I'm running.
Host:
Athlon 64, 2GB ram with Fedora Core 6, 2.6.18-2149 kernel.
VMware Server 1.0.1 with a single Windows 2003 guest. The host and guest are both running 32-bit versions of their OS.
Randomly, and spuradically (at least I haven't found a pattern), the vmserverd process will hang (crash?), the guest won't response, and neither the vmware-vmx or the vmserverd process can be killed with the '-9' flag. The vmware-vmx process dies with a \[defunct] next to it in the process list. The vmware service and the guest won't start again until I reboot linux.
Anyone see this sort of behavior before? I've tried with ACPI off and on, no CPU frequency scaling. I even deleted all instances of the VMware server installation, and subsequently reinstalling, re-created the VMware guest instance (deleted all files minus the virtual drive). And nothing has worked.
One note however: The hard drive linux was installed on was running on older hardware and was moved to its current hardware configuration. However before anyone complains, unlike Windows, Linux has no problems with being transfererd via HDD to a totally diff machine, as long the kernel is new enough supporting the devices with drives.