<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>workstation on Why did IT fail</title><link>https://www.why-did-it.fail/tags/workstation/</link><description>Recent content in workstation on Why did IT fail</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright © 2026 Dominik Textoris (formerly Zorgnotti). All Rights Reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.why-did-it.fail/tags/workstation/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>VMware Workstation - vctl unable to start</title><link>https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2021-06-conflicting-vmrun-versions/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2021-06-conflicting-vmrun-versions/</guid><description>Many thanks to Darius Davis from our engineering team who set me up on the solution.
This morning I &amp;ldquo;just wanted to spin up a container quickly&amp;rdquo;. Having a recent version of VMware workstation already on my computer, using vctl was my preferred choice (In case you missed the blog).
Problem My initial plans came to a halt as very attempt of a vctl system config or vctl system start threw an error:</description></item><item><title>VMware Workstation - Updates to v15 and later breaks Minikube</title><link>https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2019-07-workstation-minikube/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2019-07-workstation-minikube/</guid><description><![CDATA[Update from 2020-01-11 below
Life was good when I was playing around with Minikube on my private Windows Notebook until I had the (stupid) idea to use choco to update everything to the latest version. Now, Minikube would not start and notably these two packages were updated:
VMware Workstation 15 Pro: 15.5.1 build-15018445 minikube version: v1.6.1 The docker driver for VMware (docker-machine-vmware) hadn&rsquo;t changed. Problem The error suggested that &ldquo;vmrun&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t installed:]]></description></item></channel></rss>