I have a licensed copy of Vmware Workstation Pro v17
My issue:
After booting a VM in Workstation my system starts to misbehave
fprintd stops working (fingerprint reader)
launching new applications that were not running before will fail; even opening a new tab in Chrome
The only way to rectify this is to reboot the system, closing vmware will not resolve this
this is NOT an issue with virtualbox - that works without any issues
im tasked with testing something and vmware is required - so i need to figure out why this is tanking my system in such a way.
any guidence is helpful. im not really sure where to start
in messages once the VM is running these come up (grep fprintd)
I also have VMware Workstation 17.5 and experience some odd behavior on Fedora 39 on my desktop (Ryzen 7 5800x, Radeon RX 6800XT and currently kernel 6.6). Even after recompiling the vmware modules manually I still have system hangs for some parts of the system when I launch a VM, and USB passthrough doesn’t work any more (passthrough devices don’t work).
I had Fedora 38 and it all worked perfectly, and even after upgrading to 39 everything worked fine up until about a month ago (up until kernel 6.5 maybe?). In seeing your screenshot I can see some USB issues reported so perhaps it’s also a USB passthrough problem that is causing your specific issue with the fingerprint reader?
My point is, I think the problem is the interaction between Fedora 39 and Workstation Pro (and possibly with Ryzen in particular but I haven’t tested Fedora 39 + VMware on Intel hardware). I will see if I can find an Intel machine I can put Fedora 39 + Workstation Pro on and see if it also has the USB/kernel module issue.
I downloaded the workstation-17.5.0 patches, recompiled and installed the modules, rebooted, and device disconnect/reconnect worked fine (fedora 39, kernel 6.6.7-200). I’d suggest you give it a shot and see if it addresses the fingerprint reader issue.
