Too many virtual machines are running

cbird · 09-20-2007, 07:45 AM

I installed vmware player on a fesh slack11 system a while back, it was running trixbox appliance in vmware, no problems. After a reboot for one reason or an other, when I try to start vmware, it starts, goes to menu and asks me which machine I want to run, I select and get error: "Too many virtual machines are running.
The maximum number of running virtual machines is 24."

No other Vm instances are running.
I've tried other VM appliances, same result.

Anyone seen this before? How did this get resolved?
Thanks
cbird

andrewdodsworth · 09-20-2007, 08:00 AM

No but I'm guessing that it probably uses lock files to keep track of VMs and these aren't getting cleaned up when you terminate a VM. If so find them and delete them!

cbird · 09-20-2007, 09:08 AM

deleted lock files, no change in error

hmm....

SlowCoder · 09-20-2007, 11:44 AM

After you deleted the files, did you stop and restart the vmware services?

cbird · 09-20-2007, 05:16 PM

Slowcoder mentioned services restart. I then realised that when i set up vmware player on the slackware machine, I forgot to change /etc/rc.d/rc.local when i installed vmware. No vmware services set to start at boot. So when vmplayer started, it didnt have anything it needed.

Running good now thanks guys!!

SlowCoder · 09-20-2007, 06:54 PM

Tada! Yay!

juclaj · 10-05-2007, 05:13 PM

Sorry to pick up a dead thread, but I've been running into the same problem as cbird, running slackware 10. As I'm a total newbie I'd be much obliged if cbird or anyone else could tell me what lines I need to add to my rc.local file in order to fix this issue? Thank you all so much in advance.

cbird · 10-06-2007, 06:29 AM

read this
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jbyrne/vmware.htm

its got all you would ever need for a working vmware install on slackware.

If u run into problems, let us know

Peace

juclaj · 10-06-2007, 11:45 AM

Oh man this is perfect, thanks so much!