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title: "VMware Workstation Transport (VMDB) error -44"
date: "2013-07-26"
modified: "2013-07-31"
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Damn it, my laptop rebooted and VMware gives me the finger:

```
Transport (VMDB) error -44: Message
The VMware Authorization Service is not running.
```

Luckily I'm not the only one, so following [this guide](http://hubzero.org/answers/question/14) I find the service at fault:

![Transport (VMDB) error -44: Message](/images/vmware-transport-issue.png)

But to my suprise I get an even more concerning issue where the "VMware Authorization Service" dependency service does not exist:

![VMware Authorization Service](/images/vmware-transport-issue-popup.png)

More info was available through the [VMware community forums](http://communities.vmware.com/thread/95053?start=0&tstart=0) but to make this work I had to "repair" the VMware Workstation 9, not an ideal solution but it worked.