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8.2

vmware guest causes system crash

Asked by seth2740 in VMware, Linux

Tags: VMware, Server, 1.0.6

I have a problem with vmware server on this system and I'm trying to see if this is a CPU or OS issue.
The system is a dell pe 6850 with 32gb ram, xeon cpu, running Red Hat EL 4 AS x64 (more details below).

I need to run 3 windows 2003 (x86) vm's on here and not getting very far.  I initially was doing a setup of the first windows system and the machine rebooted.  I looked at messages and found nothing unusual.  I ran setup again and it completed.  While that was running I was almost complete with the second windows system and the first one stopped responding.  within 10 minutes the vmware process was hung (I do have core dump), and both that and bash turned to zombies.  I had no choice but to power cycle the box.  System is running fine now but would like to know if there is a possible cpu issue here that is causing this.  I did run the check utility and told me I can't run a x64 guest, which is fine since these windows boxes are 32 bit.  I am allocating (or at least plan to once it works) 2 processors and 2gb ram for each windows guest.  Not sure if this makes any difference, but in the configuration I am specifying processorx.use = false for these.  One will have false for 0,1,2,3,4,5 to use 6 and 7.  Another will have false for 0,1,2,3,6,7 for the second, etc so as to allocate specific cores for these virtual machines.  I have also tried removing vmware and installing again with the same results.

Host OS:

Linux host.domain.com 2.6.9-78.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Jul 22 18:01:05 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 7)

Here is a portion of cpuinfo:

processor       : 7
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      :                Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 3.00GHz
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 2992.757
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 7
siblings        : 2
core id         : 7
cpu cores       : 1
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips        : 5985.15
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Here is /var/log/vmware/vmware-serverd.log

Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Log for VMware Server pid=5172 version=1.0.5 build=build-80187 option=Release.3.2.2
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Program: /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| CWD: /var/log/vmware
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Init script: /usr/lib/vmware/serverd/init.pl
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Files included by init.pl:
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module Exporter.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Exporter.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module strict.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/strict.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/FileInfo.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/FileInfo.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/Info.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/Info.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/TaskManager.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/TaskManager.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/Who.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/Who.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module overload.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/overload.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module vars.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/vars.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/Stats.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/Stats.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module Cwd.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Cwd.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/VMConfigDefaults.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/VMConfigDefaults.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/HConfig.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/VMware/HConfig.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/VMware/VmPerl/autosplit.ix -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/VMware/VmPerl/autosplit.ix
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/HConfig/CommonConstant.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/HConfig/CommonConstant.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module SelectSaver.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/SelectSaver.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module DynaLoader.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/DynaLoader.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module IO/Seekable.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/IO/Seekable.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/Query.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/Query.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/ExtHelpers.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/ExtHelpers.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/auto/POSIX/autosplit.ix -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/auto/POSIX/autosplit.ix
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module IO/File.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/IO/File.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/Control/Server.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/VMware/Control/Server.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/FileManager.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/FileManager.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/VMDeleteEdit.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/VMDeleteEdit.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/GSXHostInfo.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/GSXHostInfo.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module FileHandle.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/FileHandle.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/VMList.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/VMList.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module XML/Parser.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/XML/Parser.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/AuthPolicy.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/AuthPolicy.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module AutoLoader.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/AutoLoader.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/EventLog.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/EventLog.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/DOMAccess.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/DOMAccess.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module IO/Handle.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/IO/Handle.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/Control/Keycode.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/VMware/Control/Keycode.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module Config.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Config.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module Symbol.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Symbol.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VmPerl.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/VMware/VmPerl.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/Config.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/Config.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/Disk.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/Disk.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module MIME/Base64.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/MIME/Base64.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module XML/Parser/Expat.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/XML/Parser/Expat.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/Mac.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/Mac.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module XML/DOM.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/XML/DOM.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/Control.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/VMware/Control.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module Carp.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Carp.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module File/Copy.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/File/Copy.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/Management/Util.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/Management/Util.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/VMware/Control/autosplit.ix -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/VMware/Control/autosplit.ix
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/SecurityEdit.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/SecurityEdit.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/HConfig/Host.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/HConfig/Host.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module integer.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/integer.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/VMServerd/VMDeleteInfo.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd/VMDeleteInfo.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module File/Find.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/File/Find.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module URI/Escape.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/URI/Escape.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module POSIX.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/POSIX.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/Control/Profiler.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/VMware/Control/Profiler.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|    module VMware/Control/VM.pm -> /usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/VMware/Control/VM.pm
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Operations defined in function table:
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op CreateCOWDisk -> VMware::VMServerd::Disk::CreateCOWDisk_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op Directory_GetSpaceUsage -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::Directory_GetSpaceUsage_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op Directory_List -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::Directory_List_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op Directory_Make -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::Directory_Make_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op Directory_Remove -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::Directory_Remove_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_ChangeAttribs -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::ChangeAttribs_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_ChangeGroup -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::ChangeGroup_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_ChangeMode -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::ChangeMode_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_ChangeOwner -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::ChangeOwner_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_FileCopy -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::FileCopy_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_FileExists -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::FileExists_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_FileMakeLink -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::FileMakeLink_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_FileMove -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::FileMove_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_FileRemove -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::FileRemove_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_GetHomeDir -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::GetHomeDir_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_GetParentDir -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::GetParentDir_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_ListDir -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::ListDir_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_ListDirTree -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::ListDirTree_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_MakeDir -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::MakeDir_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op FileManager_RemoveDir -> VMware::VMServerd::FileManager::RemoveDir_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op File_Copy -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::File_Copy_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op File_Create -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::File_Create_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op File_Delete -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::File_Delete_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op File_Exists -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::File_Exists_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op File_Read -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::File_Read_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op File_ReadLastN -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::File_ReadLastN_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op GSXHostInfo_GetDiskSpace -> VMware::VMServerd::GSXHostInfo::GetDiskSpace_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op GSXHostInfo_Query -> VMware::VMServerd::GSXHostInfo::Query_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op Host_GetBridgedNet -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::Host_GetBridgedNet_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op Host_GetHostOnlyNet -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::Host_GetHostOnlyNet_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op Host_GetVirtualNet -> VMware::VMServerd::Handlers::Host_GetVirtualNet_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op Security_ActivateConfig -> VMware::VMServerd::SecurityEdit::ActivateConfig_Handler (rootonly)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op Security_CreateCertificate -> VMware::VMServerd::SecurityEdit::CreateCertificate_Handler (rootonly)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op Security_GetConfig -> VMware::VMServerd::SecurityEdit::GetConfig_Handler (rootonly)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op TaskManager_DeleteTask -> VMware::VMServerd::TaskManager::DeleteTask_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op TaskManager_StatusOfTask -> VMware::VMServerd::TaskManager::StatusOfTask_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op TaskManager_StopTask -> VMware::VMServerd::TaskManager::StopTask_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VMConfigDefaults_GetAll -> VMware::VMServerd::VMConfigDefaults::GetAll_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VMConfigDefaults_GetConfigVersion -> VMware::VMServerd::VMConfigDefaults::GetConfigVersion_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VMDeleteEdit_DeleteVM -> VMware::VMServerd::VMDeleteEdit::DeleteVM_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VMDeleteInfo_DeleteVMInfo -> VMware::VMServerd::VMDeleteInfo::DeleteVMInfo_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VMRegister -> VMware::VMServerd::VMList::Register_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VMServerd_GetConnectedVMList -> VMware::VMServerd::GetConnectedVMList_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VMServerd_GetOperationTable -> VMware::VMServerd::GetOperationTable_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VMServerd_GetProductInfo -> VMware::VMServerd::GetProductInfo_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VMServerd_GetRequestCount -> VMware::VMServerd::GetRequestCount_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VMServerd_IsAdminUser -> VMware::VMServerd::IsAdminUser_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VMUnRegister -> VMware::VMServerd::VMList::UnRegister_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VM_GetLastNEvents -> VMware::VMServerd::EventLog::VM_GetLastNEvents_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VM_INFO -> VMware::VMServerd::Info::VM_Info_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op VM_Who -> VMware::VMServerd::Who::VM_Who_Handler (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op dec -> main::decrement (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op div -> main::divide (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Op inc -> main::increment (authuser)
Aug 15 13:54:21: app|
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| LimitResources: limited address space size to 122976 kB
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| LimitResources: limited open fds to 2048
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| DB Handle: 0x894f308
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| Debug level changing: Old: 0 : New: 2
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| SP: Adding from MemPool
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| SP: Allocated a new security policy
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| SP: Ref count incremented to :1
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| SP: Ref count incremented to :2
Aug 15 13:54:21: app| SP: Ref count decremented to :1
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1 numThreadsPerCore 2.
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| HOSTINFO: This machine has 4 physical CPUS, 4 total cores, and 8 logical CPUs.
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| SP: Host ID set to : /host2/#5038f7ab07fed620/
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| SP: Registered with poll loop
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| vmsd_register: vm-list path is: /etc/vmware/vm-list
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| vmsd_register: Loading VM: /entixd/vmware/so-web/so-web.vmx
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| SP: Adding VM: /entixd/vmware/so-web/so-web.vmx, /vm/#80b3b810beac329c, 0000000, 0000000
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| SP: Removing VM: /entixd/vmware/so-web/so-web.vmx
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| SP: Adding VM: /entixd/vmware/so-web/so-web.vmx, /vm/#80b3b810beac329c, 0000001, 0000001
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| vm-list: private vm-list path is: /etc/vmware/vm-list-private
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| SP: Set private user for: /entixd/vmware/so-web/so-web.vmx to root
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| vmsd_register: Loading VM: /entixd/vmware/so-proc/so-proc.vmx
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| SP: Adding VM: /entixd/vmware/so-proc/so-proc.vmx, /vm/#17081183179efa47, 0000002, 0000002
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| SP: Removing VM: /entixd/vmware/so-proc/so-proc.vmx
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| SP: Adding VM: /entixd/vmware/so-proc/so-proc.vmx, /vm/#17081183179efa47, 0000003, 0000003
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| SP: Set private user for: /entixd/vmware/so-proc/so-proc.vmx to root
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| Set my connectionID to 10.1.6.43
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| [Netmap_OpenAlways] path: /etc/vmware/netmap.conf /build/mts/release/bora-80187/pompeii15/bora/lib/netmap/netmap.c:170
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| [Netmap_OpenAlways] path: /etc/vmware/netmap.conf exists. /build/mts/release/bora-80187/pompeii15/bora/lib/netmap/netmap.c:177
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| [Netmap_OpenAlways] path: /etc/vmware/netmap.conf exists. netmap 0x8b5f2c0. /build/mts/release/bora-80187/pompeii15/bora/lib/netmap/netmap.c:183
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| VmsdNetworkPopulate: There is nothing in netmap
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| impersonate Impersonate_Undo called when refCount == 0
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| Serverd hostname: host.domain.com
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| Setting up serverd discovery channel for vmxes
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| Successfully set up serverd discovery channel for vmxes
Aug 15 13:54:22: app| vmware-serverd entering main loop.
Aug 15 14:01:34: app| New connection on socket server-vmdb from host localhost (ip address: local) , user: root
Aug 15 14:01:34: app| SP: New user session for user: root, pos: 0
Aug 15 14:01:34: app| The vm-list file has changed! Reloading the list of registered vms
Aug 15 14:01:35: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Aug 15 14:01:35: app| SP: Retrieved username: root
Aug 15 14:05:53: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Aug 15 14:05:53: app| SP: Deleting user session: 0 username: root

