Hi All,

I followed this howTo from SourceForge:

http://www.howtoforge.com/vmware_server_centos5.0

but I am still unable to access the VMware console...
No "VMware Server Console" in Applications --> System Tools
Tried http://localhost:8222 and https://localhost:8333 (as set up during the vmware-config).

I have tried this many times - using both the rpm & tar.gz files from VMware -
and each time I end up at the same place - VMware says it's installed correctly, but I can't access it...

Anyone have any thought's / ideas?

Thanks,

Corey

Installed Packages
kernel-PAE.i686 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 installed
kernel-PAE-devel.i686 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 installed
kernel-headers.i386 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 installed

# uname -r
2.6.18-92.1.22.el5PAE

# rpm -qa |grep kernel
kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5

Hi,

try opening a console (terminal) and typing "vmwa" and then hit TAB key twice. This should give you a list of vmware commands - one of these will open the server console, even though the icon in your menu doesn't exist. Alternatively, become root first (still in the terminal window, type 'su -', enter, provide root password).

If you can't see any vmware related commands, they are not configured in your PATH. You can find them running:

find / -type f -perm /111 -iname "*vmwa*"


cheers
m

Hi Marek - and thank you for your reply.

Here is the output when I do 'vmwa' and tab:

# vmware
vmware vmware-mount vmware-uninstall.pl vmware-vdiskmanager vmware-vimsh
vmware-config.pl vmware-ping vmware-uninstall-vix.pl vmware-vim-cmd vmware-watchdog

It auto-completed 'vmwa' to 'vmware', then outputs the list above.

I have tried to run the 'vmware' command - and it opens a new Firefox window, but I get the "Failed to Connect" page

I just noticed this when I ran 'vmware' from the console:

# vmware
which: no xdg-open in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/Corey/bin)
Launching VMware Web Access using /usr/bin/firefox

And I tried the same as root, and got this additional bit of info:
(Gecko:19184): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

I have tried to look into the vmware logs - but I'm not sure I'm finding the right ones, as the ones I have found are all empty...

Thanks again,

Corey

Hi again,

I googled for xdg-open, and found that I did not have the xdg-utils package. So I searched for and installed it, but still no go.

I still get the same "Failed to Connect" page in Firefox...

Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help troubleshoot (any additional information / command output)

Thanks so much,

Corey

Ok, so I looked into the processes running in the System Monitor - and I have vmware related processes running - I think that's good :-p

# ps -e |grep vm
20617 ? 00:00:00 vmware-authd
20879 ? 00:00:00 vmnet-bridge
20890 ? 00:00:00 vmnet-dhcpd
20907 ? 00:00:00 vmnet-dhcpd
20912 ? 00:00:00 vmnet-natd
21171 ? 00:00:00 vmware-authdlau
21179 pts/2 00:00:00 vmware-watchdog
21295 ? 00:00:00 vmnet-netifup
21331 ? 00:00:00 vmnet-netifup

And if I point my browser to http://localhost:902/ I get:

220 VMware Authentication Daemon Version 1.10: SSL Required, ServerDaemonProtocol:SOAP, MKSDisplayProtocol:VNC , VMXARGS supported

So I tried https://localhost:902/ - and it tries to load - says "Loading" on the tab & "Connected to localhost" in the statusbar, but never goes anywhere...

Not sure what else to do - so back to google

Corey

Oh ya - here is the output of ifconfig:
# /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:15:F8:C6:80
inet addr:10.0.0.50 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::222:15ff:fef8:c680/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:965061 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:524230 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1324666629 (1.2 GiB) TX bytes:42126236 (40.1 MiB)
Interrupt:225

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1587 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1587 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1959412 (1.8 MiB) TX bytes:1959412 (1.8 MiB)

vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:01
inet addr:172.16.203.1 Bcast:172.16.203.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet addr:172.16.15.1 Bcast:172.16.15.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Well - that was pretty easy - once I found a few helpful little posts

First off - I didn't realize that I had SELinux installed, so I did the:

chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/vmware/vmacore/libvmacore.so.1.0

found at
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1079020;jsessionid=BE449F075E703D6DDF5B9BAD85C4B060

and restarted vmware ( /etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart)

Pointed the browser to

localhost:8222 - And it WORKED!!!

amazing how that happens

Thanks again for everyone's time and pointers

Corey