Thanks a lot devzero ! I was setting up the same thing : two ibm blades with CentOS 5.1 x86_64 with VMware server 1.0.4 using a iScsi shared disk with ocfs2 on top.
I had the same problem as described above and your tip did the job .. Just out of curiosity, what does the " mainmem.usenamedfile="FALSE" " parameter means, from a vmware server point of view ?
Just for info (and hoping that google indexes this as well .. ) , here is the info i had before applying the tip :
VMServerd IPC closed the connection with thread /path/to/my.vmx (0x8301af0)
Feb 29 10:54:20: app| Lost connection to /path/to/my.vmx (/path/to/my.vmx) unexpectedly.
Feb 29 10:54:20: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Feb 29 10:54:20: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Feb 29 10:54:20: app| Removing from running vm list: /path/to/my.vmx
Feb 29 10:54:21: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Feb 29 10:54:21: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Feb 29 10:54:21: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
