topic Re: Ubuntu Blocks with VMWare Workstation 17.5 in VMware Workstation Player Discussions

Ubuntu Blocks with VMWare Workstation 17.5

victor_61 — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 07:45:51 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm Víctor, undergraduate physic student who is working in its degree thesis. I need to use Linux in my thesis in order to work with Astronomical images so a couple of months ago I downloaded VMWare Workstation 16 (I think it was that version) in Windows 11. Everything ran ok but since yesterday I have been experimenting bugs in the Linux Virtual enviroment. Yesterday I updated the Workstation to the lastest version, now I have the 17.5 installed and Ubuntu in its last version.

My problem with the virtual enviroment is that after around 20 min is blocked, i.e, I can't do anything because nothing works. I can move the cursor over the screen but I can't click because nothing responds. It doen't matter if I'm using the terminal or the text editor or the web navigator. I suffered this problem yesterday in the night almost 6 times so I needed to restart the entire Workstation all the times (I gave up at the 7th time...). And I woke up to continue working and I have the same issue. While I'm writting this message the screen have become totally black (thanks I have two screens each one with a different OS) and I can't even see the cursor over the screen...

My set up is a MSI Laptop with CPU intel i7-10th gen, GPU Nvidia RTX2060 with 6 Gb RAM, 32 Gb RAM (16 Gb assigned to the virual enviroment) and 3Tb ssd (300 Gb ssd assigned to the virtual enviroment but I don't even have 20 Gb ocuppied).

I would like to obtain a solution because it is impossible to work in 20 min intervals... and the worst problem is that I have to repeat the document and the workflow that I don't save before the block.

Víctor.

Re: Ubuntu Blocks with VMWare Workstation 17.5

IAmmisterX — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 10:32:36 GMT

same to me, and I don´t know how to fix

Disabling the Windows-Subsystem-Linux, a some people in other forums stated, did not help

Re: Ubuntu Blocks with VMWare Workstation 17.5

victor_61 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 11:53:53 GMT

Finally I uninstalled the 17.5 version and I have installed the latest 16 version. Now works exactly as before without blocks in ubuntu. The problem was that I had to create a copy of my documents in order to create again the virtual enviroment. Luckly I had just a copuble of Gb occupied. I think it can be done with a better method creating a exact copy of Ubuntu and instilling it again in the VMWare Worstation 16 version.

Re: Ubuntu Blocks with VMWare Workstation 17.5

Taiwu888 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:44:39 GMT

Hi, I am seeing the same issue you described.

VMWARE support: could you please post a workaround?