figured it out! i had to recompile the revert.exe and use the appropriate dlls for the newest esxi. in my case it were the ones for vsphere4.1. seems that every vmware product uses its own vix api :( annoying!
Am 02.05.2011 13:54, schrieb Florian Girtler: > i wanna use capture hpc 2.5.1 on a vmware esxi 4 server with windows > xp based clients. i use the precompiled captureclient and compiled the > server myself. i had it working already, when i was testing it a few > months back, but i lost the client image and had to set it up from > scratch again. now it does not work anymore. the vm reverts, and if i > run the client manually it works as well, so it has nothing to do with > the vcredist. i can ping the server from the client, but after a > revert the hpc client does not start at all and after a while the > server shows the following messages: > > VIX Error on reverting to snapshot: Cannot connect to the virtual machine > E Disconnected > [https://192.168.0.60/sdk:902-1603837828] VMware error -1 > [https://192.168.0.60/sdk:902-1603837828] VMSetState: ERROR > Reverting different VM...waiting considerably > Waiting for input URLs... > [https://192.168.0.60/sdk:902-1603837828] Finished processing VM item: revert > Waiting for input URLs... > [https://192.168.0.60/sdk:902-1603837828] VM stalled, reverting VM > [https://192.168.0.60/sdk:902-1603837828] VMSetState: WAITING_TO_BE_REVERTED > [https://192.168.0.60/sdk:902-1603837828] VMSetState: REVERTING > Waiting for input URLs... > > > any ideas what i could have been doing wrong? can it have something to > do with never versions of vmware tools? > > regards, florian > > _______________________________________________ > Capture-HPC mailing list > Capture-HPC@public.honeynet.org > https://public.honeynet.org/mailman/listinfo/capture-hpc _______________________________________________ Capture-HPC mailing list Capture-HPC@public.honeynet.org https://public.honeynet.org/mailman/listinfo/capture-hpc
