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Status: after the purge of all things hyper-v and even related software my Ubuntu 22.04 VM was more stable. It is, however still freezing, albeit it with less frequency. As stated earlier, my Windows VM on the same machine has no issues. Also, by way of reminder, this device is always on. Therefore the issue is not a function of sleep or power savings. Bottom line: there is no fix or workaround. The best you can do is to remove hyper-v completely and grin and bear your way through the occasional virtual processor lock ups. -- FYI: guest update means updating the guest OS running on your VM.

Sorry. I don't think this should require a support request. This Linux. The lastest release. It should work as well on VMWare as Windows. End of story. No excuses. I have a work around by not using VMWare's absolutely broken support for Windows Hypervisor. I am not interested in 10 layers of support requests that will give me answers the community has already documented.  

I tried: boosting the ram to 20 gig. Adding more CPU cores on top of the other solutions. I went nuclear. My previous removals of WSL and associated components may have been insufficient. So, I went nuclear. Remove all things Windows Hypervisor, every single Windows feature including sandbox, and every component related to it. What a pity since this problem only ever affected Linux and not my Windows VMs. Completely reinstall VMware Workstation 17 with the repair function. Select the keyboard driver, because for God's sake I can't handle how that previous keyboard setup was so bad. For the first time in longer than I can recall, the VM has survived the weekend without freezing. Conclusion: It is readily apparent that VMWare has turned into garbage for Linux. At least for my hardware. This is the only explanation for why my Windows VMs worked well but everything Linux kept dying. VMWare: get your act together for Linux. It's an important OS and I am buying VM Workstation so that I have reliable VMs with it. Right now, you just suck.  

Previous attempts to fix this issue have all failed for me. Including the driver fix previously discussed. Debian continues to go to **bleep** very fast on VM Ware 17... reproducible in a few minutes. Ubuntu will stay up for days at times, other times freeze much more quickly. Having just paid for 17, I'm starting to feel rather salty about the lack of a statement from VMWare or a fix.

Ubuntu eventually seemed to be able to run alright with the latest patches to vmare 17. However, Debian is still not working and freezes much more aggressively than Ubuntu did. Here's what I've done as a stop-gap on Windows 11. I have had excellent success with Microsoft's WSL2 platform however which comes with built-in support for the major distributions: The following is a list of valid distributions that can be installed. I was happy to see that VMWare could finally play nicely with the Microsoft Virtual Machine Platform. This may not get you all the way to what you need, but is free with Windows and it works. If you need the GUI, you could install an XWindows desktop option and use VcXsrv to accomplish that.  At least until VMWare finally gets its act together with respect to Linux distributions. Install using 'wsl --install -d <Distro>'. NAME FRIENDLY NAME Ubuntu Ubuntu Debian Debian GNU/Linux kali-linux Kali Linux Rolling Ubuntu-18.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu-20.04 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Ubuntu-22.04 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS OracleLinux_8_5 Oracle Linux 8.5 OracleLinux_7_9 Oracle Linux 7.9 SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-15-SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 openSUSE-Leap-15.4 openSUSE Leap 15.4 openSUSE-Tumbleweed openSUSE Tumbleweed