I'm running VMware 2.0 RC1 under Microsoft Windows 2008 64-bit server on a Dell XPS with a 500Gb hard drive, 4Gb of RAM, and an Intel Q6600 quard core processor. VMware had been running very well (thanks for the improvements to the UI with the latest releases, by the way!). Recently, though, I can't get the UI to start. The Application log in Event Viewer has this error:
The VMware Host Agent service terminated with service-specific error 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF).
I found a few similiar references in the Server 2.0 RC1 community, but none of the fixes seemed to help. I think it was working fine until the last round of Microsoft patches, but I can't be sure.
I'm not having a lot of luck finding the error log(s) under Windows 2008 server. Where should I look? What other things can I check?
I've tried uninstalling and reinstallating, but it's still not working.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/help!
I just ran into this problem with VMware 2.0 RC2. After reading this post, I checked into the logs and config files and discovered a corrupted xml file named 'datastores.xml'. When I opened it, I saw a bunch of dots instead of xml-formatted text.
It was located in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Server\hostd. There was another file named "datastores.xml.default" in this directory, so I backed up the corrupt file, made a copy of datastores.xml.default and renamed it to "datastores.xml". VMware started up without a hitch
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