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VMware Player evaluation license

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After testing out VMware Player 5 I also tested VMware Workstation 9 to get some grip on the differences. When done I unistalled Workstation and install VMware Player 5 again. I now have VMware Player (Evaluation license) at the top of my VMware Player window. This can't be correct right? What will happen after the 'evaluation' period expires? Will I be able to use VMware Player ?  Unstall and reinstall after a workstation installation seem to screw up the license terms of the software.

 

Any clues?


VMware Authorization Service (VMAuthdService) and Hardware Interrupts

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Hi. I have VMware Player 5.0.0 build-812388 installed on a Windows 7 x64 Professional SP1 host machine (Dell Vostro 1520 notebook, Intel Core2Duo T6670, 4GB RAM).

 

Using Process Explorer, I've noticed medium CPU usage when it should be low, and found out that DPC/Interrupts had constant +-18%CPU spikes every +-11 seconds, each spike +-7 seconds long. I've started troubleshooting it, and when it came to stopping services, I've seen those spikes stop exactly when I've stopped VMware Authorization Service (VMAuthdService). When I started it again, spikes restarted, too. I wasn't running any virtual machines.

 

1) Why exactly is this service for? If I disable it, will virtual machines still run, or it's essential to run them?

 

2) Is there something to do to fix this behavior? I don't run VMs all the time and this useless CPU consumption degrades machine performance.

 

Thank you very much.

Can't Install VMware Player 5 on openSUSE 12.2 32-bit

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I recently installed openSUSE 32-bit on an older Compag Evo D510.

Results of running uname -a:

Linux myhost 3.4.11-2.16-default #1 SMP Wed Sep 26 17:05:00 UTC 2012 (259fc87) i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

 

As far as I know, this is a valid 32-bit processor running 2.1GHz.

 

I downloaded VMware-Player-5.0.0-812388.i386.bundle for 32-bit systems.

 

When I try to run the file, I get an error:

 

"One or more of your processors does not have the necessary 64bit extensions to run VMware virtual machines."

 

I don't understand the error since I'm installing on a 32-bit machine.  When I click OK, the install terminates with an "unsuccessful" screen.

If I try to run the 64-bit version of VMware Player, it simply tells me the installer is for a 64-bit machine and that's not what I have.  That sounds logical, but why can't I install the 32-bit version of VMware Player on this computer?

 

Is 5.0 restricted to only 64-bit machines?

Can I get an earlier version that works on my 32-bit machine?

 

Or am I missing something else that should be obvious to me and isn't?

 

Thank you.

A way to speed up shrinking of virtual drives.

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I came up with a way to speed up the shrinking of virtual disks (.vmdk files).

 

When shrinking using the "Shrink" tab in vmware tools there are two steps.

1. Prepare to shrink

2. Shrink.

 

The first step Prepare to shrink simply creates 2GB files on the virtual drives selected until the drives are full.

This takes a very long time if you have drives with alot of free space.

 

I have written a program which performs most of the prepare step in under a second. I have attached the program and the c# source code.

Requires Microsoft .NET 2.0

 

How to use:

 

1. Copy the SpeedShrink.exe to your virtual machine.

2. Run the program. Select the drives you intend on shrinking.

3. Click the "Start" button. You will be prompted when it has completed.

4. Run the Preparation step as normal. Should only take a minute or so compared to 20, 30, 40 minutes depending on how much space you are shrinking. See how to shrink section below if you dont know how to do this.

5. When VMWARE tools has completed the prepare step press YES to shrink the drives. The speed of this step will remain the same.

6. Once the shrink has been completed press Cleanup which will remove any of the files created in step 3. Sometimes they dont get automatically removed by vmware.

7. Done. Your VMDK files should now be shrunk.

 

Tested on VmWare Player 3, 4 on Server 2003, XP, Win7, server 2008

 

How to shrink:

1. In the system tray of your virtual operating system you will have a VMWARE tools icon (If you dont then install vmware tools)

2. Double click on it and select the Shrink tab.

3. Select the drives you wish to shrink.

4. Press "Prepare to shrink"

NOTE: THE SHRINKING PROCCESS REQUIRES FREE SPACE ON YOUR PHYSICAL MACHINE EQUAL TO THAT OF THE TOTAL SIZE OF THE DRIVES SELECTED.

