Vmware Server Management Service Restart Tips

Submitted by jli on Wed, 2010-06-02 21:40

I have one virtual host which I need to use VMware Server for some business reason so I downloaded the latest version and get it installed pretty easily as what I did before for quite a lot of VMware Server installations. It used to be quite stable but for some reason this version keeps crashing one of my vmware instances. The vmware logs did not give me any useful hint so I can not figure out how to fix the crashing yet. All I can do is to restart the virtual instance at this moment. Then I noticed there could be some bug in this new version of VMware Server because I can not even restart the virtual instances from time to time. Here is a small tip for restarting the virtual instances if you get into trouble.

Basically the problem is in the VMware management service. The management service normally will crash after some time. So when the virtual instance happen to crash too, you will not be able to restart it. Here is how I fixed it and guarenteed works every time for me. Some of the similar tips on the internet works randomly so you can try the steps I took if the tips from other places doesn't work for you.

service vmware-mgmt stop
netstat -napt | grep 902 , then find the pid of the process pid1
kill -9 pid1
netstat -napt | grep 8307, find the pid of the process pid2
netstat -napt | grep 8308, find the pid of the process pid3 if it exist
kill -9 pid2 pid3
vmware-authdlauncher
service vmware-mgmt start , let it start up for one or two minutes
vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate virtualinstanceid, check the state of your virtual instance
vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on virtualinstanceid , start your virutal instance

Please let me know if it doesn't work for you and how you fix it if possbile. Good luck.

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2011-11-16 05:17.

I never thought that restarting the VMware Server can be as easy as this. It worked perfectly after I did number 10. It may not work the same with the others but there are a lot of other steps available on the internet. But on my end, I'm happy with it. Thanks. bird key

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