Hi,
I am testing an image of Win7 x64 that includes a pre-configured App-V environment, but there is no trace of the virtualization environment after the setup under VMware Player 5. Is it a limitation of Windows, of VMware or am I doing something wrong?
Thank you,
Lurka
I have had a player set up for about 8 months now. I installed my OS (Windows7) and another program in it and all worked fine until I tried to access it today. When I opened and activated the player, my mouse moves around in it but I click on the icons in the player and am unable to start them. A right-click does not bring up a menu as it used to either. I was being prompted to update the software, which I had put off the last couple of times so this time I figured I would go ahead and update. The update did not solve this issue and I still am unable to access the program I had within the player. I need to access this program. HELP!
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Win 7 host OS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS guest OS
The guest OS was telling me that it was due for an update and restart, so I restarted it. Now I can't see any of my mounted hgfs folders. So I reinstalled vmware tools and restarted. Got a message that the mount failed when the OS booted up. But it appears that the shared folder is present, so that's helpful.
Still, it seems like every time I update the guest OS and have to restart it I have to reinstall VMWare tools because they simply stop working (shared folders is especially important and disruptive if it stops). Am I the only one seeing this? It's really annoying.
Edit: and after reinstalling the copy/paste isn't working... so I guess I reinstall again. This whole thing is incredibly flaky and frustrating. I've spent way too much time troubleshooting the install of these tools.
Edit2: one more reinstall and now the copy/paste is working. Still getting an error message on boot about the mount failing. The mounted folder is available though.
I have VMwarePlayer 5.0.2 installed on Win 7 SP1, fully updated.
I have a Linux Mint KDE 13 (now 14, see below) installed as a guest O/S.
I see the following behaviour: after a period of browsing VMnat.exe use goes up to 25% on the host CPU (Intel 5 dual core with multi threading, 2nd gen). Even after I boot off the guest Mint the vmnat.exe process stays at 25% with several mintues, until I kill it (It doesn't seem to want to, say, finish some work and go away).
I completely reinstalled Win 7, VMwarePlayer 5.0.2 and installed Mint KDE 14 instead of Mint KDE 13 as guest. Makes no difference. (I have declared these O/S's as Ubuntu to the player.)
I thought that maybe I could solve the problem by giving the guest only one core (of the 4 logical cores) but that only brought the cpu usage up to 45%. Even if I close the vmware player, the vmnat.exe process continues to eat up 25% (or 45%) of cpu.
I find that I can kill the vmnat.exe process in the host when it has this heavy cpu usage without even booting off the guest. After a bit, the guest will continue to work and access the Internet without vmnat.exe cpu usage showing up again. But I would rather not have to keep track of cpu usage of vmnat.exe manually. I would like to fix this issue.
I saw through googling that running vmnetui.dll as an app using rundll32.exe in an administrator acct would allow me to reset the network config--which some people seem to think might solve the problem, or at least a related problem. However, I can't get rundll32 to run vmnetui. I get a message, 'The operating system cannot run %1'. I added the VMware path to the path environment variable and double-checked but it makes no difference. This is before and after win7 system reinstallation.
Now I really don't need to fiddle with the network (the setting is NAT to share the host's IP address). The connection is a 2.5 MByte wireless connection which doesn't seem to present any problems. My only issue is the detected heavy cpu usage by vmnat.exe even when the guest is idling or shut down. My only interest in vmnetui is as a possible means to fix vmnat.exe so that it doesn't have this heavy cpu usage.
Would appreciate some suggestions how to solve the high CPU usage problem. Thanks very much.
Message was edited by: zrlKyMJYR8 to improve clarity and remove typos.
Hi,
I'm using VMWare Player 5.0.2 on a Windows 7 host with a Windows XP guest. If I try to Update VMWare Tools, nothing happens. I can see in Windows Explorer that no CD-ROM drive is added to the environment.
Is this a known problem? Is it possible to download VMWare Tools manually?
Thanks,
Bob
I'm having difficulty trying to mount a USB Device that is Encrypted with TrueCrypt in VMWare Player. It keeps giving me an error and saying it did not successfully mount the disk, I'm wondering if it's possible to mount an Encrypted Disk (TrueCrypt), as a USB Device in VMWare Player. I have tested it out using VMWare Fusion and it seems to work.
VM- Windows 8 using VMWare Player.
Thanks in advance,
Joe
Hello,
Thought this tip would be useful for some people. I ran into lots articles detailing instructions for hiding the toolbar in VMWare Player 5 in Windows. Usually they were along the lines of:
This didn't seem to work for me. I noticed that on some forms people complained it did not work after they upgraded to a more recent revision of version 5 of VMWare Player. I did seem to get it working...
