Vmware Failed To Open Virtual Machine Internal Error

[Idara Viengxay]

Exceptfor VMware authorization services, VMware Workstation internal error can also be caused by running VMware Workstation as a non-administrator. You can try running VMware Workstation as an administrator.

The best way to resolve this is to restore the virtual machine from virtual machine backups. Backups ensure the integrity of your virtual machines, furthermore, keep regular backups are also necessary. The more recent your backups are, the less VM data you might lose.

My second issue is that I have other virtual machines and operating system ISO's located on a truecrypt volume. My truecrypt volume is mounted under /mnt/truecrypt1 with permissions 700 with my standard user account as the user and users as the group and I can normally navigate there fine in the console or in dolphin and execute programs. However if I try creating a folder for a VM here in VMWare workstation, I receive the error message "The folder could not be created. Error creating directory Operation not permitted".

If I try opening a pre-existing VM from my truecrypt volume, I receive the error message "Unable to open "/mnt/truecrypt1/Virtual Machines/Slackware 14.1/Slackware 14.1.vmx": Internal error. If I copy the VMs to my home directory and open them, it will open successfully however I receive the error explained in part 1 when I try to power it on - "Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory."

Clearly, something is wrong with permissions with vmware workstation and my truecrypt volume. I've tried running vmware workstation as root by typing sudo vmware in the console and received exactly the same error messages.

However the second issue persists. I tried mounting my truecrypt volume as read-only and then I can actually open the VM's in VMWare workstation without receiving the internal error. However it obviously gives an error: Unable to change virtual machine power state: read only filesystem when attempting to actually power it on.

Does anyone have any idea why it would say "Unable to open "/mnt/truecrypt1/Virtual Machines/Slackware 14.1/Slackware 14.1.vmx": Internal error" when attempting to open a VM from my truecrypt volume (mounted with rwx------ access)? I have tried opening several different virtual machines and it has the same problem. For some reason I can open them but not power on when the truecrypt volume is mounted with r-x------ access. I can also copy the VM's to my home directory and open and power them on that way, however I have limited space on my local volume.

I was able to resolve this by installing dosfstools and ntfsprogs through pacman. The NTFS-3G wiki page doesn't list these packages; ntfsprogs is required for formatting NTFS partitions and for some applications to access NTFS partitions

The VMware internal error is usually caused by the VMware authorization service not running properly in Windows but it can be caused by some other reasons as well depending on the scenario. Below are some of the reasons for this error to occur in Windows.

There are some solutions that you can try to fix this error. As the solutions depend on the cause of the problem/error so each solution might not give the results but you can try all and hopefully, one or the other will work for you.

The first solution you can try is to run the VMware authorization service in Windows with administrative privileges. For this, you will have to make sure that you are logged in as an administrator. After that, do the following:

Now see if Vmware still gives you this error while trying to launch a virtual machine. If the error was due to a service required by VMware not running properly, then stopping and starting them again would hopefully fix the problem.

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VMware is a piece of useful software on your computer, but you may receive an error message - Internal error, which is a really annoying case. Now, you need to read this post. It will show you some causes of VMware Internal error and solutions to fix this error. Get these solutions from the MiniTool website.

As mentioned earlier, the main cause of this problem is that VMware authorization service cannot start in Windows. This error may occur if the authorization service does not work properly in Windows.

VMware authorization service requires VMware administrative privileges to run and start the virtual machines, so if you run the service on your computer without administrative privileges, you will receive this error message.

If your computer has antivirus software installed, and it is set to an aggressive mode, the antivirus software may not even allow you to run virtual machines on VMware. Some antivirus or antimalware software may also prevent you from running virtual machines on your system, so antivirus or antimalware software may also be the reason for this error.

To do this, simply open a VMware workstation or VMware player with administrative privileges. Just right-click an app and click Run as administrator, and then you can run it with administrative privileges in Windows.

To sum up, this post has shown you some causes of VMware Internal error. Meanwhile, it also introduces you to some useful solutions to fix this error. If you are receiving this error message, you can try these solutions.

When you replicate a VMware virtual machine using the agentless replication method, data from the virtual machine's disks (vmdks) are replicated to replica managed disks in your Azure subscription. When replication starts for a VM, an initial replication cycle occurs, in which full copies of the disks are replicated. After the initial replication completes, incremental replication cycles are scheduled periodically to transfer any changes that have occurred since the previous replication cycle.

You might occasionally see replication cycles failing for a VM. These failures can happen due to reasons ranging from issues in on-premises network configuration to issues at the Azure Migrate Cloud Service backend. In this article, we will:

You'll see a list of replicating servers along with additional information such as status, health, last sync time, etc. The Replication health column indicates the current replication health of the VM. A Critical or Warning value typically indicates that the previous replication cycle for the VM failed. To get more details, right-click on the VM, and select Health error Details. The Error Details page contains information on the error and additional details on how to troubleshoot.

Select Recent Events to see the previous replication cycle failures for the VM. In the events page, look for the most recent event of type Replication cycle failed or Replication cycle failed for disk" for the VM.

This error typically occurs because the User Access Policy for the Key Vault doesn't give the currently logged in user the necessary permissions to configure storage accounts to be Key Vault managed. To check for user access policy on the key vault, go to the Key vault page on the portal for the Key vault and select Access policies.

When the portal creates the key vault, it also adds a user access policy granting the currently logged in user permissions to configure storage accounts to be Key Vault managed. This can fail for two reasons:

The logged in user is a remote principal on the customer's Azure tenant (CSP subscription - and the logged in user is the partner admin). The work-around in this case is to delete the key vault, sign out from the portal, and then sign in with a user account from the customer's tenant (not a remote principal) and retry the operation. The CSP partner will typically have a user account in the customers Microsoft Entra tenant that they can use. If not, they can create a new user account for themselves in the customers Microsoft Entra tenant, sign in to the portal as the new user, and then retry the replicate operation. The account used must have either Owner or Contributor+User Access Administrator permissions granted to the account on the resource group (Migrate project resource group).

The other case where this might happen is when one user (user1) attempted to set up replication initially and encountered a failure, but the key vault has already been created (and user access policy appropriately assigned to this user). Now at a later point a different user (user2) tries to set up replication, but the Configure Managed Storage Account or Generate SAS definition operation fails as there's no user access policy corresponding to user2 in the key vault.

Resolution: To work around this issue, create a user access policy for user2 in the key vault granting user2 permission to configure managed storage account and generate SAS definitions. User2 can do this from Azure PowerShell using the below cmdlets:

Error Message: VM: VMName. Error: Encountered timeout event 'DisposeArtefactsTimeout' in the state &'['Gateway.Service.StateMachine.SnapshotReplication.SnapshotReplicationEngine+WaitingForArtefactsDisposalPreCycle' ('WaitingForArtefactsDisposalPreCycle')]'.

Open the Microsoft services MMC snap-in (run > services.msc), and check if the Microsoft Azure Gateway Service is running. If the service is stopped or not running, start the service. Alternatively, you can open command prompt or PowerShell and enter 'Net Start asrgwy'.

Search for your storage account in the Azure portal. Ensure that the subscription you use to search is the same subscription (target subscription) in which the storage account is created. Go to Containers in the Blob Service section. Select +Container and create a Container. Ensure you provide write permission to the container. Retain Public Access Level to the default selected value.

Resolution: If this test fails, there's a networking issue. Engage your local networking team to check connectivity issues. Typically, there can be some firewall settings that are causing the failures.

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