When I tried to run my new Ubuntu virtual machine using the free VMware Player, I was hit with this error message:
The first thing I did was check to see if such a service was running, and, sure enough, it was.
Solution
After seeing this… it occurred to me: did I even launch VMware Player with administrative rights? Probably not. Sure enough, when I enabled administrative rights, the error message didn’t appear.
UPDATE January 8, 2023 – Old comments posted to my previous site can be seen here.