I have been running VMware workstation on my Redhat 64 LINUX workstaation for a long time,
(2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
Suddenly last week it stopped working with message " Too many virtual machines are running. The maximum number of running mmachines is 64"
I am not aware of any system change.
when I perform a start of vmware services by "/etc/init.d/vmware start"
I get the status :
Virtual machine monitor [FAILED]
the rest is OK
I tried VMplayer, if it fail whth the same issue
I tried to reconfigure VMware by
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
all configuration run ok and all services start except
"Virtual machine monitor [FAILED]"
Then I tried to start KVM virtual machine, it use to run but now it fails
Error restoring domain: cannot send monitor command '{"execute"."qqmp_capabilities")': Connection reset by peer
any ideas ?
best regards
I decided to reinstall Linux, rather than using long time to debug the issue,
VMware is running fine agin om my RHEL X86_64 laptop.
Some people have suggested disabling Secure Boot.
This didn't help for me, but might help other people out there facing the same issue.
Could you describe your problem with more info, such as workstation version, host OS version, and the steps to reproduce your problem, etc?
I recently had to reinstall my system Debian unstable/sid (Kernel 5.2.9-2) and has been unable to get VMware up and running again.
When starting the application, I'm prompted with a message saying: "Before you can run VMware, several modules must be compiled and loaded into the running kernel."
I click Install and it just keeps failing on "Virtual Machine Monitor".
I'm then prompted with an error message "Unable to start services. See log file /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-23066.log for details."
With the command "$ cat vmware-23066.log | grep Failed" (to keep it short), I get these error messages:
2019-09-20T21:44:23.179+02:00| host-23066| I125: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
2019-09-20T21:44:23.179+02:00| host-23066| I125: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/home/chiya/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2019-09-20T21:44:23.179+02:00| host-23066| I125: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/home/chiya/.vmware/preferences": No such file or directory.
2019-09-20T21:44:23.365+02:00| host-23066| I125: Failed to find /lib/modules/5.2.0-2-amd64/build/include/linux/version.h
2019-09-20T21:44:23.611+02:00| host-23066| I125: Failed to find /lib/modules/5.2.0-2-amd64/build/include/linux/version.h
2019-09-20T21:44:23.799+02:00| host-23066| I125: Failed to find /lib/modules/5.2.0-2-amd64/build/include/linux/version.h
2019-09-20T21:44:23.818+02:00| host-23066| I125: Failed to find /lib/modules/5.2.0-2-amd64/build/include/linux/version.h
2019-09-20T21:44:23.824+02:00| host-23066| I125: Failed to find /lib/modules/5.2.0-2-amd64/build/include/linux/version.h
2019-09-20T21:44:23.837+02:00| host-23066| I125: Failed to find /lib/modules/5.2.0-2-amd64/build/include/linux/version.h
2019-09-20T21:44:25.853+02:00| host-23066| W115: Failed to build vmmon. Failed to execute the build command.
2019-09-20T21:44:27.685+02:00| host-23066| W115: Failed to build vmnet. Failed to execute the build command.
I have tried disabling secure boot, switching between EFI and legacy, running this command "sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all" which also failed.
I also tried 3 different VMware versions.
I'm using "VMware Player 15.0.3 build-12422535"