internalsvc
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.175 'App' 46968086472896 info~~ Trying nfcsvc
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.175 'Nfc' 46968086472896 info~~ Breakpoints disabled
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.919 'BaseLibs' 46968086472896 info~~ Using system libcrypto, version 9070AF
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.964 'BaseLibs' 46968086472896 info~~ HOSTINFO: Seeing AMD CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1.
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.964 'BaseLibs' 46968086472896 info~~ HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.964 'Nfc' 46968086472896 info~~ Plugin initialized
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.964 'App' 46968086472896 info~~ Trying partitionsvc
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.965 'App' 46968086472896 info~~ Trying proxysvc
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.965 'Proxysvc' 46968086472896 info~~ Proxy config filepath is /etc/vmware/hostd/proxy.xml
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.989 'Proxysvc' 46968086472896 info~~ Plugin initialized
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.989 'App' 46968086472896 info~~ Trying snmpsvc
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.990 'App' 46968086472896 info~~ Trying solo
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.990 'App' 46968086472896 info~~ Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = false, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.998 'Solo' 46968086472896 info~~ Initialized SSL context with version all
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.999 'Fixed Datacenter' 46968086472896 info~~ Host name: poke3.daheim.local
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.999 'ComputeResource' 46968086472896 info~~ Compute resource instantiated
~~2008-01-28 07:56:09.999 'EnvironmentManager' 46968086472896 info~~ Environments file: /etc/vmware/hostd//environments.xml
~~2008-01-28 07:56:10.051 'EnvironmentManager' 46968086472896 info~~ Descriptor loaded: 4
~~2008-01-28 07:56:10.221 'EnvironmentManager' 46968086472896 info~~ Options loaded
~~2008-01-28 07:56:10.226 'BaseLibs' 46968086472896 info~~ HAL05LoadHALLibraries: dlopened libhal.so.1.
~~2008-01-28 07:56:10.226 'BaseLibs' 46968086472896 info~~ HAL05LoadHalLibraries: dlopened libdbus-1.so.3.
~~2008-01-28 07:56:10.228 'BaseLibs' 46968086472896 info~~ HAL05Init: HAL context initialization failed.

"HAL context initialization failed.". Should i care about that?

Trying to use http://localhost:8308/ui gives me a window where i can enter user name and password (tried "root" and the root password), but the error message that is printed then is "Web service not available".

Any hints on how to procede?

how login first time VI

scooke — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:18:37 GMT

Hey,

I installed vmware server beta2 and would like to login the first time via my browser, how do I login??

Is there a default login?

Please somebody help me.

Steven

Malformed URL and Login failed due to a bad username or password - solved =)

rhblind — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:57:26 GMT

Just want to share some problems solved with vmware-server2.0 BETA x64
My setup is:
OS: Slamd64
Kernel: Linux nooslo-09 2.6.22.8 #1 SMP Tue Sep 25 20:41:25 BST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 4GB

Vmware-server2.0 BETA x64
Linux-PAM-0.99.9.0
GCC:

root@nooslo-09:~# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slamd64-linux/4.1.2/specs
Target: x86_64-slamd64-linux
Configured with: ../gcc-4.1.2/configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-shared --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,java,objc --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-checking --with-gnu-ld --verbose --target=x86_64-slamd64-linux --host=x86_64-slamd64-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2

First encounter was the MalformedURLException For input string: "##{HTTP_PORT}##" issue, which is quite common. I solved that by changing in:

/usr/lib64/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/ui/jslib-1.0.63181/modules/com.vmware.webaccess.app_1.0.0/WebAccess.properties

from:
login_url: "http://localhost:##{HTTP_PORT}##/sdk"

to:
login_url: "http://localhost:80/sdk",

and restarted vmware. It seems to work at that part at least.

Next problem is:
Login failed due to a bad username or password.

From syslog:
Jan 29 20:10:36 nooslo-09 /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd21776: Rejected password for user root from 127.0.0.1

From /var/log/vmware/webAccess/proxy.log
2008-01-29 20:10:49,733,http-8308-Processor23<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : InvalidLogin Login failed due to a bad username or password.

From /var/log/secure:
Jan 29 20:05:26 nooslo-09 lt-tst-pam_set_data: PAM error reading PAM configuration file
Jan 29 20:05:26 nooslo-09 lt-tst-pam_set_data: PAM pam_start: failed to initialize handlers
Jan 29 20:10:36 nooslo-09 /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd21776: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so)
Jan 29 20:10:36 nooslo-09 /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd21776: PAM
Jan 29 20:10:36 nooslo-09 /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd21776: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix.so
Jan 29 20:10:36 nooslo-09 /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd21776: PAM _pam_init_handlers: no default config /etc/pam.d/other
Jan 29 20:10:49 nooslo-09 /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd21776: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so)
Jan 29 20:10:49 nooslo-09 /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd21776: PAM
Jan 29 20:10:49 nooslo-09 /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd21776: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix.so
Jan 29 20:10:49 nooslo-09 /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd21776: PAM _pam_init_handlers: no default config /etc/pam.d/other

Seems like the pam modules' not beeing picked up.
pam modules was by default installed in /lib64/security and since vmware-hostd expects them to be in /lib/security I just symlinked them there

root@nooslo-09:/# cd /lib
root@nooslo-09:/lib# ln -s /lib64/security/ .

