How to change the BIOS UEFI to Lagecy Bios of a virtual machine in VMware workstation player 12?
However I am able to change via VMware workstaion which is a trial version. So for long time use I have to use vmware workstation which is free for my learning purpose.
I have replaced the motherboard in my computer and now have solid state drive.
I still have the old HD installed in the machine as the F drive.
I can load the VMPlayer but it doesn't find the virtual machine or the SW I had on it.
What do I need to do to get going again?
Hi there.
I have an RHEL 6 VM running in VMWare Player 4.0.0 build-471780 on a bridged network.
I have been using VMWare player for some time now on a Windows 7 64 bit machine to run 32-bit XP. There have never been any problems connecting to the internet, but now I need to connect to the local Windows network, and specifically to two Linux backup machines that use samba. I can do this in two stages (backup to host, then backup to Linux m/c's separately), but this is awkward.
I have tried:
1. NAT and bridged network connections. Both connect to the internet, in NAT can ping the samba machines via their ip addresses, but cannot resolve their names. In bridged mode, I can't ping the Linux ip addresses.
2. Tried setting WINS = Yes in samba (down by printer settings ie not as server). No difference.
3. Tried a native XP machine on the network - it sees the whole network including the Linux machines.
4. tried setting up a virtual W7 machine. I behaves more or less similarly to the XP VM.
I am obviously missing something basic, but have spent over a day on this, including searches for answers without finding anything.
Any suggestions gratefully received!
Hello,
I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 for a while with VmWare Player 7.1.6. I just opgraded to Linux Mint 19. I tryed to install a new vmware player (version 15) but it does not support my cpu. An older version (12) does install, but does not start. If I start it in terminal then I have an error indicating that soms .so needs to be renamed, but I cannot since the name where it (according to the message) should rename to already exists.
So I think I have to find older versions. Since all my VM's are in version 7.1.6 I think that's the preferred version to install?
But I cannot find it.
Can someone help me solve this problem?
Thank you, Wilfried
Hi,
I am trying since 5 hours to silently install the vmware player and it don't works. I've tryed many different parameters. the *.log file says:
MSI (s) (A0:00) [20:12:00:791]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding PRODUCTLANGUAGE property. Its value is '1033'.
MSI (s) (A0:00) [20:12:00:791]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding REBOOT property. Its value is 'ReallySuppress'.
MSI (s) (A0:00) [20:12:00:791]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding EULAS_AGREED property. Its value is '1'.
MSI (s) (A0:00) [20:12:00:791]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding INSTALLDIR property. Its value is 'C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player\'.
MSI (s) (A0:00) [20:12:00:791]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying AUTOSOFTWAREUPDATE property. Its current value is '1'. Its new value: '0'.
MSI (s) (A0:00) [20:12:00:791]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying DATACOLLECTION property. Its current value is '1'. Its new value: '0'.
MSI (s) (A0:00) [20:12:00:791]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying DESKTOP_SHORTCUT property. Its current value is '1'. Its new value: '0'.
MSI (s) (A0:00) [20:12:00:791]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding ADDLOCAL property. Its value is 'ALL'.
MSI (s) (A0:00) [20:12:00:791]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying COMPONENTDOWNLOAD property. Its current value is '1'. Its new value: '0'.
MSI (s) (A0:00) [20:12:00:791]: Note: 1: 1708
MSI (s) (A0:00) [20:12:00:792]: Product: VMware Player -- Installation failed.
Erfolg- bzw. Fehlerstatus der Installation: 1639
Parameters are:
VMware-player-15.0.2-10952284.exe /s /l "vmware.log" /v /qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress EULAS_AGREED=1 INSTALLDIR="%ProgramFiles(x86)%\VMware\VMware Player\" AUTOSOFTWAREUPDATE=0 DATACOLLECTION=0 DESKTOP_SHORTCUT=0 STARTMENU_SHORTCUT=1 ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE="" COMPONENTDOWNLOAD=0
It doesn't matter if I'm running it with quotes (") or without, in admin mode, or not. Even just the minimal properties don't work.
Tryed also:
REBOOT=R
EULA_AGREED=1
EULA_AGREE=1
[...] /v "/qn [...]"
[...] /v/qn "[...]"
[...] /v/qn [...]
PROPERTIE="in_quotes"
PROPERTIE="just_strings_in_quotes"
and so on...
I've really tried everything. Do anyone see the failure?
Can anyone help me please?
Yours.
Recently moved all my VMs from Host Win7-64bit to Win8-64bit.
