Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Guest on Windows 10 Crashes VMWare Workstation Pro 16 and 17

[TCPulley]

I'm running the latest version of Windows 10 Pro. Ubuntu 24.04 installs without any problems but hangs after startup. The guest stops responding, the fans spin up for a min or two followed by and error message that the connection to the sandbox was lost. Occasionally Workstation will crash. I've tried different VM configs without success. I don't have problems installing or running any other version of Ubuntu as a guest.

Hardware is a Lenovo Legion 7i 11th gen i7 64GB ram, NVidia RTX 3070. 

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Any suggestions?

[DCasota]

Hi,

typically the VMware support asks you to share the support bundle of the affected VM whenever this issue is reproduced by following below steps-

Help->Support->Collect Support Data

[TCPulley]

Thanks. I'll do that later today. This happened late last night and is the first time I've ever encountered anything like this in all my years of using Workstation Pro.

What I find surprising is that the arm build of 24.04 desktop runs without a problem in Fusion on Sonoma. 

[DCasota]

I confirm that the issue is reproducible with https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/noble-desktop-amd64.iso , default vm settings, on VMware Workstation 17.5.1, external monitor attached, on W11, Lenovo i9, RTX4070.

Workaround: Right after creating the virtual machine and before starting it, disable 3d graphics acceleration in vm settings.