Comments on: Vmware Server 2 Web Access Connection Loss (vmware-hostd crash) Workarounds

By: Instalando o Vmware-Server 2.0.2 no CentOS 5.7 | Blog do @DiegoLuisi

Instalando o Vmware-Server 2.0.2 no CentOS 5.7 | Blog do @DiegoLuisi — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:58:24 +0000

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By: stefan

stefan — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:55:29 +0000

when i restart of the vmware server i get only “ok”s so it looks like there’s no problem, but although i can’t access the webinterface…

i used the 2nd way!

any good ideas ??

By: sapan

sapan — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:06:59 +0000

I had the Web Access Problem on Centos 5.5 64-bit with vmware server 2.0.2, and I used the solution #2 (changinng the /etc/init.d/vmware script) to fix it.
Thanks a lot.

By: Daniel Baerthel

Daniel Baerthel — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:17:24 +0000

Hi George,

solution #1 – functional!!

with a fresh
CentOS 5.5 2.6.18-194.11.4.el5.x86_64 and VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64
glibc @ http://vault.centos.org/5.3/os/x86_64/CentOS/glibc-2.5-34.x86_64.rpm

Thanks for that idea.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:36:54 +0000

@Pamela Lloyd Pamela I have the same problem, did you solve it?

By: Jeff Musick

Jeff Musick — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:25:31 +0000

This is great to find!

Just converted a server from Ubuntu 10.04 to 64bit RHEL 5.5 and this seems to have solved the problems connecting with the with web client as well as using the VMware Infrastructure Client as well.

Thanks for sharing..

By: VMware Server 2.0.2 on CentOS 5.5 | Peter Luk's Blog

VMware Server 2.0.2 on CentOS 5.5 | Peter Luk's Blog — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:26:27 +0000

[...] device when start a vm under VMware Server 2.0. BTW, you also need to follow instructions in this page to make VMware Server 2.0 work properly under CentOS 5.5. It seems that I can’t run the kvm [...]

By: Epiq

Epiq — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:49:36 +0000

@George Knerr
I’am change
“$vmdb_answer_LIBDIR/vmware-hostd” -a -d -u “$vmware_etc_dir/hostd/config.xml”
to
“$vmdb_answer_LIBDIR/bin/vmware-hostd” -a -d -u “$vmware_etc_dir/hostd/config.xml”
and this solve my problem – it was my stupid syntax error =\
Thanx a lot for help with it !

By: George Knerr

George Knerr — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:16:56 +0000

@Pamela Lloyd Glad you got it working Pamela!

By: George Knerr

George Knerr — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:12:20 +0000

Hi Epiq,

If it works manually from the command line but not from the startup script I would suspect a syntax error. If you were to copy the change from this blog for /etc/init.d/vmware and paste into a pUTTY session with vi open, quotes (“) have a tendency to translate into periods (.). Also check the hostd log /var/log/vmware/hostd.log and see if it tells you anything.

I ran bash -x /etc/init.d/vmware start and compared to your output and found the following difference:

Yours:
+ vmware_bg_exec ‘VMware Server Host Agent’ /usr/lib/vmware/vmware-hostd -a -d -u /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml

Mine:
+ vmware_bg_exec ‘VMware Server Host Agent’ /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd -a -d -u /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml

Unless you have a different directory structure than my Vmware Server you have a bad file path to vmware-hostd.

Let me know how you do.

George