I recently upgraded host to Ubuntu 9.10 with vmware server 2.0.2, i had two guest machine. One is a sme server i had several crash during a session of backup with rsync to another pc. Normal activities run regularly. The other guest is up without problem since 25 days.

I found in the log a lot o f row like these

 Dec 20 05:29:27.445: vcpu-1| VLANCE: Ethernet0 skipped 2560 time(s)
 Dec 20 05:29:27.445: vcpu-1| VLANCE: 66 12 5 8 2 3 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0
 Dec 20 05:29:27.445: vcpu-1| VLANCE: 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2452
 Dec 20 05:29:27.651: vmx| ide0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.947 seconds (ok)
 Dec 20 05:29:37.945: vmx| ide0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.033 seconds (ok)

when the vitual machine crash the log report, I paste here only some part to limit the lenght of the message

 Dec 27 01:48:05.686: Worker#2| Caught signal 6 -- tid 700
 Dec 27 01:48:05.686: Worker#2| SIGNAL: eip 0x460422 esp 0xb124c024 ebp 0xb124c03
 Dec 27 01:48:05.712: Worker#2| SymBacktrace12 00000000 eip 0x39d7ee in function clone in object /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 loaded at 0x2d1000
 Dec 27 01:48:05.719: Worker#2| Unexpected signal: 6.
 Dec 27 01:48:05.720: Worker#2| Core dump limit is 0 KB.
 Dec 27 01:48:05.762: Worker#2| Child process 10455 failed to dump core (status 0

x6).

 Dec 27 01:48:05.762: Worker#2|SymBacktrace13 00000000 eip 0x39d7ee in function clone in object /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 loaded at 0x2d1000
 Dec 27 01:48:05.779: Worker#2|Msg_Post: Error
 Dec 27 01:48:05.780: Worker#2|http://msg.log.error.unrecoverable VMware Server unrecoverable error: (Worker#2)
 Dec 27 01:48:05.780: Worker#2|Unexpected signal: 6.

I have no idea how to solve the problem with this installation, I think to dowgrade the host to a version more compatible with vmware server 2. I read a lot of post about difficult of installation I think the problem of compilation during install could be related to my problem.

Excuse me if the post isn't very clear, it's my first post here.

Any help or suggest will be appreciated.

Thanks