Failed to connect pipe to vm: Unknown Error 2(0x2) VMP 7

[m4chine]

Hello,

after reinstalling VMWare Player 7 I can't start any of my old vm neither new ones. I made sure that permissions of the file/drive are set correctly and checked the Authorization-Service (it's running). Did a couple of restarts - but no improvements.

The Error I get is:

Error while powering on: VMware Player cannot connect to the virtual machine. Make sure you have rights to run the program, access all directories the program uses, and access all directories for temporary files.

Failed to connect pipe to virtual machine: Unknown error 2 (0x2).

Any clue?

Host is Windows 8 and vm are different systems (Windows, Linux,...). None of them is working.

[FimbleEnterpris]

I know this is old but it happened to me on Workstation 11 recently and Google led me here.  Here's how I resolved it:

I've run into this after messing about with vmrun.exe via batch files.  I found that the problem was multiple instances of vmware32.exe running concurrently.  Killing the processes and restarting VMWare solved it (as would a reboot of course).

Not sure if it's the same for VMWare Player or not.