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Comment on VMware Server 2.0.2 Update Patch by Gavin

Gavin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:49:06 +0000

Ramon/Jim Just a quick update on the shutdown hang at 95% problem. I have found that if I remove USB support from the VM the VMs shutdown without a problem. I noticed the last entry in the vm log was Poweroff MKS when the shutdown hung. Could this be some sort of conflict between the drivers for the keyboard and mouse and the fact I am using a USB keyboard and mouse?? Anyway a workaround for now but I cannot use USB.

Comment on VMware Server 2.0.2 Update Patch by Boyd Lynn Gebrer

Boyd Lynn Gebrer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:00:37 +0000

No NFS all disks on the system.

Comment on VMware Server 2.0.2 Update Patch by Ramon de Carvalho Valle

Ramon de Carvalho Valle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:50:05 +0000

kev: Thank you for all the information. However, this patch was not made for this version of the kernel. I will release a new patch for newer kernels soon.

Comment on VMware Server 2.0.2 Update Patch by Ramon de Carvalho Valle

Ramon de Carvalho Valle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:43:08 +0000

Gavin: Thank you for all the information. Once I have time, I will release a new patch that corrects the network problems and build problems in newer kernels.

Comment on VMware Server 2.0.2 Update Patch by Ramon de Carvalho Valle

Ramon de Carvalho Valle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:38:34 +0000

Boyd Lynn: Sorry, but probably I will not have time to help you by accessing your server. Are you trying to use a NFS share as a datastore?

Comment on VMware Server 2.0.2 Update Patch by kev

kev — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:35:31 +0000

Thanks for the patch and detailed install instructions.
All working until I updated F12 and now have 2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64.

When running /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl again I must be need to do something to the vmmon, vmnet, vmci and vsock modules before it will work.

Should I copy them from your install procedure into a new location? What it it? which ones. I don’t really want to reinstall everytime there’s an update.

Comment on VMware Server 2.0.2 Update Patch by Gavin

Gavin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:28:13 +0000

Ramon Thanks for your great support with these patches. The startup issue has something to do with Fedora 12’s rapid start issues and the startup priority of vmware. On reboot of Fedora 12 I get vmware network startup failures, I think because it tries to start before the network is ready. On cold boot the vmware starts OK.

The shutdown issue has me beat, the xp VM for example hangs during the shutdown process with “WIndows is shutting down…” on the screen. If you try and power off the vm it hangs at 95%. If i use vnc to access the xp vm on shutdown the vnc sessions goes away but the vm has not finishing shutting down. The only way to clear this mess is to reboot of the host, then tidy up the lck files and do a vmconfig again(don’t ask me why this is needed but this is the only way I can set the server to work again). A pretty frustrating position.

All this is on kernel 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.i686.PAE

To complicate things even more the latest update to kernel 2.6.32.9-67.fc12.i686.PAE
results in a failure to build the module vmnet.
Vmplayer seems to work fine on this kernel.

If I could get a stable environment, I will resist ever touching it again.

Comment on VMware Server 2.0.2 Update Patch by Boyd Lynn Gebrer

Boyd Lynn Gebrer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:59:21 +0000

Sorry, if I may not be as with it as I normally would be, but I had some thing like a stroke and I am having a hard time recovering. All I realll can do is speak some what, write some what and confuse everything a bit.

Comment on VMware Server 2.0.2 Update Patch by Boyd Lynn Gebrer

Boyd Lynn Gebrer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:18:39 +0000

I am willing to provide you root access to figure it out if you would be interested. I would need your gpg key to setup your account then you coulld on the machine use ssh to become root, use sodo, or what ever you may or want to investigate this problem. I know of 6 of us with this issue. Most do work with your current patches.

Comment on VMware Server 2.0.2 Update Patch by Boyd Lynn Gebrer

Boyd Lynn Gebrer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:14:53 +0000

Sadlyit will not start any of my clients. It comes up and acts like it may be working but I am unable to view any of my clients. It just errors off. I am unable to even create a new instance. This was all working in openSUSE 11.1. Now I am on 11.2 the patches apear to work but really don;t. I hear of some thianks to your patches are work while thier is a smal group of us that all have the same problme no clients show up and there fore do not get started.I even put the mount point on a new drive with 1.5 TB and could not get it to create new clients. I am at a loss as to how to make or geet this to see clients regardless of where they are. Even the default location.