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vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463 does not run on Ubuntu 9.04 server 64bit

xplicit — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:26:25 GMT

I try to run vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463 on Ubuntu 9.04 server 64-bit edition and get the following message:

-bash: ./vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463: No such file or directory

but the file exists

ls -l ./vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463
-rwxr-xr-x 1 testadmin testadmin 3808 2009-11-21 22:22 ./vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463

md5sum vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463
7ddd81c1e1e51db8b3c21c853105ebc9 vmware-guest64check-5.5.0-18463

The same program works fine on the Ubuntu 9.04 desktop 32 bit version.

How can it be fixed?

CentOS 5.3 x64 & Server 2.0.x web access instability and guest vm crashes

lamune — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:48:42 GMT

Hi all, I have two machines that are not identical but very similar: Phenom II processor, Gigabyte motherboard, 4-6GB RAM. Both are running CentOS 5.3 x64 and VMWare Server 2.0.1/2. Current kernel installed is 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.

The web interface has become very unstable. It simply stops communicating at random times, usually when you do some change (change media on a virtual drive, change focus of one VM to another, etc) Consoles will close unexpectedly, hangs forever "loading" info into the various frames

Restarting vmware-mgmt services will usually bring things back. Sometimes it does not (blank page, logged in but "no access to console", starts up with with numerous "the server response included one or more errors" dialog boxes where the detail is "an object was not found")

Most disturbingly, the VM's themselves will sometimes just stop running. The guests are Windows Server 2003/2008 64 bit. One of the machines has a Windows 7 VM which oddly enough despite not being officially supported is the most stable. Running the other guests with the Windows 7 VM shut down doesn't change the behavior either.

These machines were much more stable before a massive yum upgrade of 150 or so packages. I have no idea which one it may have been, but I did boot up in the older kernels to see if there was any change, and there was not. I also tried 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 versions of Server with no change.

My real question isn't so much as "how do I fix this" but more of "where do I look to find out what's wrong"

1- How do I debug the web interface issues? (what are good logs to look at, etc)

2- How do I figure out why a VM suddenly terminates? (logs to look at there, etc)

Thanks!

Web interface doesn't load - what's up ?

atakacs — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:07:52 GMT

Folks

For some reason the web management interface doesn't seem to load on my vmware server 2.01 / Ubuntu box.

Nothing really obvious in the logs except for this

Apr 20 00:07:08 xxx watchdog-webAccess: End '/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', failure limit reached

tried to google this but I'm quite sure where to get started...

Any help would most appreciated !

Regards

alex

no login-fields at web-service, just blank

peterpilsl — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:35:50 GMT

A few days ago I ran into the following problem:

when try to logon to my vmware-server at https://myhost.com:8333 I only get a blank page but not the usual and expected login-window

I tried with firefox3 and recent opera under linux and IE7 under windows. This is not a certificate-problem, cause all certificates are installed and this never was a problem before. I tried to restart vmware-mgmt but it didnt help. I even rebooted the whole host-machine (a linux-server) but no effect.

I can connect to the vmware-server using the vmware virtual infrastructure client and all VM's are running fine. Its just that I cant use the webinterface, which I really like to use, cause its the easiest way to manage our VM's on the run.

any suggestions?

thnx a lot,

peter

Windows 7

joeppe — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:23:49 GMT

I have a windows 7 VM installed under my VMware Server 2 Ubuntu Host. The install went well but after playing around for a hour or so I notice any time I try to drag a window the whole VM freezes up until I do a reset. Has anyone had similar issues? I know Windows 7 in not supported yet but I figured I would ask.

Can't get Web Interface to come up after Successful install on Fresh Windows 2003 Server

LewisJ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:45:25 GMT

I have installed and reinstalled VMWare Server 2 on Windows Server 2003 SP2. I cannot get the Web Page to display. I have tried to use the loopback address 127.0.0.1 using the ports as well as the name of the server on https and http. I have looked at the services and it seems the VMWare Authorization Service will not start. I have gone as far as re-installing windows. I have looked at the install log and it seems nothing unusual except for the services that won't start. I have completed this install around 20 times. I have changed the port numbers to other ports like 443 and 80, 8080, and I tried the defaults. I have also checked my host file. My server name resolves fine though. I did a netstat -a and it seems that the server is not listening on these ports. I have also tried disabling my firewall period to see if there was a problem. I am not getting anywhere. Please help.

More than one USB device at the same time

ChrisVe — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:32:01 GMT

Hi Community,

i would like to find an easy answer for a easy question.

Here is it:

Is it possible to use more than one USB device with VMWare Server 2? If no, is there an VMWare product which has this feature?

Thx for your help in advance.

Best regards,

Chris

Can't run a 64-bit guest on VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64

lacmello — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:30:55 GMT

Hello,

I Installed the distribution
VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.tar.gz on a 64-bit Debian 5.03. CPU is a Xeon 5420. However, when I try to run a 64-bit guest
(Tried with Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 2003), the guest says the CPU is not compatible with 64-bit mode.

I ran the VMware-guest64check-6.0.0-45731 and it gives me:

debian:~# ./VMware-guest64check-6.0.0-45731
This host is capable of running a 64-bit guest operating system under this
VMware product.

So, it's not a problem with the hardware in itself. Of course, when creating the virtual machine I selected the guest OS type as the 64-bit version.

Any ideas?

Luciano Mello

Mouse only in 640x480

karls0 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:29:38 GMT

I have created a new virt machine with WinXPpro on my newly installed Sidux 64-bit host. First thing I did was installing VMware-Tools.

Inside the VM the mouse only works correctly inside a box of approx. 640x480 pixels in the upper left corner of the screen. When I leave this region the arrow-pointer changes to a black hand-pointer at that boundary and doesn work as expected.After a few clicks it works once, but thats no way to work!

Please help asap!

regards

Karl

Moving vm server

Greggk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:02:41 GMT

Hello,
I'm trying to move a windows 2003 vm server to a new host. The new host is configured, and ready to go. Both are on x64. When I start up the vm server on the new faster host, it shows that it's loading in the console, then it just stops loading with a blue screen error.
STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} The session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000026c (0x0000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down.

And it will reboot,and go through the same thing.
I thought moving a vm server would be an easy thing, that's the reason I was trying out the vmware to begin with, in case you need to move it, you can just move it to a new hardware without issues, but now am I going to have to live with the vm server staying on an old slow server, and not being able to move it to a new faster server? Any help and or suggestions is appriecated

host only network connectivity to only one image at a time

DonPGolden — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:10:00 GMT

I am running Vista 64 with Vmware Server 2.0.2. I have two images running, both are Windows Server2008. Both images are using host only networking and both have hosts files for network identification.

The problem is that the first image to boot has network connectivity and the other does not. on image with connectivity I can ping and map drives onthe Vista host. The other one can only ping itself.

I have the firewall disabled on the two images and an exception for the VMnet1 adapter on the host.

Any suggestions.

All virtual machines do not progress beyond 95% power on

robinclark — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:51:51 GMT

I recently installed Vmware Server 2.0.2 on Vista Home Premium x64 service pack 2 running on an HP pavilion dv4 with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. I have tried to power on several virtual machines. None of them get beyond 95% power on. This makes me think that the software has a configuration error. I would appreciate any ideas regarding things to try or log files to examine.

is the vdiskmanager-bug fixed in VMserver 2.0.2 ?

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:55:13 GMT

VMserver 2.0.1 has a bug in vdiskmanager like in Workstation 6.5.0 - 6.5.2

if you try a command like
vmware-vdiskmanager -r blablabla-000001.vmdk -t 0 consolidated.vmdk
it gives an error message "can't work on partial chains"

This command is required to consolidate vmdks with one or more snapshots into a new vmdk.
Is this fixed in VMserver 2.0.2 ?
In Workstation 6.5.3 or 7.0.0 this is already fixed ...

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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

Suspend script for Linux?

AndersN — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:06:12 GMT

Does anyone have a working script to use vmrun (VMware Server 2) on a Linux host to find all running VMs and suspend them?

I've found some via Google, but none of them does the job..

Issue with raw disk - cannot read disk

jvivenot — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:20:50 GMT

Hello,

I am using Vmware Server 2.0 on a Debian 64 bits server, running 2 Windows Server 2008 guests.

In one of these guests, I added quite a long time ago a raw disk, thinking that any update of this data within the Windows Servers would be done directly on the raw disk.

However, it seems that the disk was not changed, and that the latest data was stored in another child vmdk (in my datastore).

The issue I am currently having :

the base raw disk is lost (completely)

I do still have access to its child vmdk, which weighs about the same.

I cannot find a way to retrieve any data from my vmdk, whereas it seems that the latest files should be in the child .vmdk and not in the (lost) raw disk.

Is there any way to retrieve any amount of data from this child vmdk if I cannot recreate the base parent raw disk ?

Thanks.

vmserver 2.02-203138 and 2x Xeon X5570

ophth1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:53:36 GMT

hi!
We've installed vmserver2 onto a windows 2008 enterprise Server R2 with 2x Xeon CPU X5570 and 48 GB RAM.
Installation showed no problem. However, looking in the VMserver interface, only 1 Xeon CPU and only 8 cores are listed!
Does anyone has an idea how to make vmserver find the other xeon cpu?
Thanks!!!!

p.s.: ESXi is not an option for different reasons at our machine...

VMWare Server 1 - I deleted the snapshot, now getting error

ShawnG101 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:39:44 GMT

Sorry about posting this VMware Server 1 post here.

I made a huge mistake and I am hoping I would recover the data out of this.
There was space problem due the snapshot and I accidentally hit Shift+Delete (which normally I rarely do) on the snapshot folder.
I realize that there is incremental data in the snapshot folder.
Now, when I start the guest VM, I get the error "Cannot open the disk <.........vmdk> or one of the snapshot disk depends on it.Reason" Failed to lock the file.

The host as well as the guest are Windows Servers. Windows 2003.

Please help if there is a way out of this.

httpd.vmware will not start

Leftie59 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:22:50 GMT

A fresh build of CentOS 5.3 with server 2.0.2 and VMware-mui-1.0.6.

When I start httpd.vmware "service httpd.vmware start" it replays ok

When I check if it is running "service httpd.vmware status" it replays it is not running.

I have checked the /var/log/message and there is no error messages.

