you have opened 2 windows of VMware Workstation and you are trying to open the same virtual machine from the 2 windows.Otherwise, press the 'Cancel' button to avoid damaging it.
If this virtual machine is not in use, press the 'Take Ownership' button to obtain ownership of it. VMware Workstation offers you to obtain the rights on it by clicking on : Take Ownership. When you want to access it from VMware Workstation, a 'This virtual machine appears to be in use' warning is displayed. However, in rare cases (and especially when you edit manually some settings in the vmx files), VMware Workstation can become unstable and arrive in a state where you will not be able to access or close some virtual machines.Īgain, this is very rare, but here is how to solve ou avoid these problems. VMware Workstation is a professional virtualization solution that allows you to do a lot of things and is able to manage many virtual machines at the same time (if the resources of the host PC allow it).
