VMware issue

[David Vincent]

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?
> 

Check the permissions on ~/.vmware and the files within.  Do they belong 
to you or root?  Did you install VM from the Canonical Commercial repo 
or from the source downloaded from VMWare?

-d