Suddenly I encounter a weird problem with VMware 9 version. I install different OS for my education and testing purposed. Like MAC os, Ubuntu, CentOS, BT, WinXP, Win-server 2003. When I tried to run one of this OS a error message appear. unable to open kernel device "\\.Global\vmx86": The system cannot find the file specified. Did you reboot after installing VMware Workstation? Failed to initialize monitor device. Click ok you can see this window After googling I found one solution in developer forum but thread starter never use that method. So I tried it and here is my finding. Go to the directory of vmware installed (In my case I run it as Administrator) C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation> ( I've 32-bit apps on 64-bit OS, your may be different) Run this command vnetlib -- uninstall vmx86 reboot Go to the same directory and check net start command - this time it should say "service name is invalid&quo