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4 Months since beta release

jovball — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:40:38 GMT

Four months is a long time between beta releases. Meanwhile people are beating up on Server 2 in the beta forums day after day. Seems like it might be time for a refresh or some comment on what the timeline is. I'm starting to think about Server 2 in the same way I thought about Vista. It wasn't clear when we'd ever see it or whether it would have anything good when we did. Draw your own conclusions.

Can we expect a new beta version this week?

clopmz — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:28:27 GMT

Hi all,

Like PedroLeite said in this thread http://communities.vmware.com/thread/134655?tstart=0, beta license expires this Sunday. Can we expect a new beta release for this week?? if not, how can I extend license?

Thanks

Beta 2

cgNWHS — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:45:45 GMT

Not to beat a dead duck here... but VMWare is turning into the Microsoft of old with its release schedules..... Look at Microsoft go... Today's announcement:

REDMOND, Wash. - March 19, 2008 - Reaching the next major milestone in virtualization development, Microsoft Corp. today made broadly available a feature-complete release candidate of Microsoft Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization software available with various versions of Windows Server 2008. A beta of Hyper-V was included with Windows Server 2008 when it launched last month, and this release candidate provides updated, near-final code.

Hyper-V provides customers with efficient and cost-effective virtualization infrastructure software. It enables customers to reduce operating costs by increasing hardware utilization, optimizing infrastructure and improving server availability. Customers and partners can download the release candidate at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-V by 10 a.m. PDT today.

It has been 4 months since we last even heard anything official about Server 2. We are a VMServer shop here but we have started to test Hyper-V......

vmware server beta is expiring ??

PedroLeite — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:56:45 GMT

good evening

just noticed a warning on the web console, about the expiring in 7 days of the running version.

build 63231.

can i ignore it ??

thank you

Pedro Leite

Virtual machine on NAS inaccessible after reboot host

gnom92 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:07:31 GMT

Hello,

I created successfully a datastore on a remote NAS server (using CIFS), a virtual machine on that datastore. All works fine. Until I reboot the host, after what, I'm not able anymore to see ny virtual machine marked as unknown (inaccessible). Now, I'm stuck.

Thanks for your help,

Nicolas.

ESX Etherchannel

ArrowSIVAC — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:37:24 GMT

Goal is to set up multiple physical NIC interfaces to have link aggregation.

Interface 0 is for service console and vmkernel for NFS mounts

Interface 1 and 3 are setup in vswitch1 and are hardcoded to 100Mb Full Duplex.

Physical connection to a CISCO 2950:

Port 1 = Interface 0 (console)

Port 2 = Interface 1 (team member)

Port 3 = Interface 3 (team member)

Per the notes here:

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2006/12/04/esx-server-nic-teaming-and-vlan-trunking/

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/10697

I believe their is no settings more that I need to do on the ESX side of things.

CISCO to ESX works fine for passing VLAN ( I can pass multiple guest hosts on different vlans through the interfaces) I now wish to enable etherchannel to increase link aggregation / throughput.

In the CISCO GUI the interface is not very descriptive about what modes it is / should be set to. Options are (and I have tried them all):

Desirable

Auto

Desirable non-silent

Auto non-silent

on (no LACP)

As soon as I create an etherchannel (1) and add ports FA0/2 and FA0/3 to the group, I loose communication to all guest VMs. I have tried all settings in the GUI (as listed above) and none work.

ciscoservers#sho etherchannel detail

Channel-group listing:

Group: 1

Group state = L2
Ports: 2 Maxports = 8
Port-channels: 1 Max Port-channels = 1
Ports in the group:

Port: Fa0/2

Port state = Up Mstr Not-in-Bndl
Channel group = 1 Mode = Desirable-NonSl Gcchange = 0
Port-channel = null GC = 0x00010001 Pseudo port-channel = Po1
Port index = 0 Load = 0x00

Flags: S - Device is sending Slow hello. C - Device is in Consistent state.
A - Device is in Auto mode. P - Device learns on physical port.
d - PAgP is down.
Timers: H - Hello timer is running. Q - Quit timer is running.
S - Switching timer is running. I - Interface timer is running.

Local information:
Hello Partner PAgP Learning Group
Port Flags State Timers Interval Count Priority Method Ifindex
Fa0/2 U4/S2 HI 30s 0 128 Any 0

Age of the port in the current state: 49d:17h:02m:47s
Port: Fa0/3

Port state = Up Sngl-port-Bndl Mstr Not-in-Bndl
Channel group = 1 Mode = Desirable-NonSl Gcchange = 0
Port-channel = null GC = 0x00010001 Pseudo port-channel = Po1
Port index = 0 Load = 0x00

Local information:
Hello Partner PAgP Learning Group
Port Flags State Timers Interval Count Priority Method Ifindex
Fa0/3 U4/S4 H 30s 0 128 Any 0

Age of the port in the current state: 00d:00h:08m:49s
Port-channels in the group:

Port-channel: Po1

Age of the Port-channel = 00d:00h:09m:56s
Logical slot/port = 1/0 Number of ports = 0
GC = 0x00000000 HotStandBy port = null
Port state = Port-channel Ag-Not-Inuse

ciscoservers#

*********************************************************************************

Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong to enable etherchanneling with ESX?

Thanks,

Questions regarding webUI, Firefox, datastores on remote network

Harald Heigl — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:56:03 GMT

I have tested vmware-server for the last days and noticed some minor and major bugs (or perhaps user errors of myself)

I'll list them here and would be thankfull if you share your experience:

1) In the WebUI it shows: Prozessor: 1 x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6420 @ 2.13GHz in VIC it shows Processor: 2x CPU 2,133Ghz. This is only a minor item and I think it doesn't matter, perhaps the webinterface doesn't notice the dual cores.

2) For example in the line "datastores", if there is more data as fits in this line, there is a difference between IE7 and Firefox. IE7 shows a horizontal bar which can be scrolled, Firefox doesn't. (In the picture you see the Gb for "Gigabyte", cut of to G)

3) If I say fullscreen in Firefox, it counts 3 seconds and after this nothing happens: host-os WinXP, guest-os Ubuntu 7.10, Firefox 2.0.0.11! (1024x768 - host and guest) On IE7 I get a fullscreen as wanted.

4) removing a datastore or a vm in the webui, removes it actually, but not from the screen. The line is still there until I log off and log on again. Problem exists on IE 7 and Mozilla. (Is there a "hidden" refresh button, am I missing something)

5) I thought I have to convert my 1.0.4-vm to 2.0, but my old vm still works, so I assume that they are still compatible. Just wanted to mention that, because I didn't think of that.

6) Administration and "Virtual Machine" in the web-ui doesn't look like a menu. It is said sometimes before in different threads, just wanted to mention it. It's not intuitive and user friendly.

7) A major problem: On my computer running vmware-server, I dind't have enough harddiskspace and dind't want to partition a new, so I let my VMs on my old pc and made a network connection to my datastore (a windows shared folder). I know that's not optimal for performance, but for first setup and tests it's not a big problem. Whatsoever I added a datastore (option CIFS, other computer's ip, shared folder, user name and password), afterwards I added my 1.0.4 ubuntu-vm, started it, works well. I restart my computer containing vm-server (not my "datastore-computer"), reconnecting showed me the picture I append: It shows me a capacity on my datastore of more than 3 billion gigabyte, which wouldn't be my biggest problem, my ubuntu-vm is also shown as inaccessible and unknown. If I click on it, it says the server encountered a problem and I'm automatically logged off. After I remove the VM, remove the datastore, add the datastore, add the vm it works well until I restart the vm-computer again. This problem is not web-specific, it occurs also with VIC (except that vic doesn't cut me off, if there is a problem) Is there a known problem with this, did you experience something similar?

8) the mouse in the ubuntu 7.10 moves slowly, I encountered similar on virtual pc (but here even the installation didn't work correctly, so I came back to vmware), is there a special trick for vmware (or for ubuntu 7.10), is this normal?

I'm marking this as a question because of the last two points.

How to share a large media collection through a virtual server ?

janrhansen — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:51:48 GMT

Hi all,

I've just spend the entire day getting a Server 2.0 Beta 1 to work - and now I see that new beta i comming later today... great timing, right? Ah well, the question probably is still valid for beta 2 whenever it arrives:

I have a relatively large media collection (music, videoes and photos ~ 150-200 GB) that I currently make available on my home network from my server through regular network shares. Now I want to get some experience with virtualization etc etc, so I decided (while replacing the server hardware) to install VMware server, and host a two instances of windows server 2003 (or 2008 perhaps) - one for private stuff, one for business stuff. I run a small company and want things separated.

So now I have the host server (windows server 2003) that runs two virtual servers (also 2003). Host, guest1 and guest2.

Is there any way I can place my media collection in "host" and make the files available to "guest1" so that "guest1" can share these files on my home network? I probably could create a share on "host" which "guest1" maps - but can I then re-share a network drive? I'm thinking that there must be a better way, like mounting host\\medialibrary\photos inside "guest1" as a folder or a drive and share that. I've tried quite a lot in the web based admin interface, but cant see any clever solution.

The motivation for doing this is that I would prefer not to have my "vital" data lying inside a virtual harddisk file - partly because I dont like the sound of it - partly because it seem to be slow solution - partly because I want some of the files shared between "guest1" and "guest2".

Any clever thoughts on this subject on a friday while you all sit and wait with the download section in another tab anyway? Or better suggestions?

On a side note: I cant get the virtual servers to start up automatically. I've checked the "allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically with the system" checkbox, and moved my guest system up in the "any order" startup section, but it doesnt start. Sigh...

Have a nice weekend everybody!

