Hi,
Would be very nice if anybody could help me out 
I just installed VMware-gsx-3.1.0-9089 on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1100) running RH AS 3, kernel 2.4.21-15. At startup time the vmware startup script starts /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge but not the vmware-serverd. The parts of the vmware logfile that seem relevant to me (please let me know if you need the rest):
1 May 05 17:58:30: app| Log for VMware GSX Server pid=2410 version=3.1.0 build=build-9089 option=Release.3.1.0
2 May 05 17:58:30: app| Program: /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd
3 May 05 17:58:30: app| CWD: /var/log/vmware
4 May 05 17:58:30: app| Init script: /usr/lib/vmware/serverd/init.pl
5 May 05 17:58:33: app|
6 May 05 17:58:33: app| Files included by init.pl:
7 May 05 17:58:33: app| module Exporter.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Exporter.pm
8 May 05 17:58:33: app| module strict.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/strict.pm
....
123 May 05 17:58:33: app| LimitResources: limited address space size to 122976 kB
124 May 05 17:58:33: app| LimitResources: limited open fds to 2048
125 May 05 17:58:34: app| DB Handle: 0x890f530
126 May 05 17:58:34: app| Debug level changing: Old: 0 : New: 2
127 May 05 17:58:34: app| SP: Adding from MemPool
128 May 05 17:58:34: app| SP: Allocated a new security policy
129 May 05 17:58:34: app| SP: Ref count incremented to :1
130 May 05 17:58:34: app| SP: Ref count incremented to :2
131 May 05 17:58:34: app| SP: Ref count decremented to :1
132 May 05 17:58:34: app| Cannot create or access directory "~/.vmware". It is needed to store user preferences and other inform ation.
133 May 05 17:58:34: app| VMServerd Panic: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(5240):932
134 May 05 17:58:34: app|
135 May 05 17:58:34: app| Backtrace:
136 May 05 17:58:34: app| Backtrace[0] 0xbfff8488 eip 0x80c357a
137 May 05 17:58:34: app| Backtrace[1] 0xbfff84b8 eip 0x81cbf94
138 May 05 17:58:34: app| Backtrace[2] 0xbfff8518 eip 0x81cdb2b
139 May 05 17:58:34: app| Backtrace[3] 0xbfff8548 eip 0x81cdbde
140 May 05 17:58:34: app| Backtrace[4] 0xbfff8578 eip 0x81cddc4
141 May 05 17:58:34: app| Backtrace[5] 0xbfff86f8 eip 0x81afce5
142 May 05 17:58:34: app| Backtrace[6] 0xbfff8848 eip 0x81af9cb
143 May 05 17:58:34: app| Backtrace[7] 0xbfff8878 eip 0x819f92d
After running the following script vmware-serverd starts up (complaining on the console "no floppy controllers found")
\[root@imgnode root]# more vmware_start.sh
#!/bin/bash
chmod +t /tmp
/bin/rm -f /etc/vmware/not_configured
/bin/rm -rf /tmp/vmware-root
/bin/rm -rf /var/run/vmware/root
/etc/init.d/vmware stop
/etc/init.d/vmware start
I saw that somebody posted a message in the forum with the same error message
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=11732&start=0
According to the reply to this post this is a known problem/bug. The suggested workaround was to disable the autostart of VM's at boot time.
This does not apply in my case as I see this problem even if I don't have any VM's defined. Any other ideas for workarounds/solutions?
Thanks in advance
Arend