When i try and start a Virtual Machine sometimes the virtual machine will not start. The screen with the "start" and "Edit" turns to the blank screen, but then nothing else happens, the usual HDD, CD-ROM, Network card, Etc.. icons do not even appear and nothing else happens.
All the vmware toolbar options are greyed out "Shutdown, suspend, startup, restart, snapshot, etc."
The only way to stop it is to kill the process.
This happens randomly, sometimes to one VM other times to another, but when it happens to a vm, it will contimue to happen until you restart the host machine.
The host machine is running fedora 6 with kernel 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6
This problems happens to vm's running linux or windows guests, but since it doesn't even get to post, i'm assuming it's not an issue with the guest.
This is the /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/skynet/vmware.log file for the virtual machine that is currently locking up.
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Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| Log for VMware Server pid=4931 version=1.0.1 build=build-29996 option=Release
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| Command line: "/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx" "-C" "-@" """" "/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/skynet/Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmx"
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| vmxvmdb: Index name being generated from config file
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| VMXVmdbConnectServerd - Trying to discover serverd
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat system.cpuusage
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat system.ram
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat system.uptime
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat system.load
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| pcpu #0 CPUID numEntries=1 AuthcAMDenti
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| pcpu #0 CPUID version=0x20ff0 id1.edx=0x78bfbff id1.ecx=0x1 id1.ebx=0x800
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| pcpu #0 CPUID id80.eax=80000018 id81.edx=0xe3d3fbff id81.ecx=0x1
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| CPUID id1.edx: 0x78bfbff id1.ecx: 0x1 id81.edx: 0xe3d3fbff id81.ecx: 0x1
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| CPUID id88.ecx: 0 id88.edx: 0
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| Removing stale symlink /var/run/vmware/%2Fvar%2Flib%2Fvmware%2FVirtual%20Machines%2Fskynet%2FOther%20Linux%202%2E6%2Ex%20kernel%2Evmx
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| Setup symlink /var/run/vmware/%2Fvar%2Flib%2Fvmware%2FVirtual%20Machines%2Fskynet%2FOther%20Linux%202%2E6%2Ex%20kernel%2Evmx -> /var/r
un/vmware/glen/4931
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| ACL_InitCapabilities: here 1 (bug 63252)
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| changing directory to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/skynet/.
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| Config file: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/skynet/Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmx
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| Read from FIFO 32 -- connecting to serverd...
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| VMDB: Connected to serverd
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| CnxAcceptConnection: Could not receive fd on 29: invalid control message
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| Failed to get IPC connection
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| Accepted new connection at 54 for thread servercontrol (0x84db360)
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| VUINewControlConnection: before slow ACL gunk (bug 63252).
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| ACL_InitCapabilities: here 2 (bug 63252)
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| VUINewControlConnection: after slow ACL gunk (bug 63252).
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| VUI: A new VMControl client connected.
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| IPC version negotiation version: VMX returning 2.1 to servercontrol
Jan 15 10:30:37: vmx| IPC vmcontrol-temp version: VMX returning 11.4 to servercontrol that tried 11.4
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