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chris190
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Virtual machine <Virtual Machine name> is busy. Cant kill vmware-vmx.exe

This happens with any image that I use. Even known working images. Right after I make the instance and boot it up it then freezes.

I have reinstalled VMware workstation 15.

Downloaded a new copy of the program and installed that one.

When it freezes it will not shut down, and I can not kill vmware-vmx.exe. Even with psexplorer or cmd.exe. I have to reboot the computer. It looks like these two issues are hand in hand.

Event viewer doesn't seem to come up with anything related.

Maybe when uninstalling a corrupted file remains?

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DJS73
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Hi Chris,

Are you maybe running a windows preview version (19h1)? They give me the same problem: Using VMware on Windows 1903 host machine cannot turn on guest machine

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DJS73
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Hi Chris,

Are you maybe running a windows preview version (19h1)? They give me the same problem: Using VMware on Windows 1903 host machine cannot turn on guest machine

chris190
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Holy crap and I never would have thought about that! Thanks that was it!

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