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Bug 223833 - vmware-server freezes system when trying to power on VM from vmware-server-console
Summary: vmware-server freezes system when trying to power on VM from vmware-server-co...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High critical (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2008-05-27 12:52 UTC by kevin.riddl
Modified: 2008-05-27 15:06 UTC (History)
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VMWare Server Console UI log (ui-7016.log,6.15 KB, text/plain)
2008-05-27 13:10 UTC, kevin.riddl 		Details
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Description kevin.riddl 2008-05-27 12:52:26 UTC 
The system completely freezes when I try to start VMs that worked fine a few months ago when I used them last. In the mean time I have upgraded vmware-server and vmware-server-console to 1.0.5 and kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.24. The virtual machine tested is Windows XP Professional.
See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-661115.html for similar situations.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start vmware-server modules.
2. Launch vmware-server-console.
3. Power on a VM.

Actual Results:  
Complete freeze.
Comment 1 kevin.riddl 2008-05-27 13:10:05 UTC 
Created attachment 154463 [details]
VMWare Server Console UI log

Attaching what gets written to the UI log of VMWare Server Console before the freeze.
Comment 2 kevin.riddl 2008-05-27 13:11:39 UTC 
I tried to start the gentoo-2008.0-beta2 LiveCD ISO, which also worked fine before upgrading. The system still froze.
Comment 3 kevin.riddl 2008-05-27 15:06:02 UTC 
Well it turns out I had enabled KVM in the kernel. Recompiling the kernel without KVM fixed it.