Hi gurus

   I have a  VM 2003  that has two(2) VMDK, I have created a new VM 2008 R2 and I would like to add one of the old VMDK to the new VM, is this possible? and if it is, what are my steps in order to accomplish this.

Thanks a bunch

I have a Windows Server 2003 as host, with VMware Server 2.0 (build 122956), with a Windows XP (SP3) installed as a virtual machine. I'm trying to shut down the image from the host, but I'm having no luck..

The list command works fine:

D:\VirtualMachines>"c:\program files\VMware\VMwareServer\vmrun.exe" -T server -h https://mymachine.domain.com:8333/sdk -u <MyUsername> -p <MyPassword> list

Total running VMs: 1

FTP_main/Windows XP Professional.vmx

But when I try to shut down that machine:

D:\VirtualMachines>"c:\program files\VMware\VMwareServer\vmrun.exe" -T server -h https://mymachine.domain.com:8333/sdk -u <MyUsername> -p <MyPassword> stop "[dstore] FTP_main/Windows XP Professional.vmx" soft

Error: The virtual machine is not powered on: FTP_main/Windows XP Professional.vmx

It

is powered on, and I don't have a clue as to what is wrong here..

Anybody have any tips here?

Hi

I created an XP vm on a Vista 64 host and when I try to launch it status hangs at 95%... (the OS has not yet been installed that`s what I'm trying to do)

Does anyone knows what the problem might be ? Is there a log or something similar that I could look at to give me an idea of what the problem is ?

Thanks

Paul

OK, I've tried to make sure I researched enough before posting here.  Couldn't find any hints, though...

I'm trying to setup Server V2.  I've got one VM running Windows Server 2008 with one bridged connection.  Along side it I've got a Vyatta machine with two bridged connections, one facing the internal lan, the other facing a DSL modem.  When I hook up to the DSL modem, things run fine for a few minutes, then Windows can't access external addresses.  Since the DNS runs there, this causes general network problems.  I've tried several things, spent hours reading doc and posts and yet haven't figured out what the problem is.  If I leave it all up long enough, Windows stops being able to communicate with the Vyatta machine right beside it.  Disconnecting the internet connection and shutting down Vyatta, and Windows starts running like nothing's wrong.

Summary,

Vyatta - 2 bridged connections; one to DSL modem; one to LAN

Windows - 1 bridged connection that is LAN-facing.

Each bridged connection is on it's own NIC

Where do I start to look?  It's just strange that it works for a few minutes...

Thanks in advance,

D.

I have VMWare Server installed on Ubuntu and installed WinXP on it. Everything

was working fine for a few days after the install and then the internet broke in the WinXP virtual

machine. It was right around the time that I installed VMware Tools,

but I'm not sure if that was it.

I subsequently uninstalled Vmware tools and

reinstalled them and got nothing basically. Everything seems fine (the

VMWare console thinks that I've got virtual ethernet cards for NAT and

all the others), except that there is no info flowing from either side

(bites sent/received are always 0 in the ethernet card in WinXP).

Short of reinstalling WinXP, which I'd really rather not do, anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks!

I just start with vmware server.

I am interesting how much resources is "lost" in virtualization? Is it smart to get 1 expencive server and install 2-3 web servers, or is better to get 2-3 cheeper servers and install web server on each?

What are benefits/disadvantages using virtual machines?

Hi guys,

I have problem to move/copy vmware Server 2.0 vm from one physical server to another.

Orig physical server: Intel 1530CLR server with WinXP x64 Pro installed.

Destination server: Intel 1530AHLX server with WinServer 2003 R2 x64 installed.

On both servers VMware server 2.0 installed. VM's OS is RHEL ES 4.4 32bit.

The VM works perfectly on the orig server, but I have to move it to another machine. I switched off the VM, copied the whole directory to the same path on the destination server. Then I'm trying to add the VM in VMware server 2.0.

