Vmware Workstation 14 - Error waiting for connection

[alone_master]

Hello everyone,

I have a problem with Vmware Workstation 14 on Ubuntu 16.04 to start the VM's, when start the virtual machine, show the error screen.

Thanks for you help!

[wangeryan]

Hi, alone_master:

Would you please reproduce the issue and upload the vmware-ui.log and vmware.log? The vmware-ui.log locates at %temp%vmware-$user/vmware-ui-xxxxx.log, and the vmware.log should locates in the same folder of your VM related files. Thanks very much

[alone_master]

Thanks!

I attached the log files.

[Firebreather]

Hello alone_master,

I have the same problem with WS14 @ Ubuntu 16.04. I figured out that it only occurs when at least one USB device is configured to be connected at power on. As a temporary workaround, you can delete all "usb.autoconnect..." lines in the VMX file. Next time, ensure that no USB device remains connected before the VM is powered off.

The developers should focus on what changed in USB device handling since WS12.x. I use WS14 with my production Linux kernel 4.4 and I also tried a more recent 4.11 kernel, but that changed nothing.

[alone_master]

Hello,

The error persist, the display continues black.

[nkanthi]

Starting vmware workstation with sudo from command line works for me < sudo vmware > . Any one solved this issue already ??

[Thommie]

I see the same issue from time to time on OpenSUSE LEAP 42.3, which is close to SLES 12.  I also see major problems (crashes) when using two windows instead of only one (e.g. for having local and shared VMs on different screens). WS 14 looks not very stable yet ...