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Hello All,

For the second time in the last 2 months I have had VMWare fusion stop working after a force quit.    The first time it happened the only way was able to get Fusion working again was to erase my drive and resinstall my machine from a time machine backup with a date prior to the problem.  I am hoping that someone can help me with this recurring issue. 

Here are the details for my latest.

1. I am running vmware fusion 7.1.0 on a mac book pro running Yosemite.

2. Fusion was running and has been for well over a month

3. At the time the problem occurred I was running an Ubuntu 14.02 desktop client doing android development. I had finished building an APK and used the devices menu to map my HTC Android phone (connected via USB) the the Guest.

4. Fusion froze when I tried to map the USB phone to the Guest

5. after a few minutes of beach ball I did a force quit.

6. I then relaunched Fusion and I could see the menu but no windows... After a while my stopped VMs showed up but when when I tried to start I could get a cannot connect to some vmware agent mesg (I can't remember the exact mesg).

7. I rebooted the machine.

every since then I run VMware from my account and I can see the menu. but any action that results in displaying a window (i.e. file ->open, Preferences, etc) hangs vmware and grays out the windows.  So... VMWare is running but there are no UI elements.

Here is what I have tried.

1. login to a different account and run fusion... fusion starts up with out issue.

2. Completely remove VMWare fusion from my mac using this manual procedure

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1017838

After removing /Application/VMWare Fusion.app and all the files in /Library and ~/Library with *VMware* and com.vmware*

i rebooted the machine.  I then did additional finds in ~/. and /Library for anything *vmware* and deleted all those files.

then rebooted again.

Then downloaded and opened the DMG.  When double clicking the DMG fusion installs but it never puts up any dialogs.  So... it remembered that it was broken and does not display info on my screen.

ps aux  | grep vmware

from a terminal shows that vmware is running

running vmware fusion results in the above.  No ui elements.

Switching to a new user and running vmware fusion brings up the initial wizard asking for a key.  Once the key is entered it proceeds as normal.

Working theory.

My guess is that although all the *vmware* an *VMWare* files have been removed from the system there are others files that have state info that in this case are corrupt and prevent vmware from running. 

My question is... how do I completely restore my account so that vmware thinks that I am a new user.  What other files exist that don't have the word vmware or VMWare in their name.  A file for example that stores the license key?

3. Last time this happened I spent 2 days on the phone with vmware support and they were unable to help.  So... before I erase and restore from a time machine backup I would like to know what additional files need to be deleted to return my user account to a "virgin" state as far as fusion is concerned.

Any help in this matter is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

--luis

vROps does not track changes to individual VMDKs (e.x. change rate).

You'll find that there are already some preexisting symptoms for it.. see attached. You could also build a new symptom for the specific instance of c:\.. see embedded screenshot for example.

Thank you. I'm gonna check it out.

So you suggest me to use MeasureUp ?

What about this ? http://www.pearsonitcertification.com/store/vcp5-dcv-official-certification-guide-covering-the-9780133962079

I don't know if I have right hardware to build a virtual lab. I have CPU Intel i7 Bloomfield 2.6 Ghz, RAM 6 Gbytes, and no RAID Controllers. Only two SATA Hard Drives.

hello all,

here is the log file that is generated every time I run fusion...  found in ~/Library/Logs/VMWare Fusion/vmware-vmfusion.log

notice...

2015-02-28T15:41:57.966-05:00| VMware Fusion| W110: -[PLVMStartMenuManager runStartMenuAppWithArgument:], error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The application “VMware Fusion Start Menu” could not be launched because a miscellaneous error occurred (OSStatus -10810)." UserInfo=0x600002661a00 {NSURL=file:///Applications/VMware%20Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware%20Fusion%20Start%20Menu.app/, NSLocalizedDescription=The application “VMware Fusion Start Menu” could not be launched because a miscellaneous error occurred (OSStatus -10810)., NSUnderlyingError=0x60000045cb00 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -10810.)"} while launching start menu with path: /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware Fusion Start Menu.app arg: -a

My guess is that this is what is causing issues with staring fusion.  What is interesting is that there are no google hits on this. Anyone have any ideas what this means?