Fresh install of Player v 5.0.2 build-1031769
Computer is Acer Aspire M Intel i5 @ 1.8Ghz
Graphics is Intel HD 4000
When any of the various VMs are started from the Powered Off state, the player window will open and a big black screen will appear where the guest display should be shown. The guest OS does indeed boot, right up to the login screen although with no display visible. If I try to click on the close button in the upper right corner, I get a dialog box that says "The Virtual Machine is Busy". My only option is to end the vmplayer.exe task using task manager. Once I do that, the VM shows state as Powered On in the Library. If I Play it the 2nd time, the VM will resume operating correctly with the proper display at the immediate point where I expected it to be when I ended the vmplayer.exe task earlier.
Presence or absence of Tools in Guest does not affect the problem.
All 3 of my VMs have the exact same behavior. Guest operating Systems are: WinXP-SP3-32bit, Win7-64bit built from the VMware Converter, and Server 2008 from the MS eval ISO.
Any ideas? Once the play/end task/play sequence is performed the VM works correctly. Until it is shutdown or hibernated. A VM restart does not exhibit this symptom. The problem is reproducible with all VMs every time.
Provided vmx for the XP VM and a few logs.
Thanks in advance. I'm so close to having this work it's even more frustrating than if it didn't work at all.
I'm trying to use Windows file sharing (SMB) on Windows 10 (v1809) host / Linux guest running in VMware Workstation Player 15.0.2.
However, I'm not able connect to 192.168.121.1:445 (connection refused) neither from the host, nor from the guest.
192.168.121.1 is the IP address of VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8 (NAT).
The adapter is up, and ping 192.168.121.1 works fine.
The host is listening on TCP 0.0.0.0:445.
Windows firewall is off, antivirus software is disabled.
Both "Client for Microsoft Networks" and "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" are checked in the adapter properties.
If I disable "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" in the properties of "VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8" and then enable it again, everything gets right, and I can connect to 192.168.121.1:445. However, after reboot it does not work again.
This problem appeared after upgrade from Workstation Player 14 to Workstation Player 15.0.2.
I installed Player5.0.2 on Windows 7 and, and then installed Windows Server 2012 with the gui. All that went just fine. The server can access the host hard drives; the network icon says internet access. Network sharing says internet access on the Server. On the Host, also, the Network and Sharing information says Internet access. On the VM Server 2012 I can ping sites but when the browser (both IE and Firefox) attempt to resolve a URL I get connection times out. I can ping both by url and IP.
Any help is appreciated. I'm a bit of a novice at this, as is probably obvious.
RON
I'm trying the free version of the workstation (workstation player). There is a problem with mouse dragging when playing games. I searched, and some people talking about a setting called "Always optimize mouse for games". But I could not found it. There are no settings for inputs or mouse. Is it because of the player version of workstation? Maybe it is limited. If so, is there any way to manage this? Maybe modifying the "vmx" file. Thank you in advance.
Hi there!.
I have VMware Workstation Player 12. I made it two virtual machines: The firstone is Windows 98 and the anotherone is Windows XP. So I have installed recently another virtual machine: Windows 8.1 Pro.
Well, i start that machine, go inside and suddently appears the following, and the virtual machine shut down:
VMPLAYER unrecoverable error
Exeption code 0xc000005 (access violation) has occurred.
You can request support.
Because is a free soft, they refused tecnical support.
I have installed VMware Workstation Player 12. My OS is Windows 10 Pro x64, Intel I5 processor,4 GB DDR3 SDRAM and the mother is Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H.
I tried to donwload the 15 versión but a message appears telling "The CPU is not suitable" or something like that.
Can you help me, please?
Thanks in advance.
Carlos (Rosario, Argentina.)
Hello,
i have just switched from VirtualBox to VMware and I am setting up my first VM
I have set up a ubuntu workstation.
In the network settings of the VM i choose a bridged adapter and in the ubuntu OS i set the static IP
My issue is i am getting tons of dropped packets and my connection very frequently just hangs and drops all connections
just after boot up i see 155 dropped
Thankyou on any suggestions on how to debug / fix this issue
thanks
ifconfig
ens33: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.61 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fedd:d92f prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether MYMAC txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 915 bytes 470621 (470.6 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 155 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 258 bytes 34991 (34.9 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 413 bytes 68527 (68.5 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 413 bytes 68527 (68.5 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Hello,
This display bug is hard to replicate, but I'm running a Windows 10 guest with Ubuntu 18.10 host. After I return the laptop from sleep mode a couple of issues will often occur.
First, the gnome lock screen doesn't activate and I am free to continue using both the guest and host system without my password - this almost always happens when the virtual machine is in full screen mode.
