Error while powering on: VMware Player cannot connect to the virtual machine

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Julya Levin picture Julya Levin · Mar 29, 2015 · Viewed 86.8k times · Source

Im using Windows8, the problem is while connecting to Ubuntu though VMware I receives an error that I do not have a rights. It is not my first time I use it. Don't know what gone wrong. The error I have got : Error while powering on: VMware Player cannot connect to the virtual machine. Make sure you have rights to run the program, access all directories the program uses, and access all directories for temporary files.

The VMware Authorization Service is not running.

Answer

Vincent Charles picture Vincent Charles · Jul 24, 2015

This worked for me:

  1. Open Task Manager Kill all the VMware Processes
  2. Press Win + R --> Type (Services.msc)
  3. Go to VMware Authorization service and Click START
  4. Start VMware and Power ON your Virtual Machine

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