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VMRun reports could not connect to the virtual machine or permission denied

Problem:

Recently I was creating a c# windows service which interacted with VMware machines.

When trying to start up a VM by calling VMrun.exe  i got the error message

"Unable to connect to host"

I found this by piping the response to a text file.

This is how it was solved:

To get around this I changed the command i was using to not use the GUI (nogui) option.

The only thing you need to consider is that running VMs will not be controllable by your manual login/UI as they are running via different process.

 

Full command line details are available here:

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vix162_vmrun_command.pdf