Resuming a VMware Virtual Machine: Could Not Open /dev/vmmon
I was tweaking Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). One step I took was to clean out old entries from the GRUB menu. This involved removing some old kernels. That process may have caused a problem for VMware Workstation 7. When I tried to resume a previously suspended virtual machine, I got this error:
Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon’ is loaded.One source recommended adding some extra lines to the VMware startup script. I killed VMware and tried that. I typed “sudo gedit /etc./init.d/vmware and added those lines at the start of that file, right after the end of the introductory comments. But it didn’t work, and I wasn’t surprised; the code seemed a bit scrambled. I closed Workstation and tried “sudo vmware.” But that didn’t help either. What did finally solve the problem was a simple command: “sudo service vmware start.” Then I started VMware and was able to restore my virtual machine OK.
4 comments:
Thanks that worked for me.
HP DV7 Ubuntu 10.04 Lucyd X64 running Vmware 8
Thanks, it worked for me too. Running VMWare Workstation 8 x64 on Linux Ubuntu Server 11.10.
But is there a way to execute this command automatically when starting VMWare from the menu?
thanks.. that's so helpfullllll
i'm on lmde
thanks, so simple but so time saving ;) take care
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