Hi, I wonder if anyone can help with this.

I'm currently running Gentoo on a colo box and had vmware 1.07 working fine. I thought I would try an upgrade to VMWare Server 2. After emerge -C vmware-server vmware-modules I downloaded the tar, exxtracted and ran the install without any problems.

Now if I try to connect to my box: http://<ip>:8222 or https://<ip>:8333 I get a 503 service unavailable error. Here are some info you might find helpful:

The box is running:

Apache2

PHP

Mysql

Shoutcast

SC_trans

IRSSI

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uname

Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r7

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  tail -12 /var/log/vmware/hostd.log

Connection to server localhost:8308 failed with error Connection refused.  Retrying...

Connection to server localhost:8308 failed with error Connection refused.  Retrying...

Connection to server localhost:8308 failed with error Connection refused.  Retrying...

Connection to server localhost:8308 failed with error Connection refused.  Retrying...

Connection to server localhost:8308 failed with error Connection refused.  Retrying...

Connection to server localhost:8308 failed with error Connection refused.  Retrying...

Connection to server localhost:8308 failed with error Connection refused.  Retrying...

Connection to server localhost:8308 failed with error Connection refused.  Retrying...

Connection to server localhost:8308 failed with error Connection refused.  Retrying...

Connection to server localhost:8308 failed with error Connection refused.  Retrying...

Exception while processing request: Connection refused

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netstat -plnt

Active Internet connections (only servers)

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8000            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5601/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8001            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5601/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8002            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5609/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8003            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5609/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8004            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5581/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8005            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5581/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:902             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     10336/vmware-authdl

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8006            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5594/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8007            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5594/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8008            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5587/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8009            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5587/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8010            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5615/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:3306          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5296/mysqld

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:139             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     476/smbd

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8011            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5615/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8333            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     10445/vmware-hostd

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8307          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     10445/vmware-hostd

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:21556           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     621/sshd

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:1080          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     404/sockd

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:7996            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5621/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:445             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     476/smbd

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:7997            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5621/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8222            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     10445/vmware-hostd

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:7998            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5627/sc_serv

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:7999            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     5627/sc_serv

tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN     325/apache2

tcp6       0      0 :::21556                :::*                    LISTEN     621/sshd

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/etc/init.d/vmware status

Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 is running

Host network detection is not running

Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 is running

DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 is running

Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running

DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 is running

NAT networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running

Module vmmon loaded

Module vmnet loaded

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nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1     mansell.fluidcanvas.co.uk mansell localhost

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Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Brockers

Hello,

i have a performance issue on a Windows 2008 Server x64 Guest on a VMware Server 2 on also Windows 2008 x64.

CIFS copy speed in the vm from a host share is in bridged network speed about 16KB/s.

With NAT its fine about 32MB/s.

Any ideas?

Hello virtual people,

I have a serious issue with VMware Server 2 on Windows Vista x64.

When I try to power on a virtual machine, it stucks at 95% on the "Power On Virtual Machine" task.

It happens with all of my VMs, Windows and non-Windows.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling VMware Server but the issue won't solve

Do you have any clue on how to solve this ?

Here is attached a sample log...

vmWare Host Agent (vmware-hostd.exe) service allways hangs at startup on Windows Server 2003

Machine is an IBM Blade Server Windows Enterprise Server 2003 32 bit

vmware Server 2 installation was successfull.

all other vmware services start and stop properly (DHCP, NAT, Authorization Service, Web Access.

Machine is:

Intel Xeon CPU E5430 @ 2.66, 8GB RAM 2 CPU's 4 Cores per CPU

Machine has a SAN (Qlogic Fibre Channel LSI Adapter 3000 series 4-port with 1064E -StorPort

Machine has 2 usb devices attached:

  TEAC FD-05PUB USB Device (FDD)

  HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8082N USB Device (DVD ROM)

Reading logs seems something related to SCSI Address... or maybe related do CDROM.

Allways hangs at same point.

Tested detaching usb devices and starting service, service hangs at the same point.

