Coert a écrit :

Georghy wrote:

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Hi everyone, I recently install VMware on a server using PAE kernel

everything was great until I use vmware server

everytime i'm connecting to the vmware server web interface after few seconds, the client loose server connection (server shows a loading page) I can't access to my VM till I log on the server run /etc/init.d/vmware restart

I try to connect to the server again but connection still fails

I try /etc/init.d/vmware stop /etc/init.d/vmware start

then it respond me :

Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor [FAIL] Virtual machine communication interface [ OK ] VM communication interface socket family: [FAIL] Virtual ethernet [FAIL] Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ OK ]

I retry /etc/init.d/vmware start

VMware Server is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.

I try /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl but it doesn't work until I reboot

I do reboot but connection fails again and I have to do the same thing above.

what should I do to make thing working.

/All help greatly/ appreciated

Hi Georghy,

I run VMware server 2 on PAE kernel.

Are you running 2.0.2?

I had the same problem as you when running < 2.0.2

2.0.2 has been fixed to work with CentOS 5.4 without that glibc trick on the CentOS bug tracker. I have so far not had any problems with my installation.

Regards, Coert _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

I've tried vmware server 2.0.2 and the problem still persist :s vmware is stuck on a loading page and I can't access to my VM :(

Les Mikesell a écrit :

Georghy wrote:

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Coert a écrit :

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Georghy wrote:

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Hi everyone, I recently install VMware on a server using PAE kernel

everything was great until I use vmware server

everytime i'm connecting to the vmware server web interface after few seconds, the client loose server connection (server shows a loading page) I can't access to my VM till I log on the server run /etc/init.d/vmware restart

I try to connect to the server again but connection still fails

I try /etc/init.d/vmware stop /etc/init.d/vmware start

then it respond me :

Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor [FAIL] Virtual machine communication interface [ OK ] VM communication interface socket family: [FAIL] Virtual ethernet [FAIL] Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ OK ]

I retry /etc/init.d/vmware start

VMware Server is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.

I try /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl but it doesn't work until I reboot

I do reboot but connection fails again and I have to do the same thing above.

what should I do to make thing working.

/All help greatly/ appreciated

Hi Georghy,

I run VMware server 2 on PAE kernel.

Are you running 2.0.2?

I had the same problem as you when running < 2.0.2

2.0.2 has been fixed to work with CentOS 5.4 without that glibc trick on the CentOS bug tracker. I have so far not had any problems with my installation.

I've tried vmware server 2.0.2 and the problem still persist :s vmware is stuck on a loading page and I can't access to my VM :(

Did this bug ever get fixed? http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884

If you are in a position to reinstall everything, you might be better off running VMware ESXi on the hardware and Centos + everything else as guests.

I don't think my problem is kernel related because we have other VMware server running centOS and they work great with this kernel version (I didn't use yum -y update )

m.roth@5-cent.us a écrit :

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Georghy wrote:

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Coert a écrit : someone wrote:

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Georghy wrote:

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Hi everyone, I recently install VMware on a server using PAE kernel everything was great until I use vmware server everytime i'm connecting to the vmware server web interface after few seconds, the client loose server connection (server shows a loading page) I can't access to my VM till I log on the server run /etc/init.d/vmware restart

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I don't think my problem is kernel related because we have other VMware server running centOS and they work great with this kernel version (I didn't use yum -y update )

May I ask how much virtual memory, and how many CPUs you're assigning to the VM?

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I used 256 MO for each VM and 1 CPU

m.roth@5-cent.us a écrit :

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>> I recently install VMware on a server using PAE kernel >> everything was great until I use vmware server >> everytime i'm connecting to the vmware server web interface >> after few seconds, the client loose server connection (server shows >> a loading page) >> I can't access to my VM till I log on the server run >> /etc/init.d/vmware >> restart >> >>

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May I ask how much virtual memory, and how many CPUs you're assigning to the VM?

I used 256 MO for each VM and 1 CPU

How much memory on the system? Also, how much else is running on the system?

