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CentOS Stream 9 Hangs at GRUB menu on VMware Workstation Pro 17.2

orudie — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:37:54 GMT

Hello,

New Install. CentOS Stream 9 Hangs at GRUB menu on VMware Workstation Pro 17.2.

During bootup the grub menu is stuck for about 5 minutes, then CentOS Stream 9 boots quickly.

After bootup and logging in when typing commands the text input/output is very slow and laggy.

Using Windows 11, Samsung NVME disk.

Attaching screenshot from the console which has vmwgfx errors

Any suggestions?

Re: CentOS Stream 9 Hangs at GRUB menu on VMware Workstation Pro 17.2

Technogeezer — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:14:29 GMT

Intel 12th gen (Alder Lake CPU)?

If so, try shutting down Workstation and disabling the power throttling setting for the vmware-vmx.exe application:

powercfg /powerthrottling disable /path "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\x64\vmware-vmx.exe"

Re: CentOS Stream 9 Hangs at GRUB menu on VMware Workstation Pro 17.2

orudie — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 08:50:02 GMT

intel 13th gen, running the suggested powercfg command did not help

Re: CentOS Stream 9 Hangs at GRUB menu on VMware Workstation Pro 17.2

orudie — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:11:43 GMT

Using 13th gen Intel CPU. As suggested I turned off VMware workstation, ran the powercfg command in windows cmd as admin user. This did not help.

Re: CentOS Stream 9 Hangs at GRUB menu on VMware Workstation Pro 17.2

Technogeezer — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 13:26:27 GMT

Two other things that I can suggest:

Lower the virtual machine’s hardware compatibility to Workstation 16 or 15 and see if any changes.

Disable Hyper-V so that the VM runs under the VMware hypervisor.

Re: CentOS Stream 9 Hangs at GRUB menu on VMware Workstation Pro 17.2

orudie — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:07:18 GMT

In windows features I already had Hyper-V unchecked. How do I make sure that VM runs under the VMware hypervisor?

Do I need to check mark next to Windows Hypervisor Platform and Virtual Machine Platform in Windows Features?

I tried by creating VM with hardware version 16.2, 16, and it did not help.
When trying to create VM with hardware version 15 and below, it says CentOS Stream 9 is not compatible.

Re: CentOS Stream 9 Hangs at GRUB menu on VMware Workstation Pro 17.2

orudie — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 17:58:27 GMT

got it resolved by removing hyper-v role entirely from windows 11 by following this guide

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/application-management/virtualization-apps-not-work-with-hyper-v

Re: CentOS Stream 9 Hangs at GRUB menu on VMware Workstation Pro 17.2

ClementCherlin — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:47:43 GMT

Same issue with host Windows Enterprise 10.0.19045.3208, guest Ubuntu 23.04 on VMWare Workstation Pro 16.2.5, Alder Lake-P CPU.

Running the powercfg command didn't help, and Hyper-V is not installed.