Vmware Player made Dell 3d screen not work on host machine

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I have a Dell XPS notebook with a 3d vision screen, and yesterday installed Vmware Player to test out Windows 8. I noticed some weird graphical glitches (Everything in my iTunes is pink) and found it was because my 3d vision was selected wrong.

 

There should be 2 options, Dell 3d Vision and Nvidia vision. Only Dell 3d vision works, but after installing Vmware Player the Dell 3d vision option is gone. Is there any way to get 3d working withought having to uninstall Vmware Player? I did try disabling 3d vision, but now it wants to run setup wizard with Nvidia vision that doesn't work.

VMPlayer not free for Commercial Use

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I've been running VMPlayer 4.0.0 build-471780 for commercial purposes for years now internal to our company.  My understanding was that this product was free for commercial use.  Has that changed with version 5?  Is version 4 still free for commercial purposes?

Is my hardware compatible for virtualization??

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How many virtual machines can i run at once on a system having the configuration shown below?
"Processor-core 2 duo e4500 2.2ghz
M.b-D945GCNL
Ram-2gb with 667mhz
HDD-Seagate Barracuda7200.10 160Gb!"

Actually I'm planning to learn a mcitp, rhce & ceh.v7(if possible) on this system, so I require 1server and 2clients minimum!
Does my hardware support for the courses which prefer???
Please help me on this!

Error in the RPC receive loop: RpcIn: Unable to send

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My guest / vm machine is Windows XP Pro SP3.

 

I've noticed that occasionally there is an error in the Applications Event Log that reads:

 

     [ warning] [vmusr:vmusr] Error in the RPC receive loop: RpcIn: Unable to send.

 

It seems to happen occasionally when the guest machine boots up.  I can't tell if it is affective performance or not.

 

I did search the forum and found this reference: http://tinyurl.com/b9efmjj

 

Although this VM did upgrade from vmplayer 4 to 5, I am not seeing this error multiple times in the succession in the log (log spew).  Also, this link seems to simply turn off the log recording and not fix the cause of the error.

 

My questions:

 

1) Should I be concerned about this error -- does it affect performance or stability?

 

2) Can I fix the cause of this error and not just turn off the reporting of the error in the log?  If so, how?

 

Best regards,

 

Jeff


Host PC Shutting down

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I built up a new computer with and I-5 processor, 8 gigs mem, and Win 8 64 bit.

 

I installed VMware player and installed Win7 64bit as my virtual machine. After everything was installed I was running updates on the Win7 VM and my host copmuter shut down. No warning just turned off. After rebooting I got a thermal processor warning. Computer went back into windows 8 and everytning was fine and had no problems for several hours. When I relaunched my win7 VM after about 15 min the same thing happened again.

 

Any ideas as to the problem?

 

Dwestbrook

vmware player preferences for mutiple users

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Hi

 

 

I wan't multiple users to launch the same vmachine from  local install of vmplayer.

 

 

Each user has a dynamic windows local user account hence needs to answer the usual prompts  e.g. check web for latest vmplayer etc.every time.

 

 

I would like to preset these preferences but can't see where they are stored.

 

 

I couldn't find them in the registry hkcu or hklm

 

 

any ideas?

 

 

 

 

 

commercial use of vmware player

Linux Command change birdge interface

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Dear All

 

I have a problem about using Linux CLI to change from Figure1 to Figure2(Broadcom NIC meas eth0 in Linux)

I just want to use command line to change cuz It can be done by script

 

I install VMware Player by Linux edition

 

thanks

 

 

 

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Vmware Player installation fails->No Internet connection

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I am a Win7 64-bit Home Edition user.

 

I downloaded and tried to install VMware player 3.1.3-301548, but got an error instead. (The Authorization error)

 

After that I turned off the PC and went to bed, and the next day the internet stopped working. I use a wireless adapter, and the adapter's able to read the signal but I get the 'Unidentified Network' error. I am not able to change from Public Network to a Home Network.  The adapter catches the SSID just fine, it's that I can't connect to the internet all of a sudden.

