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vmware user for years, first time using player and an image gets corrupted?

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Hi Folks,

 

As the title suggests, i've used vmware server/esxi (and virtualbox) for years.  For some reason I installed player on a new laptop and within a week have somehow managed to corrupt a disk image to the extent that it doesn't seem recoverable.  Two (sets of) questions

 

- Is player in any way less robust in terms of maintaining disk image integrity than server?  This system (new windows 8 box) has shut itself down once or twice b/c i forgot to change the windows update settings, but aside from that the images do not undergo much disk activity such that it would have been 'busy' when it shut down.  There were several occasions where i *abused* my vmware server images (both running windows guests), constantly shutting down on running systems and never had an issue with the disk image file itself...not one time.  Of course the guest filesystem took a dookie every now and again, but no surprises there.

 

- How do disk images get corrupt to the point that they are unusable?  I know the snapshots add complexity, but isn't a 20gb preallocated disk basically just a big block bucket?  What would corrupt it to the point that vmware-dismanager can't successfully repair it?

 

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

 

Bob


use physical disk on WinXP host.

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Hello,

 

i have follow problem.

Host: Windows XP

2 Harddisk

          first HD: C: (NTFS), D: (NTFS)

          sec HD: ext4

 

With VMWare Player 3.x i can use PhysicalDisk1 in a VM with Ubuntu, that mount the ext4 on sec. HD:

After update to Player4.x, or 5.x, i can't start the VM. Because get error "disk already in use".

On Win7 i can Offline Disk2 but on WinXP there is now way to Offline disk.

 

Any solution ?

 

greeting

  Johann

Closing player takes half hour and more

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My colleagues ans ID are using VMWare player for development. We use the vm on a separated usb disk. The problem we have is that closing the vm takes half an hour and sometimes more than one hour. When closing, the taskmanager diaplays a 100% disk activity all the time. The problem is occuring on pc's using usb2 and usb3. Even on an usb 3 communication with a 7200rpm disk. The problems haven't occured with a vm stored on the internal disk.

On the disk there is enough of space.

It looks like there is some kind of writing conflict only when closing the vm. The vm is closed by shutting down the os on the vm.

The host is Windows 7 and the vm OS are mostly Windows 7. The host has 8Gb on memory and changing the vm's memory from 1Gb to 6Gb doen't change anything.

 

Can anyone help me solving this problem?

Thank you.

Windows 8 : no more network, no Wacom stylus

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Hi, and happy new year everyone,

 

 

Let's start with the good news : I have uninstalled and reinstalled VmPlayer yesterday, according to Troubleshooting network connection failures (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1008367&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=620518186&stateId=1%200%20620522696) and the sound problem has gone (See : http://communities.vmware.com/message/2176319#2176319).

 

I have been fighting Windows 8 for a whole week, on a new PC, Trying to get things to work.  I have not been able to either get the Wacom tablet (Intuos 3) to work in stylus mode (mouse mode is ok), or worse : no network connection t all.
I had no problem at all on the previous Windows 7 PC.


I have
- Installed vmPlayer twice, with full cleanup between both (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mic...00%20620236538)
- reopened both virtual machines (Win XP + Win 7), copied from previous PC : no problem ither than sound (now cured), wacom stylus and network.
- tested all 3 network modes (Bridge, NAT and Host only) : same results.
- tested all possible manipulations under Troubleshooting network connection failures (link above).

Every time, I get similar errors.  The Win 8 host shows both vmware network cards out of the 'normal' local ethernet network  (fl2404) :


- Windows diagnosis (Properties > Diagnose) show 'DHCP not activated' ('DHCP n'est pas activé sur "VMware Network Adapter VMnet8" ')

I have no idea how to reactivate DHCP on these.  My router is the ISP's box (Numericable), and distributes addresses in the full 192.168.0. range.

 

- IP addresses are not in the 192.168.0... range, and their DNS entry below show strange things???

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Microsoft Windows [version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. Tous droits réservés.

