VMware Workstation 10 at startup vmmon error

Question

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?

yes: me@me-Satellite-L655:~$ ls -al /dev/vmmon crw------- 1 root root 10, 165 Sep 8 01:58 /dev/vmmon — romanbird, Sep 08 '13 at 16:01
Post from user Matg: See this question: Unable to start VMWare Workstation after upgrade to 13.04. There's a command sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all. Does this help? — Alaa Ali, Sep 13 '13 at 09:52
Sounds like the root of the problem is that the vmware monitoring service may have installed/built but isn't starting properly. No ideas on why. The answer below just patchwork fixes by installing it again. I would suspect that doesn't persist through a reboot, or you didn't rebuild the modules after a kernel upgrade. — RobotHumans, Nov 05 '14 at 00:24

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 24 '13 at 05:13

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Run this from the command line:

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

Then start the vmplayer.

answered Oct 24 '13 at 05:13

Naive

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Actually, the problem got fixed by itself. Sorry for not posting. – romanbird Oct 24 '13 at 09:14

This command not work for me, the out was:

Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor                                            failed
Virtual ethernet                                                   failed

– Bleno Silva Apr 12 '18 at 14:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 02 '16 at 21:03

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

edited Apr 02 '16 at 21:03

antivirtel

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answered Apr 02 '16 at 20:42

Nitin Mohan

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Matt Delaby · Answer 3 · 2017-12-20T22:33:52.157

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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

edited Dec 20 '17 at 22:33

answered Dec 20 '17 at 17:12

Matt Delaby

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You have a typo in your command – derHugo Dec 20 '17 at 17:36
Also what do you mean by above command? This looks rather like a comment to another answer.. at least please provide a link to the post you are referring to. – derHugo Dec 20 '17 at 23:12

VMware Workstation 10 at startup vmmon error

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