Can you give me an idea where to look for any message that may be generated?

If I need to get this running by Monday to avoid a major storm at work.

Thanks in advance, Mark

vmware server2 not working with kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r8

sk8harddiefast — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:38:52 GMT

george@gentoo bin # ./vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines failed
Stopping VMware management services:
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
VMware Server Host Agent failed
Stopping VMware services:
VMware Authentication Daemon done
Virtual machine monitor done

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

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8'

WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
from include/linux/module.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_module.h:27,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:26:
include/linux/mmzone.h:18:26: error: linux/bounds.h: No such file or directory
include/linux/mmzone.h:256:5: warning: "MAX_NR_ZONES" is not defined
In file included from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
from include/linux/module.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_module.h:27,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:26:
include/linux/mmzone.h:290: error: 'MAX_NR_ZONES' undeclared here (not in a function)
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:31:
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'
include/linux/poll.h:67: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/./include/compat_page.h:23,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:33:
include/linux/mm.h:446:63: warning: "NR_PAGEFLAGS" is not defined
include/linux/mm.h:494:62: warning: "NR_PAGEFLAGS" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU':
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriver_Ioctl':
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'euid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'egid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only~~ Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/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.

vmware server2 not working with kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r8

sk8harddiefast — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:35:35 GMT

The System Very slow

nilsonchagas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:58:06 GMT

My DELL PowerEdge R410, 4GB RAM, 250GB HD RAID, 2 vms (W2K3) and CentOS.

But very slow.

I saw in inicialization VMWare Authentication Daemon Fail, Is it the problem?

Anybody recomends VMware ESXi??

Lost my ability to connect to my VM

JMNorris — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:27:13 GMT

I have VMWare Server 2.0.1 running on Windows XP. I can no longer connect to my VM; I keep getting the message "Error opening the remote virtual machine localhost:8333\48: A connection to the host could not be established."

At one point, Windows froze and I had to unplug the computer and plug it back in to get the system restarted (I guess you could call that a violent reboot.) This happened approximately the same time I lost the ability to connect to the VM, but i don't remember if it happen at exactly that time. So perhaps the violent reboot caused the problem, or perhaps not.

Any advice on recovering my VM would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

VM server 2.0 64bit windows host

foster29 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:23:51 GMT

Hello all,
is running VMserver 2.0 on a 64bit Windows host supported?

thanks,
pete

ifdown broke VMWare

mpg187 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:27:40 GMT

I issued an ifdown command in my Fedora VM and now my Fedora and Ubuntu
VMs can't connect to the internet. (I have two adapters, a hostonly and
a bridged).

How do I get it to work? I restarted both the host and guest OSes and it still doesn't work.

PS: Windows 7 64 Bit host.

Upgrading from VMWare server 1 to server 2 - Get the below Disk- Lib message

louisj — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:58 GMT

Hi

I get the below messages after upgrading from VMWARE 1.03 to version 2

so far there arent any errors other for the below. No to sure if this meanse perfomance issues or if it is normal

Nov 19 22:06:35.156: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 400000 numMergedIOs = 91417 numSplitIOs = 10080
Nov 19 22:10:03.921: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 450000 numMergedIOs = 93469 numSplitIOs = 10401
Nov 19 22:13:09.671: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 500000 numMergedIOs = 96120 numSplitIOs = 10757
Nov 19 22:16:10.984: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 550000 numMergedIOs = 97822 numSplitIOs = 10918
Nov 19 22:18:50.328: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 600000 numMergedIOs = 99543 numSplitIOs = 11127
Nov 19 22:20:53.875: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 650000 numMergedIOs = 101132 numSplitIOs = 11323
Nov 19 22:22:54.203: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 700000 numMergedIOs = 102788 numSplitIOs = 11500
Nov 19 22:24:50.656: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 750000 numMergedIOs = 104388 numSplitIOs = 11710
Nov 19 22:26:44.156: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 800000 numMergedIOs = 106008 numSplitIOs = 11913
Nov 19 22:28:34.531: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 850000 numMergedIOs = 107598 numSplitIOs = 12194
Nov 19 22:30:16.171: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 900000 numMergedIOs = 109332 numSplitIOs = 12348
Nov 19 22:31:56.125: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 950000 numMergedIOs = 111090 numSplitIOs = 12465
Nov 19 22:33:59.703: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1000000 numMergedIOs = 113540 numSplitIOs = 13088
Nov 19 22:36:03.015: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1050000 numMergedIOs = 115438 numSplitIOs = 13904
Nov 19 22:37:59.156: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1100000 numMergedIOs = 117532 numSplitIOs = 14688
Nov 19 22:39:17.609: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1150000 numMergedIOs = 118246 numSplitIOs = 14753
Nov 19 22:40:41.265: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1200000 numMergedIOs = 118998 numSplitIOs = 14908
Nov 19 22:41:52.250: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1250000 numMergedIOs = 119525 numSplitIOs = 14975
Nov 19 22:43:10.531: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1300000 numMergedIOs = 119916 numSplitIOs = 15019
Nov 19 22:44:21.578: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1350000 numMergedIOs = 120192 numSplitIOs = 15025
Nov 19 22:45:34.656: vcpu-1| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1400000 numMergedIOs = 120514 numSplitIOs = 15026
Nov 19 22:46:43.187: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1450000 numMergedIOs = 120766 numSplitIOs = 15029
Nov 19 22:48:02.671: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1500000 numMergedIOs = 121007 numSplitIOs = 15036
Nov 19 22:49:05.515: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1550000 numMergedIOs = 121245 numSplitIOs = 15039
Nov 19 22:50:10.218: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1600000 numMergedIOs = 121635 numSplitIOs = 15043
Nov 19 22:51:20.546: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1650000 numMergedIOs = 122427 numSplitIOs = 15077
Nov 19 22:52:19.828: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1700000 numMergedIOs = 122739 numSplitIOs = 15084
Nov 19 22:53:21.500: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1750000 numMergedIOs = 123008 numSplitIOs = 15089
Nov 19 22:54:34.171: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1800000 numMergedIOs = 123266 numSplitIOs = 15097
Nov 19 22:55:43.312: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1850000 numMergedIOs = 123613 numSplitIOs = 15122
Nov 19 22:56:49.109: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1900000 numMergedIOs = 123903 numSplitIOs = 15131
Nov 19 22:57:50.875: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 1950000 numMergedIOs = 124131 numSplitIOs = 15133
Nov 19 22:59:08.625: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2000000 numMergedIOs = 124552 numSplitIOs = 15135
Nov 19 23:00:21.968: vcpu-1| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2050000 numMergedIOs = 125300 numSplitIOs = 15176
Nov 19 23:01:37.218: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2100000 numMergedIOs = 126770 numSplitIOs = 15298
Nov 19 23:03:10.250: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2150000 numMergedIOs = 141579 numSplitIOs = 19339
Nov 19 23:04:13.968: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2200000 numMergedIOs = 162025 numSplitIOs = 23779
Nov 19 23:05:16.953: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2250000 numMergedIOs = 186396 numSplitIOs = 24282
Nov 19 23:06:21.046: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2300000 numMergedIOs = 210871 numSplitIOs = 24659
Nov 19 23:07:27.281: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2350000 numMergedIOs = 235437 numSplitIOs = 24992
Nov 19 23:08:34.578: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2400000 numMergedIOs = 257833 numSplitIOs = 27484
Nov 19 23:09:45.921: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2450000 numMergedIOs = 279306 numSplitIOs = 30728
Nov 19 23:10:59.968: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2500000 numMergedIOs = 301859 numSplitIOs = 33057
Nov 19 23:12:06.765: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2550000 numMergedIOs = 322707 numSplitIOs = 37053
Nov 19 23:13:20.265: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2600000 numMergedIOs = 343763 numSplitIOs = 40504
Nov 19 23:14:32.765: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2650000 numMergedIOs = 366072 numSplitIOs = 43150
Nov 19 23:15:33.750: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2700000 numMergedIOs = 388588 numSplitIOs = 45722
Nov 19 23:16:31.968: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2750000 numMergedIOs = 411979 numSplitIOs = 47446
Nov 19 23:17:33.937: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2800000 numMergedIOs = 434079 numSplitIOs = 50472
Nov 19 23:18:36.015: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2850000 numMergedIOs = 452844 numSplitIOs = 56398
Nov 19 23:19:32.062: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2900000 numMergedIOs = 475195 numSplitIOs = 59183
Nov 19 23:20:30.687: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 2950000 numMergedIOs = 496035 numSplitIOs = 63473
Nov 19 23:21:23.781: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3000000 numMergedIOs = 520348 numSplitIOs = 64292
Nov 19 23:22:15.562: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3050000 numMergedIOs = 545278 numSplitIOs = 64546
Nov 19 23:23:08.000: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3100000 numMergedIOs = 568645 numSplitIOs = 66300
Nov 19 23:23:58.656: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3150000 numMergedIOs = 592933 numSplitIOs = 67146
Nov 19 23:24:50.593: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3200000 numMergedIOs = 617423 numSplitIOs = 67833
Nov 19 23:25:40.828: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3250000 numMergedIOs = 642467 numSplitIOs = 67937
Nov 19 23:26:50.140: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3300000 numMergedIOs = 664595 numSplitIOs = 70577
Nov 19 23:28:39.843: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3350000 numMergedIOs = 685304 numSplitIOs = 74420
Nov 19 23:30:55.171: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3400000 numMergedIOs = 699971 numSplitIOs = 75825
Nov 19 23:32:01.078: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3450000 numMergedIOs = 724753 numSplitIOs = 75909
Nov 19 23:33:05.484: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3500000 numMergedIOs = 749541 numSplitIOs = 75912
Nov 19 23:34:07.281: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3550000 numMergedIOs = 774375 numSplitIOs = 75914
Nov 19 23:35:10.593: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3600000 numMergedIOs = 799263 numSplitIOs = 75922
Nov 19 23:36:09.875: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3650000 numMergedIOs = 824115 numSplitIOs = 75928
Nov 19 23:37:06.328: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3700000 numMergedIOs = 848968 numSplitIOs = 75941
Nov 19 23:38:01.468: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3750000 numMergedIOs = 873842 numSplitIOs = 75944
Nov 19 23:38:58.687: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3800000 numMergedIOs = 898688 numSplitIOs = 75946
Nov 19 23:39:59.046: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3850000 numMergedIOs = 923574 numSplitIOs = 75949
Nov 19 23:40:54.484: vcpu-0| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3900000 numMergedIOs = 948440 numSplitIOs = 75954
Nov 19 23:41:50.312: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 3950000 numMergedIOs = 973267 numSplitIOs = 75955
Nov 19 23:56:43.000: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4000000 numMergedIOs = 994737 numSplitIOs = 76162
Nov 20 01:00:43.609: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4050000 numMergedIOs = 1000261 numSplitIOs = 76338
Nov 20 01:02:20.468: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4100000 numMergedIOs = 1001513 numSplitIOs = 76369
Nov 20 01:04:30.312: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4150000 numMergedIOs = 1002277 numSplitIOs = 76399
Nov 20 01:23:32.421: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4200000 numMergedIOs = 1006405 numSplitIOs = 76616
Nov 20 02:52:58.156: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4250000 numMergedIOs = 1012691 numSplitIOs = 77184
Nov 20 04:37:28.218: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4300000 numMergedIOs = 1020076 numSplitIOs = 77406
Nov 20 05:53:54.171: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4350000 numMergedIOs = 1033739 numSplitIOs = 78383
Nov 20 07:35:04.734: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4400000 numMergedIOs = 1041463 numSplitIOs = 78716
Nov 20 08:32:31.250: vcpu-1| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4450000 numMergedIOs = 1050679 numSplitIOs = 79262
Nov 20 09:02:01.093: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4500000 numMergedIOs = 1062332 numSplitIOs = 79896
Nov 20 09:32:53.796: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4550000 numMergedIOs = 1072048 numSplitIOs = 80499
Nov 20 09:51:11.921: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : numIOs = 4600000 numMergedIOs = 1096782 numSplitIOs = 81934