Any idea or advice apreciated. Thanks id advance.

vmware-hostd.exe logs says:

Log for VMware Server, pid=1920, version=2.0.0, build=build-122956, option=Release, section=1

Current working directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Datos de programa\VMware\VMware Server

Trying blklistsvc

Trying cimsvc

Trying directorysvc

Trying hostsvc

Using netmap configuration file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Datos de programa\VMware\VMware Server\netmap.conf

Active ftp is 1

Allowanyoui is 1

udptimeout is 30

VM autostart configuration: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Datos de programa\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\vmAutoStart.xml

Locale subsystem initialized from C:\Archivos de programa\VMware\VMware Server\locale\ with default locale en.

Resource pool instantiated

Refresh interval: 60 seconds

Plugin initialized

Trying httpnfcsvc

Trying internalsvc

Trying nfcsvc

Breakpoints disabled

Using system libcrypto, version 9070AF

Successfully loaded the diskLib library

File Services initialized fmgr()

Trying ovfmgrsvc

Trying partitionsvc

Trying proxysvc

Proxy config filepath is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Datos de programa\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\proxy.xml

Plugin initialized

Trying snmpsvc

Trying solo

Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = false, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000

Initialized SSL context with version all

Host name: sase00760055.coremain.com

Compute resource instantiated

Environments file: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Datos de programa\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\environments.xml

Descriptor loaded: vmx-03

Options loaded

HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.

Failed to enumerate parallel devices

Descriptor loaded: vmx-04

Options loaded

HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.

Failed to enumerate parallel devices

Descriptor loaded: vmx-06

Options loaded

HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.

Failed to enumerate parallel devices

Descriptor loaded: vmx-07

Options loaded

HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.

Failed to enumerate parallel devices

Plugin initialized

Trying statssvc

Initializing statssvc plugin

Collection interval is 20 sec

Stats Depot has future timestamps. Discarding old statistics information

Reverting to default stats configuration

Trying supportsvc

Plugin initialized

Trying vcsvc

Trying vdisksvc

Trying vimsvc

Initializing vimsvc plugin

Local Domain : MARTE

IsWorkgroup: No

Local Machine: SASE00760055

Task retention time: 10

Cleanup time: 1

Maximum number of events: 1000

Vimsvc::HaLicenseManagerImpl::CheckAndSetEvalSource: skipped on this platform

Vimsvc::HaLicenseSourceImpl::LoadPseudoFeatures: skipped on this platform

Vimsvc::HaLicenseSourceImpl::Acquire: Attempting to acquire license for feature: vmwServer, need qty=1 licenses

Implement HostDeviceInfo_FindHostPciDevices

WMI_ConnectToWMI: Could not create namespace locator: 0x800401f0 0x00000000

Failed to connect to WMI

FetchSystemInfo: Could not get model of host.

FetchSystemInfo: Could not get vendor of host.

Could not parse host UUID 'f9bf592c-aabb-4ec5-a385-691c978e186e'

HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 4 numThreadsPerCore 1.

HOSTINFO: This machine has 2 physical CPUS, 8 total cores, and 8 logical CPUs.

Trying vmsvc

Foundry Init: setting up global state (1 threads)

Vix_InitializeGlobalState: Use Preference. vixLogLevel = 0

Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixDebugPanicOnVixAssert = 0

Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogRefcountOnFinalRelease = 0

HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.

HostDeviceInfoFindHostSCSIDevicesViaDosQuery: Could not get SCSI Address for device CdRom0

Hi All,

I'm running VMware server on a MAC mini Host OS is Windows 2003 server

Guest system  is runing Windows XP Pro

I have few other system running on the same system all are running well.

this are the event ID's befor crashing

6009

6005

1001

The description for Event ID ( 1 ) in Source ( LGTO_Sync ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: ; The Driver was loaded successfully 

7036

7035

After restart

1003

7011

What can be the problem

thanks

Hello!

