Just wondering if anyone has any hints or tips for improving the performance of a Windows Guest running under a Linux Host. I just upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04.2 LTS. I had my Windows XP Guest running very smoothly under 10.04 but under 12.04.2 the performance is much degraded. My perf benchmark is based on running Netflix "watch instantly" videos in my WinXP Guest. My old 10.04 system would allow these Netflix videos to run very smoothly with no noticeable video/audio interrupts. Under the 12.04.2 LTS Host the same video and audio is very choppy; basically unusable. I remember having similar perf issues when I first installed VMWare under 10.04; I made a kernel runtime parameter change that resolved the Guest perf problem, but I cannot recall what that parameter was (my mistake not writing it down). Or could it be a fundamental difference between Linux V2 and V3 kernels that would cause this? Hope not, as that would mean moving from 10.04 to 12.04.2 was not such a good idea for me.
WinXP Guest Performance Issues under Linux Host (Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS) using Player 5.0.5
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Need help setting up web server in W7 host, Ubuntu guest
Hello,
I am trying to set up a web server so I can test some HTML/PHP code. I installed and configured Ubuntu Server in the guest machine, but can't get to it.
What works so far:
- Accessing the webserver in the same machine (w3m http://localhost/)
- Accessing webmin in the same machine (w3m https://localhost:10000/)
- Ping from host to guest
What doesn't work:
- Accessing the webserver from the host (http://192.168.52.131/)
- Accessing webmin from the host (https://192.168.52.131:10000/)
- Ping from guest to host
What I did so far:
- iptables -F
- Installed VMware Tools
Another problem is that I don't know exactly what log(s) should I post here or how to do it, so if someone can help, please tell me and I'll copy them here. I'm guessing it's something with the configuration of the guest itself, being a server OS and all.
Thanks! 
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Paying for a version of Mac OS version of VMware Player - VMware Fusion
It's extremely upsetting to know that VMware has decided to discriminate between Windows and Linux and Mac users. Why is VMware Player free for these OSes and not for VMware Fusion. This is just wrong! I would like the VMware Fusion to be completely free for non commercial purposes! and have the same licensing agreements as VMware Player.
If others have the same rant, join the discussion, post your rant and show to VMware that this is wrong!
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How to Copy VM
Is there any way to copy a VM and rename the copy so that it shows up in the VMware Player list as another VM?
Thanks for any help.
Thanks, Jim
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unable to install vmware tools
Hi,
I'm new with vmware and I'm kinda struggling with basic installation of windows 7 in vmware. *Maybe* there's something wrong with my HW (few days old), I do not know, but Virtual box fails completely(blue death in win, then host OS crashes).
Host OS is ubuntu 13.04.
latest vmware player installed, windows 7 installed and working. vmware tools cannot be installed.
After boot up of windows, dialog is raised, that I should download vmware tools, I confirm that, and it (always) fail. Sooner o later (30% of progress is max). Error messege is just "try again later or contact admin". Sometimes ubutu reports app crash during that: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xafk3qeun0vht1x/Sn%C3%ADmek%20obrazovky%20-%2025.6.2013%20-%2021%3A55%3A09.png
After some uneasy search I did found, that this can be downloaded manually from
download apropriate version, installed it in guest system, in host system I've installed open-vm-tools, restarted, but nothing changed.
Error complaining about missing vmware tools at startup is still there, download still failing.
What can be wrong / what's proper way to install vmware player completely?
thanks in advance.
Martin
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Bridged Network not working - VMware Player 3.0.1 Build 227500
Running on my laptop, Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit, VMware Player 3.0.1 build-227500, the NIC is the integrated Realtek Gigabit-LAN-Adapter.
Set up in Virtual Machine Settings a network adapter > network
connection > Bridged: Connect directly...cant't access my LAN, no other computers in my LAN seen and also not accessible. Simply does not work :(. Also no internet.
First, after fresh install worked for some time, installed add. progs like Firefox etc., no system changes, but after a reboot it is not working any more. Tried to remove bridged, reboot, added again - no chance. I don't get it working again :(.
Now i have NAT in order to write here and have internet access in the VMware box, but need Bridged ot access all local computers in my net.
I have also installed Sun's VirtualBox to compare both 'free' VMs, VirtualBox works with bridged NIC like a charm. What am i missing with VMware??
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free vmware player
Hi, I've just downloaded the free vmware player for Windows XP so I can run mobile phone browsers.
I have the Blackberry simulator files downloaded, when I run the player the Blackberry is listed in the home page.
I can click power on ok but after the code scrolls up in the console and stops at 'Start Service: screen' I click the window as indicated in the help pages.
