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SilentDis
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‎10-24-2017 08:38 PM

VMware Player 14, Kubuntu 17.10, Player Freezes after ~1 hour of use

After approx. 1 hour of use, the VM inside VMware freezes hard.  Same image was working perfectly on Kubuntu 17.04, VMware player 12.  Can't close the player, kicks out "The virtual machine is busy." error.

I cannot kill the vmplayer process, gives same error, "The virtual machine is busy."  I can issue a kill -9 on it.

After it's dead, relaunching vmplayer does not give an option to power on the VM anymore.

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cdoublejj
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‎11-04-2017 03:35 AM

14 and 12 aren't even launching in the Ubuntu and Lubuntu 17.10

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rindi1
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‎11-08-2017 03:26 AM

What Kernel are you running on your Host? I have had similar issues with any Kernel from 4.13 and later. On 4.12 stable Kernels I had no issues.

cdoublejj
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‎11-08-2017 08:55 AM

17.10 uses 4.13. i  switched lubuntu 16.04, 17.10 is rather buggy.

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cdoublejj
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‎11-08-2017 09:12 AM

strange i have the same problem in 16.04 and it is listed as supported. i found 17.10 is not listed as supported. either way vmplayer simply just does not launch what so ever when installed. no thinking cursor or anything.

EDIT: trying workstation player 14 and got this error but, it runs and works now.

user@core2lubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo chmod +x VMware-Player-14.0.0-6661328.x86_64.bundle

user@core2lubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo ./VMware-Player-14.0.0-6661328.x86_64.bundleExtracting VMware Installer...done.

Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 72: non-double matrix element

Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 72: non-double matrix element

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 80: saw unknown, expected number

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