We are running VMware Server 2.0.1 on Linux, serving several virtual machines. Suddenly this night all of them have been halted by VMware and show the following message in the web interface:
msg.mainMemPosix.noSpace:The
directory "/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/GenToo Dev 21b/" has less
than 147 MB of free space.
Running out of free space in this directory may corrupt the virtual
machine's RAM. This is likely to cause the guest operating system to
crash.
To avoid these problems, VMware recommends you move or delete files to
free up space now.
There is enough space on harddisk left. Any idea what that could be? I've attached one of the VMware logfiles. This is the content of the directory mentioned above:
234905123 1524320 -rw------- 1 root root 2147483648 2009-10-02 11:41 564dd28a-552c-caff-be41-d4b0e0dce684.vmem
134223861 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 23 2009-10-02 11:41 564dd28a-552c-caff-be41-d4b0e0dce684.vmem.lck
234905205 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-27 11:17 gentoodev21b-f001.vmdk
234905206 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-26 17:58 gentoodev21b-f002.vmdk
234905207 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-26 17:54 gentoodev21b-f003.vmdk
234905208 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-27 02:40 gentoodev21b-f004.vmdk
234905209 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-27 11:17 gentoodev21b-f005.vmdk
234905210 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-27 11:17 gentoodev21b-f006.vmdk
234905211 2096896 -rw------- 1 root root 2147221504 2009-10-26 17:54 gentoodev21b-f007.vmdk
234905212 1050368 -rw------- 1 root root 1075576832 2009-10-26 17:53 gentoodev21b-f008.vmdk
234905213 4 -rw------- 1 root root 675 2009-10-02 11:51 gentoodev21b.vmdk
268866656 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 23 2009-10-02 11:41 gentoodev21b.vmdk.lck
234911167 12 -rw------- 1 root root 8684 2009-10-02 11:41 nvram
234905215 0 -rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-07-09 14:49 Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmsd
234905214 4 -rwxr-xr-- 1 root root 1162 2009-10-02 11:41 Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmx
234906550 4 -rw------- 1 root root 279 2009-10-02 11:40 Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmxf
234905216 136 -rw-rr 1 root root 137873 2009-10-02 11:40 vmware-0.log
234905202 128 -rw-rr 1 root root 130299 2009-09-06 22:07 vmware-1.log
234905121 44 -rw-rr 1 root root 44962 2009-07-28 12:14 vmware-2.log
234905217 88 -rw-rr 1 root root 88574 2009-10-27 11:16 vmware.log
Thanks in advance
Roman