Is it possible for a VM to see specialized hardware like physics cards, DSP boards, etc or would those require special drivers for VMs?
HW Support
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VMWare Player 5.0.0: 64 Bit Host, 32 bit created VMs
Hello,
I have a laptop that runs Windows 7 Professional 32 bit on which I created 32 Bit VMs using VMPlayer 5.0.0. I also have a laptop with Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit and I want to run the same VMs I created on the 32 bit laptop.
Can I run the same install of VMPlayer 5.0.0 on the 64 bit machine and use the 32 bit VMs I created on the 32 Bit machine?
Thanks in advance.
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Player 5 single window pixel cutoff?
I run Player 5 on a x64 netbook host under Ubuntu 12.04.1. Guest is 32-bit Windows 7. The netbook screen resolution is 1024x600.
If I auto-hide the Windows taskbar (on the bottom of the screen) in Single Window mode, the hidden taskbar effectively "disappears" and is no longer accessible. If I switch to full screen mode, then the pixel-high hidden taskbar is accessible again. For now, my workaround for single window mode is to move the Windows taskbar to a different side of the screen and hide it there.
Looking closely, it looks like the bottom pixel or two in single window mode are "cutoff". I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case in Player 4.
Not sure if it's related, but the VM seems confused about whether Tools are installed. They are, but it kept telling me to install them until I disabled the message manually. I did try re-installing Tools, but the message remained. Maybe another problem.
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Typing is faulty in vmware
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.:)
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VMPlayer 5: Suse 12.2 64bit host & 32bit Windows XP guest crashes
Hi,
I installed VMPlayer 5 on Suse linux 64bit as host, and planned to run Win XP as guest. It all goes well as long as Win XP is installing on a text screen, but as soon as it launches the graphical interface ("setup is starting windows") the X-server under linux crashes, and the system reboots.
Hardware: Thinkpad T530, with a NVIDIA NVS 5400M graphics card.
Any hint what to try next would be great [I've been running Win XP as a guest on many generations of Suse 32bit using VMPlayer 3.1.4 - so it's really the first time for me that VMPlayer is letting me down].
Thanks!
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Ubuntu guest gets new NAT IP every time I wake my laptop
I have 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 (happened with prior releases, too) installed as a guest OS in VMware Player 5.0 on a 64-bit Windows 7 host. The guest has a NAT interface configured. The host is a laptop and I frequently put it to sleep for the commute to/from the office. Every time I put the laptop to sleep with the guest running, when I wake the laptop from sleep, the NAT NIC is assigned a new NAT IP.
How can I get a consistent address assigned?
Can I configure the VMware Player DHCP server on the NAT subnet? Say to do static DHCP?
Is there a way to know what pool is available to the NAT DHCP server so I could assign a static IP address to the guest that would be safe from collisions?
Thanks.
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vmware player crashes on fedora 17 x86_64
Player loads fine but crashes when I start a virtual machine... Here are the logs, any help would be appreciated. If you need any more information please let me know.
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.708917] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.708949] CPU 0
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.708957] Modules linked in: vmnet(O) ppdev parport_pc parport fuse vsock(O) vmci(O) vmmon(O) bnep bluetooth rfkill nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_analog snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_timer snd soundcore coretemp shpchp lpc_ich kvm_intel mfd_core kvm i7core_edac edac_core i2c_i801 r8169 serio_raw mii asus_atk0110 microcode uinput firewire_ohci mvsas ata_generic firewire_core pata_acpi mxm_wmi crc32c_intel crc_itu_t libsas scsi_transport_sas pata_marvell wmi radeon i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper ttm drm i2c_core [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709400]
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709405] Pid: 3423, comm: vmware-vmx Tainted: G O 3.5.4-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 System manufacturer System Product Name/P6T WS PRO
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709485] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa042f20f>] [<ffffffffa042f20f>] HostIF_SafeRDMSR+0xf/0x30 [vmmon]
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709549] RSP: 0018:ffff88030ed81b88 EFLAGS: 00010246
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709583] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000491
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709626] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88032b196510 RDI: 0000000000000491
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709669] RBP: ffff88030ed81b88 R08: ffff88033fc16670 R09: ffffffffa042d872
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709713] R10: 00000000000000c8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709756] R13: ffff88032b196500 R14: ffff88032b196500 R15: 00007fffafb07d40
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709800] FS: 00007f765a13f740(0000) GS:ffff88033fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709848] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709884] CR2: 0000000002b2a048 CR3: 000000031f28a000 CR4: 00000000000007f0