VMWare server bridged mode not working - connected to LAN through Cisco IP phone

kennyfranklin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:47 GMT

For the longest time, I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get the bridged networking to work on my machine. I could never get an IP address via DHCP and if I hard-coded the address to match the IP scheme on our network, I could ping the host machine, but nothing past it. I finally determined if I connected my machine directly to a switch, it worked just fine. However at my desk, my PC connects to the LAN through a port in my IP phone (Cisco 7961 series). When connected through the phone, the bridged networking simply doesn't work. However connected directly to the same switch the phone is in, it works fine.

I'm wondering if anyone has solved this before (or even if there is a solution). Is there a setting on the phone I can change which will correct this? Or is the connection method doomed to failure?

Thanks,

Kenny

vmware-vmx-stat running all day, hogging up CPU to 100% and creating large vmware-stats.log

thaifusion — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:57:35 GMT

One of my two VMs that were originally running on Fusion (converter) and is now running on Server 2 (Debian Host all 64B) winds up with a subfolder called stats (none of my other VMs have this) and it gets filled up with rather large 131MB and larger log files (vmware-stats.log)

and while this is going on, my CPU is pegged half the day by vmware-vmx-stats.

This VM has so many strange happenings since running it though converter.

It also creates .lck files without asking me for permission

Attached is my vmware.log

Thank you for your help in advance master jedi

Unable to log in

alansecker — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:35:59 GMT

I installed Vmware Server 2 ionto 64 bit Mandriva Linux 2010 system using a script written for Ubuntu!

It was brilliant.Howver when I got to https://127.0.0.1:8333/ui/# I could not log in!

I used the same username and password that I used to get in here to write this message.

Is there a way of remedying this?

Data1.cab corrupt on install

billiam407 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:10:36 GMT

I have been trying to install VM Server 2 for the past 2 days and keep getting an error saying that Data1.CAB is corrupt.

I've tried on 3 separate computers running different Windows versions.

I've re-downloaded the binary four times with same result.

Please help.

Bill Dennis
Orlando, FL

VMWare Server 2.02 does not support 64 bit versions of CentOS 5.4

RobertColemanMorgan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:35:05 GMT

I am able to install CentOs 5.5 x86-64 as a stand alone application and it works fine. However When I try to install it under VMWare Ser 2.0.x VMWare reports that my machine does not support lon mode and to use a x386 version which has it's own problems. What gives?

VMware Server 2.0.2 don't recognize 2nd QuadCore CPU

pedabla — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:22:17 GMT

Hello,

I installed CentOS 5.2 64bit and I have installed VMware Server 2.0.2 on the server. All works fine, but the VMware Server only recognizes 1 of the 2 QuadCore CPUs which are installed in the server. The CPUs are of the type XEON E5504 @ 2.00GHz and the server is an IBM x3650 M2 type.

Is there a patch existing or something else which solves this problem or is there a a configuratin so that the VMware Server 2 is able to recognize the second QuardCore CPU?

Please let me know!

Thank you!

Regards

Virtual hardware upgrade - server 1 to server 2 - performance

NetzenSolutions — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:56:54 GMT

Hi, I have recently upgraded from vmware server 1 to server 2, I am still using server 1 virtual hardware, I know I can upgrade the machines virtual hardware to the latest version, however I am concerned that if I upgrade the disks and we have problems with vmware server 2 I will not be able to roll back to server 1.

Are there any performance gains to be made from upgrading the virtual disks / hardware?

Or is it hardly noticable?

TIA

Installing VM Server on Windows 7 Host

ddasilva2000 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:54:11 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Has anyone successfully installed VM Server on a Windows 7 host?

Thanks,

best practice for duplicating a virtual machine in VMWare Server?

Chris4Caribe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:45:40 GMT

Has anyone tried this yet....
I have created a template virtual machine and would like to clone it so i don't have to re-install OS and updates everytime I make a new VM...
Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cannot access virtual machine console

soleng — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:27:27 GMT

I run VMWare server on a Fedora 8 host. I have no problems accessing newly created guests on this host, but when I try to connect to a virtual machine copied from another host, I get the error message:

"Cannot access virtual machine console. The request timed out. The attempt to acquire a valid session ticket for "Nanna" took longer than expected. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator."

The last suggestion does not help me much as I am the system administrator myself . Any suggestions are most welcome!

No SSH possible between guest and LAN

pharkink — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:48:19 GMT

Hi there,

I'm running Server 2.02 on a Debian Lenny 5.03 amd64 fileserver with two NICs, only one of which is currently connected. I have set up two bridged networks, called BridgedEth0 and BridgedEthh1. I intend to run a firewall/gateway in a Guest, with eth0 connected to my ISP and eth1 connected to my LAN, providing DHCP and NAT.

As a quick test of the networking, I've created a simple VM running an Ubuntu 9.10 live iso, and installed openssh-server on it. The VM has one NIC, connected to BridgedEth0 (a.t.m. just connected to my LAN & router), and it gets a normal LAN ip.

I can connect to the internet on the VM, and ssh to/from the Host. However, for some reason I can't understand, it is impossible to ssh to/from other pc's in my LAN. The funny thing is, if i kill the ssh process and just run a netcat on port 22, I can just nc to it on port 22 from my workstation - so it is definately not some sort of firewall issue. A nc to port 22 with the ssh daemon running gives me the correct headers ("SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-6ubuntu2"), but any attempt to actually ssh into it just hangs.

What could be causing this?

B.t.w., the problem is not related to the guest; i've run it with several live-distro's, all with the same result.

On a side node, how would I accomplish having my FW/router run in a guest? Would it be sufficient to just bridge both interfaces, connect one to my WAN and the other to my LAN, and make the host have no IP on the WAN interface?

Cheers.

Paul

.VMDK file missing

crodierde — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:19:34 GMT

I went to clone our template for server 2003 and it says "A file was not found. xx VM LUN00 SRV2003Bare/SRV2003Bare.vmdk , Is there anyway to recover this file. I found out the hard way if I shut off a VM server that had that template it no longer boots. Is there a fix for this?????

VMware Server -- Error 25032. Failed to customize Windows logon process (). Please contact your administrator.

tpoppe2 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:41:10 GMT

When attempting a fresh install of VMWare Server 2.0.2 on a fresh Windows XP box (with some corporate security requirements), I receive the following message:

VMware Server -- Error 25032. Failed to customize Windows logon process (). Please contact your administrator.

The machine is configured with McAfee anti-virus and anti-spyware, neither of which report any errors or blocks. The machine is configured with Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise, which does hook the MS GINA. However, there is no indication of WHY this error is occuring.

I was unable to get a detailed log output when I ran the installer with the /l option.

Has anyone encountered this?

vmware-hostd.exe constantly crashing on Vista/Intel Core i7 :-(

Dmitry Bond — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:01:15 GMT

Hi.

Experiencing problems with VmWare Server 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 on Windows Vista SP2, Core i7-920 computer.
It constantly crashing. I have browsed internet for solutions and have not found anything interesting. Suggested solutions with bad XML files at PrograData folder is not the case - I have checked all XML files there - all are valid.

Reinstalling VmWare Server did not help also. I did uninstalled it, cleaned up all VmWare files, reboot computer and then install again - no effect - vmware-hostd.exe still crashing.
Here is only the piece of lof file that I have found interesting:

+~~2009-11-19 16:31:14.388 'HttpSvc' 7384 info~~ Http Service started: class Vmacore::System::NamedPipeServerWin32:06864DA0+
~~2009-11-19 16:31:14.388 'Statssvc' 7384 info~~ Starting statssvc plugin
~~2009-11-19 16:31:24.645 'SupportsvcPlugin' 7384 info~~ PlmCollector initialized
~~2009-11-19 16:31:24.645 'SupportsvcPlugin' 7384 info~~ Starting regular Collector
~~2009-11-19 16:31:24.645 'SupportsvcPlugin' 7384 info~~ Plugin started
~~2009-11-19 16:31:24.645 'VcsvcPlugin' 7384 info~~ Plugin started
~~2009-11-19 16:31:24.646 'Vimsvc' 7384 info~~ Loading authorization data from C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\authorization.xml
~~2009-11-19 16:31:24.651 'Vimsvc' 7384 error~~ Auth Failed to initialize: <Access is denied. >
~~2009-11-19 16:31:24.651 'App' 7384 error~~

Exception: Assert Failed: "success" @ d:/build/ob/bora-203138/bora/vim/hostd/vimsvc/vimsvc.cpp:202
~~2009-11-19 16:31:24.651 'App' 7384 error~~ Backtrace:
(backtraces not supported)
~~2009-11-19 16:31:24.670 'App' 7384 error~~ CoreDump: unable to create the dump file C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\VMware\vmware-hostd-7632-7384.dmp

As you can see - there is ref to *.DMP file but it does not exists on disk so I cannot analiyze it.