/Jan

Duplicate Packets from VMs

James Bondo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:29:53 GMT

Setup is VMWare Server 2.0 beta 1 on Windows 2008 version 6.0.6001 (which I believe to be RTM, may be RC).
64-bit VMWare Server
64-bit Ubuntu guest
32-bit WIndows guest (not relevant, and turned off during this test, but I see the same thing happen with it)
Another Ubuntu standalone box on the network.

All network adapters are bridged.

Problem:
I get duplicate packets all over the network for the vmware guests. Following is the output from a ping on the 64-bit ubuntu guest:
PING unix-box (192.168.5.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from unix-box (192.168.5.105): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=7.60 ms
64 bytes from unix-box (192.168.5.105): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=7.62 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from unix-box (192.168.5.105): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=7.62 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from unix-box (192.168.5.105): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=7.63 ms (DUP!)
From vm-host (192.168.5.99): icmp_seq=2 Redirect Network(New nexthop: unix-box (192.168.5.105))
64 bytes from unix-box (192.168.5.105): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.577 ms
64 bytes from unix-box (192.168.5.105): icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=0.585 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from unix-box (192.168.5.105): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.590 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from unix-box (192.168.5.105): icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=0.596 ms (DUP!)

unix-box ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 2 received, +6 duplicates, 0% packet loss, time 999ms

The is the output from tcpdump on the standalone unix-box (tpcdump -i eth 0 host vmware-guest)
10:08:37.627949 arp reply unix-box is-at unix-box-mac (oui Unknown)
10:08:37.628182 IP vm-guest > unix-box: ICMP echo request, id 38673, seq 1, length 64
10:08:37.628243 IP unix-box > vm-guest: ICMP echo reply, id 38673, seq 1, length 64
10:08:37.628186 IP vm-guest > unix-box: ICMP echo request, id 38673, seq 1, length 64
10:08:37.628264 IP unix-box > vm-guest: ICMP echo reply, id 38673, seq 1, length 64
10:08:38.620088 IP vm-guest > unix-box: ICMP echo request, id 38673, seq 2, length 64
10:08:38.620148 IP unix-box > vm-guest: ICMP echo reply, id 38673, seq 2, length 64
10:08:38.620094 IP vm-guest > unix-box: ICMP echo request, id 38673, seq 2, length 64
10:08:38.620171 IP unix-box > vm-guest: ICMP echo reply, id 38673, seq 2, length 64

Does anyone have an ideas? I searched and came up with nothing.

Server 2003 guest shuts down intermittently - monitor panic vmcore/vmm/mmu/mmuInfo.c:3074

snowdog_2112 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:33:27 GMT

I have a single VM running on this box, and it shuts down with the error in the title, or more explicitly:

MONITOR PANIC: vcpu-0:ASSERT vmcore/vmm/mmu/mmuInfo.c:3074

This is build 63231 on a Windows Server 2003 64-bit host system, dual quad-core w/ 16gb RAM. The guest OS is Windows Server 2003 R2. I've seen mention of systems stopping during chkdsk or ntbackup, but my shutdown events do not correspond to either of those. The guest has 3GB of ram, a 12GB vhd, and 2cpu's assigned.

I have the log and dumps from the last shutdown if I need to submit them for review.

HELP!!!

Server 1.0x/2 and USB support

hitman101 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:06:13 GMT

I have used server 1.0x for some time and am frustrated by the poor support/performance for/of external devices particularly USB and Firewire and also newer technologies like eSata.

I was hoping to upgrade to Server 2.0 which I understand should change things. I am staggered by the apparent lack of progress with Server 2.0 which I can only assume by the lack of a new Beta or RTM means that we are unlikely to see Server 2.0 this year.

Will VMWare be upset if I defect to another emulator platform?

For those who want better support for USB without necessarily upgrading can I suggest they try something like "Nikkai 4-port USB Network Server" (UK) link below. As the name suggests you can plug in most USB-2 peripherals into this box, then connect your physical/virtual PC's to the usb devices over the LAN - negating the need to rely on VMWare's support of direct connected USB devices!

The only issues I forsee with this is connecting USB Disks or other high bandwidth devices (usb tuners, video capture etc). This box also only supports 10/100 so performance may suffer occasionally, and is only supported by windows not linux. There may be other similar/better specified/supportted devices out there somewhere!?

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=221384&C=Maplin&U=SearchTop&T=nikkai&doy=26m3

Haven't tried it myself yet but I plan to soon

Compatibility with Workstation 6.0

furia — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:49:05 GMT

Is (or will) Server 2.0 be compatible with Virual Machines created under VMWare Workstation 6.0?

Thanks.

vmware-hostd.exe crashes

Turkalex — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:47:23 GMT

Hello,

I run VMWare Server 2.0 Beta on several Win2K3 Servers.

I worked for several weeks but now the vmware-hostd service starts then stops after approx 5 to 10 seconds.

The Windows event log says:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: (100)
Event ID: 1000
Date: 25/03/2008
Time: 11:35:18
User: N/A
Computer: DTC-SRV00
Description:
Faulting application vmware-hostd.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module vmacore.dll, version 1.0.35.0, fault address 0x0010b9a9.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 76 6d 77 ure vmw
0018: 61 72 65 2d 68 6f 73 74 are-host
0020: 64 2e 65 78 65 20 30 2e d.exe 0.
0028: 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 69 6e 0.0.0 in
0030: 20 76 6d 61 63 6f 72 65 vmacore
0038: 2e 64 6c 6c 20 31 2e 30 .dll 1.0
0040: 2e 33 35 2e 30 20 61 74 .35.0 at
0048: 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 offset
0050: 30 30 31 30 62 39 61 39 0010b9a9

Any idea?

Thanks for your help

The VMware host agent service (vmware-hostd.exe) crashes on windows XP

Learnincurve — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:12:46 GMT

Tried installing VMware server 2 beta after unistalling v.1.0.3 Install went okay but no prompt for serial number.

After install,vmware-hostd.exe crashes before I can log into the web GUI. on restart it runs for a few seconds then crashes again..

Error details are:

szAppName: vmware-hostd.exe szAppVer:0.0.0.0 szModName:statssvc.dll szModVer:0.0.0.0 offset:00021826

Have tried uninstalling/reinstalling, with restarts between uninstall/reinstall.

Have read on forum that Infrastructure client can be used as admin GIU, but this is available for licensed (commercial) products only??? I can't find a download that I can use.

Any tips/hints?

How can I attach 10 network adapters ?

clopmz — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:41:14 GMT

Hi all,

I am trying to install linux guest (debian based) with 10 network adapters, but it seems impossible ... How can I do?? Is it possible to create different vlans on one vswitch like in esx ??

Many thanks.

Setting up a firewall in a VM

dave32 — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:36:42 GMT

I want to replace my home firewall (a physical machine running OpenBSD) with a VM, but I have not been able to get the firewall VM to talk to the cable company's DHCP server.

My configuration is as follows:
Host machine:
CentOS 5
VMware Server 2
eth0 - connected to internal LAN, static address
eth1 - connected to cable modem, no address assigned

Firewall
OpenBSD 4.2
running VMware Tools via freebsd emulation
pcn0 - bridged to eth0 for access to internal LAN, static address.
pcn1 - connected to host-only network
pcn2 - bridged to eth1

Internet connection
Uses DHCP to assign addresses
Requires using a specific MAC address.

I set the MAC address on the host machine to what the cable company expects and rebooted the firewall VM.
The DHCP client on the firewall couldn't get a response to its requests. ( yes, I moved the ethernet cable

I tried manually configuring the firewall's external interface to what the standalone firewall was using and ran an nslookup query using the cable company's DNS servers, but I got no response.

I can talk to the firewall VM using its internal LAN address.

Any ideas of what I may be missing?

Beta 2.0 No Client?

DrMario — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:50:30 GMT

I've read that beta 2.0 comes with WebAccess UI only. I am using the Windows version of VM Server (64bit). Other posts mentioned that we can get the VI Client in the Linux install. i've tried installing from the 64bit installer, however, that client seems to work only on a 32bit OS.

does anyone know where i can VI Client that works with beta for 64bit OS? thanks

can't add disk Vm server beta 2.0: max limit exceeded

GregMon — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:38:51 GMT

Hi all,

I am running 2.0 beta on host OS 2003. I have 1 data store with 1.7 TB free. I created the guest os with a 30 gig HD in that datastore. I am trying to add a 100 gig drive and I am getting disk size: max limit exceeded.

Any ideas?

firewire and vmware server 2

fafra333 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:11:39 GMT

Hi All,

I'm using vmware server 1 on windows, my PC has a firewire device which I'd like to use on guest systems (i.e. to acquire from camcorders); I know that this is not supported on vmware server 1, does anyone know if firewire ports are supported on vmware server 2?

thanks in advance

Bad Handle Oxafc, The handle is invalid

MarcSant — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:27:22 GMT

When I try to open console via web-browser, I receive this error.

And, the next dialog box:

vmware-remotemks.exe: this executable should not be invoked directly

And, the console won't open.

Any ideas?

Tks!

Will VMware Server support VT-D ?

Silke — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:59:38 GMT

Hi,

today I read that Parallels Server Beta supports VT-d, which allows you to exclusively access PCI-Express Cards in a VM!!!

VT-d is an extension to VT that has to be supported by the processor/chipset, it is an Intel-Term, I think it is called IOMMU at AMD.

Will MWare Server also support VT-d in the future?

Thank you!

how to find vm pid?

woodycollins — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:42:12 GMT

Alright so how would you go about finding the PID of a specific vm from the command line? The command used to be vmware-cmd but I do not see that command available any longer. I have rh5 running vmware server 2.0 e.x.p. 63231.

I went to look in the logs of the vm but there is no log. The problem is I issued a shutdown command from the viclient on a vm and it is hung at 95% while shutting down in the ui and all logs and run data appear to have been removed.

