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Why not always select USB compatibility = 3.0 in hardware configuration?

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When I go to hardware configuration of a VM in the section "USB Controller" then there is a drop down box

which let me select the USB compatibility.

 

On my notebook I have 2 USB v3.0 and two USB v2.0 plugins and I confuse oftentimes which plugin belongs to which USB version.

 

So why not always select here v3.0?

 

USB v3.0 is downward compatible with v2.0

 

When the VM cannot connect to a v3.0 USB stick it falls back to USB v2.0 and thats it.

 

Is there any disadvantage of selection v3.0 here?

 

Matt


oracle linux guest problems

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i have had a number of  problems running oracle linux 5 & 6 as a vmware guest and just solved most of them by

 

making sure

eth0 onstartup = true

and

using standard redhat kernel instead of the (default) oracle  UEK (32bit and 64bit)

 

ps the latter also lets me run the google chrome browser in my oracle linux 6 vm

 

are there any other gotchas for creating and running oracle linux vms ?

VM crashes with signal 11

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Hello,

 

    I am running VMware Player with Linux host (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit with all latest patches applied) and several VMs such as Trusty alpha and Saucy, Windows 7 and XP.

    I happened to receive an unexpected crash today that says:

 

VMware Player unrecoverable error: (mks)

Unexpected signal: 11.

A log file is available in "/home/vmware/Ubuntu-14.04-alpha/vmware.log". 

You can request support. 

 

To collect data to submit to VMware technical support, run "vm-support".

We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

 

    when I power on the VM.

    Related log file is attached.

 

    This error happens on multiple (=another) VMs with same error message. Are anyone have any solutions ?

Dos program won't go full screen on a Windows XP virtual machine installed on a Windows 7 computer.

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I have installed a Windows XP virtual machine on a Windows 7 computer. I still work with some dos programs and I can't get the dos window to be full screen. The virtual machine window will go full screen but the dos window is still small. I tried installing a Windows XP virtual machine on a Windows XP computer and it works fine so it must be something to do with the host computer being Windows 7. How do I get this to work? Please!!

I can't install VMware Player on my Computer - Syntax Error

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Hey,

 

i try to install VMware Player 6.01 on my Computer (Windows 8.1). After i start the setup and put in the installation path and go on continue there opens a window which says Syntax Error (sorry Window is in german but i think you all know these). I can't continue the setup.

 

Syntax_Error.JPG

i hope you can help me.

PCI passthrough

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I'm rather new at learning about VMs. I have an old frame grabber card that only has 32bit drivers that I'm doing a personal project with some research from school.

 

I didn't see a way to pass the old PCI card into VMware player, it's WinXP 32bit VM running on a Win7 64bit host and the 64bit driver for the card doesn't exist. If VMware player doesn't have the option, what do I need to get from here to accomplish this?

 

I'm sorry if this has been asked before.

How to have cleaning-up disk space in guest OS hard disk come up on host OS hard disk ?

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Folks,

 

Hello. I am using VM Player 3. Host OS is Windows 7. Guset OS is Windows Server 2003.

Because host OS Windows 7 hard disk C is almost full, I need to clean up disk to get some disk space in Guset OS Windows Server 2003.

 

In Guest OS Windows Server 2003 VM settings Hard Disk:

Current Size 92.5GB,

Maximum Size 150GB.

 

I use disk clean tool to clean C:\Document and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\ and Temporary Internet Files\ to get 32GB disk space. Now, in Windows Server 2003 My Computer:

Used Space: 59.2GB

Free Space 86.2GB

Total Space 145GB

 

But when I check Windows Server 2003 VM Settings Hard Disk again, its current size remains 92.5GB and does not shrink to 59.2GB after clean up.

Host OS Windows 7 hard disk does not come up more disk space after cleaning.

 

My question is:

How to have the about  32GB (92.5GB - 59.2GB) disk space come up on Windows Server 2003 VM settings hard disk and host OS Windows 7 hard disk ?

 

Thanks.


CentOS 6.4 host and Windows 7 guest crashes host

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I have Player 6.0.1 installed on a CentOS 6.4 host. 2.6.32

I have a Fedora 19 guest which works fine.

But my Windows 7 guest consantly crashes the CentOS host.

It seems to happen pretty consistently within 30 seconds after logging in to the Windows 7 guest.

 

How do I go about debugging why this is happening?

What I've done:

 

1) I've uninstalled/reinstalled player 6.0.1 several times and it doesn't help

2) I've tried to install Player 6.0.0 and I couldn't get it to work with CentOS 6.4

3) I thought it might be related to the virtual network so I've tried both Bridged and NAT  and both still crash the CentOS host.

 

any suggestions?


Can you use a virtual hard drive with a linux live iso guest (persistently)?

Problem with usb

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Hello.

