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Cannot install Vmware Server RC2 Ubuntu Intrepid with Kernel 2.6.27

wilbur.harvey — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:02:37 GMT

It worked fine under the 2.6.26 kernel.

Does anyone know how to get around this?

Here is the error message:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-2-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/x86.h:38,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:29,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:101:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/x86paging.h:76:1: warning: "PTE_PFN_MASK" redefined
In file included from include/asm/pda.h:8,
from include/asm/current.h:19,
from include/asm/processor.h:15,
from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
from include/linux/list.h:6,
from include/linux/module.h:9,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_module.h:27,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:26:
include/asm/page.h:22:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/vmhost.h:27,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:121:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_semaphore.h:23:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only~~ Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-2-generic'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-products" and
"http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-tools".

Execution aborted.

VLAN support

bfarbach — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:38:39 GMT

Hello,

I have a Linux Debian 4 r4a (kernel 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem) Host OS running Server 2.0 RC2. I know that's not on the list of host OSs, but I'm more familiar with it than Ubuntu and it has run many other demanding tasks under Server 2.0 RC2 so far.

There are 3 network interfaces one to be used as the management interface, the others for virtual servers. I also wish to have high availability so I've bonded the remaining adapters with mode=802.3ad miimon=100 downdelay=200 updelay=200 and configured the switch appropriately. The virtual servers will need more than two bridged networks so I've created vlan interfaces on the bonded adapter. I've used the iproute2 and vlan packages because the /etc/network/interfaces file hasn't worked and the vlans don't appear when I run ifconfig. If I assign an IP address to a vlan interface, and shut down the management interface, I can ping the network and external hosts can ping the vlan interface. vmware-config.pl can create the required vmnet interfaces on the vlan interfaces and they show up within Infrustructure Web Access.

The problem is both Windows Server 2003 and Linux virtual machines have no network access.

Is there something else required?
Must ifconfig be able to see the vlan interfaces?

Thanks
Bobby

Best option to migrate guests from GSX to VMWare Server 2.0

clopmz — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:57:23 GMT

Hi all,

I need to migrate several guests installed on a Windows host with VMWare GSX 3.x to another RHEL host with VMWare Server 2. Which is the best form (and safer) to accomplish this??

a) Using VMWare Converter

b) Copy vm guest from GSX to VMWare Server 2 and use "Upgrade Virtual Machine" option

Many Thanks.

Verdict

Quiet_Life — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:13:30 GMT

I've just upgraded from 1.0.6 to 2.0, and I have just this to say: AWFUL!, AWFUL!, AWFUL!

Don't do it

Fit for production?

Red Squirrel — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:05:14 GMT

I'm in the middle of a home server migration and realized that server 1.0 does not install on fedora core 9. So figured I should try 2.0 RC2. Is it fit for production use? or is there still lot of issues?

Also how easy is it to upgrade once the final release comes out? Did they make a real client for it yet, or does one of the existing clients work?

Can't install on 2.6.27 kernel

sconn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:13:59 GMT

Just upgraded to ubuntu intrepid and 2.6.27-3 kernel. Install of RC1 fails with following message.

============

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27-3-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-3-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/x86.h:38,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:29,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:101:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/x86paging.h:76:1: warning: "PTE_PFN_MASK" redefined
In file included from include/asm/pda.h:8,
from include/asm/current.h:19,
from include/asm/processor.h:15,
from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
from include/linux/list.h:6,
from include/linux/module.h:9,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_module.h:27,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:26:
include/asm/page.h:22:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/vmhost.h:27,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:121:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_semaphore.h:23:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only~~ Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-3-generic'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

=========

what gives?

2.0 Usability and Upgrade Questions

IT_Architect — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:09:17 GMT

1. Some software vendors update beta to release, others require a uninstall and reinstall. How does VMware handle VMware Server when it goes from 2.0 beta to 2.0 release?

2. Sometimes the new product, even in beta, exceeds that of the current release. Is 2.0 just as good as or better than the 1.x server is now?

For the last couple days, the links brought me to a 2.0 page, and it didn't say beta anywhere. I signed up, and got keys, but then when I pressed download, I got an error page.

I sent the webmaster an email a couple days ago about the situation. I never heard back. This morning it was 2.0, but now when I go to the VMware Server page, it's back at version 1.

no bootable device on RC2 upgrade

Leftie59 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:00:30 GMT

I get an error "no bootable device was detected" when I start my VM. It work on RC1, I used rpm -U to upgrade RC1 to RC2 and there were no error message durning this operation.

I excepted the defaults when I compiled RC2. I have checked the paths and permissions for the VM and they have not changed.

Any ideas??

I am running VMware on CentOS 5.0 with all the updates.

Thanks

vmware web service not starting

g7pkf — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:24:20 GMT

running vista 32 bit, the web service just will not start. the log shows:--

2008-09-17 20:30:10 info Procrun (2.0.3.0) started
2008-09-17 20:30:10 info Running Service...
2008-09-17 20:30:10 http://1158 prunsrv.c debug Inside ServiceMain...
2008-09-17 20:30:10 info Starting service...
2008-09-17 20:30:10 http://1022 prunsrv.c error Failed setting process executable
2008-09-17 20:30:10 http://1260 prunsrv.c error ServiceStart returned 2
2008-09-17 20:30:10 info Run service finished.
2008-09-17 20:30:10 info Procrun finished.

anyone any ideas?

aslo tried on vista 64 same problem (have not checked error log)

dean

Cloning VMs on Linux Hosts

phxrider — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:59:11 GMT

This script is written by me and contributed for all to use and improve or tell me someone already did it

It's little shell script for one-step cloning of VM's in VMWare Server running under Linux. So far it works for me*. I think it accounts for everything necessary to copy a VM to another name and it will not allow you to overwrite an existing VM. It copies the directory from the source to the destination, then renames all the files with the old VM name to the new one, then uses sed to replace occurrences of the old name with the new one in all the text config files.

After running, you can just add the new VM to the console, make sure you choose "I copied it" when asked so it will fix all the little things that need to be unique. The VM should work from there.

Save the attachment to your "Virtual Machines" directory (default =is '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines') and make it executable (chmod +x <filename>). Run it like this as root or sudo:
./clone_vm.sh <source vm> <new vm>

Example - to copy a vm called "WindowsXP_Template" to a new machine called WinXP:
./clone_vm.sh WindowsXP_Template WinXP
or use quotation marks around names with spaces:
./clone_vm.sh "Windows XP Template" "My New XP VM"

I went to great lengths and many, many four letter words to make this work with spaces in the file names.

If you use tabs to complete the names when you type, make sure you get rid of the "/" character at the end of the name.

*Caveats: I have not tried this on any VM's with a snapshot yet - I don't know what will happen or if I left anything out that needs to be handled. The script is written to require the VM to be shut down first, if there are .lck's it will quit and yell at you. If you use tabs to complete the directory names when you type, make sure you get rid of the "/" character at the end of the name and don't use the escape character format with spaces (like Windows\ XP\ VM) use quoting (like "Windows XP VM"). Actually I haven't tested that so it MIGHT work, but no promises.

This is my first shell script so there might be a better way to do it, anyone feel free to suggest if you know a better way to do anything in it.

How to mirgrate Hyper-v to Server 2?

trustorm — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:28:14 GMT

What is the best way to migrate a hyper-v VM to VMWare Server2? the guest OS is Windows Server 2008 64bit.

Virtual Machines Failed

nayagi — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:12:33 GMT

I get vmware installed , configured successfully. but i dont find the VirtualMachine in KMenu->System-> More Programs and VMware icon in desktop

I get server certificate failed authenticity

When run /usr/bin/vmware I get the browser opening the url https://127.0.0.1:8333/ul/ (vmware2) get loading but i could nt get any page .. It is idle

Please help me in this

I have installed Vmware 2 on suse linux 10.2

Thanks

Beta2 RC2 @ SLES10 - so far so good. Few caveats

aroudnev — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:26:35 GMT

Installed ontop SLES10 SP2 x86_64, tested, and used to prepare standard library images for VMware ESX (could not run ESX because this is storage Linux server).

So far - so good, except:

(1) VM names are broken (workaround is known - stop VM's, edit file manually, start VM's).

(2) WEB UI - forget about it and use VC Client which is available from inside web interface or from ESX (last one mustbe upgraded). Maybe web access is usefull for some rare cases, but as we have many ESX and ESXi and VC manage, and VC Client works pretty well, I don't see any single reason in spending time with WEB UI (I tried it, too slow, buggy and not too friendly, esp. web based console). I can image the cases when we need WEB UI (working from Linux console for example) but not too many.

(3) /etc/init.d/vm* files. First of all, DO NOT USE SYMLINKS HERE. If you create 3 symlinks to the same script, then linux treat each as a separate service and went crazy when you try to enable-disbale this service. I move all these symlinks to /etc;/init.d/VMWARE directory and (after it) they work well.

(4) There is compatibility between Server2 and ESX / ESXi (which is agreat, really great, thing) - but why it isnot documented at all?

(5) What is interesrting - you can try to use Server2 as ESX in terma of migration, but old migration tool is not cpompatible somehow with it (pof course you can migrate thru the shared disk, but everything is on place for simple dierct migration as in ESX/ESXi, but... it dont work yet).

