louyo's Accepted Solutions

Some things to try: Turn off Accelerate 3D graphics Check log for: vmx Monitor Mode: ULM see:  https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/App-issue-with-Windows-10-guest-and-Windows-11-host-EDITED/m-p/2927644   Attach a log for the guru's to examine. 

At the risk of being basic: My first thought would be the iso image, you might want to validate the iso file's checksum you downloaded. If  you are sure of that, I would try selecting it on startup: 1. Edit the VM's .vmx file and add: bios.bootdelay="5000".  (this gives you 5 seconds to hit escape) 2. Start the VM and hit escape while it is counting the 5 seconds. 3. This should bring up a menu with the your CD drive as a choice. Select it. If it comes right back to that menu, it means it can't find an bootable image in that iso. Under the VM menu (upper left), locate the CD under removable devices, check settings to make sure it is connected. If it is and the iso won't boot, I would try another iso file to test with. 

If you want to use static IP addresses for Ubuntu, this might be an educational way to do it versus the GUI: https://learnubuntu.com/set-static-ip/ If you created multiple Linux VM's by copying the original VM, you might be able to just say "I copied it" when you first fire it up. That changes the MAC.  

Tried turning off 3D acceleration? Another user with similar but he doesn't know for sure what "fixed" it: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Error-and-crash-on-16-2-x-with-vcpu-0-PANIC-VERIFY-bora-vmx-main/td-p/2917616 Lou 

Your image won't open here. Is the server running on ESXi?  If so, what version? If yes and ESXi 6 or above you should be able to open it in the ESXi web server. Otherwise, use the good old client program.   Lou

Yes, assuming that the VM's are each assigned IP's in the 2 different NAT subnets, it should  work. I am hosting WS 15 on Linux Mint. A Ubuntu guest and an LMDE guest work that way. Isolated from each other but can connect to host or Internet. Edit: I might add that, to further isolate from everything, I plug in a USB Ethernet adapter and disable the built in one. Lou

Since no one has replied, my "guess" would be that the disk is the bottleneck. I use Linux as a host and if I run a host rsync job that runs full speed ahead on a disk, it will bog down the VM's. I can reduce this if I throttle the rsync operations. I would (again) guess that it is due to the SATA controller getting swamped, remember the VM is a bunch of files. If you have PCIe drive(s) that are not using the SATA controller, that might help. If you are running wbadmin via a chron job, you might run it with the start command and /LOW to run at a low priority. That is a pure guess, I have not tried it. I run all real time kinds of jobs in VM's running on ESXi. Lou

Are you running workstation or fusion? This works on my Linux (Ubuntu) VM, share is named data: vmware-hgfsclient Returns: data Make a directory for mounting in my home directory: mkdir ./testmnt Mount it: sudo vmhgfs-fuse -o nonempty -o allow_other .host:/data ./testmnt note spaces.

This works on my Mint VM: I have a host share named data (it is enabled in settings). check to make sure the Mint VM can "see" it: vmware-hgfsclient Returns: data Make a directory for mounting in my home directory: mkdir ./testmnt Mount it: sudo vmhgfs-fuse -o nonempty -o allow_other .host:/data ./testmnt note spaces. Lou