Had VMWare Player 5.0.0 installed just fine. Also, I am the Administrator of my machine and have correct permissions (full control for folder and all sub folders / files) for my %TEMP% directory. Despite this, when I try to install VMWare Player 5.0.1 I get the following two errors:

First, I get:

Then I get:

After which I have no VMWare Player installed (the 5.0.1 installation made me remove my prior 5.0.0 install).

I tried re-running the setup using Microsofts "Did this program install correctly" dialog that lets you reinstall with the "correct" settings (assumedly some backwards compatibility setting), still no joy.

Now I am stuck with no VMWare Player, and I notice that 5.0.0 does not appear to be available for download.

Is anyone else experiencing VMWare Player 5.0.1 / Windows 7 installation errors? Has anyone encountered these specific errors?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jay

I have Windows 7 as the host and XP Mode as the Guest and I am running version 5.01 of Player. 

If my printer is already  switched on prior to opening XP Mode then I have no problem in printing however if I switch the printer on  whilst I am running XP mode (and obviously make sure that I have disconnected it from the Host) then I get a prompt from XP Mode to  install a Printer Driver  If I ignore this and attempt to  print then I get no output until I close Player at which point the printer must be reassigned to the Host and printing continues  So should I attempt to install the printer driver as prompted from XP Mode or is there another way to ensure printing when in this situation

many thanks in advance

Mike

Hey,

I have the problem, that i can't connect with my USB HDD (it's an Western Digital Passport with 500GB).

Does anyone have an idea of what it could be?

Hi,

My name is Caron and I live in Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean.

I was fully satisfied with your product when I installed Win 98  SE as guest on Windows 7 host... apart that it made a conflict with my isb dongle and wireless internet connection ....( the best way to surf on my island )

I then discovered ubuntu 12.10 and his faboulous internet and os-processes speed ... So I tried to run a win98 vir machine on ubuntu12.10 and that's where all trouble started!

Either with vm player 3 or 5 for linux , I put all parameters and then....NOTHING HAPPENS , a most disappointing output isn't it!!!!

I then tried to install workstation 7 and 9 via WINE ( to execute files .exe) =NOTHING !

So Is Wmware able to operate a VM as Win 98 SE guest on Ubuntu 12.10 ?

If yes, what must I do ?????

PLEASE HELP ME !

Message was edited by: vmroyale to remove the ALLCAPS from the subject line

When I installed Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit in VMWare Player, it offered to download and install the tools for me. I'm not sure it succeeded. (This computer has had troubles recently with truncated/corrupted downloads.) My Windows 7 VM works fine but the Ubuntu VMs don't work.

Symptoms:

• Nautilus crashes.
• The guest doesn't remember my resolution.
• The guest hangs for 30 seconds everytime I try to set the resolution.
• The guest may hang indefinitely at startup.
• vmware.log contains an error about missing file: svga3d.dll
• vmware.log contains many errors about failure to enforce norxloss
• vmware.log contains hundreds of errors about serial0 overrun

Then I wiped the VM and reinstalled 12.10. Same problems. Then I created another VM for 12.04. Same problems, except it doesn't hang for 30 seconds.

I searched for a while to figure out where these auto-downloaded tools are located on my host, so I could delete them and redownload them. After finding about 1 million how-to guides for reinstalling the tools in the guest, I gave up. I want to re-download the files in the host, so that I can be sure EasyInstall will actually have valid files to work with. But I don't see any tools download section, nor any hashes/checksums to verify the downloads.

It appears the "components" are just zipped folders with files VMWare Player scatters throughout the installation folder, so I have no idea which files to delete or how to tell VMWare Player to just re-download the linux tools.

Hello,

I am trying to set up VMWare Player and Winows XP on a USB stick. I have installed them both successfully and can access XP from my USB stick as long as I open it from the computer I used to install VMWare and XP. My goal is to be able to use the virtual machine (Windows XP) when I plug the USB stick into any computer. The problem is that when I plug the USB stick into any computer other than the one I used to install the Windows XP OS, my Windows XP virtual machine is not in the list of virtual machines available to me via VMWare Player. I'm guessing that perhaps I am overlooking something in the necessary configuration to reach my intended goal. Either that or I am expecting VMWare Player to do something that it cannot do. Any help with this issue is appreciated. Thank you.