(6) It could be a great thing if Vmware Infrastructure bundle includes at least 1 Server2 agent license - we discobvered that combination of few ESX/ESXi servers (commercial or free, price is reasonable for ESX and VI) and 1 linux based Server2 is very usefull because there are many things we better can do on Server2 and many which works better on ESX (and they are VM compatible with some minor restrictions).

So, it is a great thing, and (after we discovered how to use VC client instead of web ui, and upgraded to RC2) it can really replace Server1.

Alexei Roudnev

Does VM Server 2.0 RC2 Expire?

Estevan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:55:13 GMT

Just wondering if VM Server 2.0 RC2 expires? I thought I read somewhere it expired in November? Is this correct? I'm hoping not, as I just finished setting it up in our office and it would mean a bit of work to have to revert to 1.7

Thanks for the info.

MikeM

Vista 64bit - VMware Server Web Access fails to start

makli — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:12:53 GMT

Hello,

I have a problem with trying to run Vmware Server 2.0 RC2 on the Windows Vista 64bit. I know this OS is not officially support but still:

When trying to run VMware Server Web Access service, it fails. In log c:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Server\tomcat-logs\jakarta_service_20080904.log there is:

2008-09-04 13:59:08 info Starting service...
2008-09-04 13:59:08 http://443 javajni.c error FindClass org/apache/catalina/startup/BootstrapServer\tomcat failed
2008-09-04 13:59:08 http://997 prunsrv.c error Failed loading main org/apache/catalina/startup/BootstrapServer\tomcat class C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Server\tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar
2008-09-04 13:59:08 http://1260 prunsrv.c error ServiceStart returned 3
2008-09-04 13:59:08 info Run service finished.
2008-09-04 13:59:08 info Procrun finished.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Any help appretiated

Thank you

Seems like we may be getting a new (release?) version

guyrleech — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:21:16 GMT

Just come to the download page (http://www.vmware.com/download/server/) and got the attached in my browser (screenshot attached). It says:

VMware Server 2.0
Latest Version: 2.0 | 2008/09/xx | Build: xxxxxx | Release Notes

and the download link is broken, the release notes link takes you to Server 1.0 ones, so you can't actually download any 2.0 version from here at the moment even if you wanted to.

Sound/video driver not loaded during VMWARE tool installation in Ubuntu Desktop

rptod — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:00:01 GMT

I have successfully installed vmware server -> Ubuntu Desktop -> vmware tool. But then I found that video / sound driver yet not loaded.

If anyone knows, kindly share your knowledge with us. As I din't find similar issue anywhere on websites.

Router - rptod@yahoo.co.in

how do you convert version 2.0 vm's back to version 1.0.7 .vmx files

x3kyu510n — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:53:39 GMT

I installed vmware server 2.0 on my linux destop (OpenSuse 11.0) and i really didnt like what i see, but maybe i did something wrong, and forsome reason vmware infrastructure was installed or something was used instead of the new version of server. not all did it piss me off, but i had to find out how to delete the stupid crap for about 4 hours. now i cant even get my vm's to open because they are only mean for a higher version of vmware. so i am very mad right now. any light on my situation????? how can i convert them back to just regular 1.0.7 version????

Can't install windows XP in a SCSI virtual HDD (all 3 adapters does not work)

OwenBurnett — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:44:32 GMT

Hi,

I can not install windows XP on a Virtual SCSI Drive no mather what adapter I take (XP Iso have Sp3 integrated) the setup says every time no HDD's fount,

btw : same problem with workstation 6.5

please help

Installing ESX 3.5U2 inside VMware server 2.0

kuku312 — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:54:04 GMT

I recently tried to install an ESX 3.5U2 server on a VM running on VMware server 2.0 (RC2) using the xtravirt document regarding the installation procedures for running ESX 3.5 U2 inside a WS 6.5 beta VM.

The installation itself went smoothly ,but at the first boot into the ESX the VMKernel failed to load (VMK 538 ,code 0xbad001c ,meaning incompatible CPU).

Just to make sure it's not an VMware server error , I removed the Server and installed WS 6.5 ,and then followed the whole procedure again ,but still I got the exact same error (I somehow suspect these products has something against the AMD quad-core Barcelona chips).

Anyway ,my system is built around Tyan S2915-E mobo with 2 x AMD 2344 (1.7 GHZ quad-core cpu , revision A ) running Windows server 2008 x64 +SP1.

Help would really be appreciated.

Cheers

David

Tar file error

sputhuff — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:51:36 GMT

wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-2.0.0-110949.i386.tar.gz

md5summ'd it and it matched the given md5; When i go to untar it i receive an error:

tar xzf ~/VMware-server-2.0.0-110949.i386.tar.gz
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/isoimages/solaris.iso: Wrote only 6144 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

thought it could have been a bad DL so i downloaded another time and received the same error.

anyone having the same problem with the currently hosted tar?

VMWare Server 2.0 RC2 on Fedora 9 X64: not able to access the infrastructue web

wzis — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:20:17 GMT

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

The issue seems to be with the vmware-hostd process and "service vmware restart" won't solve the problem.

~~root@w1 hostd~~# ps -ef|grep vmware
root 12942 1 0 19:51 ? 00:00:01 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd -a -d -u /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml
root 14306 1 0 20:11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet1.pid vmnet1
root 14323 1 0 20:11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.pid vmnet8
root 14328 1 0 20:11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-natd -d /var/run/vmnet-natd-8.pid -m /var/run/vmnet-natd-8.mac -c /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf
root 14587 1 0 20:11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vmware-authdlauncher
root 14595 1 0 20:11 pts/1 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/vmware-watchdog -s webAccess -u 30 -q 5 /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/webAccess -client -Xmx64m -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
root 14602 14595 3 20:11 ? 00:00:04 /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/webAccess -client -Xmx64m -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
root 14722 4376 0 20:13 pts/1 00:00:00 grep vmware

Any idea?

Thanks.

ubuntu-8.04.1-server as Host-OS

hhoefling — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:29:49 GMT

Can i Use ubuntu-8.04.1-server-i386.iso without X11 as Host-OS for VMServer 2.0RC or is X11 needed?

Is there a fix for the "Unidentified Network" problem on Windows Server 2008?

sparky62 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:04:06 GMT

VMware Server 2 beta 2 appears to have the same problem as Workstation 6.0.2 on Vista and Windows Server 2008 where installing it causes all the network shares and network printers to become unavailable. This seems to be because the new network that WMware creates is an "Unidentified network" and the trust level of the network is lowered to "Public" and as a consequence file and printer sharing is shutoff. Does anyone know if there a fix for this?

VMnet named bridged networks

oggsct — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:47:54 GMT

I am running a recently upgrade vmware server 2.0 RC2 up from RC1 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.1. The upgrade went smoothly, no errors as I can see. The problem I faced though was that the upgrade renamed my bridged networks. I had custom names to better identify what physical port they mapped to but the upgrade renamed them. I thought nothing of it and just ran the vmware-config.pl after the upgrade and renamed them. Or so I thought, by the end of the configuration it had defaulted them back to "Bridged" and "Bridged (2)". What happened to custom names? It kept my names for the nat interfaces.

oggsct

Cannot start Tomcat Web Server after upgrade to Server RC2 on Windows XP

MD-Betatester — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:01:28 GMT

I upgraded from 1.0.6 to VMware Server2 Beta. After reboot, Tomcat's VMware Web Server Access service fails to load without any intelligent errors. I can't uninstall VMware either as it said the installation failed to load. Any insite would be appreciated.

Good, Slim Linux Distro?

alphadog4 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:45:08 GMT

What is a good, slim (low memory footprint) Linux distro to run VM Server on? I am debating whether to make the host Windows Server 2008 or some Linux distro. I am assuming is will not spend much time in the host except to maintain VMWare and images, so frills are unnecessary. What are poeple using?

Thanks.

Possible?: Install Server2 and Workstation65 on WS08/64bit host?

jeremym — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:29:47 GMT

If you're scratching your heads.. here's why I want to do this:

() I like writing articles using Vmware 6.5, because I can snapshot the heck out of stuff

but

() I like running my business on VMware Server because it's got no GUI and just starts up my servers in the background

So, right now, on my WS08/64bit host, I've loaded VMware Server 6.5.

I'm thinking about ALSO installing VMware Server 2.0.

So..

1. Is this possible? (Just haven't tried..)

2. Is this supported?

3. What issues might I encounter?

Thanks in advance!

-Jeremy Moskowitz

virtual machine console window won't open

stevemaring — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:39:19 GMT

My host is Ubuntu 8.02 (hardy) running VMware Server 2.0 rc2 (build 110949). I can access the web gui admin console and configure my VM. I can also start it just fine. However, when I click on the "console" tab and see that it says my VM is "powered on" and "open the console in a new window" "click anywhere to open the virtual machine", I do so and nothing happens. I don't get a window.

I HAVE been able to do this successfully on other boxes running Ubuntu 8.02. It would sometimes take 10 secs or so for the window to show up, but it eventually did. Here I get nothing or a popup that says ...

Remote console plug-in error
Cannot access the virtual machine console. The request timed out.
The attempt to acquire a valid session ticket for "" took longer than expected.

Reinstalling the browser plugin and rebooting has not helped.

The proxy.log says ...

