Can't start ANY! virtual machine on VMWorkstation 16 after a few days of usage it (Windows 10)

[stalek71]

I have a problem on Windows 10. Yesterday I just closed virtual machines on my notebook as usual (I use Workstation 16 for some time already)

and today no any virtual machine is able to start. It shows all the time spinning logo of VMWare bios. 

mksSandbox.log has old date and contents. Tail of vmware.log has new date/time and is below...

2020-09-24T10:27:08.047+02:00| vmx| I005: VMXAIOMGR: Using: simple=Compl

2020-09-24T10:27:08.049+02:00| vmx| I005: WORKER: Creating new group with maxThreads=1 (20)

2020-09-24T10:27:08.053+02:00| vmx| I005: WORKER: Creating new group with maxThreads=16 (36)

2020-09-24T10:27:08.056+02:00| vmx| I005: FeatureCompat: No VM masks.

2020-09-24T10:27:08.056+02:00| vmx| I005: TimeTracker host to guest rate conversion 699561783 @ 2592001000Hz -> 0 @ 2592001000Hz

2020-09-24T10:27:08.056+02:00| vmx| I005: TimeTracker host to guest rate conversion ((x * 2147483648) >> 31) + -699561783

2020-09-24T10:27:08.056+02:00| vmx| I005: Disabling TSC scaling since host does not support it.

2020-09-24T10:27:08.056+02:00| vmx| I005: TSC offsetting enabled.

2020-09-24T10:27:08.056+02:00| vmx| I005: timeTracker.globalProgressMaxAllowanceMS: 2000

2020-09-24T10:27:08.056+02:00| vmx| I005: timeTracker.globalProgressToAllowanceNS: 1000

2020-09-24T10:27:08.056+02:00| vmx| I005: MKS PowerOn

2020-09-24T10:27:08.058+02:00| mks| I005: VTHREAD 8580 "mks"

2020-09-24T10:27:08.058+02:00| mks| I005: MKS thread is alive

2020-09-24T10:27:08.058+02:00| svga| I005: VTHREAD 14744 "svga"

2020-09-24T10:27:08.058+02:00| svga| I005: SVGA thread is alive

2020-09-24T10:27:08.058+02:00| mks| I005: MKS: SSE2=1, SSSE3=1, SSE4_1=1

2020-09-24T10:27:08.062+02:00| mouse| I005: VTHREAD 14736 "mouse"

2020-09-24T10:27:08.062+02:00| mks| I005: MKS-HookKeyboard: RegQueryValueEx(LowLevelHooksTimeout) failed: The system cannot find the file specified (2)

2020-09-24T10:27:08.062+02:00| kbh| I005: VTHREAD 14732 "kbh"

2020-09-24T10:27:08.064+02:00| mks| I005: MKS Win32: Registering top level window (0x307a8) to receive session change notification.

2020-09-24T10:27:08.064+02:00| mks| I005: Current Display Settings:

2020-09-24T10:27:08.064+02:00| mks| I005:    Display: 0 size: 1920x1080  position: (0, 0) name: \\.\DISPLAY1

2020-09-24T10:27:08.065+02:00| mks| I005: MKS Win32: MIL: 0x4000

2020-09-24T10:27:08.065+02:00| mks| I005: MKS-RenderMain: PowerOn allowed MKSBasicOps DX11Renderer DX11BasicRenderer ISBRenderer

2020-09-24T10:27:08.065+02:00| mks| I005: MKS-RenderMain: Collecting RenderOps caps from ISBRenderer

2020-09-24T10:27:08.066+02:00| mks| I005: MKS-RenderMain: Starting ISBRenderer

2020-09-24T10:27:08.067+02:00| mks| I005: ISBRendererComm: mksSandbox command-line: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\x64\mksSandbox.exe --logFile C:\VMWare\Manjaro\mksSandbox.log --pipeInfo \\.\pipe\vmware\mksSandbox\mksSandbox-52 6a e4 5e 3f 55 c8 b7-86 30 1e d7 5d 41 12 3a

[hahakiki2010]

What's your Host OS and graphic driver version?

[stalek71]

I use Lenovo ThinkPad P53. It has

It has Windows 10 Pro, version 2004, build 19041.508, Experience pack 120.2212.31.0.

More info is below...

[Display]

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit

DirectX version: 12.0

GPU processor: Quadro RTX 4000

Driver version: 443.17

Driver Type: DCH

Direct3D API version: 12

Direct3D feature level: 12_1

CUDA Cores: 2560

Core clock: 1380 MHz

Memory data rate: 12.00 Gbps

Memory interface: 256-bit

Memory bandwidth: 384.06 GB/s

Total available graphics memory: 24442 MB

Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB GDDR6

System video memory: 0 MB

Shared system memory: 16250 MB

Video BIOS version: 90.04.4D.00.2A

IRQ: Not used

Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen3

Device Id: 10DE 1EB6 229717AA

Part Number: 4914 0010

[Components]

nvui.dll 8.17.14.4317 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.14.4317 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvxdbat.dll 8.17.14.4317 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvxdapix.dll 8.17.14.4317 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