Now I'm able to login to the web interface, and everything seems good.
Hope this is useful for someone as I've been googling around all day to make this out....

How to login as non-root user?

mhanby — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:46:55 GMT

Howdy,

I'm running VMware Server 2beta on RHEL5 linux. Is it possible to allow users other than root to login to the Web UI?

I looked through the User manual and didn't find anything about assigning user permissions. I've read through several pages of topics on this board and they all recommend using the root account.

Something tells me that root isn't the only option. I tried adding users to the group 'vmware' but that didn't solve anything.

Thanks for any suggestions,

Mike

Shutdown & Restart doesn't work.

md007 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:02:52 GMT

Hi,

When I restart the physical server the VM doesn't start automatically even if I choose to.

bug maybe?

thanks,

Can't connect to console via Web across NAT router?

cmdematos — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:42:20 GMT

I have a DLink DIR655 router and a VMWare Server Beta 2.0 on Windows Server 2003 x64 SP2. I setup port forwarding on port 8333 and managed to connect to UI, but could not connect to the console on any machine.

I also placed port forwarding on port 8222 after analyzing the remote console URL, but to no avail.

Has anyone got this working? What am I doing wrong? Which ports must be forwarded to allow the console to connect from the internet?

Thanking you in advance,

Carlos De Matos

"Cannot view virtual machine console" error

blamerson — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:31:15 GMT

I upgraded VMWare 1.0.4 to VMWare 2 Beta 1 a few weeks ago. I cannot use the web UI to access the consoles. I receive a popup message that states the following:

"Cannot view virtual machine console.

The VMWare Virtual Machine Remote Console plug-in failed to connect to you virtual machine.

If this problem persists, contact your system administrator."

This is being run on my internal network with no restrictions. I have tried this from IE6 and Firefox remotely and IE7 natively on the server. The server is Windows 2003 Server. Has anyone experienced this and found a fix or where can I look for some debugging information related to why this won't start? Thanks!

Logon for VM Server 2.0 in Ubuntu?

serpini — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:55:14 GMT

Hello, i install VM Ware Server 2.0 Beta in a Ubuntu Gutsy, the instalation is ok, but when i go to http://localhost:8222 a question for de username and password show me, and then i put:

username: root
password: pass for root in Ubuntu

And always return Login failed due to a bad username or password.

I try with https://localhost:8333 and same problem.

What's the username an password?

How to install via an ISO

DeanoUK — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:01:59 GMT

Hi, new to Server 2, and trying to setup a VM from an ISO.

Do you need to add it to a datastore or something? As it won't let me point it to the ISO file.

Console Access via Web UI

djmost — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:00:10 GMT

I receive the follwoing error when trying to get to the console via the Web UI:

Internet Explorer has encountered a problem with an add-on and needs to close.

The following add-on was runnign when this problem occured
File: quickMksAx.dll
Company name: (not verified) VMware, Inc.
Description: VMware WebCenter Remote MKs Plug-in 2.1.0.0

Any Ideas?

Ditching the Web UI in VM Server 2.0 Beta: Use Virtual Infrastructure Manager Client

delpurg — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:34:58 GMT

Amigos/Amigas,

At the risk of beating a dead horse on this topic, I recommend anyone currently testing VMServer 2 Beta on a Win2K3 Host to ditch the Web UI manager, in favor of the Virtual Infrastructure Client (v 2.5). After experiencing almost 48 hours of inconsistent crashing of my converted Win2K3 VM's, I disabled the Tomcat JSP Server on my host (listed as VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access under Services MMC.)

After completing this, and downloading /unraring the 32bit VIM 2.5 client installer from http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-e.x.p-63231.i386.tar.gz, I am able to successfully connect to my VM's on my Server 2.0Beta1 Host on port 8333.

It has now be almost 72 hours with none of my VM's crashing, as well as recovering almost 300Megs of RAM, since disabling the VMWare Web Access service

Have no idea how to start web ui

sterlperl2006 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:27:40 GMT

Hi,

I have no idea how to start the web based ui for vmware. I need some kind of url. I have an internal server setup on my machine already. Can somebdoy help please?

What is the procedure to Clone a VM on VMWare Server?

cmdematos — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:28:16 GMT

On VMWare Workstation can select a VM to clone and presto - a new machine you can run tests on and break.

I have created two base installs with the intention of cloning these for the actual set of servers that I need. Is there a procedure that I can follow to achieve this or a tool that I can run to this end? The only other alternative I can see is to run VMWare Workstation on another machine, load the VM image up and clone it...

Sincerely,

Carlos De Matos

Login failed due to bad username or password

dormannu — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:57:01 GMT

I installed vmware 2 on an open suse 10.2
and for days all worked without problems. I ran again the vmware-config.pl
because I had to add some network cards. From that moment every time I’m trying
to access to “web access” I receive the message “Login failed due to bad
username or password”, but I didn’t change any password. I also tried to
install from zero everything, suse 10.2 included, but I’m still receiving that
error message.

Web UI not allowing login on Fedora Core 8

Bolt — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:49:56 GMT

I have installed successfully on Fedora Core 8 64 bit. The Web UI loads and presents username and password, but no matter what account I use to connect I get "The server is not responding" I have checked all of the services and they are running correctly. Any ideas?

