Error while powering on: VMware Player cannot connect to the virtual machine

Question

Im using Windows8, the problem is while connecting to Ubuntu though VMware I receives an error that I do not have a rights. It is not my first time I use it. Don't know what gone wrong. The error I have got : 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.

The VMware Authorization Service is not running.

Answer 1

This worked for me:

1. Open Task Manager Kill all the VMware Processes
2. Press Win + R --> Type (Services.msc)
3. Go to VMware Authorization service and Click START
4. Start VMware and Power ON your Virtual Machine

Answer 2

I had a similar problem. For me this worked:

In command prompt (cmd) opened as administrator type services.msc and click OK. Then scroll down the list and locate that the VMware Authorization service and start the service.

Also I followed this steps to kill all processes before.