Fix for USB writer crash ?

forABetterVmWare — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:33:41 GMT

Our current version is 1.0.1 server, and we often write 1GB of data to CF cards. Except for a couple of USB writers, the virtual machine crashes during the data transfer. I've seen no fix for this for later versions of vmware server.

I'm wondering if 2.0 will function well with CF writers ? or if vmware will publish a list of CF writers that work properly if they can't offer generic support ?

VMServer 2.0 / Intel Xeon 5160

leungda — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:07:44 GMT

I installed Windows Server 2003 x64 Standard edition with VMServer 2.0. I am able to install a 32bits Guest OS. Now, I try to install a Windows Server 2003 x64 as a guest OS. The VM complain that it hardware is not x64 CPU.... How can it be? I am able to install x64 Server as a HOST. So, the VM doesn't let me install x64 GUEST?

Make me crazy.......

USB-Support? (Server installed on Ubuntu 7.10)

Catscrash — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:50:54 GMT

Hi,

I have Vmware beta2 Server installed on Ubuntu 7.10

i think it's a pitty, that the old kind of accessing a Virtual Machine has been deactivated, the Webinterface is, as far as my experiences show, a very poor replacement.

Nevertheless, i would like to know if the following is possible.

i have an usb-device (scanner) connected to the Ubuntu-Machine. It is not Supported by Ubuntu. Is it possible to path through the USB-Port to the VMware to access it there Via a WindowsXP guest-System?

Is it at all possible to connect USB-Devices to the Virtual Machine? I didn't find this option in the Hardware-Page

Thank you

Catscrash

VMSA-2008-0005 vulnerabilities

dave.english — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:26:58 GMT

So which of these vulnerabilities affect the Beta, do you suppose?

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html

Virtual device type not supported

AXI-Heinz — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:36:32 GMT

Hello

After installation of VMWARE Server Beta 2.0 Build 63231 on a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise X64 Edition (Hardware HP DL385 G2), i am not able to install Windows Server Enterprise X64 Edition as a Guest System.

The virtal networkadapter will failed with the message:
virtual device type not supported.
the current virtual device type (e1000) is not supported by VMWare Server e.x.p.

If i install a Windows Server 2003 32 bit guest OS it works fine.

Is there a solution for this problem?

Thank you for your answers.

So where ist the VM ?

FranzWoyzeck — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:12:34 GMT

I just installed VMWare Server 2.0 and successfully used this - by the way - really stupid web interface to configure my server. I can power it on and then nothing happens. Where is the VM window ?

And please: Rethink this web interface approach. It's totally pointless to provide a web interface for such type of application. Starting tomcat for just this reason is such a stupid idea.

Clarification about USB-Removable Disks

kmaq — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:40:15 GMT

Hello,

I just needed some clarification regarding USB-Removable Disks in Server 2.0. Is this unsupported? I want to be able to plug in my 250 GB external harddrive so that I can save data on it from my virtual machine but it does not detect it and I don't see a Tools > VM > Removable Devices option any more. Am I missing something?

Thank you!

Edit: Oops. No USB support in Beta 1. Darn Any idea when USB support will be added? thanks!

How long can we continue using 1.0.5?

Totohydra — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:42:11 GMT

I noticed earlier versions would give me a nastygram countdown expiration date.

Unless something is seriously corrected with 2.0 I don't know what I'm going to do. Hyper-v? Virtual box?

I'm still on 1.0.4 for Ubuntu (headless) and just noticed the 1.0.5. Unless there's something significantly different it will be the last of a product that isn't broken.

Restart and shutdown vitual machine automaticly

erigobert — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:00:33 GMT

I see the document about configuring Machine, I have followed the process i find out on help, but nothing append. I have to login( enter user and password) on the web and start the virtual machines. I use VMware server 2.0. Can someone help me?

Ernst R.

VM's do not power on at host boot - Win2k3 X64 host, CentOS4 client

etrigan64 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:58:57 GMT

I am hosting the VMWare Server on Win2k3 x64 and none of my VM's power on automatically at boot time is spite of being setup to do precisely that. I have to manually launch them each time the server reboots (usually on Patch Tuesday). Is there a workaround for this?

physical disk

ocbt — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:09:25 GMT

It seem to be impossible to used physical disk feature. Does version 2.0 won't support this anymore? When you have a 700gig hard drive. What will be choice if we don;t have any external storage unit like SAN or ISCSI ? It so difficult to think about creating a big 700gig VM filesystem. What choice we have in this situation? I hopy that Physical disk can be done in version2.???

VMware server 2 (beta): Turning off 3 second delay for fullscreen option

paragpdoke — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:00:49 GMT

Hello Everyone.
I am trying to work with the VMware server 2 (beta) and using a WinXP+IE6 client with the plugin installed. Each time I hit "Ctrl+Alt+Enter" in the browser, it pops up this 3 message about returning to the earlier mode for 3 seconds or so.

Is there any configuration file / user preference setting to either:
1) Disable this pop up completely ?
2) Set it to be displayed for Zero seconds ?

For a user who knows about this shortcut, the 3 second delay seems too much (sometimes annoying). Any help in this regard is welcome (or a link to an existing document will also be fine).

Thanks in advance,
Parag

network stops working

cwinkler — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:09:39 GMT

We are using VMware Server 2.0b1 under Ubuntu 7.10 64bit (Linux xxx 2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 05:52:24 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux).

Everything works fine and is fast, however once in about a week the VM loses it's network connectivity to the outside. ssh'ing from the host to the VM works, but the VM cannot resolve anything and cannot ping to the outside. The VM does quite a lot of network IO (checking webpages every minute), so maybe that's the reason.

The problem does not occur with VMware Server 1 running on 32bit Ubuntu 7.04.

Is this a know problem or has anybody else experienced the save behaviour?

Thanks and regards

Christian

vmware-hostd fails to start

b.sukhinin — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:55:11 GMT

vmware-hostd fails to start. Trying to restart VMWare (via /etc/init.d/vmware restart) or start vmware-hostd from the shell does not work either. The only way is to remove (rename directories on disk) virtual machines, restart VMWare and then add virtual machines via WebUI (works until first reboot).

VMWare Server 2 beta (build 63231) on Ubuntu 7.10 Server x64 on server with Dual Intel Xeon 5130 CPUs (Quad Core), 8 GB RAM.

creating mashine template crashes vmware-mgmt

fgro — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:12:26 GMT

Hi,

i recently created a new Host (Windows 32bit Standart Server) on my VMware 2 Beta1 Server. The VI Client closed the connection to the web-mgmt imidatily and wasnt able reconnect to the web-mgmt. After performing the command

/etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart (2 times i need to do so) i was able to logon back to the webmgt. I guess this is a major bug if not discovered so far.

However, the template was created but i am not able to clone it. Nor i am able to clone a normal (state offline) VMware.

Any solution for cloning / duplicate VMs at VMware Server 2 Beta1???

Regards,

Falk

Guest OS keeps crashing with Unrecoverable Error

dhayashi — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:46:16 GMT

Greetings,

I'm having issues with a Guest XP SP2 on a Host P4 3.0 GHz with 2.0 GB ram running the Beta 2.0 Server on Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop.

The Xp Guest keeps crashing with little uptime - roughly 10-15 mins and just turns off.

Here is the error message.

Event Details
12/04/2007 2:55:53 PM (User)
Message from dhayashi-xp: VMware Server unrecoverable error: (vmx) NOT_REACHED /build/mts/release/bora-63231/bfg-atlantis/bora/devices/mainmem/mainMemHosted.c:1090 bugNr=45226 A log file is available in "/home/dhayashi/.vmware/dhayashi-xp/vmware.log". A core file is available in "/home/dhayashi/.vmware/dhayashi-xp/core". Please request support and include the contents of the log file and core file. To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly. We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

Any Ideas?

-D

Vista Ultimate 64bit Host - Network Discovery Bug?

Paul Thomas — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:11:39 GMT

I have a fresh install of Vista Ultimate 64bit, with the official MS SP1 installed. VMware is working fine, except, everytime I reboot the network discovery has been set to off and I have to set it back to on. This did not happen before VMware was installed. It makes the remote administration of the server rather difficult!

Has anyone else had the same problem, is there a way round this or is it a bug?

RHEL 4 update 6 freeze when restarting network with VMware running

FrankvdAa — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:24:21 GMT

Hi,

I'm currently testing VMware 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 6 x86_64 but my system freezes every time I restart the network service while the VMware service is still running

When I stop VMware first everything works fine. I don't remember having this issue with VMware 1.

It's not that I get a kernel panic, but the system become irresponsive and has to shut down by holding the power button.

Best regards,

Frank

ANY virtual center options for Server 2?

shane.presley — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:04:25 GMT

I've read other discussion shere that mention Virtual Center 2.0 can NOT manage Server 2.0. Although that would be nice, I understand.

However, I just recently (a month ago) purchased Virtual Center for VMware Server. The shipping version was Virtual Center 1.4. You can still purchase it here:

https://www.vmware.com/products/server/vc.html

Am I correct in understanding that this version will not support Server 2.0 either? It sounds like there will be no Virtual Center options for Server 2.0, even though I just paid for a Virtual Center option for server 1.0?

Ubuntu 7.10 does not shutdown or reboot when VM Server 2.0 beta is installed

DVD385 — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 09:35:37 GMT

All is in the title.

Two bridged nics configured but detected as one thru web access

TheUnF — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:43:23 GMT

I currently have VMNet0 bridged to my primary NIC and
mapped vmnet5 to my secondary NIC .

I also have vmnet1 to vmnet4 mapped to hostonly virtual
interfaces. VMNet6-9 are not bridged.

Thru VM Web Access i request to refresh network list but
it keep showing various HostOnly, one NAT and only one
Bridged interfaces.

