VMware Server Console unavailable (page not found) – VMware hostagent Service Down

I am getting following error during installation of R-12 with Linux 5 (with 2GB memory). Can you please guide me about this problem.

Thanks
Syed

HTTP
checking URL = http://machine1.localdomain:8014
RW-50015: Error: – HTTP Listener is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.

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Virtual Directory
RW-50015: Error: – Http Server Virtual Directories is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.

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Login Page
RW-50015: Error: – Login Page is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.

Syed, Installation failed at some points (check installation logs) or services did not start properly (check startup logs)

other issue I noticed with 2 GB memory is that 2 GB is not enough for R12 as DB’s SGA itself is 1GB and then PGA and other things like CM and JVM’s (third thing to try is , reduce SGA PGA and try )

Thank you so much! I was getting sick with this problem.

Cheers!

Than you very much, you have very clear information and after a couple of hours of frustration trying to solve this problem, you have a so easy solution 🙂

hi

Thanks a lot for your input.it helped a lot to come out the problems while installing!
Keep up the good works!
thanks once again! 🙂

very goo documentation, Atul.

thanks,
prakash

Check and rename this file as well..

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\datastores.xml

Após longas horas consegui resolver o problema com a ajuda das dicas dos colegas.
Simplesmente entrei no local:
C:\PROGRAMDATA\VMWARE SERVER\HOSTD
e mudei o nome dos arquivos:
– datastores
– datastores.xml.default
para
– old-datastores
– old-datastores.xml.default
Fui em serviços do windows e startei o:
VMWARE HOST AGENT

Fiz isto em um SERVER 2008 64.

Beautifully, I was with this problem for few weeks and finally I found the best solution, Thanks a lot

Thanks for pointing out the service names. Restarting them fixed the issue, it seems a different IP via DHCP confuses VMware Server as it expects the Host OS to have static I guess.

Thank you! I’ve been searching for a solution for several days, and this is the only one with the answer.

THANKS!!

Just wasted 2 hours on this issue! uninstalled vmware, redownloaded version 2.02, installed and it was still not working!!!

Then found this post and fixed it in 5 mins!

Any idea why the file gets corrupted?

bro you the best

Thanks a lot, fixed my problem!

Thanks a lot. Spent lot of time figuring what the issue maybe and stumbled on this site.You really are the best

Hello Atul,

I am having the same problem. Today morning I was able to open VMware and allow of the sudden it stopped working. Two days back I installed Loopback adapter to install Oracle 11g R2 on Windows 7. I was not able to install Oracle 11g R2 so I disabled Loopback adapter and all of the sudden VMware was not working.

When I again enable the loopback adapter it started working.

Can you explain me what exactly happened. I want to disable the loopback adapter and use the previous settings. Is it possible to do that?

Thanks

Thanks, this fix worked for me as well 🙂

I believe this is the fix you’re looking for

http://www.n2networksolutions.com/2011/02/21/vmware-server-503-service-unavailable-fix/

I have the same issue with Windows 7 x64, and fix it with this instructions:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1009150

Thanks a lot!!!

It worked for me too.

Thanks,
Kris

Hi Atul,
I have installed vmware server 2 on windows vista (64-bit) os. vmare hostd agent was working fine and when I tried last week after long time, my browser not able to connect to hostd agent.
After troubleshoooting, i found my hostd agent service is not started. I tried manually but it gives me following error.
“The VMware Host Agent service terminated with service-specific error 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF).”

I do not have datastores.xml anywhere in my c drive. Also, I do not able to find %SYSTEMROOT%\VMware\ VMware Server\ hostd\ datastores.xml file.

Please help. Thanks in advance.

I just wanted to thank you xxx !

The file “datastores.xml” is located C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Server\hostd and follow the instructions by Atul Kumar to move it.

Thanks for posting this. I was running into the same error and replacing the datastore.xml file did the trick for me. Thanks!

Jeremy

Thank you so much you have saved my time.

Thanks: it worked for me.
In event viewer it was an uncomprensible error %%-1.