[Leaplist] why do i have to reinstall vmware-server every time

[Sun State Martial Arts]

David Simmons wrote:
> >> I reboot, or logout of my GUI?
>
> ok....while you did give alot of info - you didn't say what's really 
> needed.
>
> Your best bet is to read through the logs....you'll find them at:
>
> /var/log/vmware

in here it is very long, but the biggest thing i am noting is it seems 
to be looking for 'vmmon' no clue what that is.

>
> probably want to look mostly at the 'vmware-serverd.log'
>
> Also, you didn't mention how you're shutting down before exiting the 
> GUI?....are you leaving the Guest OS' running?  You can check by going 
> to the command line and doing:

after reinstalling vmware-server and the VM starts the client (VM) is 
winXP Pro, thought i mentioned that oh well.  when i am done with XP i 
click start, shut down, and power off the VM, then inside VMWare control 
GUI i click, file, exit.  that is how i shut down VMWare every time.
>
> vmrun list

sudo vmrun list
Password:
Total running VMs: 0

>
> That'll tell you which Guest OS' are currently running.....before 
> rebooting the machine (Host) - you should make sure that no guests are 
> running.  Do a 'man vmrun' to get more info about this tool....it'll 
> help you start and stop Guest's without using the GUI.
>
> If you have shutdown / restarted the Host Machine while the Guests 
> were running.....you'll see a variety of *.READLOCK   and maybe some 
> *.MULTILOCK files in your Virtual Machine's directories - you'll need 
> to delete them before the guest will restart.
>
> Let me know if any of the above do the trick.
>
>  -dave
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