VM crashes with signal 11

[terakin]

Hello,

    I am running VMware Player with Linux host (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit with all latest patches applied) and several VMs such as Trusty alpha and Saucy, Windows 7 and XP.

    I happened to receive an unexpected crash today that says:

VMware Player unrecoverable error: (mks)

Unexpected signal: 11.

A log file is available in "/home/vmware/Ubuntu-14.04-alpha/vmware.log". 

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    when I power on the VM.

    Related log file is attached.

    This error happens on multiple (=another) VMs with same error message. Are anyone have any solutions ?

[terakin]

Self solved.

The cause of this problem may be a confused behavior of graphic driver, namely fglrx. By uninstalling fglrx and related packages (and rebooting), everything is now going very fine. Of course, I can use VMware Player with no problem.

    sudo apt-get uninstall --purge fglrx fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle

I suppose Ubuntu team may spread problematical updates in a few days relating to ATI proprietary driver. It affects desktop Unity integration as well as VMware, and all things are now going normal.

[barrowes]

A temporary workaround not involving uninstalling packages or rebooting is to:

1) open vmplayer

2) go to "virtual machine" in the menu bar

3) click on virtual machine settings

4) uncheck the box to use 3D graphics

5) start the virtual machine

[JacquesRici]

Solved on a Windows Server 2k8 R2 in ESXi 6.0:

-uninstall a unknown device;
-uninstall vmwaretools;

-install vmwaretools.