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VM player is looking for a vhd file

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I have a virtual xp  machine from microsoft converted in to a virtual machine  that can be used under vm player.

The virtual machine work fine in windows 7 (64).

But my pc crashed, and I had to reinstall it, I copied all files of the virtual  machine back to the new installed machine. But when try to run it with VM Player it is looking for .vhd, and I do not have it any more. I thought that .vhd file is for the windows virtualmachine and that VMplayer is using .vmdk file.

 

I there a way to get get virual machine running again.

 

Thanks,

Frank


Player 5 does not not exit when VM shuts down

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All previous versions of VMPlayer that we have used shut the player itself down when the VM was shut down.  Since we upgraded to Player 5, not only does the player remain running, but it is still in full screen mode without menu or controls.

 

Is this expected?  How can we get the old behavior?  Alt-F4 will shut it down, but I *don't* expect my users to know that.

 

We are running a Linux 64 bit host and WinXP guest.

Windows 7 x64 on hard drive crash under vmplayer

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Hi,

I installed both Windows 7 x64 and Ubuntu 12.04 x64 on my physical drive, both systems are usable. I want to run both system at the same time, so I created a windows 7 x64 virtual machine and attached my physical drive to the virtual machine also removed the virtual disk created by vmplayer.

The virtual machine boots and I can see the grub boot menu. I tried to boot windows 7 from grub menu, the windows 7 boot screen would show for a few seconds then a blue screen would be shown, shortly after the blue screen the system reboots.

Anyone knows how to boot my windows 7 x64, what kind of modification is need for my windows 7 ?

 

Thanks

Yao

VM Player 4 network help

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Laptop has linux guest on win7/64 host.   Currently vm is using NAT but is only visible to laptop.  What I need is:

 

When laptop host is on network, VM is visible to all computers on network.

When laptop host is not on network, VM is visible to laptop host.

 

How can I achieve this?  I have read a few documents and extracted teh netcfg utility but, although the things I've tried seem logical to my programmer's brain, they haven't worked!!

 

Not scared of tech documents, just having trouble finding them!

 

Thanks in advance

 

Steve

Streaming not working in Player 5.0.0

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On a Windows XP host, I upgraded from Player 4.0.4 (where this worked perfectly) to 5.0.0, and the following command line now fails:

 

c:\current_directory> c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\vmplayer.exe http://myhost/vmware/streaming_vm/streaming_vm.vmx

 

Gives an error that it can't find the VM c:\current_directory\http://myhost/vmware/streaming_vm/streaming_vm.vmx

 

I checked the release notes and did not see that the streaming feature was removed, and I checked the "Getting started" guide at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/desktop/vmware_player50.pdf and it still documents how to use this feature (on page 36 and 37).

 

Is this a bug in Player 5?  I had to downgrade back to player 4.0.4 for now, since this is a key feature that I use every day.

 

Message was edited by: jeremyd2019 changing subject to reflect that it's not just on windows

Commercial use

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Commercial Use

VMware Player is also now available for commercial use. A commercial  license for VMware Player 5 is included with VMware Fusion 5  Professional to enable customers to  run virtual machines on Windows or Linux PCs and on Macs using a single  license key!


Do I get this right ? - to use VMplayer on Windows or Linux in a commerical context we have to buy a Fusion license ?

 

Sounds very strange to me - similar to going to a fruit-shop to buy an apple and getting the response: we dont sell apples - buy a banana and you will get one apple for free

Vmplayer and kernel 2.6.32.45-0.3.2

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Kant get vmplayer to star due to kernel header missmatch. How do I fix this?

 

 

 

rpm -qa | grep kernel:
linux-kernel-headers-2.6.32-1.4.13
kernel-default-2.6.32.45-0.3.2
kernel-default-base-2.6.32.45-0.3.2
kernel-default-devel-2.6.32.12-0.7.1
kernel-syms-2.6.32.12-0.7.1
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.32.12-0.7.1
kernel-source-2.6.32.12-0.7.1

 

 

Tried player 4.0.4 and 5 and get 2 popups when starting vmplayer
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first say:

 

C header files matching your kernel were not found....
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Second:
"Vmware kernel modeule Update"
Before you can run Vmware, several modules must be vompiled and loaded
into the running kernel

 

KERNEL HEADERS 2.6.32.45-0.3-DEFAULT
Kernel headers for version 2.6.32.45-0.3-default were not found. If you
installed them in a non-default path you can specefy the path below....

 

----

 

This machine has no internet access.

Upgraded to Player 5 - Can't launch VM from shortcut anymore.

