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karlito83
November 17th, 2008, 11:51 PM
Hi,

I recently installed 8.10 64 bit version of ubuntu and vmware server 2.0. Everything works fine until I try to start a VM then i get an error: Failed to initialize monitor device.

Can anyone help me?
karlito83
November 18th, 2008, 12:24 PM
Is anybody else having this issue? If not what did you do with your 64 bit install? Maybe I made an error along the way. I could really use someones help!
bodhi.zazen
November 18th, 2008, 04:48 PM
I have not had this problem (Running 8.10 , 64 bit, Server 2.0).

I would say the Server 2.0 does not seem a "solid" as 1.0.7. I do not know if it helps, but did you try restarting vmware ?

sudo /etc/init.d/vmware restart

Any error messages ?
karlito83
November 19th, 2008, 11:12 AM
Yes I have tried all of that. All I can think of is to do a re-install of the OS because i did choose virtualization server as an option when seting up the system and then I installed vmware, so I am hoping that there is something there that is causing my issue, so I will not check that option the second go around.
Russianspi
November 19th, 2008, 03:23 PM
Never mind, don't do that. This just hosed my system...
I was going to tell you to use tasksel to remove the Virtualization Host package set, but I ran into this REALLY NASTY BUG (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tasksel/+bug/150252) when fine tuning the instructions I gave you...
drumkilling
November 20th, 2008, 11:24 AM
I have the same problem. I'll come back in case I have a solution
[pl]ice
November 30th, 2008, 09:15 PM
any luck yet? i'm stuck too :(

should I try ver 1.x or something instead of server 2 ?

EDIT: Guys, mine actually works now ...

i don't have error with the "Failed to initialize monitor device. "

Using the VMware Server 2.0.0 build-122956 with 2.6.27-9-generic
when I reinstalled it straight(no patches for vmware) it somehow confused the admin so i couldn't log in at all. Turned out that the user was '' (empty) strange, as this didn't happen before. So i installed it again, and put my username as admin. Now i can start the virtual machine withouth that error . . .
figure that out :)
I think its just premissions to access the display