TIA

Bolt

What ports need to be open to allow VM Remote Console Plug-in to traverse a NAT firewall?

cmdematos — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:19:10 GMT

I can access the VMWare Infrastructure Web Access pages through by router by creating a virtual server port definition on port 8333 on the WAN side and pointing it to my server on the LAN side. When I access the console tab it installed the Active-X control and the VM remote console plug-in as expected. However, once this was installed it gave me the following message:

Cannot view virtual machine console.

The VMWare Virtual Machine Console plug-in failed to connect to your virtual machine.

Cannot connect to host www.xxxxxxx.com: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

If this problem persists, contact your system administrator.

I believe this problem to be likely caused by not forwarding another set of ports for the virtual console. I have tried setting up Virtual Server and Port Forwarding for port 8222 using both UDP and TCP because I observed this port on the 'Generate remote console URL' string.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Carlos De Matos

virtual machine management pain

jeremy.markel — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:07:53 GMT

I've been using server 2 beta now for a few months to get a feel for it and overall not a bad product with one, IMO, really terrible feature; the web ui.

Now, I'll reserve final judgement as this is a beta but the management web page is one of the flakiest things vmware has ever put out. I have to yet get it to work with Firefox on my desktop and notebook forcing me to use IE in order to access the page. Even then, on my notebook running XP pro, it crashes the browser with an error regarding an add-in that caused a problem whenever I try to access a vm console. Fortunately, my desktop is able to access the page but even so, sometimes the vm console is just a black screen and I cannot interact with the machine. I won't even go into the pain of trying to access the page from a linux workstation using firefox.

My current issue is adding an existing vm. Under the window that comes up, it just says "loading" under the contents of the inventory, leaving me with no way to add a vmware appliance I downloaded. This is the same on any system I have used to access the web ui.

Since I have read that people are using VC 3.5, I added the vmware server to that console and it works quite well. But... there is no option to add an existing vm, only to create a new one. I could in fact create a new machine and use the existing vmdk file but that leads to another issue; the networking. Where are the four custom vmnet's I created? They appear in the virtual networks manager but are not available to assign to vm's. The only way I have been able to get them to work is to create legacy vm's on another server, specify the nic's and then move them to the vmware 2 server and then add existing virtual machine. Cumbersome.

And attempts I have made to manually edit the vmx files have not worked out too well.

So aside from my need to vent some frustration, this is an open call to vmware to "correct" the network component of vmware. And bring back a console. VC is great but it's not free. I know the only reason vmware server is free is due to Microsoft releasing virtual server free of charge but we should still be entitled to some decent management tools.

Server1 screenshots vs Server2 screenshorts - no words

aroudnev — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:47:02 GMT

Just a few screens.
1) Monitoring page for Server1 - I can see system load, system usagem, which VM's are running, if anything is wrong. On a single screen.

2) The same screen from Server2 - the magnitude less information, I can't see anything except 'Total CPU usage' and 'Someone sued my memory' (who? God knows!)

3) Virtual machines list - shows something. Not much, he...

I need exactly what I have on the firest screen - summary and per guest details - to manage a host system. Screens 2 and 3 are unusable (moreover, I can't find how did I called screen3 - it is well hidden somewhere inside).

How can I obtain VIClient.exe (2.5 or greater) for Windows

cmdematos — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:57:53 GMT

Many threads discuss using VIClient instead of the WebUI - only problem is, where can I get it? I seems not to come with VMServer Beta 2.0.

I have found links to VIClient on Linux, but no windows links.

Thank you in advance,

Carlos De Matos

IE reports Certificate error...

cmdematos — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:44:42 GMT

When using the VMWare Web UI IE7 reports an invalid SSL certificate. How can I fix this?

Sincerely,

Carlos De Matos

Web UI bug on dual monitor setups

cmdematos — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:03:06 GMT

Bug: Upon exiting full screen mode the console client is switching my monitor setup from [1] [2] to [2] [1].

Very annoying - but still grateful for the free product .

Sincerely,

Carlos De Matos

Will VMware Server 2.0 be supported by VirtualCenter 2.5?

wolfwolf — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:39:44 GMT

Hi,

Will the final version of VMware Server 2.0 be officially supposed by VirtualCenter 2.5?

I've searched through the vmware.com web site and communities, but I couldn't find a definitive answer to that.

Thanks.

Web UI campatible browsers

Paul Thomas — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:19:47 GMT

Which browsers will work with the web ui?

I can't get either ie7 or firefox to work on vista 64 to display the console. Apple's safari fails completley.

Web service URL malformed.

mstorman — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:05:55 GMT

When i try connecting to the Web UI, i put the root username and password in, then select Login then a message appears above the login box that says " Web service URL malformed."

