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Can't start the virtual machine

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When I open my virtual machine, it shows this.

"VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)

 

 

vcpu-0:VERIFY vmcore/vmm/main/physMem_monitor.c:1180

 

 

A log file is available in "C:\Users\TimGF\Documents\Virtual Machines\OS X El Capitan Final\vmware.log".

 

 

You can request support.

 

 

To collect data to submit to VMware technical support, run "vm-support".

 

 

We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement."

 

 

This is  the log: vmware.log - Pastebin.com

 

 



Running a Kali Linux VM with Bridge on win7 cant connect to internet/lan?

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Hey there !

 

Im very new to VMware player and setting up networks. I tried several times to setup a bridge for Kali Linux Vm. But it doesnt seems to work :

 

KaliLinux5.PNG

 

As you can see it isnt connected ... I also havent filled anything in the options of wired connections yet, everything is completly empty ( Security/Identy/ipv4/ipv6 are emtpy) :

 

KaliLinux6.PNG

 

I watched some tutorials and read some  threads about that problem. SO i configured KaliLunux Vm like that :

 

kaliLinux2.PNG

 

I also changed some stuff in the NetworkingEditor :

 

KaliLinux4.PNG

 

And atleast heres a picture of my networkcard :

 

KaliLinux3.PNG

 

Does anyone of you guys know why it isnt working and how to solve it ?

Guest Machines Do Not Show in VMPlayer Library

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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.

VM window size config

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Where is the config file for current size of a VM (powered on) window?

I want to create multiple VMs and have them all at exact same size (1366x768), so i want to duplicate this config file for the other VMs since it's pretty troublesome to resize them manually to 1366x768.

VM Player Cut-n-paste issue

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Using VM Player 4.06, Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 7.

I had to install open-vm-tools (git apt-get install open-vm-tools-dkms ) and patches (https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git )to enable shared folders.

Now cut-n-paste does not work between my host (windows) and guest (Ubuntu)

This cut-n-paste used to work perfectly earlier. What can I do to fix this, this is kinda big deal for me.

VMware workstation allows me to select more than no. of cores i have?

Can't start the USB Arbitration Service, can't connect any USB devices to my VM

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Currently using VMware Player 12.1.1-3770994. Host machine is Windows 10.

 

When I try to connect a USB device (iPhone) to my Mac VM, the list isn't populated with anything. I checked the VMware USB Arbitration Service, and it's stuck on "Starting." When I tried to manually start it, I received error 1053 "Service did not respond in a timely fashion." I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, repairing the install, and I even tried updating to 12.5, and nothing has resolved this issue. Anyone have any idea what's causing this problem? It's starting to drive me crazy.

 

Thanks.

cloudera isn't opening on VM ware workstation

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Unable to open file "E:\hadoop\disc images\cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.7.0-0-vmware\cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.7.0-0-vmware.vmdk":

 

 

Insufficient permission to access file.


Difference between central "config.ini" and "settings.ini" ?

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When I go (under Win 7) to directory:

 

C:\ProgramData\VMware\

 

then there are a couple of sub-directories. Two of them or of particular interest:

 

VMware Player
and
VMware Workstation

 

Since Vmware renamed a couple of month ago VMware Player into VMware Workstation player the first subdirectory is deprecated.
So only VMWare Workstation is active.

Correct?

 

In both of the subdirectories mentioned above two files are stored:
config.ini


and


settings.ini

 

Whats the difference?

 

Third question:
Are all parameters for *.vmx files valid for these two files as well?

 

Matt

C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Player\config.ini useless after renaming to VMWare Workstation Player?

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In the past VMWare Player used the central configuration files

 

C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Player\config.ini

and

C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Player\settings.ini

 

As you know this software was previously renamed to VMware Workstation Player.

 

Since then it seems to me that the two central configuration files mentioned above are retrieved from different directory

 

C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\

 

Is this correct?

 

Can I delete the old files?

 

Matt

VMware Workstation 12 Player - Software Updates not working

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I can't get Software Updates to work. I'm using VMware Workstation Player 12. I receive the message: "Disconnected - The connection to the update server timed out. Try again later. If the problem persists, contact VMware Support or your system administrator." (see the image attached). Is it supposed to work this way? Any help is appreciated.

Trying to play a game on host and VM at the same time

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Hello everyone.

