Hi all,

i recently installed latest version of VMWARE on my RHEL 4.
after installation it ran for the first time & got hanged so i had to restart the system, but since then whenever i m trying to start via GUI or command line its not responding.
i uninstalled it & reinstalled it a few times but stil same thing persists.

looking forward for your valuable inputs

What does "/var/log/messages" & "/var/log/vmware/vmware-serverd.log" say? What is the version of VMware?
Is it RHEL 4 AS/WS/ES and which update of RHEL 4?
How much RAM & SWAP does you system hold?

Hi,

See if this link helps you: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...vmware-414599/

If you can post the error (if any)that you are getting then it might help understanding your problem.

-Thx

its RHEL 4 EL & Update 5
Ram is 4GB & swap is 8Gb

var/log/vmware/vmware-serverd.log
displays
11:37:30: app| Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.Sep 27 11:37:30: app| ----------------------------------------
11:37:30: app| Msg_Post: Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
11:37:30: app| Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.Sep 27 11:37:30: app|
11:37:30: app| Msg_Post: Error
11:37:30: app| [msg.vmmonPosix.initFailed] Failed to initialize monitor device.
11:37:30: app| [localized] Failed to initialize monitor device.
11:37:30: app| ----------------------------------------
11:37:30: app| Msg_Post: Failed to initialize monitor device.
11:37:30: app|
11:37:33: app| CnxAcceptConnection: Could not receive fd on 16: Connection reset by peer
11:37:33: app| Failed to get IPC connection
11:42:34: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
11:42:34: app| SP: Deleting user session: 0 username: root
12:04:48: app| Signal 15 caught. Requesting shutdown.
12:04:48: app| Shutting down vmserverd (0).
12:04:53: app| AIOMGR-S : stat o=2 r=10 w=0 i=3 br=290816 bw=0
12:04:53: app| IPC_exit: disconnecting all threads
12:04:53: app| SP: Unregistered from the poll loop