Hello - I have installed the VMware-server-1.0.5-80187.i386.rpm package on a CentOS 5.1 system. I then ran the vmware-config.pl program. I chose mostly default answer, except that I did not choose the NAT option; I saw no errors. I used the VMware Server Console to create a Red Hat Linux VM. I also copied an externally created VM into the '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/' directory. I cannot power-on either of these VMs. The VM's console is blank for several minutes, after which the following message appears in a pop-up window: Unable to change virtual machine power state: The "/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx" process did not start properly Try running "/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Red Hat Linux/Red Hat Linux.vmx" from the command-line on the server.. I tried running it from the command line, as the message suggests. That just hangs forever. I don't see anything other than the above error message in the /var/log/vmlog/vmware-serverd.log file. I've tried rebooting, and uninstalling and reinstalling the VMware Server software. I even tried installing from tar file, instead of the RPM. Nothing changes. I'm completely stuck. Can anyone help me with this? Richard Fairfield | Applications Engineer Isilon Systems P +1-206-315-7500 F +1-206-315-7501 www.isilon.com D +1-206-777-7911 M +1-206-372-2776 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20080807/d8d510b6/attachment-0004.html>
Richard Fairfield wrote:> > Hello ? > > I have installed the VMware-server-1.0.5-80187.i386.rpm package on a > CentOS 5.1 system. I then ran the vmware-config.pl program. I chose > mostly default answer, except that I did not choose the NAT option; I > saw no errors. > > I used the VMware Server Console to create a Red Hat Linux VM. I also > copied an externally created VM into the '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual > Machines/' directory. I cannot power-on either of these VMs. The VM's > console is blank for several minutes, after which the following > message appears in a pop-up window: > > Unable to change virtual machine power state: The > "/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx" process did not start properly > Try running "/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx /var/lib/vmware/Virtual > Machines/Red Hat Linux/Red Hat Linux.vmx" from the command-line on the > server.. > > I tried running it from the command line, as the message suggests. > That just hangs forever. I don't see anything other than the above > error message in the /var/log/vmlog/vmware-serverd.log file. > > I've tried rebooting, and uninstalling and reinstalling the VMware > Server software. I even tried installing from tar file, instead of the > RPM. Nothing changes. > > I'm completely stuck. Can anyone help me with this? >What kernel are you running on your VMware server? (What does "uname -a" show?) You can't run the "kernel-xen" kernel and have VMware work; if that's the case, switch to the regular kernel and try that... -Greg
Because I was in a hurry, I had to move this project to a different OS. I installed VMserver on Ubuntu, where I had knew it would work. I'll come back to CentOS later. But, for those that asked: 1) I was not running the Xen verion of the kernel. 2) The VMs that I was trying to start are good; they both worked on other VMware Server installations. Thanks to all who responded. Richard Fairfield | Applications Engineer Isilon Systems P +1-206-315-7500 F +1-206-315-7501 www.isilon.com D +1-206-777-7911 M +1-206-372-2776 From: Richard Fairfield Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:00 PM To: centos-virt at centos.org Subject: VMs won't power on Hello - I have installed the VMware-server-1.0.5-80187.i386.rpm package on a CentOS 5.1 system. I then ran the vmware-config.pl program. I chose mostly default answer, except that I did not choose the NAT option; I saw no errors. I used the VMware Server Console to create a Red Hat Linux VM. I also copied an externally created VM into the '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/' directory. I cannot power-on either of these VMs. The VM's console is blank for several minutes, after which the following message appears in a pop-up window: Unable to change virtual machine power state: The "/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx" process did not start properly Try running "/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Red Hat Linux/Red Hat Linux.vmx" from the command-line on the server.. I tried running it from the command line, as the message suggests. That just hangs forever. I don't see anything other than the above error message in the /var/log/vmlog/vmware-serverd.log file. I've tried rebooting, and uninstalling and reinstalling the VMware Server software. I even tried installing from tar file, instead of the RPM. Nothing changes. I'm completely stuck. Can anyone help me with this? Richard Fairfield | Applications Engineer Isilon Systems P +1-206-315-7500 F +1-206-315-7501 www.isilon.com D +1-206-777-7911 M +1-206-372-2776 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20080808/31af2ddf/attachment-0004.html>
Richard Fairfield wrote:> > Because I was in a hurry, I had to move this project to a different > OS. I installed VMserver on Ubuntu, > > where I had knew it would work. I'll come back to CentOS later. > > > > But, for those that asked: > > 1) I was not running the Xen verion of the kernel. > > 2) The VMs that I was trying to start are good; they both worked on > other VMware Server installations. > > >When a vm won't boot, you can review the vmware.log in the vm's folder for diagnosis. Also, you can set debug on in the vmware-server-console interface to get extra information into the logfile above. -- Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints... Mark D. Foster, CISSP <mark at foster.cc> http://mark.foster.cc/