VMWare Player nat host adapter install failed. Please reboot...
Submitted by Jeremy on November 19, 2006 - 5:48pm.
My Moka5 was workng fine with beta5.
Upgraded to Beta6 and now I can't get past this error message (see title)
Sucks!
I'm going to try uninstalling and re-installing. Hopefully I won't look my LivePCs that I've spent time and effort configuring!
Can you provide more
Submitted by Kelvin on November 20, 2006 - 9:37am.
Can you provide more details? Is it a host install or usb install? Did the failure happen during the installation or during the LivePC engine invocation?
happened after install, as
Submitted by Jeremy on November 23, 2006 - 9:55am.
happened after install, as soon as I try to run a LivePC (local) that was working (in Beta5) before the upgrade
Installed to an iPod
more info....
Submitted by Jeremy on November 25, 2006 - 1:39pm.
USB install (on an iPod)
Happens when I start trying to run any of the LivePCs I've created on the device
Upgrade (and subsequent re-install) didn't generate any errors.
I'm in transit at the moment so hard to get access to another machine to see if I can run it up there, but I'll see what I can do (to eliminate the current host machine from the equation)
Another way to recover.
Submitted by Michael Chen on November 26, 2006 - 6:24pm.
This is a hard error we've been trying to reproduce reliably. Since none of your efforts so far to recover seem to work, try installing VMware Player 1.0.2 directly on the host machine and then run our software. If this works, you can then remove VMware Player, and our software should still work. For some reason, their installer is able to recover out of situations that we are not able to yet.
no luck. well, sort of
Submitted by Jeremy on November 27, 2006 - 6:23pm.
The good news is that it started running, but a few seconds after the WinXP desktop was up and running the VMWare player crashed.
I was able to run-up the Ubuntu desktop but it failed to get a network connection (pointing back to the NAT issue)
It does however appear to be working okay on another host machine... just not my primary machine :(
Fix for this problem
Submitted by Michael Chen on December 5, 2006 - 11:22am.
Paste the following into a file called vmnet.reg. Double click it to import it into the Windows Registry. This should fix this problem in most instances.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMnetuserif]
"Type"=dword:00000001
"Start"=dword:00000002
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):5c,00,3f,00,3f,00,5c,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,57,00,49,00,4e,00,\
44,00,4f,00,57,00,53,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,\
00,5c,00,64,00,72,00,69,00,76,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,5c,00,76,00,6d,00,6e,00,\
65,00,74,00,75,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,69,00,66,00,2e,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,\
00
"DisplayName"="VMware Network Application Interface"
"Description"="Allows VMware applications to use virtual networks."
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMnetuserif\Security]
"Security"=hex:01,00,14,80,90,00,00,00,9c,00,00,00,14,00,00,00,30,00,00,00,02,\
00,1c,00,01,00,00,00,02,80,14,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,\
00,00,02,00,60,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,14,00,fd,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,\
05,12,00,00,00,00,00,18,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,\
20,02,00,00,00,00,14,00,8d,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,0b,00,00,00,00,\
00,18,00,fd,01,02,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,23,02,00,00,01,01,\
00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMnetuserif\Enum]
"0"="Root\\LEGACY_VMNETUSERIF\\0000"
"Count"=dword:00000001
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMnetAdapter]
"Type"=dword:00000001
"Start"=dword:00000003
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"Tag"=dword:00000040
"ImagePath"=hex(2):73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,\
52,00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,76,00,6d,00,6e,00,65,00,74,00,61,\
00,64,00,61,00,70,00,74,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00
"DisplayName"="VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter Driver"
"Group"="NDIS"
"Description"="Driver for VMware's Virtual Ethernet Adapters Ver. 2"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMnetAdapter\Security]
"Security"=hex:01,00,14,80,90,00,00,00,9c,00,00,00,14,00,00,00,30,00,00,00,02,\
00,1c,00,01,00,00,00,02,80,14,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,\
00,00,02,00,60,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,14,00,fd,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,\
05,12,00,00,00,00,00,18,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,\
20,02,00,00,00,00,14,00,8d,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,0b,00,00,00,00,\
00,18,00,fd,01,02,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,23,02,00,00,01,01,\
00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMnetAdapter\Enum]
"0"="ROOT\\VMWARE\\0000"
"Count"=dword:00000001
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001
reinstall - didn't help!
ah well, it was worth a try.
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