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Vmware Workstation 15 Player - Always Disconnected

June 21, 2019, 12:59 am
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Hi All,

 

Can you please help me to troubleshoot this issue. My vmware always disconnected from the server and the mapped folder is not accessible. But every time I restarted the vmware

the machine will be connected again, and after I run the IP address for the mapped folder, it becomes accessible.

 

 

I experience this for almost 3 months and still, now I can't find any good solution. I hope this someone can help me or if someone is also experiencing the same problem. I also searched for this forum but I can't find any good solution. 

 

Attached is my vmware.log. If you need any more details please comment on it.

 

 

Thanks in Advance.

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Crucial P1 NVMe with VMware Workstation

June 21, 2019, 2:49 am
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Hi,

 

Anyone tried to use the Crucial P1 NVMe with VMware Workstation?  The price point of the product is very enticing, but I'm worried about the performance.

I'm planning on using it on my Windows 10 Pro as host with Windows 10 guest OS.

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Workstation Pro 15 blocks timed screen lock on Ubuntu 18.04 host

June 21, 2019, 7:41 pm
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Problem:

With host configured to go to lock screen after 15 minutes, if WS is running, system remains running at full power with display on. When mouse or keyboard is touched,  the host immediately goes to black screen, and then the password prompt screen appears.  System exhibits similar behavior for suspend on timeout - i.e. if WS is running, system does not suspend.

 

When WS is not running, the system operates 100% as expected, no issues with timed lock, wake on kbd/mouse, or timed suspend and resume.

 

To avoid losing data in the VM session, I have gotten into the habit of suspending all VMs and exiting WS before closing the laptop lid or leaving the computer for any length of time.

 

Host:

Dell G3 3779 laptop w 32GB RAM, running Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (4.18.0-22-generic kernel), recently clean installed from official distribution .iso.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, driver 430.26, prime-select set to nvidia mode. (recommended by and installed with ubuntu-drivers)

tlp-sensible (ubuntu-drivers)

Intel CPU power manager gnome extension (can repro with or without)

VMware Workstation Pro 15.1.0 build-13591040

 

Guests:

Tested and reproduced on Ubuntu 18.04, Xubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04.

 

Conditions:

WS running a single VM windowed or fullscreen on external HDMI display or on built-in LCD.

Network NAT or bridged.

Shared folders on or off.

 

I had used VMware Fusion on a 2012 Macbook Pro 15 *daily* for the past 7 years, for professional full-time software development using a wide variety of Windows and Linux guests. Fusion on the MBP was an extremely stable and performant combination; damn near flawless.  Alas, Apple doesn't make them like they used to, so when I got the Dell, I coughed up the $240 for WS pro, thinking it would be a similar experience, but with more memory and horsepower.  I hope I wasn't wrong, but at this point I'm not so sure. There are issues with high CPU as well, but I didn't want to get into that on this post

 

Message was edited by: embsysdev 20:46 MDT GMT-0600

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Serial Communications freeze Win 7 Guests on latest Win 10 1903 Build

June 21, 2019, 8:28 pm
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I installed the latest Win 10 Feature Upgrade (Build 18362.175) on my Host. Running a Win 7 Guest on latest version of Workstation 14 Pro. Since the Win 10 update my Win 7 Guests freeze whenever I try to do any RS232 serial communications. This applies to both on-board ports and USB-To-Serial adapters and happens every time. Kind of important in my work. Any hints?

 

Thanks

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Will Workstation Pro 15 run on an i7 860 CPU? Second part: Is Workstation 15 compatible with Window 10 Update 1903. I have Workstation 12 because 14 was not compatible, and the update install force the uninstall of Workstation 12 to complete successfully.

June 22, 2019, 7:17 am
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Have Workstation Pro 12 because I was unable to upgrade to Workstation 14 because of my older CPU (i7 860). Update 1903 appeared on my system, and when I tried to install it, it got about 35% according to its progress bar then insisted I uninstall Workstation Pro 12 because of a security issue. I did that. My question is whether Workstation 15 is compatible with my architecture, and if so, is it compatible with Windows 10 update 1903????

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Workstation ver9: I erased a snapshot the icon disappears but the code stays. How do I clean this up?

June 22, 2019, 7:09 am
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Workstation ver9: I erased a snapshot the icon disappears but the code stays. How do I clean this up?

The size of my VW is 250GB instead of 25Gb.

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Which processes do I need to allow as exceptions to the group policy setting, Run only specified Windows applications, for VMWARE to work?

