I upgraded to Fusion 7.1 from 6.x running on an iMac with Mavericks(10.9.5) and I'm getting a "Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory." error dialog. I cannot shutdown or reboot the image.
In the system log I'm seeing the following errors:
Jan 18 18:10:39 scotts-imac kernel[0]: vmmon: Loaded com.vmware.kext.vmx86 Version 0231.47.74 Build 2314774 (Nov 24 2014 20:03:10)
Jan 18 18:10:39 scotts-imac kernel[0]: vmmon: Warning: Failed to register the major device number.
Jan 18 18:10:39 scotts-imac kernel[0]: Kext com.vmware.kext.vmx86 start failed (result 0x5).
Jan 18 18:10:39 scotts-imac kernel[0]: Kext com.vmware.kext.vmx86 failed to load (0xdc008017).
Jan 18 18:10:39 scotts-imac kernel[0]: Failed to load kext com.vmware.kext.vmx86 (error 0xdc008017).
Jan 18 18:10:39 scotts-imac com.apple.kextd[12]: Failed to load /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/kexts/vmmon.kext - (libkern/kext) kext (kmod) start/stop routine failed.
Jan 18 18:10:48 scotts-imac sandboxd[6569] ([38735]): mdworker(38735) deny file-read-data /Users/starksm/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/.localized (pre-plugin fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:250000005E diag:0 isXCode:0 uti:com.vmware.vm-package plugin:internalPlainTextImporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 32039829)
Jan 18 18:10:52 --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Jan 18 18:10:52 scotts-imac kernel[0]: vmmon: Loaded com.vmware.kext.vmx86 Version 0231.47.74 Build 2314774 (Nov 24 2014 20:03:10)
Jan 18 18:10:52 scotts-imac kernel[0]: vmmon: Warning: Failed to register the major device number.
Jan 18 18:10:52 scotts-imac kernel[0]: Kext com.vmware.kext.vmx86 start failed (result 0x5).
Jan 18 18:10:52 scotts-imac kernel[0]: Kext com.vmware.kext.vmx86 failed to load (0xdc008017).
Jan 18 18:10:52 scotts-imac kernel[0]: Failed to load kext com.vmware.kext.vmx86 (error 0xdc008017).
Jan 18 18:10:52 scotts-imac com.apple.kextd[12]: Failed to load /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/kexts/vmmon.kext - (libkern/kext) kext (kmod) start/stop routine failed.
Any idea about how to fix this?