Today I stuck with the VMware Player on my Ubuntu box. Because of the electricity cut off, my VMWare session got lost in the middle of working.
When the electricity came back, VMware was not there. It started to give error that another instance is being used but there is none at that moment.
There were two options; Take Ownership or Cancel.
Once I picked taking the ownership of the current instance I got;
"Taking ownership of this virtual machine failed. The virtual machine is in use by an application on your host computer. Configuration file: /home/mobilizer/vmware/OS12.vmx"
After taking a look at directories I found the *.lck directories under ~/vmware/ directory. After doing a simple rm -r *.lck from ~/vmware/, my VMware Player started to work again.
Comments
Anonymous · 18 January 2011
I was running VMware Workstation on Windows and ran into the same problem. I read your post and tried deleting the lck directory in the virtual machine's folder, which fixed the problem. Thanks! :D
Anonymous · 3 October 2011
Thanks, works for me!
Anonymous · 23 April 2012
Thanks a lot. It works!
Anonymous · 7 January 2010
worked for me too! thanks IJO
Anonymous · 24 August 2011
Thanks... worked for me too... on win7 I deleted the .lck directories...
Anonymous · 31 October 2013
thank you to save me from the reinstall loop !
Anonymous · 6 December 2010
gr8...... its worked for me too...... Thanks, Nag
Anonymous · 30 April 2011
Thanks, 100% of comment-feedback for you ;)
Anonymous · 7 December 2010
Thanks Boss it worked.... you are great
Anonymous · 24 June 2011
Thank you, it worked.
Anonymous · 21 June 2011
Thanks! Worked on VMware Player 3.1.4 after Windows 7 crashed.