Question VMware Workstation 15 hangs and vmware-vmx is unkillable.

[Ghostler]

I have installed VMware Workstation 15.0.2 on a Windows 10 Enterprise 18343.19h1 host and am encountering a weird issue. When I start a VM, it doesn't boot but gets stuck on a black window. If I try to force reset it or anything like that, the UI for power controls is disabled and if I try to manually kill vmware-vmx.exe, it just won't die. I've tried with Process Hacker and with Task Manager, to no avail. The only way to kill vmware-vmx.exe is to restart my host. The host is a Dell Inspiron 3650 with an Intel Core i3 6100, 8GBs of DDR3 RAM, a WD Blue 1TB HDD and Intel HD Graphics 530. I have also downgraded to VMware Workstation 15.0.1 which also didn't fix the issue. The guest is Ubuntu 18.04, however no matter what OS i'm running in the guest, this happens regardless.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Look at your reliability history and your event viewer and see if there’s something funny going on