I followed Falko's How To to install VMware server 2 onto my Fedora 8 machine. This works without any problems at all until I restart the computer and I am unable to connect with the web browser (Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:8222). A reinstall solved the problem until the next restart. Is there anything else I should have done? or have missed. Appreciate your help Cheers John
Thanks for the reply Falko. I have tried chkconfig --list as per your post. I am using Fedora 8 with chkconfig installed but comes up with root@localhost john]# chkconfig --list bash: chkconfig: command not found [root@localhost john]# The Satus for all runlevels: Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 is running Host network detection is not running Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 is running DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 is running Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 is running NAT networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running Module vmmon loaded Module vmnet loaded Restarting the vmware service works, until computer restarted. Cheers John
Thanks Marpada. #/sbin/chkconfig --list worked and added #/sbin/chkconfig --add vmware On restart same problem. Output of chkconfig --list attached. Any further thoughts appreciated John
The chkconfig output looks ok, so VMware should start during boot. Are there any errors in your logs, or do you see any errors on your monitor when you boot the system?
The on screen error as per 1st post (Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:8222) I have check all logs (httpd and vmware) The only one that seems to change after restarting vmware service is log/vmware/hostd.log (attached). Hope this helps Thanks John
Code: [root@localhost john]# ls -la /usr/lib/vmware/settings ls: cannot access /usr/lib/vmware/settings: No such file or directory
You say that VMware doesn't work after a reboot. Can you try Code: modprobe vmmon modprobe vmnet ? Does VMware work afterwards?
Hi Falko, No Code: [root@localhost john]# modprobe vmmon bash: modprobe: command not found [root@localhost john]# modprobe vmnet bash: modprobe: command not found Thanks again for your continued help John
Code: [john@localhost ~]$ /sbin/modprobe vmmon FATAL: Module vmmon not found. [john@localhost ~]$ /sbin/modprobe vmnet FATAL: Module vmnet not found. Thanks
Code: [root@localhost john]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.26.5-28.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Sep 20 09:12:30 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@localhost john]# Cheers John
Hi Falko, I appreciate all your help. I am considering changing o/s soon to CentOS5.2 so hopefully that will solve my problem. Thanks again Cheers John