I've been using vmware free workstation player without any issues for several years. Lately however the guest OS, ubuntu linux, stops responding to mouse clicks after the player has been running for a while. The vmware player responds - I can access all the player controls and use the power option to shut down or restart the guest, which is now what I do every time this happens. I'm running windows 10. Any ideas?

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*Ubuntu 18.04 Host/Win 10 Guest-Host Freezes On Guest Shutdown???

June 19, 2018, 2:44 am

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Hi,

Running current non-beta VMWare Workstation Player

on a Kubuntu 18.04 64Bit L.T.S. Linux host

with a genuine Windows 10 Pro 64Bit guest.

Have a SEVERE issue with VMWare Workstation Player:

When I shutdown or reboot the Win 10 guest

my Linux host freezes and I am forced to do a hard reset?

I've checked my desktop hardware and it's not that.

I've also checked the Win 10 guest on another desktop and the problem is there too.

I've been using this Win 10 guest for over a year without issues.

Any help would be appreciated as I use the Win 10 guest often...

Thanks!

Jesse

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vMWare Player and Host hangs up with Host OS Windows Server 2016

June 19, 2018, 7:30 pm

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Hello,

I have tested some virtual machine running with vmWare Player with a Windows Server 2016 as OS host. The problem I have is that, randomly, the virtual machine hangs up and the Host also stops. The screen is freeze, the keyboard and mouse move but without any action and I have no access using RDP to the Host. Also the clock in the desktop is freeze. After some random time (20-25 minutes) I can recover the control of the system and all goes normally until it hangs again some time after. Which could be the problem? I can not detect it. I am using vmware Player 14.0

Thank you in advance.

Regards, Javier.

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Error "Failed to load the KeyLocator cache from VMHS"

June 20, 2018, 8:33 am

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Hi,

I have issue with running Vmware Player on Centos 7.5 (3.10.0-862.3.3.el7.x86_64).

I have installed this products:

Product Name         Product Version 
==================== ==================== 
vmware-player        14.1.2.8497320 
vmware-vix           1.17.0.6661328

But when I tried to run virtual machine, the last line in log file vmware-vmx-XXXX.log is:

2018-06-20T17:24:17.461+02:00| vmx| W115: Failed to load the KeyLocator cache from VMHS

I tried to Google that message, but there is no page thats contains that message. Do you know what to do with that?

Thanks!

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SSH connections dropped due to QoS flags

June 21, 2018, 5:44 am

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I've started running into a problem with outbound SSH connections from a linux guest being dropped as soon as connection is established. The issue is repeatable and fixable with a kludge that modifies QoS.

The issue manifests itself by dropping the connection immediately after establishing it:

$ ssh $host

packet_write_wait: Connection to $host port 22: Broken pipe

Enabling verbose flags (-v or -vvv) doesn't show anything remarkable.

I've been in contact with my linux distribution's maintainers[1] and they have helped narrow the problem down to an issue with vmnat misbehaving.

Because vmnat do not recognise AF21/CS1 DSCP flags, it'll send back a RST packet (don't know why) immediately upon received any packet having either flags, and finally break all ssh connection. (This happens soon after authentication since IPQoS applies during channel establish) [2]

This is on VMWare Workstation 12 Player, version 12.5.9 build-7535481, running on Win 7 Enterprise. My guest is running a current Linux kernel (4.9.95) and openssh 7.7_p1-r4 (though it seems like any software that uses QoS will have this problem.)

Setting alternate QoS flags seems to work around the issue, e.g. ssh -o IPQoS=throughput ...

References:

[1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1082598.html

[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/658488#c3

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VMWare Player 12.5 crashing on Windows 10

June 21, 2018, 8:31 am

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Hi,

I had been running VMWare Workstation Player 12.5.0 on a Windows 7 host for nearly two years.

I recently had Windows 10 installed with VMWare Workstation Player 12.5.9 and started having issues.

Every once in a while (i.e. about once a day) VMWare Player would crash with the following error:

VMware Player unrecoverable error: (svga)

Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred.

A log file is available in "C:\Users\Username\Documents\Virtual Machines\Ubuntu 64-bit vtx\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.

I also tried downgrading to 12.5.0 but the issue persists.

Any ideas what I could do/try about it?

I could not find vm-support.

Thank you!

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Linux Guest - Win 10 Host - Bridged Network Not Working

June 29, 2018, 3:14 pm

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Hello All,

I have a Linux VM that was created using the VMware Converter from P2V. The linux guest boots up just fine, and everything seems to be working except for Bridged networking. Even though I have bridged networking selected, it still appeared to be using the NAT setting anyway, given the IP Address the VM currently has.

I had noticed that there were no vmnet# adapters showing in the Win10 host. So I uninstalled VMware Player 14.1.1, then I downloaded the newest Player version 14.1.2 from vmware.com. After the install I am seeing 2 "new" network adapters in the Windows host. However, it still appears to have the same result.

I have Bridged Networking and Replicate Physical Network State enabled for the VM but the Virtual Machine is getting an IP Address from VMnet8, shown in the outputs below:

*I tried it without Replicate Physical network state as well, with same result...

