I'm having a few issues installing VMware and wondering if anyone could help me with it.
I downloaded the latest player but when I opened the exe file, the installation window didn't initialize properly. All that was there was a grey box.
I thought downloading an older VMware player would be a solution but I got the same problem. I'm running on windows 7 if its necessary info.
I've attached a screenshot of what the installation window looks like. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi all,
I have gone through threads discussing about vmware tools installation problem but didn't found any solution. So if someone has nay update in this matter, so let me know.
Thanks.
HI All,
After the clone centOS VM, i found that eth0 is missing.
I have fixed that issue but found follwoing and cannot login to the domain? ( Proxy Server- users prompt for login)
"Improper format of Kerberos configuration file "
The person who setup has gone.
AS
I have an HP Pavilion laptop running VMware player 3.0.0 build-203739 with VMware tools. The guest is Windows XP. The Synaptics touch pad works in the guest but the scroll region does not scroll. Device manager shows a HID-compliant mouse and VMware Pointing Device. Installed in the Mouse and other pointing devices category.
Has anyone been able to get the scroll region to work? I tried using the manufacturers drivers but VMware didn't like that and it gave me the BSOD repeatedly until I removed the Synaptic drivers. I tried to search the Web, FAQ's, and support site but didn't find any useful information.
I like using VMware Player but it is a bit of a pain to not have the scroll on the touchpad.
Thanks for the help.
OK, so how do I get back to the situation (which I enjoyed up until yesterday) where I could simultaneously run a win2K server with 3.5GB, a winXP Pro Workstation with 3.5GB, and a Ubuntu Linux box with 2GB with no problems whatsoever?
It's acting like it's stuck in some 32bit mode, and will only recognise 3.4GB of RAM at once, giving the error:
Not enough physical memory is available to power on
this virtual machine with its configured settings.
It is possible that native applications and/or services
have locked down memory which could be preventing
the virtual machine from launching. Shutting down
unnecessary applications or services may free enough
memory to launch this virtual machine.
If you were able to power on this virtual machine on this
host computer in the past, try rebooting the host
computer. Rebooting may allow you to use slightly more
host memory to run virtual machines.
ANY two of the three VMs I have configured display exactly the same result, but if I edit the settings to keep the total under 3.5GB, I can run any combination fine - this raises red flags for me regarding 32/64 bitness.
As I mentioned, nothing changed - it just stopped being able to run more than one of the VMs at once, without heavily restricting the RAM available to each.
I've uninstalled VMware Payer and reinstalled it, but no change.
Anyone have any ideas?
Ini files somewhere, or aregistry setting?
I'm pretty competent on windows, although new to win7/64
I got here via help & google
I have more than adequate resources, as the processors are a pair of quad core xeon E5345s @ 2.33GHz, the Host OS boots from a raid of 3 Agility 3 SSDs (223GB usable space) and I have a 3TB HD and 2TB external USB drives for data. All the RAM is orror free (Memetest assures me) and ECC Registered. Temperatures are normal, as it has enough fans to emulate a hovercraft if I didn't anchor it to the floor.
At the moment this box, (which I bought for virtualisation) is being largely wasted - I could just as well have 1/4 of the RAM and half the processing poser without noticing the difference.
Any ideas?
I've attached the most recent logfile
I have installed three VM, one with Ubuntu server e two with Windows XP. All three serve as servers. The host machine has three NICs and now all VMs share and use only the first NIC.
I need to assign a single NIC to a single VM: one NIC = one VM. How I can do?
Thanx in advance.
Michele
I have applications from older PCs that won't run on my 64-bit machine; the error message says they have to be run on a 32-bit machine. (How) can I make this happen using VMWare Player?
Hi ! Installed vmware player on my xp professional to install windows server 2008 virtual OS.I downloaded this file 6001.18000.080118-1840_x86fre_Server_en-us-KRMSFRE_EN_DVD.iso n wen i'm about to create a new virtual machine . i m getting an error as "Could not detect which OS is in this disk image" ?i don't have a dvd of windows server 2008 but i want to download it . can u just provide me the download link of windows server 2008 (32-bit) to install on my vmware player and can i use this on 1 GB ram as it is a min requirement . ?
when i play VM. While installing windows i m getting this error "No device drivers were found.make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers " ?
Message was edited by: a.p. - changed title to something more descriptive than "vmware"
I cannot compile thevirtual machine communication interface module against the latest kernel on Fedora 18 (3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64). The log shows:
Being a Java guy this is Greek to me. Any ideas? I can boot to the previous kernel and still function, but that's not ideal.
Tx,
Ted
Hi everybody,
1)
Is there anywhere that shows us what version of vmdk files created by vmware workstation 8,9 with vmware player 4 and 5 ?
