Posted by jaysonpryde on 2012/4/3 12:54:23

I am running on vmware player on Centos 5.8(final) 32 bit. Everytime I attempt to start an existing virtual machine, an error dialog pops saying:
"Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory ..."

I've already installed devfsd (2.4.3-12.i386.rpm) but still there is no /dev/vmmon folder.
I also followed the steps on the following link thinking that it will resolve the problem but it did not:

http://hilaltarakci.blogspot.com/2011/07/vmware-player-error-could-not-open.html

I searched the forum but i haven't seen any significant or relevant topic.
Hope someone has an idea on how to solve this.

Thank you!

Posted by pjwelsh on 2012/4/3 14:04:24

Which vmware version are you installing? Also, provide the output of the build process when you run your "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all"

Posted by pschaff on 2012/4/3 18:15:33

Welcome to the CentOS fora. Please see the recommended reading for new users linked in my signature.

There don't seem to be too many CentOS-5 users of VMware Player for the host, or at least I have not seen a lot here. Have you considered alternatives for virtualization such as VirtualBox?

Posted by jaysonpryde on 2012/4/4 0:35:06

I haven't considered using Virtual Box yet. Can it play existing VM images created from vmware workstation? Thank you

Posted by pschaff on 2012/4/4 10:51:38

A qualified yes. It may take some tweaking, depending on the source VM type and configuration, but VirtualBox can certainly read and/or create .vmdk virtual disks. Try a google on vmware site:virtualbox.org for a better feel for the problems and more information.