Re: vcpu-0| GuestMsg: Unknown protocol magic number.

[Marcelo V. <mv...@vm...>]

Hi Florian,

Florian Fuessl wrote:
> That's the respond every 30s:
> Jul 12 17:11:46.627: [vmsvc]: Rpci: Sending request='SetGuestInfo  4
> build-130226'
> Jul 12 17:11:46.629: [vmsvc]: Rpci: Sent request='SetGuestInfo  4
> build-130226', reply='Invalid guest information type.', len=31, status=0
> Jul 12 17:11:46.629: [vmsvc]: SetGuestInfo: Error sending rpc message:
> Invalid guest information type.

Without really digging in the code, it seems that an invalid RPC (for your 
version of ESX) is causing the "magic number" error to show up on the host logs; 
if other Tools features are working (for example, time synchronization) then I 
wouldn't worry about the error.

Since you said the logs just show up on the host every 30s (which is how often 
the code that logs the messages above runs), it's a good indication that other 
features seem to be working. For example, a few lines before that on the logs 
you get a successful RPC:

> Jul 12 17:11:45.329: [vmsvc]: Rpci: Sent request='info-set guestinfo.ip
> xxx.xxx.xxx.90', reply='', len=0, status=1

-- 
- Marcelo