C:\Users\etien_000>ipconfig /all

Configuration IP de Windows

   Nom de l'hôte . . . . . . . . . . : BouzinII   Suffixe DNS principal . . . . . . :   Type de noeud. . . . . . . . . .  : Hybride   Routage IP activé . . . . . . . . : Non   Proxy WINS activé . . . . . . . . : Non

Carte réseau sans fil Connexion au réseau local* 8 :   Statut du média. . . . . . . . . . . . : Média déconnecté   Suffixe DNS propre à la connexion. . . :   Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapt
er   Adresse physique . . . . . . . . . . . : 84-A6-C8-D1-D8-51   DHCP activé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Oui   Configuration automatique activée. . . : Oui

Carte Ethernet Ethernet :

   Suffixe DNS propre à la connexion. . . :   Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller   Adresse physique . . . . . . . . . . . : 50-46-5D-CF-A3-F1   DHCP activé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Oui   Configuration automatique activée. . . : Oui   Adresse IPv6 de liaison locale. . . . .: fe80::ad22:ca1:82ae:62af%13(préféré)   Adresse IPv4. . . . . . . . . . . . . .: 192.168.0.15(préféré)   Masque de sous-réseau. . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0   Bail obtenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : jeudi 10 janvier 2013 17:35:54   Bail expirant. . . . . . . . . . . . . : vendredi 11 janvier 2013 17:35:53   Passerelle par défaut. . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1   Serveur DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1   IAID DHCPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . : 357582429   DUID de client DHCPv6. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-18-23-67-68-84-A6-C8-D1-D8
-50   Serveurs DNS. . .  . . . . . . . . . . : 89.2.0.1                                       89.2.0.2   NetBIOS sur Tcpip. . . . . . . . . . . : Activé

Carte réseau sans fil Wi-Fi :   Statut du média. . . . . . . . . . . . : Média déconnecté   Suffixe DNS propre à la connexion. . . :   Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N 2230   Adresse physique . . . . . . . . . . . : 84-A6-C8-D1-D8-50   DHCP activé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Oui   Configuration automatique activée. . . : Oui

Carte Ethernet VMware Network Adapter VMnet1 :

   Suffixe DNS propre à la connexion. . . :   Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for
VMnet1   Adresse physique . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-01   DHCP activé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Non   Configuration automatique activée. . . : Oui   Adresse IPv6 de liaison locale. . . . .: fe80::e856:b14:32c7:5686%38(préféré)   Adresse IPv4. . . . . . . . . . . . . .: 192.168.8.1(préféré)   Masque de sous-réseau. . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0   Passerelle par défaut. . . . . . . . . :   IAID DHCPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . : 637554774   DUID de client DHCPv6. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-18-23-67-68-84-A6-C8-D1-D8
-50   Serveurs DNS. . .  . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1   NetBIOS sur Tcpip. . . . . . . . . . . : Activé

Carte Ethernet VMware Network Adapter VMnet8 :

   Suffixe DNS propre à la connexion. . . :   Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for
VMnet8   Adresse physique . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-08   DHCP activé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Non   Configuration automatique activée. . . : Oui   Adresse IPv6 de liaison locale. . . . .: fe80::31ef:eca2:3701:d74a%39(préféré
)   Adresse IPv4. . . . . . . . . . . . . .: 192.168.50.1(préféré)   Masque de sous-réseau. . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0   Passerelle par défaut. . . . . . . . . :   IAID DHCPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . : 654331990   DUID de client DHCPv6. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-18-23-67-68-84-A6-C8-D1-D8
-50   Serveurs DNS. . .  . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1   NetBIOS sur Tcpip. . . . . . . . . . . : Activé

Carte Tunnel isatap.{F5587265-9F5F-414F-A366-4CC3CA90ED9A} :

   Statut du média. . . . . . . . . . . . : Média déconnecté   Suffixe DNS propre à la connexion. . . :   Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter   Adresse physique . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0   DHCP activé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Non   Configuration automatique activée. . . : Oui