2008-09-07 07:28:29,329,http-8308-4<=>,RequestProcessor User not logged in. Request /view/createAndQuery failed : LoginNeededException Please log in.
2008-09-07 07:28:29,360,http-8308-4<=>,RequestProcessor User not logged in. Request /view/createAndQuery failed : LoginNeededException Please log in.
2008-09-07 07:28:29,360,http-8308-4<=>,RequestProcessor User not logged in. Request /view/createAndQuery failed : LoginNeededException Please log in.
2008-09-07 07:28:43,910,http-8308-4<=>,RequestProcessor User not logged in. Request /view/createAndQuery failed : LoginNeededException Please log in.
2008-09-07 07:28:43,910,http-8308-4<=>,RequestProcessor User not logged in. Request /view/createAndQuery failed : LoginNeededException Please log in.

but I certainly logged into the web gui just fine

the only thing that remotely looks like an error in the VM log is

Failed to copy tools version manifest file. hgfsError = 9

-Steve Maring

The VMware Host Agent service terminated ... over and over and over :(

vmQuark — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:27:28 GMT

I'm running on 2008 Server x64, using vmware Server 2 RC1.

I was able to login to the web ui ONCE -- I tried to start my virtual machine and the whole 2K8 box rebooted and after reboot I was unable to login to the web UI -- the VMware Host Agent Service keeps dying.

I have tried multiple uninstalls/reinstalls, including deletion of license and folders.

Thoughts? Advice?

The box itself is stable, haven't had issues with anything but vmware...

Upgrading from Virtual Server 2.0 RC1 -> RC2

aconnell — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:01:59 GMT

Haven't been able to find any info on the RC1->RC2 upgrade process. Is it supported or are there known issues in upgrading from RC1 -> RC2?

RC2 installation turned off Fast User Switching and Use the Welcome Screen - VMGINA.DLL.

johnhc — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:39:00 GMT

After installing RC2, I noticed that my Welcome Screen and Shutdown dialog were strange looking (see here). I found that Fast User Switching and Use the Welcome Screen are turned off in User Accounts. A dialog pops up there that says an installed program has done this by installing VMGINA.DLL. This module is in the VMware Server folder in the program files folder. MS KB302346 describes how to correct this "problem". For some reason VMware has installed this DLL and registered it to replace MSGINA.DLL. I would like to have my original Welcome Screen and Shutdown dialog back but do not know if I can apply the fix and have RC2 continue to run correctly.

I hope someone can tell me why VMware has inserted this DLL and if it is OK to bypass it.

Thanks, John.

Host and Guest Systems:
Windows XP Pro x64 Edition;
VMware Server 2.0.0RC1, Build 101586

VMware Server 2.0 RC2 Installation Issue

DanAndryszak — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:06:18 GMT

I attempted to install VMwaare Server 2.0 RC2 on a Windows 2003 Std X64 SP2 server that had 1.0.6 previously installed.

I uninstalled 1.0.6, rebooted and started the 2.0 RC2 installation.

I received two error messages - NSIS Error - The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. The message is followed by VMware Server - Error 1722. Ther is a problem with this Windows Installer package. Screenshots are attached.

I again downloaded the installer and retried the installation - same issue.

Applied hotfix KB925336 and retried the installation - same issue.

I reloaded the server with a base load of Windows 2003 Std x64 SP and retired the installation - same issue.

Applied hotfix KB925336 and retried the installation - same issue.

Any suggestions?

logrotate scripts ...

ivanmara — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:57:48 GMT

Hello ... have anybody working logrotate configuration file for corect rotating logs in /var/log/vmware

now i clear them manualy ... i am not sure that it is right

CentOS 5.2

license and lock file probs

stevemaring — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:55:14 GMT

I have a Windows 2003 VM that was in a suspend state when my computer running Ubuntu with VMware Server 1.X died on me. I've switched to another computer and installed VMware Server 2.0 hoping to be able to get access to my Windows VM. No such luck. My user has the proper perms on the vm directory. There are no lck files, and I copied the license directly from the web page.

Basically, I'm getting things like ...

Aug 31 08:45:21.614: vmx| Licensecheck: Invalid license file.
Aug 31 08:45:21.615: vmx| LICENSE using: '/usr/lib/vmware/licenses/site/license.vs.1.0-00'
Aug 31 08:45:21.673: vmx| LOG failed to remove stats/stats32-2 failed: No such file or directory
Aug 31 08:45:24.649: vmx| FILE: WaitForPossession timeout on '/data/vm/windoze_2003/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk.lck/M28385.lck' due to a local process (6914)
Aug 31 08:45:24.649: vmx| FILE: FileIO_Lock on '/data/vm/windoze_2003/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk' failed: Lock timed out
Aug 31 08:45:24.649: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Couldn't lock descriptor file /data/vm/windoze_2003/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk: Failed to lock the file (4).
Aug 31 08:45:24.649: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : "/data/vm/windoze_2003/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk" : failed to open (Failed to lock the file).

as near as I can figure the license file looks fine ...

# VMware software license
StartFields = "Cpt, ProductID, LicenseVersion, LicenseType, Epoch"
Cpt = "COPYRIGHT (c) VMware, Inc. 1999-2003"
ProductID = "VMware GSX Server for Linux"
LicenseVersion = "3.0"
LicenseType = "Site"
Epoch = "2003-2-1"
LicenseEdition = "vmwServer"
Data = "capacityType=server;enable=vsmp,nas;MaxVcpusPerVm=2;desc=VMware Server;m
date=2008-04-10"
DataHash = "xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx"
Hash = "xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx"

Message was edited by: oreeh

edited the license

Oliver Reeh
VMware Communities User Moderator

VMware Server 2.0 RC1 to RC2 Linux upgrade

keithbeeby — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:53:08 GMT

Hi,

Has anyone successfully upgraded from Server RC1 to RC2 on Linux (Centos v5.2). If so what the best upgrade procedure?

Keith

Invalid serial number for 2.0 RC2

F.Ohletz — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:50:13 GMT

Hi Community,

i have a problem withe VM Server 2.0 RC2 on Windows Vista Ultimae x64 (new installation, all patches are intallt).

The installation runs very well, but after i try to insert the serial from the downloadpage i became a massagebox

"The serial is invalide".

Yes, i insert the serial for Windows...

pls help me.

Frank

Fedora8 & VMware server2 rc1

jseneca — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:51:54 GMT

After installing vmware server 2 rc1 on my fedora8 server running
kernel 2.6.25.11-60.fc8 I get the following error when trying to
upgrade a virtual machine: "Version mismatch with vmmon module:
expecting 200.0, got 138.0. You have an incorrect version of the
'vmmon' kernal module. Try reinstalling VMware Server. I applied the
any-any-update117b during the install. I did notice this:

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Unknown VMware Server 2.0.0 build 101586 detected. Building for Server 1.0.0.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.

Any help would be greatly appreceated,

John

vmmon vmnet found by installer

karoo — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:31:23 GMT

Trying to install Server beta 2 Release Candidate on Ubunto 7.10 and get the following error:

The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were

not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them then run this
installer again.

vmmon
vmnet

I've already removed the modules. Locate does not find vmmon or vmnet, but I still get the error and can't install the server.

Any help is appreciated.

VC as a VM on VMware Server - network config

mpjames — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:55:15 GMT

Here's what we're trying to do.

I installed VWware server 2 RC1 on a fresh build of SLES10 SP2 and everything looks good. (I posted elsewhere that the Server's web interface only reports one CPU and mis-reports the amount of free memory - but those aren't show stoppers to me.)

Now, I want to try running our Virtual Center as a VM on my new host. I'm having trouble getting the VMotion networking configured. On our other VMware hosts, I can see the networking settings for VMotion in the VMkernel. But I don't see anything analogous to VMkernel on the Server RC1 host.

The simple goal is to allow the VC, running as a VM under Server 2, to control our other VMware hosts, including HA and VMotion.

Any thoughts?

Thanks, Mike

Installation on OpenSUSE 11 fails...

MHammock — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:45:16 GMT

I initiallyed played with VMware Server a couple of years ago and am taking another look now. Figured I might as well jump right to 2.0 since that is the apparent direction. I'm trying to install Server 2.0 Beta RC2 on top of a freshly installed and updated OpenSUSE 11.0. Using the rpm I get:

x232s11:/tmp # rpm -i VMware-server-2.0.0-110949.i386.rpm
error: failed to stat /var/lib/gdm/.gvfs: Permission denied
Use of uninitialized value $status in numeric ne (!=) at - line 1255.
Unable to find the answer INITSCRIPTSDIR in the installer database
(/etc/vmware/locations). You may want to re-install VMware Server.

Execution aborted.

error: %pre(VMware-server-2.0.0-110949.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping VMware-server-2.0.0-110949

Any suggestions? Since I'm running as root, I'm nor sure why I would be getting a 'permisisons' problem...

Thanks

Removing RC1 leaves a lot behind and causes RC2 install problems!

johnhc — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:50:32 GMT

I used Add/Remove to remove RC1 and there is a lot left behind. Yesterday I tried to install RC2 and had many problems. I believe that the remaining pieces of RC1 are at least part of the problems. I used System Restore to back out RC2 and today removed RC1 again via Add/Remove. In the task manager tomcat6.exe is running and I found the following:

VMware Server Web Access is set to Automatic in Services (tomcat6.exe)
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access is set to Manual in Services (tomcat5.exe)
Both of the above are in msconfig/services
The VMware folder in Program Files (x86) has VMware Server and VIX(2) folders with many files/folders in both
Folder VMware appears in my Application Data folder (includes IE plugin)
IE plugin is in the IE Addons dialog

Why are all these items left behind?
Are they interfering with my attempt to install RC2?
Is it OK to remove 1 and 2 from services?
Is it OK delete the folders in 4 and 5?
Is it OK to remove plugin, 6?