There´s a solution for it or it´s a VM2 limitation ?

BTW, there´s no way to use vmware console gui to connecto
to VMServer insted of using web console ?

System info: Core2Duo,4GB,Vista Bussiness 64-bit

Running on Windows 2008 Server Core

A-Rog — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:02:04 GMT

I've run some side by side comparison of running Vmware Server 2.0 on the latest Windows 2008 server release doing a full server install and a core install. Vmware Server 2.0 installs without issue on both. The Web UI also runs, except on Server Core I'm am not able to power on a VM. I receive the following error:

"Power On Virtual Machine" failed to complete

Details

A general system error occured. The system returned an error. Communication with the virtual machine may have been interrupted.

What feature in Windows 2008 is Vmware dependent on that might be causing the error?

-ar

USB Support in VMWare Server 2.0

vmserverpete — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:13:41 GMT

I want to use USB devices in my virtual machine but there is no USB option in my Add Hardware Wizard so consequently (I presume) there are no USB devices to be assigned under the Devices tab in VMWare Tools within the Guest OS. Any ideas how I get the USB option to appear?

Host OS Vista Ultimate

Guest OS XP Professional

VMWare Server 2.0

[VMWARE SERVER 2.0 BETA 1] - Create Virtual Machine operation fails

edechaux — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:32:06 GMT

Dear all I am having the following error when I try to create a new virtual machine in VMware Server 2.0 Beta 1 :

Operation failed.
An unexpected exception occurred and was logged in the system logs.

The stack trace from the log line is the following :

2007-11-20 17:27:46,218,http-8308-Processor23<=>,AbstractExceptionHandler com.vmware.webcenter.exceptions.FatalException: com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.vmware.webcenter.control.action.wizards.newVM.GuesOSSetupAction.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.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
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 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:672)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:398)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1056)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(RequestProcessor.java:388)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:231)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
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 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:672)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:398)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1056)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(RequestProcessor.java:388)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:231)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
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(Unknown Source)
Caused by: com.vmware.webcenter.exceptions.ServiceNotAvailableException: com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.WzrdVMSingleHostViewImpl.buildContent(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.AbstractView.build(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.AbstractView.build(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.WzrdVMSingleHostViewImpl.(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.ViewManagerImpl.createWzrdVMSingleHostView(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.wizards.NewVMWizard.getView(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.wizard.Wizard.getView(Unknown Source)
... 56 more
Caused by: com.vmware.sdk.proxy2.exceptions.ServiceNotAvailableException: com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.vmware.sdk.proxy2.VimPortTypeWrapper.queryConfigTarget(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.sdk.proxy2.VIMProxyImpl.retrieveConfigTarget(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.sdk.proxy2.EnvironmentBrowserImpl.queryConfigTarget(Unknown Source)
... 63 more
Caused by: com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:101)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:701)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.MustUnderstandChecker.invoke(MustUnderstandChecker.java:62)
at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:206)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
at com.vmware.vim25.VimBindingStub.queryConfigTarget(Unknown Source)
... 66 more
Caused by: com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.UTF8Reader.invalidByte(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.UTF8Reader.read(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.skipChar(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
... 75 more

Can somebody tell me what I did wrong.

Many thanks

Eric

VWware 2.0 services prevent table from going to Standby

Doc4tmb — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:12:49 GMT

I have a Fujitsu Tablet PC LifeBook T series 4215, I noticed that ever since i loaded the new 2.0 beta on that until i stop ALL VMware services via the services menu that my tablet will no longer go into standby mode when i close the lid.

I do not have any vm's running when i go to shut the lid and put it into standby mode. what happens is the tablet will switch into a full running mode even with the lid closed and drain the battery faster then if i would not shut the lid. as soon as I stop the services the problem goes away. I do not know if this is a bug or just the way it is designed to be. I figured i would post this as If i spent time trying to figure out why, then i know someone else will also.

Jeremy

Comparison of VMWorkstation and VMServer

EricAES — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:54:25 GMT

I'm trying to evaluate whether to use VMWorkstation or VMServer for my needs. I'm not 100% sure of the differences, pros, and cons of each.

I'm a software developer at a company, and I'm looking for the best product to run on my desktop development machine. The intended use is to be able to load different OSs on my computer in a VM for debugging and testing purposes, as well as the occasional VM in which to run older compilers that don't run under Windows Vista, which is the OS installed on this machine.

Any recommendations or pointers to comparison sheets would be greatly appreciated.

Eric Harmon
Advanced Estimating Systems, Inc.

Independent disks and snapshots

jim.bim — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:45:05 GMT

I wonder how the two play with each other. The only useful information in the doc is that "independent disks are
not affected by snapshots" and there is also a recommendation to make a certain disk independent if you want
to exclude it from the snapshot. However, my experience is quite different - if I try to make a snapshot of a VM
with an independent disk, I get "MemorySnapshotOnIndependentDisk: Operation failed" and no snapshot is, of
course, taken. After googling around I found in the VI API documentation, that this fault is thrown "if a request to
take a memory snapshot is issued on a virtual machine with an independent disk". So what is the the truth?
Are independent disk excluded from the snapshot or should they be used to prevent a VM from taking snapshots?
Or is it a known 2.0 Beta 1 bug? Does anyone have a similar experience or tried independent disks with
snapshots on a different vmware product?

Windows VM shutting down on it's own

Vaes — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:03:06 GMT

We have a VMWare server running on a Dell Poweredge dual intel CPU quad core server. The main OS is Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 and one of the VM's is a Windows 2003 SBS. The VM of the windows is shutting down on it's own every few days and I can't find a good reason. Any idea how I could resolve this?

I attached the log file.

Web UI doesn't allow passwords with spaces.

clsmith — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:32:19 GMT

Hello;

I just installed Server 2.0 Beta on an FC8 Test Box. I was unable to login to the Web UI using the root acount despite providing the correct credentials. Each time I tried it would error out with a "Login failed due to a bad username or password" message. After testing I found that this was due to a trailing 'space' in the password.

Further testing revealed that a 'space' anywhere in the password caused logins to fail.

Just puting it out there...

Work around for Auto Start/Stop (Windows)

galego — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:13:17 GMT

i am trying to find a workaround or solution to allow my VMs to auto start/stop. i have been looking and trying different things to no avail. if anyone has any suggestions i would greatly appreciate the help.

Thank you

Problem with network interfaces having names longer than 8 chars.

ThomasHjorth — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:39:23 GMT

Im not sure im posting this the right place. I dont even think the is a place to post a problem applying to both VMWare server 1.04 (probably all earlier versions as well) and the new 2.0 Beta 1.

Im using Ubuntu 7.10 Server ed. which should be supported by both 1.0 and 2.0. Furthermore im using bonding which gives me an bond0 interface (mode=1) instead of eth0 and eth1 and ontop of that i have VLANs, this potential gives me and interface named 'bond0.2000' which is 10 chars. long.

I have tested with both 1.04 and 2.0 Beta. the exact versions is these ->

VMware-server-e.x.p-63231.x86_64.tar.gz
VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz
VMware-mui-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz (actually not relevent concerning the issue)

When i get to the interface mapping using vmware-config.pl i can see and add an intercace up to 9 chars long. This limit is probably due to the perl-script using ifconfig to identify usable interfaces ->

ifconfig bond0.2000

<snip>
bond0.200 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:FE:87:F6:1A
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
</snip>

ifconfig bond0.200

bond0.200: error fetching interface information: Device not found

I get no errors adding the interfaces and everything looks good, but it doesnt Looking closer it found "hidden" errors identifying why it doesnt work ->

dmesg

<snip>
http://47617.978856 /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 10459 (vmnet-bridge)
http://47617.978867 /dev/vmnet: hub 6 does not exist, allocating memory.
http://47617.978880 /dev/vmnet: port on hub 6 successfully opened
http://47617.978892 bridge-bond0.20: peer interface bond0.20 not found, will wait for it to come up
http://47617.978895 bridge-bond0.20: attached
</snip>

cat /proc/vmnet/bridge5

connected hub6.0 mac 00:50:56:00:00:00 ladrf 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 flags IFF_RUNNING,IFF_UP,IFF_PROMISC dev bond0.20

So my question is... How do I get my 8+ char interfaces working?

Regards, Thomas

Permission

osa-net — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:32:35 GMT

I logging in web ui as user root, and I see test-linux virtual machine, it's possible add permission to diffrent user like "albert", who can see test-linux virtual machine , who can poweron and poweroff test-linux virtual machine?

Regards,

Albert

Server 2 Beta 2 Community?

cgNWHS — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:07:14 GMT

Does the fact that I see Server Beta 2 as a community option under Beta Community mean what I think it means? Is the release imminent? I sure hope so!

Authentication error on Linux Fedora 8 host

cartex — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:01:46 GMT

Hello,

I just installed VMware-server-e.x.p-63231.i386.rpm on Fedora 8, kernel 2.6.23.1-49.fc8, 32bit, with no problems.

I can't login to the web interface, after failure I have the following in /var/log/vmware/webAccess/proxy.log, as attached.

Thank you.

VirtualCenter?

shane.presley — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:40:41 GMT

Hello, I previously used Server 1.0.4 running on RedHat Linux, and VirtualCenter 1.4.1 running on Windows 2003.

I understand with Server 2, VC1.4.1 won't support it. But from reading other threads I think I understand that Server 2 can be managed by VC2.5? But I'm still very confused.

Our reseller is trying to sell us Infrastructure 3.5. I think that includes Virtual Center, but not sure what version?

Basically I'm looking for a Virtual Center that will manage ESX 3.5 and Server 2 under one tool. Possible?

Thanks!

Problem with Networking

DSPritt — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:14:33 GMT

Running Windows 2003 Ent Svr sp2 as host.

