Cannot start the VMWare host agent service

I worked on this issue for awhile with no resolution.  Initially, I had a problem running VMWare Server Home Page so I installed the VMWare Server Console and the error when trying to launch the Console VMWare Server on the same server VMWare Server is installed and connect locally:

501 command overall GLOBAL Server-vmdb targets no host agent not supported.

Came to the conclusiong that it was the result of the function of Agent Host VMware is not able to start.

Environment:

IBM BladeCenter HT chassis

IBM eServer HS21 - 8853AC1

NetXtreme Broadcom5704S

2 x Quad Core Intel Xeon E5440 2.83 GHz

Initially, I installed VMWare Server 2.0 and then upgraded to 2.0.1 to see if that would solve the issue but always without success.

Event Viewer message:

Host VMware Agent service terminated with service specific error 4294967295 (0XFFFFFFFF)

Not tried so far:

  1. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times without success

  2. Tried to manually start the VMWare host Agent

  3. Tried the upgrade to VMWARE 2.0 VMWARE 2.0.1

  4. Tried to uninstall and reinstall

  5. Tried to launch the service as ADMINISTRATOR

It is the only VMWare Server service that does not start... I Googled, and I can't find a resolution to this problem.

Post edited by: RDPetruska

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Check this solution or search the Internet: "panic error: not well formed (invalid token)" (sorry, I don't have the time to search for you now).

BTW. If IIS is installed and running, try to stop and start the vmware agent

J.

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