Thanks for any advice, John.

Host and Guest Systems:
Windows XP Pro x64 Edition;
VMware Server 2.0.0RC1, Build 101586

Problems installing RC2, including altered host OS.

johnhc — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:08:26 GMT

Today I removed RC1 (via Add/Remove) and tried to install RC2. The install hung shortly after asking me to verify the MD5. CPU and disk activity went to zero. After several minutes I rebooted and tried again with the same results after waiting longer. I then noticed via the Task Manager that tomcat6 was running. I killed it (had to use Process Explorer since Task Manager said access denied) and was able to complete the install. When it got to installing tomcat, it hung as it did on RC1 (CPU and disk activity zero), but I let it sit 15 minutes or so and it completed. I was unable to open the Web UI and have joined a discussion in Web UI sub-forum. I tried restarting my host and it did not look correct at the welcome screen and the desktop. When I click Start and Turn off Computer, the dialog that opens is not the one I am used to seeing. I attach a screen short (image insertion does not seem to work, just one more problem).

I have since performed a System Restore to get my host back and it seems to be OK but RC1 now does not work. In the VMware folder I see VMware VIX and VMware VIX(2). The second is new and I suspect between the remove of RC1, install of RC2 and System Restore that RC1 got damaged.

Hope someone can have a helpful comment. Thanks, John

Host and Guest Systems:
Windows XP Pro x64 Edition;
VMware Server 2.0.0RC1, Build 101586

MSI Installer Product logged error code 1625 during installation attempt.

AKBinATL — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:29:34 GMT

Installation Failure!

Pop up box msg reads:

The system administrator has settings in place to prevent this installation.

I had Beta 2 installed. Install for Candidate 2 uninstalled Beta 2 successfully, but died at the very beginning of the installation of Candidate 2 with the message above. The vminst.log file had the text I put in the subject line.

This is a Windows 2003 R2 x64 box. I had installed Beta 2 and went out in search of some Linux images. After several days of downloading, I ran the Beta 2 app and it said it had "expired". That's when I returned to VMware to download Candidate 2.

I have to find a solution soon, even if that means installing 1.0.6.

Please help me.

Install VMware Server 2.0 on a Windows 2003 Domain Controller

vasal — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:21:41 GMT

I just want to power up a virtual webserver with Bridged Networking for our internal portal on the primary DC.

I know that VMware runs the following services:
VMware DHCP Service
VMware NAT Service

1) What if i disable these services and all network adapters created by vmware?
2) Just to play it safe i could also prohibit registering in DNS through these adapters.

Would i be safe to do so?

Server management console communitcations problems.

i814t — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:22:43 GMT

Hi,

I've just installed the RC2 version of server 2 on a newly install Fedora 9 x86-64 system.

The install ran through without a hich but when I try and connect to the management console I get a timeout error when trying to login.

Checking all the services with /etc/init.d/vmware status produces the folling output.

Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 is running
Host network detection is not running
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 is running
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 is running
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 is running
NAT networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running
Module vmmon loaded
Module vmnet loaded

If I try and connect using the following

vmware-vim-cmd -H localhost -O 8222 -U root -P {my_password_here} -d verbose hostsvc/hostsummary

I get the following output and then no more.

~~2008-08-24 15:33:20.226 'App' 140581801821936 info~~ Current working directory: /var/run
~~2008-08-24 15:33:20.233 'Libs' 140581801821936 info~~ Using system libcrypto, version 90808F
~~2008-08-24 15:33:20.241 'App' 140581801821936 info~~ Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000

How do I diagnose management interface to server connetivity issues in the version2 software?

rc2 vmware-config.pl problems

woodycollins — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:30:08 GMT

I am running a linux host (cent0s 5.2) and after upgrading from rc1 to rc2. Whenever I run the vmware-config.pl script no matter what I name my vmnet adapters when prompted they get named whatever type of adapter you are trying to configure. For example:

vmnet1 bridged eth1 -labeled- 192.168.1.x
it gets named
vmnet1 briged eth1 -labeled- bridged

So in the event I have multiple bridged adapters instead of being something like this:

vmnet1 bridged eth1 192.168.1.x
vmnet2 bridged eth2 10.10.10.x
vmnet3 bridged eth3 1.1.1.x

it looks like this:

vmnet1 bridged eth1 bridged
vmnet2 bridged eth2 bridged (2)
vmnet3 bridged eth3 bridged (3)

And is displayed like such on the host under the webui making it very difficult to determin which adapter goes to which vlan I would like the virtual machine to be connected to.

Now during the actual script when naming the adapters it does not produce any errors, just after select the last "no" option and the scripts begins to write out the configuration changes a message about vmnet0 is used the label "bridged" and the other bridged adapters will be renamed to (2) or (3) and so on occurs.

This has not happened on this machine on any of the previous beta releases and did not occur in the rc1 release so I am chalking it up to something gone wrong with the rc2 release. Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?

Upgrade VMware-Tools fails

rhsoftware — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:34:04 GMT

First: RC2 runs really smooth here on a fedora 9 x86_64
In winxp-guests i can not upgrade vmware-tools

Some moments after select this in the webgui i see shortly the windows installer in the guest but then
it stops and in the message-log there is "VMware tools - internal error 2704", this happens on all xp guests

Fedora 9 guests can upgrade the tools and they also build now with kernel 2.6.26
BTW: The "vmware-tools-upgrader"-command on linux without needing a cd-drive is much sexier than the windows-updater

Installing Server RC2 over RC1 - returns "You cannot install VMware Server on a system running a xwn kernel

tkummell — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:06:20 GMT

I have an existing RHELV4 Update 4 X86_64 host that is currently running VMware Server beta RC1. I downloaded the new RC2 rpm and attempted a rmp -Uvh rpmname. The results were the message in the subject line. Here is the complete dialog:

~~root@awahnee download~~# rpm -Uvh VMware-server-2.0.0-110949.x86_64.rpm
+ Preparing... ########################################### 100%+

+ You cannot install VMware Server on a system running a xen kernel+

+ error: %pre(VMware-server-2.0.0-110949.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1+
+ error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping VMware-server-2.0.0-110949+

~~root@awahnee download~~#

Any ideas?

RC2 issues on Vista x64

EnzoMatrix — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:39:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm running VMware Server on a laptop with Vista x64 SP1 Ultimate with wireless connection. Couple issues I found.

1. There are some orphan files on the C drive left after installing the software, this happens with RC1 and RC2:
C:\.rnd
C:\msdia80.dll
C:\Virtual Machines (I had changed the location of the VM to be "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Virtual Machines" during installation)

2. I installed RC1, I had the issue with the machine's name not working, the workaround was to use localhost and that worked fine. I was able to install Vista x32 Ultimate as a guest OS. I uninstalled RC1 and installed RC2, I added the VM for Vista back. I try to connect and it says "Error opening the remote virtual machine localhost:8333\48: A connection to the host could not be established". I uninstalled RC2 and re-installed RC1 and I have the same problem now.

3. In RC1 when the guest Vista x32 was running,
a. If I choose Bridged network, I can see my desktop computer, the router on the network but not my laptop (host OS)
b. If I choose NAT network, I can see my laptop (host OS) but not my desktop computer and the router.
How can I see everything on the network?

4. The sound device is not detected by the guest OS, this happened with RC1 when I was able to run the guest OS. I also had installed Ubuntu x64 in RC1 and I had the same issue. The setting was "Auto Detect".

Thanks,

Pascal...

Vmware Server RC - ubuntu 8.04 - Remote Concole Plug-in not working

Philbo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:10:54 GMT

I am running the VMware Server RC on ubuntu 8.04 and have installed the Remote console plugin (2.5.0.100265) into firefox 3.0.1 but am unable to access my virtual sessions. I get the console screen but it seems to sit there with the message "Open the console in a new window." "Click anywhere to open the virtual machine".

any body got any ideas?

Thx

Phil.

Network-mapped Datastore of CD images quits working after re-boot

ccochran — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:08:41 GMT

When using WS2008 x64 Ent. to host RC2, I use an "ISOs" datastore to access a network folder full of CD / DVD images. The datastore can be created and used, but after a host reboot, the store is inaccessible with the message:

"The Datastore Browser could not successfully retrieve data from the server."

I can re-create it and all works until the next reboot.

"Unable to resolve host name" when opening VMWare console -- SOLVED (??)

ccochran — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:11:05 GMT

On my Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 box, I just upgraded VMWare Server from 2.0 RC1 to 2.0 RC2 and everything seemed to work except for the following:

My Datastore for ISOs (mapped to a network share) was not working. To resolve this:
1. I disconnected all of the client CD rom drives that were using the store
2. Deleted the store
3. Re-created the store
4. Re-connected the client server's CD-ROM drives to the ISOs datastore images
I could not open a console session to a virtual server from the host OS's console. When I tried, I got the "Hostname could not be resolved for <vmwarehost>.<mydomain>. I could use another network PC to access the VMWare Server Home Page and open it successfully.
1. In troubleshooting, I pinged a network host and it responded with the IPv4 address. Of course, Windows Server 2008 (like Vista) will use the IPv6 address when referring to itself.
2. I opened C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and added an explicit entry to the IPv4 address for the server host to "trump" the default behavior of the OS.
3. The console now opens correctly.