NVCPL.DLL 8.17.14.4317 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvCplUIR.dll 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel

nvCplUI.exe 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel

nvWSSR.dll 26.21.14.4317 NVIDIA Workstation Server

nvWSS.dll 26.21.14.4317 NVIDIA Workstation Server

nvViTvSR.dll 26.21.14.4317 NVIDIA Video Server

nvViTvS.dll 26.21.14.4317 NVIDIA Video Server

nvLicensingS.dll 6.14.14.4317 NVIDIA Licensing Server

nvDevToolS.dll 26.21.14.4317 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

nvDispSR.dll 26.21.14.4317 NVIDIA Display Server

nvDispS.dll 26.21.14.4317 NVIDIA Display Server

NVCUDA.DLL 26.21.14.4317 NVIDIA CUDA 10.2.177 driver

nvGameSR.dll 26.21.14.4317 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

nvGameS.dll 26.21.14.4317 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

[hahakiki2010]

I also need the mksSandbox.log and vmware.log for further investigation. Please help to upload the full log file as attached.

Thanks

BTW, what's your guest OS version?

Best Regards,

Yan

[stalek71]

Hi Yan,

unfortunately I have no any old log files anymore. I use Workstation for software development and I needed it working so I removed v.16 from my host and installed 15.6. To start virtual machines I changed hardware compatibility to 16 in *.vmx files and it started working. Of course I removed any log files to see what is the after a fresh start of vm's...

I was not able to start any virtual machines on my host. I was trying to start Win10 Pro and Manjaro Linux guests...

Kind regards,

Alek

[stalek71]

I remember that mks log was old. When I removed it from Manjaro guest folder it has not been created again.

[stalek71]

Removal of v.16, removal of it's folder in Prog Files + user's AppData and installation of it again didn't help also.

[sppedy]

Notoce same type failure, try to remove/uninstall from host machine/server KB4569746 or related .NET Framework 4.8 CU update.

[stalek71]

I can't do it at the moment because some set of updates is managed by corpo admins...
The question is why it was working for a few days already when no any updates were installed on notebook recently...
Strange...

[hahakiki2010]

stalek71​,

Since you mentioned Manjaro Linux guest, we has an internal bug to track it. Could u try to add below line to the VM 's .vmx file as a workaround?

cpuid.7.edx = "----:----:----:----:----:----:---0:----"

.

Another CU reports a similar issue to boot Manjaro guest on Workstation 16, and it has resolved: Cannot boot manjaro-20 on workstation 16?

Best Regards,

Yan

[stalek71]

Hello Yan,

I don't use WS 16 anymore (although I bought it ) so I will try this workaround

when I have some free time for additional experiments with WS 16 after work.

Kind regards,

Alek

[stalek71]

The hint with cpuid.7 didn't help. I created zip file with log and vm config, but I have no possibility to attach it here.
How to do it?

[stalek71]

Only vm.log file has been created of curse as previously (vm log debug level has been set to full).

No any MKS log has been created at all...

[stalek71]

I was on wrong editor - I used it from quick review.

It has been attached now...

[stalek71]

hahakiki2010​

Yan,

any news?

[stalek71]

hahakiki2010​,

have you found source of the problem already ?

[hahakiki2010]

Sorry for late reply. I checked the attached log, it seems it is interrupted at line below, which the mksSandbox process is probably not started up normally.

ISBRendererComm: mksSandbox command-line: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\x64\mksSandbox-debug.exe --logFile C:\VMWare\Manjaro\mksSandbox.log --pipeInfo \\.\pipe\vmware\mksSandbox\mksSandbox-52 f2 3b d9 af 4f 4b 55-4a 79 b7 ed 9d be 20 1f

I have few questions. Please help me to make it clear.

1) What's the result if you manually run the cmd above on windows host?

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\x64\mksSandbox-debug.exe --logFile C:\VMWare\Manjaro\mksSandbox.log --pipeInfo \\.\pipe\vmware\mksSandbox\mksSandbox-52 f2 3b d9 af 4f 4b 55-4a 79 b7 ed 9d be 20 1f

2) You're saying the guest used to be working on WS 16.0, but stopped working suddenly after running few days ?

3) Is there mksSandbox dump file under %temp% folder?

4) What's your guest OS kernel version? Since we have a internal bug to power on linux guest when kernel version is 5.8.0-rc.

Thanks,

Yan

[stalek71]

Hi Yan,
I just installed the latest version of Workstation (16.1) and it still doesn't work. It doesn't create mksSandbox.log file also again (15.7 works fine).
When I started mksSandbox-debug.exe from powershell (when Workstation was still spinning guest machine showing VMWare logo) it started booting the guest machine as a result (security access rights somewhere???). It produced log file and I'd like to share it with you - but this attachment stuff accepts jpg/gif/pdf/pptx files only (I have zip file). How to share it with you?

btw: I was booting Windows 10 guest machine this time.

When it started the guest machine (as a side effect of running mks from powershell) it was behaving very slowly (like waiting for very slowly rendering operations). What is going on with WS 16??? When it can be considered as a user/production ready and start working at all?

[stalek71]

Yan?

[stalek71]

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