And seems every next attempt to restart VmWare Host Agent service could produde different errors. Here is another log example:

~~2009-11-19 16:55:43.555 'WelcomePageCustomizer' 6192 warning~~ Error loading OEM link information. The system cannot find the path specified.

~~2009-11-19 16:55:43.555 'HTTP server /tmp' 6192 warning~~ Patch uploading will fail because /tmp does not exist
~~2009-11-19 16:55:43.556 'Solo' 6192 info~~ soapPort: 8307
~~2009-11-19 16:55:43.581 'Solo' 6192 info~~ VM inventory configuration: C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\vmInventory.xml
~~2009-11-19 16:55:43.610 'App' 6192 panic~~ error: Access is denied.

~~2009-11-19 16:55:43.610 'App' 6192 panic~~ backtrace:
(backtraces not supported)
~~2009-11-19 16:55:43.624 'App' 6192 info~~ Win32 service stopped

Actually vmInventory.xml file does not exists but I think it should not be a problem because it VmWare have not installed it.

Any ideas - how to fix this problem?

Regards,
Dmitry.

VMWare server 2

kkkanth — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:22:10 GMT

Hi,

I have installed vmware server 2 in WinXP as host and guests OS as windows 2k3,WinXP and Solaris 10, but i am not able to communicate or connect with each other Guest OS and from Host as well and iam using D-Link wireless router for internet connection.

Can some one tell me on how to connect the VMWare guests OS and with Host to communicate, I have tried all the network connection ( Bridged,NAT,Host-Only ) but unable to communicate.

Please help me on this.

let me know if you need anything else

Regards,
Krishna

CentOS 5.4 Glibc version 2.5-34.x86_64 - VMWare Server 2.0.2 Managment Console Fails to Load

NetzenSolutions — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:12:16 GMT

Hi Guys,

I was planning on upgrading to centos 5.4 from 5.3 and read the release
notes which said to hold back glibc as it causes vmware-hostd to crash... I did
this before upgrading and also did a Google search which pointed me to this
blog post http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=844

I did the upgrade to CentOS 5.4 and installed VMWare Server 2.0.2, all
was well everything was working as it should be.

Two days later (this morning), I have attempted to login to the VMWare Management
Console, and it is failing to work... It mostly says "Loading..." in
the browser status and nothing more now it seems to make it to the login screen
and hang after I have entered the credentials.

All the VM's are still running at the moment, has anyone seen this
problem before?

Ok it just logged in... I have done nothing different apart from use the IP
this time, which I have done before about 15 times, yet this time it has logged
in.

So basically it seems like vmware-hostd is flaky on CentOS 5.4 even if glibc
is not upgraded.

I would appreciate your comments / feedback on this.

Thanks

KJS

memory allocation and performance

Antoninio — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:59:04 GMT

Hi,

I am experiencing some wierd memory behavior.

I have a Linux host 64bit (RHEL 5.3), 8GB RAM, Intel Dual Core 3GHz. VMWare Server 2.0.1.

I'm running 4 vms which totalize 7172MB of RAM configuration (3076+2560+1024+512). Reserved Memory is set to 7200.

Now, the wierd behavior is that I can see the correct amount of memory
from inside the vm, but from the host, top gives me (in bold the total
virtual memory per process) :
4220 root 5 -10 1956m 108m 94m S 13.3 1.4 269:24.61 vmware-vmx (3076MB vm)
4806 root 5 -10 1961m 174m 152m S 7.0 2.2 643:56.50 vmware-vmx (2560MB vm)
8730 root 5 -10 524m 211m 198m S 6.7 2.6 10:42.14 vmware-vmx (512MB vm)
4512 root 5 -10 1432m 1.0g 1.0g S 6.0 13.2 136:52.51 vmware-vmx (1024MB vm)

I have only partial memory
allocation while a want a total allocation from the beginning. This leads to very very poor performance after some time. Top also informs me that it is used a lot for io time wait :
Cpu(s): 1.2%us, 8.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.0%id, 69.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st

memory used and allocated inside the vm is higher than 1956MB, I have more than 2.5GB inside the guest. Here is the result of "free" in the 3GB linux guest :

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3107820 2918648 189172 0 110244 381580
-/+ buffers/cache: 2426824 680996
Swap: 2096440 76 2096364

For the 2 first vm I should have more than that amount of memory....

I would appreciate any feedback on similiar issue or explaination/solution about that.

Does anyone has been able to build guests with more than 2GB? This could help me to know if I'm doing something wrong.

Regards

Cannnot access vmware server web access

tech4 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:57:56 GMT

When I access the vmware sevrer with the URL https://ipaddress:8333 browser shows page cannot be diskplayed

when I restart the service on linux server "service vmware-mgmt restart" web access works for some time and again un accessible

anybody has any ideas?

Inaccessible Virtual Machine in Server2 on encrypted disk

anothervmwareuser — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:57:06 GMT

Hello,

my host is Ubuntu 8.10, and im using an encrypted disk for my datastore and virtual machine files. When I installed the guest (WinXP) everything worked fine, but after a reboot of the host, i only get
Inaccessible Virtual Machine
In the webmanager.

One or more of the virtual machine configuration files are inaccessible. The cause of this problem may be transient (for example, because the virtual machine's datastore is not available). You can remove the virtual machine from the inventory if you believe the cause is permanent.Click the link below to remove the virtual machine from the inventory.
Remove Virtual Machine
To help diagnose the issue, you can check the virtual machine files at their last known location: "/crypto5/vmware/Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine.vmx"

I even tried to restart vmware with /etc/init.d/vmware restart, vmware-mgmt-restart vmware-core restart, but it didnt help. The Virtual Machine Config files are there, and readable. What can i do?

Thx for help

cannot select hostonly and NAT network in add hardware wizard

tech888 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:53:31 GMT

I have installed vmware server 2 and using windows as host and also guest operatinf systems. After creating the virtual machine, network in guest operating system doesn't work. I can select bridge mode during the creation of the virtual machine but hostonly and NAT network mode doesn't appear in "network connection" list at all. However, VMnet0,Vmnet1 and vmnet8 are shown in the summary tab of the manage virtual networks.

Please help. Thanks

VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

ryzman — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:45:27 GMT

I have been using VMWare Server 2.0.1 fine for several months until I rebooted my server into a new Kernel.

Although the modules all start up OK in the terminal window the web interface seems to crash after being up for only a few seconds - sometimes barely enough to log in.

Any ideas?

My hardware is Dell R900 - 4 quad core intel CPU with 128Gb of ram

My OS is Red Hat Linux ES kernel version 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5

Thanks

Cannot open disk but it is there

Raybat — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:51:08 GMT

Hi,

I copied a VM from vmware workstation to a new machine with vmware server installed.

When I try to open the VM I get the attached error that says:
"Power on Virtual Machine" failed to complete.
Cannot open the disk "c:\...vmdk" or one of the snapshot disks that it depends on.
Reason: The system cannot find the specified path.

When starting the VM, I chose "I copied it."
To help trouble shoot the error, I have a window open showing that the file does exist.

FYI, I copied the VM to another machine running workstation and it opens?

I guess the answer is to buy another copy of workstation.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in Advance,

Ray B.

VMware server 2 feedback

qwertyyyy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:56:51 GMT

Hi. I looked for somewhere on the website to send VM server 2 feedback but couldn't find anywhere, so I guess this is it.

I almost installed vmware server 2 on my workstation at work the other day, but was cautioned by someone who had tried it. So I thought I'd better try it at home first. I've installed it on my Ubuntu 64bit laptop now (AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 with 1G RAM). I've found it fairly unusable.

On trying to install my first guest OS the interface was very
slow, but that didn't really worry me. I should only be using it to
get the guest OS installed. But I tried booting the guest off
a Knoppix install CD and the processor went to 100% utilisation and X
becaome unuseable. I lef it for an hour or so but it was frozen (mouse
still moved, but no keyboard response). I tried again with a Debian
install CD and got the same problem. I removed VM server 2 and tried to
install version 1. But it had 32-bit library issues. I re-installed
version 2 and tried the Debian installer again. This time the install
went straight through and I thought all was well. I created two more VMs and copied the disk images from the first one over them to save time.

Opening the first console window through the interface was fairly fast, but opening a second one takes around 5 minutes, and often results in an error saying the connection timed out. (this is a connection to localhost). Closing the failed window and trying again sometimes works, but just as often X has become unusable again so I have to logout and try again.

I think that tying the UI to a browser is a bad idea. You could have kept it as a standalone app and still launched it from the browser? Firefox is a great browser but it leaks memory like a sieve. Trying to run it for an hour or more is a bit of a stretch. Is there a way to launch the plugin standalone?

Here is patch for 2.6.30 kernel for VMware Server 2.0.1 build-156745 x_64

michelemase — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:34:32 GMT

After updating the kernel 2.6.30, I couldn't compile modules. The error was:

...

CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:31:
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:67: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU’:
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘euid’
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘uid’
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘fsuid’
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘uid’
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘egid’
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘gid’
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘fsgid’
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘gid’
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only~~ Error 2
...

Thanx to user Krellan on his post http://communities.vmware.com/thread/208963
Changing a little his patch and shell file, now it's possible to work with kernel 2.6.30 on vmware server 2.0.1
I've successfully tested it on ubuntu x_64 (9.04).
I hope it will be useful
Regards Michele

testAutomation-fd: File not found

CoryC — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:39:04 GMT

I'm getting a spam of these messages in hostd.log and am currently unable to power on any VM's after having upgraded the kernel and vmware:

2009-11-18 00:05:04.907 'Libs' 139973486790992 info] connect to /var/run/vmware/root_0/1258520615029487_16569/testAutomation-fd: File not found

Need help on W2008 Ent in VM instance licensing on VSphere..????

upg3 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:17:01 GMT

Hi...
I know that a single license of win'08 enterprise can run 4 instances in virtual, up to here it is ok but the thing is that how will it work in reality. As soon as the installation finished win2008 starts asking for the activation, but how to do that with a single product key?
I am new with this....pls let me know if any specific procedure need to be followed....and how.