Secondly, Windows itself will produce a whirlwind of display issues including missing borders around the windows, missing buttons in programs, etc. It looks like the graphics driver is not properly redrawing everything. I either have to manually restart Windows Explorer or restart Windows completely. Here is a screenshot of one of the problems (but sometimes it looks worse with tearing and missing icons):
Here's another screenshot that looks worse with the windows settings app open after sleep (without Windows being full screen):
My system specs are:
Thanks,
Ian
i would need VMware Player to ignore a missing virtual disk. The virtual disk is for data, it resides on a removeable device and I need it rarely. I would prefer to have it always configured, and optionally present.
(First exact reason and exact problem: it is a disk and not a shared folder because Microsoft SQL Server requires backup data, to restore, to be on a local disk, not on a network disk or network location. Key point is BACKUP DATA, on RESTORE. And I would then also put there BACKUP DATA, on BACKUP occasion. My data is large enough that it warrants the feature, that is storing on a host-removeable disk.)
(Second, additional road block is that I cannot attach this specific 7200rpm in an external USB3 enclosure to the VM. VMware Workstation Player does not handle connection of this USB3 enclosure as a removeable device to the VM. )
(Third road block: I do have even two different 7200 rpm+USB3 enclosures and both of them do not connect to the VM. Other, branded external, 5400rpm, USB3 disks do connect as removeable devices to the VM in VMware Player, But then I would lose using this 7200rpm/USB3 device that I do have. )
This is how I attempted to solve. VMware Player is version 15.0.2. Perhaps there are other auto-detecting solutions.
This was already asked in 2013 by and didn't get a solution. See Ignore missing virtual disk and boot anyway?
Thank you
Hi,
Host: Linux Mint 18.1 MATE 64Bit / Guest: Windows 10 Pro 64Bit
I've been using VMWare Player for many years on Linux hosts with no problems.
I recently updated Linux VMWare Player and now have a problem:
In my Windows 10 Pro 64Bit guest I have bad audio?
When a sound is played in Win 10 virtual machine the sound is heavily distorted?
I do have current VMWare Tools for Windows installed.
This issue happened recently after updating Linux VMWare Player.
Any help in fixing this problem would be appreciated, thank you!
Jesse
Hi,
I downloaded VMware Player and Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS from the Virtual Appliance Marketplace to run Linux on my Windows Vista machine. The download page for Ubuntu gave me a user name and password, but the password is apparently just for the one username and not the root password, as I tried doing su and it wasn't correct. I also looked in the /home directory and only saw a folder for vmplanet, the username I got from the download page, but no folder for root. Is the root password hidden somewhere in the downloaded files, or can I just not sign in as root using VMware Player? Sorry for the simple question, but I don't know what to do. Thanks!
arreay
It seems that the driver for a hardware device I have does not work on Windows 10 (yellow triangle beside the device in Device Manager). It works on Windows 7 though.
I though I could get it running by using a Win7 guest on Win10 host using VMware Player.
But it doesnt appear in the list of Removable Devices.
Am I right in thinking if the host OS cant get the driver to work properly, the guest will not be able to see the device either, and so there is no point it trying the above?
I set up a laptop running Linux Mint and then download the VMWare Workstation Bundle. I then had two programs in my menu - VMWare Player and VMWare Workstation.
I went into VMWare Player (VM Workstation 15 Player) and created a Windows 10 virtual machine. Fine - no problem. After shutting down the virtual machine and then going back into VMWare Player, if I click on Open A Virtual Machine and then browse to the .vmx file in my home directory, nothing opens.
If I go into VMWare Workstation (Workstation 15 Pro) and click on the virtual machine under My Computer, it starts normally and can be used.
I'm sure the issue here is that I don't understand the difference between Player and Workstation, but I haven't been able to figure out on my own what that difference is.
Thanks.
Hi,
I am using VMWare Player 14 on Windows 7 64 Host OS. I have a shell.efi application (64 bit) downloaded from this link
It's from Intel's Tianocore EDK II project. I have created a Windows 7 64 Guest OS in UEFI mode.
When I run Shell.efi & enter a shell command followed by -b option to pause at page, the VMware Firmware Crashes.
The issue does not exist with the VMware's own built-in shell.
A command like
Help
works fine but the moment I pass
Help -b
the firmware crashes at the first page break.
Basically any applicable shell command that supports -b option, when invoked with -b causes VMware to crash.
Does anyone have any idea what could the fix here?
There's no issue on a real UEFI Hardware. On my real hardware 'help -b' runs just fine as expected.
Thanks.
