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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!

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

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.

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.

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

.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-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

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

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?

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

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.

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 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!

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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 ?

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

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.

VMWare Server 2.0.2 does not pick up host time

Halenbeck — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:53:32 GMT

Yep, I have read quite some articles about time sync problems between VMWare Server 2.0 guest and host. But I dont get a glue out of it ...

Its about VMWare Server running on Win2003 Server SP2 with SLES (any Version) Linux as a guest. I would like to have the guest to get its time from the host. The problem is that the guests time is always way out of sync.

My understanding is as following:

If the check box "VM Ware Server console -> Configure VM -> Power -> Syncronize guest time with host" is checked, the guest picks up the time of the host every time the guest is powered on. The guest time in this context is the "BIOS time" of the guest, say the hardware clock of the guest. I would expect this clock being set tp the hosts system time. Also I would expect that all this happens beside of any guest operating system activity and hence without any VMWare tools being involved.

But any time I boot into the BIOS of the guest the BIOS time is just somewhere and has nothing to do with the hosts system time.

Am I right with my understanding of this check box? Any help is highly appreciated. For networking reasons I have no access to a time server with my guest systems.

1000Thx!

Unknown invalid virtual machine error

gvazep — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:17:31 GMT

Hi Guys

Getting unknown invalid virtual machine vmware error, files are all present and in infrastructure manager, they show up as unknown under inventory with invalid virtual machine error for 2 virtual machines, any ideas on how to fix this, please let me know.

Thanks

Management via web/viclient failing in 2.0.1 + 2.0.2

mcooper7290 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:33:26 GMT

I was recently forced to update a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 system to have all current updates (yum update). After performing the system update the VMware Server web management page keeps failing. I can get logged in but when I client on most any vm guest and try most any operation (like Play/Resume) the management page displays "Loading..." in all th enormal places but never resumes working. I have to run "/etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart" to get it to respond again. Of course, it only works enough for me to log back in and try one operation.

The guests set to autostart do run and get started.

This problem occurs for multiple guests. It occurs with VMware Server 2.0.1. I upgraded to 2.0.2 and have the same problem.

I installed viclient 2.5 from vmware server 2.0.0 and it behaves in a similar manner. After most any type of operation on a vm guest viclient stops working stating it's lost contact with the server. At the same time the web mgmt page stops working as well. A "vmware-mgmt restart" gets viclient going again, but it fails once I perform an operation.

Any suggestions?

mike

Remote desktop / mapping drives onto vmware server 2.0 instance

smccran — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:46:27 GMT

Hi all,

First post so go easy on me!

I have vmware server 2 installed on a windows 7 laptop. I have a windows server 2003 image running on it.

When I am on my home network, my laptop has an IP address (DHCP) , and my VM OS does too (also DHCP).

I can map a network drive and login through remote desktop.

If I am not on a network I cannot do these things, my laptop OS (windows 7) cannot see my guest OS (windows server 2003). Is this because they both have 169.XXX address's?

Will I have to hard code the IP's?

The idea is to be able to take the laptop anywhere, so not always connected to a DHCP server.

Thanks

Shaun

A general system error occurred

Nargzul — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:54:08 GMT

Hi!

I just installed a vmware 2 server on an ubuntu 8.04 64 bit fresh installation.

I can access to the web interface, I added a new VM, and I've fully configured it.

But when I launch the VM, I got theses errors:

Failed to power on: A general system error occurred:
Message from ks308483.kimsufi.com: Failed to initialize monitor device.
Message from ks308483.kimsufi.com: The virtualization capability of
your processor is already in use. Disable any other running hypervisors
before running VMware Server.
Virtual Machine is starting

I've checked, I don't have any KVM installed(and the package isn't present, I've never installed it):

lsmod | grep vm
vmnet 47428 13
vmci 57384 1 vsock
vmmon 76656 0

What have I done wrong?

Vmware server 202 and converter 401

TestVM1 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:00:25 GMT

Hello there,
I backed up a W2K server VM hosted on a VI3 environment using VCB and copied all the filesvmdk, vmx, etc to a Vmware server 202 for off site disaster recovery.
On the Vmware server 202 I ran converter 4.0.1 and chose Configure the VM above , I specified different hostname, IP and chose a new SID, added to the domain, but when I try to run the converter it still sees original name, IP. Can someone point me in the right direction please.
Thank you

VM server 2.0 - slow file transfer over network

gubien — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:07:33 GMT

Hi there

I have a problem copying files to one virtual machine on a VM Server 2.0.
The file copy process to the virtual machine is just SO slow every single time. Starts out fast, then slows down, goes up a bit... and will eventually succeed, but its just not acceptable.

Odd thing i though, another virtual machine, on same host, running windows XP, like the other virtual machine, have no problems moving data quickly? They was both physical machines that been virtualized.

As far as I see, they are pretty equal, but apperently, they are not!

Have anyone tried similar?

Server 2.02 yields 'HTTP 12029' when adding a VM built in Fusion (Mac book Pro)

phanchet — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:07:53 GMT

Hi

I am evaluating VMWare Server 2.02 and have come across this hiccup - its consistent and I've not found a solution on the net - I'd really appreciate a pointer here as its stopping us dead in our tracks

Setup:
Host : 64Bit Windows Server 2008 RC2 Enterprise
VMWare Server : 2.02
Guest : Windows Server 2003 SE
Guest built on : Mac Book Pro using VMWare Fusion 2.05 - runs fine on that platform

Action:
Add the VM from via VMWare Infrastructure Web Access client running on localhost, default port 8333

Yields :
The server could not complete a request (HTTP 12029 ).

The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request. If this problem persists, please contact your system administrator.

(also; VMWare Host service then requires a restart)

Notes:
I have tried it a few times (and upgraded VMWare server to the latest version), with three different VMs - same result

ExpertsExchange have a thread about this - someone else obviously has the same problem - but no solution unfortunately

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/Q_24649763.html

any ideas?
cheers
Phil

VM Shutdown with Host Results in a Power Off

fabio.dalfonso — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:49:36 GMT

Hi,
it seems to me that the shutdown of the VMs together with the host is actually not working properly. Also if there is a proper delay set for serlialize the shutdown of the VMs brings WIndows 2003 Servers to an unexpected shutdown after the next login.

This feature was a major reason to upgrade to Server 2 from Server 1 to host the infrastructure servers for the VI3 we have but it seems more in idea than a feature...

The similar settings in the ESX 3.5 are rigorously working, while the Server developments seem to be driven by clear commercial drivers and not based on maintaining the promised features.

Please do not include unexistent features (because they do not work) which are actually missing!

Regards

Fabio D'Alfonso

Guest OS VERY Slow Starting

rudivisser — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:19:27 GMT

.. Infact, it hasn't started at all yet (been waiting around 15 minutes).

The last lines in the vmware.log are:
Nov 03 15:08:46.913: vcpu-0| SCSI DEVICE (scsi0:0): MODE SENSE(6) for unsupported page 0x8
Nov 03 15:08:46.913: vcpu-0| SCSI DEVICE (scsi0:0): MODE SENSE(6) for unsupported page 0x8
Nov 03 15:09:29.783: vmx| TOOLS setting the tools version to '0'

The guest OS is Windows Server 2008 which worked fine about 30 minutes ago. I restarted the host server after shutting down both the guest and host OS' correctly, now I am still waiting for it to start back up, as mentioned before, around 15 minutes has passed since I clicked the "Play" button.

Upon checking the Console it's just on the default Win Server 2008 boot screen with the little green bars going across..

Erratical mouse in Windows XP, running under VMWare Server 2 on Debian Linux

alexott — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:14:12 GMT

Hello All

I have debian linux (testing) 64-bit on which the VMWare Server 2 is installed, and i use it to run Windows XP with some office software. After one of updates of xorg libraries, my mouse starts to behave erratically when i use it in Windows - there is some place of screen (about 640x480 from set 1152x864), where mouse behaves normally, but if i move it right or down, behind these 640x480, then it jumping out from vmware console window, or moves erratically inside windows, so i couldn't reach parts of screen of windows machine

May be the problem, that windows during boot allocates small window first, and than expand to 1152x864, but anyway i couldn't fix this behaviour - may be somebody knows how to fix this?

Very Slow Network

mpg187 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:01:16 GMT

If I use bridged networking Samba to the host OS is very slow. If I use NAT Internet Surfing is really slow. If I use both they both are very slow.

How do I make them both get to a decent speed? This is frusterating...