Jon

Hi all,

I am having a problem printing from my Ubuntu10.4 VM to an HP p1102w connected by USB to the Win7 x64 host.  I'm using v5 of VMplayer, have VMtools installed and configured,  printer connected and connect at powerup set.  The printer shows in my linux sysadmin/printers menu.  I can print to it, see the job in the linux queue, see the job in the windows queue for a second or two then they both go away - just as if it had printed BUT no printing.  The printer works fine as my default printer in windows.  I tried installing an HP cups driver hoping that would correct the problem but no.  It is currently configured as a raw printer in both windows and linux.

I'm out of ideas.

Can anyone help.

Thanks

Steve

My Windows 7 VM works fine but a newly-created Ubuntu VM doesn't work.

Symptoms:

• Nautilus crashes.
• The guest doesn't remember my resolution.
• The guest hangs for 30 seconds everytime I try to set the resolution.
• The guest may hang indefinitely at startup.
• vmware.log contains an error about missing file: svga3d.dll
• vmware.log contains many errors about failure to enforce norxloss
• vmware.log contains hundreds of errors about serial0 overrun

Tried:

• Deleted the VM and created a new VM with default settings.
• Created  a new VM for 12.04.
• Uninstalled the linux-tools and reinstalled them.
• Recreated both 12.10 and 12.04 VMs.
• Manually extracted vmware-tools and ran it in the 12.10 VM.

I'm tired of playing the guessing game. If someone can pinpoint the problem, great. I will attach logs soon.

I have a VM where the internal IP-space created by the NAT is required to be the same across several hosts.

In order to do this, I change the network setup as detailed in the following link:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/2155960#2155960

The precise order of execution is:

1. Install VMPlayer (5.0.1 build-894247) on computer (Windows 7 Enterprise, 64-bit 6.1.7601, Service Pack 1)
2. Copy the guest vm-files to the computer, set up to use NAT, DHCP and DNS from host
3. Start up guest, log in and note that the IP address is different. Access via NAT works (ping, nslookup, http etc)
4. Shut down guest
5. Change the NAT (VMnet8) settings per link above using the Virtual Network Editor, click Apply && OK
6. Start guest, log in and note that the IP address is now changed to the designated. Ping the host internal IP succesfully. Fail to do nslookup, ping (and hence http) to any previously working addresses outside the virtual network. I can access the guest address from the host (eg. http)
7. Shut down the guest
8. Fire up the Virtual Network Editor, click on Restore Default, wait for a moment
9. Start the guest, log in, now the access to any external address works again as in #3

I have also enabled the ip-routing on the host machine, without any difference in behaviour detailed above.

Is there some step that I am missing here?

It also seems that restoring the defaults does much more than what is done when the changed settings are applied from the Virtual Network Editor which is in my mind a bit suspicious.

Poltsi

Update 1.

This got me stymied: I decided to uninstall the VMPlayer from the host, and checked the configuration for removal too.

After the reinstall, I first reran the Virtual Network Editor, modified the settings again, and saved. After that I started a virtual machine, and now it was able to both resolve, ping and access external hosts.

I closed down this guest, and started another one, which then reverted to the nonfunctional behaviour described above.

I closed down the second guest and started the first one. Now this one also has a non-working network.

Could this be a bug in the implementation?