Any thoughts how to fix. I am running CentOS 5.0

Thanks,
Matthew

Problems with login

arch5 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:21:43 GMT

Hi,

when I try to login to the WEB UI I receive the message "The server was unable to process your log in request. Please check with your server administrator."

in the file /var/log/vmware/webAccess/proxy.log the is the following error:

[2008-01-12 14:01:52,817,http-8308-Processor24<=>,action] Servlet.service() for servlet action threw exception
java.lang.ClassFormatError: Incompatible magic value -907700997 in class file com/vmware/webcenter/view/viewhelper/VmAddParallelPortView
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1812)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:866)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1319)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1198)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
at com.vmware.webaccess.action.ServerBrokerAction.setupLegacyEnvironment(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webaccess.action.ServerBrokerAction.execute(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:421)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:226)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:415)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.vmware.webcenter.control.I18nFilter.doFilter(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.vmware.webcenter.control.AuthenticationFilter.doFilter(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.vmware.webcenter.control.TimeLogFilter.doFilter(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

looks like tomcat has problems with something, any idea what?

no access to web ui

sneer — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:36:30 GMT

{color:#000000}OS debian 4.0. I'm enter on login page. Entering login and passwd. I have this message.Web service URL malformed.I'm tring change port's running vmware-config.pl configuration passed, but port's doesn't changed ( tryed 8080, 8222,8333) but it is still work with 80 port.What's wrong. Tried restarting. doesn't help. {color}

root can't login to web console on gentoo

guruvan — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:27:10 GMT

ok, I've done just about everything I can find here in the forums. (I've not yet tried the windows VI console program I just read about)

I've fiddled with settings in the /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd - apparently correct settings give me the error "Access Denied" when root logs into the web console. if the settings are apparently wrong I get the "Bad username or password" error.

I've re-run vmware-config.pl to reset port 902 to port 905 to resolve a conflict

I've taken all the weird characters out of root's passwd

xinetd is running, /etc/services has the vmware-authd line ; xinetd was installed to support vmware-server. (I'd never otherwise run it)

a regular user can login, but can't do anything (I didn't think the regular user would be able login? He can't log out. That crashes the http process every time) <== Definite bug

I have NOT touched /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml

when I run /etc/init.d/vmware start I get errors ln the following lines:

Starting VMware management services: !!
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access !! (doesn't bode well does it?)
Starting VMware autostart virtual machines: !! (well, yeah, I haven't got any VMs setup yet) ;->

I sure can't find anything that tells me what those errors are about. Here's the combined output pf a tail -f of /var/log/messages /var/log/vmware/hostd.log /var/log/vmware/webAccces/proxy.log

====== here's from running /etc/init.d/vmware start ===========

sally server # Dec 16 00:04:07 sally vmmon: no version magic, tainting kernel.
Dec 16 00:04:07 sally /dev/vmmon20257: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
Dec 16 00:04:07 sally /dev/vmmon20257: Initial HV check: anyNotCapable=1 anyUnlocked=0 anyEnabled=0 anyDisabled=0
Dec 16 00:04:07 sally /dev/vmmon20257: Module vmmon: initialized
Dec 16 00:04:07 sally vmnet: no version magic, tainting kernel.
Dec 16 00:04:07 sally vmware-start: Virtual machine monitor done
Dec 16 00:04:07 sally vmware-start: Virtual ethernet done
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 20297 (vmnet-bridge)
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally bridge-eth0: peer interface eth0 not found, will wait for it to come up
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally bridge-eth0: attached
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmware-start: Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 20310 (vmnet-bridge)
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: hub 2 does not exist, allocating memory.
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: port on hub 2 successfully opened
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally bridge-eth2: enabling the bridge
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally bridge-eth2: up
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally bridge-eth2: already up
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally bridge-eth2: attached
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmware-start: Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet2 done
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 20322 (vmnet-bridge)
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: hub 3 does not exist, allocating memory.
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: port on hub 3 successfully opened
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally bridge-cipsec0: peer interface cipsec0 not found, will wait for it to come up
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally bridge-cipsec0: attached
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 20328 (vmnet-bridge)
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: hub 4 does not exist, allocating memory.
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: port on hub 4 successfully opened
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally bridge-eth4: peer interface eth4 not found, will wait for it to come up
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally bridge-eth4: attached
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 20334 (vmnet-bridge)
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: hub 5 does not exist, allocating memory.
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: port on hub 5 successfully opened
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally bridge-bond0: peer interface bond0 not found, will wait for it to come up
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally bridge-bond0: attached
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmnet-dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server 2.0
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmnet-dhcpd: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmnet-dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmnet-dhcpd:
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmnet-dhcpd: Please contribute if you find this software useful.
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmnet-dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmnet-dhcpd:
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmware-start: Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet3 done
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmware-start: Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet4 done
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmware-start: Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet5 done
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmware-start: Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet doneckground)
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmnet-dhcpd: Configured subnet: 172.16.100.0
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmnet-dhcpd: Setting vmnet-dhcp IP address: 172.16.100.254
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 20347 (vmnet-dhcpd)
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: hub 8 does not exist, allocating memory.
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmnet-dhcpd: Recving on VNet/vmnet8/172.16.100.0
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmnet-dhcpd: Sending on VNet/vmnet8/172.16.100.0
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmware-start: DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 20376 (vmnet-natd)
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmware-start: NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
Dec 16 00:04:08 sally vmware-start: VMware Server Host Agent (backgrou done
Dec 16 00:04:09 sally watchdog-webAccess: 20646 Begin '/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_07/bin/webAccess -server -Xincgc -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/common/endorsed -classpath /opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 -Dcatalina.home=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start', min-uptime = 30, max-quick-failures = 5, max-total-failures = 1000000
Dec 16 00:04:09 sally watchdog-webAccess: Executing '/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_07/bin/webAccess -server -Xincgc -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/common/endorsed -classpath /opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 -Dcatalina.home=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start'
Dec 16 00:04:15 sally /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 20770 (vmnet-netifup)
Dec 16 00:04:15 sally /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
Dec 16 00:04:18 sally vmnet-dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:c0:00:08 via vmnet8
Dec 16 00:04:18 sally rc-scripts: Configuration not set for vmnet8 - assuming DHCP
Dec 16 00:04:18 sally dhcpcd21211: vmnet8: dhcpcd 3.1.8 starting
Dec 16 00:04:18 sally dhcpcd21211: vmnet8: hardware address = 00:50:56:c0:00:08
Dec 16 00:04:18 sally dhcpcd21211: vmnet8: DUID = 00:01:00:01:0e:de:5d:8b:00:0c:29:ab:1f:99
Dec 16 00:04:18 sally dhcpcd21211: vmnet8: broadcasting for a lease
Dec 16 00:04:19 sally vmware-start: Virtual machines done
Dec 16 00:04:19 sally vmnet-dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 172.16.100.133 to 00:50:56:c0:00:08 via vmnet8
Dec 16 00:04:19 sally vmnet-dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 172.16.100.133 from 00:50:56:c0:00:08 via vmnet8
Dec 16 00:04:19 sally dhcpcd21211: vmnet8: offered 172.16.100.133 from 172.16.100.254
Dec 16 00:04:19 sally vmnet-dhcpd: DHCPACK on 172.16.100.133 to 00:50:56:c0:00:08 via vmnet8
Dec 16 00:04:19 sally dhcpcd21211: vmnet8: checking 172.16.100.133 is available on attached networks
Dec 16 00:04:21 sally dhcpcd21211: vmnet8: leased 172.16.100.133 for 1800 seconds
Dec 16 00:04:21 sally dhcpcd21211: vmnet8: adding IP address 172.16.100.133/24
Dec 16 00:04:21 sally dhcpcd21211: vmnet8: adding route to 172.16.100.0/24 metric 1
Dec 16 00:04:21 sally dhcpcd21211: vmnet8: removing route to 172.16.100.0/24 metric 0
Dec 16 00:04:21 sally dhcpcd21211: vmnet8: adding route to 169.254.0.0/16 metric 1
Dec 16 00:04:21 sally dhcpcd21211: vmnet8: exiting
Dec 16 00:04:26 sally vmnet8: no IPv6 routers present

