Wednesday 26 February 2014

VM Not starting - "VM is in Use error" - VMWare



Not able to launch the VMware session after a PC crash.

The following error message was being displayed, “  Taking ownership of this virtual machine failed. The virtual machine is in use by an application on your host computer."


Solution:

Close the VMware Player. Open up the Explorer . Go to the location of the VMDK in your explorer. 
Delete all the*.LCK files. You might also need to delete directories that works as Locks (ends in LCK)



Now start the Virtual Machine.

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