vctl on Why did IT failhttps://www.why-did-it.fail/tags/vctl/Recent content in vctl on Why did IT failHugo -- gohugo.ioenCopyright © 2026 Dominik Textoris (formerly Zorgnotti). All Rights Reserved.Sat, 20 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000VMware Workstation - vctl unable to starthttps://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2021-06-conflicting-vmrun-versions/Sat, 20 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2021-06-conflicting-vmrun-versions/Many thanks to Darius Davis from our engineering team who set me up on the solution. This morning I “just wanted to spin up a container quickly”. 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: