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romanbird
Asked: 2013-09-08 12:46:13 +0800 CST

VMware Workstation 10 at startup vmmon error

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Until yesterday I was having Workstation 9 startup with ubuntu (just added an entry in the Startup Applications GUI). When I start my ubuntu, workstation comes up and every thing runs fine.

Then, I upgraded to Workstation 10. Every thing appears to work with no isues, EXCEPT, it will not startup my virtual machine when it is launched at startup. It shows these errors:

Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.

then,

Failed to initialize monitor device.

then,

Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error

Otherwise, if I just try to play the virtual machine again (by pressing play), it works.

Maybe it is a VMware bug.

Please, any advise?

vmware-workstation

3 Answers

  1. Run this from the command line:

     sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

    Then start the vmplayer.

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  2. The issue will be solved with this command: sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

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  3. I got "failed to get gcc information" when I tried the above command.

    I started the vmware-workstation-server in init.d and my VMs now start. I didn't need to run the above command again. 

    cd /etc/init.d/
./vmware-workstation-server start
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