VMX crash during power on with AMD open source driver

Products

• VMware Desktop Hypervisor

Issue/Introduction

If you use unapproved Graphics drivers from open source or non-vendor provided sources, your virtual machine may fail to power on with the error "Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error." AMD and Nvidia graphics hosts should use the company provided proprietary drivers. For AMD GPUs, that's the fglrx driver.

Resolution

You must use the vendor provided drivers for both AMD and Nvidia graphics hosts.