Hi there

I’ve downloaded the Community Edition 8.01, and opened in VMWare. This is on a server running VMWare Server 2.0 on Ubuntu, with another couple of Virtual Machines running OK.

However when I try to Start the VM I get this error :

PXE-E51: No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were received
Operating System not Found

See attached .jpg file

Any ideas for me please ? I think that I got all of the prereqs in the doco covered off…

Thanks

Welcome to the forums, sorry to hear you are having trouble.

I think the PXE line is a red herring from the OS trying to do a network boot. The more worrying one is the OS not found.

My immediate thought is that one of the virtual disks is corrupt.

First steps would be to re-extract the archive and double check to see if there are any extraction errors. Next would be to re download the VM – which I know could take a while.

I’ll see if I can dig out some check sums when I get to the office so you can cross check the extracted files.

You can get the md5sum and sha1 checksums of the archive from the download page itself. If you look under the download button there is a link to both.

So the zeroth thing to do is to checksum your download to check for corruption.

Let us know how you get on.

Thanks very much Charles

I ran the checksum on the .zip file, it seems OK, no errors extracting on the Ubuntu box. I also checked permissions and chmod 777, these are OK.

hoarkj@bsmVS1:/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Tideway_7.3$ md5sum foundation.zip.old
51481d8b0731aedd2cd37c2dfef0c326 foundation.zip.old
hoarkj@bsmVS1:/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Tideway_7.3$
hoarkj@bsmVS1:/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Tideway_7.3$ more foundation.md5
51481d8b0731aedd2cd37c2dfef0c326 *Foundation_Community_801_29333_ga.zip

To get the VM working all I have done to date is extract the files to a directory, change permissions, then try to Open the file using VMWare Server Console remotely, this is also OK. I can see the disks, memory etc that are allocated to the VM in VMWare Server Console. But then the error when trying to start…

Kingsley

Hi there Kingsley, it sounds as though the virtual machine cannot see the disks. Two things spring to mind.

Possiblity 1 is that the vmware process is running as a user that does not have write permissions to all the virtual machine files on disk. You could just try stopping the VM, and checking the file permissions – if the process is running as ‘vmware’ for instance, change to the directory containing the virtual machine directory, and run something like:
chown -R vmware:vmware Foundation_801_Community
chmod -R o+rw Foundation_801_Community
where Foundation_801_Community is the directory containing all the files.

Possibility two is that the virtualisation is somehow different on Ubuntu and the disk driver needs to be different somehow – I’ve not personally used Ubuntu but that sounds mildly unlikely.

Let us know if the permissions make any difference.

Hi Mark

Thanks for that. Interestingly when I first tried to open the VM I got the screenshot attached. So I deleted and re-added the disk through the VMWare Server Console on my laptop, which then enabled me to at least start the VM.

I’ve made myself the owner of all the directories in the tree, and checked when I start the VM that it does actually start under my user. Didn’t help unfortunately.

Thanks

Kingsley

We’ve just tried VMware Server 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 8.04, using the same VM image, and it works, so we should be able to get it going. I wonder now if it’s possible that since you had to re-add the disk, maybe the boot order has changed? That’s the only unusual event I see in the install sequence you’ve outlined.

You could check that from the console; hit CTRL/ALT/INSERT to reset the machine, then hit <escape> right at the start of the boot sequence, and you should be able to get to the boot menu – then explicitly select the disk.