Many of the posts I see are in need of this simple advice - Clonezilla.
Image the host. Image the guest.
Many of the issues here are not with VMWare Workstation. They deal
with BIOS updates. They deal with host hardware updates. They deal
with host OS configuration issues.
My advice is Clonezilla. Image the host. And if you are having issues
do a fresh install on the host. And then keep on imagings.
So many silly posts appear because the BIOS is not up to date.
The OS is not up to date. And the drivers are not up to date.
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