CentOS 5.7 hosting VMWare Server 2.0.2

Hi,
I´m running a VM-Ware Server 2.0.2 on an CentOS 5.6 with no problem (ok, there was a patch with the glibc, otherwise the virtual guests crashed, but that was working fine after the work around). Now, after an update on CentOS 5.7 the vmware-hostd won´t start up, so I´m not able to connect to the server to start any virtual guest. When I try to start the hostd at the commant shell this is what happends:
#/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd -a -d -u /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd: error while loading shared libraries: libvmomi.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
the lib is present:
]# locate libvmomi.so.1.0
/usr/lib/vmware/vmacore/libvmomi.so.1.0
Any suggestions are welcome
Kind Regards
fatcharly

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scsi1:0.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
scsi1:0.redo = ""

I have faced a similar problem, but I was testing a lot of things simultaneously (not very smart obviously), of which was adding SCSI and IDE disks.
Anyway:
I am running VMware server 1.0.4 on Windows XP.
I have a Solaris 10 8/07 virtual machine installed.
The VM is NATing through the host os's network.
I have two network adapters (physically on my laptop), one wireless and one wired, I can have any combination of them being enabled or disabled according to where I am working, and sometimes I start the virtual machine with neither of them enabled.
When I installed the Solaris VM, the network interface was configured as pcn0. At some point (don't know exactly what i was testing then) pcn0 was no longer available and pcn1 suddenly appeared. Later on this happened again and pnc1 disappeared and I got pcn2.
As far as I can tell this happens when I start the VM with a different combination of NIC's enabled / disable , i.e. for some reason, having a different physical interface enabled causes Solaris in the VM to configure a different instance of the pcn interface.
I am not sure yet if this is really what is going on, but for now I am focusing on testing what is running on the vm rather than giving in to my technical cravings to get to the roots of this problem, so for a quick fix, just grep for pcn in /etc/path_to_inst, and try plumbing the instances you find there. The one that does not return an error is the one that is currently working.
Just change your hostname.pcnx or pcnx.dhcp file to reflect the correct instance number and do an "svcadm clear physical" this will get your network started and start all the dependent services.
Hope this helps.

Vmware Server web UI stops working.

I have installed Vmware Server from AUR. It seems like it works fine for a short time. I can access the web interface after the initial configuration is done. But the problem is that is suddenly stops responding after a while. I still have not got to the point where I have installed a virtual OS. I have just created the virtual machine itself.
A couple of times is has worked with restarting the Vmware daemon. But most of the time I just get an "Unable to connect" message when I try to connect to it trough Firefox. Opera gives the same result. But telnet seems to get contact.
I'm trying to get this to work in
# uname -a
Linux ArchT400 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 15 20:44:03 CET 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Does anyone have an idea on what might be the problem?
$ telnet 10.0.0.25 902
Trying 10.0.0.25...
Connected to 10.0.0.25.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 VMware Authentication Daemon Version 1.10: SSL Required, ServerDaemonProtocol:SOAP, MKSDisplayProtocol:VNC , VMXARGS supported
# /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware status
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 is running
Host network detection is not running
Module vmmon loaded
Module vmnet loaded
The session logfile.
# cat /tmp/vmware-root/authdlauncher-4092.log
pr 11 23:25:31.041: authdlauncher| Log for VMware Authentication Daemon Launcher pid=4092 version=2.0.2 build=build-203138 option=Release
Apr 11 23:25:31.052: authdlauncher| SOCKET creating new listening socket on port 902
Apr 11 23:25:31.052: authdlauncher| listening on port 902
Apr 11 23:25:31.052: authdlauncher| launching authd at /usr/sbin/vmware-authd
Apr 11 23:25:31.052: authdlauncher| starting poll loop
Apr 11 23:25:31.519: authdlauncher| forked new child (pid 4241, fd 15)
Apr 11 23:25:31.519: authdlauncher| parent: closing connection socket
Apr 11 23:25:31.536: authdlauncher| SigHandler: received signal 17
Apr 11 23:25:31.536: authdlauncher| received 65280 status for pid 4241
# cat /dev/vm
vmci vmnet0 vmnet2 vmnet4 vmnet6 vmnet8
vmmon vmnet1 vmnet3 vmnet5 vmnet7 vmnet9
Last edited by orjanp (2010-04-14 07:50:39)

I managed to install Windows 7 in Vmware Server yesterday. And it worked fine, except that my whole system became very unresponive together with the Windows 7 installation. But it did work. I rebooted my computer today and started up the vmware deamon, and no luck in connecting to the server. I only get an 'Unable to connect' error in Firefox. To fix this, I will have to remove /etc/vmware and install vmware-server over again.
So at the moment, Virtualbox is winning hands down. It don't slow down my hole system, and Windows feels as fast as it was running not in a VM. And it works. The only issue is very slow IO.
Vmware Workstation 6 was alot faster than the Server version. Maybe I shuld try it instead. Just have to find a PGKBUILD for it.
Last edited by orjanp (2010-04-14 08:09:52)

Standard Upgrade Path from VMWare Server?

