I get the following message when attempting to start the VMWare Virtual Machine Console.
There was a problem connecting:
511 vmware-serverd service is not running.
I am running this on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, with Red Hat Linux 9 as the guest. And the guest operating system is running fine (I am SSH'd into it as we speak) However I now want to create a new Virtual machine and can't. I cannot connect to it via the remote console either due to a similar message.
There was an error connecting to the specified server:
Unexpected response from vmware-authd: 511 vmware-serverd service is not running.
I have fixed this problem while writing this message but I will post it anyway for anyone else who has the problem, this may help.
Not really sure what did it, but I executed the 2 following commands.
C:\Program Files\VMWare\VMware GSX Server\vmserverdWin32.exe
and
C:\Program Files\VMWare\VMware GSX Server\vmware-cmd -s register "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Virtual Machines\Linux\Linux.vmx
My GSX Server is working once again. Hope this helps someone.