June 22, 2019, 7:49 pm
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My servers are running inside VMWARE workstation 15 pro.  I would like to lock down the host computers.  Specifically, I want to use a non-administrator account on the host (after initial setup of the VPN).  I’ve configured the group policy setting, “User Configuration > Administrative Templates, -> System -> Run only specified Windows applications,“ and applied it to non-administrators.  After doing this and logging in as a non-administrator, I was not able to run anything as expected.  I then added vmware.exe to the list of exceptions but I was not able to open it. I then added every executable inside the VMWARE program directory but, still, I was not able to open it.  I then added, as a test, cmd and notepad, and both of those started working.  I also turned off the setting and the non-administrator was able to run vmware then.  My suspicion is that VMWARE is relying on one or more windows processes that are getting blocked by the group policy setting but I can’t find anything that lists it. Does anyone know or has anyone tried this?

 

I am aware that there is the reverse setting, “Don’t run specified Windows applications,” but it seems like an awful lot of work when, essentially, I don’t want anything to work for this regular user (not regedit, not powershell, and so many more), except I want them to be able to double click the VMWARE icon and start the virtual server.

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VM workstation sets off ms xbox game bar

June 23, 2019, 2:13 am
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VM workstation sets off ms Xbox game bar, this, in turn, lists vmworkstation in my "game" activity. While this isn't a massive problem I would like to fully understand what is going on.

 

I can use the game bar to record activity, very useful but I have better screen recording, for some its a privacy thing.

 

Any suggestions yo keep vmworkstatiom from registering its activity would be grateful.

 

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VM Ware workstation server is not available.

June 23, 2019, 10:34 pm
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Hi

 

I am evaluating VM Ware workstation Pro 15 on windows 10.

 

When I trying to share a VM, getting the bellow error:

 

I checked VM ware services, all services are running.

 

 

Can anyone please help me, if I am missing anything.

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How i understand if i go back to a snapshot?

June 24, 2019, 2:35 am
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Hi to all,

 

i tried to find a similar post but i didn't find anything, so i hope you can help me in this simple question.

 

In my work i use a lot snapshots; often, i need to understand if i'm precisely on a snapshot point, but i cannot understand it from the snapshot manager. In fact the "you are here" indication doesn't give me an indication if that point is on that snapshot or later.

 

There's any way to understand it? I mean, to understand if i went back to the snapshot or if i'm in a later position?

 

Thanks for the help,

 

Alvise

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Auto-mounted shares feature for Ubuntu guest is broken

June 24, 2019, 3:09 am
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I've googled through so many suggestions (both on this forum, blogs and stack exchange sites) for fixing this, but I cannot seem to conclude with anything else than this feature being utterly broken. People come up with manual workarounds where you manually mount the shares after boot, but I don't want workaround: I want the software I payed hundreds of euros for to work! That's why I don't use VirtualBox.

 

Today I have (yet again) wasted well over an hour doing

- reinstalling `open-vm-tools`

- reinstalling `open-vm-tools-desktop` (which according to an Ubuntu bug is where the actual fuse module for hgfs is located)

- reinstalling VMWare Tools (both with the above two packages removed, as well as when they are present, rebooting between every test)

 

While "everything else" works, auto-mounting of shares does not, even though the shares are visible:

 

$ vmware-hgfsclient

SharedDocuments

SharedDownloads

Desktop

 

P.S. Why do we get all this WYSIWYG crap that can't even format code, when all people need is the option of inputting Markdown triple quotes? #enterprise

 

ubuntu 18.10

open-vm-tools

ubuntu 18.04

ubuntu-guest

windows-host

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Win 10 guest stalls for a few minutes when the Win 10 host is making a System Image backup

June 24, 2019, 6:32 am
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I have VMware workstation Pro 15.1.0 on a high-end Dell Precision workstation running Win 10 v1809 in my office. 

 

I want to run guest VMs to do continuous automated product testing overnight.  I have my first guest all set up, and running the testing.  All's well except for one thing:  The host system is scheduled to do a VSS-integrated System Image backup (via wbadmin) at 2am every night, and at that time my automated tests get timeouts.

 

A video capture of a test running at the time the System Image has just started (i.e., seconds after) shows the VM just hangs for a few minutes.  It's as though the system just doesn't give it any time on the CPUs at all.  Then things take off again and all's well.

 

This is great hardware with a lot of cores and RAM and an array of m.2 flash drives.  It really should be able to do a volume snapshot and backup to an external USB drive while VMs continue to run.  I've seen this kind of guest stall happen before, with another workstation with older VMware versions and older host/guest operating systems.  At the time it was just an annoyance.  Now it's more important.

