VMWare Authorization Service

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When I try to run a virtual machine using VMWare player, which has worked before, I now get an error saying "Error while powering on: The VMWare Authorization Service is not running."

How do you fix this? Thanks!

[tlloyduk]

Hi All,

I had this problem during an install onto Vista for Business. I did everything you had suggested - installed as local administrator and added __vmware_user__ to the Administrators group however the problem turned out to be the Windows firewall blocking the request that the VMware Authorisation Service makes over the Internet when it starts up. Ensure you set up an Exclusion in your firewall software to allow the program to start.

Hope this helps some others,

Tim

[Deeco]

i Solved this problem by right clicking vmware workstation and selecting to run as administrator?:|

[jimleshed]

I just had this problem on an HP 6730 laptop.

Checked this forum, and tried a few of the replies with no luck.

But, found that in this case the Virtual machine would not start due to a disabled bit of HP software - HP Protect tools.

If I re-enabled HP Protect Tools to start automatically the Virtual machine starts fine. Then disabled again (start, control panel, administrative tools, services - scroll to HP Protect, double click and change to disabled) and Virtual machine starts fine...Hmmm...reboot...VM does not run. Re-enabled again and VM runs fine again. so I'm going to leave it to automatically start.

It was switched off as it keeps stopping and throwing up an error message...but I can live with that.

JLS