A few days ago I installed Ubuntu 6.10 (i386) on my system.
VMware Server is installed and everything runs fine, except for the VMware Server Console.
Description of the Problem:
\- I start the Console and log on to localhost.
\- As this is a fresh install I now want to import the existing VMs - so I simply click "Open a virtual machine"
\- In the window I click on "Browse..." and ... nothing happens. The Button is greyed out and no file requester comes up.
\- Only solution to get outta this situation is to kill the Console.
Meanwhile I restored the Virtual Machine List out of a backup of the previously installed Ubuntu 6.06 --- but ... the problem somehow persists ...
\- If I try to change the location where the virtual machines are stored the console quits in the very moment I click on "Browse".
\- If I try to change the setting of a VM so that the emulated CD-ROM is using an ISO the console crashes the very moment I click on "Browse" to browse for the ISO (entering the path/file manually works).
Funny thing is ... I'm unable to work out any reason for that problem. I get absolutely no error message. The only error I get reported is ...
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
...which I assume non-critical (this also showed up as I still was on Ubuntu 6.06)
That's it - even when the console suddenly closes there's no other error message to be found; not on the terminal (in case I launch vmware from the terminal) or in any system log.
So - does anyone know how to resolve this issue? I would really need a fully working VMware Console as I use VMware Server as a testbed for evaluation.
Thanks for any helpful input,
Jochen