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Error: "- stop: failed - are you running a virtual machine?"
Details
On a Linux host, I get the message "- stop: failed - are
you running a virtual machine?"
Solution
If you have Workstation installed, you must shutdown any running
virtual machines before running the vmware-install.pl script. If you cannot locate any virtual
machines running on your system, be sure there are no loadable
modules in use by the operating system with names that begin with vmmon or vmnet. To do this, become root (su) and run the lsmod(1) command to list the modules presently loaded in the
operating system. install.pl assumes that loadable modules with these names
are part of the Workstation software package. If you have modules
with these names that are not from Workstation, please submit a
support request at www.vmware.com/requestsupport.
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