Suddenly I encounter a weird problem with VMware 9 version. I install different OS for my education and testing purposed. Like MAC os, Ubuntu, CentOS, BT, WinXP, Win-server 2003. When I tried to run one of this OS a error message appear.
unable to open kernel device "\\.Global\vmx86": The system cannot find the file specified. Did you reboot after installing VMware Workstation?
Failed to initialize monitor device.
Click ok you can see this window
unable to open kernel device "\\.Global\vmx86": The system cannot find the file specified. Did you reboot after installing VMware Workstation?
Failed to initialize monitor device.
Click ok you can see this window
After googling I found one solution in developer forum but thread starter never use that method. So I tried it and here is my finding.
Go to the directory of vmware installed
(In my case I run it as Administrator)
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation> ( I've 32-bit apps on 64-bit OS, your may be different)
Run this command
vnetlib -- uninstall vmx86
reboot
Go to the same directory and check net start command - this time it should say "service name is invalid"
This command run perfect and no error message is appear, if that so then I think VMware OS must run, I tried it but, shows same error message
then run
vnetlib -- install vmx86
and reboot again
TA DA !!!!! its run.