2015-02-28T15:41:57.524-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Log for VMware Fusion pid=1474 version=7.1.1 build=build-2498930 option=Release

2015-02-28T15:41:57.524-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: The process is 64-bit.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.524-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8

2015-02-28T15:41:57.524-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Host is Mac OS X 10.10.2 (14C109) Darwin 14.1.0

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: VTHREAD initialize main thread 4 "VMware Fusion" pid 1474

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: UTIL: Change file descriptor limit from soft 256,hard 4294967295 to soft 8192,hard 4294967295.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_Reset:

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ----------------------------------------

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config. Using default values.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/settings": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_Reset:

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/settings": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ----------------------------------------

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/settings. Using default values.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/config": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_Reset:

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/config": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ----------------------------------------

2015-02-28T15:41:57.507-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/config. Using default values.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.508-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Users/lsoltero/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.508-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_Reset:

2015-02-28T15:41:57.508-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Users/lsoltero/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.508-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ----------------------------------------

2015-02-28T15:41:57.508-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /Users/lsoltero/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config. Using default values.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| W110: Log Facility output is directed to file: /Users/lsoltero/Library/Logs/VMware Fusion/vmware-vmfusion.log

2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: OBJLIB-LIB: Objlib initialized.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_SetLocaleEx: HostLocale=UTF-8 UserLocale=en

2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/messages/en/vmware.vmsg": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_Reset:

2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/messages/en/vmware.vmsg": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.525-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ----------------------------------------

2015-02-28T15:41:57.549-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: vmxFilePath="/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vmx"

2015-02-28T15:41:57.549-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: vmxFilePathDebug="/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vmx-debug"

2015-02-28T15:41:57.549-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: vmxFilePathStats="/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vmx-stats"

2015-02-28T15:41:57.576-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: HOSTDEV-MAC:  HostDeviceInfo_FindHostSoundDevices: Found default sound devices [AppleUSBAudioEngine:Logitech Inc:Logitech H820e:0000000000:2,1|AppleUSBAudioEngine:Logitech Inc:Logitech H820e:0000000000:2,1].

2015-02-28T15:41:57.580-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Warning: Could not open /proc/net/dev

2015-02-28T15:41:57.580-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Warning: SGHostEnumerate not yet implemented

2015-02-28T15:41:57.580-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: SMBIOS: can't open /dev/mem: Could not find the file

2015-02-28T15:41:57.580-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: VmhsHostInfoPopulateSystem:  Could not get information from smbios to populate VMDB.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.652-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Foundry Init: setting up global state (1 poll threads, 0 worker threads).

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogLevel = 0

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixApiTraceLevel = 0

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixDebugPanicOnVixAssert = 0

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogRefcountOnFinalRelease = 0

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: asyncOpWarningThreshold = 1000000

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: enableSyncOpSelection = FALSE

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: enableExternalThreadInterface = TRUE

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Vix_InitializeGlobalState: enableVigor = FALSE

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_SetLocaleEx: HostLocale=UTF-8 UserLocale=en

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/messages/en/vmware.vmsg": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: Msg_Reset:

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/messages/en/vmware.vmsg": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ----------------------------------------

2015-02-28T15:41:57.667-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: VixHost_ConnectEx: version -1, hostType 3, hostName (null), hostPort 0, options 8707

2015-02-28T15:41:57.755-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: ReadProxyFile: Failed to read file: /etc/vmware/hostd/proxy.xml

2015-02-28T15:41:57.756-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: SOCKET creating new socket, connecting to /var/run/vmware/usbarbitrator-socket

