Operation failed to change the VM to the expected power state.

I'm trying to set up VMware Server 22088 on OpenSUSE 10.0 with a custom kernel 2.6.16-rc6. The hardware is VIA VT310DP SMP box with 2 CPUs. I've got both vmmon and vmnet modules installed, vmware console is running but as soon as I power up any host I get an error dialog box saying:

Unable to change virtual machine power state: Operation failed to change the VM to the expected power state.

On the console I get:

vmuser:~ $ vmware

Using log file /tmp/vmware-vmuser/ui-5371.log

HOSTINFO: Unknown CPU vendor "CentaurHauls" seen.

Failed to get information about CPUs.

\*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice

Dlg::GetButtonInfo(): Duplicate GTK icon/label pair: _Stop and _Stop

Dlg::GetButtonInfo(): Duplicate GTK icon/label pair: _Forward and _Forward

Dlg::GetButtonInfo(): Duplicate GTK icon/label pair: _Information and Information

Vmdb error -37 sending asynchronous update in VmdbCnxRecvStatus

VmhsHostInfoPopulateHardwareNicCB Failed: No permission to perform this operation

The same happens when I run it as root.

ui-5371.log contains basically the same errors plus these at the end:

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmui| VMNetCtlConstruct: no Network Names to list

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmui| VMUIGtkVmdb_LoadDevice: unhandled device class scsiCtlr

Some suspicious messages from vmware.log in the VM machine drectory:

Mar 16 00:43:30: vmx| changing directory to /home/vmuser/vmware-linux/.

Mar 16 00:43:30: vmx| Config file: /home/vmuser/vmware-linux/Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmx

Mar 16 00:43:30: vmx| CnxAcceptConnection: Could not receive fd on 27: invalid control message

Mar 16 00:43:30: vmx| Failed to get IPC connection

Mar 16 00:43:30: vmx| Read from FIFO 32 -- connecting to serverd...

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| VMDB: Connected to serverd

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| VMXVmdbCbVmVmxExecState: Exec state change requested to state poweredOn without reset

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| PowerOn

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| Host ACPI: can't find SRAT

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| Msg_Hint: msg.loader.debug.beta (not shown)

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| HOST sysname Linux, nodename ruprecht, release 2.6.16-rc6, version #1 SMP Wed Mar 15 23:54:36 NZDT 2006, machine i686, SMP, hz=250

\[...]

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| LICENSE using: '/etc/vmware/license.vs.1.0-80'

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| HOSTINFO: Unknown CPU vendor "CentaurHauls" seen.

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| HostInfo_GetCpuid failed.

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| Module License power on failed.

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 0

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| MX: destroying monAct(0)

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| MX: destroying monAct(1)

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| MX: destroying monAct(2)

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| MX: destroying monAct(3)

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| MX: destroying monAct(4)

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| MX: destroying monAct(5)

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| MX: destroying monAct(6)

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| MX: destroying monAct(7)

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| MX: destroying stTable(8)

\[...]

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| VMX idle exit

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| Flushing VMX VMDB connections

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| AllocTrack: Successfully uninitialized.

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| IPC_exit: disconnecting all threads

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| VMX exit.

Mar 16 00:43:31: vmx| AIOMGR-S : stat o=8 r=16 w=0 i=0 br=53248 bw=0

Any hints on what's wrong?

Thanks!