Carte Tunnel Connexion au réseau local* 2 :   Statut du média. . . . . . . . . . . . : Média déconnecté   Suffixe DNS propre à la connexion. . . :   Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft 6to4 Adapter   Adresse physique . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0   DHCP activé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Non   Configuration automatique activée. . . : Oui

Carte Tunnel Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface :

   Statut du média. . . . . . . . . . . . : Média déconnecté   Suffixe DNS propre à la connexion. . . :   Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface   Adresse physique . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0   DHCP activé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Non   Configuration automatique activée. . . : Oui

Carte Tunnel isatap.{C51E1B16-BB66-498B-BF39-27396FE66EC7} :

   Statut du média. . . . . . . . . . . . : Média déconnecté   Suffixe DNS propre à la connexion. . . :   Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Carte Microsoft ISATAP   Adresse physique . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0   DHCP activé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Non   Configuration automatique activée. . . : Oui

Carte Tunnel isatap.{F533E591-304B-4A05-89C2-98D6A96D72A1} :

   Statut du média. . . . . . . . . . . . : Média déconnecté   Suffixe DNS propre à la connexion. . . :   Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Carte Microsoft ISATAP #3   Adresse physique . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0   DHCP activé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Non   Configuration automatique activée. . . : Oui

C:\Users\etien_000>

Thank you for any help to restore communication,

Etienne

Power off delay

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Hi, I have a problem with vmware player (5.0.1 build-894247, host Windows 7 professional x64) during guests poweroff.

The problem occurs after guest os shutdown (successfully completed) or during hard guest power off using "Player-->Power-->Power Off" with a variable delay (1 to 2 minutes); during this delay vmwre player remains black without messages or errors.

After this delay vmware player returns to the home screen with the list of the available virtual machines.

 

I checked guests log searching for some clues and I found some interesting log record on vmware.log, here an example

 

2013-01-11T18:28:07.435+01:00| vmx| I120: MKS PowerOff
2013-01-11T18:28:07.459+01:00| usbCCIDEnumCards| I120: USB-CCID: Card enum thread exiting.
2013-01-11T18:28:07.460+01:00| vmx| I120: scsi0:0: numIOs = 4353 numMergedIOs = 6 numSplitIOs = 4 (40.0%)
2013-01-11T18:28:07.460+01:00| vmx| I120: Closing disk scsi0:0
2013-01-11T18:28:07.906+01:00| vmx| I120: AIOWIN32C: asyncOps=4077 syncOps=248 bufSize=0Kb fixedOps=0 sgOps=4271 sgOn=1
2013-01-11T18:28:07.906+01:00| aioCompletion| I120: AIO thread processed 4077 completions
### Everything works swiftly until now, look the timestampe between these two records (1' 19" delay)
### during this delay vmware player remains black, it seems waiting something to happen
### when the situation unlocks I got these errors and shutdown proceed quickly
2013-01-11T18:29:26.064+01:00| vmx| I120: WORKER: asyncOps=2 maxActiveOps=1 maxPending=0 maxCompleted=1
2013-01-11T18:29:26.065+01:00| vmx| I120: Policy_SavePolicyFile: invalid arguments to function.
2013-01-11T18:29:26.065+01:00| vmx| I120: PolicyVMX_Exit: Could not write out policies: 15.
2013-01-11T18:29:26.065+01:00| WinNotifyThread| I120: WinNotify thread exiting
2013-01-11T18:29:26.171+01:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [6576 mainDispatch.c:3854]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=1, newAppState=1873, success=1 additionalError=0
2013-01-11T18:29:26.171+01:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [6576 mainDispatch.c:3873]: VMAutomation: Ignoring ReportPowerOpFinished because the VMX is shutting down.
2013-01-11T18:29:26.196+01:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [6576 mainDispatch.c:3854]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=0, newAppState=1870, success=1 additionalError=0
2013-01-11T18:29:26.196+01:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [6576 mainDispatch.c:3873]: VMAutomation: Ignoring ReportPowerOpFinished because the VMX is shutting down.
2013-01-11T18:29:26.196+01:00| vmx| I120: Transitioned vmx/execState/val to poweredOff
2013-01-11T18:29:26.196+01:00| vmx| I120: VMX idle exit
2013-01-11T18:29:26.196+01:00| vmx| I120: VMIOP: Exit
2013-01-11T18:29:26.199+01:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [6576 mainDispatch.c:859]: VMAutomation_LateShutdown()
2013-01-11T18:29:26.199+01:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [6576 mainDispatch.c:809]: VMAutomationCloseListenerSocket. Closing listener socket.
2013-01-11T18:29:26.200+01:00| vmx| I120: Flushing VMX VMDB connections
2013-01-11T18:29:26.200+01:00| vmx| I120: VmdbDbRemoveCnx: Removing Cnx from Db for '/db/connection/#1/'
2013-01-11T18:29:26.200+01:00| vmx| I120: VmdbCnxDisconnect: Disconnect: closed pipe for pub cnx '/db/connection/#1/' (0)
2013-01-11T18:29:26.204+01:00| vmx| I120: VMX exit (0).
2013-01-11T18:29:26.204+01:00| vmx| I120: AIOMGR-S : stat o=2 r=12 w=0 i=0 br=111616 bw=0
2013-01-11T18:29:26.204+01:00| vmx| I120: OBJLIB-LIB : ObjLib cleanup done.
2013-01-11T18:29:26.204+01:00| vmx| I120: FileTrack_Exit: done

