{"id":18558,"date":"2022-01-23T19:10:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T18:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=18558"},"modified":"2022-01-23T19:10:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T18:10:47","slug":"vmware-workstation-the-virtual-machine-appears-to-be-in-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/18558\/vmware-workstation-the-virtual-machine-appears-to-be-in-use\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare Workstation: The virtual machine appears to be in use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Access problems with Vmware Workstation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today I had unsightly access issues with a virtual machine in Vmware Workstation:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/vmware_use_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/vmware_use_1.png 320w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/vmware_use_1-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis virtual machine appears to be in use.<br \/>\nIf this virtual machine is not in use, press the &#8220;Take Ownership&#8221; button to obtain ownership of it. Otherwise, press the &#8220;Cancel&#8221; button to avoid damaging it.<br \/>\nConfiguration file: C:\\_vmware\\Windows 11 Pro EN\\Windows 11 Pro EN.vmx.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently the VM was in use somehow, or Vmware just meant that. In any case, ownership did not work either.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/vmware_use_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/vmware_use_2.png 320w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/vmware_use_2-300x249.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCould not open virtual machine &#8220;Windows 11 Pro EN&#8221; (C:\\_vmware\\Windows 11 Pro EN\\Windows 11 Pro EN.vmx):<br \/>\nTaking ownership of this virtual machine failed.<br \/>\nThe virtual machine is in use by an application on your host computer.<br \/>\nConfiguration file: C:\\_vmware\\Windows 11 Pro EN\\Windows 11 Pro EN.vmx.<br \/>\nRemove &#8220;Windows 11 Pro EN&#8221; from the library?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was worried that I would have to write off the VM, but luckily the problem was fixed after a reboot of the computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access problems with Vmware Workstation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}