Just installed October 14th Windows patches on Win 81 64 bit.
After that and several reboots I get the error below
when trying to launch any of my VM's with VMWare Player 6.03.
The host has 6 GB of memory of which 4 GB is available and the guest memory is set to 700 - 1200 MB.
The log contains
2014-10-14T21:41:34.975+03:00| vmx| I120: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: Msg_Reset:
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini": Unknown error 2 (0x2).
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: ----------------------------------------
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: ConfigDB: Failed to load C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: Msg_Reset:
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini": Unknown error 2 (0x2).
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: ----------------------------------------
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: ConfigDB: Failed to load C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)
2014-10-14T21:41:34.976+03:00| vmx| I120: FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation): Unknown error 183 (0xb7) (183)
Restoring Windows to the state prior to the updates without any other action allows to start the VM's
Doe not happen on WIndows 7 64 bit.
My conclusion is that the patch breaks VMWare Player or the Windows configuration VMWare player is using.