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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!

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

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

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

More than one USB device at the same time

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

Hi Community,

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

Here is it:

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

Thx for your help in advance.

Best regards,

Chris

is the vdiskmanager-bug fixed in VMserver 2.0.2 ?

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

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

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

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

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vmserver 2.02-203138 and 2x Xeon X5570

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

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

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

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

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

Sorry about posting this VMware Server 1 post here.

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

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

Please help if there is a way out of this.

httpd.vmware will not start

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks in advance, Mark

vmware server2 not working with kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r8

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

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

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

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

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

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

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

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

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

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

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

Execution aborted.

vmware server2 not working with kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r8

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

The System Very slow

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

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

But very slow.

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

Anybody recomends VMware ESXi??

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.

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

Virtual hardware upgrade - server 1 to server 2 - performance

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

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

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

Or is it hardly noticable?

TIA

Almost no Internet access on host but guests OK - ?

ipgman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:44:36 GMT

Hi,

Have a Windows 2003 R2 x64 host running VM server 1.08 with two guest Windows 2003 R2 servers. Internet access is fine from both guest servers but the host has almost no access. DNS appears to work fine returning an IP address but very little web browsing is possible. Ever seen that? Any ideas how to troubleshoot? The host server has teamed Intel gigabit NICs on the LAN (and full access to the LAN)

Thanks

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

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

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

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

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

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

Has anyone encountered this?

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

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

Hi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any ideas - how to fix this problem?

Regards,
Dmitry.

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

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

Hi Guys,

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

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

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

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

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

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

I would appreciate your comments / feedback on this.

Thanks

KJS

memory allocation and performance

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

Hi,

I am experiencing some wierd memory behavior.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Regards

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

upg3 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:17:01 GMT

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

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

Thanks for your reply...

VMware Server 2 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

User can not connect to VMware-Servers

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

Hello,

here fist some technical details:

Server: CentOS 5.2 - 64-bit

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

Clients: WinXP Pro

First of all: Everything here is working fine but:

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

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

VMware Console is installed on the 2 clients.

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

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

Can anybody pls help me?

Thanks a lot!

Error: Register Virtiual Machine

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

Hi,

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

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

Description:
Adds an existing Virtual Machine to the folder

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

Any help with clearing this errors would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
Paul.

VMware tools doesn't compile in ubuntu 9.10

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

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks in advance

Can't start VM with VMware Server 1.0.10 and Ubuntu 9.04

davidsi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:53:25 GMT

VMware server 1.0.9 was working on Ubuntu 9.04 with the vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz patch. Well, not everything - USB disks were not mounting. However, when I upgraded to 1.0.10 and applied the patch, I get an error message "Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an error: End of error message." when trying to start the VM. Does anyone have a clue why?

Thanks, David

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.

AMD PCNet adapter not recognised under Windows 7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lost my ability to connect to my VM

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not able to download Vmware server 2

jssneeraj0107 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:14:27 GMT

Hi
I am trying to download vmware server2 via dap. I am getting following error " Authentication required ( download2.vmware.com ) ".

Kindly suggest.

Sincere Regards,
Neeraj

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!

Original filenames of the split vmdk`s

pbroska — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:07:05 GMT

After fsck.ext3 all vmdk files were moved to lost+found with inode names. How is it possible to find out how the filenames must be? I know the names from an old backup but which file #23244?? is debian5-s001.vmdk. The size of all files is 2GB and i can`t find anything in the header. The files are all ok.

VMWare server 2.0.2 failed to start up on Suse Linux ES 10 64-bit on Intel.

davidyuz — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:29:24 GMT

Hi all, I recently installed VMware server 2.0.2 on Suse Linux ES 10 Intel 64-bit. The installation went fine and I ran vmware-config.pl script as instructed. That part ran successfully and VMWare server started up fine. The only problem is that if I rebooted the machine, it would fail to start up again. It keeps saying to run vmware-config.pl script again as it was not configured correctly. If I run the script again manually, it starts up. As long as I don't reboot the machine, it would keep running.

Anyone runs into this issue and how to resolve it? Please advise. Thanks.

David.

Problema con tarjeta de red en Maquina virtual

rtule — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:40:04 GMT

que tal espero me puedan ayudar tengo un vmware server 2.02 y tengo dos maquinas virtuales instaladas una de ellas funciona a la perfección la otra simplemente no se conecta a red reconoce todo pero le doy un ping a otro equipo y no puedo salir estoy usando bridge para la conexion

alguien que me pueda dar un tip

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

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

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

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?

Netware guest won't shutdown with vmrun

averylarry — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:02:06 GMT

I'm using vmrun to shutdown my guests for backup purposes. I recently installed a new 2.0.2 server and moved a few guests onto it from an old 1.0.6 server.

vmrun stop "[standard] guest.vmx" soft

works fine with my windows guests. The Netware guest does nothing. I can see the attempt scroll by in the web console (no errors), but the vmrun command sits there for a very (I've waited 30 minutes) long time and does nothing. The guest itself does not seem to do anything. I've tried:

vmrun stop "[standard] guest.vmx" hard

with the exact same results. I upgraded the vmtools (which are running) with no change in behavior. The only thing I haven't tried is upgrading the hardware version -- but I'm very reluctant to try that since the backup plan if the host has problems is to use the old (but still running) 1.0.6 server, so I want to leave the hardware version compatible with the older server platform (I can always reinstall vmtools).