Can not install 64bit guest

blocker — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:32:05 GMT

Hello,

i have problems installing 64bit guests on a server runnning Vmware server 2. Here is the detailed information:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz
Host OS: Debian lenny 64bit
Vmware server: VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.x86_64.tar.gz

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

The server is located at a datacenter and there is no KVM switch, so i do not have access to the bios, but after i posted a ticket a technician has updated the bios to the latest version, has enabled the VT options in the bios and power cycled the machine. I tried to install Debian lenny 64 bit and CentOS 5.3 64 bit as guests but both are reporting that i should use a 32bit distribution. In the attachment is the log of the CentOS 5.3 64bit guest. I have also checked if Paravirtualization is enabled for that hosts and its NOT. They both are newly created VM's, actually everything is freshly installed.

I am totally confused, working more than 48h on that issue and i have no clue.

Thanks in advance for your help!

After transfering a VM under linux VMWare server to a Windows VMWare server 2, CANNOT log in anymore in the linux guest VM

Xenus98 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:04:08 GMT

Hi everybody,

So here is my curious problem... I'm using a VMware Server 2.0.0 build-116503 under Ubuntu 8.04.1 where we did set up a VM with Ubuntu as Guest OS.

I did stop this VM and made a tar of it. I transfered this tar to the
Windows Server 2003 hosting VMWare server 1.01 and started the VM with
no network.

I think that this VM dont have VMWare tools installed, but she work correctly under Ubuntu host OS...

The thing is that I can not log in into the Ubuntu Guest OS of my transfered VM in the Windows Server 2003 Host OS !

Ubuntu is rejecting all my login/password attempts. I cannot understand why.

I upgraded my Windows VMWare server 1.0 to Windows VMWare server 2.01 and I tryed again to log in into the VM again. Same problem.

Ubuntu is still rejecting all my login/password attempts. I cannot understand why. Any Idea on what to do next ?

Thanks you very much all for brainstorming with me...

AMD Opteron and VM Server 2.02

jeffbe — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:34:07 GMT

Looking to buy Dell server (2970) with AMD Opteron processor(s). It appears from the documentation that only older Opterons are supported.

Are there any newer updates on compatability or is this it?

AMD Opteron 1000/2000/8000 series (Santa Ana, Santa Rosa)

AMD Opteron 100/200/800 series (Venus, Troy, Athens, Denmark, Italy, Egypt)
AMD Athlon 64 (Clawhammer, Newcastle, Winchester, Venice, San Diego,
Orleans, Lima)
AMD Athlon 64 X2/X2 (Manchester, Toledo, Windsor, Brisbane) <<

It does list 2000 series above, but only lists Santa Ana/Santa Rosa. Dell offers these (sorry for the funky table):

Quad Core AMD Opteron™ 2378,4x512K Cache,2.4GHz,1Ghz HyperTransport add $0


	Quad Core AMD Opteron™ 2382,4x512K Cache,2.6GHz,1Ghz HyperTransport add $130


	Quad Core AMD Opteron™ 2372HE 2.1GHz 4x512K Cache 1Ghz HyperTrnsprt Included in Price


	Quad Core AMD Opteron™ 2389, 2.9GHz, 4x512K Cache, HT1 add $450


	Quad Core AMD Opteron™ 2387, 2.8GHz, 4x512K Cache, HT1 add $300


	Quad Core AMD Opteron™ 2381HE, 2.5GHz, 4x512K Cache, HT1 add $450


	Quad Core AMD Opteron™ 2379HE, 2.4GHz, 4x512K Cache, HT1 add $150

VMware Server webAccess fails except from localhost, and guest power-down zombies the container

gordan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:49:49 GMT

I'm experiencing a rather bizzare problem since I updated to RHEL 5.4 and vmware-Server.2.0.2 (rpm). vmware-config.pl completes without problems, but the webAccess console doesn't work at all.

If I ssh -D 1080 to the VMware host and point my browser to that socks proxy, I can get the web console to work, but if I try to connect to it from another hose it doesn't. I switched off iptables completely on the host, so that cannot be causing the problem. The only thing I can think of that could be the cause of the difference here is that from localhost the management console is available via http, while for a remote host it automatically redirects to https which fails, so the problem appears to be related to SSL.

Unfortunately, getting the VM console still doesn't work even when socks-proxying to the VMware host, the firefox plugin starts up but then errors out saying: "Error opening virtual machine 16: An internal error occured."

Connecting remotely to http://server:8222 redirects to https://server:8333/ui/ and that's where it all ends. First attempt generally leads to a page without the login window. Refreshing the page with Firefox ends up not succeeding at all, and reports "Connection interrupted. The document contains no data."

IE6 just outright crashes when trying to connect to https://server:8333.

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmrun fails with "Error: The specified service provider was not found"

IE8 volunteers a bit more information when it fails. The error list says:
Syntax error
.wbc.js Line: 1

Exception thrown and not caught
.jslib.js Line: 1
Code: 0 Char: 29644
URI:https://server:8333/ui/jslib-1.0.128374/.jslib.js

Finally - if I socks proxy to the VM host, and start up the VM that way, when trying to power down the VM, it locks the guest VMX process and the only way to kill it is to reboot the host. I have two similar systems, one 64-bit Core2 system with Intel VM extensions and one 32-bit P3 system without VM extensions, and they both fail in exactly the same way, both running VMware Server 2.0.2 on RHEL 5.4. 32-bit machine locked up the guest container with 32-bit RHEL 5.4, and the 64-bit did the same with 64-bit RHEL 5.4 guest.

Has anybody experienced anything like this before? Server 2.0.1 ran OK on RHEL 5.2 (before I updated the host OS), and I only observed the guest container lock-up once in the past, but now it happens consistently every time. Kernel/module compatibility problem, perhaps?

Cannot Open Guest Console when Host is Disconnected from Network

OrboJeff — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:28:18 GMT

I cannot the open the Console on my Guest when my Host machine is not connected to a netowrk. Once I connect to a Wifi or wired network it opens without issue

I can open the VMWare Infrastructure Web Access page and Power on my Guest, but cannot open the Console

Securing VMware Server 2 on Linux

weissadam — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:58:13 GMT

Hey Folks,

I just installed VMware Server 2 on a Linux host and I notice that it has opened up and is listening on a bunch of ports. Is there somewhere where I can tell VMware to only bind to localhost or can centrally control it with tcpwrapper style access controls? I'm not thrilled about having a bunch of ports open and I'd rather not screw with iptables.

Thanks in advance for any help!

--adam

vmrun - Error: The specified service provider was not found

3PO — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:44:16 GMT

Hi,

i've installed vmware-server 2 on Gentoo 2008.0.

Installed Versions:

vmware-server 2.0.1.156745-r3

vmware-modules 1.0.0.24

vmware-vix 1.6.2.156745-r2

Everything works fine from a remote machine, but if i want to start up a VM from console via vmrun, i get this error message:

Error: The specified service provider was not found

Any suggestions how i can fix this problem?

Shutting down a guest when closing the console.

ejkruse — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:44:24 GMT

When working on a guest console session and clicking the "X" on the window it suspends the guest. Is there any way to set it up so that clicking on the "X" will power off the guest? (The host is not being shut down)

Resize Fixed Size VMDK

mike16 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:35:08 GMT

Im trying to resize a vmhd. I know I have to convert it to a new vmhd to do so. Ive been searching for a little while and got a good idea on how to do it, but something must be wrong in my syntax.

Here's what I have.

C:\Virtual Machines\VM1>"c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe" -r VM1.vmdk -t 2 -s 14GB VM1_reduced.vmdk

from what I think the syntax is, convert VM1.vmdk into a fixed disk (-t 2), size 14GB, new name of VMDK

but when I run that, it stays the original size which is about 16GB. (Yes there is free space available in the host which is a windows 2003 server OS)

Any thoughts?

Connecting 2 host only subnets

Aeropars — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:29:48 GMT

Hello guys,

I'm setting up a test lab for an upgrade project I am working on but I have hit a problem.

I have 1 host machine which hosts 2 virtual machines. each machine is on a seperate subnet.

Can anyone tell me how I can get these machines talking without setting up another virtual server to act as a router?

Thanks in advance.

Connecting to VMware server without a router

rweisernj — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:17:16 GMT

Hi all,

I have installed vmware server 2 on my laptop (XP Pro). When running in the office I have no issues connecting to any of the servers on my laptop. When mobile, to connect to any of the servers I need to attach a router to my laptop in the same IP range. Is there a way to connect to the servers without the use of a router.

Thanks for your help,

Rick

Passing Windows Credentials

ejkruse — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:38:40 GMT

I'm running Server 2 with two sessions, one is a Novell 4.1 server and the other is a DOS session. I'm trying to dummify (if that's a word) this for the end user. I have created a shotcut Icon on the users (login) desktop to connect to the DOS session. Everything works fine except that after clicking on the shortcut it askes for the user to login to VMware. The user that is set up in VMware is the same windows user that just logged in. Is there any way to pass the cridentials and not need the user to login in to VMWare?

