installing vmware player slows down Windows Host boot to about 5 min...

[piwi65]

Hi @all!

ive set up my HP 6910p Laptop completeley new with win vista business and all of the nessesary HP drivers and applications.

my computer works well since ive installed the newest vm player 3.0.1.

after that the windows boot takes abaut 6-8 minutes till i can login.

after uninstall vmware the computer boots as fast as he should again.

i can reproduce it at any time.

the vista event log has only one entry that depends on the startup with the vmware player: "Der Dienst 'VMware Authorization Service' wurde nicht richtig gestartet"

by the way: before ive set up my computer new the vm player worked fine (2.5 and 3.0.0)...

Has anyone an idea what i can do?? Please help me :_|

regards from germany

Peter

[continuum]

you may try to disable the phone-home stuff of VMplayer - like check for updates and so on.

It also does not like misconfigured proxies.




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[piwi65]

thank you for your reply!

ive unchecked all of these funktions and no proxy is running. ive had a similar problem with the version 2.5 at my home desktop.

ive got a bluescreen after installing the vmware player. workaround: connect a simple serial mouse to the mouseport (in addition to my logitech 2,4MHz MX revolution)... after that ive had to reinstall the player and everything worked well...

now im convinced that there are some hardwaredriver that causes trouble. ive no ideo how to indentify that bad one...

[piwi65]

Update: When i deactivate the "VMWare Authorization Service" my Host ist starting as fast as it should... but i cannot restart the service automatically... ?:|

[continuum]

Windows 7 host ?

then set the authd service to "delayed start"




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[piwi65]

Thank you for your answer!

yes, its a useful workaround (Win Vista BE32) :smileygrin: i'll monitore the next startups and when it works fine i'll set this thead to "solved"

[ChrisKas10]

Just a "me too" post.

I'm having the exact same issue with an older HP 6515b laptop. I'll try messing with that service and see if that helps. I did notice that I was getting an error about it starting. Wonder if we're missing a dependency on the service?