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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?

jobin
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romanbird
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  • Does /dev/vmmon exist? `ls -al /dev/vmmon` – Mitch Sep 08 '13 at 04:07
  • 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](http://askubuntu.com/users/192553/matg): See this question: [Unable to start VMWare Workstation after upgrade to 13.04](http://askubuntu.com/questions/286326/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
  • No. I tried that before posting. – romanbird Sep 13 '13 at 14:08
  • 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

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Run this from the command line:

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

Then start the vmplayer.

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

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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
Matt Delaby
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