Is there a better solution to the IPv6 thing on Windows Server 2008? I hate to leave this dropping on the server if there's a more elegant solution. I tried removing the IPv6 binding for the NIC but the system still resolves to the v6 address.

Invalid serial number for 2.0 RC1

cdukes — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:35:32 GMT

I registered -- filled out the 400 question form and all

Downloaded, installed, got to the part where it asks for my 20 digit key and boom...the key is not 20 digits...wtf?

Here's what I got:

Serial Number for Windows: 98DF1-RDX4K-K5QDH-4RNJT

Serial Number for Linux: 9AXF4-R69D2-JEQ4

VMware Server 2.0 Release Candidate 1 for Linux
Latest Version: Release Candidate 1 | 7/1/2008 | Build 101586

Console install:

Please enter your 20-character serial number.

Type XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX or 'Enter' to cancel: 9AXF4-R69D2-JEQ4

The answer "9AXF4-R69D2-JEQ4" is invalid. It must be of the form
XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX where X is a digit 0-9 or a capital letter A-Z

Please enter your 20-character serial number.

Type XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX or 'Enter' to cancel: 98DF1-RDX4K-K5QDH-4RNJT (I tried the windows key just for the heck of it, but of course that didn't work either)

The serial number 98DF1-RDX4K-K5QDH-4RNJT is invalid.

What am I doing wrong?

RC2 Install on Vista Ultimate 64

Paul Thomas — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:52:53 GMT

I've installed RC2 over the top of RC1 and the install went very well. Following the reboot, all my VMs started, the inventory and users were all set up.

The hardware version has not changed, but new VMware tools are available. The install of these went well on XP guests, but do not update on Vista. They report as requiring an upgrade, but when you click upgrade, nothing happens. I'm still looking into this. The vista guest did also perform a tidy shutdown on its own following the upgrade, but its not done it again.

The console works fine with IE7.

The issue with vmnet1 *& 8 cause windows network discovery to be switched off at every reboot is still present. I get around this by disabling the two network interfaces as I don't use them.

I'll continue testing, in particular I'm interested to see if usb devices (tomtom sat nav) will work now.

Server 2 RC1 reboots ubuntu 8.04 server host-system

bluechris — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:51:37 GMT

Hi all,

I encountered a major problem updating to VMWare Server 2 RC1. I previously used Beta 2 and it worked like a charm. Host is Ubuntu 8.04 server, current patchlevel.

Everytime I try to start one of my old guest systems, the host system just reboots. I see the statusbar for the start process proceeding up to 90-95% before the system restarts. It does not make any difference if I'm using the WebUI or the current VMWare Infrastructure Client.

Unfortunately there is no helpful information in the logfile:

syslog only contains:
Jul 11 18:50:37 ubuntu kernel: http:// 1217.230607 /dev/vmmon8539: PTSC: initialized at 901577000 Hz using TSC

hostd.log is attached.

At first I installe RC1 without deinstalling Beta 2. After I had this problem the first time I deinstalled RC1 and reinstalled it, no betterment.
Previous Server 2 Beta 2 together with vmware-any-any-update-115a worked like a charme.

Any ideas what's going wrong here? I've read postings from several guys using RC1 at ubuntu 8.04 server without any problems, I just don't ave a clue what my problem is.

best regards,
chris

Reconfigure Virtual Machine fails with "A file was not found"

jvans — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:14:45 GMT

Hi everybody,

when I try to add/remove a hardware component for my guest the thread "Reconfigure Virtual Machine" fails with detail message "A file was not found". My host system is Windows XP64.
The guest is a version 4 to version 6 upgraded Windows XP 32. Creating a new guest works fine, also adding/removing devices.
Thanks for your help,

John

virtual machine "powering on" forever

mas1701 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:43:51 GMT

Hi there,

I just upgraded from fine-working but now expired VMware Server 2 beta 2 to the new RC1.

Problem:

Since the upgrade, my virtual machines won't power on, it says "powering on" but stays there forever. Monitoring processes in task manager, I can see the newly started vmware-vmx.exe process that SHOULD run the VM and it even occupies the expected amount of RAM after some seconds (as if BIOS-POST does run), but no progress from there on, even if waiting 10 minutes or longer. It is not possible to connect to there VMs through the included client either, it says something about another job (I guess the powering up) is still in progress.

System is:

AMD Phenom X4 4x2,5GHz Workstation
8 GB RAM (DDR2-800)
2x 500 GB S-ATA II HDDs (transparently encrypted with TrueCrypt v6)
OS is MS Windows XP Pro x64 Edition

Somehow I think it might be an internal communication problem between VMware components. Anyone an idea?

If further information is required for analysis, I'll try to provide it.

Thanks in advance.

Yours

Mark

_ EDIT _

It does NOT matter whether the VM is newly created or an old one from beta 2.

Is there a way to reduce the size of vmware-server-2rc1 install?

devsk — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:27:47 GMT

At 650MB (installed in a chroot jail), its little too big (bigger than the biggest package that I have: OO at 300MB). Is there a way to reduce the size of this thing? Why is it so big now (compared to about 150MB for 1.0.6)?

Also, is there a migration guide for migrating from 1.0.6 to 2.0? How do I access my VMs?

Thanks.

RC1 time bomb?

Al.Smith — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:25:02 GMT

Does RC1 have time bomb code similar to what ESXi had? What is the projected date for Server 2 full release?

(I am new to this community; I apologize if this has already been asked.)

to reinstall a system isn't advantage!

taotling — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:08:04 GMT

After I created a virtual machine and I installed a SYSTEM in the VMware Server 2RC1,
if I want reinstall a system to the same Virtual Machine from a ISO image file,
I will reboot from the virtual machine's virtual CDROM,
but when I reboot,it is reboot from the virtual machine's HARDDISK.
I have to reboot the system and press the F2 quickly again and again on the VMware Remote Console,
until the BOIS SETUP can be display.
then I can change the REBOOT mode from HDD to CDROM,
and I can reinstall system at last......

So,I think the operation like this is discommodious,
Does anybody agree with me about this viewpoint?

web service is not available

Chris Burton — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:10:45 GMT

Have installed Beta 2 on W2K3 (fully service packed and patched), when using the VMware Server Home Page i get a "page cannot be displayed" error message. After logging in to the web access page i get a "web service is not available" error message.

The VMware Host Agent service will not stay up and running, and the following error is generated "The VMware Host Agent service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 2 time(s).". vmauthd reports the following error "Cannot connect to VMX: ~~PATH / NAME OF VM~~"

We have tried to revert back to VMware Server 1, but some of the Virtual Machines will not start as it seems they have become dependent on the newer version.

EDIT: I was running the original beta for Server 2.0 before installing beta 2. No changes have been made to the system.

Any help would be appreciated.

Best regards,

Chris Burton

Message was edited by: Chris Burton

Swapping VM's back from Linux to Win2003 Host

mctz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:48:03 GMT

I have successfully got a dual boot setup going on my server to compare the behavior and performance of Windows 2003 and SuSE Linux as the host operating system under VMWare Server 2.0 rc1.

I have the VM's on an NTFS partition that both host O/S's can mount.

So far I successfully switched from Windows to Linux, although I still had to tell VMware that I had "moved" the VM's.

On switching back to Windows again, I struck a small problem, as the Linux version had inserted the following line at the top of the VM config files:

#!/usr/bin/vmware

The Windows version of VMWare doesn't like this, and you can't do anything with the VM including starting or configuring it, until this line is removed.

Vmware host agent service not starting after install!

malraff — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:06:11 GMT

Hi all

i installed the 2.0 beta onto server 2008x64, after the install were i gave the FQDN etc i cant open the web interface at all, and so i checked services and the vmware host agent is not starting nor will it start manually!

also in the manual it states after initial install you need to use vmware-config.pl to setup initial configs etc - but i cant find this app any were?

can anyone help as i would really like to try the software out!!

thanks

VMnet1 and VMnet8 - How to change NAT and Host-only in Virtual Network Manager?

els1952 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:33:37 GMT

NOTE VMnet0, VMnet1, and VMnet8 are normally used for bridged, host‐only, and NAT configurations, respectively. Special steps are required to make them available for use in custom configurations. Choose one of the other switches

But my Manager Virtual Network: VMnet0, VMnet1, and VMnet8 are normally used for bridged, NAT, and host‐only configurations, respectively.

I don't access Internet, only HOST. How to change NAT and Host-only in Virtual Network Manager?

Help me.Tks.

els

Obs.: the VMnet2 set up my network card

VMnet1 and VMnet8 - How to change NTA and Host-only in Virtual Network Manager?

els1952 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:33:14 GMT

But my Manager Virtual Network: VMnet0, VMnet1, and VMnet8 are normally used for bridged, NAT, and host‐only configurations, respectively.

I don't access Internet, only HOST. How to change NTA and Host-only in Virtual Network Manager?

Help me.Tks.

els

Obs.: the VMnet2 set up my network card

Beta RC1 Installation problem

vmwdavidr — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:16:49 GMT

I am unable to install the the Beta RC 1 build 101586. I have tried the manual uninstallation instructions after I was unable to run the add/remove to automatically remove the program. I have run the 1308_fVMWARE_install_cleaner.exe, and removed the files, the registry entries, everything I could find. The platform is XP 64 bit sp 2. The issue came about after some RAM went, and we did fell back to a system-restore point that didn't really have VMware server properly installed.