I've been using VMWare Server for years to test my software. Specifically I have 2 "beige box" PCs running CentOS running VMWare Server running various versions of Windows Server as domain controllers and file servers as well as numerous workstations. I have a complete mini multi-domain Windows network. When I run the tests for my software it really pushes the 2-3 vms involved with a lot of network communication and some disk activity.
With care and some brute force this has worked well. At least I don't need a stack of PCs. And it's free so it's hard to complain. But unfortunately it's not terribly reliable. The web interface stops working - sometimes only after a day. Clocks drift causing authentication issues. Generally bad things happen if I try to run more than 2 images on the same server. I've gotten to be pretty good at combating these problems but I'm hoping to find something a little more reliable.
So now I'm willing to actually pay for something (gah!) and I would like to upgrade. But VMWare has so many products I just have no idea what I should be looking for.
What is the standard upgrade path from VMWare Server?
Mike

Ok. Two people say use ESXi so I guess I'll just try to burn an ESXi DVD and see what it's like. But ...
Is performance really good enough to compile large projects and do backups over and so on?
VMware Server has worked well enough for me over the years but performance was not like real hardware. But the real problem was reliability. If I ran more than 2 VMs at a time, eventually they would just get their tentacles in a tangle and I would have to kill them and delete lock files and bah! I'm going to assume by your endorsement that ESXi doesn't have any of these problems.
Also, the machine I'm using is a lowly DELL i660 i3-3240 with 8GB of memory. I paid $429 USD for it at a local consumer electronics store! This is no server. Will it even work?

Problem with vmware server 1.0.10 and usb mounting into guest

Hi, I really ve a serious problem here because I ve some reason that I need to use vmware sv 1.0.10 with windows 7 64bit pro as the host and win xp pro sp3 as guest os .... now i can installed vmware on my win 7 with pressing F8 then disble driver signature technique and I also sign vmware driver with win7 using some tool...
However, my problem is that i cant mount USB flash drive into the guest... it just show me my flash drive's name at the toolbar>>removable device>>usb but when i click on it.. nothing happen .. and after that when i check vmware log I've found that my vmware saw my flashdrive normally as it should be... i really ve no idea how to solve this....
I also tried set .vmx config with many methods but nth can help me...
Ps. I know that vmware server may b ve a big issue with win7 compatible things but i do really need to make this version of VM working with my usb flashdrive... plz help me.. Thank you guys all:)))

Hi creamac,
Welcome to communites
Please install vmware tool and then on vmware task bar select connect or unplug usb drive . You
will find that on right hand corner above to task bar of host machine .
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

VMware Server

Hello,
I've recently purchased a dedicated server with Arch Linux installed... I've compiled vmware-server and vmware-server-modules from AUR, made a bridge network via eth0... Question is, how do I configure the guest OSes (also Arch Linux)?
If I supply one of the three IPs I've been assigned (only one is assigned to eth0 currently, the other two have no virtual interfaces) and set the gateway and DNS IPs to the eth0 IP address, I can't ping any domains nor get external access.
What do I need to do to configure the Arch Linux guests to work?

I can ping the host from the guest, and vice versa
ifconfig from the guest:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:7A:99:08
inet addr:192.168.0.61 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1818 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:144912 (141.5 Kb) TX bytes:12435 (12.1 Kb)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
route from guest:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
ifconfig from host:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:72:BE:F5:08
inet addr:192.168.0.16 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:72ff:febe:f508/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:176255 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:81160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:183994239 (175.4 Mb) TX bytes:14043263 (13.3 Mb)
Memory:fe9c0000-fe9e0000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:47153 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47153 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:28426956 (27.1 Mb) TX bytes:28426956 (27.1 Mb)
vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet addr:172.16.79.1 Bcast:172.16.79.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
route from host:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
172.16.79.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8
default . 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
IPs have been changed to local ones for obvious reasons

Licensing number invalid - VMWare Server 2.0.2 on Windows XP

Hi,
I installed the vmware 2.0.2 server and created a vm and got the no-license message. Then tried to enter the license for windows from the download page and vmware server said that the license number is invalid. Searched the forum and deinlstalled the vmware server and reinstalled it. During install it did not ask for a key. After installation tried to enter the key and it did not accet it. Please help.
Best regards

Here seem to be 2 solutions.
1. Uninstall the software together with serial key (the uninstall must ask about it).Then reinstall.
2. Find the registry key
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VMware, Inc.\VMware Server
for 64 bit or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware Server
for 32-bit. Delete the value License.vs.1.0-00 .
Then add to the key Dormant\License.gsx.3.0-00 the following values:
"Serial"="<new_serial>"
"Name"="<Name>"
"CompanyName"="<Company_name>"
"LastModified"="2008-12-01 @ 16:00:00 UTC"
and restart VMWare Host Agent service.
Paul Svirin
StarWind Software developer ( http://www.starwindsoftware.com )

CentOS 5.7 hosting VMWare Server 2.0.2

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