You will now see on the right options relating to the virtual optical drive. Once you are in settings locate CD/DVD in the left hand column and click on it. You will need to be connected to the internet. There are a number of ways to do this and the helpfile is your friend, press F1 to view it. I didn't realise that you hadn't installed the O/S yet.įor your VM you need to find Edit virtual machine settings.
I presume that you do have an ISO or CD/DVD of the operating system that would want to install? If you don't your VM will never start.
If you get further than before and don't get the error you should be ready to install your guest operating system. If you want to do a quick test click on the VM menu then the option for Power and finally Start up guest. You were not able to Map the drive as you have not yet installed an operating system so your virtual disk is not initialised. Make sure you used Msconfig to go back to normal startup though. But I don't think this is your issue.Soyou can skip past this. Here you can enable just the VMware services indiviually and there are only 5.
Using Msconfig you would need to click on the Services tab AFTER selecting Diagnostic startup. I did see a few errors in my log file but I don't think that is your issue. OK I think I understand where you are at a little better with your last reply. What is the UAC prompt enabling? I wouldn't class this as a resolution unfortunately. But like you say, if I shut that VM down, I can no longer power it on again. After running the batch, creating a new VM and powering it on I receive a UAC prompt, after accepting, the VM powers on. I still get the failed to power on error for my existing VM's. Kenyoung80125, that batch file that you suggested I create is now allowing me to only run one brand new VM at a time. You mentioned that the error file contains read errors - how can I resolve this if disabling my AV & Firewall doesn't effect it? Does your VM logs show anything similar? I also tried creating brand new VM's, then mounting their disks, same error. I moved the disks to other physical drives and tried again, same error. I got this error for all of my VM's disks. I'm not sure if it was caused by the VM's never being powered on and there being nothing in the disks however I received an error stating "Error reading volume information. Mounting the VM's disk as a virtual drive resulted in a different outcome. I was successfully able to clone the VM without any errors however when powering on the newly cloned VM, I received the same error. and received the same error when trying to power on from the new location. I moved one VM to another physical disk (D:\ to C:\), removed it from VMWare, reopened it via File > Open. None of them have ever been powered on so there are no snapshots either. I was unable to try any of Amins latest suggestions due to none of my VM's being able to power on. Turning my AV & Firewall off resulted in receiving the same message unfortunately. So I tried booting via diagnostic startup but it disables all VMWare services so I was unable to power any VM's on due to the services not running.
Uninstalling Hyper-V via Programs & Featuresĭisabled device guard virtualisation security via GPeditĭisabled memory integrity within Windows securityīcdedit /create device partition=%FREE_MOUNT_VOL_DRIVELETTER%ĭon't apologise, I need all the help I can get! I've trawled the web for hours trying many potential solutions but nothing has resolved the issue such as:ĭisabling Hyper-V via bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off The error I receive is: "Failed to power on 'D:\Virtual Machines\VM-GNS3-01\VM-GNS3-01.vmx'."
I'm using an evaluation license, 30 day free trial. I've recently installed VMWare Workstation 15: 15.5.0 build-14665864 and I'm unable to power on any VM's that I've created.