Another thing, I have converted few win2k3 Ent hosted physical servers to virtual. My question is, whether can I use that same Enterprise license of win2k3 and have another three VM instances...without expending any more bucks.

Thanks for your reply...

VMware Server 2.0.x webAccess interfaces flakey... "web service not available"

bmasuda — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:04:28 GMT

I've been having this problem for a while. Sometimes when I try to login or even after I login I get kicked out of the web GUI with "web service not available" message. I've seen this posted all over when doing a google search and seems like the problem existed even in beta before 2.0 was released.

The hostd.log was useless. But, I did find the following entries in proxy.log at the moment this failure happens:

2009-05-31 23:45:21,315,waitForUpdates<=>,UpdatesErrorHandler Updates thread error notification. PrevError=null, NewError=RuntimeFault, NewErrorMessage=spec
2009-05-31 23:45:22,038,http-8308-7<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /view/fetch : RuntimeFault spec
2009-05-31 23:45:22,038,http-8308-7<=>,FetchPropertySetAction Fetching propertySet failed for id = 2120
2009-05-31 23:45:22,038,http-8308-7<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /view/fetch : ServiceNotAvailableException javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Number of parameters passed in (3) doesn't match the number of IN/INOUT parameters (2) frm the addParameter() calls

The last line to me seems to hint at a possible bug? Anybody know of a resolution to this problem? I'm on VMware Server 2.0.1, running on CentOS 5.3/x86_64.

TIA

Failed to launch peer process

kernwig — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:17:02 GMT

I'm trying to get VMware Server v2.0.1 running on a new machine - Atom 330 CPU, Windows Embedded for Point of Service. (Basically, Windows XP SP3.)

I successfully used VMware Server v2.0.1 on a Celeron CPU with Windows XP Embedded (Windows XP SP2.) The exact VM I'm trying to use now works on that older computer running in VMware Player.

When I try to launch a VM, the resulting hostd log file contains:

~~2009-11-17 16:33:56.945 'TaskManager' 3564 info~~ Task Created : haTask-64-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-7471212
~~2009-11-17 16:33:56.945 'PropertyProvider' 3564 verbose~~ RecordOp ADD: recentTask, 64
~~2009-11-17 16:33:56.945 'PropertyProvider' 3564 verbose~~ RecordOp ADD: recentTask, ha-taskmgr
~~2009-11-17 16:33:56.945 'ha-eventmgr' 3564 info~~ Event 2 : Intelio Edge Template on host sserv in ha-datacenter is starting
~~2009-11-17 16:33:56.945 'PropertyProvider' 3564 verbose~~ RecordOp ASSIGN: latestEvent, ha-eventmgr
~~2009-11-17 16:33:56.945 'vm:C:\Intelio\vm\edgeA\Intelio-Edge-rev3.vmx' 3564 info~~ State Transition (VM_STATE_OFF -> VM_STATE_POWERING_ON)
~~2009-11-17 16:33:56.945 'PropertyProvider' 3564 verbose~~ RecordOp ASSIGN: disabledMethod, 64
~~2009-11-17 16:33:56.945 'ha-license-manager' 3564 info~~ Vimsvc::HaLicenseSourceImpl::CheckLicenses: skipped on this platform
~~2009-11-17 16:33:57.023 'PropertyProvider' 1944 verbose~~ RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask-64-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-7471212
~~2009-11-17 16:33:57.101 'Libs' 2400 info~~ VMHSVMCbPower: Setting state of VM /vm/#65d8f85c9eaf2cb6/ to powerOn with option soft
~~2009-11-17 16:33:57.272 'Libs' 2400 warning~~ VMHSVMExecVMX: the VMX process terminated prematurely
~~2009-11-17 16:33:57.272 'Libs' 2400 warning~~ VMHSLaunchVM failed: Failed to launch peer process
~~2009-11-17 16:33:58.021 'PropertyProvider' 1944 verbose~~ RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask-64-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-7471212
~~2009-11-17 16:33:59.018 'PropertyProvider' 1944 verbose~~ RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask-64-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-7471212
~~2009-11-17 16:34:00.016 'PropertyProvider' 1944 verbose~~ RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask-64-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-7471212
~~2009-11-17 16:34:01.013 'PropertyProvider' 1944 verbose~~ RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask-64-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-7471212
~~2009-11-17 16:34:08.089 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectPipe failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:08.089 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:08.089 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:08.089 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to read vmware-authd port number: Cannot connect to VMX: C:\Intelio\vm\edgeA\Intelio-Edge-rev3.vmx

~~2009-11-17 16:34:19.560 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectPipe failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:19.560 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:19.560 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:19.560 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to read vmware-authd port number: Cannot connect to VMX: C:\Intelio\vm\edgeA\Intelio-Edge-rev3.vmx

~~2009-11-17 16:34:31.047 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectPipe failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:31.047 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:31.047 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:31.047 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to read vmware-authd port number: Cannot connect to VMX: C:\Intelio\vm\edgeA\Intelio-Edge-rev3.vmx

~~2009-11-17 16:34:42.519 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectPipe failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:42.519 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:42.519 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:42.519 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to read vmware-authd port number: Cannot connect to VMX: C:\Intelio\vm\edgeA\Intelio-Edge-rev3.vmx

~~2009-11-17 16:34:54.006 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectPipe failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:54.006 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:54.006 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed
~~2009-11-17 16:34:54.006 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to read vmware-authd port number: Cannot connect to VMX: C:\Intelio\vm\edgeA\Intelio-Edge-rev3.vmx

~~2009-11-17 16:35:05.477 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectPipe failed
~~2009-11-17 16:35:05.477 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed
~~2009-11-17 16:35:05.477 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed
~~2009-11-17 16:35:05.477 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to read vmware-authd port number: Cannot connect to VMX: C:\Intelio\vm\edgeA\Intelio-Edge-rev3.vmx

~~2009-11-17 16:35:16.948 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectPipe failed
~~2009-11-17 16:35:16.948 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed
~~2009-11-17 16:35:16.948 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed
~~2009-11-17 16:35:16.948 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to read vmware-authd port number: Cannot connect to VMX: C:\Intelio\vm\edgeA\Intelio-Edge-rev3.vmx

~~2009-11-17 16:35:28.435 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectPipe failed
~~2009-11-17 16:35:28.435 'Libs' 2588 info~~ CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed
~~2009-11-17 16:35:28.435 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed
~~2009-11-17 16:35:28.435 'Libs' 2588 info~~ Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to read vmware-authd port number: Cannot connect to VMX: C:\Intelio\vm\edgeA\Intelio-Edge-rev3.vmx

~~2009-11-17 16:35:28.451 'Vmsvc' 2992 info~~ Failed to do Power Op: Error: (3008) Cannot connect to the virtual machine
~~2009-11-17 16:35:28.451 'vm:C:\Intelio\vm\edgeA\Intelio-Edge-rev3.vmx' 2992 warning~~ Failed operation
~~2009-11-17 16:35:28.451 'ha-eventmgr' 2992 info~~ Event 3 : Failed to power on Intelio Edge Template on sserv in ha-datacenter: A general system error occurred:
~~2009-11-17 16:35:28.451 'PropertyProvider' 2992 verbose~~ RecordOp ASSIGN: latestEvent, ha-eventmgr
~~2009-11-17 16:35:28.451 'vm:C:\Intelio\vm\edgeA\Intelio-Edge-rev3.vmx' 2992 info~~ State Transition (VM_STATE_POWERING_ON -> VM_STATE_OFF)
~~2009-11-17 16:35:28.451 'PropertyProvider' 2992 verbose~~ RecordOp ASSIGN: disabledMethod, 64
~~2009-11-17 16:35:28.451 'TaskManager' 2992 info~~ Task Completed : haTask-64-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-7471212

There's no vmware.log file in the VM's directory. I have uninstalled VMware Server, cleaned up all left behind files, rebooted, reinstall, reconfigure, reboot, and the same thing still happens.

I'm at a loss on what else to try or how to diagnose the problem. The log offers nodetail about why the VM process fails.

Random machine shutdown

Leftie59 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:24:26 GMT

Over the last two weeks a Server 2003 VM has shutdown. I have scowered the logs and cannot find an error arond the time of the shutsdown. This moring another VM on another box was shutdown.

I am runnig VMware Serer 2.0.0 ontop of two CentOS, 32 bit, boxes.

Any ideas on where and what to look for to find the problem?

Thanks, Mark

VMware Server 2 web interface remotely - console window issues

pentium4forever — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:36:00 GMT

Hello,

I recently downloaded and installed VMware Server 2. On the computer it is running on, Windows 7 Professional, 6GB RAM, 64-bit OS of Win 7, Athlon X2 3800+ processor (dual-core). When at home, I bring up the web browser and launch from vmware infrastructure access without a problem, had to download the VMware Remote Console plugin which wasn't a problem, if I have a virtual machine, I can go to console and get the nice pop-up window and access the vm's console without a hitch.

What I would like to do is access the interface remotely. I'm having issues with the console windows when trying to do it remotely. I have a free dynamic dns name through no-ip.com and the port used for the web interface I set to 8181, https too. I configured my router at home for forwarding those ports to the local computer running VMware Server with a private ip of 192.168.x.x. Can launching the console window remotely from a different computer's web browser work in VMware Server 2 or is it only in a paid option?

I tried remotely connecting via dynamic name, eklundlan.servebeer.com:8181 and than by my internet ip address. At home I use Firefox without a problem and everything works beautifully. After downloading the VMware Remote Console plugin for FF, I restarted the browser and such.

I've attached a pic of the error when I try to launch a virtual machine's console window, where it says to click anywhere, I do and vmware remote console window freezes and then produces an error message. I've attached the jpeg.

I verified and all the VMware services are running on the local machine, including the VMware Host service.

