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disk size increased

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to whom can help me,

 

I am using vmware player laterst version. I am running windows server 2008 r2 as the guest OS. I sometimes use the player in order to ghost several pcs in my organization via Symantec ghost and using a crossover cable. The total size of the vmware folder is 15.3 GB. I copied the image folder into my Guest OS and imaged the computer. The vmware folder increased to 41.5 GB. After imaging the client's computer i deleted the image folder from the 2008 guest OS via the recycle bin, but it still shows as 41.5 GB.

 

 

any feedback will be greatly appreciated


Two Network Adapters = Player Crash

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If I setup a Virtual Machine with two network adapters, one set to bridged and another set to NAT, I can no longer access the settings page for the VM without crashing Player.

 

I had this setup working fine in Player version 3, but when I upgraded to version 5.x I get this bug.

Two NICS on Host

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I have a host windows xp machine and it has two nics. One is used to connect to the internet, and the other is used to connect to a private Novell network.

 

What is the best way to setup my Windowx98SE VM so that it can use both of these connections?

 

If I setup a single network adapter on my VM and use NAT, I can connect to the internet but not Novell.

 

If I setup a single network adapter on my VM and use Bridged, I can connect to my Novell network, but not the internet.

 

If I setup two network adapters on the VM and set one to NAT and one to Bridged, I can connect to Novell, but not the internet.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Josh

Virtual Machine Settings Window Freezes With Multiple NICs

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I have VMware Player 5.0.2 installed on a Windows XP SP3 host and any time I attempt to view the virtual machine settings on a VM that has multiple NICs installed on it the settings window freezes and forces me to crash VMware Player.

 

The type of NIC (NAT, host-only, LAN segment, etc.) doesn't seem to matter.  As long as there's no more than one NIC of any type everything works fine.  But as soon as I add a second NIC of any type and save the changes, then the next time I try to view the virtual machine settings the settings screen locks up and I have to go in and manually edit the machines .vmx file in order to make any changes.

 

Is this a known issue?  Can anyone else confirm they're having this issue?

Unable to install VMWare Tools on virtual Mac

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I've created a virtual instance of a Mac (Mountain Lion) on my Windows 7 system.

I click on the Player button, select Manage & then Install VMware Tools. I get an error: Could not find component on update server. Contact VMware Support or your system administrator.

I confirmed that I can browse the Internet from the virtual system. What other steps should I take, so that I can install the tools?

 

Thanks,

 

BigSam

 

Message was edited by: BigSam1 Thanks to both of you for the information. I was curious if this could be done, so I searched & found a blog with the instructions. Now that I know it isn't cool to do so, I've deleted the virtual Mac.

VMware Player- USB

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Hi,

I am new to VMs and am from a generation that thought DOS 6.2 was cool so please excuse any ignorance on my part. I have a new Windows 8 laptop that I want to run my old software on and have installed Player and have XP Pro SP3 as a guest OS. I would like to get USB working to (a) inport my work files and (b) to connect up my development tools. I can get Player to recognise that a USB flash drive has been plugged in and it shows in the status bar at the top of the screen. But it does not show in My Computer. I have been playing with this while writing and I have got the memory stick to be recognised once or twice by unplugging and plugging in again. When not working the device manager shows a yellow question mark next to the USB mass storage device. My computer has four USB 3.0 ports. Has this anything to do with it. My development tool is not recognised either although it says the hardware was installed correctly when searching and installing drivers. I currently have the Player settings to use USB1.1. I had tried it on 2.0 but that didn't work either. What hoops have I got to jump through to make this work. I really don't want to resort to transferring files via CD.

 

Steve

Windows 7 64-bit guest, performance decreasing over time

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Running: VMWare Player 5

Host specs:

Win 7 64-bit, 12 GB RAM, Core i7 CPU

 

 

Guest specs:

O/S: Win 7 64-bit

Memory: 4 GB

Processors: 2

HD: 200Gb Preallocated (used to be a dynamically-growing disk - only 50 gigs used)

Shared Folders: Enabled

VMWare Tools: Installed, Time sync off

Everything else at default settings

 

Now, when I first set up this VM, it was running pretty well. It started to get sluggish after a while. Then I moved it to another hard drive (same system), and suddenly it was lightning-quick again, like new. And then it gradually got back to its slow performance over the course of a few days.

