

You will want that being the latest "Free" version released on June 15th prior to the August 15th release of the VM Workstation Player 12 which is a trial version not a freeware but has a 30 day evaluation period. Another great job with this one! One thing I could add here is when arriving to select the VM Player down you will have to choose the Workstation Player option to arrive at the download page seen at

You can also run a 64-bit guest on a 32-bit host if the host computer meets these requirements.

To run 64-bit guest operating systems, the host system must have one of the following processors. The operating system that runs inside a virtual machine is called the guest operating system. Processor Requirements for 64-Bit Guest Operating Systems You cannot install Player if the host system does not meet the processor requirements.When you install Player, the installer performs checks to make sure the host system has a supported processor.LAHF/SAHF support in long mode only for older 64-bit CPUs produced before 2006.The host system must have a 64-bit x86 CPU that meets the following requirements.You must install Player on a host system that meets certain processor requirements. To run Player, the host system and the host operating system must meet specific hardware and software requirements. I'm still not sure which of these really nailed it, but now I'm fine at last.The physical computer on which you install Player is called the host system and its operating system is called the host operating system. Use Wayland, so instead of complete freeze (reboot) you will get a new login screen (Wayland restart?).Disable 3D accelleration in Gnome and in the VM settings.Reserve 8G RAM for the host OS as above.Disable hugepage as above (temporarily): echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled.Reduce "swappyness" of Ubuntu (temporarily): sysctl -w vm.swappiness=10.Try without docking station and USB devices before doing any of the other points further below. An older Dell D3100 docking station reproducibly crashed the Linux kernel. Disconnect docking station and USB devices: There seem to be quite a number of issues in the Linux USB subsystem due to bad industry specs etc.Since the actions below all problems are gone: I had similar issue on Ubuntu 18.04 on Dell and TB16 docking station (temporary freezes (1-5 s) regularly, starting Win10 cause reproducible crashes).