2015-02-28T15:41:57.756-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: REM-USB: Protocol version min:15 current:16. hostId:52 91 02 ff d3 16 08 e0-07 8b 53 eb b1 e3 40 e8

2015-02-28T15:41:57.756-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: REM-USB: Initializing 'Generic' backend

2015-02-28T15:41:57.760-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Users/lsoltero/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences-private": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.760-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: CDS: Initializing a CDS updater client 1.0 for product fusion, version 7.1.1 (workspace /var/folders/68/n9tv8l_n4hxc2s73bkwhkmyh0000gn/T/)

2015-02-28T15:41:57.761-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: VMServiceUser opening service (async): /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/services/Open VMware Fusion Services

2015-02-28T15:41:57.762-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Users/lsoltero/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmInventory": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.762-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.886-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/licenses/urls": No such file or directory.

2015-02-28T15:41:57.966-05:00| VMware Fusion| W110: -[PLVMStartMenuManager runStartMenuAppWithArgument:], error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The application “VMware Fusion Start Menu” could not be launched because a miscellaneous error occurred (OSStatus -10810)." UserInfo=0x600002661a00 {NSURL=file:///Applications/VMware%20Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware%20Fusion%20Start%20Menu.app/, NSLocalizedDescription=The application “VMware Fusion Start Menu” could not be launched because a miscellaneous error occurred (OSStatus -10810)., NSUnderlyingError=0x60000045cb00 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -10810.)"} while launching start menu with path: /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware Fusion Start Menu.app arg: -a

2015-02-28T15:41:57.979-05:00| VMware Fusion| I120: VMServiceUser successfully opened service: /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/services/Open VMware Fusion Services

White, Quick question, your RAID. What are you using? Windows Softraid or RST? (Is RST throwing errors in the Eventlog?)

All

I'm trying to setup a simple system on VMware workstation and for some reason it's not playing ball

The setup: 2 x ESX 5.5 or 6.0 hosts each with 4 NICs and I want to setup Openfiler or FreeNAS to provide shared storage via iSCSI

I want to setup two NICs for Management and VMs and two NICs dedicated for iSCSI traffic

Most of the simple setups out there put iSCSI traffic on the Management network and one NIC for FreeNAS or Openfiler, which is hardly realistic or desirable

However when I setup on VMware workstation, despite setting up (I think) correctly with the iSCSI traffic to go through two different NICs from the rest, the ESXi hosts refuse to see the LUNs presented by either NAS software. If I put just 1 NIC for the NAS on the Management network, it presents the LUN for ESXi. If I setup to NICs which don't have the Management PG on it, I get nothing.

Has anyone managed to get ESXi 5.5 or 6.0 to connect to an iSCSI LUN on NICs which are on an isolated (Host-only) network on VMware workstation 10?

i'm looking for whatever xml file shows all the memory attributes like mem|active_average"     Do you know which one?

Thanks,

$Cluster = "MyCluster"

$Datastores = "MyDS"

$VMFolder = "MyFolder"

$ESXHost = Get-Cluster $Cluster | Get-VMHost | select -First 1

foreach($Datastore in Get-Datastore $Datastores) {

  # Collect .vmx paths of registered VMs on the datastore

  $registered = @{}

  Get-VM -Datastore $Datastore | %{$_.Extensiondata.LayoutEx.File | where {$_.Name -like "*.vmx"} | %{$registered.Add($_.Name,$true)}}

   # Set up Search for .VMX Files in Datastore

  New-PSDrive -Name TgtDS -Location $Datastore -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root '\' | Out-Null

  $unregistered = @(Get-ChildItem -Path TgtDS: -Recurse | `

    where {$_.FolderPath -notmatch ".snapshot" -and $_.Name -like "*.vmx" -and !$registered.ContainsKey($_.Name)})

  Remove-PSDrive -Name TgtDS

   #Register all .vmx Files as VMs on the datastore

   foreach($VMXFile in $unregistered) {

      New-VM -VMFilePath $VMXFile.DatastoreFullPath -VMHost $ESXHost -Location $VMFolder -RunAsync

   }

}

==========================================================================

Can we do this wrt DS cluster against single DS ?