 

 

I noticed the same problem on any other vm, with different guests os (linux and Windows) with the latest vmware tools installed.

 

Do you have any suggestions?

 

Thanks for help

VM Help needed. (Server 2.0.2)

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Good morning!

 

I am totally frustrated by this situation and I am at wits end...

 

Back story: I was running Server 2.0.2 on a machine which had a hard  drive die.  Replaced the hard drive, reinstalled Windows and for some  odd reason, I can not get Server 2.0.2 or Player 5.x to run correctly.

 

I keep getting the 0xc0000005 error or a KSM error.  Googling the  errors and trolling the forums has yielded little in the way of real  help.  I had copied a VM and while I could not see the console screen  (KSM error), the VM actually ran.  i know this because a log file was  emailed to me.  While it is nice that it is running, I need to get into  the VM itself to make tweaks.  (The 0xc0000005 error says the VM can not write to the HD.)

 

So, I want to do one final re-installation.  Anyone have a "fool  proof" way to get this to work?  Here is what I've installed; in no  particular order or patch as I've done a half dozen blow-aways.

 

XP SP2
Motherboard drivers from disk.  (The latest motherboard drivers put Windows in a  reboot loop.  Shame as this was the only one which actually worked and I  couldn't get out of it.)
Video drivers from disk.
Java.  (Needed so NVidia can determine the latest drivers.  After a few  tries, I decided to keep the latest video drivers and just install the  latest.)
Video drivers from website.  (The most recent.)
XP SP3
KB patch.  (Needed to go from IE 6 to IE 8)
Software Removal Tool
IE 8
Windows Installer 3.1
Server 2.0.2.

 

I am not adverse to Player 5.x if that will help.  I also am  intending to recreate the VMs instead of trying to restore from backups.

Any help is greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.
Thrillski

How to connect 2 VM (Windows Server 2008 & Windows 7)

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I have set up two VM (Server 2008 & Windows 7)

 

I cannot open connection between them

 

SERVER

 

C:\Users\User>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
   Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : WIN-NX1BQRB85Z6
   Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
   Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
   IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : localdomain
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : localdomain
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network Connection
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-85-A0-80
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::d4b8:a23e:bc62:1ce1%10(Preferred)
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.192.128(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, January 12, 2013 5:15:09 PM
   Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, January 12, 2013 6:45:09 PM
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.192.2
   DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.192.254
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.192.2
   Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.192.2
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 8:
   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : localdomain
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.localdomain
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55-4E-01
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:5ef5:79fd:2422:3a46:3f57:3f7f(Pref
erred)
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::2422:3a46:3f57:3f7f%12(Preferred)
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
C:\Users\User>ping 192.168.192.129
Pinging 192.168.192.129 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 192.168.192.129:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
CLIENT
Win 7.png
Network Adapter > Nat > connection ok to internet
Changed to Host only > no connection to internet
Can anyone please post a solution?
Thank you.