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The server hardware is : 32 GO RAM for memory, 2 xeon 4 cores for the processor Only vmware is running on this server (2 windows XP VM 256Mo each)

Kwan Lowe a écrit :

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Georghy fusco@wanagain.net wrote:

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The server hardware is : 32 GO RAM for memory, 2 xeon 4 cores for the processor Only vmware is running on this server (2 windows XP VM 256Mo each)

Unless you need the CentOS specifically as the host, you may be better of running VMWare ESXi on the metal. There are performance and usability benefits to ESXi. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

It doesn't depend on me :(

Les Mikesell a écrit :

Georghy wrote:

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Kwan Lowe a écrit :

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Georghy fusco@wanagain.net wrote:

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The server hardware is : 32 GO RAM for memory, 2 xeon 4 cores for the processor Only vmware is running on this server (2 windows XP VM 256Mo each)

Unless you need the CentOS specifically as the host, you may be better of running VMWare ESXi on the metal. There are performance and usability benefits to ESXi.

It doesn't depend on me :(

It doesn't matter who makes the decision, the results are the same... Be sure that whoever can make this decision knows that ESXi is a free download (but requires a windows box to run the remote console when you need to make changes).

But, if you continue running Centos as the host, is it 64-bit if the CPU is 64-bit capable?

I use PAE kernel wich support more than 32 BITs kernel

Les Mikesell a écrit :

On 3/30/2010 10:13 AM, Georghy wrote:

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Georghy wrote:

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Kwan Lowe a écrit :

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Georghyfusco@wanagain.net wrote:

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The server hardware is : 32 GO RAM for memory, 2 xeon 4 cores for the processor Only vmware is running on this server (2 windows XP VM 256Mo each)

Unless you need the CentOS specifically as the host, you may be better of running VMWare ESXi on the metal. There are performance and usability benefits to ESXi.

It doesn't depend on me :(

It doesn't matter who makes the decision, the results are the same... Be sure that whoever can make this decision knows that ESXi is a free download (but requires a windows box to run the remote console when you need to make changes).

But, if you continue running Centos as the host, is it 64-bit if the CPU is 64-bit capable?

I use PAE kernel wich support more than 32 BITs kernel

But the performance is worse than a native 64-bit kernel if the CPU is capable.

I know it but it doesn't depend on me

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:

The you read the whole page on that link (or any of it?)  It's not a kernel issue, it's glibc.  And there are others mentioning that they still have problems with 2.0.2 with some logs and workarounds. More, perhaps related, at: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3987 https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=24710&forum=...

To make it even more interesting, there are also issues with using Firefox 3.6 to access the management console. At this point, none of the Firefox 3.6.x versions can be used to access the console on either Linux or Windows clients.

For more information: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535640

Les Mikesell a écrit :

On 3/29/2010 8:39 AM, Georghy wrote:

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I've tried vmware server 2.0.2 and the problem still persist :s vmware is stuck on a loading page and I can't access to my VM :(

Did this bug ever get fixed? http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884

If you are in a position to reinstall everything, you might be better off running VMware ESXi on the hardware and Centos + everything else as guests.

I don't think my problem is kernel related because we have other VMware server running centOS and they work great with this kernel version (I didn't use yum -y update )

The you read the whole page on that link (or any of it?) It's not a kernel issue, it's glibc. And there are others mentioning that they still have problems with 2.0.2 with some logs and workarounds. More, perhaps related, at: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3987 https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=24710&forum=...

but they said "after a kernel update" I'll look this way

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 06:15 -0700, John Thomas wrote:

cd /tmp IP=the.esx.srv.ip # < fill in esx server ip address here wget --no-check-certificate https://$IP/ui/plugin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.xpi mv vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.xpi vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.zip cd ~ mkdir -p bin/vmwareconsole # make directory bin in your own homedir cd bin/vmwareconsole unzip /tmp/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.zip cd ~/bin ln -s vmwareconsole/plugins/vmware-vmrc . # make a symlink for easy access vmware-vmrc # run the console

--- I tried a similar hack like that on a client machine weeks ago and I would also get the page display problem and could not log in.

I also find the problem on real slow machines with not enough ram. My i686 machine want even run it even if it is set up correct.

On the actual server machine there is no problem at all.

John