VMware Player cannot take ownership
Today I stuck with the VMware Player on my Ubuntu box. Because of the electricity cut off, my VMWare session got lost in the middle of working.
When the electricity came back, VMware was not there. It started to give error that another instance is being used but there is none at that moment.
There were two options; Take Ownership or Cancel.
Once I picked taking the ownership of the current instance I got;
"Taking ownership of this virtual machine failed. The virtual machine is in use by an application on your host computer. Configuration file: /home/mobilizer/vmware/OS12.vmx"
After taking a look at directories I found the *.lck directories under ~/vmware/ directory. After doing a simple rm -r *.lck from ~/vmware/, my VMware Player started to work again.
When the electricity came back, VMware was not there. It started to give error that another instance is being used but there is none at that moment.
There were two options; Take Ownership or Cancel.
Once I picked taking the ownership of the current instance I got;
"Taking ownership of this virtual machine failed. The virtual machine is in use by an application on your host computer. Configuration file: /home/mobilizer/vmware/OS12.vmx"
After taking a look at directories I found the *.lck directories under ~/vmware/ directory. After doing a simple rm -r *.lck from ~/vmware/, my VMware Player started to work again.
Comments
thanks
IJO
its worked for me too......
Thanks,
Nag
you are great