Instead of this:
pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.nobar = "TRUE"
You should put:
pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.nobar = 1
Worked for me!
I've moved a VMware Linux guest, created with VMware Workstation on a Linux host, to a Windows laptop running VMplayer. The guest worked OK under Workstation using a static IP.
I've fixed up the network configuration (MAC address in ifcfg-eth0 and udev) and set the configuration to use DHCP using the VMWare dhcpd. The VM is configured to use NAT. Everything looks OK. Route shows that default route is to the VMWare virtual router and resolve.conf is set correctly.
I can ping the VMWare router (at 192.168.136.2), and I can ping other machines (e.g., 192.168.20.1) that the laptop is connected to, which is a different subnet. It looks like NAT is working. This includes pinging the firewall connected to the Internet through NAT.
I cannot connect through the firewall, for example to ping 8.8.8.8. Traceroute says that it gets a response from the VMWare router, but nothing else. Same if I run traceroute to one of the machines on the local net.
After doing a distribution upgrade from Kubuntu 12.10 to 13.04, when I reinstall vmware tools I'm getting errors in the "vmhgfs module" part of the install. This is preventing the filesystem driver from working it seems. Full text of the install process is here, and the area with the errors is lines 285-358. Things seem to fall apart after...
/tmp/modconfig-ZJ54iS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:888:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘vmtruncate’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
Without this module, I'm unable to share host folders with the guest directly. All dependencies are installed, ie: make, gcc, binutils, kernel-headers; and detected properly.
I recently had a hard drive crash. I was able to recover my VHDK file from it, but lost everything else. I created a new VM and linked to the recovered VHDK file. Whenever I launch the VM, I receive the following error:
Cannot open the file "c:\vm\MyMachineName\ace.dat": The system cannot find the file specified. VMWare Player unrecoverable error.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Hello,
I just downloaded the VMware Player 5.0.2 for Windows x64 and installed it on Windows 7.
During the startup and after creating and provisioning a virtual machine the automatic software update download mechanism appears to hang. Clicking "Details" indicates it cannot connect to the update server "https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds " which is a non-RFC complaint URL.
Using a browser to go to https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds reveals a directory listing, however the links available lead to dead-ends.
However if you use the correct RFC compliant URL https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/ (with a "terminating" slash delimeter) the same directory listing appears, however the links work in that they take you to deeper or lead to referential locations where the content can be downloaded.
There is at least one thread on this bulletin board that indicates various ways of manually extracting and making available the .iso contained inside compressed tarballs and/or msi packages with the tools for a windows OS so that the VMware Tools can be manually installed using the virtual machine mounted version of the .iso file as a local disk.
However this is unsatisfactory as VMware Player is intended to automatically handle this for the end user.
The problem appears to be in libcds.dll and can be corrected with a visual Hex Editor in Windows.
Example:
Download a visual Hex Editor such as xvi32 (Google: http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm#download ) extract and run.
Then use windows file explorer to navigate to the libcds.dll file ( "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player\libcds.dll" ) make a backup copy in case this fails. Then drag and drop the original on the open and running xvi32 application window.
Xvi32 has a text seach feature "Search" (Then click on "Find - Text string") type [ softwareupdate ] click on [OK]
To the right in the white grid will be the ASCII representation of the URL https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds ### where the # represent several null values of '00' hex.
Simply click in the box in the white ASCII grid area after the last letter in 'http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds' and type ' / ' ( back slash - next to your lower shift key, under ? )
Then save the file.
Restart VMware Player
[Player] -> File -> Player Preferences -> Software Updates -> [Download All Components Now]
All of the VMware Tools for various Guest operating systems will begin to download with colorful icons to the left, a status of time left to complete to the right and will complete their downloads.
The downloaded packages will then be automatically extracted and applied to this instance of VMware Player.
The *.iso files will wind up in the proper directory ( "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player" ) and the VMware Player Console option
[Player] -> Manage -> VMware Tools Installation
Will now automatically install the VMware Tools for the Guest operating system.
If problems arise, you can stop and shutdown Vmware Player, and restore the libcds.dll file that was copied for safe keeping before the edit.
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1035392 - Knowledge Base - Installing VMware Tools in VMware Player
http://communities.vmware.com/message/2143946 - VMware Player 5 - Tools - "Cannot find component on update server..."
http://communities.vmware.com/message/2071061 - URL nonconformity
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1833330 - libcds.dll
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, i would like to somebody help me to solve a problem.
