Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Solved - You have an incorrect version of driver "vmx86.sys" - VMWare Workstation 8

I have just installed VMWare Workstation 8 over my old VMWare Workstation 6.5 on Windows 7.

On my first run I already got the error message:

Could not get vmx86 driver version: The handle is invalid.

You have an incorrect version of driver "vmx86.sys". Try reinstalling VMware Workstation.

Failed to initialize monitor device.

Obviously, I was concerned, but there is a simple way to solve it - just right-click the VMWare Workstation icon and use Run as Administrator.

This is a bit annoying, but at least it is easy to solve.

Update: I forgot to mention it, but as Dave said on the comments, you can right-click on the program shortcut, choose Properties, Compatibility tab and check Run as Administrator so that it will always run properly. Thanks, Dave!

2 comments:

iwaseem said...

Thankyou...its work

DAVE KIRK said...

thank you it dose work! you can right click >proprieties> compatibility tab> at the bottom check mark run as admin and apply so you don have to do that every-time