Im having issues with loading up an ubuntu virtual machine thats in my debian server from a linux laptop running ubuntu as well with VMware workstation 16.
From my HP laptop i connected to my Servers shared folder, im able to view network shared drives and vmx files..
When i click start up this guest operating system i get an error. Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to power on'/run/user/1000/gvfs/sftp:host="ip to server", user="user"/"path to vmx file"
When i click edit virtual machine settings at the top of the window it says "Virtual machine settings (Read-only as vmrest is operating the VM) and all the settings are greyed out.
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