Since my license came from one of these bundles, I'm not eligible for upgrades - I'd have to buy it fresh. I hope this helps folks who are still using Workstation 14 which unfortunately includes me. UIs for various features including snapshots, VM config editing, etc. This appears to mainly affect poweroff, restart, etc. The only remaining problem is that many notification dialog boxes are of an improper size, requiring the dialog box to be moved several times in order to see the buttons to interact with them. Once this was done, I was able to boot bridged VMs again as well. In my case, I enabled bridging ONLY to my wired network card. Second: Disable unnecessary adapters in the Virtual Network Editor for the Bridged network. This was enough to launch most VMs, but VMs with a bridged network interface would still lock up.

Running the following in an admin command prompt is sufficient to disable HyperV Two steps were necessary to get it working again on my system.įirst: Disable HyperV via bcdedit. The primary behavior I found was that a VM would begin starting up but before it reached the VMWare BIOS screen, it would lock up and just seemingly spinlock a CPU core. Might be an easier way but that was the simplest. It took a bit of playing around with settings, but I think I finally got things under control for the most part.įirst off, I was only able to convince Windows to update to 1903 by outright uninstalling Workstation14 and reinstalling after upgrading.

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