So I’m trying to play around with Fedora in a VM with VMWare Workstation Player (v17.5.1) but I’m running into a problem I don’t know how to solve. I use the Fedora 39 1.5 ISO file which is the most current version that’s available for download and after installing it in the VM everything works fine. I setup the install and I can use it, still working after rebooting it. But as soon as I do sudo dnf update or update everything via the Software Center the screen of the VM goes black and I can’t use the VM anymore. No matter if I reboot it or not. When I power off the VM I can see the Fedora loading icon for a short period but that’s it.
This also happened with NixOS but not with Fedora Server. I guess it must have something to do with the DE as both distros were installed with Gnome but I don’t know how to solve it. I already tried reinstalling VMWare to no avail. I will try installing a distro with KDE to maybe rule out one cause.
Does anyone have any idea what’s going on here? I’m running VMWare on Windows 11.
That does sound like Oracle. How unfortunate, who would take a one-time fee of 5000 dollars over a sustained customer relationship? I’m just not Oracle enough to understand, I guess.
Now that Broadcom is in charge, companies should probably treat VMWare like they treat any Google service: support, updates, and services can disappear at any time, with barely any warning. They’ve already killed off a significant part of their products that don’t serve large corporations.