I keep receiving "too many virtual machines" when booting up a virtual machine (under RHEL 3). I had this problem before under previous versions of vmware server. There's a single guest (and there's only ever been one other guest) in vmware. Any ideas?
The logfile:
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| Log for VMware Server pid=6945 version=1.0.0 build=build-24927 option=Release
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| Command line: "/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx" "-C" "-@" """" "/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/harcoPrime/harcoPrime.vmx"
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| vmxvmdb: Index name being generated from config file
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| VMXVmdbConnectServerd - Trying to discover serverd
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat system.cpuusage
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat system.ram
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat system.uptime
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat system.load
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| pcpu #0 CPUID numEntries=1 AuthcAMDenti
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| pcpu #0 CPUID version=0x20ff2 id1.edx=0x78bfbff id1.ecx=0x1 id1.ebx=0x800
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| pcpu #0 CPUID id80.eax=80000018 id81.edx=0xe3d3fbff id81.ecx=0x1
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| CPUID id1.edx: 0x78bfbff id1.ecx: 0x1 id81.edx: 0xe3d3fbff id81.ecx: 0x1
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| CPUID id88.ecx: 0 id88.edx: 0
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| Setup symlink /var/run/vmware/%2Fvar%2Flib%2Fvmware%2FVirtual%20Machines%2FharcoPrime%2FharcoPrime%2Evmx -> /var/run/vmware/harco-vmware/6945
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| ACL_InitCapabilities: here 1 (bug 63252)
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| changing directory to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/harcoPrime/.
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| Config file: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/harcoPrime/harcoPrime.vmx
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| Read from FIFO 32 -- connecting to serverd...
Jun 05 10:57:53: vmx| VMDB: Connected to serverd
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| CnxAcceptConnection: Could not receive fd on 44: invalid control message
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Failed to get IPC connection
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| VMXVmdbCbVmVmxExecState: Exec state change requested to state poweredOn without reset
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| PowerOn
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host ACPI: SRAT @ 0x7fee9680
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host ACPI: SRAT: LAPIC ID 0x00, proximity domain low 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #0 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #1 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #2 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #3 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #4 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #5 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #6 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #7 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #8 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #9 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #10 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #11 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #12 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #13 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #14 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #15 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #16 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #17 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #18 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #19 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #20 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #21 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #22 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #23 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #24 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #25 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #26 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #27 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #28 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #29 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #30 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Host: CPU #31 LAPIC ID 0x00, node 0x00
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Resuming virtual machine from /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/harcoPrime/harcoPrime.vmss
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| DUMPER: restoring checkpoint version 8
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Checkpointed in VMware Server, 1.0.0 build-24927, build-24927, Linux Host
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Msg_Post: Error
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| \[msg.monitorLoop.createVMTooMany] Too many virtual machines.
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| \----
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| POST(no connection): Too many virtual machines.
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx|
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Module MonitorLoop power on failed.
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 0
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| VMX idle exit
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| Flushing VMX VMDB connections
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| IPC_exit: disconnecting all threads
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| VMX exit.
Jun 05 10:57:54: vmx| AIOMGR-S : stat o=58 r=7 w=0 i=0 br=7690 bw=0