VMware error when starting a VM

[trubendall]

I installed VMware Workstation 7.0.1 build 227600 on my Ubuntu 10.04 x64 (Release Candidate) workstation and everything worked great. I installed my OS (Windows XP Pro) and apps and everything worked. Now, I restarted my computer and cannot launch the XP Workstation. VMware Workstation launches, but once I try and launch my VM I get the following errors.



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

And after hitting OK I get

"Failed to initialize monitor device."

Then after hitting OK again I get

"Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"



Any help would be great.



Thanks,

[vmpho]

It looks like VMWare did not start automatically after system reboot.

I found the following command from a forum and it works but I need to re-run every time system reboot.

sudo service vmware start

Still investigate how to fix it. I run Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit production version with fresh install.

[jtliii]

Thanks. That is a useable workaround for now. I hope it gets fixed soon. Mine has been somewhat random. Sometimes the service starts on its own other times it doesn't.