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Authorization Service not running. posted: Jun 9, 2007 5:57 AM

faizy999

7 posts since
Jun 2, 2007

Hello guys i am my virtual machine very well using windowsxp as guest os and as well as host os. since today morning every thing is working fine but now it gives me an error when i start my vm machine it say[error] "The VMware Authorization Service is not running."

i don't have any clue what i did wrong need help.

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1. Jun 9, 2007 6:04 AM

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Ken.Cline

5,146 posts since
Jul 7, 2004

Which VMware product are you using?

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2. Jun 9, 2007 6:08 AM

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faizy999

7 posts since
Jun 2, 2007

i am using
VMware workstation Ace edition v6.0.0 build 45731

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3. Jun 10, 2007 12:07 AM

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faizy999

7 posts since
Jun 2, 2007

I am running my virtual machine very well till yesterday.now i start getting error whenever i try to power on my virtual machine i get the error[The VMware Authorization Service is not running.] and after that my virtual machine does not start i try to make a new virtual machine but the problem remain same i was unable to solve this problem please guys help i check the startup and services but there is no service called vmware authorization service. Need Help Urgently.

Guest OS :: Windows XP Pro [ updated version with all security updates]
Host OS :: Windows XP Pro [a different version with sp2]
Wmvare Workstation Ace Edition 6.0

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4. Jun 10, 2007 4:32 AM

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Ken.Cline

5,146 posts since
Jul 7, 2004

Moved to the VMware ACE Forum

Re: Authorization Service not running.

5. Jun 10, 2007 8:24 PM

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magi

2,096 posts since
Aug 8, 2003

Hi. Have you rebooted your host OS recently? The VMware Authorization Service can take several minutes to start after you reboot (Windows lets you log in and start using the machine before it's done starting services).

If you go to Computer Management, and then to the list of Services, and find VMware Authorization Service, is it listed as stopped? If you start it, does it start correctly, and are you then able to run virtual machines?

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6. Jun 29, 2007 1:55 AM

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Grycko

5 posts since
Jun 29, 2007

I had the same problem with Authorization Service wich listed above.
I try to fix it as you wrote, but when I try to start Authorization Service manually he didn't want to start! Next error occured: Windows could not start the VMware Authorization Service on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 6000002.
Could you help me?

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7. Jul 5, 2007 6:34 AM

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MarcVS

1 posts since
May 13, 2004

Same problem here.
It worked immediatley after installation. After rebooting the PC, it gives the error.
I use vMWare 6,0 on Vista...

Marc

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8. Jul 16, 2007 10:15 AM

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stevenestrada

9 posts since
Jul 11, 2007

PMFJI

If you have a fix please post it. We have the same issue.

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=93168

Thanks

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9. Aug 8, 2007 9:40 PM

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brownjosh

4 posts since
Aug 8, 2007

Hi, I had this problem - I'd been playing around with my firewall and ended up blocking the VMware Authorisation Service (not on purpose)...I changed this to unblock and restarted the service and now VMware all go again.

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10. Aug 16, 2007 3:52 AM

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peterdragon

1 posts since
Aug 16, 2007

I'm also running Windows Vista / VMware 6.0 and had this problem.
I had a popup from my firewall asking whether to allow VMWare Authorization Service to run. I said Yes, but then found the Authorization Service wasn't running.
To correct this I did Start / Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Services,
clicked on VMware Authorization Service in the list then click the Start link on the left.
Worked okay after that.

-Peter

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11. Aug 17, 2007 5:27 AM

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don Sjon

15 posts since
Aug 7, 2007

I had this problem with VMware workstation 5 and 6.
I found this thread usefull:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=183973

So, To solve this I had to put the local user __vmware_user__ in the local administrators group.

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12. Aug 17, 2007 1:38 PM

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marcusaurelius

164 posts since
Feb 3, 2005

Thanks for pointing out that other thread, don Sjon.

Nobody ever replied to my question in that thread, so I'll repeat it here (slightly abusing forum etiquette, hopefully for the greater good).

To everyone having this issue:

Did you log into the Host as a Local Administrator when first installing Workstation, rather than logging in with a Domain ID?

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13. Aug 18, 2007 5:29 AM

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don Sjon

15 posts since
Aug 7, 2007

I tried both in the past, but it didn't resolve the problem for me.

on Monday I will retry it, just to be sure.

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14. Aug 20, 2007 2:03 AM

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don Sjon

15 posts since
Aug 7, 2007

today i tried 4 installs on 4 test PC's,
2: local admin
2: domain admin

to my suprise, this time, 3 of the 4 worked, but 1 didn't.
the 1 that didn't was installed via a domain admin account.
(and it was installed via the extracted msi)

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