Also I am not clear why we need section "#Register all .vmx Files as VMs on the datastore", all we need is vms or vmx file where VM is remove from incentory but was not remove from disk

Also I am not clean why we want to do "$ESXHost = Get-Cluster xxx | Get-VMHost | select -First 1"

I guess below code is enough , which will go tho all DS cluster to find vm which are un-register ... kindly suggest

==========================================================================

foreach($Datastore in (Get-Datastorecluster xxxx)) {

# Collect .vmx paths of registered VMs on the datastore

  $registered = @{}

  Get-VM -Datastore $Datastore | %{$_.Extensiondata.LayoutEx.File | where {$_.Name -like "*.vmx"} | %{$registered.Add($_.Name,$true)}}

# Set up Search for .VMX Files in Datastore

  New-PSDrive -Name TgtDS -Location $Datastore -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root '\' | Out-Null

  $unregistered = @(Get-ChildItem -Path TgtDS: -Recurse | `

    where {$_.FolderPath -notmatch ".snapshot" -and $_.Name -like "*.vmx" -and !$registered.ContainsKey($_.Name)}) | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture c:\vm-unregister.csv

  Remove-PSDrive -Name TgtDS

}

thank you very much .

I think the easiest way to figure this out would be if you could provide a support information bundle.  From Fusion's Help menu, choose Collect Support Information, and it'll prompt for your password and will create a file on your Desktop with a collection of useful logfiles and diagnostic information.  Attach that file to a post here and I'll dig into it.

Thanks,

--

Darius

Support Information is attached. Thanks for all your help Darius.

In Windows driver debugging, it is required to test power state transitions (Running/Sleep/Hibernate). But after processing a power state transition, VMware saves VM state and terminates a VM process (vmware-vmx.exe). On resume, VMware starts a new VM process so a kernel-mode debugger (I use WinDbg) must re-connect to it to retrieve debug messages. Since a pipe emulating a VM's COM port is deleted on VM termination and created anew on VM startup, I have to manually force the debugger to re-connect. But unlike a normal VM startup that can be delayed with bios.bootDelay, there is no way to delay VM startup from sleep/hibernate state. So the debugger usually does not properly connect at a first time, I have to re-connect it two or even three times and some debug messages are lost.

Is there a way to place a VM to sleep/hibernate state without VM process temination, and restore to working state without process relaunch?

I use Workstation 8.0.6 but could upgrade to a newer version if it has the required feature.

Hi,

I have ran into many occurrences over time where ESXi hosts throw up an alarm stating they lost connectivity to the datastore backing the boot filesystem if they were booted using iSCSI.  I have experienced it on any array that supports iSCSI boot and the only fix is to restart the management agent on the hosts.This usually happens during a storage controller failover.  The storage controller failover process usually takes anywhere from 15-30 seconds.

I was doing some research and found a software iSCSI adapter setting named Recovery Timeout that, according to Cormac Hogan, is the number of seconds before an active path is marked dead.  It is currently set to 10 seconds.  I was wondering if I changed the setting to something like 60 seconds if there would be any adverse affects anyone could think of.  My thought is within 60 seconds the controller failover process should have completed and in the rare case that both controllers are dead it wouldn't matter if 60 seconds went by before the hosts started freaking out.

Thoughts?

Have you engaged directly with the Software vendor and Nvidia. I know that Nvidia should be more than happy to aid you with the POC. 

i am upgrading vsphere 4.1 to 5.1 and during the sso installation, its stuck and taking very long time.

it says configuring vcenter single single on. please wait a few mintutes. its been over 30mins or more.

any idea?

on the databse side, I see 85 tables created on the sso db

If you only need a report, you can do like this (I made some changes to your script).

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