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  • 1.  Workstation can not power on

    Posted 29 days ago

    Hello,

    I am currently running VMware Workstation 14. on my host computer which runs Window 10.  I am new to this VM stuff.

    Recently I tried to copy a folder from host to VM terminal by drag & drop and ctrl+c & ctrl+v.  It appears not working.  It appears causing VM not responding. So I used laptop power button to shut down everything.  Luckily I was able to turn on VM again first time. But at the second time I can't power on VM.  It shows me an error message. It says "Failed to connect pipe to virtual machine: All pipe instances are busy."

    I have searched online, tried couple of things such as stopped VM processes and then deleted lock files. Then reboot laptop VM still not working and same error. Anyone run across this problem before? Any suggestions as to what I can/should do before uninstalling/re-installing VMware? If I need to provide more info, let me know and I will do the best that I can.

    Thanks,

    B. Chen