Any help would be appreciated on this issue.
When running a virtual machine in Workstation, when I close Workstation (so it runs in the system tray) a dialog asks if want to:
- Suspend
- Power Off
- Run in Background
If I "Run in Background, about an hour or so later, the guest VM is suddenly shuts down. Workstation continue to appear in the tray, but the any VMs are no longer running in the background.
This message is generated in the event viewer:
The VMware Workstation Server service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 milliseconds: Restart the service.
Event Info:
Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7031
Level: Error
User: N/A
OpCode: Info
System Info:
Workstation 16.0 Pro -
Version: 16.1.0 build-17198959
OS: Win 10 Pro 64 bit
Version: 10.0.19041 Build 19041
Full XML of Error Event:
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">7031</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2020-11-29T05:28:11.0661457Z" />
<EventRecordID>20574</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="932" ThreadID="1380" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Russ7.ha</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="param1">VMware Workstation Server</Data>
<Data Name="param2">1</Data>
<Data Name="param3">60000</Data>
<Data Name="param4">1</Data>
<Data Name="param5">Restart the service</Data>
<Binary>56004D00770061007200650048006F007300740064000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