 

Is a VM stalling out for 2 or 3 minutes during a volume snapshot just something that's a given?  Can it be worked around (e.g., with configuration)?

 

I can throw out test results from around 2am, but I'd rather not have to.

 

Thanks in advance for any wisdom you have on this.

 

-Noel

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How to make VMWare send PC speaker sounds to the host PC speaker?

June 24, 2019, 9:38 am
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Good morning/afternoon/evening everybody. Currently I'm messing around with a particular malware that is capable of making use of the PC speaker. As I really need the host internal PC speaker to work instead of the virtual one, I'm asking that question. Is it really possible? And no, the volume mixer won't work as there's no PC speaker configurator present. Thanks in advance.

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Loading Boot logo... error in Windows 10 running VMware 15.1.0 pro

June 24, 2019, 11:20 am
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Hi all,

I am first time installed and want to use VMware in my Windows 10 machine. But after several process done, getting below error on Powe ON

Loading Boot logo...

bootlogo: invalid file format

Error setting up gfxboot

PFA for more details.

 

My PC details are:

1.png

 

2.png

 

VMware details:

On Powering:

3.png

Settings:

4.png

 

 

Any help to resolve will be appreciated.

Thank you.

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I can not get my VM to start up. I looked at logs but greek to me right now. Any ideas if my VM may be recoverable.

June 24, 2019, 1:47 pm
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This is what I get when I start VM.  I did test open a different VM and it did open so it is this VM specifically.

Log files

Not sure where to start looking to see if this is fixable.  Thanks for any assistance.

 

Ray

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windows cannot find vmware.exe. make sure you typed the name correctly

June 24, 2019, 8:08 pm
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today after 2 months without use my Workstation pro i get this error.

I uninstall and reinstall and get always the same error.

I have the files in my folders, i see the services up.

i try add the path to my enviromen variables but get the same error.

WhatsApp Image 2019-06-24 at 2.29.23 PM.jpeg

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Encrypted VM - Cannot delete second Harddisk

June 25, 2019, 12:03 am
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Hi,

I'm using Worstation 15 Pro (15.1.0) on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

One of my VM's is encrypted and password protected. The VM has two SCSI Harddisks. Bitlocker via virtual TPM is activated too.

I need to delete the second Harddisk.

Unfortunately I can't delete the Harddisk because I'm unable to decrypt the VM. The button to remove the encryption is greyed out.

I found a hint in the documentation that the power state must be "off" and not sleeping or hibernated to remove the encryption.

The machine is really off and Windows "Quickstart" is off too.

Does anyone has an idea on how to delete the second Harddisk?

 

TIA, Peter

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How can I get payed support for VMWare Workstation Pro?

June 25, 2019, 1:20 am
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You get 30 days of installation support when buying Workstation, but what if you need help after that? Say you are stuck by a bug?

I cannot find any way of buying support when browsing the site, and my attempts at buying so far has failed. Renewal of support contracts kind of assumes you HAVE HAD a contract to begin with. Workstation isn't listed in any of the categories, anyway.

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A fault has occurred causing a virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state.

June 25, 2019, 3:41 am
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Ive just received this error on one of my VM's :

A fault has occurred causing a virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state. If this fault had occurred outside of a virtual machine, it would have caused the physical machine to restart. The shutdown state can be reached by incorrectly configuring the virtual machine, a bug in the guest operating system, or a problem in VMware Workstation.

 

The VM was running fine when I powered it off last night. My other VM still works fine.

 

I'm not sure whether there was a windows update last night or night. I have restored the host back to the last restore point I have which was 4 days ago, but this has made no difference.

 

Any help would be very much appreciated

 

Cheers

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Workstation 15.0.4 Pro Crashing with svga unrecoverable error when monitor disconnected

June 25, 2019, 4:15 am
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I'm running Workstation 15.04 build-12990004 on Win10 host, with a Ubuntu 18.04 guest.
I normally run with three external monitors, connected via a Dell D6000 dock (which integrates DisplayLink technology).

 

If I leave the VM running, disconnect form my main dock, plug into a meeting room dock (which has a D6000 connected to a single monitor), then disconnect from the dock, Workstation reliably crashes with the following error:

 

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (svga)
VERIFY bora\devices\svga\svgaDXView.c:448

 

 

Display settings has Accelerate 3D graphics checked (seems to make no difference to the crashing).

 

I've collected support data, if you let me know where to put it.

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