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Since installing Player 5, my desktop shortcut to a VM no longer works.  When I click it, instead of lauching the VM, it peppers my Desktop with temp files and then complains it cannot find the VM.  Has anyone else run into this issue?


Save a snapshot of an installed OS

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Hello,

 

My question may be  too lame but I was installing Windows Server 2008 R2 using VM Player. Is it possible that I can save this installed OS (like an img or iso) and use that into VM Player instead of going thru the same process of Installing the entire OS from scratch?

 

Let me know for any questions.

 

Thanks!

vmware player 5

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Is it possible to move the menu bar?  I'd prefer the "device stuff" to be on the bottom where it was in 3.x (and wouldn't mind seeing the entire menu bar down there as well).  Windows XP host.

VMware Player 3.1.6: Unable to build kernel module.

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I have a 32 bit system so i have to use 3.1.6

like the title says i can't get this to work.

Sep 21 21:40:03.703: app-3077859008| Log for VMware Workstation pid=4742 version=7.1.6 build=build-744570 option=Release
Sep 21 21:40:03.703: app-3077859008| The process is 32-bit.
Sep 21 21:40:03.703: app-3077859008| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
Sep 21 21:40:03.703: app-3077859008| Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-4742.log
Sep 21 21:40:03.965: app-3077859008| modconf query interface initialized
Sep 21 21:40:03.967: app-3077859008| modconf library initialized
Sep 21 21:40:04.003: app-3077859008| Your GCC version: 4.6
Sep 21 21:40:04.012: app-3077859008| Your GCC version: 4.6
Sep 21 21:40:04.027: app-3077859008| Your GCC version: 4.6
Sep 21 21:40:04.125: app-3077859008| Your GCC version: 4.6
Sep 21 21:40:04.160: app-3077859008| Your GCC version: 4.6
Sep 21 21:40:04.326: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:04.336: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:04.347: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:04.357: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:04.366: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:04.419: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:04.432: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:04.439: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:04.450: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:04.462: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:04.479: app-3077859008| Your GCC version: 4.6
Sep 21 21:40:04.507: app-3077859008| Your GCC version: 4.6
Sep 21 21:40:10.960: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:10.965: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:10.970: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:10.975: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:10.980: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:10.988: app-3077859008| Your GCC version: 4.6
Sep 21 21:40:11.002: app-3077859008| Your GCC version: 4.6
Sep 21 21:40:11.102: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:11.107: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:11.111: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:11.116: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:11.122: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:11.466: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:11.467: app-3077859008| Building module vmmon.
Sep 21 21:40:11.467: app-3077859008| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
Sep 21 21:40:11.486: app-3077859008| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1 HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/3.2.0-31-generic/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.6
Sep 21 21:40:13.802: app-3077859008| Failed to compile module vmmon!
Sep 21 21:40:30.874: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:30.886: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:30.898: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:30.910: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:30.922: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:30.937: app-3077859008| Your GCC version: 4.6
Sep 21 21:40:30.965: app-3077859008| Your GCC version: 4.6
Sep 21 21:40:31.077: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:31.082: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:31.087: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:31.093: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:31.098: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:31.542: app-3077859008| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.2.0-31-generic.
Sep 21 21:40:31.543: app-3077859008| Building module vmmon.
Sep 21 21:40:31.543: app-3077859008| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
Sep 21 21:40:31.568: app-3077859008| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1 HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/3.2.0-31-generic/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.6
Sep 21 21:40:33.930: app-3077859008| Failed to compile module vmmon!

"not enough physical memory" after upgrading to 6GB

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Hi,

 

I have a Lenovo T410, Intel Core i5 , and I used to have 4GB RAM.

And I was running my Win8 VM with 2.5 or 2.8 ram. all well.

 

(except a previuos problem, now resolved, which I dont think is related...

http://communities.vmware.com/message/2115376#2115376)

 

I recentlly upgraded my hardware to 6GB RAM.

 

Ironiclly, since then my WMware Player 5 won't play my Win8 Virtual drive with 2+ GB ram requested.

it says I don't have enough phisical memory:

 

"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."

 

and I can only get it running with 1.5GB ram. YES, I restrated my PC, colr & hot. serveral times. it's like that for a week now..

which is super wired. right?

 

and also annoying since that's the reason I upgraded my RAM..

 

anyone has a clue?

 

I'm attaching logs..

 

Thanks,

 

Aviad.

reinstalling VMware-tools - 'GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found

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Ok, so I loved the idea of using unity with my OS, because it looked cool.. So I made the major mistake of attempting to re-install VMware-tools, which I have done allota other times..

