I've run Debian successfully over many years, on hardware directly and in a KVM virtual machine. So I think you're right that the problem relates to your VM, with which I've had no experience. My only suggestion is to find out whether you can enable logging of the VM system that might generate useful error messages on the host OS. If you haven't already looked for errors in Windows Event Viewer, then it's time to do that, as a first step. You could always repartition the drive and just install directly to the hardware. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 1:07 AM To: blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] debian 9.3 as guest on vmware workstation 14, win10 host Hello, I'm attempting to do an install of debian 9.3 x64 as a guest in workstation 14. The host OS is win10 v1709. I've read compatibility issues and have confirmed I am not using accelerated 3d graphics in the vm, and am using the LSI virtual scsi adapter in the vm. I'm using orca software speech for the install. At different points during the install speech stops and I'm assuming the vm has frozen. This does not happen at the same point of the install. The vm has 16GB of ram and a quad core processor for hardware. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins