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I am having an issue with VMWare Server 2 running on a Windows SBS 2008 host.

I can browse to https://server:8333/ and if I view source I can see that the page has loaded, but the redirection and browsing directly to https://server:8333/ui/ never finishes loading - just continually tries to load the page.

I'm not sure what logs to check or where I should go from here, but I need to get more VMs running on this server - any ideas?

Cheers,

Sam

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Looks like we're just gonna roll a ESXi server, thanks for your help guys. – user36665 Jul 15 '10 at 22:53
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I was suffering the same problem for a long time and most of these hints (CTRL-R or vmware restart) worked for me for long. But some time ago i found a thread on the official vmware forum there people tracked down the problem to some SSL-protocol-wiredness between vmware-webui and current webbrowsers.

To cut things short, you must activate SSLv2 Mode on your webbrowser and maybe reload the webui via CTRL-R. You can get detailed instructions about this workaround on my Blog.

http://www.rootz.de/2010/05/vmware-2-x-kein-zugriff-auf-die-weboberflache-moglich-loading/

(its written in german but maybe the screenshots are helpful)

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Thanks for your response, however we ditched the VMware server and are now running an ESXi server. – user36665 Jul 22 '10 at 20:00
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Have seen similar behaviour on Centos 5 as well. What we do is to restart the service that listens on port 8333. This takes care of the problem.

There is also command line API for VMWare server - try command 'vmrun'

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Thanks - I had a look at vmrun and could see functions for stopping and starting VMs etc, but no sort of service that could give me access back into the Web UI. – user36665 Jul 12 '10 at 22:03
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Annoyingly the command line API doesn't work when the webservice is not running correctly.

The logs are usually in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Server and in the individual virtual machine folders. These are usually quite helpful.

I have found that a problem with vmware server or with an individual machine can stop the interface from working.

Another thing that you might want to check is that I had an SSL handshake error under firefox after installing the console plugin, it seems far happier when you use IE.

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I had a look at this but wasn't able to find anything obvious, unfortunately. – user36665 Jul 15 '10 at 22:53
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