Thanks,

Nick

VMware Server Download Stalls after 109MB downloaded

stanmay — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:17:51 GMT

Can anyone tell me why the VMware server 2.x download stops at 109 MB. All other VMware downloads are ok.

vmware-hostd crashes repeatedly after upgrade to RHEL 5.4

dirkgf — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:54:04 GMT

We're running a VMware Server 2.0.1 server on an RHEL 5 machine (x86_64, Dell T300 with a X3363 processor). Everything has been running fine until we've upgrade from RHEL 5.3 to RHEL 5.4. Now vmware-hostd crashes after some actions with SIGABRT. Reverting back to the old kernel does not seem to help. So I'd like to ask if anyone else is experiencing this issue.

I've opened up a Support Request at VMware, but since RHEL 5.4 is not yet supported I assume, the request will not be handled.

VMware GSX 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 (is there a stable version of GSX for Fedora 11)

tstrike34 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:10:36 GMT

Hi everyone, been lurking for awhile...

I am () close to go back to KVM (and not renewing my VMware licenses also (they are workstations)). I got embarassed in a demo and luckily was saved by KVM to be honest.

To my problem: I cant shut down my guests except using a script to kill the PIDs of the running guests. Then I have to completely bounce GSX 2.0.1. Looking around I see that CentOS is having the same issue. Should we just completely abandon the world of VMware (which was proven stable in the past, but that is NOT the case now) or is there a bonafide solution that deals with this issue? Is this issue associated with the extremely crappy Tomcat J2EE server integration (I could put one of my programmers to work on it)?

I just don't want to sound like one of those whiners, but VMware is the standard by which my customers work from and now I have halted all testing of my solutions (my folks first alerted me to the situation, so I rolled up my sleeves and start replicating what they seen).

From what I see, hostd seems very unstable.

Is there a workaround? I really don't mean to bash VMware (hey its good stuff from the beginning, what happened?).

Thanks everyone and have a good day!

Vmware Server 2.0.2 Memory Consumption

AlejandroVK — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:02:29 GMT

Hi there,

First of all apologize if this has been asked alredy, but I can't seem to find the answer in the forums...

My host is a dual quad core Dell PowerEdge 2900 with 16GB RAM, since I installed vmware server 2 I'm running on memory consumption issues.....previously with Vmware Server 1 I could have like 15 guests running at the same time (with varying amounts of RAM, from 512 to 2GB) with no probs. Since I installed VmWare Server 2 I've seen that every time a guest is started all the memory is reserved in the host, although I selected ' Allow most virtual machine memory to be swapped' in the Host settings tab.

This is forcing the host to being able to run only a few guests at the same time when previously it could sustain many more with good performance. I installed 2.0.2 hoping it could solve this issue but no lack. Now my question is...is there any parameter I should modify in the guest configuration file to improve this?

I'm considering going back to VMware Server 1 since the perfomance was way better....

Best regards,

Alex

VMs freezing

thaifusion — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:17:37 GMT

Hi,

I have no idea why, but once a day or so...at random times. My VMs on one particular server freeze for about 20 minutes or so and then come back to life. What would be causing this?

When I login to check it out.. the CPU is at 0 and memory is still in use

I only have 2 VMs on this box... and other than that, it runs pretty normally

Thanks

VMware Server 2.0 does not see 8 cores on Intel i7, only 4

mecworks — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:44:48 GMT

I have a new system that Im building with an EVGA X58 SLI MB, Intel Core i7-920. I have opensuse 11.1 x86_64 installed with VMware-server-2.0.0-122956 installed.

All 4 cores are enabled as well as hyperthreading. Catting /proc/cpuinfo shows all 8 processors. When I reboot into the XEN kernel, it also recognizes and can use all 8 cores. However VMware Server only shows 4 cores in the administration console. I am wondering why I'm not seeing all 8 cores?

VMware Server 2.0 processor limitation, quad-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504

JoshD — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:47:33 GMT

I recently purchased several Dell Precision workstation's with 2 x 2.0GHz quad-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504's.

The workstations are Windows XP 64-bit,

I installed vmware server 2.0, but the service console only display's one cpu, 4-cores. So vmware server is only allocating cores from one of the processors to vm's.

I saw a similar post from July, but the only resolution was to manually set afinity for the vm's to use specific processor cores.

Has anyone found a resolution to this, for vmware server to "see" both processor's?

At the least, I wanted to bring this up again as an issue that could possibly be fixed in a future release.

User can not connect to VMware-Servers

edv_admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:36:59 GMT

Hello,

here fist some technical details:

Server: CentOS 5.2 - 64-bit

Within CentOS VMware Server 2.0.1 -> 1. NT-4 Server for Domain 2. Ubuntu-Server for database 3. DNS-Ubuntu-Server
On CentOS itself SAMBA is installed

Clients: WinXP Pro

First of all: Everything here is working fine but:

Two users should have the permission to restart/reset/shutdown the 3 Servers running in VMware.

Therefore I created a new profil/role and gave the permissions restart/shutdown and reset.

VMware Console is installed on the 2 clients.

LogOn with the root-user from the clients to the 3 Servers works fine but not with the 2 users and I have no idea why... Password and/or name are wrong it says....

I guess it is a problem with the name and/or password but I have no idea why that is and how to solve that problem. There is no separate user/password file for WMware isn't it? I tried with the NT-Logons which also works for the Samba files fine. Is that the problem somehow? Or is it a bug?

Can anybody pls help me?

Thanks a lot!

Mutiple nics on host assign to specific virtual machine

Alextek — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:01:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm using vmware server 2.0 on windows. I would like to add a new ethernet card in the server to assign 1 nic card to each virtual machine. There's a documentation about that? I've some network latency thats why I want 1 nic per virtual machine.

Thanks
Alex

VMWare Server 2.0.2 on linux 2.6.30 i686

phantomlord78 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:35:09 GMT

We finally have a new version of VMWare Server, but we have the well known problem:

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.30-2-686/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-686/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.30-2-686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:31:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.30-2-common/include/linux/poll.h:67: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU':
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriver_Ioctl':
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'euid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'egid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
make[4]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only~~ Error 2
make[2]: *** sub-make Error 2
make[1]: *** all Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.30-2-686'
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.

Are there patches for VMWare Server 2.0.2 and 2.6.30 kernel?

Virtual Machine will not start , help me please

thaifusion — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:20:48 GMT

Hi,

I have a Debian Host running VMWARE Server 2. It has been up and running for 3 months will little to no problems. All of a sudden, my Server 2008 32BIT turned off on its own a few times.

Now, I am trying to start it and it get to the point where it is about to go into the GUI and it turns off.

There is 50% of the disk that is free

I have checked the configuration

I deleted and then re-added it to the inventory

I don't know what to do next, but I need to get this guy up and running.

Please...suggestions, i'm in a bad situation.

Thank you in advance

Error: Register Virtiual Machine

wynnep09 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:50:56 GMT

Hi,

I have recently upgraded Server 1.0 to Version 2.0 (latest download from the site). My Virtual machines will power up and appear to function without issue but I am seeing errors when I start the host. Details are as follows:

Task ID: Folder.registerVm
Target: vm
Status: Error
Triggered At: 11/18/09
Triggered by: Administrator
Completed At: 11/18/09

Description:
Adds an existing Virtual Machine to the folder

Error:
The object or item referred to could not be found.

Any help with clearing this errors would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
Paul.

Why are there 32-bit processes on my Vista 64-bit installation?

DavidCarr — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:19:55 GMT

Hoping someone can shed some light as to why, having installed VMWare Server on a host running Vista 64-bit Business, that the following all show up as 32-bit processes in Task Manager:

VMNat.exe
VMNetDCHP.exe
VMWare-AuthD.exe
WMWare-HostD.exe

The only VM* named process that is 64-bit appears to be VMWare-VMX.exe.

Thanks in advance,
David

vmware tools problems

azfar — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:32:44 GMT

I upgraded vmware tools (server v1 to server v2) and now sql unable to start the service. When I remove the tools i got some runtime file missing errors. whats the issue? and now I am trying to install vmware tools again but console show the vmware tools cd is inserted but its not appearing in my guest!

Annoyance in Console (Bar at top)

mpg187 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:35:39 GMT

I think there is a bug or something.

You know the bat at the top? Sometimes it stays even though it's not supposed to. I click the icon which then pins it (before it wasn't pinned but still stayed for whatever reason). Next I click it again to unpin but then the VM exits fullscreen mode and goes to a Window. At this point I press CTRL+ALT+Enter to go back in full screen mode.

So:

1. The bat should not stay there
2. It should not exit full screen mode when I pin and unpin the bar...

Internet Security

dnstrong — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:33:48 GMT

I am wondering if each guest on VMWare Server 2 needs to provide its own Internet secutity softare, or is VMWare and its subsequent guests covered by the software on the host computer. It would seem that since all traffic goes through the host would be monitored by the host's security software. This being the case, is it necessary to be worried about Windows guests constantly warning about security risks? It is a curious situation but I have not found anything to explain this situation on the Internet. Does anyone have the answer to this question?

Failed to allocate main memory on a root NFS Linux host

jcdr — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:58:01 GMT

I try to use VMware Server 2.0.0 build 116503 on a diskless amd64 Debian Lenny machine using root NFS, but I get this message when I start the virtual machine:

As the machine is diskless, there is no local filesystem where to move the virtual machine! I have tryed to use a NFS datastore for the virtual machine, but I get the same message.

VMware server version 1.x have worked fine on this machine before. Is there any solution to disable this message and to power up the machine (even if there is some performance penality or intergity risk) ?

Failed
attempt to use "/tmp/vmware-root-1245325229/mm0" as the the virtual RAM
file. The file is on a remote disk. Please move your virtual machine or
temporary directory to a local filesystem.
Failed to allocate main memory.
Module MainMem power on failed.

VMware Server 2 Networking

scotty p — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:04:06 GMT

I just installed a new VMware Server 2 server. I have 3 NICs on the host. I've used the vmnetcfg tool to configure the NICs with the "Host Virtual Network Mappings" to map to the physical NICs. However, when I try to edit the NIC settings of the vm, I only get Bridged, Host Only, or NAT. And the web interface doesn't even look like any of the documentation I've read online on how to configure this. Can anyone help with setting this up?

Thanks,
Scott

Cannot eject CD

UberTekGfx — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:37:18 GMT

I am running VMWare Server 2 on a WIndows XP Pro 64bit OS with a Windows XP Pro 32bit VM. The VM seems to operate just fine and even reads the CD I insert in the Host system. The Host system can read the CD as well. Problem occurs when I try to eject the CD either via the Host or Client. It simply will not eject. No errors, just no eject.

