Hi Christian,

Found the issue. Seems my snapshot went for a walk and thats why it wasnt
working :(

Thanks for taking the time to reply though.

Do you perhaps want installation howto's for different host OS's?
If so, I may have some time to write up a Debian install guide.

Thanks again

Cheers
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Christian Seifert <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jeremy, the state of the VM (as long as a snapshot does exist) should not
> matter.
>
> One configuration option that is incorrct in your setup is the client-path.
> It needs to be Progra~1 instead of Program Files. Although, I dont think
> this matters as the error msg would be different.
>
> Sometimes, VMware is in a state in which a revert is not possible, so a
> restart of the VMware service sometimes clears up issues.
>
> Let me know how it goes.
> Christian
>
>   On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Jeremy Du Bruyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>>   Hi all,
>>
>> My Setup:
>>
>> System specs:
>> OS: Debian (etch)
>> VMWare: VMware Server 1.0.4 build-56528
>> Capture Server: capture-server-2.1.0-300
>>
>> Revert was rebuilt from source as I recieved a "Floating Point Exception"
>> when executing the packaged one.
>>
>> Command used to invoke capture-server:
>>
>>  java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -jar
>> /home/<user>/capture-server-2.1.0-300/CaptureServer.jar -s
>> 192.168.1.80:7070 -f input_urls_example.txt
>>
>> Error received:
>>
>> Option added: server-listen-port => 7070
>> Option added: server-listen-address => 192.168.1.80
>> Option added: input_urls => input_urls_example.txt
>> CaptureServer: Listening for connections
>> Validating config.xml ...
>> config.xml successfully validated
>> Option added: capture-network-packets-benign => false
>> Option added: capture-network-packets-malicious => false
>> Option added: client-default-visit-time => 10
>> Option added: collect-modified-files => false
>> Option added: p_m => 0.019
>> Option added: send-exclusion-lists => false
>> ExclusionList: file - FileMonitor.exl: File not found
>> ExclusionList: process - ProcessMonitor.exl: File not found
>> ExclusionList: registry - RegistryMonitor.exl: File not found
>> [192.168.1.80:902] VM added
>> [May 9, 2008 3:10:53 PM-192.168.1.80:902-23764290] VMSetState:
>> WAITING_TO_BE_REVERTED
>> [May 9, 2008 3:10:53 PM-192.168.1.80:902-23764290] VMSetState: REVERTING
>> VIX Error on reverting to snapshot: The system returned an error.
>> Communication with the virtual machine may have been interrupted
>> E Disconnected
>> [May 9, 2008 3:10:55 PM 192.168.1.80:902-23764290] VMware error 255
>> [May 9, 2008 3:10:55 PM-192.168.1.80:902-23764290] VMSetState: ERROR
>>
>> AND
>>
>> ./revert 192.168.1.80 <username> <password>
>> "/var/lib/vmware/VirtualMachines/XPProSP2-1/Windows XP Professional.vmx"
>> "Administrator" "<password>" "cmd.exe" "/K C:\program
>> files\capture\captureclient.bat -s 192.168.1.80 -p 7070 -a 1 -b 2"
>> VIX Error on reverting to snapshot: The system returned an error.
>> Communication with the virtual machine may have been interrupted
>> E Disconnected
>>
>> *** username and password replaced by <username> and <password>
>> repsectively, obviously :) ***
>>
>> A tcpdump shows traffic between the vmware-authd service and
>> capture-server/revert:
>>
>> ---snip ---
>>
>> 15:10:19.596533 IP 192.168.1.80.60050 > 192.168.1.80.vmware-authd: S
>> 3987959762:3987959762(0) win 32792 <mss 16396,sackOK,timestamp 123508
>> 0,nop,wscale 7>
>> 15:10:19.630124 IP 192.168.1.80.vmware-authd > 192.168.1.80.60050: S
>> 3994695723:3994695723(0) ack 3987959763 win 32768 <mss
>> 16396,sackOK,timestamp 123508 123508,nop,wscale 7>
>> 15:10:19.630160 IP 192.168.1.80.60050 > 192.168.1.80.vmware-authd: . ack 1
>> win 257 <nop,nop,timestamp 123508 123508>
>> 15:10:19.601887 IP 192.168.1.80.vmware-authd > 192.168.1.80.60050: P
>> 1:87(86) ack 1 win 256 <nop,nop,timestamp 123509 123508>
>> 15:10:19.601935 IP 192.168.1.80.60050 > 192.168.1.80.vmware-authd: . ack
>> 87 win 257 <nop,nop,timestamp 123509 123509>
>> --- snip ---
>>
>> I am able to connect to the captures-server, via the vmware-console, both
>> from localhost and remotely using the info in config.xml:
>>
>> --- snip ---
>>
>>    <exclusion-list monitor="file" file="FileMonitor.exl" />
>>         <exclusion-list monitor="process" file="ProcessMonitor.exl" />
>>         <exclusion-list monitor="registry" file="RegistryMonitor.exl" />
>>
>>         <virtual-machine-server type="vmware-server" address="
>> 192.168.1.80" port="902"
>>                 username="<user>" password="<password>">
>>                 <virtual-machine
>> vm-path="/var/lib/vmware/VirtualMachines/XPProSP2-1/Windows XP
>> Professional.vmx"
>>                                                  client-path="C:\Program
>> Files\Capture\CaptureClient.bat"
>>                                                  username="<user>"
>>                                                  password="<password>"/>
>> -- snip ---
>>
>>  *** username and password replaced by <username> and <password>
>> repsectively, obviously :) ***
>>
>> Must the Guest OS be in an specifc state (on, suspended, off)?
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
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