krisbolton

Problem

VMware Workstation Player returns an error when trying to run a new virutal machine. The error reads "Unable to open kernel device '\.\VMCIDev\VMX': The operation completed successfully. Did you reboot after installing VMware Player? Module 'DevicePowerOn' power on failed. Failed to start the virtual machine."

Solution

1. Navigate to the virtual machine's working directory.
2. To find your VM's working directory by right-clicking the VM, selecting 'settings', selecting the 'Options' tab, and noting the 'Working directory' path. Navigate to the working directory in Window's Explorer.
3. Find the VMX file, with type 'VMware virtual machine configuration'.
4. Open the VMX file in notepad.

zcshiner

#!/bin/bash

### Command log to install Cuda Toolkit 6.5, driver 343.22, and ccminer.

## Update the system
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
# All the dependencies for Cuda & ccminer (I think)
sudo apt-get -y install gcc g++ build-essential automake linux-headers-$(uname -r) git gawk libcurl4-openssl-dev libjansson-dev xorg libc++-dev libgmp-dev python-dev