Hello, I'm running VMware server 1.0.1 on RedHat ES 4. I have a Windows XP vm that usually runs fine the first time I start it, but on subsequent boots it often crashes just after booting up.
Sometimes I get this message:
"Failed to acquire lock to grab keyboard and mouse input. This may be because another virtual machine crashed or is hung. You can override the lock, but this may corrupt some of the X server state, such as keyboard autorepeate settings and the modifier mapping. Do you want to override the lock?"
Answering yes does, in fact, mess up X and I have to exit and start a new X session.
There is nothing of interest in Window's logs and no Windows crash dumps.
From vmware-serverd.log:
Dec 08 11:15:08: app| Adding to list of running vms: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional 2/Windows XP Professional 2.vmx
Dec 08 11:15:08: app| Attempting to launch vmx : /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional 2/Windows XP Professional 2.vmx
Dec 08 11:15:08: app| New connection on socket server-vmxvmdb from host localhost (ip address: local) , user: nicholas
Dec 08 11:15:08: app| Connection from : /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional 2/Windows XP Professional 2.vmx
Dec 08 11:15:08: app| Setting up autoDetect info.
Dec 08 11:15:08: app| VMServerdConnect: connecting to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional 2/Windows XP Professional 2.vmx
Dec 08 11:15:09: app| Connected to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional 2/Windows XP Professional 2.vmx
Dec 08 11:15:09: app| SP: Retrieved username: nicholas
Dec 08 11:15:09: app| SP: Retrieved username: nicholas
Dec 08 11:15:09: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOn.
Dec 08 11:15:09: app| SP: Retrieved username: nicholas
Dec 08 11:15:09: app| SP: Retrieved username: nicholas
Dec 08 11:15:09: app| SP: Retrieved username: nicholas
Dec 08 11:15:09: app| SP: Retrieved username: nicholas
Dec 08 11:15:10: app| cleanup: cleaned up 1 objects
Dec 08 11:15:49: app| VmsdRegister: Config file has changed: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional 2/Windows XP Professional 2.vmx
Dec 08 11:17:49: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Dec 08 11:17:49: app| SP: Deleting user session: 0 username: nicholas
Dec 08 11:17:49: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Dec 08 11:17:50: app| VMServerd IPC closed the connection with thread /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional 2/Windows XP Professional 2.vmx (0x8302a50)
Dec 08 11:17:50: app| Lost connection to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional 2/Windows XP Professional 2.vmx (/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional 2/Windows XP Professional 2.vmx) unexpectedly.
Dec 08 11:17:50: app| VMHS: Connection to VM broken: cfg: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional 2/Windows XP Professional 2.vmx; error: Pipe: Read failed; state: 3
Dec 08 11:17:51: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Dec 08 11:17:51: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Dec 08 11:17:51: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Thanks --Nicholas