{"id":2795,"date":"2022-08-30T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/16\/vmware-workstation-error-cannot-find-a-valid-peer-process-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:27:50","slug":"vmware-workstation-error-cannot-find-a-valid-peer-process-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/vmware-workstation-error-cannot-find-a-valid-peer-process-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Workstation Error: Cannot find a valid peer process-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a power down, starting the VM using vmrun start produced:<\/p>\n<p>Loop on signal 11 &#8212; tid 4409 at 0x3616407638. Error: Unknown error<\/p>\n<p>Using the GUI gave another kind of error: &#8220;Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deleting lock files didn&#8217;t help. Restarting the server didn&#8217;t help neither.<\/p>\n<p>Following Robert&#8217;s hints about too many &#8220;old snapshots&#8221; , 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.<\/p>\n<p>My environment is CentOS 5.7\/64 on both the host and the VM.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to work&#8230; may be it&#8217;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&#8217;t run even from a snapshot.<\/p>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2014-02-16 14:59:52. <\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a power down, starting the VM using vmrun start produced: Loop on signal 11 &#8212; tid 4409 at 0x3616407638. Error: Unknown error Using the GUI gave another kind of error: &#8220;Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to&#8221; Deleting lock files didn&#8217;t help. Restarting the server didn&#8217;t help neither. Following Robert&#8217;s hints about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}