Quantcast
Channel: VMware Communities : All Content - Workstation Player
Viewing all 5660 articles
Browse latest View live

Host USB Issues with VMWare Player 6 in Windows 8.1

0
0

Hi all,

Strange things happens. I installed VMWare Player 6 in my Windows 8.1 Dell Vostro notebook. All went OK. I create a VM, installed VMTools. All working.

 

After a few hours a had to reboot my PC (some AV updates) and my usb keyboard wasn't working anymore; mouse and skype phone OK. I thought it could be a hub problems, so i detached it and system freezed. I tried many and many times.

The only way to make my usb keyboard work and avoid system freezing when attaching or detaching USB peripheals is to uninstall VMWare Player.

I tried reinstalling drivers, minimal boot, disabling AV with no succes.

 

Any hint?

 

Thanks and sorry for my bad English.


64 Bit VMware player

0
0

Hello,

 

I have downloaded windows based VMware Player but whenever I install it, it installed as 32 bit windows application. But I need to run the 64 Bit Linux so I need 64 bit VMware Player.

 

Please help in getting the VMware Player 64 bit.

 

Regards

 

Deepak

 

vmware.png

Problems with Synaptics touchpad not able to scroll in Guest OS (Windows XP)

0
0

I have an HP Pavilion laptop running VMware player 3.0.0 build-203739 with VMware tools. The guest is Windows XP. The Synaptics touch pad works in the guest but the scroll region does not scroll. Device manager shows a HID-compliant mouse and VMware Pointing Device. Installed in the Mouse and other pointing devices category.

 

Has anyone been able to get the scroll region to work? I tried using the manufacturers drivers but VMware didn't like that and it gave me the BSOD repeatedly until I removed the Synaptic drivers. I tried to search the Web, FAQ's, and support site but didn't find any useful information.

 

I like using VMware Player but it is a bit of a pain to not have the scroll on the touchpad.

 

 

Thanks for the help.

player running old vm's

0
0

Hello – I just used converter to convert XP system that ran on an old version of workstation to player

 

 

I did the conversion to the latest version of player.  I started up the vm and it all seemd to work fine. I am not sure what triggered the hardware update – the “new vm” or installing vm tools.

 

 

The “new hardware” caused xp to try to find drivers – it was for the “base system” and this driver was not located.   It not clear if this driver is part of the tools install, but the tools installed failed.

 

 

I thought that the “missing driver” might be on the xp cd, but that did not work.

 

 

I tried a few times but the driver could not be located.  The running of the player vm was very slow since I was running the vm on a usb2 drive

 

 

I then just ran the workstation vm directly with player (without conversion) and it started up find and did a tools reinstall and that update completed without error –

 

 

I there any benefit doing the conversion?

 

 

Thanks

 

 

fpe 

new disk added is offline

0
0

Hi,

in VmWare player 6.0.1 build-1379776

I created a virtual machine (OS Win Server 2008 64 bit.

I added a new HDD to that machine.

When restarted the machine in Windows manager , storage I can see that new disk but it is offline. No option to format it. In commande line DISKPART I ran select and then online. But nothing changed.

Any idea ?

Thanks.

How to Fix - software update can't connect

0
0


Hello,

 

I downloaded VMware Player 5.0.2 for Windows x64 and installed it on Windows 7.

 

The automatic software update download appears to hang.


Clicking "Details" indicates it cannot connect to the update server "https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds " which is a non-standard URL.

 

I used a browser to go to https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds but all of the links lead to dead-ends.

 

However if you use the standard URL https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/ (with a "terminating" slash delimeter) the same directory listing appears, with working links.

 

There is at least one thread explaining how to manually extract and use the .iso files to install the virtual machine tools. It would be better if VMware Player handled this for the end user as designed.

 

The problem is in libcds.dll and can be corrected with a Hex Editor in Windows.

 

Example:

 

Download a Hex Editor like xvi32 (Google: http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm#download ) extract and run.

 

Find the libcds.dll file ( "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player\libcds.dll" ) and make a backup copy in case this fails. Drag and drop the original libcds.dll file on the xvi32 application window.

 

Xvi32 has a text search feature called "Search" (After clicking on search, click on "Find - Text string") then type [ softwareupdate ] click on [OK]

 

To the right of the main display, in the white grid, will be the ASCII representation of the URL https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds

 

Click on the box, in the white ASCII grid area, after the last letter in the URL 'http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds' and type ' / ' ( forward slash - next to your right shift key, under ? ). Save the file.

 

Then restart the VMware Player.

 

Manually trigger a software update download ->

 

[Player] -> File -> Player Preferences -> Software Updates -> [Download All Components Now]

 

All of the virtual machine tools will begin to download and finish.

 

The downloaded packages will automatically extract and install the *.iso files where they belong.

 

The virtual machine tools menu option will now work from VMware Player for all virtual machines->

 

[Player] -> Manage -> VMware Tools Installation

 

If problems arise, you can stop VMware Player, and restore the libcds.dll file saved before the edit.

