Shared VMs fail to start when the computer reboots.

I have a script that uses vmrun to suspend all VMs running when my Windows 8 Pro PC is shut down.  He paused the VMs correctly, however, the virtual machines shared that I set to auto-start does not auto-start.  I'm starting to wonder if I need to create a startup script similar to ensure that the departure of VMs correctly as well.

This is the latest version of VMWare Workstation 9.0.1 build-894247.  Windows 8 regularly tells me that I have to reinstall VMWare Workstation to run.  Now, I did several times with no improvement.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I really want to try to migrate out of Hyper-V or an alternative of virtualation since I am always very happy with VMWare.

Hi k4gdw,

We recently found a problem that occurs when a host is upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8 while VMware Workstation is installed.  If this describes your situation, you can try to work around the problem if you are in a few registry changes on the host... (as always, be careful when you edit the registry!)

(The instructions are for the 64 bit version of Windows. For 32 bit, it is similar, except that there is no key Wow6432Node.)

1. open regedit (Start button + r, or search for apps for 'regedit')
2. navigate in the tree to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Wow6432Node > VMware, Inc. > VMware Workstation > volatile > IsFirstRun.
3. right click on the key to IsFirstRun , and select Remove.

Quit regedit.  Restart your host and VMs Autostart should then begin.

Please let us know if that solves the problem for you!  We are preparing a Knowledge Base article and published a fix for future work stations.

See you soon,.

--

Darius

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