Using USB in VMWARE server 2. Host Vista Guest server 2003

STEVEN12 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:57:29 GMT

I desperately need some documents transferred off the guest OS server 2003 and onto the host OS Vista. I followed the instructions for adding the USB controller using add hardware wizard and this allowed me to use the USB with server 2003 for a short period of time. However, I now can't see the USB device in vmware server and when I go to add hardware wizard there is no longer the option to add USB controllers. Whats happened to my USB????

Really confused!!! Could someone please help me?

Many Thanks

VMware Server unrecoverable error: (vmx) NOT_IMPLEMENTED

eskibars — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:50:38 GMT

Hi. I have a number of servers and I'm running into frequent VM crashes, apparently out of the blue on VMWare Server 2.0.1 Build 156745 . When I say "frequent" here I mean at least once every few days for most VMs.

The error I get:

Message
on Windows XP Virgin: VMware Server unrecoverable error: (vmx)
NOT_IMPLEMENTED d:/build/ob/bora-156745/bora/vmx/main/pollVMX.c:3651
A log file is available in "E:\Demos\Demo Network\Windows
XP\vmware.log". A core file is available in "E:\Demos\Demo
Network\Windows XP\vmware-vmx-4948.dmp". Please request support and
include the contents of the log file and core file. To collect data to
submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect
Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the
Workstation folder directly.
We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

This happens with a variety of VMs I've built from scratch using standard ISOs, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Cent OS 5 (all 32 bit) as well as a 64 bit Windows Server 2003 install, though that one seems "much more stable" (I have one that's been running for a full week with no crash on the same server as the rest). I am using the VIX API to poll all the servers, one at a time, such that the cycle time to get polled for each server is 3 minutes 30 seconds, mostly to list the currently running VMs, though I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the issues I'm seeing.

Has anybody experienced this before or have any ideas as to how to resolve it? Attached are the log files and dumps of 3 different VMs (all of them were hosted on the same machine, though I have examples from other servers as well). These particular crashes come from a HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server (32GB RAM, 2x4 core 2.5GHz Xeon processors, SCSI disks) on Windows Server 2003 64-bit. I've also experienced this behavior on a IBM eserver xSeries 336 (4GB RAM, 2x2 core 3GHz Xeon proxessors, SCSI disks) on Windows Server 2003 32-bit.

invalid state of vmware , not possible create new virtual machine

maxtoscano — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:38:10 GMT

hi , i have a esx server vmware , with some virtual machines of production ;

yestarday i did a new virtual machine , linux suse , froma cdrom ; but the filesystem is crashed , it was corrupted , i dont know why ,

and i had to cancel the machine using "remove from the disk" ;

after i could read "a general system error occurred" and when i do click on create a new virtual machine (ctrl + n) , i can not becouse the answer is "invalid state"

when i click in every virtual machine in "events" , i dont see the logs , i see this errore "a general system error occurred"

somebody can help me ? , must i restart service mgmt-vmware ? (init.d) on the host server ?

thanks in advance , best regards

max toscano

XP Mode in Windows 7 causes VMware Server to fail

Thorsten Schneider — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:24:00 GMT

Hi all,

after I installed XP Mode and the Virtual PC update on my Windows 7 setup VMware Server fails to start VMs. The following error is logged:

Nov 04 08:16:44.570: vcpu-0| VCPU 0 RunVM failed: -2.
Nov 04 08:16:44.570: vcpu-0| Panic: can't get userlevel lock.
Nov 04 08:16:44.570: vcpu-0| Win32 object usage: GDI 4, USER 4
Nov 04 08:16:44.570: vcpu-0| CoreDump_CoreDump: faking exception to get context
Nov 04 08:16:44.570: vcpu-0| CoreDump: Writing minidump to D:\VMWare\ESX4\vmware-vmx-4952.dmp
Nov 04 08:16:44.623: vcpu-0| CoreDump: including module base 0x0x00400000 size 0x0x00b62000

I found another post where somebody had problems when Virtual Server and VMware Server are installed on the same box and Virtual Server is configured to make use of the VT instructions. As XP Mode needs to have a CPU with VT features enabled it seems to be the same issue. So the only solution for me was to remove the Virtual PC Update again.

Thorsten

Constant VM Crashes on Fedora 11

tuaris — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:13:18 GMT

I recently upgraded 2 servers to Fedora 11 and VMware Server 2.0.1. One server is a 32-bit system, the other is a 64-bit system. My virtual machines are randomly crashing on both servers with the error:

{color:#808080}[2009-10-24 03:25:07.528 'vm:/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Server/Server.vmx' 3079207792 info] Question info: VMware Server unrecoverable error: (Worker#15) Unexpected signal: 6. A log file is available in "/tmp/vmware-root/25194.log". Please request support and include the contents of the log file. To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly. We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement. , Id: 3 : Type : 3, Default: 0, Number of options: 1 [2009-10-24 03:25:07.592 'Libs' 3082918768 info] Disconnect check in progress: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Server/Server.vmx [2009-10-24 03:25:07.596 'vm:/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Server/Server.vmx' 3081063280 warning] Received a duplicate transition from foundry: 1 [2009-10-24 03:25:07.797 'Libs' 3082918768 info] Disconnect check in progress: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Server/Server.vmx [2009-10-24 03:25:07.797 'vm:/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Server/Server.vmx' 3080530800 warning] Received a duplicate transition from foundry: 1 [2009-10-24 03:25:07.849 'vm:/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Server/Server.vmx' 3079207792 warning] Failed to find activation record, event user unknown. [2009-10-24 03:25:08.785 'Libs' 3082918768 info] vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF [2009-10-24 03:25:09.117 'ha-eventmgr' 3079207792 info] Event 24 : Message on Domain Controller on jupiter.stmshome.com in ha-datacenter: VMware Server unrecoverable error: (Worker#15) Unexpected signal: 6. A log file is available in "/tmp/vmware-root/25194.log". Please request support and include the contents of the log file. To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly. We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.{color}

problem sending the command

techeiguy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:08:15 GMT

When I open vmware server this morning, I get the following error 'There was a problem sending the command to the program' I click on ok and the program closes. It was working fine yesterday(Monday) I have run the installation from the original installer package to repair the installation but it made no difference. Restarting the computer also did nothing. There were some MS Office updates installed last night but that was all. Suggestions?

Thanks, Glen

VMware Server 2.0.1 and latest RHEL5 kernel (both host & guest) = RANDOM REBOOTS !

BReaKdaiCE — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:31:57 GMT

VMware Server 2.0.1 and latest RHEL5 kernel (both host & guest) = RANDOM REBOOTS !

I have VMware Server 2.0.1 running on CentOS 5.3 (x64 kernel-2.6.18-128.2.1.el5).
Lately I started experiencing random reboots of host and had to investigate it a bit.
At first I suspected hardware problems and specificly RAM corruption. 24h memtest86+ and no errors.
I had my guests migrated to another VMware-server 2.0.1 running on FC11 (2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64).
No more host reboots but the guests (CentOS 5.3 x86 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5) still keep random rebooting.
Had a look at the guest logs and found this:

Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Caught signal 6 -- tid 5362
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: eip 0x369b0332f5 esp 0x7fa1e0b01d88 ebp 0x2
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: eax 0x0 ebx 0x369b132efe ecx 0xffffffffffffffff edx 0x6 esi 0x14f2 edi 0x14ed
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| r8 0x2c55020 r9 0x3 r10 0x8 r11 0x3206 r12 0xa57c9a000 r13 0x10000 r14 0x284f4d0 r15 0x7fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01D88 : 0x9b034b20 0x00000036 0x00000000 0x00000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01D98 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01DA8 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01DB8 : 0x00003000 0x00000000 0x9b369e80 0x00000036
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01DC8 : 0x00010000 0x00000000 0x9b369e80 0x00000036
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01DD8 : 0x00010010 0x00000000 0xe0b01f20 0x00007fa1
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01DE8 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x9b369ee8 0x00000036
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SIGNAL: stack 7FA1E0B01DF8 : 0x9b077f32 0x00000036 0x00000000 0x00000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace:
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[0] 00007fa1e0b01830 rip=000000000041521c rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000415500 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00007fa1e0b01940 r14=0000000000000025 r15=0000000000000006
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[1] 00007fa1e0b01850 rip=0000000000468cf5 rbx=0000000000000080 rbp=0000000000000006 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00007fa1e0b01940 r14=0000000000000025 r15=0000000000000006
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[2] 00007fa1e0b01940 rip=000000369bc0ee90 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[3] 00007fa1e0b01d88 rip=000000369b0332f5 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[4] 00007fa1e0b01d90 rip=000000369b034b20 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[5] 00007fa1e0b01ec0 rip=000000369b075a50 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[6] 00007fa1e0b01f00 rip=000000000047eb93 rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000002c55020 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[7] 00007fa1e0b01f70 rip=000000000054cc9b rbx=000000000274ebd0 rbp=000000000274ed50 r12=0000000000000001 r13=000000000000000c r14=0000000000000000 r15=ffffffffffffffff
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[8] 00007fa1e0b01f90 rip=00000000004f165d rbx=000000000274ed80 rbp=000000000274ed50 r12=0000000000000001 r13=000000000000000c r14=0000000000000000 r15=ffffffffffffffff
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace[9] 00007fa1e0b01fe0 rip=00000000004f186c rbx=000000000274ed80 rbp=000000000274ed50 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00000000027f4244 r14=0000000000edfca0 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace10 00007fa1e0b02010 rip=000000000048542a rbx=0000000000ee0c08 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007fff609f6b50 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace11 00007fa1e0b02110 rip=000000369bc0686a rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007fff609f6ad0 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| Backtrace12 00007fa1e0b02220 rip=000000369b0de25d rbx=00007fa1e0b02910 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007fff609f6ad0 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[0] 00007fa1e0b01830 rip=000000000041521c in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[1] 00007fa1e0b01850 rip=0000000000468cf5 in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.120: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[2] 00007fa1e0b01940 rip=000000369bc0ee90 in function (null) in object /lib64/libpthread.so.0 loaded at 000000369bc00000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[3] 00007fa1e0b01d88 rip=000000369b0332f5 in function gsignal in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[4] 00007fa1e0b01d90 rip=000000369b034b20 in function abort in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[5] 00007fa1e0b01ec0 rip=000000369b075a50 in function (null) in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[6] 00007fa1e0b01f00 rip=000000000047eb93 in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[7] 00007fa1e0b01f70 rip=000000000054cc9b in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[8] 00007fa1e0b01f90 rip=00000000004f165d in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[9] 00007fa1e0b01fe0 rip=00000000004f186c in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace10 00007fa1e0b02010 rip=000000000048542a in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace11 00007fa1e0b02110 rip=000000369bc0686a in function (null) in object /lib64/libpthread.so.0 loaded at 000000369bc00000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| SymBacktrace12 00007fa1e0b02220 rip=000000369b0de25d in function clone in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| Unexpected signal: 6.
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| Panic: can't get userlevel lock.
Aug 01 11:08:40.121: Worker#1| Core dump limit is 0 KB.
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Child process 13550 failed to dump core (status 0x6).
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace:
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[0] 00007fa1e0b01350 rip=000000000041521c rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000415500 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00007fa1e0b01940 r14=0000000000000025 r15=0000000000000006
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[1] 00007fa1e0b01370 rip=00000000004db650 rbx=00007fa1e0b01880 rbp=0000000000000006 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00007fa1e0b01940 r14=0000000000000025 r15=0000000000000006
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[2] 00007fa1e0b01850 rip=0000000000468ea8 rbx=00007fa1e0b01880 rbp=0000000000000006 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00007fa1e0b01940 r14=0000000000000025 r15=0000000000000006
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[3] 00007fa1e0b01940 rip=000000369bc0ee90 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[4] 00007fa1e0b01d88 rip=000000369b0332f5 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[5] 00007fa1e0b01d90 rip=000000369b034b20 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[6] 00007fa1e0b01ec0 rip=000000369b075a50 rbx=000000369b132efe rbp=0000000000000002 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[7] 00007fa1e0b01f00 rip=000000000047eb93 rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000002c55020 r12=0000000a57c9a000 r13=0000000000010000 r14=000000000284f4d0 r15=00007fa1e0b01f20
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[8] 00007fa1e0b01f70 rip=000000000054cc9b rbx=000000000274ebd0 rbp=000000000274ed50 r12=0000000000000001 r13=000000000000000c r14=0000000000000000 r15=ffffffffffffffff
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace[9] 00007fa1e0b01f90 rip=00000000004f165d rbx=000000000274ed80 rbp=000000000274ed50 r12=0000000000000001 r13=000000000000000c r14=0000000000000000 r15=ffffffffffffffff
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace10 00007fa1e0b01fe0 rip=00000000004f186c rbx=000000000274ed80 rbp=000000000274ed50 r12=0000000000000000 r13=00000000027f4244 r14=0000000000edfca0 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace11 00007fa1e0b02010 rip=000000000048542a rbx=0000000000ee0c08 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007fff609f6b50 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace12 00007fa1e0b02110 rip=000000369bc0686a rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007fff609f6ad0 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Backtrace13 00007fa1e0b02220 rip=000000369b0de25d rbx=00007fa1e0b02910 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007fff609f6ad0 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000003
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[0] 00007fa1e0b01350 rip=000000000041521c in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[1] 00007fa1e0b01370 rip=00000000004db650 in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[2] 00007fa1e0b01850 rip=0000000000468ea8 in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[3] 00007fa1e0b01940 rip=000000369bc0ee90 in function (null) in object /lib64/libpthread.so.0 loaded at 000000369bc00000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[4] 00007fa1e0b01d88 rip=000000369b0332f5 in function gsignal in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[5] 00007fa1e0b01d90 rip=000000369b034b20 in function abort in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[6] 00007fa1e0b01ec0 rip=000000369b075a50 in function (null) in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[7] 00007fa1e0b01f00 rip=000000000047eb93 in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[8] 00007fa1e0b01f70 rip=000000000054cc9b in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace[9] 00007fa1e0b01f90 rip=00000000004f165d in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace10 00007fa1e0b01fe0 rip=00000000004f186c in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace11 00007fa1e0b02010 rip=000000000048542a in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx loaded at 0000000000400000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace12 00007fa1e0b02110 rip=000000369bc0686a in function (null) in object /lib64/libpthread.so.0 loaded at 000000369bc00000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| SymBacktrace13 00007fa1e0b02220 rip=000000369b0de25d in function clone in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000369b000000
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Msg_Post: Error
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| http://msg.log.error.unrecoverable VMware Server unrecoverable error: (Worker#1)
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| Unexpected signal: 6.
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| http://msg.panic.haveLog A log file is available in "/storage/VirtualMachines/srv01.ctg.ee/vmware.log". http://msg.panic.requestSupport.withLog Please request support and include the contents of the log file. http://msg.panic.requestSupport.vmSupport.windowsOrLinux
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly.
Aug 01 11:08:40.139: Worker#1| http://msg.panic.response We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.
Aug 01 11:08:40.221: vmx| VTHREAD watched thread 37 "Worker#1" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.222: vcpu-0| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.320: Worker#13| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.320: Worker#8| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.320: Worker#16| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.321: Worker#3| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.321: Worker#0| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.321: Worker#9| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.321: Worker#2| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.322: Worker#7| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.322: Worker#12| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.322: Worker#15| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.322: Worker#10| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.322: Worker#5| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.322: Worker#14| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.323: Worker#4| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.323: Worker#11| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.324: Worker#6| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 01 11:08:40.554: mks| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died

I've looked around and that seems to be quite a common problem here and there?

vmrun gives always Unknown error

edpeuroinvest — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:22:54 GMT

hello to all. I have a critical problem on vmware server 2.1 on win2k3 server ent. x64 host .(guest is win2k3 server std)

I cannot do nothing with the vmrun command; for example:

vmrun -T server -h https://192.168.99.99:8333/sdk -u ****-p **** list

Error: Unknown error

I need to resolve the problem as fast as possibile because all the scripts that shutdown/restarts the servers on the night arn't working. anyone has some tips? thank you in advice

VMware Server and VPN??

Fritzables — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:15:02 GMT

Hi All,

I am currently faced with an issue where we have installed a number of VMware sessions on a server which is housed in a server room.

Within the VMware instance we have a VPN which logs onto a customers gateway. Because our server is housed in a room, we ourselves connect to each session using either RDP or VNC.

The issue is, as soon as we have connected to a customers site using their VPN gateway, we loose the link from our workstations and our housed server as our own LAN becomes secondary.

Is there a way around this?

lost login/password

tweed33 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:43:51 GMT

First post here...hope someone can help. I am running vmware fusion on my macbook and currently have 2 windows xp OS's running on it. I am able to access the one OS, but the other one is now asking me to press crtl/alt/del then a username and password. I've tried every username and password I use, and just simply 'admin', but nothing seems to work.

