Linux下安裝VMWare的一個問題

最近因項目需要，我們要在Fedora8系統上安裝一個虛擬機，上面跑個Windows Server 2003，好不容易找了個linux版本的vmware之後，安裝好後，每次啓動虛擬機都會報

Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error.

這樣一個錯誤。

一開始以爲是vmware的設置有問題，後來在網上終於找到答案：

Ran into this while running Vmware Workstation under Ubuntu Jaunty. I got an error while shutting down the machine through an NX session.

This is a result of a zombie ‘vmware-vmx’ process running. All you need to do is kill the process. This command sends ’signal 9′ to the process. When sent to a program, SIGKILL causes it to terminate immediately. In contrast to SIGTERM and SIGINT, this signal cannot be caught or ignored. For more information: more sigkill info.

killall -s9 vmware-vmx

After that, I was able to start up the virtual machine without issue.

(from: http://www.surlyjake.com/linux/vmware-unable-to-change-virtual-machine-power-state-internal-error/)