Having a problem on two different machines. I've had this problem with Fedora 20 and every version of VMWare Workstation 10 (10.0.0->10.0.3)
1. Dell Latitude E6510 / Intel 720QM / 8GB
2. SuperMicro X8SIE-F / Xeon X3440 / 12GB
This problem occurs with both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 guests. The machines run fine, but sometimes (every other time it seems) when you tell the guest to shut down (Start -> Shut Down, OK) the host machine locks up.
Any ideas?
32-bit or 64-bit Fedora 20?
64 bit on both machines.
You could try adding these options to your .vmx file:
vmx.buildType = debug
log.syncAfterWrite = TRUE
With any luck, the vmware.log file will shed some light on the problem, after the fact.
OK, so I've got a crash log. This one came from my laptop mentioned in the original post. It was half way into pausing the virtual machine and then died. Here is a link to the log file: https://mega.co.nz/#!jNIHCIgZ!S1L_jlD2_8VbOCx62TNpGGmY92u2kbOM3xW8EpoZKvU
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Did Workstation come with kernel modules for your host OS, or did it have to build them? If it built them, which version of gcc do you have on your host? (What is the output of gcc -v?)
I don't know. Here is gcc -v:
[USERNAME@localhost ~]$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-plugin --enable-initfini-array --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-isl=/builddir/build/BUILD/gcc-4.8.3-20140624/obj-x86_64-redhat-linux/isl-install --with-cloog=/builddir/build/BUILD/gcc-4.8.3-20140624/obj-x86_64-redhat-linux/cloog-install --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.8.3 20140624 (Red Hat 4.8.3-1) (GCC)
I don't see any clues in the log file. Is there anything helpful in /var/log/messages on the host?
Also, can you check and see if you are getting a lot of NMIs on your host:
grep NMI /proc/interrupts; sleep 10; grep NMI /proc/interrupts
$ grep NMI /proc/interrupts; sleep 10; grep NMI /proc/interrupts
NMI: 378 385 373 389 305 294 314 369 Non-maskable interrupts
NMI: 378 385 373 389 305 294 314 369 Non-maskable interrupts
Attached is most recent /var/log/messages. Please note that usernames and network names have been redacted for privacy reasons.
I see some kvm message in /var/log/messages. Are you running kvm virtual machines concurrently on this host?
Bump.
I've got a similar issue.
Host - Ubuntu 14.04 - Dell E6430 Workstation 10.03
Guest - Win 2012 R2
Have you found the solution ?
Cheers
Gregory
never solved this. It still happens. No, I'm not running KVM on any of the machines that this is happening on.
This also happens with Windows Technical Preview just the same as Windows 8 and 8.1.