 

I figured it was a disk I/O issue, so I converted it to a preallocated disk and moved it onto a dedicated, WD Black hard drive (nothing else uses this drive - it just hosts the VM files). To be safe, I bumped up the memory from 2 GB to 4 GB. Again, it was fast for a while, and then after a week or so, it was back to slow performance again.

 

When I run process explorer on the guest, it shows spikes of CPU usage whenever a process does anything. If I switch between tabs on a browser, open Windows Explorer, etc... the CPU spikes and it takes several seconds to complete the task. CPU usage on the host machine is consistently low. Any CPU spikes on the VM seem to cause the host VMware player process to hit around 5% - 6%, so the host barely notices anything while the guest is just chugging away as if it had nothing but an Atari underneath the hood.

 

The guest isn't loaded up with tons of things. It's a barebones Windows dev/testing setup with a VPN client.

 

Any thoughts?

Vmware player 5 - problem with bridged connection

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Hello Everyone!

I am writing to You because I have a quite big problem with bridged network in Vmware player 5.0.2. No matter what I do it just does not want to work. NAT and Host-only options work fine and there is no problem with them. My NIC has vmware bridge protocol, 'automatic bridging settings' and ' virtual network editor' are set to this particular card. Only thing I can think of is firewall (Norton 360) which can block the connection but every component of vmware software is allowed to work and NAT service works so I don't know if that could be the case. I would be very grateful for any hints.

     I attached pdf file with screenshots showing my configuration. 

 


P.S Norton options are in polish but they basically say that Vmware is allowed and that incoming netBIOS'/netBIOS name' communication and incoming/outgoing ICMP communication is blocked.

P.S In case of any vocabulary mistakes I apologize ;p


I can't install Vmware Workstation/Player on Windows 8

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I got asus ux31a brand new but I can't install VMware workstation/player on windows 8 64bit, I'm finding solutions for months... and I can't found one xD please help me

VMware player install trouble

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I downloaded the Linux 64 bit installer "VMware-Player-4.0.4-744019.x86_64.txt" When I clicked it, it opened in gedit and had text saying (something like) it would check if it was already installed, unpack an installer and install if necessary. A progress bar across the top started SLOWLY moving across. It took forever, after about 30-45 minutes it had used all my 4GB of memory. I closed all other programs, it took about 2 hours for the progress bar to make it across. when it got to the end it sat there and the install window went dark, after about 10 more minutes it came up with an error about not being able to do something (sorry didn't jot it down). It asked if I wanted to retry, I clicked cancel.

 

My concern is for the last 1+ hour of the "install" the hard drive was running non-stop, what was it doing? Could it have been filling my hard drive up with useless data (useless in that the install failed). Also I am curious why it didn't work.

 

Thanks,

Brad

VPN disconnecting connection between host and guest

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I have installed VMWare and created a virtual machine with Windows 7.0. My host is also Windows 7.0 and I am using Bridged Network connectivity.

 

I use a VPN client on guest machine. The VPN software blocks all outside internet connections. Its working fine on Guest but the guest loses connection to host ( I cannot ping my host machine from guest). But that is not the issue.

 

The issue is when I connect to VPN client on my host machine, the guest also loses internet connection. Is there any way to have internet connection on Guest even though host is on VPN?

 

Thanks

Deepu

cant install vmware tools

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im running vmware player 5 and cant upgrade vmware tools for any vms my host is vista sp2

There was a problem updating a software component. Try again later and if the problem persists, contact VMware Support or your system administrator.

Unable to connect to Internet using a Mobile Broadband dongle

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I am using Linux Mint 14 as a VMware guest on my Windows 7 installation.  My broadband connection is managed by a Sierra Wireless Aircard 320U and up to now has been perfectly successful.  In fact I have updated the system, updated VMware Tools and installed Midnight commander all successfully.

 

 

Last week I thought I might try VirtualBox and Ubuntu 13.04.  The Ubuntu system installed but would not connect and the fault was diagnosed on their forum to be the fact that "Virtualisation" was disabled in the BIOS.  I enabled it and everything went smoothly however VirtualBox proved to be a more difficult system to manage than VMware so I uninstalled it and deleted Ubuntu.

 

 

This morning I booted my trusty Mint 14 (on VMware) and attempted to go online and I was presented with the message in the message log "Could not connect Ethernet to Virtual Network "VMnet8".  I suspected that the BIOS setting might be the fault and I restored it to its disabled state but regardless of this adjustment in the BIOS I still cannot connect.  What could possibly have gone wrong?

 

 

Any help and advice will be much appreciated.