I have some problem, i have installen vmware server 2.0 installed on windows server 2008 datacenter edition, with created virtual machine with last version ubuntu desktop inside as OS. I need any way put in this virtual machine 900 GB of data. Because i dont find any method to put this data inside without transfering through network, i set on host machine ftp server, and try load this data from virtual machine by ftp, but there is some issue speed ftp transfering from host machine to virtual machine very slow 5 mb\s. Question is how i can speed up my ethernet adapter and fast load data in virtual machine or how i can any other way put data in virtual machine created in vmware server 2.0 with ubuntu desktop as OS?

Greetings,

I did a bone-headed thing... I was expirementing with permissions and in one of my "test" images I added "Users role Read-Only on This object" but I didn't realize that as an "Administrator" I am also a user and that "deny" permissions supersede allow permissions. Now I have no way to go back and delete that permission on the users group! I'd happily just delete this VM from my inventory but it won't let me do that either.

How do I remove the permission or remove the VM from my inventory? This is very frustrating!

Thanks!

I have a host server running Server 08 and VMWARE Server 2.0.0

There is a VM on the host running Server 2003. It's been running for about 6 months great. No one has touched it. Recently, only the VM has started to have an extremely slow internet connection. Downloading a 1 MB file from the internet takes about 15 minutes. A 15 MB file takes 4 hours. About a month ago I could restart the VM and it would be good for about a week, then start slowing down more and more every day until it's just unusable.

I ran pings from the host machine's nic to the VM's NIC and attached as txt files. You'll see that on the host machine, 172.16.4.200 is the host IP assigned to the NIC I'm pinging from, and 172.16.4.101 is the VM's IP that is running on the host. It will succeed in pinging .101 sometimes, but frequently returns:

REPLY FROM 172.16.4.200: TTL Expired in transit.

Sometimes it even gives a request timed out, but it mostly alternates back and forth between replies from .101 (the VM) and TTL's from .200 (the host).

Sometimes it will just give pages of TTL's from .200 then eventually start replying from .101 as well.

The VM NIC is configured in Bridged mode. Like I said, it had been working fine for months, then this starts happening suddenly.

Since I know a 1 MB file from the internet takes 15 minutes on the VM to download, I tried copying files between the Host and the VM by browsing network shares between the boxes. Transferring from the VM to the Host over windows network shares takes about 1 minute for a 40 MB file. It's operating at about 1.2 megabytes per second on LAN file transfers. I tried it both ways, from the VM to the host and from the host to the VM. Same results.

It's strange that a direct file copy works MUCH faster than an internet download.

Downloading from the internet on the Host server for a 1 MB file takes about 15 seconds and is on a T-1 line. The default gateway for both the host and the VM is a Cisco 2900 series router that's working fine.

Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? My Microsoft Server event logs on the VM and Host are clean, I'm not seeing any errors there.

Hi there

I have a problem copying files to one virtual machine on a VM Server 2.0.

The file copy process to the virtual machine is just SO slow every single time. Starts out fast, then slows down, goes up a bit... and will eventually succeed, but its just not acceptable.

Odd thing i though, another virtual machine, on same host, running windows XP, like the other virtual machine, have no problems moving data quickly? They was both physical machines that been virtualized.

As far as I see, they are pretty equal, but apperently, they are not!

Have anyone tried similar?

Hi!

I have strange issue, and i didn't find any answer. I installed VMware Server 2.0.2.203138 on Linux x64 and i experience a "sticky key" issue. I typing normally, but sometimes random key will be sticky, and i cannot release focus from console. I can just reset my box, what isn't a very good workaround. Is there any tip/fix/patch/something to solve it? This is a very big problem, i cannot use console because of this. Please help me!

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

--

Gabor Garami

hrgyster@gmail.com

Hello everyone

I'm trying to dump a referance machine that I've made with VMware Server 2.0, but the boot image doesnt have the necessary network drivers to boot the machine up. Where do I find these drivers?

Greetings Slasky

I have a AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ processor PC with Windows Vista Premium 64-bit.  I installed VMware Server 2.0 on it.  I have created a VM but every time I power on the VM, it gets stuck at 95%.  I have another PC, the same exact model, and I get the same issue with it.

