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cableguy414
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Guest VMs Freeze/Lock Up/Become Unresponsive

I am running VMWare Workstation Pro v16.2.5 on a Windows 10 Host.  I've been having an issue with VMs locking up.  I have tried multiple VMs (mainly Linux) and they all will freeze after a period of time.  I cannot get them to come back and have to force them to shutdown.

I never see a resource issue in Windows Task Manager, so I have no idea what is causing this.

EDIT: After letting a stuck VM sit for awhile, I get the message:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s! [systemd:1]

Then this message continually repeats.

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