Upgrade to Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

codework — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:13:49 GMT

I am currently running VMware Server 2.0 on my Vista machine (Q6600 @ 2.40GHz / 4GB). Sometimes, my machine gets really laggy when I have more than 2 Vmwares turned on.

I will be upgrading to Windows 7 very shortly.

My question is, should I upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit? I want to be able to add more RAM to the machine to boost the performance. If I upgrade to WIndows 7 64-bit, I will most likely add 4GB of RAM to make it 8GB.

Do you think this will increase the performance of my VMware Server?

Let me know your suggestions. Thanks.

cannot install vmware-1.0.10 on Ubuntu/Karmic/Kaola (9.10)

freelsjd — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:11:07 GMT

It is the usual problem with vmware. I cannot install it because I cannot compile the vm modules with the new kernel that comes with Karmic (2.6.31). I can downgrade to the 2.6.28 kernel that came with Jaunty (9.04) using the vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2 patch. However, this patch will not work with the new kernel 2.6.31. Are there any known fixes at this stage ?

Guest frozen after Windows 7 64 bit host resume from sleep

tazzydemon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:12:05 GMT

Dear All

I am now running Server 2 on RTM Windows7 64bit host. This is on an AMD powered HP laptop as a development box. It has 4g of ram.

I have the customary problem of NAT not working, but more annoyingly when I put the host to sleep and then resume (I have it set to semi hibernate so it goes to full hibernate after a few hours) the Centos 5.4 guest I have running is frozen and cannot be accessed in any way. It requires a restart.

More amazingly, I restored my original Vista 32 bit box (with VMware on it which as you might imaging glugged things up for a while!) to a Virtual Machine on the same host. This guest comes out of host sleep fully working.

Any ideas?

HostOnly not Working with Debian as Host and Guest

rmarsac — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:01:58 GMT

Hi!

I'm having a trouble trying to communicate my Guest VM and my Host via HostOnly networking, this is the scenario:

Host: Debian 5 Lenny with VMware Server 2

Making an ifconfig:

vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:01
inet addr:192.168.85.1 Bcast:192.168.85.255 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:266553 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2513 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Routing tables:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
172.16.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.85.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1
192.168.119.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8
default 172.16.0.100 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

Guest VM: Debian 4 Etch with 2 network interfaces (eth0 is Bridged, eth1 is HostOnly):

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:C4:C0:38
inet addr:172.16.0.2 Bcast:172.26.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fec4:c038/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4493707 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5434191 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1661658055 (1.5 GiB) TX bytes:4849996319 (4.5 GiB)
Base address:0x2000 Memory:d8940000-d8960000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:C4:C0:42
inet addr:192.168.85.129 Bcast:192.168.85.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fec4:c042/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:249643 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:152016 (148.4 KiB) TX bytes:21350070 (20.3 MiB)
Base address:0x2040 Memory:d8960000-d8980000

Typing route:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
172.16.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.85.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
default 172.16.0.100 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

If I try to launch a ping from de guest VM, this is what I get:

# ping 192.168.85.1
PING 192.168.85.1 (192.168.85.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.85.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4003ms

Pinging the Guest from the Host, this is what I get:

# ping 192.168.85.129
PING 192.168.85.129 (192.168.85.129) 56(84) bytes of data.
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
--- 192.168.85.129 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3016ms

I've googled but I've found just nothing. I don't know where is the problem. Both Host and GuestVM have the Linux Firewall disabled.

Could you, please, post me any idea?

Thank you for your time!!

Rod.

damaged .vmdk file

calaver4 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:51:29 GMT

My PC had problems with RAID 5 disks array, now I've a damaged .vmdk file that cannot be started with VMware server neither mounted with vmware-mount. Are there any procedures or tools to repair the .vmdk file?

When I try to add this damaged virtual machine to VMware server inventory nothing happen, no error, no crash... nothing
When I try vmware-mount, on centOS 5.3 and VMware server 2.01, I got " A system call has failed" error.

Thanks in advance.

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

Licensing issue in vsphere (eval expired & trying to give a license

rmustafa — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:05:16 GMT

I have a issue with vSphere license installation for the expired 3 unit ESX 4 & 1 vCenter server.

I have 3 unit ESX 4 server & 1 vCenter server installed on evaluation version all were connected & working fine,
today I have seen evaluation is expired & I installed a purchased license for vCenter, now running fine ..& out of 3 ESX server 1 automatically
gets connected & I was able to inter the license key for that ESX box..but I was not able to enter a license key for other 2 ESX4 boxes.

So What I did is I connected ESX4 directly from vSphere client & entered a license key, its activated, but when I logged off & tried to connect
again from vCenter, it fails saying "your license for ESX server is expired.

So my question is why I'm not able bring back that ESX4 boxes to vCenter ?????, what could be the possible solution ????

Please help.

Thanks,

VMWare Converter Will Not Install On Windows 2000 SP4 Server

focustechnology — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:02:09 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to convert a windows 2000 SP4 server to a VMWare image to run it on VMWare server on another physical machine.
I have tried to install the converter but it just gets close to the end of the installation and rolls back the actions and the install fails with a message saying that the installation was interrupted.
There are no pending reboots and the server is patched to the latest updates.
The server has SQL 2000 on it and not much else.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

VMware on Fedora 11

munnanepali99 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:47:26 GMT

Hello folks,

I have downloaded and installing VMware server 2 on Fedora11 and I am running into these errors

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

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

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

Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "4.4.0", while you are trying to use
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.4.1". This configuration is not recommended and
VMware Server may crash if you'll continue. Please try to use exactly same
compiler as one used for building your kernel. Do you want to go with compiler
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.4.1" anyway? no yes

I have installed the vmware any-any-update115 patch and ran the runme.pl also, but its the same still

Is there anything I am missing...Thanks a lot

Munna Singh

Annoyance in Console (Bar at top)

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

I think there is a bug or something.