I'm receiving the following error:

<quote>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: "[Virtual Machines] VSTESTS/VSTESTS.vmx" </quote>

Another thing which I tried to do is to create new VM and to attach the .vmdk file.. but another error here: "The selected file is not a valid virtual disk file. Please choose a different one"..

However, I uninstalled (on the destination server) the VMware server, and installed VMware player - and hooray!.. the VM is running.

It's not a specific Virtual Machine, because I tried to copy another two VM, and same result here..

So, the conclusion is that it's not a hardware fault (it works on VMware Player), but some annoying configuration miss.

I have these files within the VM folder:

ILLINUXVS01.nvram

ILLINUXVS01.vmdk

ILLINUXVS01.vmsd

ILLINUXVS01.vmxf

ILLINUXVS01-flat.vmdk

vmware-0.log

vmware-1.log

vmware-2.log

vmware.log

VSTESTS.vmsd

VSTESTS.vmx

VSTESTS.vmxf

This is the content of VSTESTS.vmx file:

.encoding = "windows-1255"

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "7"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

mks.enable3d = "TRUE"

pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge4.functions = "8"

pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge5.functions = "8"

pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge6.functions = "8"

pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge7.functions = "8"

vmci0.present = "TRUE"

nvram = "ILLINUXVS01.nvram"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"

ft.secondary0.enabled = "TRUE"

tools.upgrade.policy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle"

powerType.powerOff = "soft"

powerType.powerOn = "hard"

powerType.suspend = "hard"

powerType.reset = "soft"

displayName = "VSTESTS"

extendedConfigFile = "VSTESTS.vmxf"

memsize = "512"

ide0:0.present = "TRUE"

ide0:0.fileName = "ILLINUXVS01.vmdk"

ide0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"

ide1:0.fileName = "D:\Virtual Machines\Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4 Update 4 (x86)\RHEL4-U4-i386-ES-disc4.iso"

ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"

ide1:0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE"

ethernet0.features = "1"

ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"

ethernet0.networkName = "Bridged"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

usb.present = "TRUE"

ehci.present = "TRUE"

guestOS = "rhel4"

uuid.location = "56 4d d2 68 6f 66 55 1f-82 95 43 f3 d6 03 76 70"

uuid.bios = "56 4d d2 68 6f 66 55 1f-82 95 43 f3 d6 03 76 70"

vc.uuid = "52 4d 4b 87 e8 36 f2 12-fd 23 1d 81 48 71 f6 5b"

ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:03:76:70"

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"

ide0:0.redo = ""

vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"

pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"

pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"

pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"

pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"

pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"

usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"

ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"

ehci.pciSlotNumber = "34"

vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "35"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

vmci0.id = "2040435782"

Please advise,

Thanks.

Hi!

I'm new in the community and this is my first question. I hope be helped! : )

I've installed VMware Server 2.0.0-122956.x86_64 in Debian Etch amd_64 with Kernel 2.6.18-5 running on Intel C2D E6750, 500GB HD and 4GB Memory. I've parted the disk in two (besides swap partition) and defined both as ReiserFS file system.

The VMware Server instalation and configuration was very nice. The problems start happen when I've installed the Windows XP as Guest. After use and done some configuration the Guest System didn't start, occuring error (Blue Screen) during start. Even trying repair the Guest System, dosen't work. Some times Windows start, but errors happen into the System, like damage on Antivirus or other software, making software not work.

I've done the Linux and WMware Server instalation again changing the host File System to XFS and EXT3, and problem continues. I figure out after many tests the problem realy apperars when the Service Pack 3 is installed in Windows XP.

Also, even copying  another VM created by VMware Converter from a physical System with or without Service Pack 3, after use the system a little the same problem occurs. After all that I've tried to install Windows 2003 Server as guest, and believe that, the same errors occurs.

My big doubt is, what can be happen? Is it VMware Server  guilty?

Anyone already have this situation?

One more thing, I swapped the Hard Disk to test too.