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709928] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.709971] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710015] Process vmware-vmx (pid: 3423, threadinfo ffff88030ed80000, task ffff88030ee81710)
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710066] Stack:
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710080] ffff88030ed81bb8 ffffffffa042fe23 ffffffffa042fda0 ffff88030ed81be8
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710137] ffff88032b196500 0000000000000000 ffff88030ed81bd8 ffffffffa042e980
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710192] ffff88032b196500 00000000fffffff4 ffff88030ed81c08 ffffffffa0431c1c
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710248] Call Trace:
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710270] [<ffffffffa042fe23>] Vmx86GetMSR+0x83/0xd0 [vmmon]
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710311] [<ffffffffa042fda0>] ? Vmx86GetUnavailPerfCtrsOnCPU+0x150/0x150 [vmmon]
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710363] [<ffffffffa042e980>] HostIF_CallOnEachCPU+0x20/0x40 [vmmon]
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710408] [<ffffffffa0431c1c>] Vmx86_GetAllMSRs+0x2c/0x50 [vmmon]
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710451] [<ffffffffa042c6df>] LinuxDriver_Ioctl+0x70f/0xd40 [vmmon]
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710495] [<ffffffff8117fcf2>] ? __mem_cgroup_commit_charge+0x192/0x390
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710539] [<ffffffff81181d08>] ? mem_cgroup_charge_common+0xa8/0x120
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710582] [<ffffffff81132e6d>] ? lru_cache_add_lru+0x8d/0xc0
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710621] [<ffffffff81157f55>] ? page_add_new_anon_rmap+0x115/0x150
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710664] [<ffffffff8114d93b>] ? handle_pte_fault+0x49b/0xb10
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710703] [<ffffffff812024ef>] ? ext4_file_write+0xbf/0x260
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710742] [<ffffffff8115f32d>] ? free_pages_and_swap_cache+0xad/0xd0
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710785] [<ffffffff8114e8b9>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x259/0x320
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710823] [<ffffffff816108ac>] ? do_page_fault+0x1bc/0x4b0
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710861] [<ffffffffa042cd28>] LinuxDriver_UnlockedIoctl+0x18/0x20 [vmmon]
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710907] [<ffffffff81199919>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x99/0x580
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710943] [<ffffffff8127973a>] ? inode_has_perm.isra.31.constprop.61+0x2a/0x30
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.710991] [<ffffffff8127ad17>] ? file_has_perm+0x97/0xb0
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.711027] [<ffffffff81199e99>] sys_ioctl+0x99/0xa0
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.711061] [<ffffffff81614e29>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.711098] Code: 83 c4 01 e8 84 36 d0 e0 44 89 e0 48 3b 43 08 72 e9 48 89 df e8 33 44 d4 e0 eb 9e 90 55 48 89 e5 66 66 66 66 90 31 c0 89 c2 89 f9 <0f> 32 31 ff 41 89 c0 48 c1 e2 20 89 f8 4c 09 c2 48 89 16 5d c3
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.711449] RIP [<ffffffffa042f20f>] HostIF_SafeRDMSR+0xf/0x30 [vmmon]
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.711496] RSP <ffff88030ed81b88>
Sep 26 17:03:15 bighat kernel: [ 125.726857] ---[ end trace ac0bee0238ac6d41 ]---
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VMWare Player 5.0 bridged network doesn't work
I have a laptop with WIndows 7, and connect wireless to the business network. On my host the wireless connection is working fine.
I use VMWare Player 5.0 and have setup a virtual machine with Windows 7, and have set the network adapter to 'bridged' because I would like the virtual machine to be recognized as a separate machine so that I can access all network resources easily.
However, it doesn't work: I don't have any internet and network connectivity in the virtual machine.
I have no idea how to fix this... can someone suggest what I can do to make it work? I already looked for solution, like extracting the Virtual Network Editor from the cab file, but it seems it is not there anymore in version 5... Is it trying to use my wired connection or something, instead of wireless?
(PS - if I use NAT I have internet connection, but I have difficulties in accessing network resources)
Thanks!
EDIT - maybe this is useful - if I go to adapters on the host machine, I see VMNet1 which displays 'Identifying' all the time.
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VMware player 5 guest loses network after 1 hour
I have VMware player 5.0.0 running on Windows 7 x64, the guest VM is 32-bit Windows XP. The guest network is bridged.
After an hour of use, the network within the VM stops working. By that I mean that Windows XP starts trying to do what looks like a DHCP, then eventually gives up and says that the network connection has limited connectivity (which is an understatement). doing a DHCP release/renew doesn't work, disabling the NIC via Windows XP just seems to cause the ncpa.cpl dialogue to hang. The NIC is a VMware accelerated AMD PCnet (not my choice, but I can't see how to change the type in VMware Player...).
