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

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