VMware Workstation Error: Cannot find a valid peer process-Collection of common programming errors

11 years ago

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After a power down, starting the VM using vmrun start produced:

Loop on signal 11 — tid 4409 at 0x3616407638. Error: Unknown error

Using the GUI gave another kind of error: “Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to”

Deleting lock files didn’t help. Restarting the server didn’t help neither.

Following Robert’s hints about too many “old snapshots” , it seems that VMware Workstation 8.0 is using some kind of file quantity quota. I proceeded to delete my oldest snapshot (using the GUI) and this resulted in the machine being able to start from the freshest snapshot. It is now up and running OK.

My environment is CentOS 5.7/64 on both the host and the VM.

This seems to work… may be it’s the solution to this problem. It had gone twice through this, but was able to reconstruct from snapshots. This last time (today), it wouldn’t run even from a snapshot.