Guest UI on Windows 7 x64 Host frozen

[gregVM]

I'm have a terrible time running almost any VM's on top of Workstation 10.1 on a Win7 x64 host.

The only  guest that works reliably is a Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit guest running kernel 3.8.0-33-generic.

The rest will boot up fine but don't allow any keyboard or mouse interaction - if you enable VNC VM sharing, however, you can drive their UI's fine - so the VM's are running but are just not getting any keyboard or mouse events.

I have a CentOS 6.5 x64 guest running 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64, another 12.04 x64 running 3.2.0-56, and a 10.04 Ubuntu running 2.6.32-47-generic - none can be interacted with from the console view. The ones that can enter unity mode will also allow interaction, but Unity is still buggy enough that isn't much of a solution either.

Is anyone else seeing this sort of behaviour? 

[julienvarela]

Hi,

Did you check this previous post regarding the same subject. HELP my keyboard doesn't work in my virtual machine! and this kb : VMware KB: Keyboard or mouse do not work in a hosted virtual machine

Hope it helps,

Regards,

Julien.

[gregVM]

Thanks for the reply. I've tried the suggestions there already (in particular focusing on USB - deleted the USB controller, added it back, changed the USB emulation version) with no results.

As far as host OS stuff, the host OS is pretty much a stock install with current updates (Win7 64 sp1) - very little in additional software added (Office and not much else) - so hard to see how some other Windows service could be interfering.