Sunday, May 24, 2009

Not able to open VM using console- connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond

I renamed host which has been migrated from different location but after rename user were not able to connect to virtual machine using VC.
1. Disconnected and removed the host from Virtual Center. Restarted hostd and vpxd service.
2. I also connected the host directly using VC thinking that it might be VC issue but still it did not helped. I was getting error
“error connecting: can not connect to host x.x.x.x: a connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.”

I even rebooted host but still did not helped. Some were it was suggested to modify config file for host which worked for me

L ogin to ssh by i.e. putty, and edit the following line : /etc/vmware/config (type #nano /etc/vmware/config)

Add this following line : vmauthd.server.alwaysProxy = “TRUE” at the end of the file.
This resolved the issue

3 comments:

sentania said...

Why?

Vikash Kumar Roy said...

Not very sure Scott but after your "Why" it inspired me to find out the root cause. I will sure find it out .

Vikash Kumar Roy said...

Well this seems to be bug with VMWare please find the nice thread on VMWare
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/46632?start=10&tstart=0