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

So:

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

Vmware Server 2.0.2 on 2008 R2 as host OS

PipeSmokingMario — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:58:34 GMT

Is anyone successfully using 2.0.2 on 2008 R2 (german and english)
Networking (NAT) doesnt run, no connection via NAT
The display of a XP guest is very very poor, only with acceleration disabled acceptable.

The *NdisDeviceType = 1 RegPatch didnt solve the problem.

Any Idea ??

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?

vmware server 2.0.2 running on windows 7 64bit

chstueben — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:43:28 GMT

Hi all,
i have a problem using vmware server on windows 7. I have just made one test installation on windows 7 90daytrial, 32 bit. All is working perfectly.
And i have made a second test installation on windows 7 90daytrial, 64 bit. All is working perfect, until i want to start a virtual engine. vmware ser ver tells me that i have to install the vmrc client, i try to install it, restart my computer, restart vmware again. And again vmware tells me to install the vmrc client. CReating a desktop shortcut for the virtual engines also doesnt work because the vmrc client is missing.

So what can i do to get it running on windows 7 64bit?

Thanks to all!

greetings from gemany
Christian Stüben

cannot select hostonly and NAT network in add hardware wizard

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

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

Please help. Thanks

VMware 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!

install failure on ubuntu

MonsterMaxx — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:18:16 GMT

Ubuntu 9.10 fail.

root@MythTV-SRV:/home/software# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

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

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

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

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:31:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:70: note: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vmware.h:38,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:99:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_types.h:108:7: warning: "__FreeBSD__" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vcpuset.h:103,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/modulecall.h:37,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./common/vmx86.h:33,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:29,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:101:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:329:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:333:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:401:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:407:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:506:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:595:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:684:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:773:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:775:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:860:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:862:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:945:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:947:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1028:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1030:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1223:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1227:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1536:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1663:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_asm.h:46,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/rateconv.h:45,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/modulecall.h:40,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./common/vmx86.h:33,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:29,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:101:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_asm_x86.h:62:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_asm_x86.h:177:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_asm_x86.h:346:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_asm_x86.h:453:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm.h:43,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:103:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:486:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:779:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:820:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:922:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:119:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./common/hostif.h:53:7: warning: "WINNT_DDK" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU’:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘euid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘uid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘fsuid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘uid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘egid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘gid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘fsgid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘gid’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only~~ Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

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

Execution aborted.

suggestions?

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

Changelog?

building39 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:34:34 GMT

Is there a changelog document for VMware Server 2.0.2? We'd like to know what changed between releases.

VMware Server installation just fails, no error message

larrymenard — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:26:32 GMT

Hi,

I've had VMware 2.0 Server running on my Windows XP laptop for a year or more now, and it's been working fine. Then one day a couple of weeks ago it just stopped working. I forget the symptoms now, but that's not the point... I uninstalled it and since then have been trying to reinstall it. That's the problem... it won't reinstall. The installer immediately exits with no error messages at all.

I've tried both 2.0.1 and 2.0.2. Same thing happens (basically, nothing).

Last week I found a posting somewhere here that described a "VMware Installer Cleaner" script, but that didn't help at all.

I wish I had more info to give you, but that's all I have. Really appreciate any help with this.

Thanks.

Vmware server on openSUSE 11.2

GJE — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:22:01 GMT

Look here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551294

VSS - Snapshot

NeoTitan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:50:17 GMT

Hi all,

I have a doubt, I observed that when I make a backup with VSS, a snapshot is made but inmediatly this snapshot is removed.

The way I understand a backup with VSS is that the snaphsot isn´t removed until the backup is made.

Can someboy explain me if i am wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Custom installation of VMware Server 2.0.2 - MISSING?!

Falcon4 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:18:26 GMT

Excuse me, but what is with the bastardization of the installer ever since Windows Installer hit the scene? I'm helping a classmate install VMware Server on his laptop so he can run a virtual server for the class. He had VMware Server 1.0 installed, but it didn't run Server 2008 properly (mouse support was broken, guest auto-fit didn't work, and performance was absolute garbage on a C2D 2.1 with 4gb RAM on Vista x64 SP2).

So I told him it would all be better with VMware Server 2.0. I suffered through the ridiculous 505mb download (compared to the 130mb of VMware Server 1.0), and went to install it. It uninstalled the old version fine, and rebooted the computer. Came back, and automatically started the installer again. It errored out about not being able to write a registry key - duh, because it didn't have the intelligence to run with elevation (no UAC prompt). I re-run setup from the downloaded file, and it works fine. I wasn't offered a custom installation so I could de-select the ridiculous components like the Web Management console, SDKs, and whatever-the-hell other unnecessary garbage comes with VMware. Nope! No custom installation.

