I installed VMware Workstation 7.0.1 build 227600 on my Ubuntu 10.04 x64 (Release Canidate" workstation and everything worked great. I installed my OS (Windows XP Pro) and apps and everything worked. Now, I restarted my computer and cannot launch the XP Workstation. VMware Workstation launches, but once I try and launch my VM I get the following errors.
"Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module 'vmmon' is loaded."
And after hitting OK I get
"Failed to initialize monitor device."
Then after hitting OK again I get
"Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
I have the same exact issue, I am running:
Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit
vmware player 3.0.1
I think I started experiencing this issue after installing the latest kernel
any ideas ?
Hi,
I had the same problem (after I installed a bunch of software packages).
It turns out that the kvm virtual machine was installed (package qemu-kvm) :
lsmod | grep vm
vmnet 44131 3
vmci 55005 1 vsock
vmmon 74842 0
kvm_intel 46296 0
Once i removed the qemu-kvm package I was able to power on the machines.
Regards
--lior
Afifi I had the same problem try inputting either one of these lines in the terminal:-
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start
or
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware restart
Hope this helps!
Try Workstation 7.1 (works flawlessly for me on an Ubuntu 10.04 host)