 

johnw.jpg

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

 

 

 

arches-me2b.jpg

Problem mouse buttons Host Linux / Windows (VMPlayer)

0
0

Usingthe layout of thebuttons on themouseforleft-handers.Whetherin the car(HOST) and'set so'.
In WindowsnormallyI performthereverse operationeven in theGuestmachinesandall isok.
If I openLinux anduse bythembecomes a problem.In fact,I find myselfonce againreversedthe keys (although the configuration of theGuest OSand'correct buttonsforlefties).
In short,and'a seriousproblem.When yousolvethisvery annoying situationto manage?

Bridged Network : Duplicate Ping and no network

0
0

 

I have a FC7 VM (clean setup of FC7) running in vmware player using a bridged network.  DHCP has assigned an IP address: 192.168.5.206

 

 

However connectivity to the rest of the network isnt working and if I try and ping anything beyond the VM itself I get ping reporting (DUP!) responses.

 

 

ping localhost is ok

ping 192.168.5.206 is ok

ping 192.168.5.169 (another device on the network, doesnt matter which device I choose) reports DUP! responses.

 

 

If I switch to NAT and reboot the VM, ping and network access is fine.

 

 

Any ideas?

 

 

Config file :

 

 

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "4"

 

 

memsize = "1024"

memtrimrate = "-1"

extendedConfigFile = "RHL.vmxf"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"

displayName = "Empty RHL VM"

guestOS = "redhat"

 

 

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

 

 

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.fileName = "root.vmdk"

scsi0:0.redo = ""

 

 

scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:1.fileName = "u1.vmdk"

scsi0:1.redo = ""

 

 

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"

ide1:0.fileName = ""

ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"

ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"

 

 

floppy0.fileName = "A:"

floppy0.present = false

 

 

priority.grabbed = "normal"

priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

 

 

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:3c:8b:0e"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

 

 

tools.upgrade.policy = "manual"

tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"

 

 

uuid.action = "create"

 

 

checkpoint.vmState = "RHL.vmss"

 

 

uuid.location = "56 4d d6 8a 96 79 e7 c2-97 1c cc f4 2e 3c 8b 0e"

uuid.bios = "56 4d d6 8a 96 79 e7 c2-97 1c cc f4 2e 3c 8b 0e"

 

 

ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"

 

 


How to send Ctrl-RightClick to guest in VMWare Player?

0
0

I am running VMWare Player 6 on CentOS 6.5. I created a Ubuntu 12.04 guest and installed gnome-fallback-session so that the guest is running gnome 3 rather than unity (which looks like a smart phone). In order to add and item to the gnome panel I must use Alt-RightClick on the panel. This works on physical Ubuntu 12.04/gnome machines. It does not work on the virtual machine. I get NO response to Alt-RightClick.

 

I have found various short cuts to send VMWare "reserved" key combinations to a guest but nothing about sending a keyboard and mouse combination. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

 

TIA,

 

Ken

Dead PC after update to CentOS 6.5

0
0

I was successfully running my Windows 7 virtual machine with the current vmplayer update under CentOS 6.4 64bit.

When I started it after the update to CentOS 6.5, the modules were created and after the Windows loggin the PC was completely dead. The only possible action was a hardware reset. The crash is reproducible.

Log files and abrt full crash report are  available.

Can anybody help me?

how to hide or disable "virtual machine settings" menu item in player 6.0?

0
0

I see "VMware Player 6 includes a Simplified UI mode that can be set to hide these menu items." in the VMware Player 6.0 Release Notes, how to use this feature?

thanks.

Shared folders bug - files partly available in guest

0
0

I have a Windows 8.1 host and Ubuntu guest with VMware Player.

 

I recently installed updates on the host, guest and VMware Tools, which started the issue. Because of this bug I've reinstalled VMware tools two times without any luck.

 

When I start the virtual machine everything is fine. If I then make a change to a file on Windows the file gets corrupt. Only part of the file is then available in Ubuntu (fully available in Windows). It seems completely random where the file cuts off, for example the last few lines are missing or sometimes even half the file. The first time I edit a file then nothing happens, the guest shows the old state of the file. The next edits cause files to end at a random point. The only solution I've found is to reboot the virtual machine every time I edit a file, which makes getting any work done nearly impossible.

 

The files are on Windows, shared to Ubuntu via VMware's shared folders. These are mostly PHP files, used by Apache server on Ubuntu. Initially I got lots of syntax errors in Apache error log, I later discovered files ending too soon.

 

I'm using this setup since some PHP extensions and programs don't really exist for Windows.

 

It's a development environment, maximum performance is not a priority. Any solution I can work with will be much appreciated.

bug report: failed to import .ova image

0
0

Error message:

 

[quote]The import failed because /home/user/Whonix-Gateway.ova did not pass OVF specification conformance or virtual hardware compliance checks.