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

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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?


trouble installing vm tools

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i am using vm player 5 and i cannot get tools to install. i am new to linux and when i try to run ./vmware-install.pl i get error of no such file or directory. where to i have to put the .pl so that i can execute it?

VMware Player now gives "syntax error" message; how do I fix??

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About 18 months ago I installed VMware Player on my new laptop, running Windows 7 Professional (and Chome), in order to use an old software program that could not operate on my new 64-bit machine. The VM is running in Windows XP Mode - VMware. Things had been working fine up until about two weeks ago, when I opened VMware Player, the desktop was just a blank screen (except for the small VMware toolbar at the top), the Icon for the program that used to be there was gone; and when I tried to open the file I get this message:  ".......Line 1: Syntax error." Please help; I am not that well versed in computer tech and need "simple" instructions as to how to get things working again.

 

Thank you in advance for you help.

Cisco VPN Client and VM Player

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Cisco VPN Client 5.0.07.0290


VMware Workstation 9.0.1 build-894247


VMware Player 5.0.1 build-894247


Linksys WRT54GSV4


Hello,


I built a VM in Workstation, installed the VPN client and ensure that it’s able to connect via Bridge and Custom Network Connection.


Exported the VM to my laptop running Player, but unable to connect via neither Bridge nor NAT.  Also copied the vmnetcfg.exe from Workstation to Player, but I don’t see the Custom under Virtual Machine Settings.  Both devices are running on the same network.


Pretty much I’m stumped at this point and looking for any sort of help that the community can offer.  Thanks in advance…

 

Buggin

VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)

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Using VMware 3.5...installed Windowsxp service-pc 3. When I start the Player Window XP runs well for some time but son it hangs showing ERROR below :

 

 

"VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
Unable to lock memory. Aborting virtual machine
A log file is available in "E:\XP\vmware.log".  A core file is available in "E:\XP\vmware-vmx-4888.dmp".  Please request support and include the contents of the log file and core file. 
To collect data to submit to VMware support, run "vm-support".
We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement."
I have attached the

1.vmware.log

2vmware-vmx-4888.dmp.

 

Files please help me out.

 

 

with regards

 

lalan ranjan

can i fix it?

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hi everyone,

 

i was running windows xp on vmware player. And then my harddisk damaged. I copied some of my .vmdk files from damaged harddisk to new solid state disk. But i can't copied some each of my .vmdk files. i can't running my virtual machine on vmware player.

 

Error while powering on: Unable to open file "C:\Users\Tunahan\Documents\Windows XP Professional\Windows XP Professional.vmdk":

 

how can i fix it ?

 

i have got a Windows xp professional.vmdk (size  : 3kb),

and

Windows xp professional-s001.vmdk(size : 2gb)

Windows xp professional-s003.vmdk(size : 320 kb)

Windows xp professional-s004.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s005.vmdk(378kb)

Windows xp professional-s006.vmdk(781 kb)

Windows xp professional-s007.vmdk(2gb)

Windows xp professional-s008.vmdk(2gb)

Windows xp professional-s012.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s015.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s016.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s017.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s018.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s019.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s020.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s021.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s022.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s023.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s024.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s025.vmdk(320kb)

Windows xp professional-s026.vmdk(320kb)

VMWAREver8 port redirect

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Win7 Ultimate 64 bit host. Winxp Pro 32 bit guest. Can the guest redirect from a com port to a host usb port with an adapter pluged into it. It would be a direct conection like a com to com but the usb device is not a com port adapter. The guest software will only know com x as direct connect. This gets redirected to usb device on host.

VMware Player thinks VM is in use when it is not

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Up until a few days ago, I had had for many months a VM for Windows Server 2008, with which I never had any issues restoring it after suspending it.  I then created a second VM for Windows Server 2008, after which I started getting errors when opening either of the VMs.  VMware appears to think that the VM that I am opening is in use, whereas it is not.  I have checked for orphan lock files and do not find any.