Thanks!

I am experiencing an issue where my guest will power down unexpectedly. Guest reports an unexpected shutdown in the event log

Host machine is server 2003 R2 64 bit.

guest is server 2003 standard, 32 bit. it is the only guest on this hardware. Windows update is off. All power options are set to "always on".I am allowing vmware server to choose the defaults for hardware and performance. 

I remember something in vmware 1.x about running VM under the system account- but i dont see any option like this in vmware server 2. 

in the vmware server log, the power off event is show to be triggered by user.

tia

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

For me to be able to connect to a USB scanner, disk, et cetera from a VM I have to issue this...

     chmod -R 777 /proc/bus/usb/*

But this gets lost after a reboot of the machine or if a device is physically connected or turned on afterwards.  Can someone guide me on how to make this permanent in Debian Linux (Lenny)?  Thanks.

Hi, I have Ubuntu 8.10 and vmware server 2 running XP for a couple of CAD applications.  I bought a new keyboard (Cherry) and lots of keys do not work, ie; arrows, /*- keys on number pad, delete key, enter on the number pad.......

I cannot find anywhere to install a new key board driver that will solve this, can anyone help?

Regards

Simon

I am unable to remove a datastore from VMWare Server 2.  It keeps throwing back an error:

The resource is in Use.

Is there a way to remove it manually? I'm new with VMWare Server.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You,

Rob

I cannot find any answers for this problem and nothing documented by vmware giving any hints as to what I should look at. Whenever I type in https://<server-name>:8333 or https://<server-name>:8333/ui the webpage status bar just inches across, never gets past halfway and says website found:waiting for reply. So far my experience with vmware has been nothing but hassles and this one is about to be the final straw. Does anyone have success with this sofware? All documentation seems to indicate it just works and that vmware just pretends problems will never happen with the vmware vi web access. Plenty of info on what to do once I'm in it, but nothing about what makes it work and how to troubleshoot it. Has anyone had the patience and time to figure this ridiculous program out, specifically, the web access?

I have an old server containing SBS 2003 Premium R2 with SQL 2005 and CRM 3.0. I want to upgrade to CRM 4.0 but that is not possible on this machine.

Can I, instead of installing the old environment from scratch on a new machine in order to take the conversion further from there, also convert the existing installation into a virtual machine (so I could skip the re installation of the old machine?

Could that be done with VMware Server 2 or otherwise with an other VMWare product?

I'm sure this question has been asked, but I have no idea of how to phrase my search.

My issue is this - we have a NAS that's squashing root, the virtual machines reside on an NFS export on said NAS, and the vmware-vmx processes are owned by root.  Even if I choose a non-root user during the vmware-config.pl script, it still runs the processes as root.  When it comes time to spin up the VM, it barks that it doesn't have sufficient privs to the disk (regardless of how I chmod it).  The easy way out is to disable root_squash, but that's not an option.  Is there a place to modify who owns the vmware processes during VM execution?

Thanks in advance.

Good morning,

I have a vmware server 2.0 that is running several test servers that we want to backup.  We want to shut them down, back them up and then start them up.  We are hoping that netbackup can run this script, but I will worry about that part later.  I was trying to use vmrun to do this but I always get this error.

Error: Malformed hostname parameter.  For the given service provider, the hostname must be a URL, in the form https://<hostname>:<port>/sdk

Then, I tried putting the https address in there and I get a cannot connect to host error.  I'm not sure if I have the right address or not.  Has anybody done this before?

Thanks for any help,

Tim

A new security policy where I work was implemented last week. So I had to change both my Linux host's root and user passwords. I'm running VMware Server 2.01-156745 on a CentOS 5.3 machine. I didn't do anything with VMware last week, except bring it up before changing the passwords. I powered down over the weekend. Since I've powered up, today, the VMware infrastructure comes up fine, but the web client silently fails. There don't seem to be any error messages in the /var/log/vmware logs or in /var/log/messages.

