Error while powering on: Failed to launch peer process

[drum]

after installing VMware Player 2.0.0 build-45731 my virtual machines don't start

[francois_tiers]

What's exactly the problem...

What host have you?

[drum]

w2k or xp (same problem) after trying to start any selected *.vmx image

1016 MB

Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600, Service Pack 2

[bkortleven]

I have the exact same issue/message coming up...

but tooootally different setup:

Debian Sarge (32bit), P4 2.8GHz, 2GB Ram, VMWare Player 1.0.1 build 19317

Linux Kernel running is 2.6.8

System has been working for over a year now, and all of a sudden stopped functioning.

I have over a dozen of VM's lying around (doing some tests etc), and none of them works now...

I renamed /home/bram/vmware and /home/bram/.vmware, but it doesn't solve the issue...

Weird thing is, this is a shared-diskless-setup, and my co-workers, working on the same base-system and software, don't have this issue.

Anybody any idea what the message means, and how to get past it???

Thanks

[zalan]

I ran into the same trouble. VMware Player 2.0 build 45731 just installed on Kubuntu Desktop 7.10 AMD64 Linux kernel 2.6.20-16. I installed the player from tar.gz distribution and the installation/configuration script terminated correctly, though it seems that the vmware daemons were not running at all.

On the same PC I also have Windows XP Home SP2 installed and here the player works fine.

Thanks

[KevinG]

Kubuntu Desktop 7.10 AMD64 Linux

sudo apt-get-install ia32-libs

[zalan]

This solved MY problem.

Absolutely great!

Many thanks.

BZ