> Perhaps Broadcom leadership needs to take another look at how they provide support for Workstation.
Given that their (Broadcoms) stated objective seems to be to only concern themselves with "Big fish", perhaps they don't really intend to...
Original Message:
Sent: Jan 25, 2025 10:31 AM
From: Technogeezer
Subject: VMWare Workstation 17 - Win11 - Ryzen 7 - Red Hat Linux 6.1 (not RHEL) kernel crashes immediately
We can't contact support to get a secure upload location. Because of Broadcom's dropping of technical support for Desktop Hypervisor products, this forum is the only support option.
Funny that other companies have figured out how to enable users to report bugs in products without needing a support engineer gateway. Fedora, Canonical, and openSUSE come to mind. Perhaps Broadcom leadership needs to take another look at how they provide support for Workstation.
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- Paul (technogeezer)
Original Message:
Sent: Jan 24, 2025 10:08 AM
From: Jason McClellan
Subject: VMWare Workstation 17 - Win11 - Ryzen 7 - Red Hat Linux 6.1 (not RHEL) kernel crashes immediately
Share data directly with support in their secure environment. Our forums are open to the public and anything you upload is not secure. Thx Jason Platform Admin
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Thank you
Jason
Broadcom Community Platform Admin, IT
Original Message:
Sent: Jan 23, 2025 07:57 PM
From: rez cam
Subject: VMWare Workstation 17 - Win11 - Ryzen 7 - Red Hat Linux 6.1 (not RHEL) kernel crashes immediately
Can I upload the support data archive somewhere private, rather than sharing it with the whole community?
Original Message:
Sent: Dec 23, 2024 11:52 PM
From: Dhairya Tomar
Subject: VMWare Workstation 17 - Win11 - Ryzen 7 - Red Hat Linux 6.1 (not RHEL) kernel crashes immediately
rez cam Once you recreate the issue, go to menu Help->Support->Collect Support Data, in the next window select the checkbox next to RHEL VM where you are seeing the issue, generate the Support bundle and share it here.
Original Message:
Sent: Dec 23, 2024 10:05 AM
From: rez cam
Subject: VMWare Workstation 17 - Win11 - Ryzen 7 - Red Hat Linux 6.1 (not RHEL) kernel crashes immediately
Thank you Dhairya, how do I do that?
Original Message:
Sent: Dec 23, 2024 02:04 AM
From: Dhairya Tomar
Subject: VMWare Workstation 17 - Win11 - Ryzen 7 - Red Hat Linux 6.1 (not RHEL) kernel crashes immediately
rez cam Request you to collect support bundle of the Rhel VM at the point where the it gets stuck on boot screen and share it here.
Original Message:
Sent: Dec 01, 2024 02:01 PM
From: rez cam
Subject: VMWare Workstation 17 - Win11 - Ryzen 7 - Red Hat Linux 6.1 (not RHEL) kernel crashes immediately
Everyone, an interesting problem here: using VMWare Workstation 17 I am trying to install an old version of Red Hat Linux (6.1) in a VM.
Now, on my Win10 Intel laptop everything proceeds smoothly, I can configure the VM and everything installs just fine with fairly standard options.
On my Win11 7950X workstation, with the exact same VMWare Workstation version, the same options, the linux kernel gets stuck at boot time.
LILO starts, then the following:
boot:
Loading initrd.img........................
Loading vmlinuz........................
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
And that's it, it never proceeds from there.
Thoughts?