VMware Workstation 10 at startup vmmon error

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Run this from the command line:

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

Then start the vmplayer.

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Author by

romanbird

Updated on September 18, 2022

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romanbird over 1 year
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?
- Admin over 10 years
  
  Does /dev/vmmon exist? ls -al /dev/vmmon
- Admin over 10 years
  
  yes: me@me-Satellite-L655:~$ ls -al /dev/vmmon crw------- 1 root root 10, 165 Sep 8 01:58 /dev/vmmon
- Admin over 10 years
  
  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?
- Admin over 10 years
  
  No. I tried that before posting.
- Admin over 9 years
  
  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.
romanbird over 10 years

Actually, the problem got fixed by itself. Sorry for not posting.
derHugo over 6 years

You have a typo in your command
derHugo over 6 years

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.
Bleno Silva about 6 years

This command not work for me, the out was: Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor failed Virtual ethernet failed