I have been running VMWare Player 6.x 64bit on Ubuntu 14.04 with an OmniKey USB smart card reader connected which has been working flawlessly. Yesterday I discovered the new VMWare Player 7 and installed it. It worked but did not recognize my smart card reader although it was present to the host as usual. Dealing around with several USB settings did not help and only switching back to 6.x resolved the problem. Perhaps there is a bug in the new version. Or has anyone any hints?
Smart card reader not recognized by VMware Player 7 for Linux
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VM Player 7.0.0 - Mouse does not automatically release/ungrab from guest machine - have to always hit ctrl+Alt {groan}
Mouse does not automatically release/ungrab from guest machine - have to always hit ctrl+Alt {groan}
Host OS: Windows 7x64bit
GuestOS: Windows 8.1x64bit
Player: VM Player 7.0.0 Home - Accelerated Graphics is turned off. All applicable updates through 2015.01.27 have been applied.
Host Mouse: USB 2.0
Host Video: AMD Radeon HD 7500 v14.501 (Nov.2014); Single Display
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Having to always press ctrl+alt to return to the Host is a royal "pain-in-the-exVP.Dick.Cheney"!
Let me also mention that at times when I switch focus to the guest.. the mouse cursor inexplicably jumps to the very upper left corner of the window and writhes uncontrollably. The only way to fix this is to Ctrl+Alt out of the guest and retry clicking back in again. Eventually focus works as expected.
Can anyone please help?
Thanks bunches in advance!
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Defrag/Compact Disk not working in VMware Player 7.0
When choosing defrag or compact it pauses for a brief moment and says it's complete. The progress bar doesn't even have time to show up and the task manager doesn't show any significant disk activity for the file being defragged/compacted.
My host is running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit (guest OS doesn't seem to matter - happens on Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8.1, etc).
At least one other person is having this issue.
Re: Shrinking / compacting a virtual disk
Does anyone have a work around for this? Does VMware know about the problem?
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VMPlayer Fails to Install - Current Version 7 Update
I have used and updated VMPlayer extensively in the past (including the previous version), but the latest update (Version 7.x Dec/14) fails to install with the error: VMAuthdServices failed to start. I have disabled Norton 360, checked whether the system supports hardware assisted virtualization etc. - no problem there. My system - Dell Alienware M11 Intel i7, Windows 8.1 64 bit. Is there a solution to this, or should I look for old versions to install? Note that there were no changes in my system since the previous version worked fine.
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VmWare tools certificate error in win 7
Hello,
I'm using VmWare Player 6.0.2 build-1744117 on Linux Debian. I installed win 7 on it and when I tried to install VmWare Tools I get this error: "A certificate error occurred for the update server. Check your Internet settings or contact your system administrator". But I don't think it's my internet settings because the internet is working in the virtual machine(win 7) and also on my host OS. I also don't use proxy.
How can I fix this problem? I really want to install VmWare Tools. Please help me to fix it.
I'm attaching screenshots with the error and with my internet settings.
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vmplayer 7.0.0 GUI freezes at a random keystroke
Hi
I'm running a XP environment in VMware Player 7.0.0 build 2305329 on my win7 64-bit machine.
Recently, the XP environment freezes when I use the keyboard. I can use the mouse all I want, but as soon as I use the keyboard the interface stop working.
The player it self is still responsive, but everything that has to do with XP interface is frozen.
This goes on for a while after witch I can use the mouse again. But as soon as I hit a key, it all starts over.
I think I have been through every setting I can find, but I cant find anything that I think looks relevant.
Have any body out there seen something like this? and if so, how did you solve it?
Regards Rasmus
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VMware e windows 8
Instalei VMware Player no Win8 e Fedora como guest. Fedora está extremamente lento, mesmo depois de reinstalar tanto o Player quanto Fedora. Será que há alguma incompatibilidade entre o win8 e o Player? Uso um processador Phenom II, 4 Cores, 3,4GHz, 4G de RAM.
Grato
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No Internet on host
I have installed vmware player on my windows 8.1. I have installed kali linux as my vm machine. The connection type I use is bridge amd replicate host. I use wifi on the host.
When I first installed it (few weeks ago), I was able to use Internet on both my host and virtual machines at the same time.
After that, I created a windows 7 virtual machine so I have kali linux and windows 7 virtual machines now. The connection type on my windows 7 virtual machine is NAT because it is the only type that can let me connect to the Internet.
However, I am now having issues with my kali linux. When I start kali linux my host's Internet connectivity will be lost immediately and I can only connect to the Internet in kali linux. After I turn off my kali linux, I will be able to connect to the Internet again.
Any help is appreciated.
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Can a 64bit Solaris guest VM run on a 32bit Win7 hostOS?
