VMware Server 2 error - Web service not available

[Elf-king]

OK, while I am not running Ubuntu, I ran into a similar issue and as it turned out for me the problem was in the vmware-watchdog script; it was looking for setsid tool which I didn't have on my system so it kept on dying. Installing util-linux-ng helped.

Now this shouldn't really be a problem on most ubuntu systems but, a way to trace YOUR problem may be to remove the redirection to /dev/null from /etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt script around line 905 ...

Specifically the line that says:

  $watchdog -s webAccess -u 30 -q 5 "$webAccess $webAccessOpts start" > /dev/null 2>&1 &

Should be replaced by

  $watchdog -s webAccess -u 30 -q 5 "$webAccess $webAccessOpts start" > /tmp/webaccess.log 2>&1 &

You can then examine /tmp/webaccess.log to see what's actually going on

Hope this helps.

EK

[Corsari]

Happen to me too.

Tried to re-run vmware-config.pl , no way.

The log output of the watchdog, returns a huge 100Kb file with some java warnings and errors.

Any tip?

Thank you

R.

[sbehnam73]

Hi all,

I had several issues with the VMWare Web UI and serveral browsers.
Most of the issues are caused by the browser settings.

For Firefox this fixed the problem for me:
Edit --> Preferences --> Privacy (Use custom settings for history) --> check Clear_history when Firefox closes.

For (German) IE the solution is:
Extras --> Internetoptionen --> Sicherheit --> Vertrauenswürdige Sites --> Sites ( add there the URL to the VMWare server just like https://blabla.

Thats it

before I could see the following errors in "/var/log/vmware/hostd.log"
################################################## ######
endingServerStrm: client write-completion error: SSL Exception: error:00000001:lib(0):func(0):reason(1)
Exception while processing request: SSL Exception: error:00000001:lib(0):func(0):reason(1)
An error occurred reading the SOAP request: The HTTP client closed the stream prematurely.
......
################################################## ######

Hope this helps

Saman

The VMWare Console Plug-in is incompatible with Firefox 3.6 .
VMWare is some times a p... in the a...
I personally use KVM for production use and I am very happy with it.

[speculatrix]

On the hostd.log I have this error:
[2008-10-29 17:03:10.334 'Proxysvc' 3074156880 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2008-10-29 17:03:42.846 'Proxysvc Req00011' 3074156880 warning] PendingServerStrm: client write-completion error: SSL Exception: error:00000001:lib(0):func(0):reason(1)

But I don't known if this error and the "Web access not available" are related.

enable sslv2: http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=1087

[curioshop]

enable ssl v2 in firefox's about:config page.

[sw34963]

enable ssl v2 in firefox's about:config page.

This is the only thing that worked for me, thanks Curioshop!

I spent ages looking through logs etc and reinstalling and it was mearly a setting in FF.!! Thanks

[EngineerBill]

Same problem with Firefox version 6. Typed about:config in the address bar and found security.enable_ssl2, set it to true and the problem was solved! Thanks!