"This is a Workstation ACE Edition virtual machine. Please open it in VMware Player."
I accidentally enabled ACE for a machine when I had the beta installed, but I removed the feature through one of the dialogs before going back to version 6.0.3.
What do I do to fix this?
Thanks!
I talked to the dev in charge of this feature and here's a list of the things you should do:
Remove from your vmx file the "policy.vm.mvmtid" and "policy.vm.managedvm" lines.
Remove the following files:
1) ace.dat
2) aceMaster.dat
3) host.vmpl
4) .vmpl
5) The "ACE Resources" directory
6) The "Preview Deployment" directory if it exists.
Can you post the contents of the vmx file?
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "6"
memsize = "384"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "30"
displayName = "EDGEEC"
guestOS = "winnetenterprise"
numvcpus = "1"
tools.remindInstall = "FALSE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "EDGEEC-000022.vmdk"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
ide1:0.filename = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
floppy0.fileName = "A:"
isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "TRUE"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
tools.upgrade.policy = "manual"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:51:6b:9c"
uuid.location = "56 4d 38 5e 00 5c 82 8b-ab 19 3c 5b 7c db ac b2"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 0d ce 03 84 f0 f9-a4 62 4a 5f 17 51 6b 9c"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
checkpoint.vmState = ""
checkpoint.vmState.readOnly = "FALSE"
extendedConfigFile = "EDGEEC.vmxf"
policy.vm.mvmtid = "52 18 9f e1 dc b4 38 e0-9f c6 b4 00 8a 29 82 b1"
policy.vm.managedVM = "FALSE"
checkpointFBSize = "16777216"
I talked to the dev in charge of this feature and here's a list of the things you should do:
Remove from your vmx file the "policy.vm.mvmtid" and "policy.vm.managedvm" lines.
Remove the following files:
1) ace.dat
2) aceMaster.dat
3) host.vmpl
4) .vmpl
5) The "ACE Resources" directory
6) The "Preview Deployment" directory if it exists.
That totally fixed the problem! Thanks g!
Hi, I have the same error after upgrading to Workstation 7, then realizing that I needed to pay for the license to do so, tried reverting back to 6 and one of my images is giving this error. I tried these steps and it did not work for me.
Here is the VMX file contents after I removed the lines you suggested above:
.encoding = "windows-1252"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "1256"
mem.hotadd = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "SUSE Linux 10 Enterprise Server.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\linux.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.autodetect = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ehci.present = "TRUE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
roamingVM.exitBehavior = "go"
displayName = "SUSE Linux 10 Enterprise Server"
guestOS = "sles"
nvram = "SUSE Linux 10 Enterprise Server.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
ft.secondary0.enabled = "TRUE"
tools.upgrade.policy = "useGlobal"
extendedConfigFile = "SUSE Linux 10 Enterprise Server.vmxf"
floppy0.fileName = "A:"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
uuid.location = "56 4d 2f c7 b1 9b 43 19-3b 35 9b c0 e7 ab 20 0c"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 2f c7 b1 9b 43 19-3b 35 9b c0 e7 ab 20 0c"
debugStub.linuxOffsets = "0x0,0xffffffff,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "35"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "36"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:ab:20:0c"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmci0.id = "-408215540"
tools.remindInstall = "FALSE"
isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "FALSE"
sharedFolder0.present = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.enabled = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.readAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.writeAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.hostPath = "C:\"
sharedFolder0.guestName = "C"
sharedFolder0.expiration = "never"
sharedFolder1.present = "TRUE"
sharedFolder1.enabled = "TRUE"
sharedFolder1.readAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder1.writeAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder1.hostPath = "D:\"
sharedFolder1.guestName = "D"
sharedFolder1.expiration = "never"
sharedFolder.maxNum = "2"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
annotation = "hostname: linux-suse-10|0D|0Aroot/passw0rd|0D|0Adb2inst1/passw0rd|0D|0A|0D|0A(during db2 install also created these:|0D|0Adasusr1/passw0rd|0D|0Adb2fenc1/passw0rd)|0D|0A|0D|0AThis vmware was created originally to troubleshoot issue at Wasserstrom that Peter Wilkerson (partner davelan) was having in PMR 52085,756,000"
gui.exitOnCLIHLT = "TRUE"
checkpoint.vmState = "SUSE Linux 10 Enterprise Server.vmss"
vmci0.unrestricted = "TRUE"
See my reply to your other thread ( http://communities.vmware.com/thread/242050 ).
(Please don't repeat the same problem in multiple threads.)
Sorry about that - I wasn't sure if answered posts were monitored. Thanks again!