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DingoDangoDongo
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VMWare Black Screen

So I googled how to fix this problem and none of the fixes worked

This is the log

https://pastebin.com/raw/Thb3eQXW

I was wondering if this has something to do with my computers bios settings? Because I remembered that when I was using an Android Emulator I had to enable virtualization somewhere in the BIOS. Would that be the case here?

*EDIT*

Apparently with v14 something was causing the VM to not work correctly. I changed to v7 and the VM worked. Not sure as to what was changed between the versions (Considering there is a huge difference in version numbers) that caused the VM to not work on the newest version.

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wila
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Hi,

Good to hear you managed to resolve this.

My best guess is that your VM has an old VMware Tools installed. A Windows 10 version 17.03 needs to have a display driver from a fairly recent VMware Tools in order to work with v11 or higher virtual hardware, otherwise you'll end up with a black screen.

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Wil

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