 

I am testing a game mod and i'm currently using Vmware workstation to run this game on two systems at the same time. The game has a multiplayer function and thus I am able to play "online" on the same machine, but I am not familiar to how VM works and i'm encountering these specific issues:

 

1: I don't know how to configure my xbox controller (one player plays on keyboard and the other on the controller) to only work for VM. Alternatively, making it work only on the host is also fine. If this isn't adressed, my next problem won't be adressed either:

 

2: If I click on the game running on the host, the controls automatically stop working on the VM and vice versa, since I highlighted a different program. I don't know if I explained it well, but it's like trying to write on two programs and the same time: You'll only be able to write on a highlighted program at a time. Is there a function that lets me bypass this?

 

That's it. I thank anyone who might be able to help, even if you know the slightest about this technology it helps a lot since I've been reading about it the whole morning but I haven't been able to bypass these two issues. I hope I'm in the right thread, the right forums for this. Thank you for your patience.

 

In case this is of any relevance: The game is called terraria, it does not come with split-screen multiplayer, that's why i'm using VM for it.

Bug in multi-monitor functionality in VMWare Workstation

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Is this the appropriate place to submit a bug? This has been happening for quite some time. I just upgraded to 12.5.2 and it's still not fixed. So maybe VMWare doesn't know about it yet?

 

I have 3 monitors on my host machine (Win10), and usually run my VM (Win10) across only 2 of the three. It doesn't matter if I shutdown the VM properly, or simply pause it. If I close the VM when it has two monitors, the next time I run it it does not behave in the least. The first thing that happens is the VM comes up in a not-full-screen window, which in itself is not bad, but the resolution is clearly set for two monitors (there's a horizontal scroll bar that allows me to scroll all the way over to a second monitor. If I hit the "full screen" button, for one it doesn't actually open in full screen. There's unused space at the bottom of the physical monitor that looks like has been reserved for the taskbar of my host machine, even though there's no taskbar on that monitor (so the "full screen" mode actually has scroll bars). On top of that, it displays what looks like two screens, cut in half, but all squished onto one monitor. If I hit the "full screen" button again it takes it back to its original state (full 2-monitor resolution, with scroll bars), then hit the "full screen" button a third time, then the window actually opens full screen, with no scroll bars (this issue has been happening for years now, annoying, but workable). What's different this time, is the VM still has 2 virtual monitors squished together onto one physical monitor. If I change VMWare to actually use 2 physical monitors, then I get one normal monitor, and one that looks like it has 2 monitors squished together on one physical monitor.

 

I can deal with hitting the "full screen" button three times in order to actually get a full screen window. But this new issue, where 2 virtual monitors are squished together on one physical monitor is super annoying. In order to fix it, I have to un-full screen the VM (since you simply cannot work with two virtual monitors squished together on one physical monitor), then manually set the resolution on what the guest OS considers its one and only monitor (which it considers to be one single monitor with a resolution equivalent to two physical monitors side-by-side) to the actual resolution of my physical monitor. Once I do that, then I can full screen the VM without error, and set the VM to use 2 physical monitors without error. I now have to do this every. single. time I run my VM. I can avoid the problem if I change my VM back to use only one physical monitor before shutting it down. So it seems to be specific to starting up a VM that previously was given two (or possibly more) physical monitors the last time it was running.

 

This bug is consistent and happens every time without fail. Is there any hope for a fix anytime soon?

WMware Player GPU Utilization Cap?

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For some reason, the guest seems to only be able to use 1/4 of the total GPU. (There's also a 2GB VRAM cap, but that isn't as big of a problem). I'm really not sure what's going on here... the guest reports 100% utilization, while the host only shows 30% and the other 5% is probably the host (ubuntu 16.08). Do I have the virtual machine configured wrong, or do I have to edit a config, or what?

 

Using: GTX 960, nvidia-smi, rivatuner + MSI afterburner

gpu-use.png

(Not sure why it says D3D11, it clearly isn't, but whatever)

Stop VMWare from using port 443.

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How do I disable sharing or change port sharing is using? It is using port 443 and I need that port for something else! I'm using VMWare Workstation 12 Player.

 

Thank you.


Issue with Player menu bar in VMware Workstation Player 12.1.1 with host OS Linux Mint 18

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Using VMware Workstation Player 12.1.1 build-3770994  on Linux Mint 18 to make a Windows 7 VM. The issue is that on the VMware Player menu bar, where you usually see items like "File", "VM", and "Help", only "File" appears. However, once I have the "File" dropdown menu open, I can slide my mouse over to the right and the next (unlabeled) menu opens, and then if I slide my  mouse over a little more, the "Help" menu opens. Or I can click on the unlabeled part of the menu bar where the labels for those menus would be, and the dropdown menus appear.