A month ago, i installed a vmware player 4 on a windows server 2008 r2 standard x64. That machine has a Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 2.00GHz (quadcore procesor). The virtual machine O.S. is oracle enterprise linux 5.6. There i install oracle grid control 12c.
Everything works fine until there. A week ago starts the problems the virtual machine suddenly stop and crash, and the service runnning there goes down. The machine doesn´t restart but the virtual machine was. this happened twice i look the vmware.log and y found this:
2012-07-14T03:15:15.129-05:00|vmx| I120: SOCKET 1 (1864) recv error 10054: Unknown error 10054 (0x2746)
2012-07-14T03:15:15.129-05:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [4940 mainDispatch.c:2967]: VMAutomation: Connection Error (1) on connection 0.
2012-07-14T03:15:15.129-05:00| vmx| I120: VmdbPipeStreamsOvlError Couldn't read: (109) Unknown error 109 (0x6d).
2012-07-14T03:15:15.129-05:00| vmx| I120: VmdbCnxDisconnect: Disconnect: closed pipe for pub cnx '/db/connection/#1/' (-32)
2012-07-14T03:15:15.130-05:00| mks| I120: MKS: Base polling period is 1000000us
2012-07-14T03:15:15.130-05:00| mks| I120: MKS-SWB: Number of MKSWindows changed: 0 rendering MKSWindow(s) of total 0.
2012-07-14T03:15:15.131-05:00| vmx| I120: VmdbDbRemoveCnx: Removing Cnx from Db for '/db/connection/#1/'
i have been looking on the web, but found nothing, so if anybody here knows how to solve the problem I would greatly appreciate.
thanks a lot.
pd. attach the vmware.log
Hello! I got this message, when I tried to update my VMware Tools: "There was a problem updating a software component. Try again later and if the problem persists, contact VMware Support or your system administrator." What can I do to solve this?
As I started to create a VM for Ubuntu 12.10, VMware Player displayed a message saying that it recognizes this OS and will install it and VMware Tools with Easy Install. "Great idea," I thought to myself "I'm all in favor of easy."
And the install went fabulous, until VMware Player tried to install VMware Tools. That's where the process froze and went no further. Now, every time I try to start my VM the screen says "Installing VMware Tools...Please Wait."
How can I fix this?
Due to the closed environment in which I am currently working, it is not possible to download the VMWare tools from the guest host OS. I am using CentOS to install a Cisco application . All seems to work fine until I try to load up the VMWare tools. I cannot change my configuration to access the internet. I noticed the site to download the ISO file but it is restricted. Can this be elevated in the technical support teams to allow the download of the ISO, and if so where are the instructions to install it once the ISO is downloaded?
While creating a new VM in VMware Player v5.01.1 (build-894247), for Windows 8 Professional, I encountered an error stating "Cannot find component on update server. Contact VMware support or your system administrator". However, the VM creation continued, and the new Win 8 VM is apparently functioning correctly.
However, if I now attempt to install VMware Tools, I get the same error.
Hi all. I understand that others have had this issue, but I have yet to find a solution for Windows. It is trying to download v. 9.2.0.
I am happy to download directly, but every time I do I get into a morass of wrong links.
I have already turned off the firewall for the news Win7 VM.
Not sure why VMware can't avoid this problem in the first place.....
Install VMwareTools fails:
Could not find component on update server. Contact VMware Support or your system administrator.
Google has no answers. Its obviously a strange fault.
any hints? Thx!
The same guest runs on another host, a OpenSuse 10.1, 32 Bit, same Player but 32Bit, same VIX (i386). On this host no error appears, vmware tools are possible to install (at the moment problems to mount the iso ... because of another DVD-ROM device sr0 -> hda , but will be no problem) . It seems to be a problem of the guest.
Host: OpenSuse 11.1 64Bit, VMware-Player-3.1.0-261024.x86_64.bundle, VMware-VIX-1.8.1-207905.x86_64.bundle
Guest: DebianLenny 32Bit , no graphical desktop, konsole only
My Aims: install VmwareTools to synchronise time
Eckard
Running win7 64bit as host, ubuntu 12.04.1 as guest. When choosing to Reinstall VMWare Tools the cdrom image does not get mounted. Checked with mount command, its not there. Try to manually mount (sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom) won't mount...says it is at first read-only, but then complains of unknown filesystem type...checking with dmesg | tail gives:
[ 1264.020860] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
So anyone have any ideas?
