It seems impossible to download vmware player, i just get a empty evalcenter page. Iv registred for a account but its still the same.... cant someone just give me a download link to the ubuntu 12.04/linux bundle?

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Can I use my usb microphone and still have host sound card playback

November 12, 2012, 9:45 pm

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My (usb) Meteor Mic appears to my computer (win xp) as a usb sound card - with the mic as the recording device and the audio output jack on the mic as its sound card playback device.

On my host, I can see 2 sound devices (i.e. this mic plus my normal sound card) and so I can select the mic as my record device and the regular sound card for my playback.

In vmware player (ver 4.0.4) when I plug in the mic, it shows up as a removable device which I can connect and disconnect.

Under the vm settings, there is only 1 sound card allowed, and so I can only choose between my regular sound card and this usb mic, but not both.

So it appears that I cannot split the input/output across the mic and the normal playback to my speakers as I can in the host.

Is there any way to accomplish this in vm player?

It also won't let me switch between the two devices without reconfiguring the vm and then rebooting the guest.

I'm trying to use the mic for speech recognition in my windows 8 guest - which works, but then I have to use the mic for sound playback, which is not very good (it's only designed to be used with headphones so you can hear yourself with no delays - and so the volume level is quite low).

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August 23, 2012, 12:02 pm

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VMware Player is also now available for commercial use. A commercial license for VMware Player 5 is included with VMware Fusion 5 Professional to enable customers to run virtual machines on Windows or Linux PCs and on Macs using a single license key!

Do I get this right ? - to use VMplayer on Windows or Linux in a commerical context we have to buy a Fusion license ?

Sounds very strange to me - similar to going to a fruit-shop to buy an apple and getting the response: we dont sell apples - buy a banana and you will get one apple for free

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Player 5 single window pixel cutoff?

September 25, 2012, 7:53 pm

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I run Player 5 on a x64 netbook host under Ubuntu 12.04.1. Guest is 32-bit Windows 7. The netbook screen resolution is 1024x600.

If I auto-hide the Windows taskbar (on the bottom of the screen) in Single Window mode, the hidden taskbar effectively "disappears" and is no longer accessible. If I switch to full screen mode, then the pixel-high hidden taskbar is accessible again. For now, my workaround for single window mode is to move the Windows taskbar to a different side of the screen and hide it there.

Looking closely, it looks like the bottom pixel or two in single window mode are "cutoff". I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case in Player 4.

Not sure if it's related, but the VM seems confused about whether Tools are installed. They are, but it kept telling me to install them until I disabled the message manually. I did try re-installing Tools, but the message remained. Maybe another problem.

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Running a VM from the Command line

November 14, 2012, 5:47 am

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Hello,

I have VMWare player installed, with a XP VPC.

I would like to start the VPC via a command line instruction, but Im getting an error message when I do so ( so I'm hoping someone can help me with it ),

I'm using the command :-

""C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\vmplayer.exe -X D:\My Virtual Machines\Windows XP Professional"

thew Player windows opens, but I get the following message up :-

Error while opening the virtual machine, Error opening "D:\My Virtual Machines\Windows XP Professional": access is denied.

The VPC opens perfectly if you start it from withing Players GUI.

Please can someone point out what error i'm making ?

Many Thanks

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VMWare Player 5.0.1 Setup stalls

November 13, 2012, 2:56 pm

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Hi all,

Installing the latest version of VMWare player 5.0.1 is not working. The following screen appears and nothing else happens, no error, no cpu usage, just sits there like this forever (slight exageration, I haven't actually waited forever, Windows doesn't go that long without a reboot).

I currently have VMWare player 5.0.0 installed, which is working fine except the constant reminder to upgrade.

My computer is Windows 7 Home premium, SP1, 64bit

Any ideas what the issue may be?

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Guest Machines Do Not Show in VMPlayer Library

March 10, 2011, 8:38 pm

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My vmware player does not show gest machines in the library. My troubleshooting suggests its a permissions error on whereever the library data is stored.

When I try to open a guest machine the player does not show the guest in the inventory pane of the player. However I can run vmplayer /path/to/machine.vmx and the machine will open execute properly.

When I run vmware player as root (or even a regular user) it works correctly - so it seems clearly tied to my user account. I have tried rm -rf ~/.vmware and rerunning the player but I get the same behavior.

The problem happens with all guest machines - so it does not appear to be related to anything about a machine itself.

Does anyone know where vmware player stores the inventory data? Nothing in the ~/.vmware directory seems to be related to this, but the library data must be persisted somewhere. Where is this file?

I'm running vmware player 3.1.3 build-324285 on Ubuntu Linux 2.6.31-22-generic-pae Ubuntu 9.10.

Thanks for any help.

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No more 3d (Aero?) in win7 guest on vmplayer 5.0.1?

November 15, 2012, 12:58 am

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I am running vmplayer 5.0.1 on a kubutnu 12.10 host and xorg-edgers PPA installed. My win 7 guest refuses to turn on 3d. This worked fine with vmplayer 4.x.x. Has this been turned off in vmplayer 5.x.x?

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Can I boot a Linux from CD and mount the vmdk (how?)?

November 15, 2012, 4:57 am

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Assume I want to modify some files of a Linux system which is currently installed in a VM (=on a vmdk).

Think of e.g. the /etc/fstab file or others.

Because the files in focus are currently locked when running the system resp. the files are overwritten at shutdown

Users cannot edit them at runtime.

I have to access them when the corresponding Linux system is NOT active

So I think about mount and boot a second Linux system on a separate bootable CD.

I will have a running Linux with its own set of files and necessary drivers.

Then I have to mount the full filesystem of the vmdk of the actual, first Linux system in the VM into the second system.

