Unable to start guest VM on Ubuntu 8.04.1 x64

[SunF1re]

Hi,

I just installed the bundle installer VMware-Workstation-6.5.0-118166.x86_64.bundle on my Ubuntu 8.04.1 x64 system. Everything looks fine and even the kernel modules seemed to load correctly:

/dev/vmmon[5807]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165

/dev/vmmon[5807]: Initial HV check: anyNotCapable=0 anyUnlocked=0 anyEnabled=1 anyDisabled=0

/dev/vmmon[5807]: HV check: anyNotCapable=0 anyUnlocked=0 anyEnabled=1 anyDisabled=0

/dev/vmmon[5807]: Module vmmon: initialized

/dev/vmci[5821]: VMCI: Driver initialized.

/dev/vmci[5821]: Module vmci: registered with major=10 minor=62

/dev/vmci[5821]: Module vmci: initialized

/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 5861 (vmnet-bridge)

/dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.

/dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened

bridge-eth1: up

bridge-eth1: attached

I can create VM's and everything looks good until I try to start them up. I get this error:

Unable to change virtual machine power state: VMware Workstation cannot connect to the virtual machine. Make sure you have rights to run the program and to access all directories it uses and rights to access all directories for temporary files..

Here is what I see in the logfile

Okt 19 12:58:28.641: vmui| VMHSVMCbPower: Setting state of VM /vm/#931ca2256e2db321/ to powerOn with option hard

Okt 19 12:58:28.641: vmui| VMHS: Exec()'ing /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx, /home/tk/vmware/Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Professional.vmx

Okt 19 12:58:28.674: vmui| VMHSHostConnectVMX: Failed to connect to pipe vmx931ca2256e2db321: No such file or directory

I was googleing for the error but the only thing coming up was that the 32bit emul libs have not been installed. But on my box the 32bit libs are all present so I have no idea why this happens.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

[SunF1re]

Here is some more output from when I start vmware from the cli:

testuser@arrow:~$ vmware

Logging to /tmp/vmware-tk/setup-13113.log

filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/misc/vmmon.ko

license: GPL v2

description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.

author: VMware, Inc.

srcversion: 96CBF0250D0FB3F01BFBFFC

depends:

vermagic: 2.6.24-21-generic SMP mod_unload

filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/misc/vmnet.ko

license: GPL v2

description: VMware Virtual Networking Driver.

author: VMware, Inc.

srcversion: 6B003CA83CD311898EEFEFB

depends:

vermagic: 2.6.24-21-generic SMP mod_unload

filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/misc/vmblock.ko

version: 1.1.2.0

license: GPL v2

description: VMware Blocking File System

author: VMware, Inc.

srcversion: 768B08090715A2D8C721BF3

depends:

vermagic: 2.6.24-21-generic SMP mod_unload

parm: root:The directory the file system redirects to. (charp)

filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/misc/vmci.ko

license: GPL v2

description: VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI).

author: VMware, Inc.

srcversion: F400DF976CFE388EBC1A0A2

depends:

vermagic: 2.6.24-21-generic SMP mod_unload

filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/misc/vsock.ko

license: GPL v2

version: 1.0.0.0

description: VMware Virtual Socket Family

author: VMware, Inc.

srcversion: EC2E0BE1F6FB039D1109ADB

depends: vmci

vermagic: 2.6.24-21-generic SMP mod_unload

filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/misc/vmmon.ko

license: GPL v2

description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.

author: VMware, Inc.

srcversion: 96CBF0250D0FB3F01BFBFFC

depends:

vermagic: 2.6.24-21-generic SMP mod_unload

However when I try to start the VM I get this on the cli:

VMware Workstation Error:

VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system administrator must find and run "vmware-config.pl". For more information, please see the VMware Workstation documentation.

Press "Enter" to continue...

I searched for vmware-config.pl but there is no such file on my system.

[SunF1re]

I also tried the whole thing as root now and I get the same stupid "... Make sure you have rights ..." BS message when I try to power on the VM...

[nahoj84]

Hi

I had the same problem on my gentoo amd64 box when upgrading from WS6 to WS6.5. It took me some time and googleing to crack this one, but if you run in to this, note the line that says you should run vmware-config.pl and think twice. This file is no longer needed, so the whole thing is some legacy dead code bug thing... Anyways, you can get rid of this by removing the file /etc/vmware/not_configured

As root (or do it the sudo way if you like), run

rm /etc/vmware/not_configured

To be sure, also do

/etc/init.d/vmware restart

Now you can run workstation without problems.

[vikenty]

nahoj84, thanks a lot