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#1 2013-11-24 18:55:45

icex2
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Registered: 2013-11-24
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Vmware Workstation issue: Transport (VMDB) error -14

Hey there,

just a few days ago, I upgraded the kernel of my system to 3.12.1-1-ARCH. Vmware Workstation 9.0.2 was running great before the upgrade. But now when I try to start any of my virtual machines (suspended, non suspended) I am always getting the error: Transport (VMDB) error -14: Pipe connection has been broken.

I also upgraded the vmware-modules-dkms package and reinstalled the kernel modules and made sure they are loaded. A clean install of vmware-workstation and vmware-modules-dkms didn't change anything as well.
Does anyone know what's wrong and/or what's causing that error? Please let me know if you need more information. I am grateful for any help.

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#2 2013-11-28 20:56:43

icex2
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Registered: 2013-11-24
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Re: Vmware Workstation issue: Transport (VMDB) error -14

I did some more testing and figured out that everything is fine and running again, if I run vmware-workstation as root.
But this does not solve the problem. I guess this might have to do with wrong permissions for the user?

I was not able to find any logs by vmware. Does anyone know how to make vmware output a log to console or a file? /var/logs doesn't contain anything vmware related.

Last edited by icex2 (2013-11-28 21:00:23)

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#3 2013-11-29 00:57:49

kgcf2011
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Registered: 2013-07-31
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Re: Vmware Workstation issue: Transport (VMDB) error -14

take a look at,it may help you

bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169472

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#4 2013-11-29 11:08:06

icex2
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Registered: 2013-11-24
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Re: Vmware Workstation issue: Transport (VMDB) error -14

Thanks kgcf2001. I tried the changes and when I run /etc/init.d/vmware start everything is fine except:
   Virtual ethernet                                                   failed

I still don't see how this is connected to the fact that I can run vmware as root just fine.

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