My laptop crashed and now my SUSE vm will not start indicating:
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 64-bit-0.vmdk' with flags 0xa The specified virtual disk needs repair (14)
I've done some searching and see a vdiskmanager type utility used for repairing this type of error on other flavors of Vmware products but not finding any for Player.
Is that the case there is not a utility or what could I do to try and repair the corrupt vmdks?
Thanks
Mark
I had VM Player v3 running on my Ubuntu 10.04 box. I had a WinXP guest operating system under it, which I backed up with Ghost 9.0.
I wiped the drive, installed Ubuntu 12.04 and VMWare Player 5.0. I created a Windows XP guest OS and installed XP on it. I would now like to restore my Ghost backup over the new, raw XP install.
I set the guest (WinXP) OS to boot from CD and inserted my Ghost 9 disc. The Symantec recovery environment starts loading, the progress bar along the bottom eventually fills, and it then says "Please wait" but nothing happens. I have to power off the VM to kill it.
Any thought on how I can recover my Windows XP Ghost backup onto the new VM?
Thanks.
Hi all,
Now I use VMware Player 5.0.1 (32bit) under the following environment:
Host OS: Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon) 32bit
Kernel: 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.i686
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz
Total memory: 8GB
Swap: 16GB
HDD: 2TB
Guest OS: WIndows 7 Professional Ultimate 64bit (CPU Allocation 1、Memory 2GB)
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (CPU Allocation 1、Memory 2GB)
Under the above environment, Guest OSs won't start up and Host OS forcely reboots right now.
I deploy other kernel, kernel-2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686 and they can do so only on it.
Personally, I think this issue will be due to Kernel update, but don't know what I should do.
Please let me know if anyone know any work-around or solution for it.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
takao46
As VMPlayer 4.02 is the last free (also in business) usable version I have no choice to update.
The VM-Tools are installable, shared folder and change of resolution works - but not drag and drop.
Is there any solution for that?
Other way around - if this is a limitation of the player - what alternatives I do have?
- older linux version
- other player like Virtulal Box or virtual PC?
Thanks for any help.
I have vmware-player installed on Ubuntu 12.10. When I try to open an application such as Excel or Word using vmware-unity-helper I get a pop-up window saying the virtual machine seems to be in use an a button to "Take Ownership"
Below is the .desktop file I am using:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Icon=x-vmware-564dd1a43df51f7d-8c0284e776bc81a6-Microsoft-Office-Excel-2003
TryExec=vmware-unity-helper
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
NoDisplay=true
Name=Microsoft Office Excel 2003 - Windows 7 x64
StartupWMClass=Microsoft Office Excel 2003
#Exec=vmware-unity-helper --run "/home/rtwaddell/VMs/IBM-Win7/Windows 7 x64.vmx" "file:///c:/programdata/microsoft/windows/start%%20menu/programs/microsoft%%20office/microsoft%%20office%%20excel%%202003.lnk" %F
Exec=vmware-unity-helper --run "file:///c:/programdata/microsoft/windows/start%%20menu/programs/microsoft%%20office/microsoft%%20office%%20excel%%202003.lnk" %F
Comment=Run 'Microsoft Office Excel 2003' in the virtual machine 'Windows 7 x64'
thanks!
Hello everybody,
I have a problem when I want to use a virtual machine on 2 screens.
I click on “cycle multiple monitors”, so both screens are in full screen, and it work fine.
Then I change the resolution (with the Windows xp control panel in the virtual machine). I need for example 1920x1080 on both screens.
You can see the result on the picture enclosed, I can go on the second screen with a scrollbar. I would like to use my 2 screens and not just one with a scrollbar!
This problem has started since my migration from vmware player 3.x to vmware player 4.x. I have realized a conversion with vmare converter and there is still this problem…
I have tried many things without success… Modification of the . vmw, change the vmware settings, VMwareResolutionSet.exe… But nothing can solve that.
Please can you give me help ?
