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mrw01f

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Registered: 2020-04-25

Posts: 28

[solved]Unable to change virtual machine power state Failed /dev/vmc

I am trying to create manjaro vm everytime i power on the machine i get this error

Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to open device "/dev/vmci": No such file or directory
Please make sure that the kernel module 'vmci' is loaded.
Module 'DevicePowerOn' power on failed.
Failed to start the virtual machine.

in solution of this problem arch wiki said to compile with

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

but in the end of compilation i get this result

Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                                      done
   Virtual machine communication interface                           failed
   VM communication interface socket family                        done
   Blocking file system                                                            done
   Virtual ethernet                                                                   done
   VMware Authentication Daemon                                        done
Unable to start services

and the problem remains..

i have kernel 5.6.7-arch1-1 & vmware version 15.5.2 build-15785246

Last edited by mrw01f (2020-05-01 15:36:07)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,077

Re: [solved]Unable to change virtual machine power state Failed /dev/vmc

Please use code tags not quote tags for commands and their outputs.
Can you load the modules manually?

# modprobe -a vmw_vmci vmmon

mrw01f

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Registered: 2020-04-25

Posts: 28

Re: [solved]Unable to change virtual machine power state Failed /dev/vmc

Please use code tags not quote tags for commands and their outputs.
Can you load the modules manually?

# modprobe -a vmw_vmci vmmon

yes manually loading then it's working but not loading at bootup. i have created all necessary files as shoen in arch wiki

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [solved]Unable to change virtual machine power state Failed /dev/vmc

As a workaround you can use Kernel_module#Automatic_module_loading_with_systemd to load the modules on boot.
Perhaps that particular section of that wiki page is no longer accurate?

mrw01f

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Registered: 2020-04-25

Posts: 28

Re: [solved]Unable to change virtual machine power state Failed /dev/vmc

[SOLVED]

created a file

/etc/modules-load.d/vmware.conf

with content

vmw_vmci
vmmon

and reboot

Trilby

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Re: [solved]Unable to change virtual machine power state Failed /dev/vmc

Please edit your first post in order to prepend [SOLVED] to the title of the thread.  While you're at it, please add more to the title to describe the actual problem or error so it can be help to others in the future with related issues.

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