I have several NIC installed, and have configured them using the network tool - the only bit of the management I still like!

When I bring up the Web Management tool the additional VMNets are not being picked up, I only see 0,1 and 8.

I am unable to create a link between a guest using VMNet2 and a physical card, or work out how to get a team connected.

I will reserve my views on the Web interface, with time it may just grow on me.

Installed and started OK, and the guests are running OK, except for the network issue.

Anybody managed to get the network running with VMNets other than defaults?

Dave P

Several bridged networks with several physical NICs

Turkalex — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:08:18 GMT

My main problem under 2.0 Beta 1 is the impossibility to use several physical NICs of the host to define different bridged subnets.

As far as I see reading the threads, other people have the same problem.

Does anybody have a solution? Can the VMWare Team talk about it?

Thanks for your help

NB: test hosts = Windows Server 2003 Standard 64-bit with SP2 + Win XP Pro 64-bit with SP2

Cannot create a new Virtual Machine or edit the HW configuration of an existing one

acirilli — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:56:52 GMT

Hello all,

i recently installed VMWare Server 2 Beta. At first look everything worked fine. I imported my old virtual machines correctly. The problem raised as soon as i tried to create a new machine or when i tried to change the configuration of one of the old one. The error displayed is the same in both cases. For example, when i click on the Create Virtual Machine link , a window opens and the following message is displayed :

Operation Failed: An expected exception occurred and was logged in the system logs.

In the Tomcat's Proxy.log , the following message is logged:

2007-12-02 21:52:47,609,http-8308-Processor24<=>,AbstractExceptionHandler com.vmware.webcenter.control.action.wizards.newVM.GuesOSSetupAction
2007-12-02 21:52:47,609,http-8308-Processor24<=>,AbstractExceptionHandler com.vmware.webcenter.control.action.wizards.newVM.GuesOSSetupAction
2007-12-02 21:52:47,640,http-8308-Processor24<=>,AbstractExceptionHandler com.vmware.webcenter.exceptions.FatalException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.vmware.webcenter.control.action.wizards.newVM.GuesOSSetupAction.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.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
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 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:672)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:398)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1056)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(RequestProcessor.java:388)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:231)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
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 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:672)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:398)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1056)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(RequestProcessor.java:388)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:231)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
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)
Caused by: com.vmware.webcenter.exceptions.ServiceNotAvailableException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.WzrdVMSingleHostViewImpl.buildContent(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.AbstractView.build(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.AbstractView.build(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.WzrdVMSingleHostViewImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.ViewManagerImpl.createWzrdVMSingleHostView(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.wizards.NewVMWizard.getView(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.wizard.Wizard.getView(Unknown Source)
... 56 more
Caused by: com.vmware.sdk.proxy2.exceptions.ServiceNotAvailableException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.vmware.sdk.proxy2.VimPortTypeWrapper.queryConfigTarget(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.sdk.proxy2.VIMProxyImpl.retrieveConfigTarget(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.sdk.proxy2.EnvironmentBrowserImpl.queryConfigTarget(Unknown Source)
... 63 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:101)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:701)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.MustUnderstandChecker.invoke(MustUnderstandChecker.java:62)
at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:206)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
at com.vmware.vim25.VimBindingStub.queryConfigTarget(Unknown Source)
... 66 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:236)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:215)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:386)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:316)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1810)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:834)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:764)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:148)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1242)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:375)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
... 75 more

2007-12-02 21:52:47,640,http-8308-Processor24<=>,AbstractExceptionHandler com.vmware.webcenter.exceptions.FatalException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.vmware.webcenter.control.action.wizards.newVM.GuesOSSetupAction.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.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
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 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:672)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:398)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1056)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(RequestProcessor.java:388)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:231)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
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 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:672)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:398)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1056)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(RequestProcessor.java:388)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:231)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
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)
Caused by: com.vmware.webcenter.exceptions.ServiceNotAvailableException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.WzrdVMSingleHostViewImpl.buildContent(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.AbstractView.build(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.AbstractView.build(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.WzrdVMSingleHostViewImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.view.viewhelper.ViewManagerImpl.createWzrdVMSingleHostView(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.wizards.NewVMWizard.getView(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webcenter.wizard.Wizard.getView(Unknown Source)
... 56 more
Caused by: com.vmware.sdk.proxy2.exceptions.ServiceNotAvailableException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.vmware.sdk.proxy2.VimPortTypeWrapper.queryConfigTarget(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.sdk.proxy2.VIMProxyImpl.retrieveConfigTarget(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.sdk.proxy2.EnvironmentBrowserImpl.queryConfigTarget(Unknown Source)
... 63 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:101)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:701)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.MustUnderstandChecker.invoke(MustUnderstandChecker.java:62)
at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:206)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
at com.vmware.vim25.VimBindingStub.queryConfigTarget(Unknown Source)
... 66 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:236)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:215)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:386)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:316)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1810)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:834)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:764)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:148)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1242)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:375)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
... 75 more

I already tried reinstalling from scratch the product , but the error does not change.

Does anyone have any idea on how to solve it?

My operating system is Win XP professional edition.

Thanks in Adavance for the help, Alberto

Stopping virtual machines in Vmware Server 2 beta with commandlines

eisman — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:27:11 GMT

I am looking for the commandline in Vmware server 2 to stop/pause virtual machines and start them later again.

I was looking for the command vmware-cmd but it is not there. Is this changed in vmware server 2 beta?

Or can I use a different command?

VM Weirdness when host time jumps backwards?

Brian Buchanan — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:13:28 GMT

I've rebooted and solved this problem but I thought I'd report it in case there's an unknown problem here.

I had two CentOS 5.1 32-bit virtual machines running and I when I vim'ed a text file in either one, doing a :w (to write the file) would hang the ssh session. I could still open a new session but I couldn't seem to write to the disks. They also hung when I tried to do a shutdown -h now.

This is at the end of some major upgrades so here the story:
1. Host box is a Dell PowerEdge 840 Desktop with a Xeon 3070 @ 2.6Ghz and a LSI Logic SAS1068 PCI Express SAS/SATA controller.

2. Originally the host O/S was Ubuntu Feisty 32-bit and VMWare server 1.0.3, under which the virtual machines were created.

3. VMWare Server was upgraded to 1.0.4.

4. VMWare Server was upgraded to 2.0 beta 1 but the VMs were not upgraded. Still on VM Version 4.

5. VMs were backed up and the Host O/S was changed to CentOS 5.1 x86_64 (64-bit)

6. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 1 (VMware-server-e.x.p-63231.x86_64.rpm) was installed.

7. Virtual machines were restored and booted.

8. NTP was installed on the Host O/S and because the hardware Clock was set to UTC via Ubuntu, but now it was interpreted as local, NTP jumped the clock back about 5 hours. From 1:30 pm to 8:30 am.

9. Wanted to check/ correct ntp within the virtual machines, but while saving the ntp.conf file, vim hung.

10. I was able to "touch" a file, but not use vim to do a :w. Tried a few times, the :w hung every time on whatever file I tried. It kinda seems like writing to disk was a problem, but reading was fine.

11. Tried to shutdown -h now the virtual machines, but they hung. Maybe shutdown tried to write something to disk.

12. Powered off the Virtual Machines through the web ui, rebooted the host O/S and everything is working well now.

I don't plan on trying to reproduce this as it all seems good now, but maybe VMWare doesn't like big time jumps backwards? I hope that was the problem. My fear is that it was the change of the host O/S to 64-bit and that I'll see more of this in the future.

Thanks.

._.

Stop a VM by script from host

Turkalex — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:08:48 GMT

Hello,

I need to stop a VM by script from the host but without using network connection from the host to the guest (so let's forget psshutdown or utilities like that).

Any idea?

I tried a "net stop VMwareHostd" in cmd because "net start VMwareHostd" allows the automatic startup of the VMs so I thinked that maybe the net stop command applied to the same service would first use the VMtools to smoothly stop each VM before stopping the service itself... but it just crash the VMs. Oops.

Any help appreciated!

Regards

How do I work with templates?

KarlMitschke — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:17:18 GMT

I created a Server 2003, fully patched, and converted it to a template.

I can see it in the VMWare Infrastructure Client, version 2.5.0, but all I can do is convert it to a virtual machine.

Using the webUI, I can see it, but all I can do there is start it.

I want to create a new VM using this as a template.

Black console screen

DeanoUK — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:28:34 GMT

I've seen people asking this question, but I've not seen anything that solves it.

Using Firefox 2 on SLES 10 SP1 locally, I start the VM and only get a black screen with a white dot.

Remotely, using IE7 or Firefox 2, I get the following message:

Cannot view virtual machine console.

The VMware Virtual Machine Remote Console plug-in failed to connect to your virtual machine.
Cannot connect to host 82.108.63.67: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
If this problem persists, contact your system administrator.

Solving either problem would be great...

Just my feeling... and my next decision...

sdonnet — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:30:45 GMT

Just my feeling on v2 beta 1 (installed on a HP DualCore server, CentOS distrib, with 6 VM) :

a) stable, quite good performance,

b) but unable to correctly backup VM (may be due a beta version), despite the "howto" threads in this forum to script something...

c) but I have a decision to take : I have several services (SMTP, HTTP, databases, ...) to create under several VM, IN PRODUCTION, and this beta is dated November, 13, and were are in mid-February 2008... and I have not yet seen any Beta 2, Release Candidate, or final versions... What must i do ? glance at Zen ? I prefer keep my investment in time on Vmware, but...

Wizards locks up server

lsafford — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:36:54 GMT

When ever I use the "New Virtual Machine" or "Add Hardware" wizards, there is a 80% chance that it locks up my compaq proliant ML350 G3 running windows 2003 enterprise as a host. Is anyone else having this problem? VMware Server 2.0 will stay running for days as long as I don't touch these wizards. Is there another way to create a virtual machine or add hardware to an existing virtual machine besides using the wizards?