Hello,

I'm a new vmware user, I'm running vmware player version 3.0.0 build-197124 on windows xp

I've created a new VM and installed Centos v5.0 on it,

I'm using NAT as the network connection type.

for some reason I cannot ping the guest machine from my host, can someone help me?

this is what I get when I run ifconfig on my guest machine:

 

$ ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:76:C1:EA 

          inet addr:192.168.226.130  Bcast:192.168.226.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe76:c1ea/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:94 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:20589 (20.1 KiB)  TX bytes:17322 (16.9 KiB)

          Interrupt:67 Base address:0x2024

 

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:2975 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:2975 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:4921805 (4.6 MiB)  TX bytes:4921805 (4.6 MiB)

 

but I cannot ping address 192.168.226.130 from my host machine.

b.t.w I can ping my host machine (192.168.60.22) from the guest machine.

Hello everyone, I've got a problem with my W98 virtual machine.
I'm very satisfacted about your software. I'll definitevely use it.

I installated Windows 98 without problem.
But, after the 1st boot, I get this error message :

"While initializating device IOS :

Windows protection error.  You need to restart your computer".

I made it 20 times.

Then I started it in failsafe mode. Houray, it's working! But I'll prefer to use all functions of Windows 98 as a normal mode.

* 64 memory allowed to machine. Don't work with 128 anyway.

* 1 processor core allowed on 2 in my physical machine ( Binary translation used + Acceleration disabled for this mode. )

* 8GB of HDD, IDE 0:0

* Floppy or CD : Nothing inside

* USB 2.0

* Default VmWare BIOS

-> Sorry for my bad english, I'm a young french.

Hi,

I got VMWare Player with a couple of machines, some which are XP mode.

Since I upgraded my Player v3 to v5, I have the impression that the XP VM's are very slow with

window manipulations (scrolling, dragging, minimising, etc.).

Any of such manipulations cause the VM not to react for ca 0.5 second before it does the action.

Peculiar detail: using scrollwheel or pageup/pagedown results in slowness, but CTRL+END or CTRL+HOME is instant.

It is very annoying when wanting to scroll through documents, as you get nowhere fast.

I'm not sure if it started at exactly same time of the upgrade or if it is a coincidence.

I made some fresh XP VM's, but they have the same problem, so I do not think it is XP related, but VMWare.

My host computer:

Windows 7 x64 SP1

i7-2600k cpu

8GB RAM

2 partitions: system partition + data (where the VM's are) (no other significant HD activity)

AMD Graphics card

All virtualisation flags are enabled in BIOS.

VMWare Player 5.01 (Tools not installed)

the VM's are allocated 2 cores, and 2GB RAM.

Do you have an idea of what might be causing this issue?

I recently had an issue where a MS update killed my windows explorer and forced me to do a wipe and reload.  I completely erased by hard drive, deleted the partitions, recreated the partitions and then formated it.  I install win-7 pro and started to reinstall my old programs.  Everything installs fine except VMware Player. It seems like it does not have permission to access the registry.  Here is the error I get:

Could not create key:\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware Player\Domant\License.player.5.0.e.1.201209.  Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personel.

I tried the following

1. Rerun the install as admin (my PC only has one user account and it is the admin but I tried this anyways)

2. Re-download the installer package

3. Manually created the key

4. Added permission to the key to allow full control by all users of the PC

5. Went to the parent key (SOFTWARE) and gave that full control permission from all users

Nothing works.  I dont understand why this wont install.  I have the UAC turned off and I am running it from an admin account.  I have installed several other programs and all installed perfectly fine.

Any help would be appreciated

J-Mac

I've decided to stay with KVM for the time being. But if I wanted to run Win 7 in a VM on Linux is VMware Player the best option for me?

Hi everyone,

I am running Windows XP on a Samsung Netbook as a sole user.

I have downloaded VMWare Player from a link on this site, when I run the exe file I get a popup saying

'An ActiveX control on this page may be unsafe to interact with other parts of the page.  Do you want to allow the interaction?'

If I click 'yes' I get an error box saying 'VMWare Player can not be installed on this computer.  VMWare Player requires features that are not present on your CPU.  See the product release notes for specific hardwars and software requirements'.

If I click 'No' it just leaves me with a completely blank VMWare Player Setup box which I have to force closed with Task Manager.

I am hoping to find the product release notes (and that I understand them when I do!) on here somewhere but if anyone has experienced this and knows what to do I'd be grateful for advice.