 

Each time I try to open a VM, and get the "in use" error, after clicking the "Take Ownership" button accompanying the error message, I can experience any of the following results on each occassion:

 

A. Everything appears to function as normal afterwards, but the same error message will appear again the next time I open the VM.

B. I get another error message saying that it failed to take ownership, but then everything appears to function normally afterwards.

C. It will take a very long time to restore the suspended VM (i.e. up to 10 minutes).  Normally the restore takes 1 to 2 minutes.

D. VMware does not restore the suspended VM even after 10 minutes, and so I have to end the task using Task Manager, delete the orphaned VM lock files using Windows Explorer, and then reboot the PC.

 

Has anybody else had a similar experience, and are there any suggestions as to the possible cause or resolution of the issue?

 

The version of VMware Player is 5.0.1 build-894247.


Problems with logging in Win7 on Fedora host

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Hello everyone,

I have Fedora 14 as a host and Win7 as a client (VMPlayer 3.1). After some updates of Linux and Windows simultaneously I can login in Windows only in safe mode. When I try to login in normal mode Win7 hangs up (sometimes together with Linux ).

I am complete noob and don't know what to do. Can I fix it somehow?

Tools will not install

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Hi All,

 

5.0.1 and win2000pro SP4.

 

Install Tools returns a message "Microsoft runtime DLLs cannot be installed on this Operating System.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks

Network gone missing

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Hi,

 

5.0.1 Player - win2000pro SP4

 

I installed win2000 and checked the network connection back to the win7 Host and all was fine.

 

Closed down the Player with w2k Suspended and restarted, w2K comes up but now I get "That network connection no longer exists."

 

Thoughts?

 

Thanks

"The virtual machine is busy" error

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I've been getting this problem lately:

 

When trying to start a VM, VMware Player just sits there, doing nothing; the VM does not boot.

Trying to close the VMware Player window brings up the error message "The virtual machine is busy" - this error message can not be closed.

 

Task Manager shows the vmplayer.exe process is using as much CPU as it can get, and the vmware-vmx process has not started.

Killing the vmplayer process closes the windows, but does not solve the problem - trying to start the VM again has the same result as above.

Killing both vmplayer and vmware-usbarbitrator64 does help, although the VM seems to boot slower than usual.

 

Host is Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

Guest is Windows XP Professional SP3

Player version is 5.0.1 build-894247

How to get 2 vm players to communicate on a hostmachine

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Hi Guys,

 

I recently swapped from VPC to VM Player and am finding it difficult to create a network of virtual machines. I need to create a test environment to replicate an error that is occuring on a clients system. They have recently upgraded to Windows 7 Clients.

I have created 2 vm player guest systems.

 

  1. Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 32 bit
  2. Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

 

I need my Windows 7 vm to be able to ping the Windows Server 2003 vm. The windows server will host SQL server and the Windows 7 vm will host a application that connects to an SQL database on the SQL server.

 

Please can someone explain how to configure the 2 vm players correctly so I can continue to create my test environment?

 

Firstly I need to know what VM Network adapter settings I should use for both the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 vm's. So for example do I use Bridged, NAT, Host-Only or Lan segment? Is this the same for both players? An example configuartion would be handy

 

Secondly I need to know what I should do with the internal IP4 Setttings for each of the vm's and also the host machine.

 

I have noted that on my host machine which is a Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit, when check ipconfig on the host I get the following adapters which are clearly related to the VM Player

 

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::d1ff:aced:3c49:9763%14
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.85.1
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::e19d:669d:f0b5:fe02%16
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.75.1
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

 

Can someone please explain what these are doing?

 

 

Finally how should each vm operating system have the network settings configured? Should I use obtain ip automatically or should I manually configure the settings? Examples would be handy here too thanks.

 

IP4Settings.png

 

Please help I have been trying for several hours now to no avail.

 

Regards,

 

I4IN

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