I let it chug along, assuming it would let me customize the installation via the Programs control panel. 10 minutes later, and countless garbage components rolling across the screen (I stopped watching after Web Console, then Java runtime... which was ALREADY INSTALLED), it finally finished and I restarted. I go to Programs and Features, select VMware Server, and hit Change. Yes, "Change". What options am I presented with?

"Repair". "Remove". Which one do you think I'll choose if the product consists of <80% garbage software I didn't want installed on the system? I'll give you a hint: Remove.

VMware needs to fix this. This is VERY broken. I know the components are available in the MSI file, but the page is being hidden. Why? Because it's a free product? What do you want to do, piss off potential customers? I can hardly believe more people haven't complained about this.

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?

Understanding Memory Utilization on VMWare Server

newvmguy12 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:45:53 GMT

I have installed VMWare on Windows Server 2003 with 1.74GB RAM.

Virtual Memory is configured with - Initial Size (2610MB) and - Maximim size (5220MB)

Single VM (Windows Server 2003 again) has been created on the VM Host. 512MB of RAM has been allocated
to the VM.

Virtual Memory on VM is configured with - Initial Size (384MB) and - Maximim size (768MB)

The task manager on the 'VM Host' shows

Physical Memory (KB)

Total 1825476
Available 447472
System Cache 485828

PF Usage: 1.17GB

The task manager on the 'VM' shows

Physical Memory (KB)

Total 523680
Available 258224
System Cache 129444

PF Usage: 270MB

When I view the memory usage on the VM Host Web Console, its shows 1426MB in use.

Why is the VM Host console showing such a high memory usage.

Thanks.

how VMware Server use multiple threads?

bigt23 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:53:36 GMT

Hi,

I just noticed VMware Server is implemented with multiple kernel-level threads when watched from host OS.

In my platform (Fedora), more than 20 threads are created per guest OS.

Does anyone know how the tasks of guest OS are mapped to those threads on host OS?

If you could tell any documents, that will be a great help to me.

Thanks,

bigt23

VMDK File Size Question

mphilli7823 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:46:55 GMT

I'm going to be upgrading my server soon to utilize some new space that was added to it. Currently the VM is configured with 2 vmdk files, one is 950GB, which was the old max vmdk file size way back in the 1.x days, and the other is 250GB. It seems now that their is no limit to the size of the vmdk file that I can create, or atleast I can create one that is 2TB. Would it be better to create multiple 1TB vmdk files or just create one that is the largest size possible? In my head I'm thinking that a single large vmdk file would increase the chances of corruption, but I'm wondering has anyone created a single large vmdk file in production and have they had any issues with it. Also I have a scripted once a week backup of everything, so if corruption issues were to occur, I can recover from backup. Any thoughts on this are greatly appreciated!

Upgrading from VMServer 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 on Windows

VMServerNewby — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:54:58 GMT

Does anyone know if there are any Gotchas in upgrading from VMServer 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 on Windows? I couldn't find any documentation for upgrading.

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

VMWare Server 2 (Ubuntu 9.10 x64) DHCP Issues

MrNorm — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:18:38 GMT

Hello everyone,

So, I've taken the plunge and upgraded my Ubuntu 8.04 x86 box to 9.10 x64, which went really well and installed in less than 10mins! VMWare Server 2 took a little fiddling with the kernel to get the right stuff compiled, but it was all really painless.

Now, the weird bit. I have a Windows XP Guest OS which runs a firewall and mail server. In the setup, I have eth1 bridged as FW WAN and eth2 bridged as FW LAN .. On these two ports I have set the Ubuntu host to NOT start these connections automatically, so it should pass straight through.

The LAN interface works a treat and I'm able to connect to the mail server fine. However, the WAN port which is plugged directly into my cable modem isn't picking up a DHCP address (residential network). I can see in the guest that the interface is sending and receiving data, but it just isn't setting an address.

Anyone else had a similar experience like this? I have no idea what to do now!

Cheers,
Ollie

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...

WOL with VMwareServer?

bluglass — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:54:50 GMT

Hi,

I've recently started using VMware Server 2.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 and I
ran across mention of an entry in vmx files for wake on lan. So far
I've been unable to find any definitive information on which VMware products support wake on
lan other than vague references to support in ESX. Eventually I plan
on experimenting with ESXi but not anytime soon. Is there a work
around to support WOL with VMware Server 2? It would seem to be fairly
straight forward to do this (in linux anyway) with a script by
detecting a WOL packet on the local network using tshark and vmrun to
start the VM corresponding to the MAC address in the WOL packet.

Any suggestions?

Thanks...

Help! My VM's intermittently lose network connectivity!

jl542uop — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:39:39 GMT

I have 10 hosts running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 32-bit.
These are running dual Quad-core procs and have 8GB+ of RAM each.

These hosts around 30 VM guests, mostly Windows server Standard 2003 32-bit, with a couple Windows 2008 servers and a couple CentOS linux systems.

My issue boils down to this:

I started noticing my servers were having poor performance despite monitoring them using Task Manager and seeing little to no activity. I installed WhatsUpGold and found that running a simple ping test, my VM's were all becoming inaccessible frequently. Sometimes for longer than 2 minutes. I can see them on the console just fine, and the hosts are accessible.

The ping test is failing on VM's about 300 times or more a day. They are frequently spread across multiple hosts, so I find it hard to blame hardware at this point.

Can anyone offer some insight as to what's going on?

Thanks!

server 1.0.10 NAT: DNS not working

xerces8 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:39:33 GMT

I just updated VMWare Server from 1.0.9 to 1.0.10 and now DNS does not work in guest that have set up NAT networking.

