I'm thinking the os is locking out the vm and causing windows to crash with stop code: SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
My log file has these oddities
2019-07-22T14:25:47.724-05:00| vmui| I125: HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.
2019-07-22T14:25:47.724-05:00| vmui| I125: HostDeviceInfoGetDiskInfo: CreateFile \\.\PhysicalDrive0 failed: Access is denied
2019-07-22T14:25:47.724-05:00| vmui| I125: HostDeviceInfoGetDiskInfo: CreateFile \\.\PhysicalDrive1 failed: Access is denied
2019-07-22T14:25:47.724-05:00| vmui| I125: HostDeviceInfoGetDiskInfo: CreateFile \\.\PhysicalDrive2 failed: Access is denied
2019-07-22T14:25:47.724-05:00| vmui| I125: HostDeviceInfoGetDiskInfo: CreateFile \\.\PhysicalDrive3 failed: Access is denied
2019-07-22T14:25:47.724-05:00| vmui| I125: HostDeviceInfoGetDiskInfo: CreateFile \\.\PhysicalDrive4 failed: Access is denied
2019-07-22T14:25:47.724-05:00| vmui| I125: HostDeviceInfoGetDiskInfo: CreateFile \\.\PhysicalDrive5 failed: Access is denied
2019-07-22T14:25:48.022-05:00| usbCCIDEnumCards| I125: USB-CCID: Could not establish context: SCARD_E_NO_SERVICE(0x8010001d).
2019-07-22T14:25:50.107-05:00| vmui| I125: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Retry time expired (2000, C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\settings.ini.lck); last error Access is denied (5)
2019-07-22T14:25:50.107-05:00| vmui| W115: FILE: FileLockCreateEntryDirectory creation failure on 'C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\settings.ini.lck': The data is invalid
2019-07-22T14:25:50.325-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product player-linux
2019-07-22T14:25:50.329-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product tools-darwin
2019-07-22T14:25:50.329-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product tools-darwinPre15
2019-07-22T14:25:50.329-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product tools-freebsd
2019-07-22T14:25:50.329-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product tools-linux
2019-07-22T14:25:50.329-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product tools-linuxPreGlibc25
2019-07-22T14:25:50.329-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product tools-netware
2019-07-22T14:25:50.329-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product tools-solaris
2019-07-22T14:25:50.329-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product tools-winPre2k
2019-07-22T14:25:50.329-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product tools-winPreVista
2019-07-22T14:25:50.329-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product tools-windows
2019-07-22T14:25:50.329-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product ws-linux
2019-07-22T14:25:50.329-05:00| vmui| W115: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: Install database empty! Overriding install state of ws-windows
2019-07-22T14:25:50.330-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product player-linux
2019-07-22T14:25:50.348-05:00| vmui| I125: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product ws-linux
2019-07-22T14:25:50.348-05:00| vmui| W115: cui::ComponentMgrCDS::RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: Install database empty! Overriding install state of ws-windows
2019-07-22T14:25:50.502-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet subnet addr
2019-07-22T14:25:50.503-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:50.587-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:50.670-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet subnet addr
2019-07-22T14:25:50.671-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:50.748-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet subnet addr
2019-07-22T14:25:50.749-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:50.833-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet subnet addr
2019-07-22T14:25:50.834-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:50.887-05:00| vmui| I125: CVMUIView::UpdateView - showMks (no).
2019-07-22T14:25:50.912-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet subnet addr
2019-07-22T14:25:50.913-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:50.985-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet subnet addr
2019-07-22T14:25:50.986-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:51.070-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet subnet addr
2019-07-22T14:25:51.071-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:51.156-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:51.223-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet subnet addr
2019-07-22T14:25:51.224-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:51.247-05:00| vmui| I125: wui::dialog::UsbArbitratorDlg::UsbAskConnectListen
2019-07-22T14:25:51.255-05:00| vmui| I125: LOCALE windows-1252 -> NULL User=409 System=409
2019-07-22T14:25:51.299-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet subnet addr
2019-07-22T14:25:51.300-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:51.373-05:00| vmui| I125: CVMUIApp::OpenTabInt: opened
2019-07-22T14:25:51.380-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet subnet addr
2019-07-22T14:25:51.381-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:51.396-05:00| vmui| I125: VMMgr::OpenVM (cfgPath=G:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMs\Wilcom-WindowsXP\Windows XP 2.vmx)
2019-07-22T14:25:51.426-05:00| host-15184| W115: FILE: FileLockMemberValues removing problematic lock file 'G:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMs\Wilcom-WindowsXP\Windows XP 2.vmx.lck\M64178.lck'
2019-07-22T14:25:51.431-05:00| host-15184| I125: G:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMs\Wilcom-WindowsXP\Windows XP 2.vmx: Reloading config state.
2019-07-22T14:25:51.450-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet subnet addr
2019-07-22T14:25:51.451-05:00| host-14732| W115: CVMNet::GetVMNetList: Unable to get vnet display name
2019-07-22T14:25:51.455-05:00| host-15184| I125: VMHS: Transitioned vmx/execState/val to poweredOff
2019-07-22T14:25:52.934-05:00| vmui| I125: wui::control::MKSPanel::UpdateMKSLayout: MKS view is not initialized or not rendering.
So far so good, read Windows 10 crash when opening a virtual machine in vmware
Looks like Avast was killing the system....
Yeah trying to disable avast shield but not getting any option for that. Any body knows how to disable it?