Tks
Colin
Nothing like answering yourself as proof of early onset dementia... 🙂
This is now fixed this on my main VM and I will verify later today if the same fix has resolved for the others (I strongly suspect it has)...
I will also check what happens if I restart the host and run VMWare Player as a normal user and report back here but I have work to take care of first...
Note: Abhijeet Nadgouda from VMWare Support, while he did not have the solution at the time, provided an exemplary initial intake for this query and my commendation has been communicated to his management! 🙂
Update:
I know I shouldn't reply a 6 years old post, but because it's the first and only result on google when searching for this problem, I'll make an exception
I have the same problem as described, "No battery is detected" in Win7 all Guest (Win8.1 / DELL E6430), and after spending several days on trying to find a permanent solution I finally succeed:
Some laptops (like E6420 and E6430) can use 3 battery at the same time: one in the usual battery slot, one in the DVD drive bay, and one in the docking port. This result in 3 battery detectable in Windows. Thus under the "Batteries" section in device manager there are 3 devices named "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery", each one is related to one battery port, and because I only have one battery (showed as battery #1 in taskbar notification area), I logically disabled the last two "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery" in device manager. The problem is now "solved"!
However, I found that: Everything is working when on Win7 host (no need to tamper the device manager), but it's not the case on Win8.1 and Win10 hosts. I tested on clean install with VMware Workstation 15.1.0 and only 3 drivers (latest versions) installed: Intel MEC driver (chipset), Free Fall Data Protection (chipset / protect hdd from damage caused by drops), NVIDIA driver (display).
Furthermore I have the latest BIOS version, and configured in legacy or UEFI mode doesn't change anything.
I believe that the problem is related to Windows, but an option in VMware to choose which battery to report info could be a solution too.
Hope this will help someone and sorry for the unearthing :smileysilly: