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

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From: Richard Fairfield Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:00 PM To: centos-virt@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

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