================== and below is from the act of opening https://localhost:8251 (webAccess is on 8250 & 8251)

2007-12-16 00:06:02,931,http-8308-Processor25<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : PermissionDeniedException Permission to perform this operation was denied.
Dec 16 00:06:02 sally /opt/vmware/server/lib/bin/vmware-hostd20745: Accepted password for user root from 127.0.0.1

FWIW: I installed this with the ebuild rather than by hand. this is on an up to date all ~x86 branch system

can anyone point out what I missed? (presumably something small and seemingly insignificant)

P.S. I haven't removed ipv6 from this box, but it seems like whatever bug that is that they tell me to remove it would prevent accessing the web interface completely, not block a login.

Can Not access Web UI from remote machine

Paul Thomas — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:06:01 GMT

I'm having a lot of problems with server 2.0.

I initially installed it on ubuntu 64bit, and had everything working but found it rather slow. I've now rebuilt the server using vista ultimate 64bit as the host.

The web UI works, and the server seems faster than when running ubuntu, however the console can not be displayed using IE. I've tried firefox and the plugin fails to install. My final option is to use IE7 on an xp pro laptop, however this worked fine with my ubuntu host, but fails with vista, it sits there for a good 20 secs before saying page can not be displayed.

So two questions,

Can I get IE or firefox to work on the Vista 64 host?

Why does my XP IE not connect to the server?

Thanks

Paul

WebUI and Apache web server

tazi — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:49:15 GMT

When i did install vmware server 2 on server with apache web server .... only WebUI running but that Apache not

Do you have some experience with web UI and another Apache web server.

openSUSE 10.3 recognizes 64bit machine as 32bit when run in VMware products

sslavic — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:50:58 GMT

When I try to run openSUSE 10.3 installation within VMware Player 2.0.2, or VMware Server 2 Beta 1, my 64bit T7500 laptop is wrongly recognized as 32bit and installation will not continue. Does anyone have idea why this is happening and how to overcome this situation? Thanks in advance!

Datastore errors

spring007 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:34:49 GMT

Hi all

I have the following problem, wenn trying to add a "new" datastore (windows version) through "add datastore".

i tried to add a cifs/share, but get this popup - error all the time:

" The server response included one or more errors.
If these problems persist, please contact your system administrator.
Details
HostConfigFault: The specified network resource '\\192.168.1.xxx:\filerepo\' cannot be located.
Failed to configure NAS datastore 'teststr'. "

ok, might be the slashes - so i tried without backslashes, and the get this error:

HostConfigFault: The password specified for user 'user' is incorrect.
Failed to configure NAS datastore 'teststr'.

...allthough the username/password is correct. I'm able to map a drive with this credentials from any host, including the server.

I'm also not able to add a datastore, which is not local, meaning, that if i map a Drive in Windows (letter X: f.ex) i get an error, if i try to add this letter as a datastore.
This throws back the following error :

Details
InvalidArgument: A specified parameter was not correct.

Has anyone had the same "issues" adding a datastore other than on a local volume? What im i doing wrong? Is there a dummy-proof guide to add a cifs-datastore ?

