VMware issue

[Chris Malton]

Did you rebuild your initrd after installing vmware-server?

It sounds like not, so rebuild your initrd with the command

sudo update-initramfs -u

VMWare Server ought to work after reboot then.

Chris

marc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> VMware server is, for the most part, working fine. I have Windows 2000, 
> various Linux incantations and some 3rd-party VMs all running - it's a 
> marvelous thing
>
> However, whenever, I reboot, and then try to run a VM, VMware server 
> fails to load the VM with:
>
>   Unable to change virtual machine power state. The process exited with 
>   an error: End of error message.
>
> Which is rather uninformative.
>
> Now, if I:
>
>   aptitude reinstall vmware-server
>
> then things start working as normal.
>
> Can anyone help? Thanks?
>
>