Topic: cannot connect to vmware server {resolved]

[crazybob]

After upgrading to SME 7.3 today, I cannot access my vmware server. The web management interface says it is running, but I can't see it on the network, or with the vmware server consol. I have tried running vmware-config.pl, but no help. I did a little digging on the vmware site, but didn't find anything.

Checking dhcpd log files, I can see where it is assigned an IP, and I can ping the IP of the virtual machine.

Any Ideas

Thanks

Bob

[edit]

I don't know if this makes any difference, but I am running openvpn bridge mode on this server. I also noticed that when I do and ifconfig I now have a

bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
          inet addr:1.1.1.1  Bcast:1.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

That I do not remember being there before

[arne]

Don't know if the solution could be the same, but I also had the problem, I could not log in, but that was at a "pure" Centos host system. Default port did not work, I had to specify port 904 for logging in like this: 10.0.1.1:904

Anyhow, it is quite simple to do a yum install of nmap and to check the serveice and port like this: nmap localhost

[crazybob]

Problem resolved.

I had 2 reltec nics, and when I did the upgrade to 7.3, somehow the wound up bound. I was in gateway/server mode. I removed one of the nics, and re-enabled the vis onboard nice, re-configgured, and now everything is great.

Bob

[arne]

Thats a good idea, to only use one nic for the server only mode, as the nic no 2 can make things a bit messy.

I think the port 904 issue is just for the original Centos distro (because 902 is used for something else.)

[crazybob]

It turns out the problem was not vmware. Vmware pointed to to problem. The real issue is dhcpd and openvpn
I do not thing the binding of the nic should have happened though