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theooze
Contributor
Contributor
‎05-28-2010 09:45 AM

Virtual ethernet fails to start

Starting VMware services:

VMware USB Arbitrator

Virtual machine monitor

Virtual machine communication interface

VM communication interface socket family

Blocking file system

Virtual ethernet

i've just upgraded to the latest 7.1 workstation build. i have 6 NAT vmnets. I'm running Fedora 12 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 and 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64. I cannot get the virtual ethernet to start. the network modules seem to complie ok but then this immediately happens on startup.

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theooze
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Contributor
‎05-28-2010 11:03 AM

So a few more things:

This fails w/ 7.0.1 build-227600. I have vmnet1-5 and vmnet8 as NAT, vmnet0 as bridge.

if i make the vmnet1-5 and 8 have sequential subnets - eg 192.168.68.0, 192.168.69.0 i can startup the network. but if i have a break in that sequence. like:

192.168.68.0, 192.168.69.0, 192.168.71.0, i can't start the last interface. it appears that when the interfaces fail to start, it's actually only the last interface that is failing to start.

under the VMware-Workstation-Full-7.1.0-261024 I seem to run into the same issues.

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zoltan_nagy
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‎06-12-2010 05:00 AM

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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