 

I did so through clicking player -> manage -> reinstall VMware tools...

 

and like usual, it placed a disk in my drive, i extracted it, then ran:

 

sudo  ./vmware-install.pl

 

then I install with all with default settings...

 

when I restarted my Virtual OS, all of a sudden I couldn't resize the screen, which I knew ment that the vmware tools was having issues... So I manually ran: ./vmware-user (and yes, I then tried sudo ./vmware-user) and i got the following issues:

 

falconmick@ubuntu:/usr/bin$ /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib/libstdc++.so.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libproxy.so.1)
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgiolibproxy.so

 

I've looked into trying to fix it.. but with all the other forum threds I seem to just not get it running..

 

 

note:

 

it started working ranomly again -.- dno if that was resolved or if vmware tools just decided that it wants to work again, but unfortunatly I still can't use unity because of the following error:

 

The virtual machine cannot enter Unity mode because:

 

- Unity is not supported on this guest operating system.

 

Thought ide keep my original error so I could show you my progress in attempting to fix

Typing problem associated with vmware player

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Hi all,

 

I have a typing problem associated with vmware, the frequency on how it reads the kb buffer is more than how fast the characters are typed, also it is clearly showing that it is screwing up when clearing up the buffer after it has read a character even though the kernel demands it does so....

 

I'm getting typing errors like this:

 

example: ggggoooogglleee..coomm instead of google.com

 

Has anyone got a suggested solution to this problem?, this will be much appreciated.

 

Thank you for any advice offered.:)

VMware player not responding

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Hello everybody,

 

I have VMware Player 4.0.4 build 744019 running Windows XP SP2. The thing  is the Virtual Player is running in Windows Server 2008 R2. And the problem is,  that the virtual player stops responding after some time. It could run 4 days  without problem, but sometimes it could run one day before stops responding.  Then I am forced to close down and start again. Now it wouldn't be a problem on  working days, but on weekends it is another thing, because the player must run  always for me to get data. I've looked for answer on google.com/lt, but it based  on VMware logs, but without any luck. I've attached the log file, maybe someone  would no, why VMware player stops working.


annoying problem with program freezing when trying to access internet...

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so i'm using the latest vmware player and vmware tools

 

i have windows 7 x86 ultimate installed, all the latest updates, directx, .net frameworks

 

i can browse the internet, play games online, do everything with the internet

 

but...

 

i have this program that tries to "check" something on internet, like, if there is a new version of the program, and when it does so, windows firewall pops up and asks me if i want to allow it, i click yes/okay and the program then completely freezes

 

i duplicate this situation as identically as i can on my desktop and the same program operates just fine, it is able to "checK' the internet for a newer version

 

back in VMWare, when i edit the program's code so that it doesn't (skips) the "checking" for a newer version, it works just fine and doens't freeze

 

i cannot for the life of me figure out what the heck is going on

 

i'm at wits end

 

someone please help me!

VMWare Player 5.0

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I have a windows 7 laptop, which has a wireless connection to the company's network. I can access internet and the internal network without problems.

 

On this laptop I have a virtual windows 7 machine running in VMWare Player 5.0. I'm trying to access internet/network from within this virtual machine.

 

If I use NAT, the internet connection works fine but I can only access the internal network if I use IP address, not UNC name.

 

Any idea why this is and how I can fix this?

 

Thank you,

L

Ctrl, Alt, and Shift behave incorrectly in host after typing inside VM

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Host: 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Guest: 64-bit Windows 7 Enterprise (created with VMware Converter 5.0.0-470252 from a Linux KVM Windows VM)

VMware Player version: VMware-Player-5.0.0-812388.x86_64

 

Basic problem: once the Windows guest gets focus from the keyboard and mouse at least once, Ctrl, Alt, and Right Shift begin behaving incorrectly in the Linux host environment, even if focus is in the Linux host environment, and they also persist even after shutting down the VM and quitting VMware Player. All of the keys seem to work fine inside of the Windows guest when it has the GUI focus, as expected.

 

Symptoms:

1. Right Shift key stops working altogether in the Linux host environment

2. Alt+tab in Linux host environment behaves differently (instead of activating the application selected, the applications' icons remain in the pop-up list, and it is necessary to press Enter to actually switch to the highlighted application)

3. Neither left nor right Ctrl work in the Linux environment.  It is as if they are not held down at all.

 

Steps to reproduce:

1. Fresh boot of Ubuntu host environment, then start VMware Player and boot up Windows 7 VM.

2. Provide some kind of keyboard input to the Windows guest, e.g., click inside the Windows 7 login screen and enter your password.  If your Windows guest doesn't require a password, then start a few applications and use Alt+tab to cycle between the in-guest applications (i.e., Alt+tab while the guest has the input focus).

