Hi,
Sorry have been busy and while I tend to be rather active at these forums, it still is a volunteer thing, not a paid job, so my apologies for the slow reply.
So you're saying that VMware Player 16.1 works OK on Ubuntu 16.04, but not on any of the later versions of Ubuntu?
That certainly is peculiar and does make me wonder if it is a kernel configuration issue or perhaps a Intel meltdown or Spectre patch in the later versions of ubuntu making things a lot slower.
Also that it seems to work on Fedora 33, until it bumps into a lockup issue.
re. your hardware. You are correct, your CPU is rather old and that might indeed be the main reason.
I was going to look for clues in your attached vmware.log file, but as it was exported to pdf... sorry to say that that made it become unreadable to me, line breaks where they should not be.. sorry.. got a headache after a minute of looking at that.
If you still want me to look at that then you'll have to provide it in the original format (.log aka plain text) and zip it up to attach it here (not sure if the new forum accepts a .log file without zipping it yet)
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Wil
