Quantcast
Channel: VMware Communities : All Content - Workstation Player
Viewing all 5660 articles
Browse latest View live

Unable to receive login prompt on Windows 7 (Alt + Ctrl + Delete Issue?)

0
0

Hello,

 

I have been having an issue logging into a VMWare instance running windows 7 using VMWare Player.  When I try to send Alt + Ctrl + Delete using all known methods (Button, Drop down menu option and Alt + Ctrl + Insert).  When I click those options nothing happens.  Expected behavior is for the password prompt to open.

 

The instance is not locked as I can click the help button with the mouse on the Win7 "Please Hit Alt + Ctrl + Del" screen.  I know the keyboard is connecting as when I reboot I get an option to enter safe mode using the keyboard.  Safe mode has the same issue.  Alt + Ctrl + Del does nothing.

 

I even tried re-creating the VMWare instance using version 7 of the converter (this fixed a problem for me in the past) and it did not fix the issue.  I have tried everything I can think of at the moment.  I appreciate any suggestions.  Thank you!

 

edit by wila moved from VMware Fusion® (for Mac) to VMware Player


0 bytes of system swap space is available

0
0

I just installed VMware Player and get this:

 

 

 

VMware Player recommends 512 MB of system swap space for the set of currently running virtual machines. 0 bytes of system swap space is available. For optimum performance increase the amount of system swap space, or configure all virtual machine memory to use reserved host RAM under Preferences.

 

 

 

I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and Im sure I have GBs of space in Linux swap partition available. I'm not sure how do I fix this error message?

 

config file:

.encoding = "UTF-8"

NETWORKING = "yes"

VMBLOCK_CONFED = "yes"

gksu.rootMethod = "sudo"

libdir = "/usr/lib/vmware"

VMCI_CONFED = "yes"

VSOCK_CONFED = "yes"

initscriptdir = "/etc/init.d"

authd.fullpath = "/usr/sbin/vmware-authd"

bindir = "/usr/bin"

installerDefaults.componentDownloadEnabled = "yes"

installerDefaults.autoSoftwareUpdateEnabled.epoch = "6720694112"

vix.config.version = "1"

player.product.version = "5.0.2"

installerDefaults.dataCollectionEnabled.epoch = "6574561566"

installerDefaults.dataCollectionEnabled = "no"

installerDefaults.transferVersion = "1"

installerDefaults.autoSoftwareUpdateEnabled = "yes"

product.buildNumber = "1031769"

Sound no longer works right

0
0

Running Windows 7 x86_64 as a guest in openSUSE 13.2. Surround sound (5.1) worked in the guest with prior versions of vmplayer, however since upgrading to vmplayer 7.0.0, it doesn't. There is no sound from the rear speakers, subwoofer is routed to front-right and the sound that I do get is distorted and crackling.

Problems with graphic driver (vga)

0
0

Hi,

 

I have a problem when starting my program:

The program has encountered a problem: MODULE_NOT_FOUND: vga.dl (debugger result)

I googled that module and it seems like it has something to do with the vmware driver for graphics.

Don't exactly know why, but my program doesn't run. How can I change that it uses my graphic card? I mean - like using a computer without vmware..

there it works, but not with vmware.

 

In some forums they said you have to change some regestry entries and so one to solve this problem.

Does someone knows what I have to do?

 

I'm using vmware player pro 7. Win XP Professional SP 3. Not having the tools installed atm.

 

Thanks for your help.

Annoying repeated keystrokes

0
0

Hi,

 

when working in the guest, I randomly get repeated keystrokes. For example I press return, and get 50 CRs instead (until I press another key). This happens quite frequently and is really annoying.

 

I've googled this problem, and it seems to be around since quite some time - with no conclusive solution.

 

My setup:

VMware Player 6.0.3

Host: Windows 7 x 64

Guest: Ubuntu (13.x, 14.x, have tried various versions...) 64 bit

 

What to do?