Is there a way to bypass this login screen, or maybe access the files via one of the other OS's??

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Boot filename & OS not found in console when vmware tools installed

GolferGirly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:03:16 GMT

I have VMware server 2 installed with Windows server 2003 on Vista 64 bit host. I"m having trouble installing vmware tools - when I click to install, a message advises me to finish launching in console. When I open console, remote console launches and I get cmd line error message that no boot filename received and OS not found.

I've associted the DVD disk with the windows.iso file by editing it: selecting Host media, connected and checked connect at power on the navigating to windows.iso file. I have two datastores and the file path I entered to windows.iso doesn't stick.

I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Can anyone help? Ultimately I want to install jumpbox with zoomla but I need to get the OS recognized first. Help!

Restart VM on VM server 2

adis763 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:22:52 GMT

Could I make a time point on which i could restart VM on host?

vmware-hostd always die

cli4 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:55:39 GMT

I get a new HP server with 24G Ram and 850G harddisk. I plan to run 10 VMs on it.

But after I installed VMWare Server 2.0.2 (also tried 2.0.1), I find it's very unstable. WebAccess frequently broke. Finally, I find it's vmware-hostd dead. But I cannot find further information about why vmware-hostd die.

How to solve this problem? I really need help now.

Thanks in advance!

Vmware Fusion on Mac to open windows server 2007 vm image

balajihere — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:26:13 GMT

I have vmware fusion running on Mac and I have installed the Windows XP and its perfectly working fine. Now, I have vmware image created from windows Server(with lot of Oracle stuff).Can I open this vmware image using Vmware fusion?. In my other official windows laptop, I have installed the vmware server to open this image (windows server image with lot of oracle stuff), it works fine, but it takes lot of time to open since the official laptop is only having 2G RAM, so I would like to open this image in my MAC(which has 8G RAM). I really appreciate your suggestions on this regard

Thanks

Balaji

Using WS 6 session with v2

rweisernj — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:15:00 GMT

Hi all,

I have installed v2 and its running perfectly. However, I need to test a session that was created on Workstation v6.0.5. Will I be able to load this on Server v2?

Thanks for your help,

Rick

Cannot download VMware Server 2.0.2

MikeDelta — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:50:49 GMT

Hello!

I cannot proceed the VMware Server Registration! After login to my Account and klick on the downloadbutton for the new version a new windows appears and i have to fill in the needed information to complete the registration! ! cannot complete this process, because a error message appears, that i have to correct the fields marked in red - but there is no field in red, all needed information are typed in! I try it again and again with no success...(see the picture)

Has anybody the same problem and what was the solution?

Regards!

Michael

hostonly network cannot reach each other on vmware-server 2.0.1 and linux kernel 2.6.29

iamkafai — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:47:20 GMT

After upgrading to vmserver 2.0.1 from 1.0. The hostonly network cannot ping each other. Also, I am upgraded the linux kernel from 2.6.25 to 2.6.29 and compile the patched vmware modules flowing around so that I can compile against 2.6.29.

I have rolled back to 2.6.27 and the same patched vmserver 2.0.1 works fine. Thus, the non-working combination is kernel 2.6.29 and patched vmserver 2.0.1

the setup is like this:

Setup:
=====

vmware-server-2.0.1 build 156745
Host kernel: 2.6.29-gentoo-r1
Host dhcpd: off
Host machine vmnet1 (HostOnly mode): 192.168.32.1

Guest eth0: 192.168.32.2
Guest system: FC 9

Whening pinging from host to guest: ping 192.168.32.2

PING 192.168.32.2 (192.168.32.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.32.1 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.32.1 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.32.1 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

tcpdump at Host (192.168.32.1):
========================
kafai-desk linux # tcpdump -i vmnet1
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on vmnet1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
10:43:21.307387 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1
10:43:22.311382 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1
10:43:23.316244 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1
10:43:25.325525 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1
10:43:26.329455 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1
10:43:27.334308 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1
10:43:29.345045 arp who-has 192.168.32.2 tell 192.168.32.1

Another point, if I turned on the dhcpd on vmnet1, the guest does get the IP 192.168.32.128 (the first one setup in dhcp conf). It means the dhcp is working but not ping, ssh...etc traffic

I am running out of clues. Any help will be appreciated.

DataStore on portable drive not read

dalepres — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:29:47 GMT

I have a VM on a portable drive. To add the VM to inventory, I had to create a datastore that points to the portable drive. On bootup of the server, the portable drive is not connected but is plugged into the USB port as needed. VMWare Server 2 doesn't recognize that datastore unless the drive is plugged in at boot up time.

If, after plugging in the portable drive, I try to execute a remote console shortcut to that VM, I get this error:

"The attempted operation cannot be performed in the current state (Powered Off)".

If I open the admin console page after plugging in the portable drive, the inventory for this VM says "Unknown (Inaccessible)".

If I remove the VM from inventory in the hopes of re-adding it. When I try to re-add the VM, the Datastore for the portable drive is listed but when I click to open the datastore the Contents column says:

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

I then tried simply double-clicking the VMX file for the VM. There was no file association in Windows so I didn't pursue this further yet.

My next thought was to remove and re-add the datastore, forcing VMWare Server to see the portable drive (I am able to browse the drive in Windows Explorer). I cannot find any way to remove a Datastore from the list. When I try to re-add the Datastore, I get an error that it is the same name. I could possibly add the Datastore using a different name but since there doesn't seem to be a way to delete them once created, I didn't want to try that yet.

So there are four problems/questions that I have:

1. Is there a way to refresh the inventory list within the web based admin page?
2. In VMWare Server 1.x, I could simply double-click a VMX file and it would add to inventory. This didn't work inVMWare Server 2. There was no file association in Windows. Is it possible to fix this?
3. Is there a way to refresh the Datastore contents?
4. Is there a way to delete a Datastore that is no longer wanted or used?

The only thing that worked was to reboot the server with the portable drive connected. This is not always a desirable procedure.

Thanks,

Dale

Message was edited by: dalepres

status of vm server 2.02?

dliloch1 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:28:43 GMT

I see that vm server 2.02 is out but when I go to the download section I only see 2.01 but not 2.02.. I assume 2.02 will support ubuntu 9.10 since there seems to be support issues re 9.10 in 2.01..

.vmdk files accumulating for only one hard disk

usmcdba — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:11:27 GMT

New to VMware and have a question regarding .vmdk files. I am using VMware Server 2.0 on Windows XP. I have two datastores for a guest Linux instance. One of the datastores consists of a disk on an external drive. There are a total of 7 hard disks, with disk 7 being the external drive. My question is that all the .vmdk files for all the other drives are named as below (with the applicable disk #)

ORCL_STAGE_VM_6-00001.vmdk

ORCL_STAGE_VM_6.vmdk

ORCL_STAGE_VM_6-flat.vmdk

But for drive , it is keeping all the sequential snapshot files, so it ranges from ORCL_STAGE_VM_7-00001.vmdk thru ORCL_STAGE_VM_7-00015.vmdk.

Can anyone explain the significance of this? Why is only disk 7 accumulating .vmdk file when all the other disks are not? Thanks for your help.

msg.mainMemPosix.noSpace

drakanor — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:23:33 GMT

We are running VMware Server 2.0.1 on Linux, serving several virtual machines. Suddenly this night all of them have been halted by VMware and show the following message in the web interface:

msg.mainMemPosix.noSpace:The
directory "/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/GenToo Dev 21b/" has less
than 147 MB of free space.
Running out of free space in this directory may corrupt the virtual
machine's RAM. This is likely to cause the guest operating system to
crash.
To avoid these problems, VMware recommends you move or delete files to
free up space now.

There is enough space on harddisk left. Any idea what that could be? I've attached one of the VMware logfiles. This is the content of the directory mentioned above:

234905123 1524320 -rw------- 1 root root 2147483648 2009-10-02 11:41 564dd28a-552c-caff-be41-d4b0e0dce684.vmem
134223861 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 23 2009-10-02 11:41 564dd28a-552c-caff-be41-d4b0e0dce684.vmem.lck
234905205 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-27 11:17 gentoodev21b-f001.vmdk
234905206 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-26 17:58 gentoodev21b-f002.vmdk
234905207 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-26 17:54 gentoodev21b-f003.vmdk
234905208 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-27 02:40 gentoodev21b-f004.vmdk
234905209 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-27 11:17 gentoodev21b-f005.vmdk
234905210 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-27 11:17 gentoodev21b-f006.vmdk
234905211 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-26 17:54 gentoodev21b-f007.vmdk
234905212 1050368 -rw------- 1 root root 1075576832 2009-10-26 17:53 gentoodev21b-f008.vmdk
234905213 4 -rw------- 1 root root 675 2009-10-02 11:51 gentoodev21b.vmdk
268866656 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 23 2009-10-02 11:41 gentoodev21b.vmdk.lck
234911167 12 -rw------- 1 root root 8684 2009-10-02 11:41 nvram
234905215 0 -rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-07-09 14:49 Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmsd
234905214 4 -rwxr-xr-- 1 root root 1162 2009-10-02 11:41 Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmx
234906550 4 -rw------- 1 root root 279 2009-10-02 11:40 Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmxf
234905216 136 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137873 2009-10-02 11:40 vmware-0.log
234905202 128 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130299 2009-09-06 22:07 vmware-1.log
234905121 44 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44962 2009-07-28 12:14 vmware-2.log
234905217 88 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88574 2009-10-27 11:16 vmware.log

Thanks in advance
Roman

Error: vmtn is not defined Source File: https://gridhost1/ui/ Line: 122 (Appears to be problem with the js and DNS, IP works)

tnine — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:57:56 GMT

Hi all,

I'm running into some really strange issues with our vmware server web console. I can reference it by IP and everything works, but when I use the DNS name, I get the initial page load, then the subsequent javascript files for all the AJAX calls fails to load. I get this error.

Error: vmtn is not defined
Source File: https://gridhost1/ui/
Line: 122

I'm running http port 80 and https port 443. I get the above errors with the URLS

https://gridhost1/ui

https://gridhost1.mydomain.com/ui

but not with

https://10.0.1.20

https://10.0.2.20

There seems to be something wrong with the way the page determines where to download the other source files. Any idea's why this is working when I hit the server with the IP, but not with the DNS name? I've tried FF 2, 3, 3.5, Safari 4, and IE 7 and 8. All of them experience the same problem.

VMware Server: VMware Server 2.0.1 build-156745

Host: CentOS 5.3

Hardware: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/6025/SYS-6025W-NTR+.cfm

Thanks,

Todd

VMWare Server 2.0.1 can't be opened.

howardr — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:16:04 GMT

Hello,

Sorry but I don't know what forum to post this in so I'll try this one.

I can only start VMWare server 2.0.1 immediately after I install it.

It is using the a url something like this: https://machine-name:8333/ul/

It is using my machine name.

After I reboot I can no longer bring up the web interface.

Newbie here, any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

virtual machines losing packets

michpope — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:59:56 GMT

I have vmware sevrer running latest build on windows 2008 server and host machine never loses pckets but my virtual machines lose packets randomly and then they will get host unreachable errors along with the packet losses. Has anyone seen this before.

service vmware-hostd.exe crash / don´t start - unknown software exception (0x40000015)

Gismo5578 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:16:50 GMT

hi all,

we have an error with VMware-server-2.0.0-122956 in service
vmware-hostd.exe (unknown software exception (0x40000015)).

we can reproduce this error in the following constellation.

win2003 server running vmware server 2 with several guest os

including domain controller (win2000).

permissions on vmware server set for some virtual systems for

some specified domain users.

rebooting the host system (causes a shutdown of all guest

systems including the domain controller).

at startup of the host system the service vmware-hostd.exe

show´s the given error and can not be started.

we edited the authorization.xml from vmware server (removing

all specified domain user authentications) and start the
service vmware-hostd.exe again

and now the service runns

so it seems that vmware server has a problem starting service
vmware-hostd.exe if specified domain authentifications are
configured in permissions and the domain controller is not
running or available.

any solution available for this problem?

thx for help, chris

Absolutely Hate VMWare Server 2 User Interface

westes — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:03:15 GMT

We were starting to widely deploy VMWare Server 1, whose GUI based interface we liked and thought was adequate. When we tried to use VMWare Server 2 under Windows 2003, we were just shocked. I have rarely seen a product go so wrong.

First, the user interface of the new product was awful. It simply didn't respond as quickly and didn't feel as functional.

Second, the version 2 product took days to get working at all. We had all kinds of firewall issues to debug. That's not a good sign when a product doesn't just work out of the box.

For that reason we skipped the version 2 product entirely and won't use it.

My questions are:

1) Does anyone know if these will offer a GUI alternative for their VMWare Server 3 product? When is that due out?

2) Does VMWare Workstation 7 at least still offer a GUI administrative console?

In VMWare Workstation 7, is there any way to configure a virtual machine to automatically start up when the computer reboots? We could use it as a substitute for VMWare Server if it had that one feature?

--
Will

Can't configure two bridged interfaces

adolgik1 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:51:01 GMT

I have Win2k3 x64 as a host and just installed VMware Server 2 on it. Host machine has two network interfaces and I need to bridge them into virtual machine running Win2k3 x86.

After some time I ended up with:
1 Disabled DHCP, NAT and all host adapters.
2. Disabled option " Automatically choose available physical network adpater to bridge to VMNet0"
3. On the Tab "Host Virtual Network Mapping" I configured VMNet0 and VMNet1 to bridge to different physical network adapters.
4. On each network adapter provided as hardware to virtual machine i picked option "Bridged" under "Network Connection"

Problems:
1. I can not find any way to explain to the VMWare Server 2 which adapter should be connected to which VMNet. It is only possible to pick Bridged from the drop down menu.
2. Only one adapter actually bridged into virtual machine

Is there any way around this Web interface? Are there some options in vmx configuration file s.t. one can specify which adapter is mapped to where?

My vmx:

.encoding = "windows-1252"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
numvcpus = "2"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "384"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "VCenter-000001.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "D:"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
displayName = "VCenter"
guestOS = "winnetenterprise"
autostart = "poweron"
autostop = "softpoweroff"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

scsi0:0.redo = ""
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ethernet0.addressType = "static"
uuid.location = "56 4d 38 87 52 a7 07 13-97 6b 34 e9 8a fc a3 ef"
uuid.bios = "56 4d e5 2e 61 fc 7b 7e-a9 56 7f 9c bd af 47 1f"
checkpoint.vmState = ""
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"

Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:af:47:1f"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

Ethernet1.present = "TRUE"
Ethernet1.connectionType = "custom"
Ethernet1.vnet = "VMnet1"

ethernet1.addressType = "static"
ethernet1.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:af:47:29"
ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = "10"

ethernet1.networkName = "Bridged"
ethernet1.features = "1"

checkpoint.vmState.readOnly = "FALSE"

extendedConfigFile = "Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmxf"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
tools.upgrade.policy = "manual"

vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"

ethernet0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"
ethernet0.features = "1"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.networkName = "Bridged"

ethernet1.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"
ethernet1.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"

mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"

pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet1.pciSlotNumber = "33"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "34"
vmci0.id = "-1112586465"

ethernet0.address = "00:0c:29:af:47:1f"

ethernet1.address = "00:0c:29:af:47:29"

Support for More Than 10 Network Segments

westes — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:06:57 GMT

Does anyone know if VMWare Workstation 7 or Server 3 will provide a GUI for configuring more than 10 network segments? We like to put each virtual machine on a dedicated network segment and then tightly control their ability to get to other segments with a firewall. It's very easy - particularly if you have a lot of test VM environments - to go beyond 10 network segments. The legacy VMWare Server products under Windows have fairly toyish interfaces for configuring segments (they are difficult to use and buggy as well for network segment configuration) and this is an area that could really use improvements.

Will

Can't login to Web Access after new install

scarpenter — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:51:59 GMT

I have done an RPM install of Server 2.0 on a fresh install of CentOS 5.2.

After the initial config, when I attempt to connect to http://127.0.0.1:8222, I get the Web Access login. When I login I get an error:

The VMware Infrastructure Web Service at "http://localhost:8222/sdk" is not responding (Connection Refused)

The troubleshooting I've done so far is:

vmware-auth is listening on port 902, webAccess is listening on port 8308, vmware-hostd is listening on ports 8222 and 8333.

The hostd log contains no errors and ends with:
--2008-10-02 11:23:34.032 'App' 3086161600 info-- BEGIN SERVICES

The webAccess proxy.log contains only this error:
[2008-10-02 10:45:40,123,http-8308-1<=>,RequestProcessor] Error processing action request /action/login : [ConnectException] Connection refused

Does anyone have a suggestion for my next step?

vmware server 2 on Linux has blank web page

carltm — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:15:20 GMT

It took a while, but I found the solution for the blank web page on vmware server 2. If I viewed the source, I could see that content was being delivered, however the page would appear blank.

I also saw a variety of errors at the command line, including "599 vmware-authd PANIC: getpeername failed: Socket operation on non-socket", "terminate called after throwing an instance of 'VmdbError'" and " Failed to connect: 514 Error connecting to hostd-vmdb service instance."

