{"id":105,"date":"2009-11-10T06:52:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T19:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2009-11-17T08:10:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T21:10:37","slug":"frame-buffer-error-after-upgrading-to-vmware-workstation-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Frame Buffer error after upgrading to VMware Workstation 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upgraded my version of VMware Workstation today from 6.0 to 7.0. Have two VMs both were in a suspended state. One resumed just fine. The second one while it does have snapshot in a powered off state was also in a suspended(running) state and I received the following error messages:<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/FrameBuffer.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/FrameBuffer-300x226.png\" alt=\"The frame buffer layout error message\" title=\"Frame Buffer Error\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-106\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The frame buffer layout error message<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nHad a look through the VMware forums for possible assistance, a few different things to try, most I wasn&#8217;t happy in attempting, it&#8217;s late I&#8217;m tired and looking forward to editing hex code right now, not so much.<br \/>\nThe fix, reinstall the old version. Start the VM up, no problems. Shutdown the VM, reinstall Workstation 7, and all working.<br \/>\nMostly annoying because I am studying for my VCP and wanted to check a couple of things and spent the better part of an hour and half sorting this all out. Instead of studying. \ud83d\ude10<br \/>\nI would have understood if I had changed monitors, computers, cloned it, updated video drivers etc, however did none of these, so it is a little weird to me why I would get this message. If someone has an explanation I would love to hear it.<br \/>\nAny how, all good now, back to the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upgraded my version of VMware Workstation today from 6.0 to 7.0. Have two VMs both were in a suspended state. One resumed just fine. The second one while it does <a href=\"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/?p=105\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}