Vmware workstation 14 freezes windows 10 free.VMWare Guest periodic freezes..then comes back

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thank you in advance I can replicate it very easily. Users found this page by searching for:. Your name or email address: Do you already have an account? No, create an account now. Only a VM reset via VMware control helps to get out of this freeze. You can switch from the default Wayland X protocol to X11 protocol, which can resolve the desktop freeze.

ANy progress on this? I’m still getting freezes whether I enable or disable drag and drop. I have Windows 10 Pro with nvidia gpus host, trying to run Ubuntu Under Xorg there are no problems. I would prefer to use Wayland as there is higher efficiency in web video sessions. Same issues here. I guess this is a bug to be investigated : On my system vmware-kms segfaults cause a whole chain of segfaults in the Wayland compositor which in turn restarts Sway and I lose all open windows.

This is hardly annoying and I would agree to help with logs etc. The crashes occur on a near daily basis in random moments. Instruct me with debugging settings and I see what I can do to help tracking this down.

Where does “vmware-kms” come into play here. The name is not ringing a bell, but maybe the coffee has not kicked in. I have asked the video driver team to watch this issue for your response. They would know what specific logs would help here. I have the same problem on VMware Fusion Pro 12, but if I change the display settings to always use high performance graphics Fedora no longer freezes so that’s my work around.

Host OS: Arch Linux 5. I see that xwayland crashes right before vmx-mks and vmx-svga. I’ll try to work around the issue by migrating all applications from xwayland to wayland native.

Let’s see if those issues still appear when VMware Workstation is the only xwayland app running. I still have the same issues with freezes after several hours of running VMware Workstation on a daily basis when I enable 3d acceleration.

The setup changed a bit as I now use kernel 5. That’s a hybrid setup on a Dell With all VMs having 3d acceleration disabled it gives me no freezes throughout the day.

I’m surprised it’s still happening to you, many including myself haven’t had the problem in a very long time. Maybe adjust something there regarding VMX program settings. I’m having extreme lag to the point of basically needing to hard power off the vm using vmware workstation pro with gpu acceleration on on a ubuntu Skip to content.

Star 1. New issue. Jump to bottom. Copy link. The problems started to crop up, accompanied by a pop-up message from Compatibility Assistant that says:. Check for an updated version of this app that runs on Windows. Judging from the posts on VMware forums, several cumulative updates lead to this problem. These are:. According to a statement by the VMware developers, once you installed one of these updates, the VMware Workstation Pro software stopped working. The updates affected all versions of VMware Workstation Pro before version One of the easiest solutions to bypass the block is to rename the VMware executable file.

Several users on the linked VMware forums reported that this workaround worked, and you could try it to check if it works on your end. We mentioned earlier that various cumulative updates blocked the VMware Workstation Pro program from working.

Some users reported that uninstalling these updates resolved the problem, and VMware Workstation Pro worked again. Note that the updates will still auto-install after a while. To avoid this, you will want to defer future updates. To do so:. Then I remembered that I’d done a bit of housekeeping and tidied up my ‘Virtual Machines’ folder to provide some logic, as I share them with other PCs on my network. When I opened the VM directly from Workstation, by browsing to the new location, it still hung, puzzling me further as it opened just fine in Player.

Then I went to the library section of the Workstation, and removed every one of the client VM references – just the shortcuts NOT the files. Then when I opened up Workstation, it opened cleanly, and I could then browse to the VM I wanted to open, and start it up with no issues whatsoever.

Not sure if this is. My session always freezes when it looses focus for a certain period of time. Usually this happens when i move focus away from my monitor with the vmware session to my laptop screen to do some local work. When i return, the session is frozen and i have to wait until i get a timeout message. After that, i can just restart the session. It is like this for years now and it is annoying. I’d like to share my experience. So annoying it was I decided to downgrade to workstation pro No matter if I tried workstation pro A couple of days ago I just got a new laptop in replacement of the Lenovo X1.

I gave it another try to workstation pro No more problems. I do have exactely the same issue: after loosing the focus for some time, I return to the VM and I find it frozen. I switched to my Mac on which the problem does not exist. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Windows Windows 10 Search Community member. Base windows 10 is crashing with below errors I tried removing Mcafee antivirus, tried disabling VMware USB arbitrator service, enabled virtualization technology on VM settings also but issue persists.