I've tried both "service vmware-core restart", vmware-config.pl and rpm  -e and then rpm -Uvh to reinstall VMware server.

I never get prompted for a password for root. Obviously, since the web client never comes up, I don't get prompted for my user password.

Does anyone have any ideas?

I have a Windows 2008 32-bit Standard VM guest running on a Windows 2008 64-bit server with VMware 2.0.2 as the host. The Windows 2008 Guest VM just runs slow, taking its time to boot, and just to work with ever since creating the guest VM. Was running VMware 2.0.0 on host server and upgraded to 2.0.2 to see if it would improve which it didn't. Also installed latested VMware tools on Windows 2008 Guest server with same results. I'm running 2 other VM guest servers that run Windows 2003 and they run smooth without any performance issues. The host server has a Intel Xeon 2.33Ghz CPU with 22GB of memory. The Windows 2008 32-bit VM guest server has 3.5GB of memory allocated to it.

Has anyone had problems with performance issues on Windows 2008 32-bit VM guest servers after building them?

Hi,

I need to migrate some VM's from Workstation 7 to Server 2.0.2.  The host OS is Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and the guests are Windows 7 64-bit.  I shutdown the WS 7 VM, clone it to remove any old snapshots, and copy it over into a data store on the server.  Then I "Add Virtual

Machine to Inventory", locate the vmx file.  The host then crashes along with the webconsole session.  The log file doesn't seem terribly helpful, it looks like it doesn't know how to read to info in the vmx??

Any ideas?

--Jonathan

RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask-ha-folder-datastore-vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.search-16

RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask--vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.Filter.destroy-17

Search::GetInfo Failed to read disk hardware version.

Search::GetInfo Failed to read disk adapter type.

Search::GetInfo Failed to read value of property 'thinProvisioned';assuming thick.

Search::GetInfo Failed to read disk hardware version.

Search::GetInfo Failed to read disk adapter type.

Search::GetInfo Failed to read value of property 'thinProvisioned';assuming thick.

Search::GetInfo Failed to read disk hardware version.

Search::GetInfo Failed to read disk adapter type.

Search::GetInfo Failed to read value of property 'thinProvisioned';assuming thick.

Search::GetInfo Failed to read disk hardware version.

Search::GetInfo Failed to read disk adapter type.

Search::GetInfo Failed to read value of property 'thinProvisioned';assuming thick.

Search::GetInfo Failed to read value of property 'thinProvisioned';assuming thick.

RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask-ha-folder-datastore-vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.search-18

RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask--vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.Filter.destroy-19

RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask-ha-folder-datastore-vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.search-20

RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask--vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.Filter.destroy-21

RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask-ha-folder-datastore-vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.search-22

RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask--vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.Filter.destroy-23

Task Created : haTask-ha-folder-vm-vim.Folder.registerVm-24

RecordOp ADD: recentTask, ha-folder-vm

RecordOp ADD: recentTask, ha-taskmgr

Register called: Win7-x64-NI/Windows 7 x64 for NI Testing.vmx

Max supported virtual machines: 512

Reloading config state: E:\Virtual Machines\Win7-x64-NI\Windows 7 x64 for NI Testing.vmx

VMHS: Transitioned vmx/execState/val to poweredOff

CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectPipe failed

CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed

Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed

Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to read vmware-authd port number: Cannot connect to VMX: E:\Virtual Machines\Win7-x64-NI\Windows 7 x64 for NI Testing.vmx

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

Failed to find conversion from windows7-64 to type: vim.vm.GuestOsDescriptor.GuestOsIdentifier

DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='isNativeSnapshot' Val='no'

Exception: Not Reached: @ d:/build/ob/bora-203138/bora/vim/hostd/vmsvc/vmConfigReader.cpp:2827

Backtrace:

(backtraces not supported)

CoreDump: unable to create the dump file C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\VMware\vmware-hostd-3488-3492.dmp