We have a problem with VMware Server 1.0.7, installed on CentOS 5. Occasionally the virtual nic go down and up, we cannot understand why.

The logs are:

/var/log/messages

Oct 22 12:10:57 bzvm1 ntpd3590: sendto(213.249.66.35) (fd=21): Invalid argument
Oct 22 12:12:24 bzvm1 ntpd3590: sendto(212.113.164.13) (fd=21): Invalid argument
Oct 22 12:25:40 bzvm1 xinetd3572: START: vmware-authd pid=22047 from=172.16.0.134
Oct 22 12:25:41 bzvm1 xinetd3572: EXIT: vmware-authd status=0 pid=22047 duration=1(sec)
Oct 22 12:25:51 bzvm1 xinetd3572: START: vmware-authd pid=22048 from=172.16.0.134
Oct 22 12:25:51 bzvm1 xinetd3572: EXIT: vmware-authd status=0 pid=22048 duration=0(sec)
Oct 22 12:25:56 bzvm1 xinetd3572: START: vmware-authd pid=22050 from=172.16.0.134
Oct 22 12:25:57 bzvm1 xinetd3572: EXIT: vmware-authd status=0 pid=22050 duration=1(sec)
Oct 22 12:26:00 bzvm1 xinetd3572: START: vmware-authd pid=22051 from=172.16.0.134
Oct 22 12:26:00 bzvm1 xinetd3572: EXIT: vmware-authd status=0 pid=22051 duration=0(sec)
Oct 22 12:26:29 bzvm1 ntpd3590: sendto(213.179.228.6) (fd=21): Invalid argument

/var/log/vmware/vmware-serverd.log

Oct 21 11:37:05: app| SP: Deleting user session: 0 username: root
Oct 22 12:25:41: app| New connection on socket server-vmdb from host 172.16.0.134 (ip address: 172.16.0.134) , user: root
Oct 22 12:25:41: app| SP: New user session for user: root, pos: 0
Oct 22 12:25:41: app| The vm-list file has changed! Reloading the list of registered vms
Oct 22 14:20:28: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Oct 22 14:20:28: app| SP: Deleting user session: 0 username: root

Could you please help us to investigate and try to solve this issue, for now is very important.

Thanks and best regards