 

I have alaptop withWin764bit(i5 4gbram) that connectoneArchos 101tabletandvmWareplayer6.0.1(linux mint13)recognizes itand I canconnectto it.


Buton thedesktopwithWin764bit(amd fx-4100 8gbram)thevmWareplayer 6.0.1 (linux mint 13) does not recognize itandcan notconnectto the virtual machineevenif it appears inthehost.


On both computersinthe Device Managerthe Archos 101 appears as:Androidphone -> AndroidADBInterfaceCompatible.

Cananyone help me?

Webcam visible but "no frames" in Ubuntu guest

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I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on VMWare 6.0 with Windows 7 as host.

I am trying to access my webcam on Ubuntu but I'm successful only once in a while.

The results for lsusb is :

harsh@ubuntu:~$ lsusb

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:082d Logitech, Inc.

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0e0f:0003 VMware, Inc. Virtual Mouse

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0e0f:0002 VMware, Inc. Virtual USB Hub

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

 

But when I run applications like "cheese" or "qv4l2", I get errors like :

 

(qv4l2)

libv4l2: error turning on stream: Broken pipe

Start Capture: Broken pipe

VIDIOC_STREAMON: Resource temporarily unavailable

 

(cheese)

** (cheese:3230): WARNING **: Error starting streaming on device '/dev/video0'.

** (cheese:3230): WARNING **: Could not negotiate format

 

(uvcdynctrl)

harsh@ubuntu:~$ uvcdynctrl --list

Listing available devices:

  video0   HD Pro Webcam C920

    Media controller device /dev/media0 doesn't exist

ERROR: Unable to list device entities: Invalid device or device cannot be opened. (Code: 5)

 

(hwinfo)

harsh@ubuntu:~$hwinfo --usb

//specific to camera

06: USB 00.0: 0000 Unclassified device

  [Created at usb.122]

  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_82d_7AA010EF_if0_logicaldev_input

  Unique ID: ADDn.nbyTPNaHH35

  Parent ID: k4bc.Qnlx_VAX744

  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/0000:02:03.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0

  SysFS BusID: 1-1:1.0

  Hardware Class: unknown

  Model: "Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920"

  Hotplug: USB

  Vendor: usb 0x046d "Logitech, Inc."

  Device: usb 0x082d "HD Pro Webcam C920"

  Revision: "0.11"

  Serial ID: "7AA010EF"

  Driver: "uvcvideo"

  Driver Modules: "uvcvideo"

  Device File: /dev/input/event3

  Device Files: /dev/input/event3, /dev/input/by-id/usb-046d_HD_Pro_Webcam_C920_7AA010EF-event-if00, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:02:03.0-usb-0:1:1.0-event

  Device Number: char 13:67

  Speed: 480 Mbps

  Module Alias: "usb:v046Dp082Dd0011dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc01ip00in00"

  Driver Info #0:

    Driver Status: uvcvideo is active

    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe uvcvideo"

  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

  Attached to: #5 (Hub)

 

(v4l2-ctl)

harsh@ubuntu:~$ v4l2-ctl -D

Driver Info (not using libv4l2):

    Driver name   : uvcvideo

    Card type     : HD Pro Webcam C920

    Bus info      : usb-0000:02:03.0-1

    Driver version: 3.8.13

    Capabilities  : 0x84000001

        Video Capture

        Streaming

 

 

I have even tried the "LD_PRELOAD" solution as well, but same results.

Would like any insight on this.

 

Regards

Harsh

Using Guest with Host VPN

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I've tried googling, but only came up with answers that were a few years old, so I'm going to ask and hope someone has an updated answered.

 

Host machine is running Win7x64, and is connected via Windows VPN to work network.

Host IP is 192.168.1.10 (Home network, static), when connected via VPN, it's got a 192.168.0.x address (work network, dhcp)

 

Guest is running CentOS 6.4 via bridged, as it needs to have it's own ip address of 192.168.0.230.

 

What I'm trying to do is run the Guest OS on the Host machine while the Host is VPN'd to the work network, and have machines on the work network able to connect to the guest machine.

 

Currently, when I run the Guest OS, it's unable to ping out, either by dns or straight ip address.

 

Anyone have any ideas on how to get it to connect and function over the Host's VPN connection?

 

(Guest ifconfig)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:B0:6D:FF

          inet addr:192.168.0.232  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:feb0:6dff/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:874 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:75869 (74.0 KiB)  TX bytes:7205 (7.0 KiB)

 

 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:1065 (1.0 KiB)  TX bytes:1065 (1.0 KiB)

video under xp-32 guest

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I have the following issue under vmplayer 6 with xp-32 installed as a guest (4gb ram):

while video plays fine in video players (win-mediaplayer and videolan) on the guest system, the videos will not play at all when to to be run as part of a different process, such as video editing software or as a preview within dvd copying software. Resolution and ram is not the issue (i am talking about low-res .mpg and .avi files in the  video editing software and a preview window of DvdFab software).