My DHCP lease time is 1 hour, but I don't understand why a renew would fail when it has clearly got an address quite happily when booted up.
For now I've changed the lease time to 8 hours which I hope will make the problem go away... assuming it is somehow DHCP related.
Don't suppose anyone has any ideas?
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VMware Player 5.0.0 Caps & Num leds don't light on
Hi all,
I have just upgraded to VMware Player 5.0.0. It works fine, but I notice this little problem: caps lock and num lock keys leds don't light on anymore in guest OS when pressing respective keys.
Guest OS Windows XP 32 bit working full screen; Host OS Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit. In host OS every led works fine, even with VMs running in background.
Host PC: Acer Aspire 5820TG laptop with Italian keyboard including numeric keypad.
Is there any workaround/fix?
Thanks everybody,
Gianfranco
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Can't access host printer
Host OS is Windows 7. Guest is Windows XP Pro SP2. Can't access host printer. Removable machines under Player shows my printer is accessed in the virtual machine but windows keeps showing an error message showing I need to add a printer whenever I attempt to print a document. Is there a way around this?
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Which version of VMware Player will support OVF1.0
Hi,
I have an appliance built in OVF1.0 format. Would like to use VMWare player to play it.
I would like to know which versions of Player will support OVF1.0 and which versions support OVF0.9 versions ?
Thanks in advance.
--Hemanth.
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Select boot medium?
Is it possible to select the boot priorities in the VM settings?
The BIOS boot message is displayed for only a split second and the it goes to boot from HDD, when I want to boot from CD.
I literally am trying it for over 10 minutes now. 
Using VMWare Player 5.0 on Windows 7 (guest is XP).
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VMware Player 5 won't play existing machine
I have been a virtual XP on Win 7 host for several years under various versions of VMware Player since v3.
After upgrading to ver 5 I cannot launch the existing virtual XP machine.
The error message cites the policies of the virtual machine as being too old.
AWhat can ber done to make it run.
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VMware Player 5.0.0 - Switching between multiple VMs
Hi there,
I've just started using version 5 of Player, and try as I might I've been unable to figure out how to switch between multiple full-screen VMs on a single host. Previous versions have had a couple of handy arrow symbols on the filp-down menu at the top of the screen, which allowed you to skip between however many VMs you had running. This facility seems to have disappeared in the new version.
Can anyone help..?!
Thanks,
Glen
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How do I put a line at the end of .vmx file?
[Sorry for n00b question but my vmware player keeps auto-repeating characters without a command to do so and I am lost as to how to put a line at the end of vmx file, I failed at my first two attempts, please help!!
Here is instructions from vmware....
Repeated characters when typing in remote console
Details
When typing into a remote console, you see unintended repeated keystrokes.
Solution
If you are using a wide-area or low-bandwidth connection, the time delay over the network may be long enough to cause the virtual machine to start auto-repeat.
To reduce these effects, increase the time threshold necessary for auto-repeat in the remote console.
Power off the virtual machine.
[u][b] Add a line, similar to this, at the end of your virtual machine's configuration (.vmx) file[/b][/u]:
keyboard.typematicMinDelay = "2000000"
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Vmware Tools Stuck
I went through the installation of vmware tools for ubuntu 12.04. It's stuck at the screen, Installing vmware tools, Please wait....
Any suggestions?
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Error during install VMware 4.0
I'm trying to upgrade from VMware 3.1.4 build-385536 to v4.0. During the install, the old version is to be deleted, but I get an alert message "Bad Arguments for CBootstrapCmd::LuaAssert:condition not a boolean value".
When I try to manually uninstall from the Windows 7 control panel, I get the same message. Does anyone know what the problem might be?
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Where is vmware hiding Browser Appliance 10.0?
Hi,
I give up, so where is vmware.com hiding Browser Appliance 10.0? I have searched this site high and low and still not found it, I've used search bar too and no results.
Browser Appliance v10.0 is used in vmware Player....
Any clues to where vmware are hiding it on their large lybryth of a site will be appreciated. Thanks
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Share internet
Hi all, I have a question to clarify.
I have the vmware workstation 7.1.4 and I have installed in a virtual machine on BACtrack addition I have a wifi card (usb) connected virtual machine wing which has internet virtual machine from the usb wifi, the problem I have is that as I can distribute internet from usb wifi which is on the virtual machine to my physical machine
Note: I am aware that it would be easier to connect usb wifi card directly to the physical machine
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