I think this has been a problem right from the start, it loads perfectly sometimes and other days it just keeps on loading. I face this problem also using firefox web browser. To resolve this issue, I have to hit the refresh (CTRL+F5) key continously few times and then the login screen appears!!

PS: I prefer firefox over IE to manage the web console, its way to fast than IE

Similar but different problem.  I get stuck at "Loading..." when attempting to access the datastores (change ISO images, etc)..

Server 2 is completely unusable because of this.

Hi guys,

I am having the exact same problem running today's version of VMWare Server under a Windows XP Pro 32 SP3 host. I am unable to access the user interface.

This is what I tried:

*accessing from the same machine and from a networked one

*using the https and http ports

*using Firefox, IE7 and Google Chrome on both computers. Yes, both Java and JavaScript are on.

*using the ip and workgroup name/'domai name'

*restarting the services, repeatedly

*restarting tomcat using the application provided by VMWare, multiple times

*updating Java to today's version

*reinstalling VMWare Server

*looking at the logs under

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Server

they seem to only update when the host machine is restarted

*looking at the logs under

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Server\tomcat-logs

without having found anything at al; the only ones that are not empty are

jakarta_service_20090704.log

jakarta_service_20090705.log

catalina.2009-07-04.log

catalina.2009-07-05.log

*I tried the suggestions here, however they do not apply since VMWare is in a Windows environment. There is no proxy.properties file and proxy.xml hasn't got any similar setting.

One thing I noticed is that when I open the page in FF and view the source, all the HTML and scripting is in place and fully downloaded - so I think it's the UI that fails to initialize itself for some reason, or maybe some ajax component cannot access the server..

Please help - I am getting desperate with this - If nothing good comes out of it I might have to abandon VMWare for some time

Thanks

I had the exact same issue after updating VMWare Server.  Problem appeared in both Firefox 3.5.2  and IE8.  Examining the error reports in the page source showed problems with scipts jslib.js and wbc.js.  Clearing the browser cache fixed the problem for me - this fix worked in both browsers.

I can't take credit for finding this on my own...after much web searching I found an offhand reference to it in another post.  I never would have guessed it, but it worked for me.

proxy.noCache = true

FIXED on Ubuntu Server 10.4 64 bit ( managed to install via guide at http://risesecurity.org/2010/04/02/vmware-server-2-0-2-update-patch-2/) but then came to the dreaded loading...   Changing the proxy cache to off and rebooting the server, not just the service, clearing the cache of my browsers, verified workins in Firefox and Chrome in Ubuntu 10.4 desktop.

Thanks!