No VNC Authentication Request for Guests

rhempel — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:30:50 GMT

l have a working vmware server set up on an Ubuntu host. The guest OS is working
fine, and has the following entries in the .vmx file:

RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "true"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = "59xx"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = "xxxxxxxx"

Of course, xx is different in my actual file.

The VNC connection works correctly, except that I'm never prompted for
a password. Neither RealVNC or UltraVNC prompts for the password, but the
connection just goes ahead and works fine.

The same VNC client software does ask for a password when connecting to
another "real" computer I have running VNC with authentication.

This seems a bit strange, has anyone else seen this behaviour? I made
the changes when the guest machine was down and then rebooted the guest.

Do I also have to restart anything else on the host?

Cheers, Ralph

Problems with network bridge in vmware server 2.0 beta host: windows server 2003 guest:windows xp

counterfeiter — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:06:58 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to setup a vm with windows xp on a host machine with windows server 2003.

I have the following issue:

When the xp vm starts, then the network connection on the host machine came disabled. So neither , host or guest have network.

The host machine is in a subdomain with real IP example :89.237.118.56 and i give at the guest configuration a real ip lets say 89.237.118.57, whith the same subnet mask,gateway and dns and i put bridged mode at the guest machine.

when the vmware is not started then the host machine has network. also the host has network some times with the guest machine started but it lose it in a mid time or it lose it when i have trafic in the guest machine . i want to get the vm machine in the domain but without network i can't do it.

I had the same issue with vmware server 1.04 so i tried the 2.0 beta but the same problem exist.

Also some times the vm give me a message "The server could not complete request(HTTP 12029).The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request. if this problem persists, please contact your system administrator.I observed this message when the host machine goes at screen saver and needs password to login again!

Please help me

Thanks in advanced

any news on vmware server 2 final

stocke2 — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:41:36 GMT

is there any news on when vmware server 2 will be out of beta?

I am going to have to use it for my church because we are going to need a terminal server and
I don't want to run terminal services on my domain controller.

we will be running server 2008 64 bit host and 32 bit guest just to serve off one application to users

Cannot manage Vmware Server 2.0 by VirtualCenter 2.5

stephenyu18 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:07:11 GMT

I have Vitual Center 2.5 License and I have VirtualCenter 1.4 for vmware server 1.0 license. I cannot mange by vc 2.5.

Deploying VMs using Server 2b or 1.4 (templates)

wessie — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:38:24 GMT

I'm testing Server 2b with VI-client which is working ok.

I'd like to deploy new VMs like this.

1 - create the following datastores: ISO, VMs, OVFs

2 - create new VMs using the ISO and VMs datastores

3 - converting several VMs to OVFs and storing them in the OVF datastore

4 - deploying a fresh VM from a template in the OVF datastore

Step 1 to 3 is no problem. Creating OVFs uding the OVF-tool works fine.

The problem is with Step 4 is that I can't import a OVF from a Datastore on the server itself. The wizard just gives access to my local drives on the client side. How can I deploy new VMs from OVFs (or other VMs for that matter) server side only?

Crash on all my VMs ! (mptscsi: ioc0: attempting task abort!...)

sdonnet — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:00:24 GMT

I have installed VM Server Beta 2.0 on a DualCore HP (DL320), on a Centos 5 x86_64 distrib, and have created 6 VMs under it (2 Windows 2000 Server and 4 Centos 4 i386). My VM are named VM1 to VM6. All VM have the vmware-tools installed.

Theses VM run OK for several weeks, when yesterday night, I tried the following things :

a) stop the VM4 OS (Windows 2000 Server),

b) stop the VM (with the VI client),

c) perform a "cp - r" to backup the complete subdirectory to an external NFS disk (copy done under the host OS).

The backup was quite long (56 minutes for a 20 Gb VM), and after backup, I see my 5 other VM crashed. They all have the following messages (in /var/log/messages for Linux guest OS, and quite same messages in Event Viewer for the W2K guest) :

Feb 13 21:41:28 vm3 kernel: mptscsi: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=df600640)
Feb 13 21:41:28 vm3 kernel: scsi0 : destination target 0, lun 0
Feb 13 21:41:28 vm3 kernel: command = Write (10) 00 00 03 31 55 00 00 08 00
Feb 13 21:41:28 vm3 kernel: mptbase: ioc0: WARNING - IOCStatus(0x004b): SCSI IOC Terminated on CDB=2a id=0 lun=0
Feb 13 21:41:28 vm3 kernel: mptscsi: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=df600640)
Feb 13 21:41:28 vm3 kernel: mptscsi: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=cbb6d640)

The Linux VM were responsive, but with their disk mounted on readonly mode, and 2 of them need to enter the maintenance mode for a "fsck" check.

So is it normal that a simple "cp" done on a stopped VM crashes the other VMs ?

Sylvain

Guest OS (Win XP) stops suddently

Absolon — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:14:34 GMT

Hello,

I've been experiencing sudden stops of the guest os. The last time produced a lot in the log file and today it made 2 coredumps that I guess is

some error in the server and not the guest. Can upload this if there is any interest. This has happened a few times but today it's the first time I didn't

wrote anything in the log but did 2 core dumps instead. I've tried to reproduce it with heavy load on the host but it seems that it's random.

The webui still works and I can restart the guest just fine.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Paul

creating a new VM

d_a_n — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:41:22 GMT

I created a new VM using the wizard like thing in the WebUI. I made the DVD available to the VM but when i power the VM on it doesn't do anything. I was thinking there might be some POST like messages and then it would read the disk and boot to the installation and setup.

This is beta1 on Linux trying to get Windows 2003 R2 64 bit as a guest.

What am i doing wrong?

Web UI and VI Client issues ....

perimere — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:38:57 GMT

There seems to be a few issues surrounding these two interfaces, but maybe I'm missing something as I haven't found a solution to my issue yet

I have 2 machines:

Host machine is running Windows 2003 SP2 and VMware Server 2.0 Beta.

Client Machine is running Windows 2003 SP1 and the VI Client.

I am having "loads" of issues connecting to the Host server to manaage the VM environment. Like everyone else seems to be reporting the Web UI allows me to logon via the local administrator account, but it's just very slow and really not acceptible in handling and response (sorry VMware - honest feedback).

I have been totally unable to logon using the VI client though.I downloaded the VIC 2.5 exe via the Linux beta software and extracted the EXE as documented via the forums. However, every time I try and connect using the Host Admin credentials I receive an error stating "...Could not establish the initial connection with server <myServer>. Details: The Server took too long to respond."

I can connect to the Host from my client machine via the Web UI - sometimes. It's really hit and miss. I get the certificate dialogue, and the mixed content warning when I connect, and then a couple of minutes later I'm in - or not depending on whether the stars are aligned correctly (well it IS a beta product to be fair!).

There's no firewall/port blocking issues, and I can ping both machines from each other.

While I'm asking about the VIC 2.5 client, does anyone know if the VIC will be able to manage previous versions of VMware server (i.e. 1.0.4 in particular) ??

TIA for any assistance.

Cheers

Adam

How to delete virtual OS?

ronny.simonsen@nfk.no — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:01:19 GMT

Hi!
Im new to VMWare Server 2 and is trying to run on OpenSUSE 10.3 as Host-OS.
Now im trying to install as guest-OS; Windows XP Pro SP2

I created guest-OS run it. It booted from CD and start installation wizard for WinXP. Then i Power-Off because i wanted to start installation later. Now if i try to start guest-OS, it hung with a black screen.
I reset guest-OS but the same happens. It seems guest-OS is messed up, so i want to delete it and create it again, but there is no clear way to delete a guest-OS.

How do i troubleshoot og recreate guest-OS?

RS

vmware server 2 beta 1

andy_h — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:47:28 GMT

I use version1.04 so I have tried the beta version . It installed ok and I logged in ok but when it searched for my virtual images (that worked with ver1.04) it just kept on saying loading????

any answers??

Error connecting to vmware-vmx-debug.exe process.

vball525 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:05:57 GMT

Windows XP w/SP2. VMServer 2.0 Beta 63231. This happens for ALL VMs I have or create.

The VMware Virtual Machine Remote Console plug-in failed to connect to your virtual machine.
Error connecting to vmware-vmx-debug.exe process.
If this problem persists, contact your system administrator.

I get this error on both the web ui and from the infrastructure client. if i reinstall it works but everytime i turn off my laptop then turn it back on it returns.

I followed all the advice from other threads about renaming files or opening ports and nothing. It's incredibly frustrating since it works when I reinstall but not after a shutdown/startup.

Help!

Anyone successful getting Beta 2 64-bit Windows guest OSes to connect to the network?

Rod_OTV — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:29:57 GMT

From all that I've seen, the only NIC supported on the 64-bit Windows guests is the E1000 which is not supported by Beta 2. Which means I can't get out to the network. Am I right or did I miss something? Not really surprised as it is a beta, but some upfront disclosure in the FAQ or release notes would have been nice.

Thanks for any ideas you might have.

VI Client 2.5 for Linux?

Bob P — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:43:27 GMT

Server 2.0 beta's WUI is barely usable. When will there be a VI Client 2.5 for Linux?

VMware Server 2.0 And VirtualCenter 2.5

Caleb.Anthony — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:42:22 GMT

From the documentation that I have seen, it appears that VirtualCenter 2.5 can manage VMware Server 2.0 servers. However, when I try and add a VMware Server 2.0 server into the inventory it errors out saying "there are not enough licenses to perform this operation".

I'm running VMware Server 2.0 on Linux, and VirtualCenter 2.5 successfully installs and starts the vpxa agent on the server.

