So far I've tested Linux x86 and x64 guests, along with Windows NT 4.0 (yeah I know..) And turning off a VM will cause my machine to halt.
hostCPUID family: 0x6 model: 0x3c stepping: 0x3
hostCPUID codename: Haswell DT
hostCPUID name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v3 @ 3.30GHz
Log for VMware Player pid=4332 version=7.0.0 build=build-2305329 option=Release
The process is 64-bit.
Host codepage=windows-1252 encoding=windows-1252
Host is Windows 8 Enterprise, 64-bit (Build 9200)
The last entry in the vmx for the last time I tried to turn off a VM....
2014-12-08T14:51:44.266+08:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [2840 mainDispatch.c:4291]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=1, newAppState=1873, success=1 additionalError=0
2014-12-08T14:51:44.266+08:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [2840 mainDispatch.c:4291]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=2, newAppState=1878, success=1 additionalError=0
The beta ran so well in a VM, I thought I'd take the plunge. I know, big mistake.
I really really really don't want to bother with Hyper-V.. And I checked that it's not installed.
There is nothing in the syslog for an hour before I tried to shut down a VM, and the system locked. It ran fine on 7 on this hardware, for what it's worth.
I've tried downgrading to VMware Player 6.0.4. Same thing. Down to VMware Player 6.0.1. Same behavior.
I've tried the CPU in 'Binary Translation' mode. Same problem.
Going to try Binary + Disable Acceleration, and that crashed too.
x86 linux guest (debian 7) with vmware tools installed. NT 4.0 crashes and locks as well on shutdown (vmware tools...)
It must be something in VMware tools that happens during a shutdown event. I've tried bare MS-DOS & NetWare 3.12 and both were able to boot up, run a simulated network, run protected mode programs fine, but something is up with tools doing a shutdown on Windows 10 9879.
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Since Player & Workstation have the same engine I saw this in the version 11 release notes:
- Shutting down a virtual machine on a host running Windows 10 Tech Preview can cause a blue screen.
If you have Workstation installed on a host that runs Windows 10 Tech Preview, occasionally when you shut down the guest operating system in a virtual machine, the host computer might restart unexpectedly. In this case, you see the following error code on a blue screen: DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. This issue can sometimes also occur with power-off and suspend operations.Workaround: If a newer build of Windows 10 Tech Preview is available, try updating to the newest version.
So this means there is no fix, no work around.