VMware ESXi and ESX 3.5 Update 2 - Can't start guests after 11 August 2008
There's a major bug which has affected NZ and Australian VMware users today, and is expected to hit users in the rest of the world when their clocks roll over to 12th of August 2008. It prevents any guest operating systems from starting or using VMotion on ESX and occurs in VMware's latest version ESX 3.5 update 2 (build 103908) which was released on the 27th of July 2008. The bug seems to be within the licencing system and only occurs after 11 of August 2008. When trying to start a guest operating system the alarming message "A general system error occurred: Internal Error" is displayed. Messages below are displayed in /var/log/vmware/hostd.log, and the log file for any virtual machine which is attempted to be VMotion'ed or Powered on : Aug 12 10:40:10.792: vmx http://msg.license.product.expired/ This product has expired. Aug 12 10:40:10.792: vmx Be sure that your host machine's date and time are set correctly. For now the only workaround from VMware is to a...