Many thanks in advance for your hints and replys

regards

spring007

"The server is not responding" or "Web service not available"

useResa — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:52:10 GMT

I have recently (yesterday ;)) installed the VMware Server 2.0 Beta 1 on my Dreamlinux 2.2MMGL host.

The installation and configuration went basically without any issues.
For reference the configuration result (with some modifications to protect the privacy) is attached.

However, when I start the web UI my first logon attempt results in the following error:

The server is not responding. Please check that the server is running and accepting connections

My second and later attempts always result in the following error:

Web service not available

From what I have read in other threads it is important that the web access is running.
To check this I have used the command ps -ef | grep vmware which gives the following result:

myUserName@DL-on-PIII:~$ ps -ef | grep vmware
root       3610     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -cf /etc/vm ware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/ run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet1.pid vmnet1
root       3628     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -cf /etc/vm ware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/ run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.pid vmnet8
root       3633     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-natd -d /var/run/ vmnet-natd-8.pid -m /var/run/vmnet-natd-8.mac -c /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf
root       3889     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/vmware-watchdog  -s webAccess -u 30 -q 5 /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_07/bin/webAcces s -server -Xincgc -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogMana ger -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/c ommon/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/ bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/comm ons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomc at-5.5.17 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/temp org. apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
root       3899  3889  0 05:23 ?        00:01:46 /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/j re1.5.0_07/bin/webAccess -server -Xincgc -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache. juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat /apache-tomcat-5.5.17/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomca t/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache -tomcat-5.5.17/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAc cess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomca t/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache- tomcat-5.5.17/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
root       4054     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:02 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd  -a -d /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml
myUserName 5016  5004  0 11:53 pts/1    00:00:00 grep vmware

From this I understand that the web access is running and thus available.

I have tried accessing the UI both using Iceweasel and Firefox 2.0.11 (the latest release).

Does anyone have an idea what may be causing this and how I can resolve this?

Vmware server 2.0 under vista Host

TLECANU — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:56:33 GMT

Hi all,

I install Vmware Server 2.0 under Vista, I have Problems with network Vmnet0 (bridged mode) that could not be used with all my VM.

I Have also a big problems with the hibernate mode of vista , when I used it , my Host go under hibernate but a few minutes later he goes back from hibernate mode alone. (When I uninstall VmWare Server the problem no more happen)

There is people here with the same probles ?

Linux VIX Client

skatcat31 — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:02:09 GMT

Recenlty I was told that there was no VIX Client for linux. Well apparentlhy VMware either heard us and built one or it was there from the start, everyone just overlooked it.

http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-vix-e.x.p-63231.i386.tar.gz

so correct me if I'm wrong, bu isn't this a VIX Client?

This will be appened into my document as well. thankyou for being understanding of my assinine ways, but this will be helpful to many if they found out it existed.

The server is not responding

aleph0 — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:57:01 GMT

hello all,

i've just installed VmWare server 2.o beta on my fedora 8.0 x86_64.

Everithig went fine in the installation: unfortunatly if i try to connect to https://servername:443/ I get to the login page but if I try to login i get

"The server is not responding. Please check that the server is running and accepting connections."

error message.

see attached screenshot

do you have any ideas?

TIA
\aleph0
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Virtual Machine Console unreachable

aleph0 — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:10:44 GMT

Hello all,

I've installed successfully Server 2.0 beta on my Fedora 8 X64 box.

Unfortunatly while I try to connect to virtual machine I get te below error dialog box: I'm connecting from my Vista Businness Laptop and I'm using IE7 (i've installed the plugin)

Same error with firefox on Vista Laptop and with Firefox on Fedora host...

Any ideas?

TIA

Cannot view virtual machine console.

The VMware Virtual Machine Remote Console plug-in failed to connect to your virtual machine.
Cannot connect to host 192.168.2.3: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
If this problem persists, contact your system administrator.

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Web UI not working

gewe — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:20:02 GMT

I just installed VMware Server 2.0 beta, on Ubuntu 7.10 (kernel 2.6.22-14-generic). Installation and configuration were successful.

I use Firefox 2.0.0.8 to to go to localhost:8222, and login as root. Then nothing happens. The login dialog just stays there, with grayed input boxes and Log-In button. If I reload the page, and try to login using another username, I get an Access denied message (as expected).

The only thing I can see happening, is a message in /var/log/messages, saying "/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd7750: Accepted password for user root from 127.0.0.1".

What's wrong here?

USB Configuration?

Mystagogue — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:58:17 GMT

I don't seem to be having nearly the problems others are having with the web UI, but that said...

When I click on the "edit" option of the "USB Controller" item for any VM, nothing happens (no UI pop-up appears). However, using "edit" on any other hardware item successfully brings up a configuration screen. Why is this?

I've upgraded each VM (XP Pro SP2) for this beta, and upgraded the vmware tools as well. The metal I'm running the beta on is a fresh install Win XP Pro SP2, IE 7, with Core 2 Duo processor. Incidentally, each time I launch VMWare home page I get a "certificate error" message. Is that normal (part of the beta), or perhaps part of the problem?

The reason I'm trying to tinker with USB settings is because a USB device I connected to the metal was completely unnoticed by any running or launched VM.