 

cheers,

John

Player 7.0.0: how to preserve full screen mode between sessions?

0
0

Hi,

 

I have Windows 7 x64 with 2 monitors. I used to run virtual machines in full screen mode. I expect that Player restores full screen mode when restarting suspended machine. This works with Player 6 but version 7 always starts machines in windowed mode, with big widow which covers full screen of a single monitor. When I click at "full screen" icon, Player goes full screen, but virtual machine screen is not resized, I only get black border around VM display. To get true full screen I have to minimize window, maximize and then click full screen icon.

 

Is there any remedy for this behavior?

VMWare Player 7 on Windows 10 Technical Preview 9879 issues when turning off a VM

0
0

So far I've tested Linux x86 and x64 guests, along with Windows NT 4.0 (yeah I know..) And turning off a VM will cause my machine to halt.

 

hostCPUID family: 0x6 model: 0x3c stepping: 0x3

hostCPUID codename: Haswell DT

hostCPUID name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v3 @ 3.30GHz

 

Log for VMware Player pid=4332 version=7.0.0 build=build-2305329 option=Release

The process is 64-bit.

Host codepage=windows-1252 encoding=windows-1252

Host is Windows 8 Enterprise, 64-bit  (Build 9200)

 

 

The last entry in the vmx for the last time I tried to turn off a VM....

 

2014-12-08T14:51:44.266+08:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [2840 mainDispatch.c:4291]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=1, newAppState=1873, success=1 additionalError=0

2014-12-08T14:51:44.266+08:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [2840 mainDispatch.c:4291]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=2, newAppState=1878, success=1 additionalError=0

 

 

The beta ran so well in a VM, I thought I'd take the plunge.  I know, big mistake.

 

I really really really don't want to bother with Hyper-V.. And I checked that it's not installed.

 

There is nothing in the syslog for an hour before I tried to shut down a VM, and the system locked.  It ran fine on 7 on this hardware, for what it's worth.

 

I've tried downgrading to VMware Player 6.0.4.  Same thing.  Down to VMware Player 6.0.1.  Same behavior.

 

I've tried the CPU in 'Binary Translation' mode.  Same problem.

 

Going to try Binary + Disable Acceleration, and that crashed too.

 

x86 linux guest (debian 7) with vmware tools installed.  NT 4.0 crashes and locks as well on shutdown (vmware tools...)

 

It must be something in VMware tools that happens during a shutdown event.  I've tried bare MS-DOS & NetWare 3.12 and both were able to boot up, run a simulated network, run protected mode programs fine, but something is up with tools doing a shutdown on Windows 10 9879.

 

-------------

Since Player & Workstation have the same engine I saw this in the version 11 release notes:

  • Shutting down a virtual machine on a host running Windows 10 Tech Preview can cause a blue screen.
    If you have Workstation installed on a host that runs Windows 10 Tech Preview, occasionally when you shut down the guest operating system in a virtual machine, the host computer might restart unexpectedly. In this case, you see the following error code on a blue screen: DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. This issue can sometimes also occur with power-off and suspend operations.
    Workaround: If a newer build of Windows 10 Tech Preview is available, try updating to the newest version.

 

So this means there is no fix, no work around. 

How to increase MacOS guest display resolution?

0
0

After startup of MacOS guestOS on Win7 64bit Vmware host the initial display resolution of the guestOS is only 1024x768

 

When I go now in guestOS to

 

System-Preferences-->Display-->Display--->Scaled

 

then there is only ONE resolution possible: 1024x768.

 

However the screen resolution of my host is 1920x1280

 

So I want to enlarge the vmware guestOS window resolution as well e.g. to 1680x900

 

How can I achieve this?

 

I tried in VmWare Settings-->Hardware-->Display

to enable

"Use host settings for monitors"

 

but this didn't help.

 

Any other solution?

 

Do I have to enter a new parameter in *.vmx file?

