Windows 10: Guest OSs In VMWare Workstation 12 Crash or Freeze

Discus and support Guest OSs In VMWare Workstation 12 Crash or Freeze in Windows 10 Virtualization to solve the problem; Hello all, Im having an interesting issue where it seems like any guest OS I install into VMWare crashes or freezes shortly after being powered on.... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Virtualization' started by ArazelEternal, Mar 30, 2017.

  1. Guest OSs In VMWare Workstation 12 Crash or Freeze


    Hello all,

    Im having an interesting issue where it seems like any guest OS I install into VMWare crashes or freezes shortly after being powered on. Right now I have a Windows 8.1 x64 VM and a Fedora Workstation 25 x64 VM and they both lock up on me. I have no idea whats going on with them. I dont get any error messages or anything to go on.

    Any ideas?

    :)
     
    ArazelEternal, Mar 30, 2017
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    I know what happen now. Since I use the camera inside VMWare Workstation 12 i.e. I install Win 10 inside VMWare Workstation 12 and connect the lifecam studio to the guest Win 10.

    When I connect the cam to host Win 10, everything work fine. My question now is:

    why the camera app in the guest Win 10 work properly but the translator app not ? I understand if both app not able to use the camera, but why camera app work fine in guest Win 10 but translator app not ? Thanks.

    Regds
     
    LAM Chi-fung, Mar 30, 2017
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    Hi, thanks for the reply. I ran the system file checker as instructed and it stated that no issues were found.

    To clarify the hardware:

    PC is an Intel NUC5i7RYH

    with memory installed HyperX 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3L

    and storage of Samsung 500GB 850 EVO M.2 SSD.

    This is a new PC with a clean installation of Windows 10 Pro.

    To answer your questions:

    1/

    When the crashes occur the PC was only running a guest VM in VMware Workstation 12. The guest vm had been running for approx 7hours without an issue. The guest vm is hosting a web server only.

    When the error occurred the PC shows a blue screen and states that a serious error is being recovered and the PC will then restart. The PC seems to get stuck and does not restart so I power it off.

    2/

    I have installed one software package called VMware Workstation 12; the latest available version.

    I had also installed Avast antivirus but have removed this now to see if this was the problem.

    i have updated the Intel NUC bios to the latest available version.

    Any ideas?

    thanks,Paul
     
    Paul_Edwards72, Mar 30, 2017
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  4. pparks1 Win User

    Guest OSs In VMWare Workstation 12 Crash or Freeze

    Have you tried to uninstall and reinstall VMWare Workstation 12.x?
     
    pparks1, Mar 30, 2017
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  5. I only just installed VMWare. The first two VMs I installed are mentioned.
     
    ArazelEternal, Mar 30, 2017
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  6. pparks1 Win User
    Interesting, I support VMware at work and have used VMware Workstation myself for years and haven't noticed the problem that you are seeing before.

    So, they just stop responding and you have to physically power them off?
     
    pparks1, Mar 30, 2017
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  7. Yeah. They lock up, stop responding. The X session in Fedora will crash and restart. Would it matter that I have VMWare installed to the OS drive but the VMs stored and running from the Data drive? I cant imagine that would make a difference, but its the only thing I can think of.
     
    ArazelEternal, Mar 30, 2017
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  8. pparks1 Win User

    Guest OSs In VMWare Workstation 12 Crash or Freeze

    No, that won't make a difference at all. I usually have about 5-6 platters in my VM boxes, and spread out my VM's?

    Are you seeing anything in the Event Viewer on your host machine running VMWare?
     
    pparks1, Mar 30, 2017
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  9. Im not finding anything under the event viewer that seems to pertain to VMWare. I wonder if Malwarebytes isnt messing with it somehow? Or Avira?
     
    ArazelEternal, Mar 30, 2017
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  10. pparks1 Win User
    Do they freeze at the same point each time? Or is it random?
     
    pparks1, Mar 30, 2017
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  11. It seems kinda random.
     
    ArazelEternal, Mar 30, 2017
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  12. pparks1 Win User
    What hardware version are you using for the VM's? If possible, create a new VM with a lower VM hardware version and see what happens.
     
    pparks1, Mar 30, 2017
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    I may do that if I cant get this figured out. Either that, or use Hyper-V that is built into Windows 10 Pro that I have installed on my Precision laptop. Ive used it before and it works very well, I just dont like that it doesnt seem to support dynamic display scaling for the guest OS like VMWare does. If it does, I have yet to find a way to use it or enable it.
     
    ArazelEternal, Mar 30, 2017
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  14. Tried setting it to VMWare 11 compatability instead of the latest. Doesnt seem to have made a difference.
     
    ArazelEternal, Mar 30, 2017
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  15. Update: I created the two VMs I was trying to create before in VMWare in Hyper-V. They seem to be working fine within Hyper-V where as they became unstable in VMWare. Have no idea why thats happening. Maybe its something about my hardware config that VMWare doesnt like. Anyway, thanks for the suggestions.
     
    ArazelEternal, Mar 30, 2017
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