Hi there. I have had a hellatious day working with VMware Server. I am running VMware-server-1.0.6-91891 on CentOS 5.3. Originally this morning, the system was running 2.0.2, but today I couldn't get into the Web UI at all. Nothing worked. We have been systematically downgrading back to 1.0.6 across the board because of poor performance from 2.0.2, and today I wasn't going to waste anymore time with this version, so I went for a downgrade as I needed to deploy 2 new VM's and without the webUI couldn't accomplish this.
I removed the 2.0.2 rpm, and wound up rm -rf /etc/vmware just to get any left over scraps out. However, the rpm install for 1.0.6 was complaining of conflicts, so in a mistaken fashion, I did a --force install on it.
After getting the kernel-devel/headers and the kernel matched up, I was able to get the 1.0.6 to install.
However, I quickly realized I couldn't open any of the previous VM's (we have 4 Windows 2003 Server VM's) into the Virtual Server Console. I found a site online that talked about editing the .vmx and the .vmdk and changing a few lines, and that did indeed work for (2) of the VM's. At some point while working on the 3rd VM, I got thrown off by the different .vmdk files and I inadvertently deleted one. I don't have a backup, but I do have a snapshot, however its from June of last year. I know this may be a long shot, but let me just post some info and see if I get lucky and can (re)create this file:
The VMX file is attached
The directory listing where that VM is found is attached.
here is the tail end of the vmware.log you see in that directory:
May 07 18:52:27: vmx| Setup symlink /var/run/vmware/%2Fvar%2Flib%2Fvmware%2FVirtual%20Machines%2Fboba%2Esalonsf%2Ecom%2Fboba%2Esalonsf%2Ecom%2Evmx -> /var/run/vmware/roo$
May 07 18:52:27: vmx| ACL_InitCapabilities: here 1 (bug 63252)
May 07 18:52:27: vmx| changing directory to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/boba.salonsf.com/.
May 07 18:52:27: vmx| Config file: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/boba.salonsf.com/boba.salonsf.com.vmx
May 07 18:52:27: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='encoding' Val='windows-1252'
May 07 18:52:35: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : "/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/boba.salonsf.com/boba.salonsf.com.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual dis$
May 07 18:52:35: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN :"/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/boba.salonsf.com/boba.salonsf.com-000001.vmdk": Failed to open parent "/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Mac$
May 07 18:52:35: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/boba.salonsf.com/boba.salonsf.com.vmdk" : failed to open (The parent of this virtual disk could n$
May 07 18:52:35: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/boba.salonsf.com/boba.salonsf.com-000001.vmdk' with flags 0x17 (The parent of this$
May 07 18:52:35: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Unrecognized ddb entry. ID='encoding' Val='windows-1252'
May 07 18:52:47: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : "boba.salonsf.com.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
May 07 18:52:47: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "boba.salonsf.com.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
May 07 18:52:47: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open 'boba.salonsf.com.vmdk' with flags 0x17 (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
May 07 18:52:47: vmx| DISK: Cannot open disk "boba.salonsf.com.vmdk": The file specified is not a virtual disk (15).
May 07 18:52:47: vmx| DISK: Cannot open disk 'boba.salonsf.com.vmdk' : The file specified is not a virtual disk.
May 07 18:52:47: vmx| DISKUTIL: GetDevVersion: couldn't open file '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/boba.salonsf.com/boba.salonsf.com-000001.vmdk' : The file specified i$
May 07 18:52:47: vmx| DISKUTIL: Could not populate version buffer.
May 07 18:52:53: vmx| CnxAcceptConnection: Could not send the magic marker on 27: Broken pipe
May 07 18:52:53: vmx| Failed to get IPC connection
May 07 18:52:53: vmx| Read from FIFO 32 -- connecting to serverd...
May 07 18:53:18: vmx| VMDB: Connected to serverd
May 07 18:53:21: vmx| CnxAcceptConnection: Could not send the magic marker on 29: Broken pipe
May 07 18:53:22: vmx| Failed to get IPC connection
May 07 18:53:22: vmx| CnxAcceptConnection: Could not send the magic marker on 30: Broken pipe
May 07 18:53:22: vmx| Failed to get IPC connection
May 07 18:53:22: vmx| CnxAcceptConnection: Could not send the magic marker on 30: Broken pipe
May 07 18:53:22: vmx| Failed to get IPC connection
May 07 18:53:22: vmx| CnxAcceptConnection: Could not send the magic marker on 30: Broken pipe
May 07 18:53:22: vmx| Failed to get IPC connection
May 07 18:53:40: vmx| Accepted new connection at 54 for thread servercontrol (0xa496360)
May 07 18:53:40: vmx| VUINewControlConnection: before slow ACL gunk (bug 63252).
May 07 18:53:40: vmx| ACL_InitCapabilities: here 2 (bug 63252)
May 07 18:53:40: vmx| VUINewControlConnection: after slow ACL gunk (bug 63252).
May 07 18:53:40: vmx| VUI: A new VMControl client connected.
May 07 18:53:40: vmx| IPC version negotiation version: VMX returning 2.1 to servercontrol
May 07 18:53:40: vmx| IPC vmcontrol-temp version: VMX returning 11.4 to servercontrol that tried 11.4
So am i just totally FUBAR here or what?
Any help is greatly appreciated