I have tried to play vmware workstation version 9 files with vmware player 4 and it does not work. SOmething about "created by a vmware product that is incompatible with this version".
2) If i upgrade my vmware player 4 to 5, will my vmware files v4 be playable with v5?
Hope to hear from some one...
Hi All,
I looking for a script, where i need to find out how many vms created on particular cluster....
Thanks in advance.
Thanks,
Amarnath
I have found a problem with Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 Guests that doesn't seem to exist with Windows XP guests.
I always park my guests in Unity Mode so that i can use Internet Explorer 7-8-9 from WinXP and Win7 and my databases running in Win2008
if i then Sleep my Host OS, my Win7 and Win2008 will exit Unity Mode and be locked in BlackScreen forever with no way to recover, other than rebooting the guest. My WinXP guests doesnt have that problem, they simply resume and are good to go...
I also experience the problem of BlackScreen if i shut down my monitor (connected with DisplayPort, which causes Windows 7 Monitor detection to engage) -- after turning on the monitor, my Windows 7 and Windows 2008 guest have BlackScreen because Unity Mode failed...
I hope this will help debuggers find and kill the problems with BlackScreen guest
I use WMware Player v4.0.1 with Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit 6.1.7601, Service Pack 1, as the host OS. About 1 1/2 years ago I created a Windows XP Mode machine in MS Virtual PC which I then imported into VMWare Player. As far as I can see, XP Mode machines are generally created with a virtual 127 GB hard drive. In my particular case this is far more than enough as I use the virtual HD only for the OS itself as well as for a small number of application programs, so that the space actually used on the virtual HD is less than 10 GB.
Although I have not installed any additional programs since creating the XP Mode VM (I have only applied occasional patches of Windows components offered through Windows Update), the size of the Windows XP Mode.vmdk file has increased tremendously over time. It used to be less than 10 GB when I first imported the VM into VMware Player, but it is >74 GB now (although virtual HD use is still <10 GB).
What can I do to decrease the size of the vmdk file? In the Utilities menue of the Hardware tab of the Virtual Machine Settings I tried to use the Compact option, but I only received the error message "One of the parameters supplied is invalid".
I am new to both virtualization and networking. What I would like to have for learning purposes is a virtual network using Server 2008 with Win XP, Win 7, and Win 8 clients (or some combination thereof) on a single computer. Probably due to my fledgling understanding of both virtualization and networking, I have not been able to determine whether or not VMware Player will support this type of architecture.
I see two possible options. The first is to have the clients and server on a single instance of VMware Player, but don't know if multiple VMs can be running at the same time in a single instance and interconnect with each other to form the network. The second is to have multiple instances of VMware Player with unique VMs running in each instance. For the second option, I have been unable to determine whether or not multiple instances of VMware Player can run at the same time and interconnect with each other to form the network.
Will VMware Player support my desired virtual network? Is either of the options I described above reasonable, or is there a preferred configuration? If so, is the learning curve too steep for me to attempt as a novice in both topics?
I am reasonabley sure my computer specs will support the combination (i3/hyperthreading and virtualization enabled, 8GB RAM, 250 GB free space on HDD), but if that is not sufficient, please let me know.
Thanks for your guidance.
Hi All,
I've installed VMWare Player on Linux Mint 14 (32-bit, running on a MacBook Pro).
Installation went well and the player runs, but whenever I try to start a VM it immediately exits. I can't find anything in the logs to explain it.
I've seen suggestions to run:
... which I did, but the problem persists.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The last time I ran VMWare Player on Linux it worked straight out of the box; my latest experience is proving quite frustrating.
Yours,
Duncan Bayne
Hi Forum,
I'm Running Debian 64bit with VMPlayer in a Virtual Machine. There is 1GB of RAM allocated in the Virtual Machine Settings and Debian in the virtual machine says it's got 1 GB, but! When I open the windoes taskmanager I see that the VM is only using 32MB of RAM.
So it seems the VM is only getting 32MB of RAM and the rest might be a harddisk swap file. The Virtual machine is also very slow and does a lot of harddisk ratteling because of this.
What can I do to fix this?
Thank you very much!
I am a proper novoice, this is my first time using VMware.
I am trying to create a server which I can use to connect to using the HP P4000 VSA. I have tried to create a server using VMware Workstation, WMware Player and VMware vSphere Client and have been unsuccessful thus far.
Can anyone give me any tips on what I can do to get started?
I am using trial versions of all VMware and HP P4000 software.
Thanks a lot!
I 've installed VMware-Player-5.0.2-1031769.i386.bundle and VMwareTools-9.2.3-1031360 on guest Windows 7 . All fine.
I 've created an Ubuntu 12.10 guest but VMware tools cannot install on it ...the software code has been downloded but at
the beginning of the installation everything remain as the attached image
What can I do ?
Thanks a lot.