Tried Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, also Windows XP. All using default (automatic) network settings.

I can ping any numerical address, but DNS resolution does not work.
If I set manually a DNS server offered by my ISP in the guests, then it works.

Is this some regression with 1.0.10 ? I'm sure the same VM worked before the update.

Regards,
David

Anyone using VirtualCenter 1.4 with SQL Server 2005?

stanj — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:29:47 GMT

Has anyone tried VirtualCenter Server 1.x for VMware Server (1.x) with SQL Server 2005?

thanks

High disk utilization after Acronis-to-VM conversion

rckit2001 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:21:04 GMT

Hello-

We have taken a backup of our SUpermicro server using Acronis 9.7 and used the included tool to convert the .TIB file to a virtual machine for VMWare Server 2.0. THat process has worked like a charm.

We then created a VM in VMWare Server 2.0 and used the HDD created above, but immediately ran into two issues:

1) When we booted the VM we got an error message when we tried to install VMTools - saying that the guest OS was not supported. The guest is a Server 2008 machine.

We rebooted and the tools installed without an issue and resolved a "Base System" driver issue as well... except that it caused an even greater issue:

2) with the tools installed the performance is very slow and the disk utilization (average disk queue) is well above 150. If we remove the tools the VM is quite responsive.

We really need the tools installed for performance, but can't seem to resolve the disk I/O issue.

The physical server has an Adaptec SCSI controller in RAID 5, the the Host server is running a 3Ware 9550 RAID 5. The VM is configured for the LSI adapter.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Cannot connect to the virtual machine

AndersN — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:19:34 GMT

I just experienced the strangest thing.. I would like some ideas on it please.

I suspended 5 VMs on my server, restarted the host machine (A SUSE Linux host) and VMware Server came up as usual. However, only 4 of the 5 suspended VMs came back up.

The 5:th is still in suspended state, and when I try to start it manually, I get an error saying:

"Details: A general system error occurred: Cannot connect to the virtual machine"

Any ideas please?

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

Converting Oracle VM image (Linux) into a VMWare image

IvanL1 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:27:48 GMT

Hi All!

What is the simpliest what of doing so?
Should I install Oracle VM Manager first, then deploy my image there and inport it to VMWare as a physical machine?

Or there are OOTB converting toolsfor that?

Thanks!

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Installation Problem

jjohall2000 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:43:17 GMT

Hi,

I have just downloaded the latest build of VMware server 2 from the Wmware download section, During the Installation process it hangs (freezes) when installing the tom cat server.

As mention in the subject in am Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.

Is this an known issue and has anyone come accross this problem before? Any help towards a solution would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jonathan - jjohall2000

Problems with RAM usage

m0rth — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:33:39 GMT

Hi everyone!

I am using VMware Server 2.0 on Windows 2003 Server

I have 4 VMs which are set with limit of 128 MB of memory. In web gui i see they use during idle state sth like 10MB,
However when i look on porcesses of vmware: vmware-vmx.exe they eat about 300MB.
I have seen that VMware says there is some overhead in memoryconsumption but not like this.

I have set limit of memory that can be assinged to VMs. But the instances of thisprocesseatlot of RAM.

Anyone any idea what is the reason for such a high consumption?

Cheers!
Konrad

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.

No WebAccess to VMware Server 2

Samoht — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:31:32 GMT

Hi,

I am all out of ideas on this one. VMware server installed successfully, the license is installed etc.
But I cannot connect to the web interface on https://localhost:8333
I am running WMware Server 2.x on an Intel based work station under 64-bit Fedora 11.
The window pops up to ask for
"Login Name" and "Password"

but after submitting the info it times out and gives this response:

selinux is running in permissive mode
iptables are NOT running
tcpwrappers are NOT enabled!

Any help is appreciated.

How to perform a getguestinfo with vmrun

VirtualEJ — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:52:52 GMT

We were running this command in a shell script while we were using VM Server 1:

!#/bin/sh

Value of the HOST shoud be replaced with the IP Address of the Exchange Server

HOST=`vmware-cmd /EX1/EX1 getguestinfo ip|awk '{print $3}'`

How do I do this on VM Server 2?

VMware Remote Console Error

pablodap — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:24:07 GMT

Hi guys

I have two servers running
Vmware Server 2.0 (windows) and suddenly in both of them I can’t open the
Vmware Remote Console.

The system show me the
following error

Unable to connect to
the MKS: Login (username/password) incorrect.

I have the same problem
even a use a Administrator account.

I attached a print screen.

Anybody can
help me?

Best Regards.

64 bit on redhat with server version of vmware

cobham — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:17:00 GMT

Hi all,

First, excuse me for my very bad english...

And now : I'm new with vmware and virtualization technologies. My first project is to create a lab for Vcenter 4.0, and because I've no server free. I need to do that on a RedHat 64 Bit with vmware server 2.0. This a big server with 2 To disk free, and 42 Go of memory

I've done all that I read on the document : How to Install ESX on VMware Server.pdf. My problem is when I lauch my VM with ce DVD install of ESX, I've this error : This version of ESX requires a CPU capable of 64 bit operation.