When this happens, here is how I fix it:

~~root@computer ~~~# netstat -lnupt | grep 902
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:902 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 18939/vmware-authdl
~~root@computer ~~~# kill 18939
~~root@computer ~~~# netstat -lnupt | grep 902
~~root@computer ~~~# vmware-authdlauncher
~~root@computer ~~~# netstat -lnupt | grep 902
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:902 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15935/vmware-authdl
~~root@computer ~~~#

Unable to use parallel ports using ubuntu as host

danieledll — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:05:20 GMT

Hi to all,

this is my first post here!

I've used vmware for a lot of time, but never used with parallel ports. For an application i needed to setup a windows xp guest os on a server (ubuntu server) with a parallel port using vmware 2.0.1 (build 156745) release. When the VM starts i get on kernel logs the following message:

parport0 (ppdev0): use data_reverse for this!

I've done extensive researches on google and i've seen that qemu team fixed the problem some months ago, look here:

http://www.nabble.com/-5063--Parallel-Port-Direction-Fix-td19103739.html

I've founded a workaround using vmware tools on the guest os: when the machine disconnect and after reconnect the parallel port

There is a way to automate this workaround?

Running Win7/64, WinXP Pro/32 and Ubuntu 9/64 in VMWare

RealGomer — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:49:39 GMT

I have a Canon Canoscan 3200f scanner that requires drivers for it to run. Win7/64 will not work with the 32 bit drivers and when I tried using the Microsoft Virtual PC and XP mode, it still would not let the drivers install. From what I've read, Canon, Epson, and HP will not be upgrading ANY 32 bit drivers to 64 bit (and how long has it been since XP Pro/64 came out?).

My PC is based on a Gigabyte mobo running an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Black Edition CPU and 4 GB RAM.

Will VMWare allow hardware that requires and only has 32 bit drivers to install and operate? I want to run Win7 Pro, XP Pro and Ubuntu 9, the last so I can try to support my daughter's recently built Ubuntu PC. Right now I'm trying to decide between VMWare Server, Virtual Box and 3 partitions on one 500 GB SATA drive.

Thank you.

VMware Server 2 & Apache Reverse Proxy

tence_g — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:22:25 GMT

Hello NY Metro/World VMware,

I have a question, basically installed VMware Server 2 on Gentoo box and it works fine for the most part (I can't seem to use remote console in my firefox3). Along with that I setup my Apache server to reverse proxy the VMware tomcat so that I can access my vm's from outside. The problem is that when I access the login page from outside and when I login, it gives an error of "Please Login" (image attached). I was wondering if this could be a problem with the certificates since the apache's and the vmware's differs or could be something else I missed?

-tence_g

Delete key not deleting selected items.

gismcieri — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:58:11 GMT

Hi,

I am using VMWare server 2 on Ubuntu 9.04 64bit and everything seems to be working well except I can't use my delete key to delete files or emails in the XP guest OS. I highlight the items i want and hit the delete key and nothing happens. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Matt

No Access to VMServer Home Page When Not On Corporate Network

nsteblay — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:49:06 GMT

I have installed VMServer on a Windows XP laptop that is on a corporate domain. I installed the VMWare software when logged into the corporate domain.

If I attempt to access the VMServer Home Page when not on the corporate network (local IP address for machine) I get a failure. It appears to be an issue with Tomcat as I can't access the local Tomcat information page at http://127.0.0.1:8308 when not on the corporate network.

I find this odd. Why would I need to be connected to my corporate network to access Tomcat running locally. Any suggestions are welcome.

- Nick

Server keeps crashing

Treped — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:10:36 GMT

I have been trying to use Vmware server for a couple of years now and am about to throw in the towel and re-invest in new hardware to get stable servers again so any help would be greatly appreciated.At first I was running Vmware Server V1 on Windows 2003 Enterprise 4Gb ram and a 6 drive raid 5 and the system would either crash and reboot at random or completely power down with nothing showing in the windows system log. The system was completely unstable and would crash 1 - 2 times a week and then run for a few weeks and then crash again so I formated the system and re-installed the OS and upgraded to the latest Vmware Server V2 only to have the same results. I finally gave up and built a system with Centos5, all new hardware, 8 GB memory, downloaded and installed the latest Vmware Server V2 and I am getting the same results only it will be fine for 2 - 3 weeks and then crash for no reason. The frustrating part is I have only 2 virtual machines, 1 is an email and DNS server and the other is a DNS server and the email server handles maybe 5 - 10 emails a day and both are CentOS5 so it's not like they are getting a lot of traffic. This server does nothing else but run these 2 virtual machines and is still unstable, new hardware including memory, new OS, new Vmware server and back to square 1 with system crashes.

Any help would be appreciated, I am pretty much at the end of my rope here.

Thanks

Backups of guest operating systems from host on VMWare 2.0 cause guest operating systems to stop and report a missing disk

kasala78 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:21:56 GMT

Greetings!

I have a backup problem relating
to VMWare 2.0 and Backup Exec. I've recently changed the backups from
backing up within the actual guest OS to backing up the entire guest
from the host level. The thought process is easier and quicker
recovery in a DR type situation.

The backup methodology is as such:
Host 1: Windows 2003 x64 R2 Server running Backup Exec with an attached LTO3 Tape Drive. Backup Exec 11d 11.0 rev 7170.
Host
2: Windows 2003 x64 R2 Server with VMWare Server 2.0 and multiple guest
operating systems. The Backup Exec Agent is installed on this system.

From
the backup console, I have selected the directories containing my guest
operating systems and marked them for backup. I've followed the
instructions in the VMWare Server 2.0 guide to configure the VMWare VSS
Write Service on the Host server to start with credentials that are
admin level within the guest OS's.

The backup runs fine
however during the backup process of each guest OS, it knocks the guest
offline and leaves it in a state requesting information from the
operator. Clicking retry in the dialog causes the server to be
instantly available again. Almost as if it's in a paused state.

The message that is displayed in the console is:

Virtual Machine Message
vmxaiomgr.retycontabort.rudeunplug:Operation on file "<vmdk file location>" failed.
If
the file resides on a remote file system, please make sure your network
connection and the server where the disk resides are functioning
properly. If the file resides on removable media, reattach the media.
Chose retry to attempt the operation again.
Chose abort to terminate this session.
Chose continue to forward the error to the guest operating system.

The log of the VM shows:

Oct 16 21:07:30.562: vcpu-0| AIOWIN32C: 'E:\Virtual Machines\SCMWESTPOINTE\SCMWESTPOINTE-flat.vmdk' : Failed to write: The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file (33).
Oct 16 21:07:30.562: vcpu-0| VMXAIOMGR: Retry on write "E:\Virtual Machines\SCMWESTPOINTE\SCMWESTPOINTE-flat.vmdk" : The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file.
Oct 16 21:07:30.562: vcpu-0| VMXAIOMGR: system : err=8450 errCode=33 freeSpace=45678387200
Oct 16 21:07:30.562: vcpu-0| VMXAIOMGR: "E:\Virtual Machines\SCMWESTPOINTE\SCMWESTPOINTE-flat.vmdk" : write s=1879693312 n=61440 ne=15

The log and error for all VM's is the same.

Oddest
thing in this equation is that the test I did where I manually ran a
backup of a VM and then restored into a network limited state worked
perfectly and didn't knock the VM offline. The only difference in that
process was the backup was ran to a D2D backup instead of tape.

Also, I'm not seeing a snapshot being created as I understand it should when the backup process is initiated.

What am I missing?

Hopefully I posted this in the correct place. The communities site seems to be having some troubles with finding the right community.

problem with HostOnly interface

cli4 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:54:00 GMT

I am using VMware Server 2.0.1 on HP server with OS RHEL5.

I have two HP servers on same LAN with same subnet. On the first server, I installed VMware, and created a HostOnly interface, then I get vmnet1 as 169.254.64.1. But I found that from the other PC, I can ping 169.254.64.1. As it's a HostOnly interface, how an external server can ping the HostOnly IP? I strongly suspect that's a bug of VMware Server.

Problem with Bridged eth1

cli4 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:01:12 GMT

I use VMware Server 2.0.1. And my host PC runs RHEL5.