 

Matt


vmsupport-2014-12-09-09-08.zip

Shared folder and mouse scrolling unavailable in Debian

0
0

Hi there,

 

My host system is 64-bit win 7 pro. I'm new to Debian and Linux in general. I installed Debian 7.7. (Wheezy) and Gnome in a VMplayer on laptop. When I go to System Tools->Preferences->System Settings->Mouse and Touchpad, I don't see any options for scrolling. Note that I'm using laptop and don't have a mouse but just a touchpad. Can someone help me to set up scrolling. I asked this question in Debian forum and I was told I need to configure VMPlayer but I don't see anywhere setting to configure touchpad.

 

My 2nd problem is that in VMPlayer I specified Shared folder but when I log in to Debian, I don't see this Shared folder. Do I need to change anything in Debian?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Joe Green

Cannot connect to Hosts Network via Bridge

0
0

Hi,

 

I am new to VM World , i have installed VMPlayer 6 last week and i found that i couldn't connect to hosts network via Bridged network, Please suggest any solutions.

Assign (bootable) ISO to DVD drive, connect, change BIOS boot prio and start VM?

0
0

Assume I have a runnign VM (e.g. with Win7 guestOS).

 

On my Win 7 hostOS I have a bootable *.ISO file.

 

In order to try out this ISO (and to boot from it) I always have to do manually the following:

 

1.) In VM Hardware settings assign *.iSO file as ISO image file of the DVD drive

2.) enable Connect at power on checkbox

3.) Give DVD drive priority in guestOS VM BIOS over booting from hard disc

4.) Start VM

 

After testing I have to undo all these settings manually.

This is unhandy and annoying.

 

Isn't there a way to do everything temporarily from cmdline?

I mean something like:

 

vmware.exe  -ISOIMAGE=D:\work\mydvd.iso  -DVDSTARTUP=connect  -BOOTPRIO=DVD,DISK

 

Matt

VMplayer 7, is it really 64 bit?

0
0

I upgraded from 6.0.4 to 7.0.0.  The download page described it as "VMware Player for Windows 64-bit operating systems".  My host is running 64bit Win 7 up-to-date as of the time I downloaded.  It installed fine, runs fine, but the VAST majority of the VMware processes are shown as *32 in task manager.

 

I realize it doesn't really make a difference, but still...

VMPlayer 7, screen position

0
0

I updated VMware Player to version 7 (from version 6.xxx latest)

Now every time I start VMware Player 7 on my computer (Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit), it starts on a different position of my screen (screen resolution is 1920x1080).

The VMware guests also do so.

This is annoying, since I always have to reposition guest windows in order to get the complete guest screen visible.

I did not have this strange behaviour with VMware player 6.

Does anyone know a solution to avoid this?

More information needed?

VMware Player 7 closes on suspending guest

0
0

Whenever I suspend a guest in VMware Player 7, VMwarePlayer exits on the host operating system.

Is there a way to change this behaviour? I want to keep VMware Player 7 still running on host after suspending a guest.

I remember a setting menu in VMware player 6 affecting this behaviour, but I can´t find an appropriate capabilty in VMware Player 7 Player> File> Preferences menu.

Is there a different way to change this?


Intel VT-x mode issue

0
0

I'm provisionig Windows 7 x 64 VM in our ESXi 5.0 and 5.5 environment. Now I want to virtualize via VMWare Player in this Win 7 VM further 64 Bit Windows/Linux systems.

I'm getting the information "This host does not support Intel VT-x mode" . VMWare Compatibility Check says: "This host ist NOT capable of running  a 64-bit guest operating system under this VM product". What can I do in order to enable the 64 Bit mode for the virtualization under this VM?

Ubuntu 14.04.1 latest updates broke Unity session (Player 6.0.4)

0
0

Host:     Windows 7 x64 SP1

Guest     Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS x64

 

A bunch of updates showed up yesterday for the kernel, DKMS, and some nvidia packages. After rebooting, I can login but Unity desktop session never loads. No icons, etc. Just the desktop background image.

