Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Errors and fixes for VM workstation - Virtual Machine errors

Errors and its work arounds and fixes for Virtual Machine installation or execution

Virtual Machine - Aborted: 



A general reboot will fix most of the issues, else do an analysis and fix the issues, eg.

  1. Check if the system has more than 1 Anti-virus installed - Uninstall the primitive version / software
  2. Check if the installation drive has enough free space (min 5Gb for the VM.oda or iso file to be installed) else install on a different drive and it will work.
  3. For other errors uninstall all the related software like, virtual machine C++ redistributable package, etc and reboot the system and reinstall all the softwares again.
For errors like VT-x is disabled in BIOS for all CPU follow the steps:
  1. Power off the virtual machine
  2. Restart the physical system or host system and enter into the BIOS
  3. Depending on the model and make BIOS would be accessed in different methods like Esc key, F1-F12 or Enter Key. Identify the method and enter the BIOS setup and make the following changes as shown in the pictures below:










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