I get "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation"when I run the install.

Any help would be appreciated.

Upgrade from GSX

homeboy — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:13:28 GMT

Can I upgrade from GSX and import VM's created in GSX to Server 2.0??

Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the VMware Authorization Service service to connect.

ctr99 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:36:27 GMT

I have just upgraded from VMWare Server 1.0.3 to Beta 2 RC1 on a Windows XP SP2 x86 system.

Now, whenever I start this machine, I see errors in the event log:

First: Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the VMware Authorization Service service to connect.

Second: The VMware Authorization Service service failed to start due to the following error:

The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Third: The VMware Host Agent service depends on the VMware Authorization Service service which failed to start because of the following error:

The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

But if I start them manually after logging in, they start up fine.

When I start these services manually, I also see an error:

Cannot connect to VMX: C:\Virtual Machines\FedoraCore6\Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmx

How can I resolve these problems?

Thanks,

Chris.

I can no longer clone a VM in Server 2.0 RC1 that I could so easy under beta 2

kidgarrett — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:45:08 GMT

Hi peps!

My objective: To simply clone / copy a VM and create another VM. I believe this is achievable, and have created dozens of them, by simply copying the .vmdk file.

Before RC1 was issued, I could simply follow these 5 steps in "VMware Server 2.0 Beta 2" that allowed me to clone a VM to create other VM's:

1) Copy main *.vmdk file to temp directory

2) Rename file to that of the new, required VM

3) Create a new VM, point new VM at the vmdk file in the temp directory

4) Once new VM is created, move *.vmdk into relevant new directory

5) Edit *.vmx file to change the path of \temp to the new folder name - start VM.

But if I follow this now, the VM just BSOD every time. What has changed?

Is anyone else having the same problems?

Any help is welcome as starting to thinking I have imagined it all working before hand! lol

Mark

Host machine x64 or x32 Windows Server 2003 Ent R2

icehckyplyr22 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:01:45 GMT

Should I run Windows Server 2003 Ent R2 x32 or x64 for my host machine? I plan to run both x32 and x64 both 2003 & 2008 VM's

I will be using VMWare Server 2.0 RC1

What would be the benifits of running x64?

My system is the following:

Intel Xeon X3210 Kentsfield 2.13GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 105W Quad-Core Processor

SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SBL-LN2 LGA 775 Intel 3200 Micro ATX Server Motherboard

8 GB's of DDR2 RAM (I will not go beyond this amount of memory)

server 2.0 beta - neverending pci to pci bridge

jjeff1 — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:32:45 GMT

I updated a host from server 1.06 to 2.0 beta. The guest windows 2003 server failed to boot, missing a biosinfo.inf. I replaced that by hand and my guest now boots normally.

But once booted, the found hardware wizard finds neverending pci to pci bridges. So far I have about 30 of them, plus a number of other unknown devices. The system is also finding multiple IDE and SCSI controllers, I've upgraded the VM hardware and installed the updated vmware tools.

Before the software upgrade the system was working normally.

Luckily, the system seems to run fine. It's just a web server, and that part doesn't seem to have any problems.

Any ideas about the neverending devices?

Server 2.0 RC1 Login Issue

limeysullivan — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:38:34 GMT

Just installed and cannot login using the UI. I try using my login for the machine server is installed on but no luck. Is there a default I'm supposed to use?

Disable DHCP on NAT - Linux host

Merlus — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:34:07 GMT

Can someone tell me how to disable DHCP on a specific VMnet. The only thing i have found somewhere is modifying the dhcpd.con so it assigns no adddresses.

There must be a way to disable DHCP for specific VMnets like the Windows version?

VMWare Server 2 RC1 Installation Issue on Windows 2003 Server

njtullis — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:56:07 GMT

This server had a Beta version of VMWare 2 running on it and when I downloaded the latest version (RC1) and ran the install, it uninstalled the Beta and then got to the part where it began to install Tomcat then gave me this error:

Product: VMware Server -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action VM_InstallTomcat.0D1A8168_EE5C_4EBD_8D36_0F85FFBF1F5F, location: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI4F.tmp, command: /S /JAVAHOME=C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\jre\ /PORT=8308 /START=1 /AUTO=1 /INSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\tomcat\ /TOMCATLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Server\tomcat-logs\

After this error appears the installation fails. I can get no further no matter what I do. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.

Dual Booting Win2003 x32 or Ubuntu 8.04 x64 to run the same set of VM's

mctz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:01:18 GMT

I would appreciate an opinion on whether this is feasible:

I currently have a Win2003 32bit Host, with C: as main boot partition, and I have another NTFS primary partition F: with the vmware data store on it.

What I want to do is install Linux 64bit (Ubuntu 8.04.1) onto an unused primary partition E: so that I can dual boot it.Essentially so that I can drop back to Windows if I have problems. (This is my low-risk 32bit Win to 64bit Linux host migration strategy).

Then I would install VMWare RC1 for Linux on, mount F: as an NTFS partition, and run the same VM's under VMWare for Linux.

Would this work? Are the virtual machine definitions the same between the Windows and Linux versions of VMWare?

Anything else I would have to tweak?

Thanks,

How-to Change the SSL Certificates on VMWare Server 2

JBane — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:25:54 GMT

This is a repost from my blog since it will probably be more useful here.

Because I hate making SSL exceptions in Firefox, I decided to change the keys. It was suprisingly simple

They are located in /etc/vmware/ssl I replaced mine by using the existing names. Renaming the originals to .old or something descriptive like that.

Alternatively, you could edit the hostd/config.xml file and update the values in the <privatekey> and <certificate> attributes and then update /etc/vmware/locations file. Do a search for "rui". There are two places to update as well.

The number following some of the files is the create date in Epoch. Mine currently does not match and I am able to access the WebUI with out any SSL errors. I suspect it has to do with the uninstall process. If the times do not match, the uninstall script will not remove it.

I found a Unix Epoch converter.

vmware not configured after reboot

necron73 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:37:45 GMT

Hello Community,

after solving my problem with corrupted virtual disks the next problem appeart. I did a fresh installation of vmware 2rc1 on a new host and did a /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl. Except one warning the process succeded and vmware is running well but after a reboot the startup of vmware failed with the notice that vmware is not configured and I had to rerun "/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl" before I can use my virtual machines.

OS Host:
baal:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64)
VERSION = 11.0

The mentioned warning during configure process is the following warning:

Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "4.3.1", while you are trying to use
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.3". This configuration is not recommended and VMware
Server may crash if you'll continue. Please try to use exactly same compiler as
one used for building your kernel. Do you want to go with compiler
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.3" anyway? no yes

I think this should not be the problem, because "gcc -v" gave me this:

baal:~ # gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-suse-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada --enable-checking=release --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.3 --enable-ssp --disable-libssp --with-bugurl=http://bugs.opensuse.org/ --with-pkgversion='SUSE Linux' --disable-libgcj --with-slibdir=/lib64 --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --disable-libstdcxx-pch --program-suffix=-4.3 --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-linux-futex --without-system-libunwind --with-cpu=generic --build=x86_64-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036 (SUSE Linux)

vmware-config.pl uses "gcc -dumpversion" and this gives "4.3" .

So I ignored this warning and configuration succeded:

Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual machine communication interface done
VM communication interface socket family: done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
VMware Server Authentication Daemon (background) done
Starting VMware management services:
VMware Server Host Agent (background) done
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
Starting VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines done

The configuration of VMware Server 2.0.0 build-101586 for Linux for this
running kernel completed successfully.

But after a reboot I recognized no vm was started and under /etc/vmware I found the file "not_configured".

What is going wrong? I can't find the problem.

Any ideas?

Preallocated Disks were not preallocated

necron73 — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:00:58 GMT

Hello Community,

maybe someone can give me a hint. When I try to create a virtual machine with preallocated disk space in 2GB chunks, the space is not really preallocated like with VMware Server 1.0.5. When I create a virtual disk on 1.0.5 the creation process took a while. Using VMware Beta2 the disks where created very quickly on the first glance. After the creation process I started the VMware and installed a small base system and cloned this system to 4 different vmwares and started those machines.

In one of those machines I compiled some software using rpm and gcc. After some iterations in the compiling/building process I relized that some of the source files got corrupted suddenly and also I recognized poor performance of this vm. After replacing those files and and build the software successfully I installed this software in one of the other machine. First the software ran well but after some reboots of this virtual machine the were also corrupted files. And I look deeper into the problem.

