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Linux VMware Player: The virtual machine is busy

11-15-2010 @ 5:06AM EST
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So I installed VMware Player on my netbook forever ago with the intention of seeing if it will work. Well Saturday I was playing with it and got it to install a base install of Arch Linux fine. Unfortunately I messed up the partitions for the VM so I decided to rebuild it with a little more space on the root partition. I destroy the VM and create a new one but then I was plagued with "The virtual machine is busy" whenever I tried to open a new or old VM. So all Sunday I searched for solutions but here are the top ones I've found including the one that fixed the problem for me:

Most common solution (replaces vmware-config.pl):
Code:

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

This will re-install all of the kernel modules and config files. Unfortunately this didn't work for me. :(

Another solution that was lost among the sea of Google (credit):
Code:

/etc/init.d/vmware stop
rm -rf /var/run/vmware/*

This looks like it deletes the profiles for your linux users or something. I didn't look to much into it because it didn't work for me.

The FINAL solution! This one fixed me! (credit):
Code:

rm -rf /etc/vmware/not_configured

Removed an empty file which magically fixed my VMs. :D

YMMV and I suggest making a backup of any files before deleting them (i.e. cp /etc/vmware/not_configured /etc/vmware/not_configured.old).

linux, tutorials, vmware

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