3. Observe all of the Symptoms listed above

 

Work-arounds that I've discovered so far:

1. Quit all Linux applications, Log out of Ubuntu and log back in again

2. Play around with the keyboard layout in Ubuntu, switching to foreign keyboard layouts, and then back to English (US)

 

Honestly, it is tough for me to guess whether this is a bug in Ubuntu, the Unity interface, or in VMware (or somewhere else).  I will follow-up if I discover more.

 

Thanks for any help, insight, etc.  This is supremely annoying.  Also, VirtualBox 4.1.12 works without issue on this same host environment.

 

Regards,

-Jon

 

Update 2012.09.24:

Exact same problem with a Windows 7 32-bit guest (which Player calls a "Workstation 6.5-7.x virtual machine"), which was originally installed in an older version of VMware Player.

The 64-bit Windows 7 guest is a "Workstation 8.0 virtual machine".

 

Both guests DO have VMware Tools installed and running: "Version 9.2.0, build-799703" in both of them.

 

If I open the Ubuntu Keyboard Layout such that it gives a full-screen graphical depiction of the keyboard and illuminates which keys have been pressed, it is clear that even these misbehaving keys (including Ctrl, which is behaving as though it is not pressed at all) are being detected by the Keyboard Layout app.  So it seems like there is a fight going on with respect to exactly where in the stack VMware is grabbing keyboard activity.

 

Additional work-around: After quitting VMware Player, "Switch User Account" (by clicking on your username in the upper righthand corner of the screen (by default)) in Ubuntu to the Guest account, then switch back to your regular user.  Everything seems to end up back to normal.  It can easily be broken again by typing into a VM.

VMPlayer and P2P application

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Hi

 

I am having kind of a problem with a P2P communication application running in a Virtual Machine under Windows XP.

 

At work we have a test environment, in which we need to have one application which commuincates with other applications in other PCs, using P2P protocol.

 

The system is distributed as follows:

 

1 PC with Windows 7, and 4GB RAM, with several modules that commuincates using P2P with other apps running in other PCs via switch.

 

1 PC with Windows 7, and 4GB RAM in which we run VMPlayer 4.0.3. In this PC, we run 2 Virtual Machines that use Windows XP. In each of the machines, we have one applcation that communicates with the rest of the environment, using P2P (with the PC and with the other Virtual Machine). I have tried to assign 1.5GB of RAM to both PCs.

 

The problem I have is that the applications that run the P2P app in Virtual Machines report that the comms is working, but in an intermitent way. They connect, disconnnect, connect, etc. On the other hand, the P2P application in the physical PC works OK.

 

I have even tried to move one of the P2P app that runs in a Virtual Machine to a Physical PC, and just leave 1 Virtual Machine running in the Windows 7 PC. I have then increased RAM memory of the VM to 3GB. The app moved to the real physical PC started to work OK but the same problem is still present in the app running in the Virtual Machine.

 

Basically, I believe that there seems to be a slow network traffic between the the Virtual Machine and the rest.

 

I have tried to modify the network configuration parameters for the Virtual Machine (Bridged, NAT, etc). I tried them all, but the problem still persist.

 

Is there something else I could try? Do I need to configure the Virtual Machine network parameters in a specific way?

 

Can you recommend any other software I could use?

 

Is there any problem related with the fact that I am using Windows XP virtual machine running in a Windows 7 Physical Machine?

 

Any suggestion?

 

Thank you very much for your help in advance!

Windows 7 x64 with VMware Player

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Hello

I have a HP ML110 G3. I installed Windows 7 x64. Installed VMware Player.

Attempted to install into virtual player Windows 2008 R2 x64 Server.

Received the message:

If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance
File : \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe
STATUS : 0xc000035a
Info : Attempting to load a 64-bit application, however this CPU is not compatible with 64-bit mode.

 

I have read support articles. In BIOS I have Advanced/ CPU settings:

Max CPUID Value Limit: enabled

Execute disable bit: enabled

Hardware Prefetcher: enabled

Adjacent cache line; enabled

Hyper Threading Technology: enabled.

 

My assumption is that with x64 Windows 7 installed that VMware Player should be able to install Server x64 without a hitch.

Please let me know if there is a fix, a method to install into virtual the 2008 Server. Thanks

Chuck M

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