I have an XP (SP2) laptop, connecting to a RHEL3.0 server running VMware Server beta. I have installed everything on the server side, and can access the console of the guests from any location, except my laptop. While I believe that is 90% Murphy's law (VMware admin is only guy unable to access the VMs), there must be some place I can go to debug.
Here is the UI log on my host:
Apr 03 11:02:37: vmui| Log for VMware Server Console pid=752 version=e.x.p build=build-22874 option=BETA
Apr 03 11:02:38: vmui| Msg_Reset:
Apr 03 11:02:38: vmui| \[msg.dictionary.load.statFailed] Unable to get information about file "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server Console
messages\en\tip_list.vmsg": The system cannot find the path specified.
Apr 03 11:02:38: vmui| \----
Apr 03 11:02:38: vmui| Cannot load message dictionary "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server Console
messages\en\tip_list.vmsg".
Apr 03 11:02:38: vmui| HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1 numThreadsPerCore 1.
Apr 03 11:02:38: vmui| HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 1 total cores, and 1 logical CPUs.
Apr 03 11:02:39: vmui| Foundry Init: setting up global state (0 threads)
Apr 03 11:02:39: vmui| Foundry Init: version 1, hostType 1, hostName (null), hostPort 0, options 0x3
Apr 03 11:02:39: vmui| CVMUIApp::OpenHomePage: opened
Apr 03 11:02:43: vmui| CVMUIApp::OnCtxCurrentObj: home
Apr 03 11:02:52: vmui| CVMUIApp::OnCtxCurrentObj: home
Apr 03 11:02:52: vmui| CVMUIApp::OpenObj: opened /vm/#3f2cf5f3e43220a7/
Apr 03 11:02:53: vmui| CVMUIApp::OnCtxCurrentObj: /vm/#3f2cf5f3e43220a7/
Apr 03 11:02:53: vmui| vmdbPipe_Streams: Couldn't read
Apr 03 11:02:53: vmui| VMCCbMKSDisconnect
Apr 03 11:03:19: vmui| CVMUIApp::MenuButtonClicked: 0 /vm/#3f2cf5f3e43220a7/
Apr 03 11:03:19: vmui| CVMUIApp::OpenObj: opened /vm/#01216025da956a72/
Apr 03 11:03:19: vmui| CVMUIApp::OnCtxCurrentObj: /vm/#01216025da956a72/
Apr 03 11:03:19: vmui| vmdbPipe_Streams: Couldn't read
Apr 03 11:03:19: vmui| VMCCbMKSDisconnect
Apr 03 11:03:22: vmui| CVMUIApp::MenuButtonClicked: 40046 /vm/#01216025da956a72/
Apr 03 11:04:20: vmui| CVMUIApp::OnCtxCurrentObj: /vm/#01216025da956a72/
Apr 03 11:04:21: vmui| CVMSwitchCtl: RBUTTONDOWN
Apr 03 11:04:21: vmui| CVMUIApp::OnCtxCurrentObj: /vm/#01216025da956a72/
Apr 03 11:04:26: vmui| CVMUIApp::MenuButtonClicked: 166 /vm/#01216025da956a72/
Apr 03 11:04:26: vmui| CVMUIApp::CloseObj: /vm/#01216025da956a72/
Apr 03 11:04:26: vmui| CVMUIApp::OnCtxCurrentObj: home
Apr 03 11:04:29: vmui| CVMUIApp::OnCtxCurrentObj: /vm/#3f2cf5f3e43220a7/
Apr 03 11:04:29: vmui| vmdbPipe_Streams: Couldn't read
Apr 03 11:04:29: vmui| VMCCbMKSDisconnect
Apr 03 11:04:34: vmui| CVMUIApp::MenuButtonClicked: 166 /vm/#3f2cf5f3e43220a7/
Apr 03 11:04:34: vmui| CVMUIApp::CloseObj: /vm/#3f2cf5f3e43220a7/
Apr 03 11:04:34: vmui| CVMUIApp::OnCtxCurrentObj: home
Apr 03 11:12:12: vmui| CVMUIApp::OpenObj: opened /vm/#01216025da956a72/
Apr 03 11:12:12: vmui| CVMUIApp::OnCtxCurrentObj: /vm/#01216025da956a72/
Apr 03 11:12:12: vmui| vmdbPipe_Streams: Couldn't read
Apr 03 11:12:12: vmui| VMCCbMKSDisconnect
Apr 03 11:12:17: vmui| CVMUIApp::MenuButtonClicked: 40041
and here is the tail vmware.log from the server:
Apr 03 11:10:16: vmx| VMMEM VM 0 min 59993 max 112338 share 98304 paged 104689 nonpaged 7649 locked 13885 cowed 49662 usedPct 4
Apr 03 11:10:16: vmx| VMMEM VM 1 min 59924 max 112269 share 98304 paged 104689 nonpaged 7580 locked 12880 cowed 50951 usedPct 2
Apr 03 11:12:12: mks| SOCKET 6 recv error 104: Connection reset by peer
Apr 03 11:12:12: mks| SOCKET 6 destroying VNC backend on socket error: 104
Apr 03 11:13:16: vmx| VMMEM 1 2 26253 753664 -1 753664 -1 50
Apr 03 11:13:16: vmx| COWStats: numHints 170274 unique 29 shared 100642 totalUnique 656995 totalBreaks 2440606
Apr 03 11:13:16: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: hash 0x1e2f519b624c629c count 2
Apr 03 11:13:16: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: hash 0x8dfab7047814b270 count 2
Apr 03 11:13:16: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: hash 0x5d08a1a35a680039 count 2
Apr 03 11:13:16: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: hash 0xf9ddf4a48deffc81 count 10
Apr 03 11:13:16: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: hash 0x2bd8e6157e6af6d6 count 100597
Apr 03 11:13:16: vmx| VMMEM VM 0 min 59993 max 112338 share 98304 paged 104689 nonpaged 7649 locked 13441 cowed 49658 usedPct 4
Apr 03 11:13:16: vmx| VMMEM VM 1 min 59904 max 112249 share 98304 paged 104689 nonpaged 7560 locked 12783 cowed 50984 usedPct 4