Ubuntu
vmware-player package

vmware server 100% cpu on edgy

Bug #64773 reported by Markus Kienast
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vmware-player (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

After upgrading dapper to edgy I uninstalled vmware-server to reinstall it so the necessary modules could be recompiled.

Well, did not work however. I get 100% CPU load when I try to start it.

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Paul Williams (pwill) wrote :

Confirmed here. I was just trying it out, but I later decided I didn't really need it, so I gave up.
Is there a verbose or debug option? That could he us find out what's going on.
However, vmware-server is not and Ubuntu package, so it will be more difficult to fix. Try apt-getting vmware-player.

description: updated
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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote :

Is this on the player or the server?

If the server - where did you get it from?

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Markus Kienast (elias1884) wrote :

vmware-server!
and I got if from vmware website.

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Martin Emrich (emme) wrote :

Same here. To be precise, the vmware console (the "vmware" binary) hangs, the server behind it starts (almost) without problems. I can connect to the box from another computer with vmware console, but I just get a black screen from the VMs.

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Martin Emrich (emme) wrote :

I found this forum thread:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1644983

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3:$LD_PRELOAD vmware

works for me (vmware-server 1.0.1), maybe it works for vmware-player, too.

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Stephen Chu (standby) wrote :

Verified to solve the issue.

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QuentinHartman (qhartman) wrote :

I can confirm that this apparently only affects Edgy x86. On AMD64, server-console works just fine without the LD_PRELOAD stuff. Once the 32-bit libraries are installed, of course...

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VMware Build Team (vmware-builds) wrote :

Sounds like the libdbus-1-2 problem which was resolved.

Changed in vmware-player:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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