I ran the program “./vmware-tools-cli timesync status” found it was disabled. So I opened up terminal, “sudo su -” to give myself full admin rights and searched for the VMware tools “find / -name “VMware*” and found the cli program in “/Library/Application Support/VMware Tools/vmware-tools-cli” On reboot the guest virtual machine was still adjusting time. In VMWare Fusion I went to advanced and disabled time sync. On my iMac I have VMware Fusion installed so I installed Mac OS Sierra and installed VMware Tools so I could drag and drop files between the hots and VM. So I wanted to run some old software which wouldn’t work in 2019 and with newer Mac OS versions. This entry was posted in Linux, Troubleshooting, Uncategorized, Virtualisation and tagged Linux, Troubleshooting, Virtualisation on by justinbaldock. I hope other people who experience this error find this blog post before burning too much time. However, after rebooting, I could now start virtual machines without error! VMware Player is currently working for me. I was in the laptop UEFI/BIOS settings and thought to change “Secure Boot -> Secure Boot Enable” and set it to “Disabled” I was grasping at straws. It appeared something was wrong with VMware and the Kernal.Īfter much testing without success, I managed to get lucky. Instead I tried Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, with similar results. Then, I saw posts telling me I was using the wrong Linux. This error would make me curse for hours! I followed various guides telling me to install different packages, gcc, essentials, etc. Please make sure that the kernel module ‘vmmon’ is loaded.” “Could not open /dev/-vmmon: No such file or directory. I created a virtual machine and tried to start it. When I started VMware Player, it behaved as expected-prompting for licence agreements etc.

The installation would say it was “successful”, but there would be a bunch of errors. I installed Linux then I tried to install the latest version of VMware player 16.0.2. I am using a Dell Latitude 7480 with 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD. Recently I decided I needed to spend more time on Linux.

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