Both programs work fully and well on an ancient xp host system that has less ram allocated than the xp guest on my w-8 machine has.... so I wonder what the issue might be?  

Slow, unsychronised crosshair cursor when using AutoCAD 2013 with VMware Player 5.0.2

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Hi there,

 

I've been having this issue with my VM all week, my cursor tracks fine outside of AutoCAD 2013, and within AutoCAD it tracks fine when I'm using any cursor EXCEPT the big crosshair (so panning and navigating context menu's works fine - but drawing a line for example, is slow and unsynchronised - which on many occasions had lead me to minimizing my VM entirely - such a pain!)

 

I've done a little research, but the only similar issue I saw was in VMware Fusion, and I'm using VMware player 5.0.2 build-1031769, so I don't have (or can't find) "don't synchronize mouse for games" options.

 

any help with this would be great - AutoCAD is 95% of what I use the VM for, and it's getting really frustrating!

 

thanks in advance!

Need Help Expanding the / Partition - I Think

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I'm doing some Perl development on a VM provided by a client. In order to get the VM small enough to send to me, my client pared it down to the bare minimum. So I guess it's not too big a surprise that when I needed to add some Perl modules from CPAN, that things went South. I tried using cpanm to install the Date::Time module. Then dpkg ran and apparently used up all the free space on /. So, I have a few questions:

 

1) How do I free the space consumed by dpkg?

2) Is there a better way to install the Perl modules I need?

3) How can I expand the / partition within the VM such that dpkg can finish it's work.

4) Is there a way to constrain dpkg so it does its work in chunks so it won't run out of space.j

 

I'm open to any and all suggestions.

 

Thanks,

Ray


VMware 6.01 on Fedora 18

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Hello,

 

While tryng to update from VMplayer 6.0 to VMplayer 6.0.1, the following was prompted:

 

"Your hard drive is full. Free some space and try again"

 

Screenshot from 2013-11-01 11:37:46.png

But my hard drive is not full!:

 

Filesystem                     Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                       1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /dev
tmpfs                          1.7G  492K  1.7G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                          1.7G  6.7M  1.7G   1% /run
tmpfs                          1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/vg_waldyd-lv_root   50G   16G   33G  33% /
tmpfs                          1.7G  232M  1.5G  14% /tmp
/dev/sdb1                      477M  161M  288M  36% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_waldyd-lv_home   92G   66G   22G  76% /home
/dev/sr0                       4.4G  4.4G     0 100% /run/media/waldyd/UDF Volume

 

I have 33G available a / and 22G available at /home. Any ideas why is this happening?

 

Beforehand Thanks.

Error when opening a virtual machine

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I'm trying to open a virtual machine from VMware Player. I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise and the virtual machine would be linux.

 

When I import the .ova file, I get this error: "Failed to open virtual machine: Could not start import: failed to launch helper process."

 

Not sure what could be causing it, but I successfully installed this same system on my home computer. Any suggestions?

 

Also I'm sorry if I haven't included some information that would be useful. I'm just not sure what information I should include. If anything comes to mind, let me know and I'll add it.   

Windows 8.1 no hibernate/shutdown...

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VirtualBox wouldn't offer hibernate and need to test hibernate/resume from Windows 8.1 so trying vmware player but doesn't work either.   If I installed the client tools, I enable hibernation, but after reboot not available, so clear the software is doing something to prevent it.  I then uninstall tools and just go raw .. hibernate is enabled and available, try to use hibernate or shutdown when fastboot is enabled and the screen goes black, but never goes away.  The hiberfil.sys is never written.

 

Is this true of VMWare Workstation as well.  I need to do some testing and a VM would have made that easier than a physical machine, but looking more like I may have to do that unless someone has the answer?

 

TIA!!

VMX corrupt file

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I have Windows 7 on my PC, running VMWARE PLAYER version 6.0.1 build-1379776.  I can no longer start my session, as I keep getting "VMX file corrupt" error.

What does this error mean.  Can I reinstall VM player software, and will it find my data?

Please confirm.

 

Thanks

Gary

Serial Communication port cannot be used - which renders Vmware Player useless to me.

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I have installed XP professional from original DVD (inside Windows 7 home premium), but although XP seems to "see" the Serial Comm port, the application doesn't.

That application is Picstart16C an old (1994) 16bit software running in DOS mode (console) that tries to communicate with a device in order to program assembly code into a microcontroller's internal EEPROM.

In fact, I've tried two different devices and software and none could communicate via the serial port.

The motherboard is the Gigabyte G41M-Combo.

Any ideas?

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