Are VirtualCenter agent licenses for VMware Server required to manage VMware Server 2.0 in VirtualCenter 2.5?

Thanks.

Change Default Storage VMWare Server Beta 2

Jeremey Wise — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:21:21 GMT

I just upgraded to my VMWare (Windows) Server to 2.0.0.35

VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access: 2.1.0 (63181

It uninstalled the old version and things seemed to be ok but when I go to "reattach" all my dropped Virtual machines the "storage" object seems to go nowhere. It shows my systems available capacity but I can not view where it is pointing to as a target.

All my VMs are stored in the old Server 1.x structure of "C:\Documents and Settings\jwise\My Documents\My Virtual Machines"

I can not browse and "use existing drives" to reattach them. And obviously it did not import them automatically.

Question:

1) How do I validate the target, or change the target for "storage"?

2) What is the best way to import the existing VMs I had?

This is PRE-alpha, not beta!

rawsausage — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:17:11 GMT

Hello all,

I have tested the present beta version of VMware Server 2.0 and my experiences have been disastrous enough to go back to 1.x or some of the open source alternatives (KVM in my case).

First of all, I do not want a Tomcat server around, ever. It is a huge and heavy piece of software. Complex too. Making sure it is secure (all the components updated constantly rigorously) is such a huge task that I do not think VMware folks are upto it. The hardware requirements are also considerably higher than acceptable for them being constant while the service is enabled. Second, it never worked. The config script passes without errors, the services start, I can see the watchdog process starting the main process. Alas, no web interface anywhere. Frankly I could find out the reason why it fails but the truth is that installing such a product on clean box should never ever fail in this way.

Second, although web interfaces are the way to go for solutions that are used by masses of users, their lack of reactivity and usability are too bad for "expert" users. We really do want to use rich clients often and for solid reasons. So where on earth is my rich client for 64-bit Linux? All I could find was a Windows executable. This really is not good enough.

Third, no matter what you do - rich clients or web interface - you HAVE TO for usability reasons add startup icons for the application in a standard way. You seriously dropped the ball with this one.

In overall at this moment it seems there are too many basic things that 1.x had working simply broken. The experience of this "beta" is more of what better vendors have with their "pre-alpha" releases to be honest. If you can't do better when the 2.0 will be released it will be greeted with a shrug and the sound of Xen/KVM boxes humming happily as they are being installed.

I'm myself off and won't be looking back. Bye.

Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown

07Gti — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:00:19 GMT

Anyone know how to get the autostart to work?

I have configured the one machine to boot at startup and is the only one specified to automatically do this as the rest are set to manual. Allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically with the system is checked. Delays for start and shut are enabled at 120 secs.

Dedicate separate NIC to each guest?

mtk2 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:41:41 GMT

I would like to dedicate a separate physical NIC on my server to each Guest VM. Is this possible? I am running Windows Server 2003 Standard R2 x64 as the Host OS.

Problem isntalling guest OS

cembi — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:07:19 GMT

Hi. I have just installed Beta 2.0 and after creating Windows 2003 Enterprise virtual machine, I tried to install OS on it. I put the CD in, restart the machine, nothing happens. Virtual machine starts up successfully. All I have on screen are the four buttons on top (Summary, Events, Console, Permissions). I have played with them to see if I should configure the system to start from CD-ROM, nothing. I really want to use this beta version as I want to test Vista, Windows 2008 and Exchange 2007. The CD/DVD ROM is detected properly from the virtual machine. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thank you.

VMware Server 2.0 beta 63231 + RHEL5 update 1 x86_64 - problems & solutions (i hope)

lee_harris — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:23:21 GMT

Hi all,

I have a had a lot of problems trying to get VMware Server 2.0 Beta into a usable state since I downloaded it for the first time yesterday and tried to run it on a rhel5.1 x86_64 host. Below are my own rough notes, I made while working through the various issues. After doing all of the steps listed, it seems to work OK now. Prior to this I'd been getting all sorts of errors such as...

Web Server URL Malformed - when trying to login to WebAccess
Web Service Unavailable 503 - when trying to login to WebAccess
Virtual machine console connections timing out
Virtual machine console connections - blank black screen
Virtual machine console connections being "actively refused by the target machine"

Anyway, here are my notes....

################################################################################################################

Install RHEL5.1 x86_64.... before attempting to install VMware-Server 2 (which is a beta release at this time) do the following...

vi /etc/sysconfig/network - change NETWORKING_IPV6=yes to =no

Edit /etc/modprobe.conf and add these lines...

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

Run the commands:

service ip6tables stop
chkconfig ip6tables off

comment these lines out of /etc/services...

#ideafarm-chat 902/tcp # IDEAFARM-CHAT
#ideafarm-chat 902/udp # IDEAFARM-CHAT

vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
Append to the end of the kernel line selinux=0

reboot the host machine

Install vmware rpm (x86_64) and run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl....

When trying to access the Web Access UI you'll get "Web Service URL Malformed"

Run the command:

service vmware stop

Edit these files...

/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/ui/jslib-1.0.63181/tests/ri/modules/app/WebAccess.properties

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

Change the "localhost:##{HTTP_PORT}##" bits to "hostname.domain:80"

Add this line to /etc/services

vmware-authd 902/tcp # vmware-authd

Run the command:

service vmware start

WebAccess virtual machine console now works from WinXP 32-bit SP2 machine running IE7.

Still does not work using firefox on host machine. (firefox-1.5.0)

Another alternative, if using a Windows PC to manage the Linux server running VMware (like I do)...

Use WinSCP to copy down the file /usr/lib/vmware/hostd/docroot/client/VMware-viclient.exe from the host machine to your Windows workstation. Install this and it can be used to gain access to the VMware Server 2 Beta console and works for accessing virtual machine consoles.

HOWEVER...When attempting to connect to ESX3.x host it requires an update to the client... (which technically is a downdate) from 2.5.0 to 2.0.2.

If you then attempt to connect back to the VMware Server 2 Beta host, it'll want upgrading back to 2.5.0.

As I manage both ESX 3.2 update 1 and VMware Server 2 Beta hosts, I need both 2.0.2 and 2.5.0 clients on my workstation... I originally had the VIclient compatible with ESX 3.x installed already, and installing the one downloaded from the VMServer 2 Beta, they actually do co-exist happily in different directories by default...

SO...

You need 2.0.x to connect to esx 3.x and 2.5 to connect to VMware Server Beta 2...

You can have both installed...

2.0.2 ends up under C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client 2.0

and

2.5 ends up under C:\program files\vmware\infrastructure\virtual infrastructure client\launcher\vpxclient.exe

No I just have to create some appropriately labelled shortcuts in my start menu, to stop me getting confused...

################################################################################################

Hope this helps someone.

Thanks - Lee

Linux RedHat 5.0

RParker — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:01:02 GMT

I can't get VM Server 2.0 to work. I installed it, configured but the ports won't open. No firewall is enabled. It says all services started, but when I try to connect to either 8333, 8222 nothing happens.

Anyone running this on Redhat 5.0? This is a new install of Redhat.

I neglected to mention this is for 64-bit RHEL 5.

Blue Screen in Windows 2008x64Bit Host after start any existing VM's

Arj68 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:57:07 GMT

Hallo

I try to use VMServer2 Beta Windows 2008 RC1, 64 Bit with aktivated Hyper-V virtualization. Install success => blue screen in host after VM start in ugly WebUI.

My Hardware:

Fujithi-Siemens W350 - Workstation, Core Duo E6700, 8 GB Memory, SATA - Harddisks, NVidia LE7300 Graphic.

Same hardware and VMs work fine with:

1) Windows Vista 32 Bit (German) + VMServer1 (i know it's unsupported, but it work with buildin console)

2) Windows Vista 64 Bit (German) + VMWorkstation 6.0

Any ideas ???

vmware managment page becomes unavailable

gcerchio — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:56:04 GMT

build 62321 on a windows Server 2003 host the managment page has become un-availalbe yet the VM's are running.

event log:Faulting application vmware-hostd.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module vmacore.dll, version 1.0.35.0, fault address 0x00011d61.

subsequent access to the page:

Reporting queued error: faulting application vmware-hostd.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module vmacore.dll, version 1.0.35.0, fault address 0x00011d61.

I had to reboot to get the managment page back.

Any suggestions on how to get it back without a reboot?

Server 2.0 Beta - BIOS

vandrovnik — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:41:35 GMT

Hi,

is it possible to reports problems here?

in the BIOS there is a cosmetic problem - help is displayed across other items (should be just in the right part of the screen).

Any nightly builds?

SigmaEng — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:23:38 GMT

is there any way to get nightly builds of Vmware Server? Too many moths ago has gone and nothing happend. Is there any new releases of Server. Beta 1 was not that big hit and I relly hope the would be big imbrovement. New web-based gui is terrible and securitry is disaster. Noobody should grant access or credentials to host like you have to do in Vmware Server 2.0 beta 1. This issue will flop whole virtualisation idea.

So - when new release or nightly builds?

Reporting bugs

bernardn — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:41:48 GMT

What's the recommended way to report bugs with VMware Server 2.0 beta 1?

I got two crashes (with core dumps) of an XP VM running on a Linux host (while running Windows update in the VM). I tried to follow the instructions in the log file:

Please submit a support request that describes the problem at our W: ESC[Beb page "http://www.vmware.com/info?id=8". Do not forget to attach the log file : ESC[B(/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/XP VS2005/vmware.log) and the core file(s) (/v: ESC[Bar/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/XP VS2005/vmware-core0-1.z, /var/lib/vmware/Vi: ESC[Brtual Machines/XP VS2005/core.4738).

But then I can't submit anything on this form: it complains that 'Account' is a required field. Please enter a value for the field. (SBL-DAT-00498)

but there is no Account field!

