Hi folks,
I was using vmware workstation Player v 17.1 for several weeks now and it worked fine until this morning.
I moved a vm to a new location on a M2.SSD (from a regular SSD).
I opened the vm file (a WIn10 guest) on the new location in vm player but it won't launch the virtual machine.
(File -> Open a Virtual Machine (CTRL-O))
No message, no hint. the vm player just quit silently.
Is there a way to resolve that problem?
Any help is much appreciated.
HOST OS is Linux Mint v20.3
Guests: Win10
The log is indicating that the VM is failing to power on because AMD-V is not enabled in the BIOS. Could you double check that?
Some additional discoveries.
the vmware.log file in the vm's folder shows an entry saying "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory."
And this directory is really missing. I seems to be it has to be removed by "something" because it was working before.
I'm wondering whether it would help to uninstall vmplayer but leave the virtual-machine intact.
I also installed a totally new vm (Linux) from the source ISO and this vm is also not launching. It shows the same behavior as the 'moved' vm's before.
I'm quite puzzled.
Cheers
>>> "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory."
That's more of a statement, than an error. Are there any other hints in the vmware.log?
André
The log is indicating that the VM is failing to power on because AMD-V is not enabled in the BIOS. Could you double check that?
The BIOS had an option called SVM mode (CPU virtualization).
That was disabled, I changed the settings to 'enabled' and that did the trick.
The vm's are now being launched again.
Many thanks.