How can I mount and full access (=with write permuission) it (as root)?

Thank you

Matt

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Ubuntu 12.10 easy installation on Vmware player

November 15, 2012, 9:29 am

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Hi,

While installing ubuntu 12.10 on Vmware player, am having trouble saying

could not create the ISO used to store easy install settings. if this problem persists you may need to reinstall vmware player

I re-installed vmware player, still am facing same issue. Please help me in this.

Thanks

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vmplayer error in creating sound stream

October 22, 2012, 8:25 am

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There's barely any information about this error on the Internet, but I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one that has this problem. I'm using Linux for the host and Windows 7 for the Guest. The same setup works on several other machines I have, but not on this one for some reason. The Linux system sound works fine, but for soem reason, the VM won't connect to the sound system.

I already tried deleting and readding the sound adaptor in the VM settings and using auto-detect vs the other options (forget what it was).

What now?

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Hide top/title bar (outside fullscreen)

November 15, 2012, 12:06 pm

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Hello, is it possible to hide the topbar like in google chrome? I wish that everything in the red box is gone.

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VMware Player not probably to uninstall.

November 15, 2012, 4:07 am

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At me VMware Player 5.0.1 build-894247 it is installed on Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

There was a failure in system Windows 7. After failure in system I made recovery systems (rollback) to earlier state Windows 7 at which earlier version VMware Player 5.0.0 worked.

After rollback VMware Player 5.0.1 normally works, but now it cannot be reinstalled or uninstalled. At start of process of an uninstallation there is an error:

"Unable to find the file module_license.dll in the installation package, this could be due to package corruption. Verify that the package has been downloaded correctly."

How it to eliminate? Otherwise I cannot install the future updates VMware Player. As each update on new version VMware Player provides automatic removal of the old version.

Very much I ask to help. I will be very grateful for any help.

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How do I import an operating system image to a virtual machine?

November 16, 2012, 12:15 am

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Is it possible to take an image copy (e.g. using a drive imaging module or program) of a machine (for troubleshooting), and, transfer the image to a new virtual machine?

I would like to import my unix box to another machine within VM Player.

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Windows 8 Host has poor performance

November 15, 2012, 1:36 pm

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I can't seem to get any decent performance out of VMware Player 5 with a Windows 8 host, trying a premade Ubuntu 64 that I copied over and also a new install. IT won't boot 50% of the time, other 50% of the time it pauses.

I had no problems on the same hardware before installing Windows 8 Pro, use to have Windows 7 Ultimate on it.

Anyone seen anything similar?

VirtualBox works much better but still has problems, and after enabling Hyper-V it seems to work fine comparatively, but I like Player and want to use it if possible.

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operations on .vmk failed error and cras

November 16, 2012, 3:43 am

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I have been using vmware player on my Win 7 Pro 64-bit pc. I have installed a 64-bit Win 7 OS and been happily using it for 3 months. In the last few days I have started getting sporadic errors after the windows desktop has loaded.

"The operation on the file U:\Users\Mike\Documents\Virtual Machines\Windows 7 x64\windows 7 x64.vmk" has failed"

I get a choice of continue, cancel or retry, but it just crashes. A coupel of times rebooting the pc has cured it, but I come back a few hours later and the error has come up agian. I am in the middle of a huge project that needs to use 64-bit office which I was using on the vmplayer so bit of a crisis. I had 8GB of RAM in use.

Are there any solutions that don't involve deleting the virtual machine and starting again? This is the first time I've used a VM so not familiar with how to go about this sort of thing.

appreciaite any advice

Mike

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Choppy/Jittery Sound in XP Guest in Player 5 with Windows 8 Host

November 16, 2012, 1:14 pm

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The sound quality is terrible from within an XP guest running under Player 5 on Windows 8 host. The guest XP system has all updates installed available via Microsoft Update. I deleted VM Tools and re-installed with no improvement. Any ideas on how to fix this? The VM was copied from another system running Workstation 8.

Thanks,

Mike.

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Streaming not working in Player 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 on Windows

August 23, 2012, 11:03 am

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On a Windows XP host, I upgraded from Player 4.0.4 (where this worked perfectly) to 5.0.0, and the following command line now fails:

c:\current_directory> c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\vmplayer.exe http://myhost/vmware/streaming_vm/streaming_vm.vmx

Gives an error that it can't find the VM c:\current_directory\http://myhost/vmware/streaming_vm/streaming_vm.vmx

I checked the release notes and did not see that the streaming feature was removed, and I checked the "Getting started" guide at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/desktop/vmware_player50.pdf and it still documents how to use this feature (on page 36 and 37).

Is this a bug in Player 5? I had to downgrade back to player 4.0.4 for now, since this is a key feature that I use every day.

Message was edited by: jeremyd2019 changing subject to reflect that it's not just on windows

Message was edited by: jeremyd2019 changing subject to reflect that it is now a windows-only issue in 5.0.1

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Can I make VMWare Player write to .vmdk and .vmem files continuously instead of only when I suspend the VM?

November 15, 2012, 6:21 am

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Hi there,

I've been using VMWare Player for a whole bunch of stuff lately, and one thing *really* bothers me:

When I suspend a VM with 2GB of RAM, my work computer locks up for about 5-10 minutes while VMWare writes to the various VMDK and VMEM files. During this time, it literally takes 100+ seconds to open a Windows Explorer window or open the task manager, and the hard drive LED lights up continuously...

Since this is a work machine, I can't just replace the hard drive with an SSD and be done with it, so I'm looking for a software-based workaround. Is there a way to make the VM keep these files continuously up to date (with low priority writes) while the VM is running so that the suspend process will be less painful?

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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