This has been happening for a while, but I think I am just done with dealing with this. Every few days, my two VMs on Workstation 15.0.2, with host running latest Windows 10, VMs both running Windows Server 2008 R2, go black. It is about every few days, usually overnight. I cannot shut them down, they just say it is busy, and the VMware VMX processes won't end in Task Manager, because "Access Denied". I have to restart my host every time, then start the VMs back up.
The logs give a curious error: "E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.". I found a solution to go in the network adapter in Device Manager while in the Guest VM, and increase the Receive and Transmit Buffers to 512. The Transmit was already there, so I increased the Receive from 256 to 512. It still happened.
So I tried it on the host machine too, and it STILL happened.
VMware Tools seem to be up to date on both VMs, and VMware is too. Please, somebody, tell me how to fix this.
Here is the contents of one of the VMs' log from when it starts (the other VM's log is the same):
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2019-01-11T16:54:11.640-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 0 min 572346 max 1134522 shares 1124352 paged 206340 nonpaged 5020 anonymous 5150 locked 502838 touchedPct 1 dirtiedPct 0 timestamp 160358 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T16:54:11.640-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 1 min 534048 max 1058336 shares 1048576 paged 206340 nonpaged 4870 anonymous 4890 locked 534048 touchedPct 5 dirtiedPct 2 timestamp 160358 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T16:54:11.640-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked 534048 target 1058336 balloon 0 0 681574 swapped 471525 0 allocd 0 512 state 0 100
2019-01-11T16:54:11.640-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: states: 0 93601 : 1 0 : 2 0 : 3 0
2019-01-11T16:54:11.640-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: Balloon enabled 1 guestType 4 maxSize 0
2019-01-11T17:24:14.785-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: caller 1 numvm 2 locked pages: num 1038517 max 7303936
2019-01-11T17:24:14.785-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked Page Limit: host 7850148 config 7320320 dynam 7786563
2019-01-11T17:24:14.785-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: minmempct 50 timestamp 162161
2019-01-11T17:24:14.785-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 0 min 572346 max 1134522 shares 1124352 paged 206340 nonpaged 5020 anonymous 5150 locked 504467 touchedPct 2 dirtiedPct 1 timestamp 162161 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T17:24:14.785-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 1 min 534048 max 1058336 shares 1048576 paged 206340 nonpaged 4870 anonymous 4890 locked 534050 touchedPct 7 dirtiedPct 3 timestamp 162161 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T17:24:14.785-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked 534050 target 1058336 balloon 0 0 681574 swapped 471524 0 allocd 2 512 state 0 100
2019-01-11T17:24:14.785-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: states: 0 95401 : 1 0 : 2 0 : 3 0
2019-01-11T17:24:14.785-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: Balloon enabled 1 guestType 4 maxSize 0
2019-01-11T17:54:18.213-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: caller 1 numvm 2 locked pages: num 1040328 max 7303936
2019-01-11T17:54:18.213-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked Page Limit: host 7853769 config 7320320 dynam 7787613
2019-01-11T17:54:18.213-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: minmempct 50 timestamp 163965
2019-01-11T17:54:18.213-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 0 min 572346 max 1134522 shares 1124352 paged 206340 nonpaged 5020 anonymous 5150 locked 506280 touchedPct 2 dirtiedPct 0 timestamp 163964 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T17:54:18.213-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 1 min 534048 max 1058336 shares 1048576 paged 206340 nonpaged 4870 anonymous 4890 locked 534048 touchedPct 5 dirtiedPct 1 timestamp 163965 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T17:54:18.213-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked 534048 target 1058336 balloon 0 0 681574 swapped 471689 0 allocd 0 512 state 0 100
2019-01-11T17:54:18.213-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: states: 0 97201 : 1 0 : 2 0 : 3 0
2019-01-11T17:54:18.213-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: Balloon enabled 1 guestType 4 maxSize 0
2019-01-11T18:24:21.935-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: caller 1 numvm 2 locked pages: num 1042588 max 7303936
2019-01-11T18:24:21.935-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked Page Limit: host 7864169 config 7320320 dynam 7792847
2019-01-11T18:24:21.935-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: minmempct 50 timestamp 165768
2019-01-11T18:24:21.935-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 0 min 572346 max 1134522 shares 1124352 paged 206340 nonpaged 5020 anonymous 5150 locked 508532 touchedPct 1 dirtiedPct 1 timestamp 165767 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T18:24:21.935-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 1 min 534048 max 1058336 shares 1048576 paged 206340 nonpaged 4870 anonymous 4890 locked 534056 touchedPct 8 dirtiedPct 3 timestamp 165768 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T18:24:21.935-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked 534056 target 1058336 balloon 0 0 681574 swapped 471683 0 allocd 8 512 state 0 100