 

Not a big thing, pretty much cosmetic since I can get to the unlabeled dropdown menus, but the Player is usually better than this. The menu bar labels and dropdown menus are usually all there, and the problems that I encounter are much more subtle operational problems. I've played around, but I don't see any way to bring the missing menu bar labels back. And I've removed and re-installed this (checked the md5sum after downloading, as well) and have seen the same thing both times.

 

Any way to get the full menu bar labeling? Am I the only one seeing this?

 

Thanks!

VMCI.SYS Blue Screen on VMWare Tools Install

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I am trying to install VMWare tools on a Vista guest and am getting a blue screen with VMCI.SYS. The install never completes.

 

The Vista guest was virtualized from using VMWare Converter on the physical box.

 

The virtual machine runs fine otherwise, but I need to get the tools installed on it so I can give the virtualized machine to an end user.

 

If it makes any difference, an old version of VMWare Player was installed in the guest Vista OS back in 2008.

 

Can anyone give me some suggestions for what to do here?

 

Thanks,

 

David

Networking isssue

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I am using VM Player 4.0.6 on Win7. Have Ubuntu 14.04 VMs.

My VM Player Network Adapter is set to NAT. (I must have chosen all the defaults).

This all was working fine forever but somehow something changed and everything has fallen apart.

When I reboot my VMPlayer my IP changes. My software (on VM)  is configured to use the IP address of when I originally installed the software- so it of course does not work with IP changes.

How can I get a static IP, or should I have to change my Network Setting (is that even possible).

Thanks

 

Can  I upgrade my VM Player to new 12.5 seamlessly?

Can ping and map windows network computers, but NOT browse neither SSH

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Host: Windows 10 Home Version 1607 Build 14393.477, 64-bit OS

Guest(VM): Windows 7 Professional SP 1, 64-bit OS

VM: VMware® Workstation 12 Player, 12.5.2 build-46382

 

I upgraded my PC host to windows 10 not much time ago from Windows 7. Few days ago I began to play VM a Windows 7 guest and an upgrade to VM player 12 was offered by the package and installed.

After the upgrade I ran a client APP on the guest that communicates with a server APP via TCP/IP, which is a Linux running as a VM in other PC, with no success on the communication at all.

So I began to diagnosis the situation with following results:

1.- The guest can ping the host and other computers on the network, also it can map on windows other computers and even the Linux server which is running a Samba file server

2.- The guest CAN NOT ssh to the server neither can browse any web page (nor Intranet neither internet), an

3.- With a wireshark running at the host it could be noted the following:

          a) There is data traffic coming and go when ping and windows network mapping is done.

          b) There absolutly data NO TRAFFIC when browsing and ssh connection is tried

From googling on the INET, I know this kind of problem has been reported before but there have not been a clear explamation of the cause and possible alternative

 

Any one that can help  or redirect me to a correpondent thread will be appreciated.

 

Thanks for read.

Enable Shared Folders and Virtual Printers by default in VMware Player 12.5

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Hello,

 

We have a requirement to use shared folders in our environment, and we are using SCCM to push out the VMware Player to all machines that require it. Unfortunately I'm having some trouble getting both Virtual Printers and Shared Folders enabled by default.

 

I'm using the ENABLE_VIRTUAL_PRINTERS=1 option on the install command line, which seems to work SOME of the time, but not always, but that's not my main concern, just an annoyance.

 

My main concern, is there seems to be no way to get VMware Player to automatically allow all shared folders to be enabled by default, like you can in Workstation. We also push out a VM to these laptops, and whenever we fire it up, it pops up a message to say that Shared Folders have been disabled by default. I do not want my users to have to go into the VM each time we update it, and reenable shared folders.

 

I've seen various articles around about using [code]pref.enableAllSharedFolders = "TRUE"[/code], which I shoved into the settings.ini file in the same place the virtual printer setting is, but that doesn't seem to work either. My VMX file also has [code]isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "false"[/code] in it as well, and also tried [code]sharedFolder.option="alwaysEnabled"[/code] but nothing seems to work.

 

How can I get shared folders to be enabled by default in Player?

 

Thanks in Advance

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