Powering on virtual machine

[tom_ozahoski]

I rebooted and when I try to power on my virtual machine (ubuntu 8.04) it just sits at 95%. Its been running fine for months now and this happened. Using VMware Server Version 2.0.0. On Vista 64bit. It just does nothing else and I have to kill it. Any ideas?

[joedymueller]

95% of what ? restore? or the work unit?

restore. press CTRL+ALT+INSERT to emulate a 3 finger salute.
work unit. start from scratch. delete the work folder and such.

[tom_ozahoski]

95% progress of powering on my virtual machine. It was shut down and when I start it up it just sits at 95%.

[Adak]

Tom, check your fahlog.txt file and see what kind of output you've got from the client.

If you have the -verbosity 9 flag as a start up option for the client, remove it, save the setting or file, and restart the client.

No errors from the VM Server ?

[tom_ozahoski]

Tom, check your fahlog.txt file and see what kind of output you've got from the client.

If you have the -verbosity 9 flag as a start up option for the client, remove it, save the setting or file, and restart the client.

No errors from the VM Server ?

I'm not getting any errors from the VM server, it just is stuck at 95% when trying to boot my VM

[Adak]

And what does the client's fahlog.txt file show?

[tom_ozahoski]

This is all I get..

[drshivas]

Strange. Can you copy the VM image to another machine and see if it will start there? That will help determine if the problem lies with the host or the guest.

FWIW, I tried VMware 2.x and went running back to 1.x. Setup was flaky and I didn't like the whole web based management interface.

[Adak]

Not much there, for sure! :(

When you do a search for fahlog.txt file, you can't find it, using the OS?

[drshivas]

Not much there, for sure! :(

When you do a search for fahlog.txt file, you can't find it, using the OS?

The guest OS isn't even started yet. It stops at 95%.

[tom_ozahoski]

Strange. Can you copy the VM image to another machine and see if it will start there? That will help determine if the problem lies with the host or the guest.

FWIW, I tried VMware 2.x and went running back to 1.x. Setup was flaky and I didn't like the whole web based management interface.

I was never happy with the VM 2.0 but I eventually got it running and its been running fine till now.:bang head

[Adak]

Thanks. I thought he meant the FAH client was stopping at 95%.

[ChasR]

Try upgrading to 2.0.1.

I've avoided v2 so far, but may have to change. Since running a recent Ubuntu upgrade, I'm having occasional problems with gaining keyboard and mouse context in the VM. Either have to keep upgrading Ubuntu and hope whatever got broken gets fixed and/or upgrade VMware, hoping for the same. I suppose I could just switch to notfreds and fix it that way.

[tom_ozahoski]

Trying 2.0.1 now...........

[tom_ozahoski]

Upgraded to 2.0.1 and no change... still stuck at 95%

[ihrsetrdr]

Strange. Can you copy the VM image to another machine and see if it will start there? That will help determine if the problem lies with the host or the guest.

FWIW, I tried VMware 2.x and went running back to 1.x. Setup was flaky and I didn't like the whole web based management interface.

Same here, was a bit frustrating- made me feel like I just didn't "get it". :confused:

@tom_ozahoski, is your VM set to boot immediately when vm-server is started, or does-it/can-you start it manually?

[tom_ozahoski]

I start it manually and it goes 20-40-60-80-95% in a matter of seconds then does nothing, I can actually get into my ubuntu across the network so i know its at least somewhat running but of course no folding happens :(

[ihrsetrdr]

I start it manually and it goes 20-40-60-80-95% in a matter of seconds then does nothing, I can actually get into my ubuntu across the network so i know its at least somewhat running but of course no folding happens :(

That's encouraging, sounds like ubuntu is alive; maybe the GUI is just crashed in the VM Server window. I had an Ubuntu VM where Gnome would suffer some kind of GUI crash on boot, it would recover and still display, though.

[thideras]

Do you have a lot of hard drive activity when it is at 95%? How long have you let it sit there? Usually it will timeout or it is restoring a snapshot.

There are also some lck files that you can remove in that folder, had my 2k3 VM do this recently; deleting the files fixed it.

[tom_ozahoski]

I let it sit there all night and theres is nearly no disk activity once it reached 95% , I'm going to try to get it working, but for now I just setup notfred's :)

[Voidn]

Try the vmware forums. There maybe logs near the vmx (vm config) and vmdk file (actual virtual disk files) that have the real error in them. Probably a bit cryptic but if you paste them in google the vmware forums usually have an answer.