Failed to Configure Workstation Server

[CariL]

Hi,

We recently had a power outage and our UPS didn't hold enough charge for the whole outage. The Workstation 9 I was using was installed on a Windows server with a couple of shared VM's running. We are usinh WS9 for testing purposes and hope to upgrade to a server version soon. After the power outage I can not Enable Shared VM's. I have tried to delete the datastores.xml, but that did not solve the issue. I also tried to see if I had multiple host entries in my hostfiles which was not the case. I do not know what else to do...

My datastores.xml file:

<ConfigRoot>


  <LocalDatastores>


    <_length>1</_length>


    <_type>hostd.host.LocalDatastoreEntry[]</_type>


    <e id="0">


      <_type>hostd.host.LocalDatastoreEntry</_type>


      <id>1</id>


      <name>standard</name>


      <path>E:\Shared Virtual Machines\</path>


    </e>


  </LocalDatastores>


  <NasVolumes>


    <_length>0</_length>


    <_type>hostd.host.NasDatastoreEntry[]</_type>


  </NasVolumes>


</ConfigRoot>

[HuanguoZhong]

I think you can:

1. Try to start/stop the "VMware Workstation Server" service and check if there is more info in the System event.

2. Get the logs files under "C:\ProgramData\VMware\hostd", check if there are more details error info.

Hope it helps

[HuanguoZhong]

You can check the system event from Computer Management.

[CariL]

Hi,

When I try to start the service I get the following error.

[continuum]

what about

VMAuthdService

VMUSBArbService

lanmanworkstation

can you start them ? - do they exist ?

[CariL · Accepted solution]

I reinstalled it and it is working fine now. We had a power outage and our UPS's did not hold up as much as was necesarry. I had to start from a Snapshot as the VM-disk got corrupted.