Thursday, November 30, 2006

WMWare : "End of error message"

A great error message from VMWare server :


"End of error message".... very usefull !
To view the real error message, just check the /var/log/vmware/vmware-serverd.log file :

Msg_Post: Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Nov 30 12:59:53: app| Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.
Nov 30 12:59:53: app|
Nov 30 12:59:53: app| Msg_Post: Error
Nov 30 12:59:53: app| [msg.vmmonPosix.initFailed] Failed to initialize monitor device.
Nov 30 12:59:53: app| [localized] Failed to initialize monitor device.

Ooops, the VMWare service (which create /dev/vmmon and other devices) was not started :

# sudo service vmware start

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