Is there a way to configure this just to listen on 127.0.0.1? Sure I can (and have) firewalled these ports from outside connections but why would it listen on 0.0.0. Please make sure the kernel module 'vmmon' is loaded' when I try to start any VM. I get the error 'Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
However when I do that VMware Workstation is no longer functional. For example, version 17 contains all the updates for 17.x releases. We update the online documentation with the latest point release information. Use the navigation on the left to browse through documentation for your release of VMware Workstation Pro. How to close TCP 443 and 902 ? (WS 9.0.1 on Linux host) Welcome to VMware Workstation Pro documentation. I've tried stopping this service from starting using the steps from the following links: Is there a way to have this listen ONLY on 127.0.0.1:902 instead of on the externally accessible 0.0.0.0:902? Honestly I'm a bit surprised that a workstation product opens ports on your external facing IP without any warning or opt-in for features that would require it. I'm using Workstation for local testing only and have no use-case where any external host should be able to connect to / administer VMs in any fashion. I understand this is the VMware Authentication Daemon / vmware-workstation-server. After installing VMware Workstation Pro 12.5 on Ubuntu 16.04.2, my computer always has a listening TCP socket on 0.0.0.0:902.