Hi guys

I am new to VMWare server. I have done my MCTS in windows server. I also possess a little knowledge of VMware Server 2. I just want to know that.. what are all the possible interview questions regarding VMWare server.

I need to know what are the questions asked in the interviews for VMware. If i get to know some good questions it will be really helpful in the preparation for my interviews.

Waiting for your reply.

Thanks alot in advance

Hi all!

Is there any way to login to Vmware Server 2 web interface

as appropriate user without entering username and password ?

(i want to simplify login to web interface of VMware Server 2)

The same question concerning shortcuts to virtual machines generated

on the desktop - I want to login to virtual machine through dekstop shortcut

without typing username and password - is it possible ?

Thanks in advance

Artur Dębski

http://blogit.one.pl

Hi all,

I've tried quite a lot by now, and I'm still puzzled if I can ever get this to perform well:

Host: 2xXeon 2.6GHz, 4GB RAM, Debian Squeeze, Intel Gigabit Ethernet onboard (e1000)

Guest: Windows XP, 2.5GB RAM

I can not get it to have decent network performance. Here's what I tried:

- 1vCPU/2vCPU -> 1 vCPU performance is slightly better

- flexible/vmxnet/e1000 Adapter -> vmxnet ist best, but very minor differences

- TCP tuning in the Windows Registry -> no effect

Performance varies with the above parameters changed between 100 and 180 MBit/s, which is far too slow I think. Also, guest CPU usage is very high whenever heavy network traffic is on.

For comparison I installed a second VM with Debian Squeeze,  without any modification except to install VMware tools I get ~250MBit with pcnet32 and ~350MBit with vmxnet. I suspect that e1000 will perform even better.

I have by now followed about every advice to improve network performance, all to no avail.

I have even tried ESX 3.5 (these are 32bit processors), but the host system has a huge software RAID, which did not perform well at all when re-created in a VM in ESX.

Is this just something I have to live with, or is there another secret trick which I haven't discovered yet?

TIA!

Stefan

Hi Folks

I have a guest operating server that keeps getting the error "msg.vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort.rudeunplug:Operation on file"

If I abort and restart it comes up but can then for no reason get the error again and I have to abort

Any pointers on this would be great

Thanks

Hi,

I want to move a currently working VM from one host to another.

The details are:

1. Both hosts are running Vmware Server 2 their hardware specs are different.

2. I created the VM using VMware Server 2.

3. The VM has 4 snapshots.

I stopped the VM and then copied all its folder contents to the target host.

When I tried to add the VM to the inventory in the target host I recieved the following error:

(The selected virtual machine is not recognized on this system. The cause of this problem may be that the virtual machine's .vmx file is corrupted, or that the virtual machine version is newer than is recognized by the host. You can remove the virtual machine from the inventory if you believe that it is not recoverable.Click the link below to remove the virtual machine from the inventory.Remove Virtual MachineTo help diagnose the issue, you can check the virtual machine files at their last known location)

I read a discussion of the same issue and I found that .vmx and .vmdk files of the VM has a different encoding than the target host, So I changed the encoding in these files to be the same as a working VM in the target machine.

The discuusion URL is: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1137795

But, i still recieve the same error.

Should I do any other thing because of having snapshots? In general in case of snapshots should I delete them all first before moving the VM?

Please help ASAP.

Thanks

Is there a watchdog available for the guest os or can it be added ?

I'm new to to VMware server. I used Drive Image xml to image my Windows 2003 server and then booted to the Ulitmate Boot CD for Windows in the VM to restore the image.

I used windows disk manager to mark the C partition active, but when I boot to the VM it tries to do a network boot.

I was able to install an XP VM without any problems and noticed that its drive type is listed as IDE while the 2003 server is SCSI.

Any ideas?

After installation of Windows 2008, my player operates fine. When I close the program and attempt to play it again, I get, "Error while powering on: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."  As far as I can tell, there are no other processes using the program.  I have uninstalled and re-installed the server but the problem continues. Any suggestions?