[clug-talk] vmware bridged network woes (resend)
Greg King
wgking at shaw.ca
Fri Apr 2 13:15:55 PDT 2010
I recently applied updates to my Ubuntu 9.04 system and as usual had to reconfigure VMware. The /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script completed normally (after some dicking around), and I can log into the vmware console and start VMs, but they all have difficulty using the bridged network (which worked before the updates). There are all set to "connect at power on" but the guest OS says no link, and vmware console has this event "Message from HAL: The network bridge on device vmnet0 is not running. The virtual machine will not be able to communicate with the host or with other machines on your network. Failed to connect virtual device Ethernet1. " This message is in contradiction to the diagnostic message below that "Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 is running".
I've googled around and don't see an obvious solution. Everything appears to be working normally as the following diagnostics show:
If anyone has seen this before or better yet has a resolution, I'd be very thankful.
greg at HAL:/etc/vmware/hostd$ sudo service vmware restart
Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines done
Stopping VMware management services:
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
VMware Server Host Agent done
Stopping VMware services:
VMware Authentication Daemon done
VM communication interface socket family: done
Virtual machine communication interface done
Virtual machine monitor done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Host network detection done
Virtual ethernet done
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual machine communication interface done
VM communication interface socket family: done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
VMware Server Authentication Daemon (background) done
Shared Memory Available done
Starting VMware management services:
VMware Server Host Agent (background) done
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
Starting VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines done
greg at HAL:/etc/vmware/hostd$ lsmod|grep vm
vmnet 54092 0
vmci 65192 1 vsock
vmmon 85328 0
greg at HAL:/etc/vmware/hostd$ sudo service vmware status
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 is running
Host network detection is not running
Module vmmon loaded
Module vmnet loaded
greg at HAL:/etc/vmware/hostd$ ps -ef|grep vmware
root 5763 1 0 03:33 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/vmware-watchdog -s webAccess -u 30 -q 5 /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/webAccess -client -Xmx64m -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
root 5912 1 0 03:33 ? 00:00:25 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd -a -d -u /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml
greg 7080 1 0 03:34 ? 00:00:01 /home/greg/.mozilla/firefox/hg5it2iv.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC at vmware.com/plugins/bin/../bin/vmware-vmrc-daemon
root 23133 5763 6 12:47 ? 00:00:04 /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/webAccess -client -Xmx64m -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
root 23627 1 0 12:47 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vmware-authdlauncher
greg 23972 3541 0 12:48 pts/0 00:00:00 grep vmware
greg at HAL:/etc/vmware/hostd$
greg at HAL:/etc/vmware/hostd$ ls /dev
adsp initctl parport0 ram9 stdout tty27 tty47 ttyS0 usbdev8.1_ep81 vcsa3
agpgart input pktcdvd random tty tty28 tty48 ttyS1 usbmon0 vcsa4
audio kmem port rtc tty0 tty29 tty49 ttyS2 usbmon1 vcsa5
block kmsg ppp rtc0 tty1 tty3 tty5 ttyS3 usbmon2 vcsa6
bus log psaux scd0 tty10 tty30 tty50 urandom usbmon3 vcsa7
cdrom loop0 ptmx sda tty11 tty31 tty51 usbdev1.1_ep00 usbmon4 vcsa8
cdrw loop1 pts sda1 tty12 tty32 tty52 usbdev1.1_ep81 usbmon5 vmci
char loop2 ram0 sda2 tty13 tty33 tty53 usbdev1.2_ep00 usbmon6 vmmon
console loop3 ram1 sda3 tty14 tty34 tty54 usbdev1.2_ep81 usbmon7 vmnet0
core loop4 ram10 sda4 tty15 tty35 tty55 usbdev2.1_ep00 usbmon8 vmnet1
cpu_dma_latency loop5 ram11 sda5 tty16 tty36 tty56 usbdev2.1_ep81 vcs vmnet2
disk loop6 ram12 sequencer tty17 tty37 tty57 usbdev3.1_ep00 vcs1 vmnet3
dri loop7 ram13 sequencer2 tty18 tty38 tty58 usbdev3.1_ep81 vcs2 vmnet4
dsp lp0 ram14 sg0 tty19 tty39 tty59 usbdev4.1_ep00 vcs3 vmnet5
dvd mapper ram15 sg1 tty2 tty4 tty6 usbdev4.1_ep81 vcs4 vmnet6
dvdrw mem ram2 shm tty20 tty40 tty60 usbdev5.1_ep00 vcs5 vmnet7
ecryptfs mixer ram3 snapshot tty21 tty41 tty61 usbdev5.1_ep81 vcs6 vmnet8
fd net ram4 snd tty22 tty42 tty62 usbdev6.1_ep00 vcs7 vmnet9
fd0 network_latency ram5 sndstat tty23 tty43 tty63 usbdev6.1_ep81 vcs8 vsock
full network_throughput ram6 sr0 tty24 tty44 tty7 usbdev7.1_ep00 vcsa watchdog
fuse null ram7 stderr tty25 tty45 tty8 usbdev7.1_ep81 vcsa1 xconsole
hpet oldmem ram8 stdin tty26 tty46 tty9 usbdev8.1_ep00 vcsa2 zero
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