VMware Workstation Player 17.6.0 on Ubuntu 24.04 makes the machine unstable

[Takao Fuji]

Hi,

I installed VMware Workstation Player 17.6.0 on Ubuntu 24.04 on a Thinkpad T14 Gen 5 laptop. 

It made my system very unstable. The biggest problem was that I could not suspend or reboot the system. (neither from command line nor from GUI)

Below are some messages that may be relevant to this issue, extracted by "journalctl -r" command.  

9月 07 15:42:07 fujilaptop5 systemd[1]: systemd-suspend.service: Consumed 4.431s CPU time.
 9月 07 15:42:07 fujilaptop5 systemd[1]: suspend.target: Job suspend.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
 9月 07 15:42:07 fujilaptop5 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for suspend.target - Suspend.
 9月 07 15:42:07 fujilaptop5 systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-suspend.service - System Suspend.
 9月 07 15:42:07 fujilaptop5 systemd[1]: systemd-suspend.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
 9月 07 15:42:07 fujilaptop5 systemd[1]: systemd-suspend.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
 9月 07 15:42:07 fujilaptop5 bluetoothd[922]: Controller resume with wake event 0x0
 9月 07 15:42:07 fujilaptop5 systemd-sleep[8333]: Failed to put system to sleep. System resumed again: Device or resource busy

I have removed 17.6.0 and installed VMware Workstation Player 17.5.2 following the instructions,

https://nwgat.ninja/quick-easy-vmware-workstation-pro-on-ubuntu-24-04/

It worked perfectly. 

 

I would appreciate if someone could tell me how to solve this problem.

Best Regards,

Takao Fuji

[ambroz09]

The problem and temporary solution is posted in this thread:

https://community.broadcom.com/vmware-cloud-foundation/question/problem-with-176-update-on-ubuntu-2204

Summary VM 17.6.0 breaks Ubuntu systems with 6.8.0 kernel.

Awaiting official VM patch.

[Dejan Rodiger]

I have the same problem. Ubuntu 22.04 with Workstation 17.5 worked perfectly and I had to upgrade!

Ubuntu 24.04 with 6.8.0-40 kernel and VMWare Workstaion 17.6.0 have following problems:

• after some time whole kernel becomes unstable
• I notice this when network interface inside of the VM stops working (Internet not available and doesn't ping)
• If I then open command prompt and enter any command, it just waits. Doesn't even run the command
• Then even reboot doesn't start or blocks in certain step
• Then I need to force reboot

Also have problems with my Jabra USB headset not working...which is probably Ubuntu 24.04 issue. Also vents working all the time...

Since I had Kernel 6.5.0-45 available, when I boot with this kernel, VMWare Workstation works with the network and doesn't kill the kernel.

But I still have USB Headetset (Jabra ) issues with the microphone in Ubuntu 24.04 host and in the VM itself, when moving USB into the VM...

I will try to reinstall 17.5.2

[Stefan Ott]

Same issue here (17.6.0 on Ubuntu 24.04)...
I also noticed that my network on the host crashed after a few minutes running any type of VM as guest (Ubuntu, Win 11) and afterwards it's not possible to open any browser on the host (FF, Chrome-9). FF crashed a few times so badly, that my profile was damaged an all cookies were gone. Installed Virtualbox instead.

[Takao Fuji]

@ambroz09
Thank you very much for the information.
I think that it is the solution.
I will try it in the mean time and tell you the result.

Takao Fuji