Solved VMWare Workstation 16 (almost) working

altae · Oct 11, 2021

Has anybody tried to run VMWorkstation 16 on Windows 11 yet? I installed Windows 11 last Friday and so far Workstation 16 seems to work almost flawlessly. The only thing that does not work is suspending the VM which results in an error message and the immediate shutdown of the guest os. Other than that it works just fine. But I only run a Linux based system for my online activity and don't use most of the advanced functionalities of Workstation 16 so your mileage may vary.

Winuser · Oct 12, 2021

altae said:
Has anybody tried to run VMWorkstation 16 on Windows 11 yet? I installed Windows 11 last Friday and so far Workstation 16 seems to work almost flawlessly. The only thing that does not work is suspending the VM which results in an error message and the immediate shutdown of the guest os. Other than that it works just fine. But I only run a Linux based system for my online activity and don't use most of the advanced functionalities of Workstation 16 so your mileage may vary.

I'm running VMware 16 Player in Windows 11 Beta to run the Win 11 Dev builds and the only problem I've noticed is that if I let OS that is running in the VM sleep to long VMware shuts down or crashes and I have to restart it. I have set the OS running in the VM to never sleep but I haven't tested it yet.

altae · Oct 12, 2021

My guest system (Arch Linux) never sleeps. Does suspending the guest work for you?

Winuser · Oct 12, 2021

altae said:
My guest system (Arch Linux) never sleeps. Does suspending the guest work for you?

I had to go away for awhile today and put the host OS in sleep mode. When I woke my desktop all I had to do was click on my VM to wake the monitor. Looks like not using Sleep Mode on my VM is working.

altae · Oct 12, 2021

Great but what happens if you try to suspend the guest using the suspend button of VMWare Player? That's what crashes my VM.

Rahulji · Oct 14, 2021

New version VMware Workstation 16.2.0 today, but not Windows 11? Hmm...

Download:

https://www.vmware.com/go/getworkstation-win

Release info:

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/16.2.0/rn/VMware-Workstation-1620-Pro-Release-Notes.html

dany00711 · Oct 14, 2021

for me WMvare works ok i just add options acess control encrypted
and then add to WM TPM module

swarfega · Oct 14, 2021

Has anyone lost dark mode with today's update?

altae · Oct 14, 2021

Yep and the corresponding menu entry has also vanished.

Rahulji · Oct 17, 2021

What version of *Beta* WS in config? It is better use 16.x compatibility?

altae · Oct 17, 2021

Apparently they consider the latest release a beta. Or it's an oversight. I left my setting on 16.x

davewin11 · Oct 19, 2021

altae said:
Apparently they consider the latest release a beta. Or it's an oversight. I left my setting on 16.x

I think that is just the default name and doesn't mean anything. I just leave it. If you open About... then it is 16.2.0 build...

jimbo45 · Oct 20, 2021

Hi there

@altae

Working 100% -- also with new Office 2021 LTSC

Cheers
jimbo

altae · Oct 20, 2021

Looks like Windows 11 as a guest. I'm talking about running Windows 11 as host. That's where I encounter the described issues.

jimbo45 · Oct 21, 2021

altae said:
Looks like Windows 11 as a guest. I'm talking about running Windows 11 as host. That's where I encounter the described issues.

@altae

I'm running W11 as a HOST also on that machine !!!!!!! I created the VM to try out OFFICE 2021 LTSC without disturbing my existing OFFICE 2019 system.

Cheers
jimbo

altae · Oct 21, 2021

Ah. And you can suspend the guest? On my system this crashes the guest. Maybe it has something to do with Hyper V being enabled on the host. Or the fact that the vm is a Linux system.

tomdsr · Oct 25, 2021

altae said:
Looks like Windows 11 as a guest. I'm talking about running Windows 11 as host. That's where I encounter the described issues.

Win11 host (winver with HOST on it), Debian linux guest (terminal window labeled GUEST) and vmware workstation about screen above it (labeled VMWARE ABOUT).

altae said:
Ah. And you can suspend the guest? On my system this crashes the guest. Maybe it has something to do with Hyper V being enabled on the host. Or the fact that the vm is a Linux system.

Can suspend it or the win10 machine. i do not have hyper-v, wsl, or sandbox features installed.

altae · Oct 26, 2021

Well it looks like the culprit is Hyper V (again). Let's hope VMWare fixes this with an upcoming release.

tomdsr · Nov 18, 2021

altae said:
Well it looks like the culprit is Hyper V (again). Let's hope VMWare fixes this with an upcoming release.

I gave up on that myself. VMWare's last update was supposed to make it and Hyper-V play nicely together. That didnt happen, and ive been wanting to play with WSL and sandbox. That would make my server in VMWare run slow as mud because disabling the processor virtualization in the virtual machines was the only way it would start even. We are talking like 10 mins for the virtual machine to start up.

Now happily running the server in Hyper-V. Runs so much smoother. I dont even have to worry if i forget its running and restart the host. Hyper-V will shut the virtual machine down and then my pc restarts.

cereberus · Nov 20, 2021

tomdsr said:
I gave up on that myself. VMWare's last update was supposed to make it and Hyper-V play nicely together. That didnt happen, and ive been wanting to play with WSL and sandbox. That would make my server in VMWare run slow as mud because disabling the processor virtualization in the virtual machines was the only way it would start even. We are talking like 10 mins for the virtual machine to start up.

Now happily running the server in Hyper-V. Runs so much smoother. I dont even have to worry if i forget its running and restart the host. Hyper-V will shut the virtual machine down and then my pc restarts.

Yeah the coexistence APIs run like a dog. It is still better to add a second modifiedvboot entry with hypervisor disabled so you can boot in HyperV mode or VMWare mode. Same applies to Virtualbox.