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vmplayer-daemon 100% of CPU after VM shuts down (Ubuntu 9.10 host) posted: Nov 5, 2009 8:05 PM

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mbonsack
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I'm running several VMs with VMware Player and after a time (particularly right after a VM is shut down) vmplayer-daemon will shoot to 100% CPU usage. The strange thing is, when I kill it the problem goes away, existing VMs continue to run and new ones can still be started. So, just what does vmplayer-daemon do?

EDIT Moderator, you can move this to VMware Player forum; I didn't look to see that there was a separate forum for that until just after I posted this.

Re: vmplayer-daemon 100% of CPU after VM shuts down (Ubuntu 9.10 host)

1. Nov 8, 2009 11:45 PM in response to: mbonsack
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rexxman
20 posts since
Mar 28, 2007

I have exactly the same problem with just 2 VMs running.

Shut one VM down, either normal guest shutdown or suspend and vmplayer-daemon shoots to 100% CPU.

This is with VMware Player 3.0 running on 32bit ubuntu 9.10.

I tried killing vmplayer-daemon too and it didn't seem to have any adverse affects.

It would be good to know how to avoid this behaviour.

Cheers, Mark

Re: vmplayer-daemon 100% of CPU after VM shuts down (Ubuntu 9.10 host)

2. Nov 12, 2009 10:43 AM in response to: rexxman
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cmsgraham
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Nov 12, 2009

Same issue,

Vmware Player 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.10 and this happened after close a Win7 VM

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2428 xxxxxxx 20 0 60856 7312 6412 R 102 0.2 8:28.34 vmplayer-daemon


Re: vmplayer-daemon 100% of CPU after VM shuts down (Ubuntu 9.10 host)

3. Nov 12, 2009 11:36 AM in response to: cmsgraham
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continuum
12,624 posts since
Dec 18, 2003
are these VMs configured with 2 CPUs ? - that does not work well on Ubuntu 9.10

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Re: vmplayer-daemon 100% of CPU after VM shuts down (Ubuntu 9.10 host)

4. Nov 12, 2009 11:46 AM in response to: continuum
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cmsgraham
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Nov 12, 2009

Processors = 1

#!/usr/bin/vmware
.encoding = "UTF-8"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "1280"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "Windows 7.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.linkStatePropagation.enable = "TRUE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ehci.present = "TRUE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
serial0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.fileType = "thinprint"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "TRUE"
roamingVM.exitBehavior = "go"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
displayName = "Windows 7"
guestOS = "winvista"
nvram = "Windows 7.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
ft.secondary0.enabled = "TRUE"
printers.enabled = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.present = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.enabled = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.readAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.writeAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.hostPath = "F:\"
sharedFolder0.guestName = "F"
sharedFolder0.expiration = "never"
sharedFolder.maxNum = "1"
hgfs.mapRootShare = "TRUE"
hgfs.linkRootShare = "TRUE"
tools.upgrade.policy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle"
powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "soft"
powerType.suspend = "soft"
powerType.reset = "soft"

extendedConfigFile = "Windows 7.vmxf"

checkpoint.vmState = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d 5b c1 1c fc 20 f7-c3 f9 7f 32 3f e3 03 37"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 5b c1 1c fc 20 f7-c3 f9 7f 32 3f e3 03 37"
unity.wasCapable = "FALSE"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "35"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "36"
usb:0.present = "TRUE"
usb:1.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:e3:03:37"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmci0.id = "-2129993074"
usb:1.deviceType = "hub"
usb:0.deviceType = "mouse"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"

ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
cleanShutdown = "TRUE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
replay.filename = ""

Re: vmplayer-daemon 100% of CPU after VM shuts down (Ubuntu 9.10 host)

5. Nov 12, 2009 1:05 PM in response to: continuum
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rexxman
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Mar 28, 2007
Each VM has 1 CPU. Happens every time I have 2 VMs running and shut one down, so it should be very easy to replicate.

Re: vmplayer-daemon 100% of CPU after VM shuts down (Ubuntu 9.10 host)

6. Nov 12, 2009 1:59 PM in response to: rexxman
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continuum
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Dec 18, 2003
Happens every time I have 2 VMs running and shut one down

that should show in the vmware.log - post one please

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Re: vmplayer-daemon 100% of CPU after VM shuts down (Ubuntu 9.10 host)

7. Nov 13, 2009 12:15 AM in response to: continuum
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rexxman
20 posts since
Mar 28, 2007

I've done some more testing of this issue. You don't even have to be running a VM for this issue to occur.

If you start two instances of the VMware Player launcher (not sure what it is really called) and then close one, vmplayer-daemon goes to 100%. Close the other VMware Player launcher and vmplayer-daemon reverts to using insignificant CPU. You don't need to start a VM.

As there has been no VM started, then the contents of the vmware.log (which is VM-specific) is not going to show anything related to this problem.

I've looked at all of the log files in /tmp/vmware-mark/ but nothing changes when the first VMware Player launcher is closed.

Re: vmplayer-daemon 100% of CPU after VM shuts down (Ubuntu 9.10 host)

8. Nov 13, 2009 5:02 AM in response to: rexxman
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continuum
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Dec 18, 2003
maybe the vmplayer is trying to update the tools - this usually fails

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