Hello guys!
Have some issues..
First.. my specs:
AMD Threadripper 1950X @ 3.95Ghz 16/32
ASUS PRIME X399
32GB Corsair BDIE DDR43600 Ram @ 3466
ASUS XONAR DX
Gigabyte Gaming G1 1070GTX
1x NVME 250Gb ( Corsair MP500 )
1x SSD (Crucial MX300 512GB)
1x HDD ( Seagate 4TB )
OS: Windows 10.
Now The problem..
Before the updates of October.. I could run my VMs with no issue on Workstation 14.
After the update, I'm getting 2 errors constantly with zero additional information of whats going on.
The errors in player : "Error While Powering on: cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"
The error in Workstation: "Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"
And sometimes "Internal error".
Doesnt matter what option do I select, all VMs, new and old cannot boot with this issue.
I did check the Licensing and other services. They seem to work.
Now here is the strange part.
I uninstalled, erased EVERY directory (program files, appdata dir).
downloaded Workstation PRO 15 and ran it as evaluation to see if it was a corrupted installation (even after one repair on Workstation 14, it did the same error). But the problem persisted identically on Workstation Pro 15.
I have memory protection off in Windows Defender, Windows Firewall off, I have allowed both in my Antivirus (ESET NOD32) and my firewall (COMODO FIREWALL) the app.
I ran as Administrator... and nothing, same error.
From your log, you had done some cleanup manually, but not let uninstaller do the cleanup, so I guess your next installation confusion your system.
Try these steps:
1. Uninstall any Workstation version in your system, make sure there has no "vmware Workstation" entry in your "control panel->uninstall a program" list.
2. Download Workstation 15.0 installer.
3. Open one command line with administrator privilege
4. Run these command make sure those services are stopped or not exist:
sc query VMUSBArbService
sc query VMwareHostd
sc query VMAuthdService
sc query vmx86
sc query hcmon
For example:
If you got this output means the service is running/stopped.
SERVICE_NAME: vmauthdservice
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
STATE : 4 RUNNING === :1 STOPPED
(STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0
If you got this output means the service is not exist:
[SC] EnumQueryServicesStatus:OpenService FAILED 1060:
The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
5. Reboot your host.
6. Open one command line with administrator privilege, goto your downloaded Workstation installer path, run this:
VMware-workstation-full-15.0.0-10134415.exe -r
The UI will prompt what the installer try to do and follow the instruction to finish the repair operation.
When the repair down, it will prompt you to reboot.
7. After reboot, try to run VMware-workstation-full-15.0.0-10134415.exe again.
Hi, CesRo:
Upload Installer, UI and VM's log for diagnostic, you can find them in:
UI log: %temp%\vmware-$(your_user_name)\*.log
VM log: Your VM directory\vmware*.log
Installer: %temp%\vminst*.log and %temp%\vmmsi*.log
Thanks.
Attaching logs..
There are no logs in the CENTOS Virtual Machine because it never booted.
Note that it shows again VMWARE PRO 14, I did a roll back because I think update 8006 of Windows crippled my windows installation. (other 2 programs are also having issues running properly)
From your log, you had done some cleanup manually, but not let uninstaller do the cleanup, so I guess your next installation confusion your system.
Try these steps:
1. Uninstall any Workstation version in your system, make sure there has no "vmware Workstation" entry in your "control panel->uninstall a program" list.
2. Download Workstation 15.0 installer.
3. Open one command line with administrator privilege
4. Run these command make sure those services are stopped or not exist:
sc query VMUSBArbService
sc query VMwareHostd
sc query VMAuthdService
sc query vmx86
sc query hcmon
For example:
If you got this output means the service is running/stopped.
SERVICE_NAME: vmauthdservice
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
STATE : 4 RUNNING === :1 STOPPED
(STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0
If you got this output means the service is not exist:
[SC] EnumQueryServicesStatus:OpenService FAILED 1060:
The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
5. Reboot your host.
6. Open one command line with administrator privilege, goto your downloaded Workstation installer path, run this:
VMware-workstation-full-15.0.0-10134415.exe -r
The UI will prompt what the installer try to do and follow the instruction to finish the repair operation.
When the repair down, it will prompt you to reboot.
7. After reboot, try to run VMware-workstation-full-15.0.0-10134415.exe again.
Hi Haiweiz,
My windows def was corrupted. Reinstalled everything from zero and now vmware workstation working normally.
Patch 8003 and 8009 corrupted either framework or other critical component because Workstation Pro was not the only thing failing.
To clarify, I did uninstall using the uninstall tool, then tried to remove any trace. Noticed that a lot of things ran the uninstallation correctly but never removed traces..
Hence why I was thinking there was some serious corruption in Windows. (I still hate how most corruption of framework, and other critical components of windows, are not caught with the sfc scan, or other integrity checks)
Glad to know this issue resolved. Thanks!