Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error

[maxdu667]

Hello,

I freshly installed Elementary OS which is based on Ubuntu.

VMWare Workstation installation worked fine, but after creating my new virtual machine with a Win 10, the same message come to me :

Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error

I have looked a bit in the log file, found that core dump were set to zero, changed them in etc/security/, but that's all I have managed to found.

Here is my log file

Thank a lot for your help

PS: I am quit a beginner in Linux world, so explanation would be welcomed

[wila · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Welcome at the VMware community forums.

I don't think the problem is related to being a beginner linux user, instead it is a problem triggered by a specific hardware configuration.

If you look at your log file again, there is an error message just before the vmware process tries to core dump. The core dump is a reaction to the problem.

vmx| E105: PANIC: VERIFY bora/vmcore/vmx/main/timeTracker_user.c:238 bugNr=148722

If you then put the bug number into google you get:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1227

Which in return tells you to adjust a config file to specify the real frequency of your processor.

Your processor is a Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz

The linux variant of the config.ini file they talk about on windows hosts is /etc/vmware/config

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Wil

[maxdu667]

Thanks guy,

I think I really need to learn to read

The beginner thing was about to explain the use of advanced command, not about my knowledge, but thanks again !