So I've read all I can found on the net about this problem. I've check my Dell PowerEdge 2900 bios and see that VT extention is on, My RedHad is installed in 64 Bit version :

uname -a

Linux hades.chelton-antennas.com 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Mon Jun 1 15:52:58 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

RedHat can see the VT capability :

grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm

I've configured the guest OS with : Other 2.6x Linux (64-bit)

So now I've no more idea to solve the problem, thank in advance to help me

NAT not routing

mschelstrate — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:05:46 GMT

I Installed the latest release verison of VMWare Server on Vista X64. Then I installed Fedora 11 in new VM with NAT seleced as virtual network using standard defaults and DHCP.

Fedora 11 VM is unable to access internet using FireFox or ping an external ip address. I am receiving connection failed error messages.

Fedora Network manager says the network is working correctly but when I browse to any website, it says done and nothing is displayed but there are nor error messages generated.

When I try to ping an external site, there is 100% packet loss.

I am able to ping between VM and vnet8 ip address and from the host to the Fedora VM assigned ip address. The VM card is enabled in host Vista.

Does anyone have any ideas why the VM is unable to route beyond the host machine?

Thanks

Cannot connect local Vsphere Client drive to VM

Jam3s — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:41:48 GMT

Hello, I've done some searching on this issue, but has anyone ever seen this particular error? Attached. Thanks.

WebUI doesn't respond

SirHaxalot — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:02:21 GMT

I have the VMware Server 2 installed on a Widnows Server 2008 R2 machine, but the WebUI has stopped working. When i try to access it I get a connection, but it won't send me any data, but it never times out.

I worked for a couple of days before I got this issue, and I already have som VMs up and running.

If possible, I want to resolve this issue without restarting the host, and I need to have the VMs up also (one of them is a firewall).

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

scsi_id does not provide the uuid of the drive

textux — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:32:46 GMT

I'm running VMware Server 2 with a RHEL 5.4 client O/S.

running scsi_id -g -x -a -s /block/sda returns

ID_VENDOR=VMware,

ID_MODEL=VMware_Virtual_S

ID_REVISION=1.0

ID_SERIAL=

ID_TYPE=disk

ID_BUS=scsi

I would have thought that the ddb.uuid value would be reported as the ID_SERIAL value.

Does anyone know of a fix or work-around for this issue?

//Bill

Moxa serial controller PCI on VMware server 2

alessandroit — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:23:13 GMT

hello
I am looking for help to find out if I am just wasting my time trying to solve a problem on vmware server 2.
This is the case:
My host machine is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 8) where I have installed VMware Server 2.0.1.
On
the host machine there is a Moxa serial controller (PCI) that splits 8
serial ports. I have installed a virtual machine Red Hat Enterprise
Linux ES release 4, I tried to add all the available serial ports on
the guest machine. But nothing to do! While from the host machine I see
serial datas (cat /dev/ttyM* this is the moxa device) from the guest I
dont see any incoming datas.
Is there any way I can make it work? I
tried all the possible ways I know but nothing to do the serial
controller is not recognized from vmware!
Any help I am desperated...
thanks

Unable to run installer VMware Server 1.0.7 on Windows

vmwarenovice123 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:44:33 GMT

Hi Experts,

Can you please advise me what might the problem with my system....

I am trying to install VMware Server 1.0.7, but when I run the .exe the installer flashesh on the screen and disapears.

I had it installed, but I preinstalled windows, and now I have this problem.

What I did so far for troubleshooting:

start in save mode with netweokring - the installation started but stopped with some error in the middle of the process

installed older jre 1.4.2_19 - no success

trying to install only VMware player - no success, installer flashesh again

Please help on this, I really need badly this installation.

Thank you in advance for the support!

vm fails on vmware server after vmware tools upgrade via Workstation V7

jimbo45 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:15:14 GMT

Hi all

Trialling out the new workstation 7 with an existing virtual machine built with vmware server 2.02 I get Exception error when powering in the vm in vmware server 2.02.

I often share (actually copy) VM's between Vmware server 2.02 and a laptop running vmware workstation 6.5.3 -- that was no problem but it seems that if you upgrade vmware tools on a virtual machine running with workstation version 7 you can't run the vm again on older releases of vmware including vmware server.

This is a bit of a bugbear -- I MUST have vmware server on my server -- and for laptops vmware workstation is ideal.

(A get around is NOT to upgrade vmware tools on your vm guest running in workstation 7).

Host -- W7 x-64 enterprise and Windows server 2008 R2

Guests - mostly windows XP (sp3) machines with different sets of apps.

Cheers

jimbo

Guest OS (Windows 2000) VMWare 2.0.x Erratic Reboot

Tcholon — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:10:27 GMT

Hi All,

Has anyone the same problem described below, if yes, did you find a workaround or solution ?

Windows 2000 Server SP4 running as guest OS on VMWare Server 2.0.0 & 2.0.2 for Linux Red Hat (x64) is rebooted every about 30 mins.

- Nothing in the Windows Event Viewer, except that the "previous shutdown was unexpected".

This strange behaviour is happening since the 25th october... Since then, 18 servers have the same problem. Every day, one or more server come in this "server_ behaving_strangely" list....

Any help or clue would be greatly appreciated....

Best Regards,

Tcholon

Unable to run VMware services

bdmbrij — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:05:36 GMT

Hi,

I have recently installed VMware server 1.0.9 on my XPSP2 machine and was able to create Virtual machines. But all services have been stopped after a reboot and I am not able to run VMware on my system. All 4 services are stopped. I got the error code 1603 when I try to restart the services.

