Windows 10: How to import, export, clone VM in VMware Workstation

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If you are an IT admin and handling VMware Workstation is a part of your job, you will be doing certain activities repeatedly, such as importing, exporting, and cloning the machine. These are essential when deploying programs, testing out network communication, and more. In this post, we will learn how to import, export, and clone […]

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Windows 10 crashing when powering on VM on VMware workstation

Hi DaveM121,

My issue is windows 10 crashing when i power on VM on VMware workstation.

While we troubleshooting this issue, i have installed Virtualbox to create VM to create VMs as an alternate solution

However when we enabled driver verifier for 1st time, virtualbox driver caused BSOD during reboot which was initiated to get verifier settings into effect. As you informed, this crash was caused due to virtualbox driver hence i uninstalled it.

I have again enabled driver verifier for 2nd time and able to reproduce crash during powering ON vm on VMware workstation. It is caused by vmx86.sys which is relevant to VMware workstation hence I would need your expert advise on this.

am attaching minidump caused by vmx86.sys, kindly check and advise.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnqWyo450OGwgnTqrha__vWbb8AU?e=JlIfV9

Please note that I have disabled driver verifier after collecting crash

 

purchase license upgrade from windows 7 to 10 since if I upgrade now, VM will run only in Windows 10 host PC

VMWare Workstation supports the option of exporting guest VMs as a .VMDK file which you can then import in VMWare Fusion for Mac.

[Guide] How to Move/Export Virtual machine from VMware Workstation


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Importing Windows Virtual Machines

 

VMware Workstation 16 Pro + Ubuntu 22.04.1 - VM unresponsive with high CPU introduced with Windows 10 September 2022 monthly update

Several users are reported to be seeing VM unresponsiveness with high CPU using VMware Workstation 16.2.x Pro + Ubuntu 22.04.1 introduced after the Windows 10 September 2022 monthly update.

VMWare Workstation as not seen any similar performance issues like this in well over 2 years (or longer) as reported in the above VMware community post and was successfully integrated with Windows, but some incompatibilities were introduced by Microsoft with the Windows 10 September 2022 monthly updates.

VMware Community Post (showing several users experiencing same issue): Re: VMWare Workstation 16 Pro + Ubuntu 22.04.1 - V... - VMware Technology Network VMTN

Running: Windows 10 Enterprise 21H2 (OS build 19044.2006)

Current troubleshooting reported 10/17/22 in above VMware community post:

1. User uninstalled September KB5017308 and everything was fine.
   
2. When user updated Windows in October and KB5018410 (part of the Microsoft October Patch Tuesday update, 2022-10 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems) was downloaded, it was worse than ever.
   
3. When user uninstalled KB5018410, everything was fine again.
   
4. When Windows reinstalled KB5018410, nothing works more than 5-10 min before VM freezes up due to 95%+ CPU.
   Several watchdog: BUG: soft lockup = CPU#x stuck for 24 s! errors but not enough log information to report issue other than this symptom error (not root cause).
   

When actively using the VMware Workstation Linux RHEL 8 VM, the symptom manifests as the VM quickly goes from responsive to sluggish, to extremely sluggish, to unresponsive.

This is causing a lot of enterprise users to halt critical software development.

How do we go about solving this?