I should see a login screen, to login to guest operating system but nothing happens.
Many thanks for any help/advice.
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Can't start unity mode in VMware player on Linux Mint 15 Olivia
Can't start unity mode in VMware player on Linux Mint 15 Olivia
There is a message:
Latest tools installed (9.2.3)
System info:
Host: LinuxMint 15 (olivia) x64
Multiseat configuration (two nvidia cards, two separate x serevers)
MDM 1.2.5, Cinnamon 1.8.8
sysinfo:
Gnome 3.6.3 (Ubuntu 2013-03-18)
Kernel 3.8.0-25-generic (#37-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 6 20:47:07 UTC 2013)
GCC version 4.7 (x86_64-linux-gnu)
Xorg version 1.13.3 (17 April 2013 10:43:13PM)
VMware player 5.0.2 build-1031769
Guest: Windows 7 Corporate i386 version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 build 7601
VMware tools 9.2.3 build-1031360
Some line from vmware.log
2013-06-30T16:47:25.959+06:00| vcpu-0| I120: TOOLS call to unity.desktop.config.set failed
any ideas?
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Wireless issue
I have a Windows 7 laptop and I am running 2-3 virtual machines using vmware player. One of them has Ubuntu installed in it and was working fine. I installed another virtual machine from IBM today. After the installation, wireless is not working my Ubuntu virtual machine. However, wireless is working on my IBM virtual machine. I have NAT enabled in both the machines.
Could someone please let me know what could the reason for this?
Thank you.
Ravi
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Manage virtual networks in vmware player on Linux Mint
Hi all,
Can someone point out how can I manage virtual networks on Vmware player on Ubuntu/Linux mint?
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Player does not start up anymore
My VMWare Player was working well since yesterday. When I try to start the Player it don't even react.
I get no error message or something. I noticed that it sometimes write a log. Most times the log has just 19 lines
with no error in it.
Sometimes there are 26 with an error inside: vmplayer| I120: HostDeviceInfoGetDiskInfo: CreateFile \\.\PhysicalDrive0 failed: Unknown error 5 (0x5)
Searching for this error didn't help.
Anyone got a hint what could be wrong?
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VMware Player configure to use TOR
Hi
i'm new to VMware Player and im wondering what i have to set up to connect from the initial start through TOR for one of my virtual machine where im running xp.
Im using the latest version of the player on a Win8 system.
I hope somebody has already tried this setup.
Thanks in advance!
Mike
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Can't boot Vmwareplayer
Hello i created a win7 vm that runs on my host system win7. What i want to accomplish is that i want to run the vm and then boot from a cd. I can't get it done.
I press F2 at startup but that leads me to a boot menu where i can't choose boot from cd.
So how to do this?
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scsi scanner on ubuntu 12.04 guest; Insufficient permissions scsi0:6
I'm trying to get an HP scsi scanner going on an Ubuntu12.04 64 bit guest running on VMWare Player 9 on Windows 8 Pro host.
The scsi card is an lsilogic card. The driver is installed and working, and the HP C1130A scanner device on ID 6 is detected by Win8. The card is identified on IRQ:17 in Ubuntu using hwinfo and the driver is seen in /proc/scsi/mptspi. /dev/sg0 and /dev/sg1 but no device is getting created for the scanner.
The default set up that Player chose did not work.
I have tried to configure Player with a scsi pass-through device, passing scsi0:6 through to ubuntu and I am getting the errors (in the vmware.log) shown below:
| I120: SCSI PASSTHRU: OPEN "SCSI0:6"
2013-07-04T10:42:17.495-06:00| vcpu-0| I120: SCSI PASS-THRU (scsi0:6): OPEN "SCSI0:6"
2013-07-04T10:42:17.495-06:00| vcpu-0| I120: AIOGNRC: Failed to open '\\.\SCSI0:' : Insufficient permission to access the file (70003) (0x3).
2013-07-04T10:42:17.495-06:00| vcpu-0| I120: SCSI PASS-THRU (scsi0:6): open '\\.\SCSI0:' failed: Insufficient permission to access the file (70003).
2013-07-04T10:42:17.495-06:00| vcpu-0| I120: Msg_Post: Warning
2013-07-04T10:42:17.495-06:00| vcpu-0| I120: [msg.scsi.passthru.openFailed.win32] Virtual device scsi0:6: Unable to open SCSI host device SCSI0:6; the system returned "Insufficient permission to access the file" for the specified filename.
2013-07-04T10:42:17.495-06:00| vcpu-0| I120: [msg.device.startdisconnected] Virtual device scsi0:6 will start disconnected.
