Indecipherable VMware/Vagrant error message

Question

My company uses Vagrant within VMware for development. Everyone else (10+ people) has the setup running smoothly, but I've run into a confounding problem that none of us can solve. After adding a vagrant box with `vagrant box add sgvm http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64_vmware.box` I try to start vagrant with `vagrant up seatgeek --provider=vmware_fusion`. This throws this error: ``` An error occurred while executing `vmrun`, a utility for controlling VMware machines. The command and output are below: Command: ["start", "/Users/jack/Sites/sg/seatgeek-vm/.vagrant/machines/seatgeek/vmware_fusion/f2e2bebf-e1cb-4bc1-862b-9cb957e13065/precise64.vmx", "nogui", {:notify=>[:stdout, :stderr]}] Stdout: 2014-02-06T09:20:29.661| ServiceImpl_Opener: PID 20276 Error: The operation was canceled Stderr: ``` I got in touch with VMware support. They said that they can't support it, but they would confirm that `vmrun` was working properly. They asked me to run `vmrun -T fusion start` and verified that…

Accepted Answer

I saw this when I tried to dial the memory on my vm too high. After a certain limit, fusion doesn't even try. See the `memsize` line of my block below.

```
config.vm.provider 'vmware_fusion' do |provider, override|
  # provider.gui = true
  override.vm.box_url = 'http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64_vmware.box'
  provider.vmx['memsize'] = '3072'  # VMware refuses to start for anything larger
  provider.vmx['numvcpus'] = '1'    # http://superuser.com/q/505711/96477
end
```

Indecipherable VMware/Vagrant error message

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