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dwaynemac
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 Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: [Solved] vmware : can't power on virtual machine |
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Hello.
just emerged vmware. i created a new virtual machine and when traying to set power On the followin error comes up:
| Code: | | Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to connect to peer process. |
any suggestions?
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jkomar
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Vorlon
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Also, make sure you have loaded the vmware kernel modules with "/etc/init.d/vmware start" and to configure vmware with "vmware-config.pl".
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dwaynemac
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:07 pm Post subject: nop |
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i added my user to the group ( editin '/etc/group' is all right ? ) and i ran '/etc/init.d/vmware' start but the same error keeps coming up.
couldn't find 'vmware-config.pl' |
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davidsmind
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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I've got the same problem. I've ran the config and added myself to no avail.
edit.
running as root works fine. |
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dwaynemac
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject: right |
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hadn't tried that. running like root does seem to work.
how do i add my user to vmware group then? or what other group is needed? |
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Vorlon
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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the vmware configuration program is:
/opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl
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dwaynemac
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| thxs, it's working now |
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davidsmind
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| Still no good for me. |
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davidsmind
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| I had to set read permissions for group on both vmware and vmware-vmx. |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 9:26 am Post subject: |
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| davidsmind wrote: | | I had to set read permissions for group on both vmware and vmware-vmx. |
| Code: | | chmod a+rwx /opt/vmware/bin/vmware |
| Code: | | chmod a+rwx /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware-vmx |
... that works for me.
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