I setup successfully a Solaris 2010.11 guestOS VM on a 64bit Win7 hostOS.
It runs fine.
Now I want to copy this Solaris VM to a 32bit Win 7 computer and run it there.
Is this possible?
As far as I know Solaris 2010.11 contains both 32bit and 64bit capability and decides at startup which of these modes to use.
Is this correct?
What about Solaris 2011?
Is it the same here?
Matt
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Another error trying to install Player 7
Hello all
Been running Player 6.0.4 for a while with no problems. Opened it yesterday and was advised to upgrade to version 7.
Downloaded 7 and tried to install.
Installation removed v6, then I received the following :
VMWare-player-7.0.0-2305329
The MSI 'c:\systemp\vmware_142276536\vmwareplayer.msi' failed.
There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL
required for this install to complete could not be run Contact your support personnel or package vendor.
md5 checks out ok.
Can anyone help ?
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Copy and Paste issue - specific and wierd case
I'm having a weird issue with Copy and Paste on both the VMplayer and Workstation. I have spent many hours trying to diagnose this and have finally thrown my hands up in frustration.
First, my environment is:
- Host: Ubuntu Linux version 14.04
- Vmware Workstation 10.0.2 build-1744117
- VMware Player 6.0.2 build-1744117
- VM's running Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux 14.04
- Browser on Host: Google Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153
The issue is that I cannot copy and paste text between the Host browser (Google Chrome) and any application on any Guest VM.
Here is what I can do:
- I am able to Copy and Paste files between the Host and Guest VM's.
- I am able to Copy and Paste text between other applications on the Host and applications running on the VM's.
- I am able to Copy and Paste text between FireFox, running on the Host and applications running on the VM's.
- I can use the Google Chrome browser, running in the VM's, to Copy and Paste text to applications within the same VM's.
- I can use the Google Chrome browser within the VM to transfer data to another application running on a different VM.
- I can transfer text from Google Chrome running on a VM to a text input box on the Host Google Chrome.
The common denominator seems to be Google Chrome on the Host.
Is this an issue with VMware or Google Chrome or Ubuntu Linux or a combination of the three? Has anyone else had this issue? The only work-around I have found to this is to copy the desired text on the Chrome browser of the Host to a text editor on the Host and then copy from the text editor to the desired VM application, but this is cumbersome. Any suggestions would be welcome.
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vmware player not working "cant find file specified" and vmx file corrupted
HI I am messaging to ask if there is any way possible to fix my vmware player on Windows 8.1, When my linux Ubuntu virtual machine was running our of space on the partition I created for it, I tried to add space for it using the "add" option under utilities in the hard drive, I then tried to repartition the disk, it wasn't working so I closed the VM and now it says this message when I try to run it....
Error while powering on: Unable to open file "C:\Users\kiran\Documents\Virtual Machines\Ubuntu 64-bit\Ubuntu 64-bit.vmdk":
The system cannot find the file specified.
It also says the my VMX file is corrupt, is there any way of being able to get it back up and running it has a lot of my uni work on there!
Thanks
Kiran (Uni Student)
Ive attached my most recent vmware log
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Why does my VMPlayer Windows guest creates all files with executable permissions on Ubuntu host?
Hi,
I am running Win8.1 in VMplayer 7.0 with a shared folder with my host Ubuntu 14.04 system. Whenever I create or save a file in Windows, it gets the permissions -rwxr-xr-x in the Linux file system. This means that even word documents and text files shows up with the executable flag, which is rather confusing when navigating the terminal. Is there any specific reason why VMPlayer is not using more standard text document permissions like -rw-rw-r-- ? Is there anything I can do to change the default permissions VMPlayer creates files with?
I was running Virtualbox before switching to VMPlayer I believe this was not an issue back then, but I am not sure about this, so if someone else could confirm that would be great.
Cheers,
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Windows 7 64-bit: Can't upgrade VM Player 6, can't revert to earlier installed version, can't install VMWare Player 7 -- totally dead in the water
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For Windows 7 64-bit, fully patched.
I had VMware-player-6.0.1-1379776.exe running successfully for several months. Today the running instance offered me a chance to upgrade to VMware-player-full-6.0.5-2443746.exe. I foolishly accepted. Now I can't get ANY version of VMware Player to install.
The upgrade program downloaded and started running. It uninstalled the existing version then reported the following error:
- I used the Windows Management tool to view system Services and saw some vestigial services that Windows reported as Failed to Read Description: Error Code 2. Logging off and back on cleared that problem.
- I tried using several tools to clean up the usual uninstall detritus: CCleaner, Norton Utilities, BleachBit. I also did an Everything Search for "VMware" without the quotation marks and removed several vestigial (as in neither created nor updated in several months or longer) directories and files.
