I was running Ubuntu in VMware Player. It froze up when I was using it, so I killed it with the Task Manager. The reason it froze was because I ran out of disk space. So after killing the process I made more space. But now, if I try to run the virtual machine again, I get the following error
Error while powering on: VMware Player
cannot connect to the virtual machine.
Make sure you have rights to run the
program and to access all directories
it uses and rights to access all
directories for temporary files.
How can I fix this, or at least recover some of my files inside the virtual machine?
Best Answer
What happens is that vmware lock some files while it's running.
So, there's no need to recreate VM or rebooting windows whatsoever. All you need to do is to kill all vmware processes.
So, just open windows task manager and look for vmware in the processes tab, kill these process and restart vmware.