I am using AVG free antivirus if that is a matter of concern.

Please help asap.

Sincerely,

Brij Mohan

Vmware Server 2.0.0 & 2.0.2 strange problem

Tcholon — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:09:52 GMT

Hi All,

Since the 25th october, a growing number of VMware server are behaving strangely...

Here follows a description of the problem (note that all these servers (+- 200) are running for about 1 year without any problems) :

The guest OS (in this case all Windows 2000 servers) reboots without any notifications every +- 30 mins (I have this on 15 sites now, growing each day)

- I first tought that it was a license problem, so I decided to upgrade one site using the VMWare Server 2.0.2... Nope, the same problem arose on the updated server.

Has anyone already had this problem ? If yes, is there a solution to prevent this ?

Many thanks in advance for your help

Tcholon.

Hardware used :

HP Proliant ML370G5 or ML570G4

Installed OS : Red Hat Enterprise 5.2 (x64)

Vmware Server 2.0.0-116503 installed

Guest OS : Windows 2000 Server Sp4

Follows (maybe that can help) a copy of the vmware.log file.

Oct 29 07:33:54.844: vcpu-0| Guest: toolbox: Version: build-80004
Oct 29 07:33:54.844: vcpu-0| TOOLS unified loop capability requested by 'toolbox'; now sending options via TCLO
Oct 29 08:12:02.484: vcpu-0| VNET: Notification enabled for Ethernet0
Oct 29 08:12:02.491: vcpu-0| UHCI: HCReset
Oct 29 08:12:02.532: vcpu-0| CPU reset: soft
Oct 29 08:12:02.876: vcpu-0| SVGA: Unregistering IOSpace at 0x10b0
Oct 29 08:12:02.876: vcpu-0| SVGA: Unregistering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0xf0000000) and 0xe8000000(0xe8000000)
Oct 29 08:12:03.083: vcpu-0| SVGA: Registering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0xf0000000) and 0xe8000000(0xe8000000)
Oct 29 08:12:03.090: vcpu-0| SVGA: Unregistering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0xf0000000) and 0xe8000000(0xe8000000)
Oct 29 08:12:03.130: vcpu-0| SVGA: Registering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0xf0000000) and 0xe8000000(0xe8000000)
Oct 29 08:12:03.140: vcpu-0| SVGA: Unregistering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0xf0000000) and 0xe8000000(0xe8000000)
Oct 29 08:12:03.144: vcpu-0| SVGA: Registering IOSpace at 0x10b0
Oct 29 08:12:03.144: vcpu-0| SVGA: Registering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0xf0000000) and 0xe8000000(0xe8000000)
Oct 29 08:12:03.505: vcpu-0| VIDE: Curr CHS info cyls: 17475 heads: 15 sects: 63 lba_cap: 167772160
Oct 29 08:12:03.545: vcpu-0| BIOS-UUID is 56 4d 0d a1 2d 2b 8d 61-0c 0a 93 9b fd 28 59 70
Oct 29 08:12:04.285: vcpu-0| Unknown int 10h func 0x2000
Oct 29 08:12:09.818: vcpu-0| SVGA: Unregistering IOSpace at 0x10b0
Oct 29 08:12:09.819: vcpu-0| SVGA: Unregistering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0xf0000000) and 0xe8000000(0xe8000000)
Oct 29 08:12:09.824: vcpu-0| SVGA: Registering IOSpace at 0x10b0
Oct 29 08:12:09.824: vcpu-0| SVGA: Registering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0xf0000000) and 0xe8000000(0xe8000000)
Oct 29 08:12:15.797: vcpu-0| VIDE: Curr CHS info cyls: 17475 heads: 15 sects: 63 lba_cap: 167772160
Oct 29 08:12:18.101: vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to tools-hgfs timed out.
Oct 29 08:12:18.101: vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
Oct 29 08:12:21.796: vcpu-0| CDROM: Mode Sense for Unsupported Page 0x1B
Oct 29 08:12:21.796: vcpu-0| SCSI DEVICE (ide1:0): MODE SENSE(10) for unsupported page 0x1b
Oct 29 08:12:21.840: vcpu-0| SCSI0: RESET BUS
Oct 29 08:12:26.202: vcpu-0| UHCI: Global Reset
Oct 29 08:12:26.419: vcpu-0| VNET: Notification enabled for Ethernet0
Oct 29 08:12:26.428: vcpu-0| Guest: VMXNET: Initialization completed successfully. Version 2.0
Oct 29 08:12:27.579: mks| MKS switching absolute mouse off
Oct 29 08:12:33.101: vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to tools-hgfs timed out.
Oct 29 08:12:33.101: vmx| GuestRpc: app tools-hgfs's second ping timeout; assuming app is down
Oct 29 08:12:33.101: vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
Oct 29 08:12:33.101: vmx| GuestRpc: app toolbox's second ping timeout; assuming app is down
Oct 29 08:12:33.878: mks| MKS switching absolute mouse on
Oct 29 08:12:35.694: mks| SVGA: enabling escape command
Oct 29 08:12:35.694: mks| HostOps hideCursor before defineCursor!
Oct 29 08:12:35.697: vcpu-0| Guest: vmx_fb: Display driver is out-of-date. Disabling 3d.
Oct 29 08:12:35.698: vcpu-0| Guest: vmx_fb: Current hardware revision: 0.0.
Oct 29 08:12:35.698: vcpu-0| Guest: vmx_fb: Driver compiled against: 1.1.
Oct 29 08:12:35.699: vcpu-0| Guest: vmx_fb: Display driver is out-of-date. Disabling 3d.
Oct 29 08:12:35.699: vcpu-0| Guest: vmx_fb: Current hardware revision: 0.0.
Oct 29 08:12:35.699: vcpu-0| Guest: vmx_fb: Driver compiled against: 1.1.
Oct 29 08:12:36.252: mks| HostOps hideCursor before defineCursor!
Oct 29 08:12:37.339: vcpu-0| Balloon: Start: vmmemctl reset balloon
Oct 29 08:12:37.339: vcpu-0| Balloon: Reset (n=23 pages=0)
Oct 29 08:12:37.339: vcpu-0| Balloon: Reset: nUnlocked=0 (size=0)
Oct 29 08:12:37.709: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 4, conflict: guest application tools-hgfs tried to register, but it is still registered on channel 7
Oct 29 08:12:37.709: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 4 reinitialized.
Oct 29 08:12:37.710: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 4 reinitialized.
Oct 29 08:13:07.432: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 0 reinitialized.
Oct 29 08:13:07.433: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 4, conflict: guest application toolbox tried to register, but it is still registered on channel 3
Oct 29 08:13:07.433: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 4 reinitialized.
Oct 29 08:13:07.433: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 4 reinitialized.
Oct 29 08:13:07.435: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 0, conflict: guest application toolbox tried to register, but it is still registered on channel 3
Oct 29 08:13:07.435: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 0 reinitialized.
Oct 29 08:13:07.435: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 0 reinitialized.
Oct 29 08:13:08.422: vcpu-0| Guest: toolbox: Version: build-80004
Oct 29 08:13:08.422: vcpu-0| TOOLS unified loop capability requested by 'toolbox'; now sending options via TCLO
Oct 29 08:13:08.423: vcpu-0| Guest: toolbox: Version: build-80004
Oct 29 08:13:08.423: vcpu-0| TOOLS unified loop capability requested by 'toolbox'; now sending options via TCLO
Oct 29 08:13:08.423: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 0, conflict: guest application toolbox tried to register, but it is still registered on channel 3
Oct 29 08:13:08.423: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 0 reinitialized.
Oct 29 08:13:08.424: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 0 reinitialized.
Oct 29 08:13:09.422: vcpu-0| Guest: toolbox: Version: build-80004
Oct 29 08:13:09.422: vcpu-0| TOOLS unified loop capability requested by 'toolbox'; now sending options via TCLO
Oct 29 08:13:09.423: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 0, conflict: guest application toolbox tried to register, but it is still registered on channel 3
Oct 29 08:13:09.423: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 0 reinitialized.
Oct 29 08:13:09.423: vcpu-0| GuestRpc: Channel 0 reinitialized.
Oct 29 08:13:10.421: vcpu-0| Guest: toolbox: Version: build-80004
Oct 29 08:13:10.422: vcpu-0| TOOLS unified loop capability requested by 'toolbox'; now sending options via TCLO

