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Workstation 6.0 Unable to change virtual machine power state ... posted: May 11, 2007 8:52 AM

Click to view carswell's profile Novice 6 posts since
May 11, 2007
Installed Workstation 6.0 on Debian sarge 6.0 (kernel 2.6.8-12-em64t-p4-smp). Tried to open a Windows XP Pro machine created with vmware 5.5. It is a 32-bit guest operating system. Also converted the guest to 6.0. In all cases I received the following error:

Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to connect to peer process.

Need help. Can I not run a 32-bit WinXP guest on a emt64 machine that has is running with the kernel I stated above?
Click to view KevinG's profile Guru 16,980 posts since
Jan 8, 2004
Did you install the ia32-libs package on your host?
Click to view Nikomachos's profile Lurker 1 posts since
May 12, 2007
KevinG you´re hero! This was the solution.
I had the same problem.
Click to view jsolan1's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Nov 30, 2005
Hi carswell,

did the ia32-libs fix your problem?

I am having the same problem with debian etch amd64 even after installing ia32-libs. I don't know what to do now,

thanks,
Juan.
Click to view lanceoMagnifico's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Apr 6, 2007
I know you had a 64bit kernel, but I got this error with a 32bit one. But after mucho searching, I found an answer here: http://www.barik.net/archive/2005/10/25/220041/

===

After adding yourself to the vmware group:

chmod u+s /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware-vmx

===

And now VMware workstation works for me.
Click to view vm-dusty's profile Novice 5 posts since
May 15, 2007
Same problem in Ubuntu 6.10.

However, there is no "vmware" group and vmware-vmx is already u+s. If one checks back at the link provided the user has appended saying the problem was really that he was out of disk-space.

Also, running "vmware" via sudo or as root does not alleviate the problem.
Click to view whatever_is_available's profile Lurker 2 posts since
May 15, 2007
I'm having the same problem on ubuntu 7.04 aka feisty :(
Click to view whatever_is_available's profile Lurker 2 posts since
May 15, 2007
Also, this is probably only tangentially related, but when I start vmware (as root or not), I get this error message:

/opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
Click to view ksc's profile Expert 465 posts since
Sep 21, 2005
That code is in the locale translation path (error basically says translation failed) ... Is the 32-bit iconv library correctly installed? Or perhaps an unusual locale?
Click to view guycook's profile Novice 7 posts since
May 17, 2007
The workstation 6.0 64bit on my Ubuntu 7.04 64bit worked fine after installing the 32bit libraries, installing 64bit XP guest now.

Guy Cook
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