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3. Re: Workstation pro not working on windows 1903
have you tested this version in windows 10 1903 build?
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5. Re: Workstation pro not working on windows 1903
as a host, Windows 10 1903 is my main pc os, and I have a windows 7 guest and Linux and when trying to start them the hang on a black screen but when I use windows 10 1809 as a host everything is fine so it seems VMware have to upgrade VMware workstation pro to work with the new windows 10 upgrade
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6. Re: Workstation pro not working on windows 1903
So are you running the Insider Preview Build of Windows, as I am not able to find the Updated ISO on MSDN?
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11. Re: Workstation pro not working on windows 1903
First of all I am not in the Workstation Team,
Second as this is still a unreleased Version from Windows 10, I would not suggest running it in Production ;-)
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12. Re: Workstation pro not working on windows 1903
Do you have any error when VM crashes?
Because excluding 2 vms, other vms are running well on my Windows 10 1903 Insider Preview
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13. Re: Workstation pro not working on windows 1903
3 people found this helpfulI can confirm
VMWare 15.0.4 does not really work with Windows10 1903 as Host as it should.
(upgraded from v14, cause I tought v14 is not 1903 ready)
If I create a new Windows10 Vmware with a bootable Windows10 ISO and it is
connected. VMWARE does not boot, only a black screen and Vmware hangs up
(vmware-vmx.exe cant be terminated, have to reboot windows)
So I started the Vmware without, that a ISO is connect, then vmware boots into
bootmenu, there I connected the ISO and could install windows10.
But if the OS is already booted (tried Windows10 and Ubuntu) and wanted
to connect a USB Drive, the same happends as before, Vmware hangs up,
and it is impossible to close it or terminate the vmware-vmx.exe process.
Same, if you drag&drop a file from the host to the vmware machine... freezes again.
tried it now 20 times... (with clean install of vmware and everything..)
there is a big bug in vmware if the host is 1903
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14. Re: Workstation pro not working on windows 1903
I've experienced the same issue. For me, at least, the issue seems to be related to using "Bridged" networking. I can switch the adapter to NAT, boot up my VM with no issue. When I switch the adapter back to bridged and try again it works. That's short lived though as usually if I shut down the VM and restart it it locks up as you'd described. Luckily I don't have to do this too often.
When it locks up, this is what I see at the tail of my vmware.log file.
2019-03-24T14:19:24.974-05:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
2019-03-24T14:20:46.118-05:00| mks| W115: SOCKET 5 (-1) AsyncNamedPipeRecvCallback: failed to get overlapped result: 109.
2019-03-24T14:20:46.118-05:00| mks| I125: MKSControlSocket: MKSControl Remote Disconnect: socket closed.
2019-03-24T14:20:46.118-05:00| mks| I125: MKSControlMgr: disconnected
2019-03-24T14:20:46.118-05:00| vmx| I125: SOCKET 4 (2140) recv error 10054: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
2019-03-24T14:20:46.118-05:00| vmx| I125: Vix: [mainDispatch.c:2828]: VMAutomation: Connection Error (1) on connection 0.
2019-03-24T14:21:03.048-05:00| WinNotifyThread| I125: Suspending VM from WM_ENDSESSION: U64_Media
2019-03-24T14:21:03.048-05:00| vmx| I125: SUSPEND: Start suspend (flags=0)
Another thing I did that may have helped was switched this line in my VMX file. The default is the E1000
ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3"