This happened 3 times so far within 1 1/2 weeks and it is highly annoying having bounce a server because of this:
XP guest locks up - black screen, curser/keyboard unresponsive and if the curser is left active in the XP guest, it's stuck there as well and can't be moved to another window.
After stopping vmplayer (either Ctl-C in start window) or killing, it is no longer possible to run vmplayer or restart vmware services for that matter:
~# /etc/init.d/vmware stop
Stopping VMware services:
At least one instance of VMware Player is still running.
Please stop all running instances of VMware Player first.
because vmware leaves a zombie process:
~# ps -ef | grep vm
root 6398 26773 0 20:25 pts/24 00:00:00 grep vm
sam 26878 1 18 16:43 ? 00:41:57 Windows XP guest hangs, vmplayer creates zombie and Linux host needs reboot
so, what's the 26878 process up to?
~# l /proc/26878/task
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 5 sam users 0 2008-10-03 19:21 26878
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root users 0 2008-10-03 19:21 26932
~# ps -p 26932
PID TTY TIME CMD
- can't be seen with ps and it's waiting for disk i/o
~# cat /proc/26878/task/26932/status
Name: vmware-vmx
State: D (disk sleep)
Tgid: 26878
Pid: 26932
PPid: 1
TracerPid: 0
Uid: 201 0 0 0
Gid: 100 100 100 100
FDSize: 256
Groups: 20 24 25 29 44 46 100
- shared memory segments relating to the vmplayer software complex are still present as well in that situation:
-
Shared Memory Segments -
key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status
0x00000000 188153858 sam 700 16777216 1 dest
0x00000000 188186627 sam 700 48600 2 dest
0x00000000 131530757 sam 600 196608 2 dest
0x00000000 188252166 sam 700 2956800 2 dest
For what it's worth......
I just updated to vmware player 5.0.1.
It uninstalled my old vmware player and rebooted. When it came back up, the setup file timed out.
I downloaded the install file and ran it. Everything installed fine.
When I open my Ubuntu OS machine, I have no problems.
When I open my win 7 OS machine (this was the machine that was running when I did the update) I get the following:
Cannot open file "D:\my virtual machines\dave-desktop2\ace.dat": The system cannot find the file specified.
This also has another window that says that the file is in use but if it isn't in use, I can take control. When I try this, I get this error again.
Please if anyone can find anything on this, I would appreciate it.
Dave
I get this message on both Win7 64bit and WinXP sp3 32bit when I try running a certain program.
I have the 4.5 Net Framework and C++ 2010 visual installed. + all win updates
NO IDEA what is wrong here...
help?
Hello, i can't install vmware player 5 or vmware workstation 9 on windows 8 x64(i have tried on windows to go, and windows 8 x64 VM), it stucks on "now loading..."
Having trouble with vmware and Fedora. I have a fedora disk and have installed the vm player. I try to get it going and I end up with no operating system found. I have tried several things but cant figure out how to load the os? Can anyone help?
Greetings,
Running Player 4.0.4 with the latest FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1, VMWare Tools causes a Fatal Trap 12 when I either do a shutdown or try to uninstall the VMWare Tools in multiuser mode. As long as the VM components aren't loaded, such as single user mode, the tools can be uninstalled with out error.
Any ideas? I've tried FreeBSD 9.0, 9.1, different versions of Perl, etc. but all is the same.
Thank you.
Hallo,
My setup is the following:
Host: Windows XP 64bit SP2, on a dual Xeon E5130 CPU with 8GB RAM and NVidia Quadro FX3500 card
Guest: openSUSE 12.2, 32 bit
Hyper-visor: VMWare Player 5.0.1 build-894247
Guest Conf: 2vCPUs, 3GB RAM
Problem: Extremely slow KDE.
I run my openSUSE 12.1 from day 1 of it's release with reasonable speeds under VMWare Player 4 & 5.
The previous Friday, I decided to upgrade the openSUSE 12.1 to 12.2 via zypper.