Thanks.

p.s. had a hard time posting / creating thread. I closed and reopened browser (previously holding a VMWare home page on one browser tab, but now not)

Web Console worked once, then it was broken

abufrejoval — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:32:05 GMT

Looking through the gastly comments on the WebGUI I can't help to feel a little sorry for the developers, too! I have pored blood and sweat into good WebGUIs, like they did, but in my case there was no choice: I was dealing with potentially everyone, that is all of the Internet as a user. For a fixed user base, such as the very small number of people who are likely allowed to administer a farm of VMware servers, a WebGUI is a waste of time and money, both for the developers of the GUI and for the users. Because even with all of today's technology WebGUIs are still a lot harder to develop and more difficult to use than Delphi or Visual Basic 15 years ago.

If you think you need a WebGUI, fine, but please do not make it the only choice. I was downright devastated, when I read that the VMware console was to be eliminated. On the other hand, I don't quite believe it's going to happen

Now to the real problems:

I could not get the remote console to work with Firefox on Windows (Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP). I installed the plug-in, but the plug-in didn't work. Deleted and reinstalled several times, no change.

I tried the Internet Explorer next (latest 7.0) and that did work initially. Even full screen at 1680x1050 it worked beautifully and speedy. I was positivly surprised at first, because the old GSx type console never worked as seamlessly and fast. However, that didn't last. After rebooting the guest Win2003 (Windows wanted a reboot after an update), I never got the console working again. RDP connections were fine, but the console always timed out. I removed and reinstalled the ASX-plug-in for IE to no avail.

And I got a Solaris workstation sitting next to the XP desktop: Chances of using that for VMware administration: Zero!

I refuse to yield to Microsoft as the only viable choice of administrating VMware (or anything else for that matter). If Microsoft was the only choice you could just use Visual Basic and save yourself a lot of grief. Why insist on a Microsoft platform and then use Web? VNC and ICA run on everything, RDP on almost everything: Why invent another protocol?

That said, the rest of the Web Admin interface worked for me more or less like it should.

Now that my low-budget home PC has a quad core cpu, VMware's support of only two CPUs on Workstation 6 and Server 2 seems very artificial and I would like (physical and logical) USB boot support for guests.

Web UI is not as good as the Vmware server console

jcck20007 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:36:05 GMT

Hi

I ported 3 vm to the new 64bit machine with Vmware server 2.0 beta, not very happy with it because in the web ui there is a lot things missing

1. how do you hit ctrl-alt-del in the console, I tried cltr-alt-insert and the console is always shown a black screen even thougt the plugin was installed and the vm has booted up

2. how do you change the network setting, I know the "Manage Vmware network" is still there , but within a VM, how do you change it if you want to have a HOSTonly adapter connect to a customized vmware network you have setup ? it does not provide that option or maybe i was missing something

3. the web ui is very slow and the URL it generated its not working mostly outside of the host machine

thanks

Blank Console

RHall1340 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:13:33 GMT

I have VMWare Server 2.0 beta 1 installed on a Centos 5.1 system. Install went fine, made the changes posted in several of the posts here about Centos to get it to work. Everything seems to be fine except that I cannot get a Console to show up so I can install an OS. My first question is does anyone know how to get past the blank console screen? I tried it from Firefox 1.5 on the Centos machine itself, and also a Windows XP, Vista, and Vista Ultimate x64 machine on my network. All have varying degrees of success with the console screen but all ultimately end up with a blank screen. SELinux and the Firewall are turned off on the server machine.

Any ideas here on how to get it to work? Or is there another workaround? I could live without the console if there was a workaround. All I want to do is install an OS, but its hard to do that without console access.

How to connect to VMware Server not from localhost?

Davidkra — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:51:24 GMT

Hello,

How can I connect to VMware Server from "outside" (not from localhost)

Regards,

David

Web UI login denied

tbuskey — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:52:14 GMT

http://localhost

If I login as myself I get "access denied"

as root I get "The server was unable to process your log in request. Please check with your server administrator. "

Fedora 7 2.6.23.8-34.fc7 x86_64 Intel Core2 w/ VT turned on

ipv6 is disabled. No rules in iptables

The VMs are on local disk, owned by me.

VMware Server e.x.p build-63231

vmware-authd is running on port 902. I get output from telnet localhost 902

I searched the threads and none of the answers have helped.

no Login possible on WebUI with passwords with &-char

beam — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:45:19 GMT

I expierirenced the problem that can not login on WebUI while having a password with an &-character in it.If I change the password to something different its possible.
My platform is openSUSE 10.3 and the concret error-message is as follows:

The server was unable to process your log in request. Please check with your server administrator.

Is there a workarround other than changing the password?

Bye
Beam

Virtual machine remote console plug-in error

TCG — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:36:32 GMT

"Cannot view virtual machine console"

VMserver installed on windows 2003 ent behind a cisco pix. Port 8333 opened to the oustide. I can access the config from the outside but i cannot view the console from outside the pix. Is there another port i need to open to view the console?

Thanks

Mike

VM has dual processors but guest does not.

BDMcGrew — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:52:52 GMT

I have a Win2K3-ES VM that had a single processor and 1GB of RAM. I shut down the VM and upped the memory to 2GB and 2 processors. After coming back up, the Win2K3-ES guest sees 2GB of RAM but only one processors!?!?!

vmware server & http proxy server ?

devzero — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:43:16 GMT

hello !

can somebody please confirm if Vmware Server WebUI is usable via a http proxy server ?

i mean, if it`s a WEBui, then the protocol between browser and server is HTTP and thus i can use whatever application level proxy server in between.

or not ?

regards
roland

Ports to other OS of VI Client planned?

