Monday, April 21, 2014

Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon’ is loaded,

or,

Failed to open device “/dev/vmci”: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kenel module ‘vmci’ is loaded. Module Device PowerOn power on failed

Solution:

Step 1)  Check current version & other details like:
o   Version: Workstation 6.5 virtual machine
o   Guest OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
o   Configuration files & Snapshot, etc.

Step 2)  Check current running process, Ram & Disk Status:
                # top
                # free –m
                # ps –ef | grep vmware

Step 3)  Check current loaded module for error:
                # lsmod | grep vm
                                Module vmmon loaded
Module vmnet not loaded
               
Step 4)  For rectifying the above issue runs command to load VM modules:
# /etc/init.d/vmware restart

Stopping VMware services:
   Virtual machine communication interface[  OK  ]
   Virtual machine monitor[  OK  ]
   Blocking file system[  OK  ]
Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor[  OK  ]
   Virtual machine communication interface[  OK  ]
   Blocking file system[  OK  ]
   Virtual ethernet[  OK  ]
   Shared Memory Available[  OK  ]

Step 5)  To start VMware services automatically while rebooting the server, run below command:
                 
# chkconfig --list | grep vm
vmware         0:off             1:off      2:off      3:off      4:off      5:off      6:off

# chkconfig vmware on

# chkconfig vmware on--list | grep vm
vmware         0:off             1:off      2:on       3:on       4:on       5:on       6:off

Step 6)  Now check current running processes:
                # top
                # ps –ef | grep vmware


1 comment:

  1. I had the same problem with /dev/vmci using vmware 9 on linux mint 16. I tried all the tricks I could find with google and none of them worked. I upgraded to workstation 10 and everything works.

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