VMWareWorkstation 11 - upgrade to Windows 10 not possible - VMWare SVGA 3D incompatible

[chinaski007]

Hello,

i upgraded my VMWare Workstation 10 to 11 for ~120 EUR  because it promised support for Windows 10.

When i try to upgrade a Win 8.1 pro guest to Windows 10 (not preview), i can't do it because Windows tells me:

VMWare SVGA 3D incompatible

So i am really worry about that, in particular as there seems to be a newer version of VMWare Workstation, VMWS 12 Pro,

which again claims to be ready for Windows 10 and which again (a couple of months later) would cost ~ EUR 100

for upgrade.

I would expect, that VMWare Workstation can provide a SVGA adapter that is compatible with Windows 10.

Does the VMWare Team has a solution for this ?

Thank you

[dariusd]

The error you are seeing is due to a defect in the Windows Upgrade Appraiser.  See the following article for a workaround: VMware KB: Upgrading to Windows 10 using Software Update in Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 virtual mach...

The following thread (and the specific post linked) has a potential workaround supplied by a fellow user: Re: Fix for Windows 10 Upgrade - VMware SVGA 3D issues

Cheers,

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Darius

[chinaski007]

Hello,

thank you for the hints.

If i try this solution (edit jason file)

     Re: Fix for Windows 10 Upgrade - VMware SVGA 3D issues

I still can't reserve. The 3D SVGA error disappears and it tells me my machine is compatible (just no touchscreen)

but it still says my PC can't be upgraded.

The 2nd solution, unistall tools, set to win 10 does not work as well.

In this scenario, i get no internet and network connection.

My guest is bridge on a Win 8.1 pro 64 bit Host.

Do you have an idea what's still wrong?

Thank you

[chinaski007]

I did the update via the media creation tool.

This worked, have no windows 10.

However, now i have no network in this virtual machines.

All my guests are bridged and have network.

This windows 10 guest has not.

How many time this all takes. Who is paying this back...?

Please, make better software, charge less money.

[NoelC1]

There is no basic reason you can't have a working Windows 10 guest system under VMware Workstation 11.  My Win 10 guest works perfectly in VMware Workstation 11.  Networking is bridged.

But be careful what you wish for...

Once on the network, Windows 10 is the most promiscuous operating system online ever built.  It tries constantly to send data from your system all over the world, even with a large number of measures in place to thwart that.  Microsoft would call it "cloud-integrated".  I call it "privacy-invading".

-Noel

[gbohn]

> Once on the network, Windows 10 is the most promiscuous operating system online ever built.

  Yes, and don't forget some of the other 'lovable' features of Windows 10. Like forced update acceptance (Whatever MS wants to push on you/change, you must accept).

  And, they won't be necessarily telling you what's in the  updates you're forced to accept. Local computer searches that first go through Bing,  Ahh, don't get me started 😞

  It seems to me that Windows 10 has adopted all the worst aspects of the phone world mentality and brought them to the desktop (The service provider really owns/controls your system, etc.)

[NoelC1]

I've tamed most of its tendency to blab (one word: firewall), and it only updates when I tell it to (gpedit.msc + windows update hider tool), but it's simply an ongoing battle to keep ahead of Microsoft's changes.  THEY want it online, and I don't, and they have more engineers.

It's their relentless process of continuing down a ridiculous path all the while undoing my settings that's got me convinced to keep Win 10 bottled up as a test VM only for now.  I skipped Win 8 as well, though finally adopted 8.1 when they finally saw the light and reigned in their idiocy some (and a bunch of 3rd party corrective programs became available).  Whether they even CAN do that with Win 10 remains to be seen.  I actually doubt they have the talent to do so.

-Noel