Thanks,
Bernard

Network routing issue

tootai — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:12:34 GMT

Good day,

I installed VMware server on a Debian Etch 4.0 with a 2.6.22 kernel from backport. The host has 2 network cards, eth0 (intranet) 192.168.20.0/24 and eth1 (Internet) 10.0.20.1/24 A VM is hosted as an XP Pro 32 system. In XP I fixed IP address to 192.168.20.13, dns and gateway to 192.168.20.1 which is the host IP.

When the VM is started, the IP showned by web-ui is ok, as it is by an ipconfig/all in the VM. The route print command is also ok. The problem is that I can't ping from host to VM or vice versa. I stopped the firewall on XP as well as on the host, no changes: I can't access the VM or the VM can't access the world.

I already delete the network card from VM config and recreate it. Both networks card are bring up with a preup command in interface file to always have eth0 connected to the same physical device, despite what happends with others network stuff. vmnet1 and vmnet8 are respectively connected to 192.168.76.0/24 and 192.168.193.0/24 The host is also running an openvpn tunnel connected to tun0 IP 10.199.20.1, PtP 10.199.20.2. The ipv6 module is NOT loaded, the host can access others station from192.168.20.0 net or can access to Internet

Thanks for your help

Daniel

Bringing up interfaces without IP on host but only on VMs causes host OS to hang

roarinpenguin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:33:38 GMT

Hi Gents.

The experience I'm describing below has been done with different Linux
Host OS and with different hardware... that's why I'm describing it as
an issue related to VMWare beta server 2.0.

Currently I'm using as host os a Linux CentOS 5.1 on Intel VIA CPU qith 1 GB RAM and 5 NICs, named by host OS from eth0 to eth4.

I used etho to reach the host os in local network, so let's say it has a private IP like 192.168.10.1.

After installing VMWare Beta 2.0 I've defined two virtual machines, each connected to a bridged interface as follows:

VMa, connected to bridged eth1 and having IP 10.1.1.1

and

VMb, connected to bridged eth1 and having IP 10.2.2.1

Host OS does not have ANY IP defined on both eth1 and eth2.

Issue is that to have VMa and/or VMb to communicate with the network, I
should bring up interfaces eth1 and eth2 from within host os.

Problem is that when I issue on host os command "ip link set dev eth1 up" after few seconds machine hangs and only way to reboot is cold reboot (aka power disconnect).

Again, I tried it on two different hardwares and on two different Linuxes with same behavior.

Could you advise if this is expected behavior? do I have to mandatorily
setup IP addresses for NICs eth1 and eth2 also in host os? Make no
sense to me, but still...

Thanks in advance,

RoarinPenguin

VMs in ntfs datastore under ubuntu 7.10 fail to start

Paul Thomas — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:56:42 GMT

I have a an ntfs partition on my ubuntu server, which contains vms created using windows. I've mounted the partition sucessfully using the following entry in the fstab, and ubuntu can access & write to the files

/dev/sda4 /VMs/virtualmachines ntfs-g defaults 0 0

I then added the /VMs/virtualmachines as a datastore, before 'adding a virtual machine to the inventory' Everything seems ok until I start the machine. As expected I am prompted as to whether the machine was moved or copied, I reply moved. The VM then powers off, and I get the following event reported back

01/28/2008 12:19:45 AM User info Message from ubuntu-q6600: VMware Server unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) ASSERT /build/mts/release/bora-63231/bfg-atlantis/bora/devices/mainmem/mainMemHosted.c:1604 A log file is available in "/tmp/vmware-root/6889.log". A core file is available in /VMs/virtualmachines/Vista_32/core". Please request support and include the contents of the log file and core file. To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly. We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

Two logs are produced, which I have attached.

I then tried to create a new VM in the same datastore. The create went ok, but when I tried to click on the VM in the ui, the ui reported an error and went back to the logon screen.

I also copied the failed original VM (using ubuntu) to the standard datastore, and it started fine.

I realise using ntfs with ubuntu may not be the best configuration, but should it work? Have I set something up wrong?

Guest OS (Win2003 R2-64 bit, Exchange server 2007) suddenly stops, vmware core dump, sudden death, crash

lukro — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:55:29 GMT

Hi,

One of my guest servers (Windows 2003 R2 64-bit, Exchange 2007) suddenly stops functioning. I find no trace of problems back in the windows machine (nothing strange around the time of the crash), but I find a vmware core dump on my Linux host server (Ubuntu server 7.10). The vmware guest (Win2003R264bit) just dies suddenly. This happened 3 times in the last 30 hours, before the machine was running without any problem since mid December.

In the vmware-0.log I find lines like: Jan 11 23:17:00.971: vcpu-1| ***Found block with errblockcrc at offset 0x95ebc00 in file (first crash: 961165 times repeated with different offset, second crash 4 times, third crash 4 times) followed by 4096 times a line with "BPN 0x0 len 0x0 "

In those 3 crashes, the first occurrence of the "errblockcrc" is around the same time as a kind of hexadecimal memory dump

Jan 11 23:05:31.253: vcpu-1| MM: PN=0x137248 CRC0x4dc920 0x2bbe1a0f, CRC 0x3ea62778 Last = 0x0 (offset 0 blksize 1024)
Jan 11 23:05:31.253: vcpu-1| 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
Jan 11 23:05:31.253: vcpu-1| 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70 2c f6 bc 42 06 00 00 ........p,..B...
Jan 11 23:05:31.253: vcpu-1| 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
Jan 11 23:05:31.253: vcpu-1| 00 04 00 00 07 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
Jan 11 23:05:31.253: vcpu-1| 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 a9 90 78 42 06 00 00 ........(..xB...
Jan 11 23:05:31.253: vcpu-1| 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 00 2d 00 41 00 73 00 ........X.-.A.s.
....

Jan 11 23:16:18.538: vcpu-1| 70 00 74 00 61 00 62 00 6c 00 65 00 00 00 00 00 p.t.a.b.l.e.....
Jan 11 23:16:18.538: vcpu-1| staleMPN 0x50548 curMPN 0xffffd8e5
Jan 11 23:16:19.566: vcpu-1| ***Found block with errblockcrc at offset 0x800 in file
Jan 11 23:16:19.566: vcpu-1| ***Found block with errblockcrc at offset 0xf000 in file
Jan 11 23:16:19.986: vcpu-1| ***Found block with errblockcrc at offset 0xf400 in file
Jan 11 23:16:19.986: vcpu-1| ***Found block with errblockcrc at offset 0xf800 in file
Jan 11 23:16:19.986: vcpu-1| ***Found block with errblockcrc at offset 0xfc00 in file
Jan 11 23:16:19.986: vcpu-1| ***Found block with errblockcrc at offset 0x11000 in file
Jan 11 23:16:19.986: vcpu-1| ***Found block with errblockcrc at offset 0x11400 in file
Jan 11 23:16:19.986: vcpu-1| ***Found block with errblockcrc at offset 0x11800 in file
Jan 11 23:16:19.986: vcpu-1| ***Found block with errblockcrc at offset 0x11c00 in file
Jan 11 23:16:19.986: vcpu-1| ***Found block with errblockcrc at offset 0x16400 in file
Jan 11 23:16:19.986: vcpu-1| ***Found block with errblockcrc at offset 0x16800 in file
....

until (a lot further in the log file)

....

Jan 11 23:21:19.672: vcpu-1| NOT_REACHED /build/mts/release/bora-63231/bfg-atlantis/bora/devices/mainmem/mainMemHosted.c:1090bugNr=45226
Jan 11 23:21:19.672: vcpu-1| Backtrace:
Jan 11 23:21:19.672: vcpu-1| Backtrace[0] 00000000 eip 00000000
Jan 11 23:21:20.709: vcpu-1| Core dumped.
Jan 11 23:21:20.716: vcpu-1| Writing monitor corefile "/home/Virtual_Machines/Win2003_server_64bit/vmware-core0.gz"
Jan 11 23:21:20.716: vcpu-1| CoreDump: dumping core with superuser privileges
Jan 11 23:21:20.778: vcpu-1| Beginning monitor coredump
Jan 11 23:21:20.952: vcpu-1| End monitor coredump

Does anybody know what is happening here? Any solution, help or ideas are greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Luc

tried ver 2 beta - not impressed at all

fear_nothing — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:30:11 GMT

-I tried it today & promptly went back to version 1.0.4

-I've used all versions vmware for over 7 yrs and this by far the worst version

-The all web version just doesn't work

-PLEASE bring back the GUI console

SLES9 SP4 x86_64 + VT host, SLES9 SP4 x86_64 1cpu guest - instability

aroudnev — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:50:06 GMT

This is just to report a possible bug:

Host system: SLES9 SP4 (kernel 308 with embedded vmware support). x86_64; DELL 2950 (VT option turned on)

Guest system: SLES9 SP4 x86_64, running oracle with async io.

Problem - after upgrading guest to the kernel 308 and running it 1/2 of the day, it died with the mesage in vmware log:

vcpu-0| ASSERT /build/mts/release/bora-63231/bfg-atlantis/bora/devices/e1000/e1000_shared.c:2701
Jan 23 23:59:34.922: vcpu-0| http://msg.panic.haveLog A log file is available in "/v/GUESTS01/TESTS/test203/vmware.log". http://msg.panic.requestSupport.withLog Please request support and include the contents of the log file. http://msg.panic.requestSupport.vmSupport.windowsOrLinux
Jan 23 23:59:34.922: vcpu-0| To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly.
Jan 23 23:59:34.922: vcpu-0| http://msg.panic.response We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.
Jan 23 23:59:34.922: vcpu-0|

Jan 23 23:59:34.924: Worker#18| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Jan 23 23:59:34.927: vmx| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Jan 23 23:59:34.928: Worker#20| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died

See full log file in attachment.