 

 

Regards.

cinnamon mint olivia vmplayer can't find kernel headers

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unfortunately, the vmware player (VMware-Player-2.5.5-328052.x86_64.bash) no longer seems to work under cinnamon mint olivia.  (for the record, I purchased a couple of vmware pay products over the years, too.)

 

I do have the build essentials installed and the kernel,

 

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)


which is now 3.8.0-19-generic (from 'uname -r', i.e., the current standard version), and I did try the workaround,


ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h

 

but /usr/bin/vmplayer cannot find the header files to reinstall itself.  I tried reinstalling the bash script (oops, I mean bundle), but this does not help either.

 

 

by the way, there was another long-standing bug in the linux (ubuntu) version: the authorization module was not working.  so, it would prompt repeatedly for the root password, but never accept it.  to fix this, one had to first become su, then run it once from the command line so it could recompile the modules, and then it worked fine.

 

 

so, now I am totally stuck.  any advice?

 

sincerely,

 

/iaw

Installation of VMWare Tools on Fedora 18 (as a guest)

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Hello all,

 

I'm struggling to find a way to properly install the Linux Tools for Fedora 18 as a guest machine in Windows XPhost.

I succeeded to download the .exe and I finally learnt, thanks to this forum, that a .iso is created in the right folder by executing this program. I mounted the virtual disk on VMWare Player where I already have installed Fedora 18 and I have successfully extract the .tar.gz, that I placed in the folder "Download".

 

However, I have another issue and I'm stuck because I can't find help on this forum anymore:

When I try to execute "vmware-install.pl" thanks to the Terminal as root (by typing the following command : "sudo ./vmware-install.pl" and my password), I get the following response "sudo: unable to execute ./vmware-install.pl: No such file or directory").

 

I found in another forum that it could be because I don't have the right libraries to read the program in Pearl, but i didn't find which library I should download then.

 

I'm using VMWare Player 5.0.2 build-1031769 and I downloaded the VMWare Tools by following this link :http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/player/5.0.2/1031769/windows/packages/tools-linux-9.2.3.exe.tar

I found this link in the following topic : http://communities.vmware.com/message/2263344#2263344

 

 

Could you please help me to solve this issue?

Thanks a lot!


DOS/Windows guest operating systems and USB floppy

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If I were to use a USB floppy drive, is there any additional procedure required to configure MS/PC-DOS or Windows 3.1/95/98/ME to recognize it as Drive A?

 

Or is it as simple as configuring the guest OS to recognize a USB device (most likely, set to version 1.1) and then plugging in the floppy, and the guest OS will automatically recognize it as a floppy, with the possible exception that it must be set as drive A?

No folder "hgfs" in "mnt", WindowsXP (host)/Fedora18(guest)

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Hello,

 

Another issue I didn't succeed to solve (even by doing research on Google this time ):

I'm trying to share a folder between Windows XP (Host) and Fedora 18 (Guest). I'm using VMWare Player 5.0.2 build-1031769 and I properly installed the right version of VMWare Tools.

I even tried to reinstall it three times and followed all the recommended steps here, but it still doesn't work: There is no folder "hgfs" created in the folder "mnt". There is no error messages when I enable the option and add a new shared folder in the Virtual Machine Settings.

For now, I'm using a USB flash drive to make my transfert, but it'd prefer a proper shared folder on my HDD...

 

Could you please help me again?

 

Thank a lot!

How to re-install Vmware tools without Mouse and Keyboard which is not working

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Hi,

 

My mouse and keyboard are not working I searched for the fix mostly every one suggested to reinstall the VMware tools.

Is there a way to re-install vmware tools without mouse and keyboard not working in the guest operation system.

Host OS: Windows 7

Vmware (Guest) : Cent os

 

Any help would be great.

 

Thanks in Advance,

Moses.

Install Tools Offline

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Hi,

 

 

Been  searching everywhere for an answer to this but can't find one, can't believe I'm the only person with this problem.Either that or I've missed something!

 

 

I've installed VMWare Player 3 on a machine that has no internet connect. I try to install vmware tools but of course it fails because it can't connect to the web.

 

 

Is there an offline download available somewhere?

 

 

cheers,

 

 

Matt

 

 

VMware doesn't recognize host ram drives

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I have a 2 gb ram drive in the host OS (Windows 7 x64), which I would like to share with a Windows XP x32 running in VMware, but it is not recognized as a physical hard drive, although is set as one in SoftPerfect RAM Disk.

 

Thank you.

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