On the host PC, there is a eth0:

~~root@HP-DL380-1 log~~# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:7D:64:03:3E
inet addr:10.148.184.190 Bcast:10.148.187.255 Mask:255.255.252.0

I can ping this subnet's gateway 10.148.184.1:

~~root@HP-DL380-1 log~~# ping 10.148.184.1
PING 10.148.184.1 (10.148.184.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.148.184.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.59 ms
64 bytes from 10.148.184.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.247 ms

Then on this eth0, I created a bridged interface, and the VM's eth1 is on this bridged interface. And I configure the VM's eth1 in same subnet:

ifconfig eth1

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:1B:41:7E
inet addr:10.148.185.186 Bcast:10.148.187.255 Mask:255.255.252.0

From the VM, I can ping the host's eth0:

ping 10.148.184.190

PING 10.148.184.190 (10.148.184.190) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.148.184.190: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.34 ms
64 bytes from 10.148.184.190: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.083 ms

But from the VM, I CAN NOT ping the gateway:

ping 10.148.184.1

PING 10.148.184.1 (10.148.184.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.148.185.186 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable

On the host, I tried to tcpdump arp on eth0 when ping the gateway from the VM:

~~root@HP-DL380-1 log~~# tcpdump -i eth0 arp
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
12:55:09.396915 arp who-has 10.148.184.1 tell 10.148.185.186
12:55:09.481717 arp who-has 10.148.184.1 tell 10.148.185.186

We can see that there is no ARP reply message. But if I ping the gateway from host, then I can see ARP reply message. So the gateway should be fine. I'm guess if it's possable that the bridged interface drops ARP reply message. Any idea on how to check/debug this problem?

Thanks a lot.

No network access on debian host randomly, any ideas?

GWN2 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:47:47 GMT

Hello,

I installed VMWare server on a Debian Poweredge 1600sc server a while ago and P2V'd a Windows 2003 SBS server onto it. It normally works fine but now and again the host server loses connection with network. When it happens I can't ping anything by IP or name, but the gateway and IP information looks correct. I'm not sure I've got networking setup correctly. I have 2 NICS in the server, one of which I want the Debian server to use for all it's samba shares and apache hosting, and the other that is just for 1 virtual machine. The Server 2003 guest server has one virtual network card with the IP address 192.168.202.201. I can "fix" the problem by running /etc/init.d/networking restart on the host. The route and ifconfig tables don't change when the network stops working.

Anyone have any advise as to where to start looking? I'm not sure I want to have a bridged network, I'm only going to ever have one virtual machine with one network card using the dedicated NIC eth1. Can anyone tell me if I can set the network up differently without a bridge, or if I've missed something please?

It's running as a bridged connection as per the following:

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:c0:9f:13:52:a3
inet addr:192.168.202.202 Bcast:192.168.202.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:fe13:52a3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2022962 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3254656 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1465851541 (1.3 GiB) TX bytes:3817238458 (3.5 GiB)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:95:de:c6:4a
inet addr:192.168.202.203 Bcast:192.168.202.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:95ff:fede:c64a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3456727 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3726559 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2363196447 (2.2 GiB) TX bytes:2330101806 (2.1 GiB)
Interrupt:25

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:5400 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5400 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:570123 (556.7 KiB) TX bytes:570123 (556.7 KiB)

vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:01
inet addr:172.16.212.1 Bcast:172.16.212.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:08
inet addr:172.16.123.1 Bcast:172.16.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
172.16.212.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1
localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
172.16.123.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8
default 192.168.202.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

/etc/network/interfaces

The loopback network interface

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

The primary network interface

allow-hotplug eth0
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.202.202
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.202.0
broadcast 192.168.202.255
gateway 192.168.202.254

dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed

dns-nameservers 192.168.202.201 192.168.202.202 192.168.202.254
dns-search domain.local
up ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.202.203
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.202.0
broadcast 192.168.202.255

I get the following errors in the logs below when it loses network connection:

syslog
Sep 28 17:29:34 servertron ntpd3623: kernel time sync status change 0001
Sep 28 17:39:01 servertron /USR/SBIN/CRON5575: (root) CMD ( ~~-x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime~~ && ~~-d /var/lib/php5~~ && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin$
Sep 28 17:45:34 servertron /USR/SBIN/CRON5594: (root) CMD (curl --silent --compressed http://www.asite.com/cron.php)
Sep 28 17:45:41 servertron named2616: network unreachable resolving 'ns.webfusion.co.uk/AAAA/IN': 2001:630:181:35::83#53
Sep 28 17:45:41 servertron named2616: network unreachable resolving 'ns2.webfusion.co.uk/AAAA/IN': 2001:630:181:35::83#53
Sep 28 17:45:41 servertron named2616: network unreachable resolving 'ns.webfusion.co.uk/AAAA/IN': 2a01:40:1001:35::2#53
Sep 28 17:45:41 servertron named2616: network unreachable resolving 'ns2.webfusion.co.uk/AAAA/IN': 2a01:40:1001:35::2#53

daemon.log
Sep 28 16:04:09 servertron ntpd3623: synchronized to 192.168.202.201, stratum 3
Sep 28 16:04:09 servertron ntpd3623: kernel time sync status change 4001
Sep 28 17:29:34 servertron ntpd3623: kernel time sync status change 0001
Sep 28 17:45:41 servertron named2616: network unreachable resolving 'ns.webfusion.co.uk/AAAA/IN': 2001:630:181:35::83#53
Sep 28 17:45:41 servertron named2616: network unreachable resolving 'ns2.webfusion.co.uk/AAAA/IN': 2001:630:181:35::83#53

Can't install Linux Guests

Kintoki — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:37:20 GMT

I've got a problem installing Linux Guests on my Host (Server 2, newest Version, running on a XP 64 Host). So far I tried installing Debian 5.03, Ubuntu 9.04 and OpenSuse 11.1 (all distributions were 32 Bit versions, tried to install them with images) and none of them worked.

During every Installation it failed with the message, that there was a Write Error on the Harddisk (respectively read error on the dvd, some of the distributions don't deliver accurate error messages). I usually preallocate the diskspace (5 - 8 GB) on my Storage (Promise EX 8350 RAID 5, Storport.sys v5.2.3790.4021, Driver Version 4.00). The guests i create are nearly standard (1 CPU, 1 GB Ram, standard eth (bridged), no usb controller, no floppy, iso image as optical drive) and since the Raidcontroller Log doesn't show any errors, and Windows Guests can be installed without problem, i guess the problem is linux only.

The last time I installed a linux guest (Ubuntu and Debian) was in Version 1.5xx, also with older storage drivers (also storport.sys was a different version) and i didn't have any problems.

So if anyone knows what to do, feel free to tell me how it's done right.

VM Ware Server 2 Guest Windows 2003 R2 x64 very slow

Rainier — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:17:47 GMT

Hello everybody.

I have a problem with my environment that run VM Ware Server 2.0 Build 122956 on a HP DL 585 (16GB RAM with 4 AMD Opteron CPUs - processor 8218).

My host OS is a Windows 2003 EE 32 bits and I have a single Guest VM but its run extremely slow after the installation. The guest OS is a Windows 2003 EE R2 x64 with SP2 with 8GB RAM, 1 processor and 125gb disk and only have SAP Solution Manager installed. The VM run VM Tools and Virtual HW Version 7.

Anyone know something about this issue??

Thanks!

Here is my vmx file

.encoding = "windows-1252"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
nvram = "gassa01.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
ft.secondary0.enabled = "TRUE"
tools.upgrade.policy = "useGlobal"
powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "hard"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "soft"

displayName = "gassa01"
extendedConfigFile = "gassa01.vmxf"

memsize = "8192"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "gassa01.vmdk"
ide0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = ""
ide1:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"
ide1:0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.features = "1"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.networkName = "Bridged"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ehci.present = "TRUE"
guestOS = "winnetenterprise-64"
uuid.location = "56 4d 95 24 17 80 96 d6-fe 1e da b5 df f3 73 61"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 95 24 17 80 96 d6-fe 1e da b5 df f3 73 61"
vc.uuid = "52 51 5b 13 88 e2 5d 19-23 90 e1 10 2c 83 3d 79"

ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:f3:73:61"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
ide0:0.redo = ""
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "34"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "35"
usb:0.present = "TRUE"
usb:1.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmci0.id = "-537693343"
usb:1.deviceType = "hub"
usb:0.deviceType = "mouse"

ide1:0.clientDevice = "TRUE"

I can't log on to my vmware server

generalissues — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:11:52 GMT

Hello; I currently have virtual server 2.0, the newest version. I use windows vista and the name of my laptop is maxevans-pc and I have been using port 8333. I have been logging on to this server since I've installed it, but this morning, when I tried to log on, it says this "maxevans-pc is not set up to establish a connection on port "8333" with this computer. Now, I don't know what happened to cause my laptop to not be setup to use port 8333, but can you please tell me how to configure my laptop to use port 8333? Or can I use the windows system restore to go back earlier in time when I was using my vmware server? Thanks.

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