I have made sure no windows are open that access the CD drive nor are any processes running that access the CD drive.

Things I have tried:

1) Host - press CD eject button.
2) Host - In Windows Explorer, r-click CDROM and select "eject".
3) Client - In Windows Explorer, r-click CDROM and select "eject".
4) Host - press and held CD eject button for >30 seconds.
5) Shutdown the client VM and then attempted 1, 2 and 4.

Any ideas?

vmware tools install fails in suse guest systems - cannot recompile due to wrong kernel

wolfherf — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:30:47 GMT

I copied three suse servers (8.1, 9.1, 9.3) from a hoster to my vmserver. The hoster has updated the kernel so a recompile is not possible (gcc error). When I run the vmware tools install it fails.

I need to install the scsi driver and a nic driver (probably vlance / amdpcnet) so that I can run the vmware converter to an esx host. The esx needs to have the scsi driver from lsi installed otherwise the convertion fails.

How do i add the lsi driver (mptscsi ?) and the nic driver using the command line without a kernel rebuild so that i can access my machines via a network.

VMware tools doesn't compile in ubuntu 9.10

WebAngel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:25:37 GMT

Hi all,

using VMWare Server 2.0.1 on a Linux VM it makes available Tools 7.7.5.

While using a Ubuntu 9.10 as guest, it's impossible to build the vmware tools module for a list of compilation error (likes constants redefined and so on).

Anyone knows if there is a Workaround to gain the tools working? The vm seems to be OK, what i need is the cut and paste from the remote plugin...

Thanks in advance

AMD PCNet adapter not recognised under Windows 7

iburnell — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:16:09 GMT

I use VMWare to test Operating System Deployments (OSD) with SMS/SCCM. Currently testing deploying Windows 7 Professional

If I create VM using the Vista template (using server 2.0.1) it all installs just fine

Next I tested an upgrade of an XP VM machine to Win 7 and it failed. After much checking I found that there's a plug and play task in SCCM to load device drivers and it was not picking up the AMD PCNet adapter under windows 7. Therefore there was no network connectivity and hence the job couldn't access UNC drives

Strangly after the fact if I pointed to the directory containing the VMtools drivers it would update the driver

I noticed that the Vista template uses the Intel Pro 1000 MT driver. I also noticed you could add line into the .VMX to make it use an e1000 driver. After testing I could get the XP machine to build with the Intel driver and it would then upgrade to Windows 7 without problems - just the AMD driver causing the problem

So whilst I have got round the issue I'm interested to know if anyone else has hit this problem and if there's a workaround - maybe there's a more up to date driver for Win7 for the AMD PCNet driver ?

Windows 7 Guest: A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing

miallen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:18:07 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to install en_windows_7_professional_x86_dvd_x15-65804.iso on VMWare Server 2.0 with host OS CentOS 5.3 but during the Windows 7 install I get:

Load Driver: A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, DC, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.

I selected Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) as the Guest OS and used a Physical Drive with Use ATAPI Emulation as the DVD drive. If I try the alternative ISO Image option the installer never runs. The console is just a black screen.

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong here?

Mike

Upgrade from V2.0.0 to V2.0.2 on Windows doesn't show new version

DavidCarr — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:13:25 GMT

I had VM Server V2.0.0 installed on my Vista 64-bit Business host. Looking at the 'Programs and Features' (Vista's equivalent of 'Add/Remove Programs'), I noted V2.0.0.2643. Now I have downloaded and upgraded to the latest version of VMWare Server:

Version 2.0.2 | 203138 - 10/26/09

however looking back in 'Programs and Features', it shows V2.0.0.2712. I would have expected a V2.0.2.* number, not V2.0.0.*.

Did it upgrade properly? Is there somewhere else I can check to see if the upgrade occurred? I saw a post on how to do this in Linux, but not on Windows (and the browser interface unfortunately doesn't dispaly any version).

Thanks in advance,
David

Linux Centos host - can't get network, cdrom, floppy to work in any guest OS

jeregan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:38:06 GMT

Installed Vmware server 2.0.1 on Linux Centos 5.4 (32 bit Intel quad core) with latest patches.

When I go and create any VM, regardless of the type, and then look a the list of 'hardware' after it is created: I see red X's across the following:

any type of network adapter (if I create one of each of the 3, they all show the red x)

CDrom (mapped to host's CDrom)

floppy (mapped to host's floppy)

I have tried different kernels, etc., and no help. If I install the OS on the VM, it doesn't see the items above.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Jeff

Windows 7 ultimiate 64 bit as guest on Server 2003 host

JohnHoge — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:47:15 GMT

Hi,

I just got back from the Devconnections converence where everybody seems to be raving about the stability of Windows 7. I fired up a new VMWare instance and installed it on a Vista 64 configuration on VMware Server 2.02.

It crashes all the time, and ctrl-alt-delete won't help. I can think of two possibilities

1) Windows 7 sucks
2) It just doesn't work on VMWare.

I wouldn't want to reformat a physical machine without a good test on a VM. Anybody else in the same boat?

John Hoge

VM shuts down when copied using GPFS

MarkHewitt1978 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:23:29 GMT

Hi,

I'm running VMWare Server 2 on Scientific Linux 4 (i.e. RedHat 4)

Our main mounted file system is mounted using GPFS and I have been storing the VMs on the mounted file storage, most of the time this works fine, and gives us the ability to move machines between hosts etc.

However whenever anything attempts to make a copy of the virtual machine files, the VM shuts down! This can be using the normal cp copy command or scp or just our backup system. The interesting this is that it only occurs when the VM is being served from the GPFS filestore. If the VM is on local storage then it keeps running if a copy is taken of it.

This does cause problems as we'd like to be able to include the Virtual Machine storage directory in our backups.

VM SERVER 2.02 on 32 bit Vista-Hostd -WebGui Not working-XML File missing-Files in the hostd folder missing

MYVN123 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:28:09 GMT

Hello,
I have been having this issue with Vista from get go, the issue is that i get an error when using webgui that
***The VMware Infrastructure Web Service at "http://localhost:8222/sdk" is not responding (Connection Refused).
***Vi client also does not connect to my vmserver.
***Hostd service does not start on my Dell Vista home pc with vmserver 2.02
error:
***The VMware Host Agent service terminated with service-specific error 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF).
I have seen this numerous times with following reference.
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/156265
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/190645
In either case, a currupt XML file under hostd is descriebed.
In my case, even after cleaning up entire install, reboot and re-install including registry i dont have any files that should exists normally under
hostd folder , i.e datastore.xml.
Has any one else come accross this, seems like vmserver on Vista is just not installing properly.
Does any one have this files zipped up and uploaded here so i can try that solution?
My Hostd folder has single folder called "docroot" and nothing else, it seems like i should have had the files below
authorization.xml
config.xml
datastores.xml
environments.xml
hwInfo.xml
key.pub
mockup-win.vha
npivwwn.xml
proxy.xml
server-hw3.xml
server-hw4.xml
server-hw6.xml
server-hw7.xml
vmAutoStart.xml
vmconfigoption-server-2.0.0-hw3.xml
vmconfigoption-server-2.0.0-hw4.xml
vmconfigoption-server-2.0.0-hw6.xml
vmconfigoption-server-2.0.0-hw7.xml
vmInventory.xml
Any ideas, i am really exusted getting vmserver to work under XP, there seems to be no other suitable alternative, i,.e exi 4 ( i need to run it on desktop pc), this would require server compatible chip.
Vplayer---does not have funtionality of the server and you cannot create new machines with it.
Any suggestion, i think lots of people are affected by this.
Thanks

vmware cron job

PNozay — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:33:23 GMT

Sorry if this sounds like a very newbish question but:
What are the commands I need to automate guest shutdowns, guest startups and guest restarts under CentOS 5.3? (in case it helps, cat /proc/version outputs: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 (mockbuild@builder10.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Wed Mar 25 18:14:28 EDT 2009)

Specifically, I have inherited a pair of windows server 2003 guests that need to talk to each other and, annoyingly, have a bad habit of forgetting how to do so on a regular basis, with the only established solution being regular restarts. Unfortunately, the software that is causing this problem is legacy custom code and at this point cannot be fixed (and in fact has been largely supplanted by a new web-based equivalent). At this point, I would prefer to just discard the software and its VMs entirely, but it is still required for retrieval of archived data whilst we migrate to the new software mentioned above.

Thus I want to set up a scheduled task (cron job?) to shutdown and power off the first guest, restart the second, then, when the restart is completed, start the first guest again.

Any help gratefully received.

Host win-vista, guest Winxp, filesharing and internert sharing probs

jssneeraj0107 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:53:23 GMT

Hi Friends,

I have vmware 2.0 on windows vista and winxp guest. I have to server files and have to access internet on guest ( winxp).

Kindly help, how can I do this configuration.

Any help will be much appricated.

Regards
Neeraj

how to disable snapshotting feature on host/per vm?

ilyaruprecht — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:23:22 GMT

Hi all!

I'm running a vmware 2.0 server on a windows 2008 64-bit.

Is there a way to generally disable the snapshotting-feature for the vm-machines?

Can it be done on vm-host-level? Or must it be done per vm?
Is there a such option aka

disable.snapshotting = TRUE

which i could put into .vmx-file?

Thanks in advance!

Ilya

vmware desktop console

lucasweb — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:30:10 GMT

Hi, i have installed the vmware server 2 and i don't like the web UI manager. I prefer the vmware server 1 manager console desktop.
So i have installed VI-client, but i have this question. I connect with vi-client from another PC, but can i connect with this tool from the same PC of server 2 installed ? Thanks

vmware-hostd crash on ubuntu 9.10 with vmware server 2.x

jchatham — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:46:23 GMT

For me, the magic words were:

sudo su -
pkill vmware-hostd
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/vmacore/:/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libexpat.so.0/
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd -a -u /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml

After doing this, I set up a script to pound on the VI interface for about twelve hours, and didn't see another crash.
I'd be interested to know if this works for anyone else.

