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NicestGuy
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Virtual ethernet fails?

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

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zoltan_nagy
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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:/#

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zoltan_nagy
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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# 

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zoltan_nagy
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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.

NicestGuy
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The only way I was able to overcome this was by rebooting the host machine and then restarting everything.

Hope that helps

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