The VMX file looks to be configured right from older VMWare docs:
scsi0:6.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:6.deviceType = "scsi-passthru"
scsi0:6.fileName = "SCSI0:6"
scsi0:1.present = "FALSE"
devices listed in /proc/scsi/sg/device_strs are below and I don't think either device corresponds to the scanner since the devices file indicates they are both on scsi id 0.
NECVMwar VMware IDE CDR10 1.00
VMware, VMware Virtual S 1.0
It looks to me like I just have this mis-configured. The scsi card is dedicated to the scanner, so using a pass-through device should be okay. Probably I am confused about the way all this works. As I see it, the pass-through is failing and a linux device /dev/sgX is not getting created. What am I misunderstanding?
Thanks.
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Some unknown problem with VMplayer intstalling
Hello, I am a new user here. Please to meet you all.
I spent some hours today fighting vs. unusual problem.
I have got the install file from vmware.com: VMware-player-5.0.2-1031769.exe
When I click this program, I see the picture: see in attached file.
A have standard configuration of Windows 7 services, I closed antivirus program and... Nothing, completely nothing.
Can you help me? - Yes, you can. 
Thank you.
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How to disable Hypethreaded core sharing in VMware Player?
Hello,
Is it possible to disable hypethreaded core sharing for a machine running in VMware Player?
I've read about such possibility in ESX but found nothing about doing the same in Player.
May goal is to get my virtual machine maximum power and not to run its cpus on single physical core when hyperthreading is on.
PS. Of course I've tried using task manager affinity for that purpose but it didn't work. After setting affinity for my virtual machine process it became terribly slow and completely unusable.
My machine is i7-920 with HT on. My virtual machine has 3 processors and I would like to have them running on different physlical cores which should get me maximum performance.
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Whishes,
Marek
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VMPlayer Install Issue
I have an HP ML110 G3 with hyper-threading enabled
Running Windows 7 Pro 64 bit sp1 with XP mode installed.
I have Intel Pentium 4 3Gz 4Gb memory.
I have on several computers install first XP mode and then run the VMPlayer install.
The message that prevents and this I cannot figure out with hyper threading and Intel processor is:
'VM Player cannot be installed on your computer. Player requires features that are not present on your CPU'
If there is a method to complete the VMPlayer install please let me know !
Thanks
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Bug in DOS-Function FindFirst / FindNext File
I have several DOS programs which run excellent under real Win XP, but under virtual XP they run faulty. These Programs find existing files, but report some of them twice (instead of once).
To find existing files they use DOS Intr 21H, AH=4E (FindFirst) and 4F (FindNext). Under virtual XP typically the first 7 or 8 files or directories are reported twice, the rest is then ok. On drive C: the bug does not exist, only on the other drives, which are mapped to the host network like.
An old Norton Utilities Tool shows exactly the same bug. Under real XP everything is perfect.
Please can anybody help?
Host is Win 7 SP1 Home Premium 64 bit
Guest ist Win XP SP3
VMware is 5.0.2
Logfile shows nothing at that time.
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I have problems to isntalla VMwareplayer on ubuntu 10.2 (the problem is that dosent finde kerner headers....
Ok i will try to explain my problem (English is not my mother language).I have a server with Ubuntu Desktop 10.2 32bit where i want tu installa VMware player.I have tryied to install the the VMware player 4 and olso the VMware-Player-5.0.2-1031769.i386 (that is the last version) but i have allways the same error and i cant run it!The mistake i have i when i try to run the VMware-Player with this
error message(U can see it at the end of this post).If i try to seach the Kernel with "Browse" i can see the kernel that the ubutu is useing taht is : linux-headers-2.6.32.21 and linux-headers-2.6.32.21 generic,this are the two folders i have.I'm not so clevar to use ubuntu i olso tryied to ask in an ubuntu forum but i think that the best is asking on this forum where il the "home" of the software.I dont think is indicate to install a new kernet i will risk to create troubles to my Ubuntu so i think,but i olsy think not sure that maybe i must install another version of VMWare player maybe one that supports and runs with the version of kernet i have on my ubuntu,is my suspect wright?
Who can tell me witch is the exately version of MVWare player to install?
Thank's in advance for support!
Helen
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Keyboard Not Working after VMWare Conversion
Hello,
I'm trying to run a VMware Conversion of an old laptop as a backup. I've run a VMware conversion and converted it to a vm 9 image file.
When it gets opened in VMware Player everything works except for the keyboard inputs. The only way I can type on the screen is using either the on screen keyboard or connecting in with TeamViewer.
Looking in Device Manager shows that the following error.
Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)
Has anyone come across this before and know if a solution?
Thanks
Peter Sheridan
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