Everything was fine, except of the speed and the unresponsive screen after a few minutes with sreensaver on.
First I thought that the problem was the stock KDE 4.8, so I upgraded to 4.9, the same version of KDE as I had in 12.1.
Nothing.
Both problems are important, and render my VM to a useless machine!
When I change active applications in KDE, I can see on the screen how the windows are paintedIt
It requires 1-2 seconds to render thetitle bar on a full screen application!
So, I need your help to find what option causes my PC to be that slow.
The second problem is much more strange. I can resume my KDE session a few minutes after the lock it. If I wait enough time (eg one hour), then, I cannot see anything on the VM!
Downgrading from 12.2 to (eg) 12.1 is not possible.
Please help me identify the problem and to solve it.
Thank you.
Hi all:
First, I have spent four hours across the internet searching for answers, so if it easy, then I have not found it. Please note I have tried.
I have attempted to install VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.x86_64.bundle on Linux Mint 13 x64 (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). vmnet0 and vmnet8 will not install. I have rebooted, uninstalled, rebooted, installed, and rebooted; and nothing. Weird thing is I used a different physical machine with Mint 13 x64 to test the install before installing on my main machine and it installed perfectly. Main machine failed.
This is a home system and not commercial.
I have attached vmware-installer that was located in /var/log.
Linux version 3.2.0-37-generic (buildd@allspice) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #58-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 24 15:28:10 UTC 2013 (Ubuntu 3.2.0-37.58-generic 3.2.35)
Feb 14 09:30:20 hqmain0 kernel: [ 461.497701] /dev/vmmon[6083]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
Feb 14 09:30:20 hqmain0 kernel: [ 461.497709] /dev/vmmon[6083]: Module vmmon: initialized
Feb 14 09:30:20 hqmain0 kernel: [ 461.507758] [6090]: VMCI: shared components initialized.
Feb 14 09:30:20 hqmain0 kernel: [ 461.507822] [6090]: VMCI: host components initialized.
Feb 14 09:30:20 hqmain0 kernel: [ 461.507966] [6090]: VMCI: Module registered (name=vmci,major=10,minor=55).
Feb 14 09:30:20 hqmain0 kernel: [ 461.507972] [6090]: VMCI: Using host personality
Feb 14 09:30:20 hqmain0 kernel: [ 461.507977] [6090]: VMCI: Module (name=vmci) is initialized
eb 14 09:30:26 hqmain0 kernel: [ 466.869731] [6272]: VMCI: Module vmci: unloaded
Feb 14 09:30:26 hqmain0 kernel: [ 466.957455] /dev/vmmon[6289]: Module vmmon: unloaded
Feb 14 09:30:26 hqmain0 kernel: [ 467.164414] /dev/vmmon[6320]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
Feb 14 09:30:26 hqmain0 kernel: [ 467.164422] /dev/vmmon[6320]: Module vmmon: initialized
Feb 14 09:30:26 hqmain0 kernel: [ 467.174795] [6327]: VMCI: shared components initialized.
Feb 14 09:30:26 hqmain0 kernel: [ 467.174878] [6327]: VMCI: host components initialized.
Feb 14 09:30:26 hqmain0 kernel: [ 467.174976] [6327]: VMCI: Module registered (name=vmci,major=10,minor=55).
Feb 14 09:30:26 hqmain0 kernel: [ 467.174980] [6327]: VMCI: Using host personality
Feb 14 09:30:26 hqmain0 kernel: [ 467.174983] [6327]: VMCI: Module (name=vmci) is initialized
We want to use vmware player to connect to ubunutu virtual machine from our windows, ours is a small company developing software , is the license for using vmware for our work is free ? or do we have to buy ? We only need it for connecting to a virtual machine .
Currently I use VirtualBox for a while with a Win2000 guest, which has some business software and a VPN connection to work. It functions but has several major problems that I have given up on fixing and now merely tolerate/workaround.