Jackobli — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:54:11 GMT

As a way out of the Server 2 Web-Console crisis, many mentioned the VI Client.
I found and installed it, looks mostly good for me, but are there plannings for porting this app a least to Linux (Mac OS X would be just a dream)?

UI Won't Give Up Port 80 and 443

stageman — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:04:48 GMT

I'm running server 2.0 on a CentOS 5.x x86_64 box. Apache was not running at the time I installed vmware, and now vmware seems unwilling to give up port 80 and 443. I've tried running the vmware-config.pl script a couple of times and I've told it to use the old 8222 and 8333, but when I reboot it still takes 80 and 443.

Any thoughts on fixing this? I don't even know where this is configuration is saved now.

Any way to change pixel depth in Web UI?

stmurray — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:47:54 GMT

I have just managed to install 2.0 Beta on my Ubutnu 7.10 Workstation. Generally speaking i access the host machine remotely (using VNC tunneled over ssh). I would like to use the Web UI over this ssh tunnel and it does work if I tunnel the web port and port 903. However, often I am over a slow WAN-link and the console repsonse is awful. Does anyone know if i can change the pixel depth for the console (similar to what one can do in VNC) , so the response would be better?

I could probably change the color depth in the guest OS, but sometimes I do access the guest when I am local on the host, and I would like the full color then.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks,

Sean T Murray

Unable to edit USB Controller Hardware item in Web UI

dustinh — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:12:03 GMT

When trying to edit the properties of the USB Controller on the Summary tab of a VM guest no dialog appears on selecting edit from the context menu. Manually editing the config values in the respective .vmx file properly changes the settings.

Host is Ubuntu 7.10 32bit with latest VMware Server 2 Beta, guest is Windows XP Pro (Virtual Machine Version 6, VMware Tools installed).

webaccess to vmware server2 (beta)

mike-p — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:57:52 GMT

i installed vmware server 2.0 on sles10 (without graphics) and try to acces via web gui.

i get error 403 about a missing index document

i checked the services and found a strange runlevel configuration :

vmware │Yes │ │ │ │2│3│5│ │ │Manages the services needed to run VMware software
vmware-autostart │No │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Manages the services needed to run VMware software
vmware-core │Ja │ │ │ │2│3│5│ │ │Manages the services needed to run VMware software
vmware-mgmt │No │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Manages the services needed to run VMware software

why don't autostart and mgmt start automatically ?

Various firefox bugs/quirks

Learath — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:36:16 GMT

Accessing the Web UI with multiple sites

pixel_paul — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:24:55 GMT

Hi,

Apologies if this has been answered - couldn't find a solution using search.
I have a number of websites already running on my server, and so am confused as to how I access the Web UI. I get just the default apache install when i access http://localhost and I have tried changing the default port for the web ui to 81, but still no joy. When I access http://localhost:8222 the page just keeps on with loading - nothing appears - and I get this when accessing http://localhost:902 (so I think thats all set up ok):

220 VMware Authentication Daemon Version 1.10: SSL Required, ServerDaemonProtocol:SOAP, MKSDisplayProtocol:VNC , VMXARGS supported

I have restarted all the services and everything comes back up ok (see a ttached)

If anyone could help me out it would be much appreciated. The server is running a fully patched version of CentOS 4.5 x86_64.

Thanks,

Paul

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

catseye — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:33:22 GMT

Hopefully this experience will be of benefit to others with the same problem. I could access the web ui without a problem, but whenever I tried to access the remote console for a vm, I received the dreaded "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it".

All posts related to this message indicated problems with xinet and port 902, but I was able to telnet to port 902 without issue.

Turns out the problem was that I was accessing the server by IP address since the server is not participating in name resolution on the network. I added a static host entry on the client machine and everything started working correctly again.

This UI sucks.

GiorgioG — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:57:03 GMT

This has to be the WORST web UI I've seen for a virtualization system since Virtual Server 2005. In fact I would say I prefer the Virtual Server 2005 UI to this awful attempt to "Web 2.0" the VMWare Web Console.

AWFUL! I'm half-considering either going to Virtual Server 2005 or to Oracle VM (I've not yet tried the latter.)

Web UI is the future?

GnatGoSplat — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:42:22 GMT

I am not a fan of the Web UI to put it politely. It's slooooow on an AMD X2 4400+ machine. I can actually see the screen update. The more I use it, the less I enjoy it. I can see it has its place for convenient remote admin, but there should be a choice between it and the original style console for configuration. Is there, or will there be a Win32 style program for management/console, possibly as a separate download, or is Web UI the future?

For that matter, I'm not a fan of this forum software either! It was a lot better several months ago.

Web UI host name?

Prognatus — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:19:57 GMT

I'm new to Vmware Server.
I tried to search for answer to this question in the User Manual and in this forum first.

Installation in Ubuntu Linux 7.10 went well, but I'm beginning to think I should've paid more attention to the URLs and names that were assigned for me in the configuration,because I'm now stumped to what I need to input to get started with the UI.

The User Manual says I'm to start the web UI with http://<host name>/

But what's "host name"? I tried http://localhost:8222 and :8333, but no luck.

Also, is there a log file of the installation?

And where is the config data stored? Or: where can I look at the values that were made in the config routine?

Thank you for any input.

Regards,
Bjorn.