I installed VMWare Workstation 15 on a W10 PC. I get the following error while powering on a XP VM that I have already tried on other PCd, but its not working on this specific PC (Intel i7 7500U 12GB RAM). I also tried creating a new VM and using the existing virtual disk.
Error while powering on: VMware Player cannot connect to the virtual machine. Make sure you have rights to run the program, access all directories the program uses, and access all directories for temporary files.
Failed to connect pipe to virtual machine: The system cannot find the file specified.
On an old video I saw that in that case it was a service called VMWare Workstation Server that wasnt running, but I dont have that service on this PC. I have tried to repair the installation and also uninstall/re-install and still the service still isnt there not the problem goes away (I guess maybe thats for an older version and doesnt apply to 15).
VMware Workstation cannot connect to the virtual machine - YouTube
Any ideas?