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Windows + Ubuntu | Nested Virtualization | Ubuntu VM Crashes

Hey,

I'm using a physical Windows 10 PC with VMware Workstation 14 on it.

I've created an Ubuntu 18.4 VM and inside this VM I also installed VMware Workstation.

My goal is to create all my VMs inside this Ubuntu VM, because I want to integrate it with GNS3 and Ubuntu is better for that purpose than windows.

I have enabled this two fields on the Ubuntu VM, so there should not be any problems with Nested Virtualization:

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All my VMs' Disks should be located on my physical computer and my Ubuntu VM reach them using Workstation shared folder ["/mnt/hfgs/Spageteach" when "Spageteach" is the shared folder].

But every time I start a VM inside the Ubuntu VM, the Ubuntu crashes and reboots.

"Unicorn-Firewall-MDS" is the VM inside the Ubuntu VM, and I've attached its logs.

I'm keep seeing these messages on the Log, so it may be something related to the fact that the CD-Rom is on a Shared Folder?

2018-12-14T15:09:25.578+02:00| vmx| I125: OBJLIB-FILEBE : FileBEOpen: can't open '/mnt/hgfs/Spageteach/Project/Virtual Machines/Unicorn-Firewall-MDS/auto detect' : Could not find the file (393218).

2018-12-14T15:09:25.579+02:00| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-DSCPTR: DescriptorOpenInt: failed to open '/mnt/hgfs/Spageteach/Project/Virtual Machines/Unicorn-Firewall-MDS/auto detect': Could not find the file (60002)

2018-12-14T15:09:25.580+02:00| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-LINK  : "/mnt/hgfs/Spageteach/Project/Virtual Machines/Unicorn-Firewall-MDS/auto detect" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified). 

2018-12-14T15:09:25.580+02:00| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/mnt/hgfs/Spageteach/Project/Virtual Machines/Unicorn-Firewall-MDS/auto detect" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).

2018-12-14T15:09:25.581+02:00| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-LIB   : Failed to open 'auto detect' with flags 0x7 The system cannot find the file specified (25).

I don't know, this is just a guess, as I'm not familiar enough with these topics.

Can you assist?

Thanks.

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bluefirestorm
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It appears you have a Ryzen 5 1600 CPU.

I am afraid I don't have good news for you. There is another post that shows there seems to be problems with nested virtualisation with Ryzen CPU. You can look at this thread Re: Nested virtualization on Workstation 14 PRO on AMD Ryzen

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bluefirestorm
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It appears you have a Ryzen 5 1600 CPU.

I am afraid I don't have good news for you. There is another post that shows there seems to be problems with nested virtualisation with Ryzen CPU. You can look at this thread Re: Nested virtualization on Workstation 14 PRO on AMD Ryzen