Here is a portion of the vmware.log in the virtual machine directory at the time of the crash:

Aug 15 13:11:13: vcpu-0| IRQBadVector: 2
Aug 15 13:11:13: vcpu-0| LogPanicAndDump: can't get userlevel lock.
Aug 15 13:11:13: vcpu-0| MONITOR PANIC: vcpu-0:ASSERT vmcore/vmm/main/irq.c:57 bugNr=2293
Aug 15 13:11:13: vcpu-0| Core dump with build build-80187
Aug 15 13:11:13: vcpu-0| Writing monitor corefile "/entixd/vmware/so-web/vmware-core0.gz"
Aug 15 13:11:13: vcpu-0| CoreDump: dumping core with superuser privileges
Aug 15 13:11:13: vcpu-0| Beginning monitor coredump
Aug 15 13:11:14: vcpu-0| End monitor coredump
Aug 15 13:11:14: vcpu-0| Writing anonymous pages at pos: 401000
Aug 15 13:11:20: vcpu-0| Writing monitor corefile "/entixd/vmware/so-web/vmware-core1.gz"
Aug 15 13:11:20: vcpu-0| CoreDump: dumping core with superuser privileges
Aug 15 13:11:20: vcpu-0| Beginning monitor coredump
Aug 15 13:11:20: vcpu-0| End monitor coredump
Aug 15 13:11:20: vcpu-0| Writing anonymous pages at pos: 401000
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| Msg_Post: Error
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| [msg.log.monpanic] *** VMware Server internal monitor error ***
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| vcpu-0:ASSERT vmcore/vmm/main/irq.c:57 bugNr=2293
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| Please report this problem by selecting menu item Help > VMware on the Web > Request Support, or by going to the Web page "http://www.vmware.com/info?id=8&logFile=%2Fentixd%2Fvmware%2Fso%2Dweb%2Fvmware%2Elog&coreLocation=%2Fentixd%2Fvmware%2Fso%2Dweb%2Fvmware%2Dcore%5B0%2D1%5D%2Egz". Please provide us with the log file (/entixd/vmware/so-web/vmware.log) and the core file (/entixd/vmware/so-web/vmware-core[0-1].gz).
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| [msg.log.monpanic.linuxdebug] If the problem is repeatable, please set 'Logging level' to 'Debug' in the Misc panel of Virtual Machine Settings. Then reproduce the incident and file it according to the instructions.
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| [msg.log.monpanic.linux] To collect files to submit to VMware support, run vm-support.
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| [msg.log.monpanic.finish] We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| We appreciate your feedback,
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0|   -- the VMware Server team.
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| ----------------------------------------
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| POST(no connection): *** VMware Server internal monitor error ***
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| vcpu-0:ASSERT vmcore/vmm/main/irq.c:57 bugNr=2293
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| Please report this problem by selecting menu item Help > VMware on the Web > Request Support, or by going to the Web page "http://www.vmware.com/info?id=8&logFile=%2Fentixd%2Fvmware%2Fso%2Dweb%2Fvmware%2Elog&coreLocation=%2Fentixd%2Fvmware%2Fso%2Dweb%2Fvmware%2Dcore%5B0%2D1%5D%2Egz". Please provide us with the log file (/entixd/vmware/so-web/vmware.log) and the core file (/entixd/vmware/so-web/vmware-core[0-1].gz).
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| If the problem is repeatable, please set 'Logging level' to 'Debug' in the Misc panel of Virtual Machine Settings. Then reproduce the incident and file it according to the instructions.
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| To collect files to submit to VMware support, run vm-support.
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| We appreciate your feedback,
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0|   -- the VMware Server team.
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0|
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-0| Exiting vcpu-0
Aug 15 13:11:26: vmx| VTHREAD watched thread 4 "vcpu-0" died
Aug 15 13:11:26: IO#2| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-1| Writing monitor corefile "/entixd/vmware/so-web/vmware-core1.gz"
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-1| CoreDump: dumping core with superuser privileges
Aug 15 13:11:26: vcpu-1| Beginning monitor coredump
Aug 15 13:11:27: vcpu-1| End monitor coredump
Aug 15 13:11:27: vcpu-1| Writing anonymous pages at pos: 401000
Aug 15 13:11:33: vcpu-1| Exiting vcpu-1
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