 

Click Retry to relax OVF specification and virtual hardware compliance checks and try the import again, or click Cancel to cancel the import. If you retry the import, you might not be able to use the virtual machine in VMware Player.[/quote]

 

It however can be imported into Virtual Box without any error messages. Who is responsible for the bug? VMware or Virtual Box?

 

Download link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonix/files/whonix-0.4.5/

 

project website:

http://whonix.sf.net


Source code:

https://github.com/adrelanos/Whonix


How the .ova image is created:

https://github.com/adrelanos/Whonix/blob/master/whonix_createvm


Can't find 'Vamware player: vmware tools for linux 9.6.1' to download

0
0

I installed vmware player on Ubuntu linux host os and created a vm with Oracle Linux as guest os. It automatically wanted tyo install vmware tools for linux 9.6.1, but the download from the update server failed. Now I want to manually download the software and install it. But I can not find it anywhere on Vmware's website. The download page does not have any link for it. Can you please help me locate the download link for it, so that I can download and install it?

 

Thanks

Danware

VM Player 6.0.0 & 6.0.1 BUG - Full Screen Key-Combo not working

0
0

VM Player 6.0.0 & 6.0.1 Full Screen Key-Combo Ctrl-Alt-Enter not working on clean install of any version of supported host Windows OS x86 or x64 (XP,Vista,7,8). Downgrading back to 5.0.2 and below will work perfectly. Sometimes the fullscreen key-combo will work a few times after hitting it 20+times. Definitely a bug. For those who relying on key-shorcut rather than clicking on the icons, this is a painful issue. I think I will stick with v5.0.2 for now until issues can be fixed.


Configuration Management using Group Policy

0
0

Currently i am evaluating type-2 hypervisors for commercial use.

VMWare Player Plus has got my attention due to the popularity and the positive comments about this product.

Also the organization wich im working for is making use of VMWare products for their virtualization environment.

 

the context

Before we migrated our Windows XP environment to a Windows 7 environment most of our technical users had local administrator rights.

Since the migration to Windows 7 our IT department is trying to reduce the amount of users with local administrator rights on managed laptops.

This has taken away some 'freedom' the technical users had before.

 

We woud like to give back this 'freedom' by making VMWare Player Plus available on their 'managed machines'.

So they have the ability to install a OS by choice and use it as a "open machine" wich is directly connected with a guest/internet using a dedicated network interface.

At the same time we would like to prevent users to connect their unmanaged guest VM to our corporate network by changing the networking mode settings of VM's to host-only, NAT or bridging.

 

The question

My question is: Can our IT department  centrally manage (for example throught group policy) the networking mode settings in VMWare Player Plus ?

Silent install VMware Player

0
0

What is the command line for VMware Player 6 for unattended installation?

Player not remembering Virtual Machines or preferences

0
0

I've been using VMWare Player for years.

 

I recently updated to 6.0.1 and now when I start VMPlayer it does not remember my Virtual Machines or my preferences.

 

From the VMPlayer launch interface I can select "open virtual machine" and add my machine(s) to the list and they run just fine.

 

However, when I shutdown my machine and run VMPlayer again the list is empty.

 

Other symptoms:

     1) It always asks if I want to upgrade to Workstation 10, even though I say "skip this version"

     2) It always asks my if I wish to suspend or shutdown the VM when closing, even though I tell it to always do suspend

     3) It always shows me warning dialogs about usb devices, though I have told it to stop warning me

 

I found the "preferences.ini" file.

 

The appdata/roaming/VMWare Player/preferences.ini file is getting updated. My last selected machine is in the list and the file is newly written.

 

It just seems to be ignoring it when it starts up.

SUSE 13.1 no internet access after installation VMware 6.0.1

0
0

Hi,

   I have previously installed suse 12.3 and ubuntu into VMware and have had internet access ok. However when I have installed suse 13.1 I can't connect to the internet. Does anyone have an idea as to why this might be and have a possible solution? Is it because suse 13.1 is relativley new and VMware is not atuned to that version yet?

 

       Regards Steve

Installing VMware Player 2.5.5 Configuring...

0
0

My computer runs "CentOS release 6.5 (Final)" (2.6.32-431.el6.i686).

 

   # /home/dunkel/VMware-Player-2.5.5-328052.i386.bundle

   Extracting VMware Installer...done.

 

shows a popup with the words given in the subject line.  Its  [Cancel], "Close Window", Alt+F4  buttons fail.

To suppress "Package VMware-Player-2.5.5-328052.i386.rpm is not signed", I set in the /etc/yum.conf

[main] section "gpgcheck=0":

 

   # yum install VMware-Player-2.5.5-328052.i386.rpm

  Installing : VMware-Player-2.5.5-328052.i386                              1/1

 

doesn't complete either. I initially used a commercial VMware Workstation - since it failed due to OS

upgrades. Then I used the free Player. But how can I install and run it now?

Viewing all 5660 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images