Screen mess up - VMware Workstation on Elementary OS

[therock2000]

Hello to everyone, i have this problem and i can't figure it out how can i resolve it.

Maybe it's a Elementary OS problem... i don't know.

I running VMware Workstation (Trial version) on my Elementary OS, and when i try to power on any virtual machine, it doesn't anything except messed up the screen of Workstation:

I followed every installation guide but everytime this problem occur.

My version of VMware Workstation is: 14.0.0 build-6661328 - Workstation pro 14

My system detail: Intel Core i7 - 2.0 ghz - RAM 8gb - 16.04.1-Ubuntu

This problem occured everytime with every guest os.

Can someone help me to understand why this occured and how i can resolve it?

I ask you apology for my english.

[TracyHuang]

Thanks for the posting!

Would you please provide the ui log and vmware.log for further investigation, thanks!

You may get the location info from Help -> About VMware Workstation.

[therock2000]

Thank you for your answer TracyHuang.

Yesterday i solved this issue simply download ad use the workstation player 12.

It seems that the problem was workstation 14.

[AmarokBlue]

Same error here TracyHuang​​

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[sumarilibre]

I have the same error apparently it is of gala elementary, I can not create virtual machines but if I can run through vmware player 14, the only solution I found was to create the virtual machine on ubuntu 16.04 and then open it with vmware player 14 en elementary os loki.

[omarc0b]

Same issue on my laptop

[skycheg]

Same issue on my laptop

[LukeBinninger]

Problem seems not to be solved, yet.

However, I suggest my workaround until they figure out what is going wrong.

Suspending a VM shows the last image within the VM. This states clearly, that VMs run smoothly while the display output is messed up.

Therefore I looked trough the settings and found VNC Connections. Use it to remotely work on your virtual machine's desktop.

1. Open Virtual Machine Settings -> Options

Select VNC Connections and enable it.

Port 5900 is just fine - for testing I didn't enter a Password.

Keep in mind that VNC implementation of VMWare doesn't use encryption - may be still fine on your local desktop.

Now start your VM with the changes made. Possibly you can switch on VNC Connection while a VM is running, too.

2. Install a VNC-Viewer of your choice - I like Vinagre (choose from Elementary OS AppCenter)

In the connection setup use your local Subnet IP (x.x.x.1) to be found in VMware Workstation's Virtual Network Editor.

Here, it worked with the following setup, use server's color depth:

3. Be ready to have a remote look to the VM's desktop.

This is not my first choice, but i like VMware Workstation better than VirtualBox - for now 😉

[admin]

I have the same problem with 14.1.3 vmware-player on Elementary OS Loki. 

First I had to disable secure boot in BIOS, then I had to enable vt-x virtualization in my CPU settings in BIOS... then vmware-player loaded, but the screen was stuck like the original poster showed...

So I uninstalled vmware-player 14 and installed version 12...  now it doesn't work either because it can't compile vmmon and vmnet.

So maybe VMWARE could make a patch for kernel 4.15.0-34-generic for vmware-player 12?  Or make sure that Vmware player 14 really works with Elementary OS?

Right now I am without my virtual machine because of this ongoing and unfixed problem that so many people have.

Please fix.

Thank you.

[GB02]

Hello

i have the same problem with Vmware 15.04 on Elementary OS 5.0

Like mentionned in my post :

VMWARE 12 ---> VMWARE 15.0 (4.4.0-145-generic) =Lenteur ....

It work perfectly only in sudo or root mode...

[noe95]

i'm in the same case with vmware 15.

[InternalErroGuy]

Not someone's who knows what he is doing but

try check if its your screen FPS

Try update gpu drivers

Is it on any screen ?

How many screens do you got ?

Try to check resolutions in the Virtual machine settings and the virtual machine os itself

Hope I help

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update since your using a remote vm

maybe try use something that is not a VM tool

but maybe something to a direction of the default windows RDP and open the port or whatever

If its some kind of a VM (I am not a pro once again I dont know how its working) make sure the internet is not on NAT but on BRIDGED

So the VM would be a part of the local network at your house/work and then make sure the port can be reach and everything and then go ahead and check it

Again it seem like you not even connected to the other machine