- I never could get the new V6 upgrade to run, so I retrieved my old V6 installation program. Now it won't run to completion -- same error.
- I then tried V7 in the hope that maybe it would be better. Nope, same essential problem.
- I've attached one of the installation log files, vmware.log below. Among other things, it reported that the installer is having trouble installing into existing VMware directories. So I went through and deleted as many of those folders as seemed wise without deleting VM information.
I see several people are having trouble getting VMware player to install. None of the "fixes" reported in those threads seem applicable. For example, I don't have the directories or files cited in those posts.
So at this point I'm dead in the water. Normally I can work through these issues but VMware Player just can't be installed.
Any ideas?
Cheers & thanks for your help,
Riley
SFO
Message was edited by: RBVanDyke: Fixed font-size and edited bulleted list so all intended items are bulleted.
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VMWare Player 7 on Windows 10 Technical Preview 9879 issues when turning off a VM
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.
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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.
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VMplayer 6.0.5 build-2443746 - using puTTY - first connection refused, after PING, OK.
Hi,
I am using VMPlayer 6.0.5 build-2443746, and after the update, whenever I try to connect to Linux (vmware running), the connection is refused. However, if I issue the command - ping to the vmware IP BEFORE, the next connection to the vmware works fine. It seems that there is something missing to open the connection.
I use puTTY and before the update, I also was using puTTY.
Does anyone know what is going on? and what would be the solution?
tks.
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VMWare Player Internet Connection on Win 8.1
Hello
After Update from Win 8 to 8..1 it is no more possible to connect the Player to the Internet
What Shell I do?
Thanks
itctrans
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Network adapters' PCI addressing is not consequtive
Hi,
In my VM it has turned out that my interfaces do not map to network adepters in a consecutive manner i.e.:
Question is - is it a bug or feature ?
C:\Users\mimazure\Desktop>KB_2047927_pciSlots.py -f SSI-1.vmx
[0000:00]-+-15.0--: pcibridge4 : [21 ]
[0000:00]-+-11.0--[x]--00.0: usb : [32 ]
[0000:00]-+-17.0--[x]--00.0: ethernet2 : [224 ]
[0000:00]-+-16.1--[x]--00.0: ethernet5 : [1216 ]
[0000:00]-+-15.0--[x]--00.0: ethernet0 : [160 ]
[0000:00]-+-16.0--[x]--00.0: ethernet1 : [192 ]
[0000:00]-+-17.1--[x]--00.0: ethernet6 : [1248 ]
[0000:00]-+-15.1--[x]--00.0: ethernet4 : [1184 ]
[0000:00]-+-11.0--[x]--08.0: ehci : [40 ]
[0000:00]-+-18.0--[x]--00.0: ethernet3 : [256 ]
[0000:00]-+-18.0--: pcibridge7 : [24 ]
[0000:00]-+-17.0--: pcibridge6 : [23 ]
[0000:00]-+-16.0--: pcibridge5 : [22 ]
[0000:00]-+-10.0--: scsi0 : [16 ]
[0000:00]-+-11.0--[x]--09.0: vmci0 : [41 ]
[0000:00]-+-11.0--: pcibridge0 : [17 ]
And in my VM:
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.1
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.1
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:17.0
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:17.1
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:18.0
Br,
Michal
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File Permission Error
I get the following Error when I'm tyring to open the PWK Kali Linux-Debian VM
An error occurred while opening configuration file (file path): Insufficient permission to access the file.
The account I'm using is the admin account and has full permissions.
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VMWare Player + Ubuntu 14.04 memory leak
Hello.
I've got a newly built host running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I've installed VMWare player 6.0.3 build-1895310 64-bit. The host has an an i5 processor and 16GB RAM. I've got a Windows 7 Pro VM with 4GB RAM allocated to it. This VM is running video management software that is writing about 2MB/s to the virtual disk. When I start the VM I see it consume approx 4GB RAM as expected but then I notice Linux (via top) slowly eating away at the remaining RAM. An hour later and I'm almost out of wired RAM.
top - 17:35:03 up 7:41, 3 users, load average: 0.40, 0.50, 0.54
Tasks: 201 total, 1 running, 200 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1.4 us, 11.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 87.1 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.2 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 16124700 total, 15951644 used, 173056 free, 34252 buffers
KiB Swap: 16461820 total, 0 used, 16461820 free. 14946256 cached Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5628 root 20 0 6251652 4.201g 4.060g S 48.3 27.3 28:48.89 vmware-vmx
The only fix is of course a reboot as the leak seems to be happening in the kernel or some driver. I don't see a user-land process eating this.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Jim
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