First of all I thought the virtual disks were preallocated. An 'ls -l' on the host system shows that the files have the desired size.

ramses:/data-vmware # ll atum/
total 3419200
-rw------- 1 root root 536870912 Jun 30 04:01 564daf27-3a54-143b-984d-cca339550 c9f.vmem
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 23 Jun 30 04:01 564daf27-3a54-143b-984d-cca339550 c9f.vmem.lck
-rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 Jun 30 07:57 atum-f001.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 Jun 30 15:39 atum-f002.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 Jun 30 15:45 atum-f003.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 Jun 30 15:45 atum-f004.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 Jun 30 01:48 atum-f005.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 Jun 29 19:25 atum-f006.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 Jun 29 22:24 atum-f007.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 Jun 29 19:25 atum-f008.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 Jun 29 19:25 atum-f009.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 Jun 28 22:02 atum-f010.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 2621440 Jun 28 21:10 atum-f011.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 8684 Jun 30 04:01 atum.nvram
-rw------- 1 root root 759 Jun 30 06:40 atum.vmdk
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 23 Jun 30 04:01 atum.vmdk.lck
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 28 21:10 atum.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1703 Jun 30 04:01 atum.vmx
-rw------- 1 root root 259 Jun 29 09:56 atum.vmxf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43739 Jun 29 11:03 vmware-0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45167 Jun 29 09:56 vmware-1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265114 Jun 30 15:45 vmware.log

But the performance of the system was such bad that I couldn't believe that this is true and I tried "du -csh" on that directory, which pointed out that only 1.5GB (now 3GB) were used.

ramses:/data-vmware # date && du -csk atum/
Mon Jun 30 15:48:15 CEST 2008
3420148 atum/
3420148 total

ramses:/data-vmware # date && du -csk atum/
Mon Jun 30 15:50:25 CEST 2008
3424488 atum/
3424488 total

The VMs were created yesterday an I thought: ok It'll take a while but since yesterday the disk only grew just a little bit. To me it seems that the disks are only growing in size if I work in them but as I mentioned earlier by doing this I got corrupted files. Now I am a little bit frustrated because I don't know what I am doing wrong. Maybe someone got a hint for me.

Host:

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ (2 Core)
RAM: 8GB
OS: openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64)
Kernel: Linux version 2.6.25.5-1.1-default

Guest:

4x1 Proc
512 MB
20GB preallocated disk
OS: openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64)
Kernel: Linux version 2.6.25.5-1.1-default

I hope someone can help me with this issue ...

Best regards

Problem BlueScreen (Sudden Reboot) during Installation (WinXP SP2)

Mike-SBG — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:43:35 GMT

I tried to install the VMware Server on my PC.

The Installation works fine, untill "registering services" than the machine reboots. I saw that some other people on total different hardware types (so I don't think that it makes sense, when I post my hardwareconfiguration
There where many ohtiner hints like turining off firewalls, antivirus programs and so on, but no solution. But even with uninstalled firewall and other malware protection system I had no success.

Has anybody solved this problem or can anybody tell me, what's exactely going on, after Starting the services.

Than

A couple of bugs with VMware Server 2.0 RC1

itsme2003 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:39:59 GMT

I encountered a BSOD after installing VMware Server 2.0 RC1. The BSOD does not point to an error with any vmware driver itself, but rather finds a problem with T21Sony.sys, the flash media reader driver. Each time I rebooted the BSOD would recur. This driver had been stable for about a month on this notebook.

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate x64, so I realize this is an unsupported configuration and I am only reporting this in case it is useful to the development team. I am running on a Sony Vaio VGN-NR285E, which is a core 2 duo T5450 processor, and 4 GB RAM.

To solve this problem for myself I rebooted into safe mode and uninstalled the the flash memory driver, then booted into normal mode and repaired VMware server 2 RC1. I don't use the flash media socket so I won't miss having a driver for it.

Another unrelated problem is that I am running Avast anti-virus (home edition 4.8.1201). Avast detected some of the files (vmx86.sys and one other) as possible rootkits. I simply told it to ignore the files in the future, but you might want to work with them to avoid having your files detected in this way.

Since I'm not depending on an answer to this submission, I may or may not check back on this forum. If you need any additional info please email me.

RC1 installation fails: uninitialized value in concatenation..

wymby — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:17:25 GMT

I'm attempting to install Server 2.0 build-101586 on a Debian Linux (Etch) system (kernel 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686).
Taking default responses to prompts, all goes well until..

Please specify a port for secure http (https) connections to use 443
Use of uninitialized value in concatenaton (.) or string at /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl line 8267.
There is no ! This file is necessary for the operation of the webAccess service.
Execution aborted.

It appears that $property_file has not been defined.

This is my first VMware experience; any help will be appreciated.

Installing VMWare Server 2.0 RC1 on Slackware 12.0

tiffers — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:33:43 GMT

Hi all,

I'm trying to install the current (Build 101586) VMware Server 2.0 RC1 on my Slackware Linux 12.0 server. (kernel 2.6.21-5)

The install script proceeds as expected up until the run of vmware-config.pl, and then it hangs. I've run strace and notice it hansg when trying to 'read' a 'file'. Also after running the script a number of times, I notice a bunch of lines similar to:

sh -c '/bin/grep' '^[0-9a-fA-F]\{8\} \w printk' /proc/kallsyms 2> /dev/null

If I run this from the command prompt, I get a 'grep error' and a usage description. if I remove the sh -c and the single quote marks from the /bin/grep and run it against /proc/kallsyms thusly:

/bin/grep '^[0-9a-fA-F]\{8\} \w printk' /proc/kallsyms

I get output which then hangs.

ctrl-c does nothing. ctrl-z does nothing. kill -term, kill -15, kill -9, from another shell all do nothing.

Does anyone understand what is going wrong here?

Thanks,

Collin

virtual machine from server beta2 to server RC1: hard disk capacity deleted and the guest OS doesn't powering on

FabioRaff — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:51:49 GMT

Hello to everyone!

My problem is: i have two pc (PC1 and PC2) on which i want to install WMware server RC1. On PC1 was installed server beta 2.0 and i had many virtual machine created with it. Simply, i installed RC1 over it and everything is going right.

On PC2, there was not server beta2, and i installed directly server RC1. Now, i have to take one of the virtual machine that i created for beta 2 on PC1 and copy on PC2. After added it to server RC1 datastore, when i try to powering on it, it doesn't work (NB i chase the option "i copied it"). The powering process stops before completed, and the only strange thing i noticed is that the capacity of hard disk that guest the virtual OS is 0,00 B but before it was 8 GB.

Here i copy the error messages.

The Microsoft Windows XP product activation feature creates a key based on the virtual hardware in the virtual machine where it is installed. Changes in the virtual machine configuration may require you to reactivate the guest operating system. To minimize those changes, be sure to set the final memory size for the virtual machine and install VMware Tools before you activate Windows XP.For more information about Windows XP product activation and virtual machines see our Web site at http://vmware.com/info?id=21.

Cannot open the disk 'C:\Virtual Machines\XPPsp2+WELL\xppsp2HDD-000002.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.Reason: Periferica non pronta.

What can i do? thanks to everyone can help me!!!

FabioRaff

Upgrading VM Hardware Task Failure

mm-isa-pa — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:20:22 GMT

I migrated a VMware Workstation 6.0 Workstation to my VMware Server RC1 server and attempted to upgrade the VM hardware. The task never completed (it is displays at 0% complete and never changes). I cannot remove the VM from the inventory to try and add a bacvkup of the original VM back onto the server (If I go to highlight the affected VM in the inventory and go to Virtual Machines the option to remove the VM is greyed out). I tried to re-upgrade the VM hardware, but I get an error stating the hardware upgrade task is already running. I do not see a way to caremove the affected VM:

Host: Dell PowerEdge 1600SC

CPU: 2 x 2.8GHx Intel Xeon CPOUs

RAM: 4GB

Disk: Local SCSI HDD (100GB)

OS: Windows 2008 Server (32bit)

VM : Windows 2003 Server (32bit)

Any help would be apprecaited.

Thanks

Michael

Support VMI Paravirtualization - not working on RC1

Eddymicro — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:59:55 GMT

Hello,

After upgrading to RC1 I cannot select "Support VMI Paravirtualization" for any NEW VM. My Supermicro QuadCore machine does support VMI Paravirtualization.

Existing VM's that had this option selected in Beta2 still have this box checked.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Anyone else have this issue?

Ed...

Management interface not working

srichter — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:03:46 GMT

My install was installed properly and was working well as in all the sudden the management interface quit responding. So the first thing I did was reconfigure by running vmware-config.pl . The management interface continue to stay offline, so then I uninstalled and reinstalled. Once again that no facts to manage interface still did not work. So I uninstalled once again this time being careful to remove any old VMware files on the system. I have just reinstalled with following results:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-51-amd64-server/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-51-amd64-server'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/linux/driverLog.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/linux/vmciKernelIf.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/common/vmciContext.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/common/vmciDatagram.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/common/vmciDriver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/common/vmciDs.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/common/vmciEvent.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/common/vmciGroup.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/common/vmciHashtable.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/common/vmciProcess.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/common/vmciQueuePair.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/common/vmciResource.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/vmci.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/vmci.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only/vmci.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-51-amd64-server'
cp -f vmci.ko ./../vmci.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmci-only'
The vmci module loads perfectly into the running kernel.

None of the pre-built vsock modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vsock module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? yes

Extracting the sources of the vsock module.

Building the vsock module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-51-amd64-server/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-51-amd64-server'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/driverLog.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/util.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/vsockAddr.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST

Warning: "VMCIDatagram_CreateHnd" [/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined!
Warning: "VMCIDatagram_DestroyHnd" [/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined!
Warning: "VMCI_GetContextID" [/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined!
Warning: "VMCIDatagram_Send" [/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined!

CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-51-amd64-server'
cp -f vsock.ko ./../vsock.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only'
The vsock module loads perfectly into the running kernel.

Do you want networking for your virtual machines? (yes/no/help) yes

Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0.

Please specify a name for this network.
Bridged

The following bridged networks have been defined:

. vmnet0 is bridged to eth0

All your ethernet interfaces are already bridged.

Do you want to be able to use NAT networking in your virtual machines? (yes/no)
yes

Configuring a NAT network for vmnet8.

