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Pergunta por "dramatik2":
Am receiving the following error on all our VMWare Server systems this morning. I'm assuming its related to Microsoft Updates since its Wednesday today. Anyone else experiencing problems?
VMWare Host Agent Service stops working shortly after it is started.
The following error message is logged in the event logs:
- Log Name: Application
- Source: Application Error
- Date: 11/25/2009 7:52:28 AM
- Event ID: 1000
- Task Category: (100)
- Level: Error
- Keywords: Classic
- User: N/A
- Computer: *******
- Description:
- Faulting application vmware-hostd.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x49cc4272, faulting module MSVCR80.dll, version 8.0.50727.4016, time stamp 0x49cc5361, exception code 0x40000015, fault offset 0x000046b4, process id 0x1230, application start time 0x01ca6de724a24d6a. Event Xml:
Responder por "dramatik2":
Resolution:
Ran the following directly from the commandline:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Server\vmware-hostd.exe" -u "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\config.xml"
Noticed that it was failing on authorizing a Domain User Account.
Edited the following file removing any lines referring to the offending Domain User Account:
C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\authorization.xml
Restarted the service - it worked!
Cause:
The Domain Controllers (AD/DNS) on our network are all virtual. Its a catch 22 situation. The Domain Controllers won't start before VMWare Server can authenticate against them.
Suggestion: Make sure to have at least one Domain Controller running on a physical machine