Hi community,
I have vmware workstation (version 7.0.0-203739.i386) installed on a Linux Server and everytime I run
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start
The Virtiual ethernet fails to load/start.
Starting VMware services:
VMware USB Arbitrator.........................................OK
Virtual machine monitor ........................................OK
Virtual machine communiation interface .................OK
VM communciation interface socket family .............OK
Blocking File System ...........................................OK
Virtual ethernet ..................................................FAILED
I can't begin to tell you how troubling this is everything use to work fine until I had to reboot my machine for maintenance.
Any ideas, please community?
Thanks
I have same problem. Virtual Ethernet sometimes started at boot, sometimes not. But the click Save in the network editor dialog is always solve the problem for that session until the next reboot, when the problem appears again. Workstation 7.1 (64 bit), Host: Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64.
root@wks1:/# ps ax | grep vmware 3328 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/vmware-usbarbitrator 3477 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep vmware root@wks1:/# service vmware restart Stopping VMware services: VMware USB Arbitrator done VM communication interface socket family done Virtual machine communication interface done Virtual machine monitor done Blocking file system done Starting VMware services: VMware USB Arbitrator done Virtual machine monitor done Virtual machine communication interface done VM communication interface socket family done Blocking file system done Virtual ethernet failed root@wks1:/# ps ax | grep vmware 3576 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/vmware-usbarbitrator 3657 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep vmware root@wks1:/#
Click on Save button in the Network Editor dialog, then:
root@wks1:/# ps ax | grep vmware 3576 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/vmware-usbarbitrator 3673 ? S 0:00 gksudo -k sh -c '/usr/bin/vmware' 3674 ? Ss 0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/vmware 3675 ? S 0:01 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware 3753 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-tray poweredOn 3815 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-unity-helper --daemon 4135 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -s 14 -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet1.pid vmnet1 4148 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -s 14 -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.pid vmnet8 4151 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-natd -s 14 -m /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat.mac -c /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf 4154 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep vmware root@wks1:/#
more information for this issue:
root@wks1:/var/log# service vmware stop Stopping VMware services: VMware USB Arbitrator done VM communication interface socket family done Virtual machine communication interface done Virtual machine monitor done Blocking file system done root@wks1:/var/log# > /var/log/vnetlib root@wks1:/var/log# ps aux | grep vmware root 5937 0.0 0.0 7620 908 pts/0 S+ 14:16 0:00 grep vmware root@wks1:/var/log# service vmware start Starting VMware services: VMware USB Arbitrator done Virtual machine monitor done Virtual machine communication interface done VM communication interface socket family done Blocking file system done Virtual ethernet failed root@wks1:/var/log# cat /var/log/vnetlib Subnet on vmnet1 is no longer available for usage, please run the network editor to reconfigure different subnet Subnet on vmnet8 is no longer available for usage, please run the network editor to reconfigure different subnet Failed to start some/all services Jun 15 14:17:06 VNL_Load - LOG_ERR logged Jun 15 14:17:06 VNL_Load - LOG_WRN logged Jun 15 14:17:06 VNL_Load - LOG_OK logged Jun 15 14:17:06 VNL_Load - Successfully initialized Vnetlib Jun 15 14:17:06 VNL_StartService - Started "Bridge" service for vnet: vmnet0 Jun 15 14:17:06 VNLPingAndCheckSubnet - Return value of vmware-ping: 0 Jun 15 14:17:06 VNL_CheckSubnetAvailability - Subnet: 192.168.15.0 on vnet: vmnet1 is not available Jun 15 14:17:06 VNLPingAndCheckSubnet - Return value of vmware-ping: 0 Jun 15 14:17:06 VNL_CheckSubnetAvailability - Subnet: 192.168.32.0 on vnet: vmnet8 is not available Jun 15 14:17:06 VNLServiceStatus - pid: 5479 for Netdetect service daemon on vnet: 0 is stale Jun 15 14:17:06 VNL_StartService - Started "Netdetect" service for vnet: vmnet0 Jun 15 14:17:06 VNL_Unload - Vnetlib unloaded. Started Bridge networking on vmnet0 Started Network detection service root@wks1:/var/log#
Then run the network editor, click save. All network services started fine. But if you do the above procedure again, the result (and /var/log/vnetlib content) is same:
"Virtual ethernet failed"
My network configuration is:
root@wks1:/home/user# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:27:c6:7e:84 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:20 Base address:0xb800 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:d0:d2:34:cf inet addr:10.0.0.53 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21f:d0ff:fed2:34cf/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:490197 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:528238 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:349295770 (349.2 MB) TX bytes:49984651 (49.9 MB) Interrupt:28 Base address:0xc000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:92256 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:92256 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:5403424 (5.4 MB) TX bytes:5403424 (5.4 MB) root@wks1:/home/user# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth1 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 1 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.250 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 root@wks1:/home/user#
and also here is my /etc/vmware/networking file content
root@wks1:/etc/vmware# cat /etc/vmware/networking VERSION=1,0 answer VNET_1_DHCP yes answer VNET_1_DHCP_CFG_HASH 48FAB33DE8FA074BF11026126E8BEE646F4ECCA7 answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0 answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.15.0 answer VNET_1_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes answer VNET_8_DHCP yes answer VNET_8_DHCP_CFG_HASH BC05010F15DE8ADBBF734B5F3DF2A20E271602B4 answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0 answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.32.0 answer VNET_8_NAT yes answer VNET_8_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes answer VNL_DEFAULT_BRIDGE_VNET -1 add_bridge_mapping eth0 -1 add_bridge_mapping eth1 0 root@wks1:/etc/vmware#
my network topology is:
LAN1 (10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0)->GW(10.0.0.250)->LAN2(192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0)->GW(192.168.1.1)->Internet
I hope that this will help to find a solution.
The only way I was able to overcome this was by rebooting the host machine and then restarting everything.
Hope that helps