The most serious problem is that the Win7 host gets confused (as far as I can tell) about which packets to route where. Often the Win7 host's network connections slow down horribly even though ping to my ISP's home page remains fine. When this happens, I see the vbox guest network icon going nuts while the guest is not actually using it. Or vice versa. Rarely the host's traffic (intended for the home ISP) is actually being routed through the guest's VPN (and uses work's ISP), which ticks off everyone including me and my boss.
However, between the VPN filtering stuff, vbox's nat/bridging implementations modifying packets, and Windows networking (in which I have little confidence), I'm not sure where the fault is. So I thought I'd start from scratch with VMWare Player, a Win7 guest, and a second NIC dedicated to the guest.
Is this advisable?
If so, can you give me some terms that I can use to search for more information?
My skill level is moderate, given that I'm a home user and not a network admin. I set up my home router and have a basic working knowledge of IP ranges, subnets, conflicts, protocols, ports, firewall rules, etc. - just enough knowledge to be dangerous. -_-'
Player version is 3.14
On Windows 7 /64, with a recent installation of VMware Player, Windows is configured to use the "-t" option when using VMware Player to open OVA or OVF files.
That is, the shell Open command is "....VMware\VMWARE Player" -t "%1"
But my version of VMware Player does not accept the -t start up option: I get an error message:
VMware Player
Invalid option: -t
Usage: vmplayer.exe [OPTION...][configuration file]
where OPTIONS are:
-v Show program version
-X Enter full screen mode when ...
-U Enter Unity when ...
-s NAME=VALUE Set preference variable ...
Does anyone know what this is about? What is/was the -t option? Why did the VMware Player install a -t option? Why won't the VMware Player accept it's -t option?
FWIW, if I alter the VMware Player registration by hand, it will open OVA and OVF files -- but errors out if the destination directory already exists.
FWIW, if the destination directory does not exist, VMware player errors out on "Error while converting to a virtual machine..."
Hi all
I created a virtual machine on one PC (PC 1), and then copied this image to a different PC (PC 2), and opened/ran it using VMWare Player (4.0.1 build-528992).
However when I run the virtual machine on PC 2, and check the hardware, it still has all the hardware associated with PC 1, not PC 2.
I noticed this problem because I was trying to use the Local Area Network. The host PC (PC 2) has a Broadcom NetXtreme network adapter, but in the virtual machine there are three network adaptors listed, none of which is the one I need. I tried "removing" these, and adding a new network adaptor, but when I did this, the "new" network adaptor seems to be one of the old ones: AMD PCNET Family PCI Ethernet Adapter.
So, question:
Can anyone tell me is it possible (and how) to get the virtual machine to recognise the host's hardware, and get the actual Broadcom NetXtreme adapter working?
Thanks in advance 
gar
Hi all
I currently am running Ubuntu on VMware Player. I have a USB issue.
I have a usb device (Peak Systems PCAN usb) that I would like to be able to plug in while the VM is running.
VMware Player sees it and I can "Connect (disconnect from host)" it. However, Ubuntu doesn't acknowledge that it's there unless I restart it. After connecting it "ifconfig -a" only sees eth0 and lo. The interface that I'm looking for is called can0. After restart it shows up.
How do I tell Ubuntu to reassess it's available interfaces, short of a restart?
Thanks for your help.
Hello everybody.
I read in a dutch computer magazine i can make a backup with vmware converter on a old pc and virtual run this on a fast new pc. So i did this. I made a backup and copyed on my external hard drive. I put in in my fast pc and copy it to my hard drive of my fast pc. But when i want to run it i get a blue screen of death. I know this is a hardware fail. But this is a virutual machine i dont know how to edit those things...
i got some information for you
Vmware http://pastebin.com/rmC8hZZK
Vmware-0 http://pastebin.com/TeTPY1ci
Vmware-1 http://pastebin.com/mG1SzyB1
Vmware-2 http://pastebin.com/mBr8yKuS
This are some log files from my virtual machine folder. I hope you can help me!