Linux Guest shows:

# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:XX:XX:XX
         inet addr:192.168.122.128 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe2b:945/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:1058 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:932 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:102194 (99.7 Kb) TX bytes:91653 (89.5 Kb)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1272 (1.2 Kb) TX bytes:1272 (1.2 Kb)

Windows 10 Host shows:

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-XX-XX-XX
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c45b:6183:a1a3:d2c6%54(Preferred)
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.130.1(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, June 29, 2018 5:45:36 PM
   Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, June 29, 2018 6:30:36 PM
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
   DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.130.254
   DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 905990230
   DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-21-CA-90-87-54-E1-AD-4C-97-1E
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1
                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1
                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-XX-XX-XX
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::3153:4901:e4a8:4df5%56(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.122.1(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, June 29, 2018 5:45:39 PM
   Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, June 29, 2018 6:30:39 PM
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
   DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.122.254
   DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 939544662
   DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-21-CA-90-87-54-E1-AD-4C-97-1E
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1
                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1
                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1
   Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.122.2
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Any ideas what could be happening here?

From the Linux guest, if I telnet to one of our switches, and then check who is connected to the switch via telnet, I can see the IP Address of my Win 10 host. So it appears to be using NAT, whether or not I've selected NAT or Bridged.

Thanks in Advance,

Matt

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Ways to protect intellectual property of software running in a VM

July 3, 2018, 1:07 pm

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Traditional way to distribute proxy/filter software is as an executable file. The security prompt by windows might scare some users and rightly so. Alternatively the same software could be distributed as a virtual appliance. And ported to linux so there are is no need for a windows license. Then its ability to harm the host system or get nosy with private data is greatly reduced so people should feel a little safer with it.

Next issue is how to prevent others from stealing the software or developing software that does the same thing. As the software is a proxy, its VM display can just be blank. How can it be made harder to see what the VM is doing and what its disk contains? Can the ram be encrypted or something? Can the VM be locked to host hardware much like windows activation works?

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Problems when starting virtual machine

July 5, 2018, 7:13 am

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I am moving a virtual machine to a new pc, which is win 10 64 bits. and when I open it, it generates this error message. can you help me?

Tanks.

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How can you activate Virtual XP in Windows 7 Pro?

July 7, 2018, 5:50 pm

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How can you activate Virtual XP in Windows 7 Pro? I have tried using the set of 9 groups of 6 digits each and at the end was informed that the transaction cannot be completed. That I need to go back to the retailer or developer. Microsoft was no help regarding this matter.

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Vmware workstation 14.1.2 Host hang w/Ubuntu 18.04

July 8, 2018, 12:18 pm

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Hello;

I have Windows 10 host (build 17134.137) and Ubuntu 18.04 guest with VMWare tools installed.

After few hours of usage, images in the guest OS begin to appear corrupted and soon after that

the host OS freezes. My display adapter is NVidia P6000 (driver version 391.74).

What could cause this behavior?

thank you in advance!

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How do I convert static disk to dynamic in Workstation 14 Player?

July 8, 2018, 7:36 pm

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I'm trying to help someone convert their static disk to dynamic so it won't use as much space. He's using VMware Workstation 14 Player (free for non-commercial use). Hopefully this question fits in this forum. After some Googling I learned about vmware-vdiskmanager but I can't find it on the computer so it must not be included with this version of VMware. I can add a disk to an already existing VM and make the new disk dynamic. However, there's no option to create a dynamic disk (none I saw) when creating a VM so he has a disk in a VM he made that isn't dynamic but it needs to by dynamic to save space. How can I convert it from static to dynamic without vmware-vdiskmanager? Can vmware-vdiskmanager be downloaded and installed separately?

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Keyboard not working in Windows 10 Pro as a vm in Player 14

February 8, 2018, 8:09 am

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I did a P2V with vCenter Converter of a Windows 10 Pro laptop to run it as virtual machine.

I booted this new vm in VMware Player 14 but the keyboard is not working while the mouse is ok. I could use the On-Screen keyboard to login but obviously I cannot work only with the On-Screen keyboard.

Does someone know of a fix to this problem?

Thanks,

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Workstation Player Monitoring

July 10, 2018, 9:36 pm

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Hi,

Am using vmware workstation player 14 which is installed on CentOS 7.x physical server.

I just want to know How can I monitor the VMware Workstation Player Services ? What are the parameters/services which I need to check for the VMware Player's application status?

If these services stopped then our monitoring tools need to be configured accordingly to pick alert.

Thanks in Advance.

- Vinod

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Copying files into VM dosen't work in Windows XP and above in VMWare Player 14

July 12, 2018, 5:32 am

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It used to work in Windows ME and below, but now it dosen't work on Windows XP and above. Could you please fix this?

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The specified virtual disk needs repair.

July 15, 2018, 3:47 am

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Hi,

I am using VMPlayer 14. Recently my system got hanged and i turned it off directly without proper shutdown of vm machine. When i tried to login in again through virtual machine i am getting this below error:

The specified virtual disk needs repair.

Can anyone please help me in resolving this issue . I will be very thankful to you.

Thanks and Regards

Lal Singh Dhaila

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