Keith-- I am following the instructions for VMware server. And the first time I installed it, they worked. Yes, I am trying to get it up and running from the machine I installed it on. No, the software is not running this time. That's what I'm trying to do--get it running.I uninstalled VMware and then reinstalled, but the same problem.
The setup is one in which VMware uses Firefox as its starting point--only this time it doesn't work. Now I put https://127.0.0.1:8333 into Firefox and get the error message, whereas earlier, with the first installation, before things went wrong, I used to get the management window for VMware server. OK--so the address is that of my machine. (I didn't know that.) And since it used to work, I must have done something to screw it up so that now it doesn't respond. But what? (And http://127.0.0.1:8222--the other address they mention for starting it--doesn't work either. Same error message.) Hoo boy. Warner Warner White 12 Harbor Watch Road Burlington VT 05401 H: 802-863-0182 C: 802-318-0956 www.warnerwhite.org ________________________________ From: Keith MacMartin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 6:40:42 PM Subject: Re: Connection to Server Refused Hi Warner, 127.0.0.1 is also known as localhost or the loopback address. Pinging it just means that the machine is pinging itself. Unless something is really screwy with your networking configuration, that should work. Are you trying to connect to the VMware server from the same machine that you installed it on? If not then you'll need to know the name or address of the machine that VMware is installed on. Is the Vmware server software running? Keith On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Warner White <[email protected]> wrote: Vaguers-- I gotta problem. I've been trying to set up VMware Server 2. I had it running for a while and was trying unsuccessfully to get it to connect to the internet and to mount its usb ports, and then it just stopped running. I would start Firefox, enter https://127.0.0.1:8333 (which used to bring up the management interface for VMware server) and I kept getting Connection to Server Refused. I've tried the firewall possibility by runningusf allow http (and usf allow https) and that does not succeed. One of my browsers suggested that the server may not be configured to allow requests. (How do I do that? I'm not even sure what server 127.0.0.1 is. I pinged it and it responds.) Suggestions? Warner Warner White 12 Harbor Watch Road Burlington VT 05401 H: 802-863-0182 C: 802-318-0956 www.warnerwhite.org
