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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

 

 


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