Please specify a name for this network. NAT

Do you want this program to probe for an unused private subnet? (yes/no/help)
yes

Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)...

The subnet 192.168.204.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused.

The following NAT networks have been defined:

. vmnet8 is a NAT network on private subnet 192.168.204.0.

Do you wish to configure another NAT network? (yes/no) no

Do you want to be able to use host-only networking in your virtual machines?
yes

Configuring a host-only network for vmnet1.

Please specify a name for this network.
HostOnly

Do you want this program to probe for an unused private subnet? (yes/no/help)
yes

Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)...

The subnet 172.16.13.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused.

The following host-only networks have been defined:

. vmnet1 is a host-only network on private subnet 172.16.13.0.

Do you wish to configure another host-only network? (yes/no) no

None of the pre-built vmnet modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmnet module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? yes

Extracting the sources of the vmnet module.

Building the vmnet module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-51-amd64-server/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-51-amd64-server'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/hub.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/netif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/bridge.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/filter.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/procfs.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vnetEvent.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-51-amd64-server'
cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
The vmnet module loads perfectly into the running kernel.

Please specify a port for remote connections to use 902

Please specify a port for standard http connections to use 8222

Please specify a port for secure http (https) connections to use 8333

The current administrative user for VMware Server is ''. Would you like to
specify a different administrator? no y

Please specify the user whom you wish to be the VMware Server administrator
root

Using root as the VMware Server administrator.

In which directory do you want to keep your virtual machine files?
[/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines]

Please enter your 20-character serial number.

Type XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX or 'Enter' to cancel: 9AXF4-R69D2-JEQ4N-4H4JR

Creating a new VMware VIX API installer database using the tar4 format.

Installing VMware VIX API.

In which directory do you want to install the VMware VIX API binary files?
[/usr/bin]

In which directory do you want to install the VMware VIX API library files?
[/usr/lib/vmware-vix/lib]

The path "/usr/lib/vmware-vix/lib" does not exist currently. This program is
going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
yes

In which directory do you want to install the VMware VIX API document pages?
[/usr/share/doc/vmware-vix]

The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware-vix" does not exist currently. This program is
going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
yes

The installation of VMware VIX API e.x.p build-101586 for Linux completed
successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-vix.pl".

Enjoy,

--the VMware team

Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual machine communication interface done
VM communication interface socket family: done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
VMware Server Authentication Daemon (background) done
/etc/init.d/vmware: line 1006: bc: command not found
Starting VMware management services:
VMware Server Host Agent (background) done
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
Starting VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines done

The configuration of VMware Server 2.0.0 build-101586 for Linux for this
running kernel completed successfully.

vmware infrastrucure client - editing not possible

btone — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:15:27 GMT

hi all,

after upgrading to rc1 I can not edit guests with infrastucture client. see screenshoots. of course I installed/upgraded to the version shipping with rc1.
I really got used to vic...
any ideas?

btone

RC1 authorization working on Fedora 8/9 without using pam_permit?

Lando Griffin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:53:06 GMT

In 8, I need to use pam_permit in /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd to get it to not hang on login attempts. Does that happen in Fedora 9?

"The System Administrator has set policies to prevent this installation" (VMWare Server Beta 2 RC1)

juckyt — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:46:58 GMT

WTF, This beta exe won't load whatsoever and I've tried a million workarounds: Log on as the local administrator, run exe as the local administrator, set the local machine policy to allow local administrators to run exe files, checked the registry for DisableMSI with a value of 0, and so on...I really want to take advantage of the 8GB memory support. What could possible be preventing me from installing this damn software? No matter what I do it always fails with "The system administrator has aset policies to prevent this installation" which is totally untrue.

Please tell me it's the code b/c I've tried everything else!!!

juckyt

General System Error

BKuhl — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:03:19 GMT

We recently had a power outtage and after bringing everthing back online, I was no longer able to start any of my VMs under VMWare Server. I would receive a "General system error" each time I attempted.

After some searching I determined that I was running the expired Beta. I then downloaded the current RC1 (Build 101586 according to Help \ About), un-installed the Beta release and installed the new release. Unfortantely I am still receiving the same error.

Does this error only indicate that the Beta expired or is it a symptom of some other issue?

Also, I noticed some oddities with my license keys. I made sure to record the license I received when downloading the latest RC1 but everytime I try to enter it I receive a "Configure License Source" error stating "The uploaded license content was not valid." Is the license I am receiving compatible with RC1 or am I receiving an out of date license during the download process?

Thanks for any help,

-BKuhl

Win2k3SP2 Won't Install - "...policies to prevent this installation."

ksDevGuy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:34:51 GMT

Gear: Two new Dell 1950 servers (dual quad-core 2.66, 16GB, RAID1 boot, RAID 10 DAS volume)
OS: Windows Server 2003 Ent SP2 - clean install
Problem: VMWare Server 2.0 RC1 fails to install (never get's to first qizard dialog even)
Error Msg: "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation."

Both machines are indentical clean stand-alone installs, nothing has been done yet! Strangely, at one point the installer actually ran through to the first dialog without giving the error message --- I don't know why, and it hasn't been able to do it since.

Getting bad feelings about VMWare ... any input on this, or like many should I be considering Windows Server 2008 VMM/Virtual Server stuff?

Thanks all,

ksDevGuy

/etc/vmware/locations

sdonnet — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:55:57 GMT

Just an innocent question :

is it normal that the file /etc/vmware/locations, which seems to be part of the Vmware conf, contains several time the same lines ? ("answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_HOSTADDR 192.168.1.1", "file /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.6.el5/misc/vmmon.o", "remove file ...."... )

Beta 2 - RC1 Upgrade and the NIC's

Ron Woods — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:42:01 GMT

It appears that after I uninstalled Beta 2 and installed RC1, the Virtual Machine settings were still there and the machines I had running automatically started up. However, it seems the NIC's loose their settings and it creates a new Network Adapter and ghosts the old one. I had to use the Microsoft proceedure outlined here in Method 1 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269155) to remove the old adapter to allow me to assign the ame IP configuration to the newly created NIC's. Now that I think about it, maybe it was duing the VMWare Tools upgrade that caused this. It happended to both of my Windows 2003 VM's, 1 64bit and the other 32bit. The host is running Windows 2008 64bit Enterprise. Any idea as to why this would happen? Shouldn't it just pick up the current NIC's and leave them alone and simply update the driver?

VMWare 2.0 Beta in Slackware 12.1

Slackware-vm — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:17:03 GMT

After
the installation any authorized user to log or as "root". shows the
following message: Login failed due to a bad username or password.
And in the syslog: ul 22 19:13:00 H4K3R / usr / lib / vmware /
bin / vmware-hostd 4831: Rejected password for user root from
127.0.0.1

help me

Problem upgrade VMWare server Beta2 to RC1

dhark22 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:39:42 GMT

Hey there,

I've upgrade from Beta2 to RC1 and then some Virtual Machines(VM) shown as "Unknown" in the Inventory field.

After some time of searching the problem, i found that a VM shown as "Unknown" has german "umlauts" in the annotation field of the .vmx file.

I fix it, and then the VM is shown correct.

So, my question is:

It's forbidden to leave german umlauts in the notes field (is annotate in .vmx) or is this a bug?

Best regards,

dhark

Troubles with selinux, may be bug ?

sdonnet — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:05:30 GMT

Hello,

I have noticed, even with the previous v2 version (beta 2), and confirmed now with RC1, a problem with a host running Linux and Selinux : /var/log/messages is empty. My conf is : Centos 5.2 64 bits, selinux=enforcing, Vmware RC1 installed.

When I switch selinux to permissive, /var/log/messages is filled by syslogd, without any problem. When I come back to "enforcing", /var/log/messages is empty.

I thought this problem was independent of Vmware, but :
1) my other Centos server, without Vmware, and with selinux enforced, have no problem,
2) I found this thread : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1772 , in which vmware is quite suspected, by manipulating /etc/services file.

Has anybody seen this problem ? Is it a Vmware bug, or a Linux conf problem ?

TIA

2.0 RC1 disables fast user switching on XP Professional host

jonbig — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:09:45 GMT

Come on, VMWare! That's important enough to mention in the documentation or release notes, but I can't find it anywhere.

Why does it do this?

vmware-config.pl overwrites "nat.conf" per default

rhsoftware — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:26:29 GMT

Please change the default of "vmware-config.pl" to NOT overwrite "/etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf" because you can not use "vmware-config.pl -d" which is very nice after kernel-updates on the host.

OK, now its better as in version 1.0.x where was no question, auto-start-vms bootet after update, you had to stop them, recover the "nat.conf" and start again -> very painful and forwarding port 22 from the virtual machines to 222,223,224... on the host is in combination with ssh-forwarding/x-fowarding one of the finest things without opening firewalls.

Duplicate domain name in FQDN

korb — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:29:35 GMT

Hello,

I have Server 2.0RC1 installed on an Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit server. For some reason, after installation the web admin UI lists the FQDN of my host system with the domain listed twice.

In both the inventory pane and the general pane, my server is listed as host.domain.com.domain.com. Note that when I run "uname -n" on my machine, it returns host.domain.com, so I suspect that the installer automatically appends the domain name to the system hostname without checking to see if that name is already a FQDN.

This doesn't appear to hurt anything (the web interface appears to be fully functional) but I suspect it may cause problems down the road. Is there anyway that I can fix this?

Thanks,
Bill