VMware Workstation 14 Player, Host system freezes

[DNick]

Hi Community,

I have been using VMWare player for quite a while without any problems on Windows 10 Pro.

My SSD of my Host system died a couple of weeks ago and i reinstalled Windows 10 Pro on a new one. Since then I am facing the following problem.

Whatever guest system i start (Windows, Linux, Android), the host system completely freezes after one minute. After another minute i get a bluescrren because of the watchdog. I've tried to disable all AntiVirus software, Firewalls without any success.

The latest graphics card driver is installed. I've also tried giving the virtual machines more and less hardware resources without any changes.

Problem occured with Windows 10 Pro - 1709 and 1803.

VMware® Workstation 14 Player 14.1.2 build-8497320

VMware player has been reinstalled/repaired many times.

Have you heared about similar issues?

Is there a logfile where i can look for irregularities? I assume it's a driver problem.

Kind regards,

DNick

[Scillonian]

It could be an incompatibility between the SSD and the host. I've had this happen and in my case a change of SSD brand from Crucial to Samsung solved the problem.

[stevegtripp]

I'm having the same issue with Workstation 14 and Linux Mint 19.  I've also had this issue with Workstation 12 and Linux Mint 18.3.

[DNick]

I just tried to change the current Intenso SSD to a Kingston SSD.

I cloned the disks with the operation system (no fresh install).

The problem remained the same