Trouble logging into vmware server

chadpeppers — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:54:13 GMT

I downloaded vmware server onto my windows vista home edition. I was going to try and run a linux server for practice for linux certification. Also want to run a windows server 2008. After I installed it and try to login it keeps telling me I have a bad username/password. I tried the different login combinations including my username Chad, root, admin, administrator and using my admin password. Anybody had this issue ?

Vmware Server 2.0.1 - install license after the fact.

grgoffe — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:04:09 GMT

Howdy,

I ignored the recommendation of supplying the license key during the installation of Vmware Server and sure 'nuf, it bit me. I don't see any place to install a license when I connect via the browser. Does this option exist or do I have to uninstall and then re-install the product again.

Regards,

George...

vmware-guestd high system cpu usage

jorgefg — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:38:37 GMT

I´m using VMware Server 2 (116503) on Linux (x86_64) host with 3GB of RAM and two processors. I have 1,5GB reserved for virtual machines and host setting "Fit all virtual machine memory into reserved host RAM". There is only one virtual machine running Linux (x86_64) with 512MB of RAM with VMware tools installed and updated. When guest is idle, there is allways about 8% of system CPU usage, and process which use this CPU is vmware-guestd. ¿Why this process use a lot of CPU when the guest system is idle?

can't use NAS as drive for datastore with Vmware server 2

wlandymore — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:20:20 GMT

I've been trying to setup an additional datastore and use a large NAS we have. However, each time I try I get:

InvalidNasCredentials: Operation failed.

I'm logging into Vmware server 2 with an account 'Admin' and password 'pass'. Then I'm using a NAS (which I can ping) and using the IP of the NAS, \share with the username Admin (or IPofNAS\Admin) and password 'pass'.

I have tried everything I can think of and it gives me this same error every time.

Can anyone tell me how I can use a NAS device as a second datastore with VMware server 2?

Help configuring dual nic host with VMware Server

bruhn — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:40:03 GMT

Hi folks,

I am running VMware server on a 64-bit CentOS box with dual ethernet adapters. Each adapter is connected to a router/cable modem going to different ISPs. Each router has a DHCP server running offers up addresses to any client that requests one. Each nic is configured to use DHCP however, I only use 1 nic at a time. Sometimes I may have eth0 plumbed up and connected, sometimes I may have eth1 plumbed up and connected, but never both at the same time.

I had eth1 connected when I installed VMware server and also when I installed the guest OS. I used bridged networking for the Virtual adapter. VMware tools is installed. When the guest OS is running and I have eth1 up and connected, I can get to the Internet just fine. But when I take down eth1 and bring up eth0, I am disconnected from everything. I would like to be able to connect to the network no matter which nic is up and running on my Linux box.

I checked in the .vmx file to see if there was any setting that I could change to eth0 when I'm on that adapter but didn't see any. Am I missing something in there that is preventing me from connecting on the other nic (eth0)? Also, I tied to add another virtual nic to the guest config and tell it to use eth0, but I don't see an option to specify individual nics. Is it possible that my VMware configuration is only aware of 1 adapter since only 1 was up at the time of installation?

Any help on this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Are backups better using "suspend" or "snapshot"? Win 2008 x64 host.

emcnally — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:41:44 GMT

-Host is Running 2.0.2 on Windows 2008 x64.
-Guest is Windows 2008 x32 with SQL Express 2005.
-Using Windows Server Backup (VSS volume backup) of host, backup scheduling and options controlled by Backup Assist.
-All disks are direct attached to host

I have been reading the forums and understand the vmware vss writer does not support x64 hosts yet. The SQL database must be protected properly.

I am looking at two options for a consistent backup, both would be activated by a script at the start and end of the backup job.

Option 1 (keeps machine live): use vmrun to make a snapshot at the start of the backup then to delete the snapshot at the end of the backup. My understanding is snapshots hurt performance, so I'll only have it in place during the backup. Also my understanding is a snapshot will capture the virtual machine's system memory to disk, which will be copied by the host backup, ensuring a consistent backup of MS-SQL.

example:  
vmrun.exe -T server -h https://srvaps.domain.com:8333/sdk -u domain\administrator -p **** snapshot "[standard] SRVPTOS\SRVPTOS.vmx" vsssnap
then on completion of the backup:
vmrun.exe -T server -h https://srvaps.domain.com:8333/sdk -u domain\administrator -p **** deletesnapshot "[standard] SRVPTOS\SRVPTOS.vmx" vsssnap

Option 2: Use vmrun to do a soft suspend of the VM before the backup and the to resume it at completion. Less desirable method because the machine is down during backup, but this seems to be the method I have been seeing on these forums.

 example:  
vmrun.exe -T server -h https://srvaps.domain.com:8333/sdk -u domain\administrator -p **** suspend "[standard] SRVPTOS\SRVPTOS.vmx" soft

I wonder if I am missing something when I think snapshot would be better? Any reason to prefer suspend over snapshot style backups? Would either of these present hidden problems for the SQL consistency?

Kind of new to anything other than VMWare workstation, thanks for any advice!

How to add a physical partition/HDD

Ste|th — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:16:05 GMT

Is there any way to add a physical partition of i.e. a raid volume in VMWare Server 2, like you could in VMWare server 1.0? if so how?

Regards Rolf Ø

VMware Server 2.0.2 incompatable with Red Hat 5.4

DHassel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:54:42 GMT

I have had an issue installing VMware 2.0.2 on a Red Hat 5.4 box. I had an older (5.3) install & VMware worked fine there. On RH 5.4, I could launch the web GUI but could never start a VM as all I got on the web page was Loading... I found this out the hard way by doing a RHN update of my working RH 5.3 & it broke VMware that was running there. :-|

Dave Hassel

weird screen corruption vmware server 2.0.2

tonyblackwell — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:00:55 GMT

Greetings all

vmware server 2.0.2 on kernel 2.6.31-5 x86_64, gforce GTX 285 videocard using current nvidia proprietary driver, i7 on ASUS P6T motherboard, 6Gb RAM, hosting MS-Win2000.

Vmware windows are normal in the upper left corner, have mouse and keyboard corruption in the rest of the vmware window, although the whole window looks normal apart from cursor. Cursor changes from the arrowhead showing normally in the upper left quarter of window to a flickering hand and index finger elsewhere. Mouse clicks do not work in the right and lower part of the window and keyboard input doesn't work in these areas with the flickering hand cursor.

This behaviour is completely unaffected by
1. choice of graphical linux driver: nvidia proprietary, xorg nv or xorg vesa
2. screen resolution in linux
3. vmware assigned memory

I could really use some creative ideas on where to go next....
cyber_k

New install VMWare Server 2 on XP; can't load VI Web Access page.

OrdinaryPhil — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:08:38 GMT

I performed a plain vanilla install of VMWare Server (VMware-server-2.0.0-116503.exe), accepting all defaults. The host system runs Windows XP, SP3. After the install and the obligatory reboot, I tred to view the VI Web Access page at http://localbox:8222 and https://localbox:8333 in Firefox 3.0.3. Firefox displays "Failed to Connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localbox:8222" (or 8333). In the URL, I have tried the box's name and it's IP address (which is statically assigned) with the same result. Similar things happen when I try to view it in IE7.

I don't think it is a firewall problem because I am trying to view it from the same machine it is installed on.

Task Manager shows that vmnat,vmnetdhcp, and vmware-authd are running. Tomcat information page is available at http://localbox:8308, so I think it was installed correctly.

I have installed VMWare Server three times today. The first time accepting all defaults, the second using ports 80 and 433, and the third time accepting all defaults again. Each installation produced the same results.

I'm a 20+ year unix/linux guy, and know almost nothing about Windows. However, I an trying to figure this stuff out for my wife, who depends on Windows as a consequence of her job. I have searched these forums and other places without finding a solution.

Does anyone have advice on:
1) How to access the VI Web Access page?
2) What part of the installation I may have screwed up?
3) What configuration step I may have missed?

Thanks,
Phil

Is it possible to move a 32bit Virtual Machines to a 64-bit environment?

jakepp — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:40:55 GMT

I have a server running Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit with VMware server 2.0
32bit. Due to memory limitations I would like to move my three (32bit)
VM's to a Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit server running VMware server 2.0 64-bit.

Basically
what I need to do is backup the three VM's and install Ubuntu 9.04
64-bit in the server, and restore the VM's. Is this possible? I've been
searching online but I haven't found a solid answer.

Thank you.

Windows 7 - UI Stopped Working

Zilatica — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:00:36 GMT

So, I'm running Windows 7. I just recently ran the windows updates, but I'm pretty sure everything was working for a short while after the most recent W7 update. Now, however, the ui has stopped being available and I'm getting Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:8333 and a similar message for IE.

I have looked at the serverui.url and it has not changed. I tried running a repair from the vm installer and it did not fix the issue. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, still not fixed. I rebooted after each step, the repair, removal, and reinstall. Still no working ui. I added firewall rules for 8333, and I am attempting to connect at https://w500:8333/ui, also tried using localhost and 127.0.0.1. I have done a netstat -an call and I see no listening port 8333, so I believe the service is simply not opening a port. I get no firewal popups or anything that would lead me to believe Windows 7 is stopping the service from running appropriately.

I have looked at my service list and VMware Authorization Service is started, VMware DHCP Service is started, VMware Host Agent is not running, and attempting to stat it reports a service specific error of -1, but I'm thinking that service isn't required (???), Vware NAT Service is started, VMware Server Web Access is running.

Windows event logs do not show any errors or warnings with regards to VMware server. I have tried restatrting all VM services after connecting to a network, still no luck. My Service information for the VMware NAT service in the Event Viewer shows

Using configuration file: C:\ProgramData\VMware\vmnetnat.conf.
IP address: 192.168.142.2
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
External IP address: 0.0.0.0
Device: vmnet8.
MAC address: 00:50:56:E2:##:##.
Ignoring host MAC address: 00:50:56:##:00:##.

( I have hidden some of the MAC components above, but they look correct).

One other thing I noticed is that my IPv4 local network addresss is 10.0.0.202 but the VMware Network Adapter VMnet1 is 192.168.116.1
VMnet8 is 192.168.142.1

So, I'm on the 10 network but my VM service is on the 192 network. Would this cause a problem when trying the https://localhost:8333/ui?

Also, please keep in mind this was working yesterday, and has been working for almost a month now. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you