Fix:“The virtual machine is in use by an external application” & “Taking Ownership Failed” in VMware

If VMware Workstation is showing the error “The virtual machine is in use by an external application on your host computer. Taking Ownership of this virtual machine failed.”, this tutorial will walk you through the exact fix. This problem usually happens when VMware crashes or leaves behind lock files (.lck) that make VMware think the VM is still running.

In this video, I’ll show you how to fully close VMware, remove stuck lock files, clear background vmware-vmx processes, and get your virtual machine working again. This method works on VMware Workstation 16, VMware Workstation 17, and VMware Player on both Windows and Linux.
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