Hi everybody
This post is not to send a question, but an answer !
Host OS : Windows XP SP3
I was using VMWare server 2.0 successfully for a while, when my company's laptop has to endure a rebuild.
Since this reformat, I was unable to start VMWare Host agent , getting the sybilyn error :
VMWare Host agent fail to start 0x40000015 0x781346b4
Even after several uninstall/reinstall, datastores.xml check and so on ...
Finalyy, the trick to make this service running was simple :
My laptop is protected with Mcafee and Mcafee firewall was enable.
The workaround is to disable Mcafee firewall.
VMWare Host agent is then able to run.
I guess a more secure way is to add special permissions for VMWare services, in order of being able to have Mcafee firewall running AND VMware host service able to run normally ...
Hope this message can help some VMWare guests ...
Regards
Jean-Luc