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

Network OS X to Virtual Machine

exppi163 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:56:33 GMT

I have a single, host-only network between my VM and OS X. How do I open a network connection from OS X to the VM? My VM's eth1 device has a static IP 172.16.1.10. I can ping this IP from OS X. I can ssh into this IP from OS X. But I cannot see how to network OS X using this connection in System Preferences>Network (below). In my setup, all OS X network devices are disconnected, but ipconfig -a shows that vmnet1 has the IP 172.16.1.1 (just like I set it up). This apparently is preventing me from using the VM as a DHCP server, and sharing (masquerading) the VM'sinternet connection.

How does one network OS X through vmnet1 (hostonly network) to the VM?

Whoops,wrong thread ... I'll post this to Fusion.

weird problem: can login to server but VM console says "Unable to connect to the MKS: ..."

wuestenfuchs — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:04:06 GMT

I have been using VMWare Server 2.0.1 on my PC for many months without problems. I know I successfully used VMs on Oct 15th. Today I wanted to use a VM and hit the following weird problem:

I can login to the VMWare Server and start a VM. But when I try to access its console, I get a popup from the VMWare Remote Console saying "Unable to connect to the MKS: Login (username/password) incorrect." But I have successfully logged into the VMWare Server Web UI. So how can that be true?

The same happens when I use a VI Client to access the VMWare Server. I can login, access ALL functions - just not the actual console. with the VI Client console I can even use all toolbar buttons to power on, power off and so forth. Just when the screen of the VM is supposed to display it also complains about bad username/password.

Does anyone have an idea what could cause this? Which log files should I check? I have not been able to find anything in the hostd.log that would help me solve this problem. There does not seem to be a log file for the vmauthd.

In the Windows event log I find event 100, source vmauthd with the message text "cannot connect to VMX: <path>". However, these messages have been there forever already, even when I did not yet have this problem.

Thanks for any help!

DHCP Server don´t release IP to the host

david1987 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:17:05 GMT

Hi!

Scenario: I have a DHCP server configured in a Fedora 11 on a virtual machine..The server release IP´s to the PC´s whose are connected to the ad-hoc created in the Windows Vista (under the virtual machine with Fedora 11). But the Vista don´t get any IP it´s like the SO is blocking the service from the DHCP server of the virtual machine.

Any sugestions?

Thanks