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3 Replies Last post: May 19, 2008 11:36 AM by voodooRod

Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to

May 14, 2008 11:56 AM

voodooRod 70 posts since
Sep 17, 2007

Okay...I've seen this posted many times, and never have seen a response that addresses how to resolve it or why it happens, and I have searced posts and found it going back to 2005.

So, can anyone tell me how to resolve the problem and also what may be causing it. I am getting it after I power on a VM, and power it off. If I do this like 3-4 times in a row I get the message. Could it be a memory issue?

thanks,

Rod

Reply Re: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to May 19, 2008 8:32 AM

Tiger31 1 posts since
May 19, 2008

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem. Actually i haven't found any solution. I have contacted wmware support and i am awaiting their answer.

Normaly they must find a solution in one day.

Thank's

Tiger31

Reply Re: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to May 19, 2008 11:31 AM

continuum 12,253 posts since
Dec 18, 2003

You usually get this in cases the VM doesn't exit cleanly.
Exit Workstation and run "net start vmx86"
If that doesn't help - kill any orphaned vmware-vmx.exe processes you might have running and try the net start cmd again.

You can find out which vmware-vmx process belongs to which vmx-file by running sysinternals pipelist.exe

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description of vmx-parameters: http://sanbarrow.com/vmx.html
VMware-liveCD: http://sanbarrow.com/moa.html

Reply Re: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to May 19, 2008 11:36 AM

in response to: continuum

voodooRod 70 posts since
Sep 17, 2007

Thank you...and thank you too Tiger31.

-Rod

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