 

I tried everything such as resetting the modem, netsh winsock reset,looking up registry files, uninstalling/installing the wireless adapter, manually assigning IP/DNS servers and erasing any VMware residues in Appdata folders. After hours of googling on my (old)laptop nothing worked, and I am pretty sure it had something to do with the failed installation..

 

I am not able to do any system restorations since I haven't activated it(big mistake there), so is there any way to fix this problem? Any patches/tools I have to download and install? Or at least why this occured at all?

What is the Difference Between VMplayer power-down vs Guest OS shutdown?

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My vm or guest machine is Windows XP Pro SP3.  I'm using VMplayer v5

 

What is the difference between having VMplayer power down the VM vs having the guest Win XP OS shut itself down?  I've noticed that the VMplayer power-down executes faster.  But does one or the other shut down the guest OS more safely?

 

Regards,

 

Jeff

Configure VMware Player 5.0.0 to discard changes or save changes upon shutdown?

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Is it possible to configure VMware Player 5.0.0 so that upon shutdown I can choose to discard changes or save changes from the Player close menu?

 

I have configured this version of Player to always discard changes. I did this by manually updating the .vmx file per instructions I found in other messages.

 

In the default configuration Player gives me the option only to save changes.

 

I'm really not interested in suspending the VM. I prefer to perform a complete shutdown. At shutdown I want to discard or save.

 

This seems like a pretty simple task but the implementation eludes me. I'd appreciate any help you can offer.

 

I'm running Player 5.0.0 under Windows 7 Pro 64 bit fully updated with 6GB of RAM. Player itself runs great and meets my needs except for this one issue.

 



VMware Failed Error

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HI I MY VERTUAL MACHINE IS GETTING ERROR LIKE   OPERATION IN FILE IS FAILED ,SO, U CHOOSE RETRY,ABORT OR CONNECT . I DID BUT IT CAN'T WORK, SO,  PLEASE GUIDE ME

 

Message was edited by: vmroyale to remove the ALLCAPS from the subject line

"The virtual machine is busy" problem

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I'm using VMware player 5.0 on Windows 7 with a Debian 6 guest OS.  Everything was working now when I try and play the VM I am getting the above error.  How can I fix this?

Cannot view mapped drive

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I have a virtual machine which runs Windows 7 with a guest machine running Win 7 as well.  The virtual machine has a mapped network drive which\\ maps to the guest machine (e.g. R: maps to \\jonathan-pc\DeMaSy), however, even though another mapped drive is showing up the second mapped drive is not connecting successfully.

 

 

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
C:\Users\jcamilleri>ping jonathan-pc
Pinging jonathan-pc.localdomain [192.168.0.10] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.10: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.10: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.10: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Ping statistics for 192.168.0.10:
    Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 4ms, Average = 2ms
Control-C
^C
C:\Users\jcamilleri>net use
New connections will be remembered.
Status       Local     Remote                    Network
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OK           Z:        \\jonathan-pc\Users\jcamilleri\Downloads
                                                Microsoft Windows Network
The command completed successfully.
Z: is ok, but I need R:...
C:\Users\jcamilleri>

 

 

 

Do you think that this is a Win7 bug.  Have you encountered similar problems?

Player and ESXi5.1 OVF template

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Hi, I have made ESXi5.1 File export OVF template of my virtual machine and the result there are three files available in my laptop.

-file.mf

-file.ovf

-file.disk1.virtual.disk.format

 

My purpose is to drive this ovf server in my laptop under VMware palyer 5.0.0 build-812388.

 

Is this possible to do, if so how?

 

br, Antti

 

BTW. I downlod also OVF tool but not know how to proceed...

Expiration of VMI?

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Hello all.  It has been a couple years since I've used the VMWare products and have learned that the VMWare ACE product/component has been discontinued.  I am posting to see if anyone has found a way to specify an expiration date for a Virtual Machine Image using either VMWare Player 5.x or VMWare Workstation 9.x for Windows?  If not via the VMWare applications, any other methods to set an expiration date on the VMI or VHD like Microsoft does for their product evaluation VHDs?  I've been hunting for days and not been able to find any solution.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Jonathan

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