I have tried different versions of VMware workstation and result is same another observation is that I am getting below popup that some files are deleted. This thread is locked. I have the same question 0. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. DaveM Independent Advisor. Hi nhsk4u I am Dave, I will help you with this. Please upload any minidump files you have, I will check those to see if they provide any insight into a potential cause of the system crashes.

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Details required :. Your email address will not be published. Then I went to the library section of the Workstation, and removed every one of the client VM references – just the shortcuts NOT the files. Judging from the posts on VMware forums, several cumulative updates lead to this problem.

 
 

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And I can’ downgrade to it. But maybe it’s RDP. Have no idea. Why the problem occurs on the second RDP session or whatever that “second” really means, a question arised above is still obscure EDIT: There was already an answer before ending this post. Yes, that is what collapse literally means.

I just wanted to make sure. It was disabled and virtualization of CPU as well. This doesn’t help. I’ve just re-tested: I – tried to close Visual Studio window with projects reload.

Because the last freeze was minutes ago. RaSystemlord wila. I’ve mixed up with forum interface to edit a reply. Instead of that I pressed a “correct answer” because word correct also means edit in some languages and set your answer as correct, while it’s wrong. There is still no solution! I’ve added a screenshot to display home-host-guest relations.

Guest vmware machine works in full screen mode. It sounds very much like a not enough available resources issue.

Is your Host memory allocation at the edge? You might not notice this when you first start your RDP-session, but when you “rejoin”, you will notice it an interrupt, because nothing is supposed to happen. Running out of memory, will cause an interrupt AND hard disk operation at the max. No acceleration. Also agree. No difference. Now I have MB for single disc on guest machine and no swap for host machine. What should I check? I just need to add the host office machine runs no services or app, but VMWare.

Where can I get instructions and tools to measure historical data because during the freeze moment I can’t check which process eats memory. Leaving just 1 core for the host can create CPU scheduling issues.

I’m not sure that I am following what you are saying with “reduce to a minimum”, sounds like you are talking about having reduced the swap file size. Are you saying that you set “no swap” for the host? By default Windows handles the swap file size itself. You can limit that to a minimum or even disable it, but that won’t fix issues once the host runs out of resources.

Having no swap space when the host runs out of RAM will instead create issues. However, I cannot understand how much you have reserved space for your VM and how much memory you have allocated to Guest? Perhaps you mean SDD? That will deteriorate the disk fast if it is from an older generation and perhaps you feel the symptoms of that already?

The solution is easy and rather affordable: a second disk, which holds all the data including your VM, or if you have a laptop, an external disk with USB-3 interface with SDD inside. The disk cover costs under 20 euros and the SDD-disk is a standard one M.

However, none of those explain why it happens with the 2nd RDP usage. Running out of memory and a very slow disk, would explain everything. Running out of memory, would mean that you need to have a badly behaving application, which will allocate much more memory than it needs and which behavior you cannot foresee. Do not take swap OUT and think that it fixes anything. I would return everything to defaults and see what happens. You need to do something about your disk, if that is why you have done this see my post above.

I could agree, if the problem appears without RDP as well. But it related to RDP only network connection. So it means that 1 core is enough for host.

Also, I follow this rule for years and never meet any problems. I reduced size for host and disabled for guest when I tried experiments to figure out issue.

Previous time I increased this size. Guest machine: 21 of RAM is installed. No load. No, I didn’t. If the problem was with a disk, I could meet it working on host machine directly.

And here it also works perfectly. I tried, but I see nothing special or unusual. Some increase of cpu, disk or network. It could be good to have logs of some system profiler to find which app starts to eat resources and which type of the resource. What used to work doesn’t keep on working after updates or XYZ and you’ll have to adapt. Seems you are using Player. You can still apply these settings via the vmx, you’ll have to google how-to do that as I don’t have those settings here ready and I would have to do the same..

Others complained that even after uninstalling the software, the pop-up message reappeared. This happens because some residual files are left behind after uninstalling the software.

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