2019-01-11T18:24:21.935-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: states: 0 99001 : 1 0 : 2 0 : 3 0
2019-01-11T18:24:21.935-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: Balloon enabled 1 guestType 4 maxSize 0
2019-01-11T18:54:25.178-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: caller 1 numvm 2 locked pages: num 1044241 max 7303936
2019-01-11T18:54:25.178-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked Page Limit: host 7849215 config 7320320 dynam 7788394
2019-01-11T18:54:25.178-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: minmempct 50 timestamp 167572
2019-01-11T18:54:25.178-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 0 min 572346 max 1134522 shares 1124352 paged 206340 nonpaged 5020 anonymous 5150 locked 510193 touchedPct 4 dirtiedPct 1 timestamp 167571 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T18:54:25.178-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 1 min 534048 max 1058336 shares 1048576 paged 206340 nonpaged 4870 anonymous 4890 locked 534048 touchedPct 7 dirtiedPct 2 timestamp 167572 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T18:54:25.178-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked 534048 target 1058336 balloon 0 0 681574 swapped 471698 0 allocd 0 512 state 0 100
2019-01-11T18:54:25.178-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: states: 0 100801 : 1 0 : 2 0 : 3 0
2019-01-11T18:54:25.178-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: Balloon enabled 1 guestType 4 maxSize 0
2019-01-11T19:24:28.806-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: caller 1 numvm 2 locked pages: num 1046343 max 7303936
2019-01-11T19:24:28.806-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked Page Limit: host 7845984 config 7320320 dynam 7788718
2019-01-11T19:24:28.806-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: minmempct 50 timestamp 169375
2019-01-11T19:24:28.806-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 0 min 572346 max 1134522 shares 1124352 paged 206340 nonpaged 5020 anonymous 5150 locked 512295 touchedPct 2 dirtiedPct 1 timestamp 169375 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T19:24:28.806-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 1 min 534048 max 1058336 shares 1048576 paged 206340 nonpaged 4870 anonymous 4890 locked 534048 touchedPct 9 dirtiedPct 3 timestamp 169375 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T19:24:28.806-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked 534048 target 1058336 balloon 0 0 681574 swapped 471699 0 allocd 0 512 state 0 100
2019-01-11T19:24:28.806-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: states: 0 102601 : 1 0 : 2 0 : 3 0
2019-01-11T19:24:28.806-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: Balloon enabled 1 guestType 4 maxSize 0
2019-01-11T19:54:31.919-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: caller 1 numvm 2 locked pages: num 1048415 max 7303936
2019-01-11T19:54:31.919-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked Page Limit: host 7861365 config 7320320 dynam 7799224
2019-01-11T19:54:31.919-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: minmempct 50 timestamp 171178
2019-01-11T19:54:31.919-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 0 min 572346 max 1134522 shares 1124352 paged 206340 nonpaged 5020 anonymous 5150 locked 514366 touchedPct 5 dirtiedPct 0 timestamp 171177 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T19:54:31.919-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 1 min 534048 max 1058336 shares 1048576 paged 206340 nonpaged 4870 anonymous 4890 locked 534049 touchedPct 8 dirtiedPct 6 timestamp 171178 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T19:54:31.919-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked 534049 target 1058336 balloon 0 0 681574 swapped 471701 0 allocd 1 512 state 0 100
2019-01-11T19:54:31.919-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: states: 0 104401 : 1 0 : 2 0 : 3 0
2019-01-11T19:54:31.919-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: Balloon enabled 1 guestType 4 maxSize 0
2019-01-11T20:24:34.898-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: caller 1 numvm 2 locked pages: num 1050506 max 7303936
2019-01-11T20:24:34.898-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked Page Limit: host 7858809 config 7320320 dynam 7779797
2019-01-11T20:24:34.898-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: minmempct 50 timestamp 172981
2019-01-11T20:24:34.898-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 0 min 572346 max 1134522 shares 1124352 paged 206340 nonpaged 5020 anonymous 5150 locked 516443 touchedPct 4 dirtiedPct 1 timestamp 172981 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T20:24:34.898-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 1 min 534048 max 1058336 shares 1048576 paged 206340 nonpaged 4870 anonymous 4890 locked 534063 touchedPct 5 dirtiedPct 1 timestamp 172981 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T20:24:34.898-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked 534063 target 1058336 balloon 0 0 681574 swapped 471703 0 allocd 15 512 state 0 100
2019-01-11T20:24:34.898-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: states: 0 106201 : 1 0 : 2 0 : 3 0
2019-01-11T20:24:34.898-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: Balloon enabled 1 guestType 4 maxSize 0
2019-01-11T20:46:12.404-05:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
