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abledan2
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What is considered the most stable version of Workstation 15x on a win10 host?

I been using Workstation pro since 2005 and I always thought workstation as a bread and butter product for VMWare but it pains me It say that I am having so much trouble finding a stable version. The last version I considered mostly stable was 14.7 on Win 10 which is past VMWare end of life support. I have tried a few versions of 15x and I have ran into issues with complete lost of flat files and snapshots. I have tried version 16 on host installs win 10, 11 and Ubuntu 18x and 20.04 and 16 is completely unusable as a virtual platform.

I consider a stable version to be able to:
VM flat file persist and do not become corrupted after 1 use requiring a 3rd party software to fix or a separate backup file on each use
VM can be rebooted/turn off/on
VM snapshot can be taken/restored
Old snapshots are able to be deleted without corrupting after the flat file or other snapshots

Current specs
Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11850H @ 2.50GHz 2.50 GHz
Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.7 GB usable)

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Is version 12 too old for you ? Thats what I consider to be the last known good ...

 

Ulli


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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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