VMware Player 6 hangs on start-up (Windows 7) after Tools update

[matth1j]

Hi - I'm using VMware Player under Windows 7, with Xubuntu as my guest OS.

I upgraded to v6 last week, and didn't have any problems. I was using it ok initially this morning, then upgraded to the latest VMplayer tools (as prompted). Looked like it went ok. I did some stuff in Windows, then went back to my VMplayer window - it was 'Not Responding' and went that sort of light grey colour.

Left it for a few minutes, but no change, so I used Windows Task manager to kill the task. Tried starting VMplayer again, but it won't start up at all - I just get the dialogue which would normally show me the list of OSs to choose from, but none of the text or graphics get displayed.

Task Manager shows the vmware-vmx.exe process as taking approx 100k memory, and hardly any CPU time.

Any suggestions? Reinstall player?

Cheers

John

[matth1j]

Well I think it's ok now - I rebooted the host (Windows), tried Player, and it started up. When I selected Xubuntu as the guest OS, it booted up rather than just carry on from where it left off, but other than that all seems well.

Panic over

John