2019-01-11T20:46:17.545-05:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2019-01-11T20:46:17.545-05:00| vmx| I125: Tools: [AppStatus] Last heartbeat value 107692 (last received 17s ago)
2019-01-11T20:46:32.405-05:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
2019-01-11T20:46:32.405-05:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpc: app toolbox-dnd's second ping timeout; assuming app is down
2019-01-11T20:46:32.405-05:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpc: Reinitializing Channel 1(toolbox-dnd)
2019-01-11T20:46:32.405-05:00| vmx| I125: GuestMsg: Channel 1, Cannot unpost because the previous post is already completed
2019-01-11T20:46:37.546-05:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2019-01-11T20:46:37.546-05:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpc: app toolbox's second ping timeout; assuming app is down
2019-01-11T20:46:37.546-05:00| vmx| I125: Tools: [AppStatus] Last heartbeat value 107692 (last received 37s ago)
2019-01-11T20:46:37.546-05:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpc: Reinitializing Channel 0(toolbox)
2019-01-11T20:46:37.546-05:00| vmx| I125: GuestMsg: Channel 0, Cannot unpost because the previous post is already completed
2019-01-11T20:46:37.546-05:00| vmx| I125: Tools: [AppStatus] Last heartbeat value 107692 (last received 37s ago)
2019-01-11T20:50:39.002-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:50:45.018-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:50:50.924-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:50:56.441-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:51:02.082-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:51:08.098-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:51:14.114-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:51:19.724-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:51:26.162-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:51:32.193-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:51:37.709-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:51:43.210-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:51:49.241-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:51:55.257-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:52:00.977-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:52:06.494-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:52:12.323-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:52:18.339-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:52:24.355-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:52:30.371-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:52:36.403-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:52:42.419-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:52:48.435-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:52:54.107-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:53:00.482-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:53:06.342-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:53:12.515-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:53:18.531-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:53:24.407-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:53:30.048-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:53:35.595-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:53:41.627-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:53:47.642-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:53:53.659-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:53:59.206-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:54:04.941-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:54:10.707-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:54:16.739-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:54:22.756-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:54:28.433-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:54:34.454-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:54:37.439-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: caller 1 numvm 2 locked pages: num 1053226 max 7303936
2019-01-11T20:54:37.439-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked Page Limit: host 7860599 config 7320320 dynam 7781816
2019-01-11T20:54:37.439-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: minmempct 50 timestamp 174784
2019-01-11T20:54:37.439-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 0 min 572346 max 1134522 shares 1124352 paged 206340 nonpaged 5020 anonymous 5150 locked 517371 touchedPct 3 dirtiedPct 1 timestamp 174783 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T20:54:37.439-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: VM 1 min 534048 max 1058336 shares 1048576 paged 206340 nonpaged 4870 anonymous 4890 locked 535855 touchedPct 8 dirtiedPct 2 timestamp 174784 vmResponsive is 1
2019-01-11T20:54:37.439-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: locked 535855 target 1058336 balloon 0 0 681574 swapped 470258 0 allocd 0 512 state 0 100
2019-01-11T20:54:37.439-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: states: 0 108001 : 1 0 : 2 0 : 3 0
2019-01-11T20:54:37.439-05:00| vmx| I125: MemSched: Balloon enabled 1 guestType 4 maxSize 0
2019-01-11T20:54:40.814-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:54:46.549-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:54:52.862-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:54:58.878-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2019-01-11T20:55:04.410-05:00| vmx| I125: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.