 

I decided to try a terminal with CTRL+ALT+F1, which complains that the vmware tools failed to load. Also, I can't login. It won't accept my username and password. Also tried login as guest or root but it won't accept my password or blank password for either account. So I have no ability to diagnose/fix this with terminal commands. Can't even look at /home to see what my username is...

 

This VM was created with the easy install method. Does it generate a different username that I need to use?

 

Help would be much appreciated!

Issues opening ttyUSB0 when using Cygnal 2103 USB to Serial

0
0

Hello,

 

I've been experiencing a very bad problem with VMware where opening a serial port on /dev/ttyUSB0 fails about 80% of the time.

 

We're using a Meshnetics Zigbit development board which uses a Cygnal 2103 usb-to-serial chip. We run Ubuntu 10.04 in VMware Player (3.1.4 build-385536) on a Windows 7 Host (HP Envy).

 

In our Linux console application, soon after startup we open /dev/ttyUSB0 in the usual way:

fd = open(comPort, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NDELAY);

 

This call fails almost 80% of the time for no particular reason. We usually have to restart our application 5-10x to have the port open successfully and proceed.

 

The odd thing is that is works sometimes - and if the port opens ok we don't seem to have any issue sending/receiving data on our serial port. But since it fails most of the time, it slows down our development a lot and make demos very nerve-racking..

 

There doesn't seem to be any issue when the device is plugged in. A ttyUSB0 is created immediately and I receive these messages on /var/log/messages:

 

Aug  8 16:54:53 ubuntu kernel: [ 1685.239857] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
Aug  8 16:54:54 ubuntu kernel: [ 1685.578710] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Aug  8 16:54:54 ubuntu kernel: [ 1685.588059] cp210x 2-1:1.0: cp210x converter detected
Aug  8 16:54:54 ubuntu kernel: [ 1685.921982] usb 2-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
Aug  8 16:54:54 ubuntu kernel: [ 1686.150388] usb 2-1: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0

 

Further, lsusb reports:

Bus 002 Device 007: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x Composite Device

 

 

To assist debugging this problem, I tried our software using VMware Fusion 3.1.3 (416484) running on a Macintosh. It also used Ubuntu 10.04 as the guest image. The same problem exists in the Macintosh/Fusion version as well.

 

For a sanity check, I also installed Ubuntu directly on a physical machine with no VMware. Running our same application with our same Zigbit board, I did not experience any issues with the serial port. It opens each time without any trouble.

 

This leads me to conclude there is some issue with the Cygnal chip and VMware.

 

Has anyone else experienced intermittent trouble opening a serial port on ttyUSB0?

 

thanks,

-Mark

 

PS - please let me know what other information I can provide to help debug this issue. I am also located in the Bay Area and can loan the physical device to VMware if that could help.

Hi VM player is getting hanged

0
0

Hi,

 

I am trying to configure PIG in my system in VMplayer but it is getting hanged. Is it system issue or VMplayer issue or Windows 8.1 edition issue for VM player

 

Please advise.

 

Regards,

Bibhas

Player 7.0.0 "spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#, should never happen."

0
0

I wanted to add to @AC2014's post in the Workstation forum.  On 6 December 2014, he wrote:

 

Did anyone notice the message below in /var/log/syslog?

"spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#<n>, should never happen."

where <n> is the CPU ID, e.g. CPU#1 or CPU#2.

I've checked my "syslog" files corresponding to VMware Workstation 10 period, and no such messages can be found then.


(See: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#1, should never happen.)

 

In addition to Workstation 11, this is happening on all our Player 7.0.0 machines on Linux hosts as well.  We noticed it first with XP guests.  We didn't see the messages under Player 6.0.3.

 

There is a bypass noted by @jmattson here:

 

Re: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#1, should never happen.

 

But ideally this needs to be fixed in the Player 7.0.0 code.

Viewing all 5660 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images