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Sedacrivity
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Downgrading Workstation 16.2 to 16.1

Hi All,

I have been using Workstation pro for years - running multiple W10 & Ubuntu images - sometimes several at a time - on my W10 laptop.

Recently I upgraded from 16.1 towards 16.2 and since then issues started occurring with my running instances.

They all start fine and run for a while and then completely freeze. Nothing can be done anymore. 

First I thought it had something to do with me running multiple instances and hitting memory consumption limits due to the new release - I do have 32 GB and didn't have issues before ...

But even with running a single instance only taking up 16GB this happens ...

I saw other posts as well of people seeming to have the same issue.

So I downgraded back to 16.1 and hoping that this will solve it ... I ran 16.1 for many months without any issue.

Just a post to inform people from VMWARE there is def an issue with this release it seems.

Kind Regards,

Steven

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jbarronsyn
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What process did you take to downgrade?  

I upgraded mine tonight and now can't start any new (and most existing) windows VMs.  I get errors related to "VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (aioCompletion"

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Sedacrivity
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Just did an uninstall of workstation - leaving configuration settings , rebooted and reinstalled the 16.1 version.

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