Thanks in advance...

Product: VMware Player 5.0.0 build-812388

Host OS: Win7 64-bit, SP1

Guest OS: Xubuntu 12.04, 64-bit

After upgrading VMware Player from 4.x to 5.0, whenever I resume the Xubuntu 12.04 VM from a suspended state, the network interface is broken.  If I reboot the guest OS the network interface is still broken.

If I reboot the host OS (or restart the VMware DHCP and NAT services on the Win7 host) and then reboot the guest OS, the network interface in the guest OS will work.

I have tried rebooting (or restarting NAT/DHCP services) in the host OS, resuming the VM, then bringing networking down/up in the guest OS (no guest reboot), but  the network interface still will not work.  The guest OS must be rebooted after rebooting the host or restarting VMware NAT & DHCP on the host.

I had a similar problem under Player 4.x maybe once in 50-70 suspend/resumes.  Thus far with Player 5.0 it happens EVERY time I suspen/resume the VM.

Guest OS WMware tools were upgraded to Player 5.0 version of tools after upgradint Player.  I have also susequently run 'vmware-config-tools.pl' to ensure they were installed and running.

It appears that the DHCP and/or NAT services on the host are malfunctioning or dying and the Player cannot recover from suspend after this happens.

As I said, this VM seemed to work reliably (network fail once in 50-70 suspends) under Player 4.x.

Any thoughts?

Dave L.

I have just installed VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.i386.bundle on my host Ubuntu 12.10 without problems .

Then I 've created a windows 7 guest with NAT internet connection not working .

The message  " could not connect Ethernet0 to virtual network /dev/vmnet8 "

according to the message is supposed to exist vmnet8.
I look at the network with "sudo ifconfig" ... and there is no node vmnet8.
There should be or what 's the problem?

Many thanks.

A few days ago, I installed VMWare Player on my new Windows 7 laptop.    The system was subsequently unable to shutdown (it would hang forever at the 'shutting down' screen), and it also did the BSOD thing twice since then, which heretofore had never happened.  I uninstalled VMWare Player, and the system immediately returned to normal operation.  This incident reminded me, that I had the near-identical problem back in 2007-ish with two different laptops running Windows XP and whatever the flavor of the day was for VMWare's freebie player.

So --- back in 2007, I didn't care; I uninstalled VMWare and forgot about it.  Now in 2010, I care enough to try and figure this out.   Since it's happened to me all 3 times I've ever used VMWare, I had assumed that this was common,so I did some google searches but came up with nothing.   So, I thought I'd ask here:

Anyone else seen this kind of problem and know the fix?

Thanks,

I ran a P2V on a windows XP machine and when I start it in player for the 1st time it dies.  The error is 

I removed player, installed VMWare Workstation and the VM comes up fine.  I'm attaching the log file in hopes someone can help.  I thought it may be realted to the following KB article but i'm not sure.  http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1227

I'm running player on Windows 8 (not professional) 64-bit.  I'm running VMWare player 2.5.5 build-328052. 

Thank you.

Jeff

Hi,

I've been searching around for help with this problem but have so far drawn a blank, so hopefully someone here might be able to help.

I have a number of Red Hat machines which run Windows 7 x64 in a VM via VMWare Player 5.0. The machines are Dell Precision T5600's with dual 6-core Xeon's, 6GB RAM and a 10krpm HDD.The VM's are set up for 2 CPU, virtualisation options are on and 3GB RAM is allocated.

During normal operation the VM and the host machine run very smoothly, however when certain scripts are run the performance of the host and the VM drops dramatically and CPU usage reports much higher for the vmplayer process despite nothing extra being run on that side. It's worth noting that the same scripts were previously run just fine on an older version of VMWare Player with a Windows XP VM.

I've tried upgrading VMWare Player to 5.0.1, which made no difference and I'm a bit stumped as to where I should be looking.

Has anyone else seen this sort of issue, or have any ideas as to what I can try?