When leaving the fullscreen mode, VMWare player resizes to a very small size forcing all the guest windows to resize.
As a consequence, I have to resize all my windows back to the original size when I return to the host. This is very frustrating especially when working on Ubuntu, where all the windows collapse to the same desktop.
Is there any hack to bypass this behaviour?
This problem has been fixed and reintroduced in multiple versions. I'm currently using VMWare player 6.01.
I have been a VMware Workstation and VMware Player user for the last several years. Within the past few days I wiped my system clean and installed Linux 14.04 LTS and installed the latest version of the VMware Workstation and VMware Player and reloaded my existing VMware virtual machines . The VMware Workstation and VMware Player worked fine.
Then, today, after bringing my OS up to date with the latest updates, I noticed something a little unusual with the VMware Player. It seems that there is a white rectangular space at the top of the screen window that is taking up some screen real estate. I've attached a screenshot with a red dotted line around it to illustrate the location to which I refer. This space does not appear when running the virtual machines in the VMware Workstation.
The issue appears to be Video Driver independent as I have tried different drivers. Each virtual machine that I run has this space. Upgrading a virtual machine to new hardware compatibility has no affect on it at all.
Anyone have any ideas as to what is going on?
Thanks
1: Does anyone know if VMplayer has a limited memory bandwidth, compared to the physical bandwidth in the host computer? Is there a bottleneck? I do BOINC crunching on VMplayer guests on two different physical computers, and when I do especially memory bandwidth intense work units, for CEP2, I don’t get any performance improvement on my faster computer, compared to the slower one. I’m thinking there perhaps is a limitation in the VMplayer’s memory bandwidth? 2: Does the guest OS have access to both physical memory channels, even if it only has access to 4GB of RAM, which is the amount I have in one of the two memory channels? 3: Also, I would like to know what the performance impact is from emulating virtual hardware and a guest OS? Thanks.
Hi All,
I am using ubuntu 12 server edition and it is only CLI. Can I install vmware player in it and install a GUI OS. If yes please provide the steps for it. Please help
Thanks for your time
Achyuth Gurram
Hello,
I want to run windows 7 ultimate insite VMware Player and would like to know how many ram and processors cores I should specified in the setup please.
here is my config:
Laptop Asus G75vw (2011)
Intel i7 3610QM
Nvidia GTX 670M
24gb RAM
Intel SSD 160gb + HDD 750gb
bye
VMware Player ran into compilation issues after installing kernel 3.15.0-rc7 on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit. The errors are thrown when compiling the vmci and vsock modules. I have fixed the issues and shared the necessary patches as I have done a few times before. Find the details here:
VMware Player 6.0.2, Ubuntu 14.04, kernel 3.15.0-rc7 compilation error fix | Regular Expressions
VMPlayer is very frustrating because whenever any other process on the host increases the CPU load, VMPlayer (vmware-vmx.exe) immediately spikes to match it. It is like a jealous child jumping up and down screaming look at me, look at me!
Here’s some observations:
This is very annoying because it renders VMPlayer useless in many cases since the host system can no longer be used for any tasks that put a load on the CPU because then VMPlayer’s load jumps to match which reduces the host’s CPU to half—for no reason.
This is a pretty critical bug that needs to be fixed.
I've got a new Acer Aspire V3-772G-9829 on which I am trying to install VMWare Player so I can run a 64-bit OS. Unfortunately I can't get Player to install the 64-bit version. I've been searching and found that the typical reason this happens is because VT is turned off in BIOS. So I downloaded the detection tool, and here are the results (transcribed by hand so typos are possible):
Random_Init: Using random seed 0x7f2b5eaf4
Reporting CPUID for 8 logical CPUs...
All CPUs are identical
Family: 86 Model: 3c Stepping: 3
ID1ECX ID1EDX ID81ECX ID81EDX
0x77dafbbf 0xbfebfbff 0x00000021 0x2c100000
Vendor : Intel
Brand String : "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4702MQ CPU @ 2.20GHz"
SSE Support : SSE1, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Supports MX / XD : Yes
Supports CMPXCHG16B : Yes
Supports RDTSCP : Yes
Hyperthreading : Yes
Supports Flex Migration : No
Supports 64-bit Longmode : Yes
Supports 64-bit VMware : Yes
Supported EVC modes : None
PASS: Test 56983: CPUID
Press any key to reboot.
So I know my machine is VT-capable, and I believe this is indicating that VT is enabled. Can anyone comment and suggest my next step?
Other details: Host O/S is Windows 8 64-bit
Hello All,
I have read the other posts on this forum for this same behavior, but the "workaround" that most people posted was to "Always Optimize mouse for games", or something very similar to that. But I am running Windows XP as my guest OS and I don't see that option anywhere when I go to Control Panel > Mouse. FYI, I'm running OpenSuSE 11.4 as my Host OS.
The issue ONLY seems to happen when the mouse cursor changes to the I-Beam cursor. So whenever it's moving around over selectable text or any kind of textbox that would cause the cursor to change to the I-Beam, that is when it gets very jumy/studders as I move the mouse around the screen. The application I experience this with the most often is Outlook 2010.
Even if I just open a new, empty document in Wordpad or Notepad, I still get the i-beam cursor and then it starts doing it again. But everything else works good, and it does NOT happen when I'm NOT in Unity mode. So it only happen when in Unity Mode.
I recently upgraded VMWare Player from 5.something to VMware Player 6.0.2 build-1744117. VMWare Tools is also up to date as well as far as I can tell.
Anybody have any ideas for what I can try to fix this?
Thanks in Advance,
Matt
I know the process is supposed to be automated, idiot-proof and user friendly, but my newly installed Player with
guest Debian Linux 7 doesn't want to install vmware-tools V9.6.2, which it keeps trying to download.
After about 3 seconds, I crash with Error CDS internal client error 3033.
I have cobbled something together from an older version of -tools and have adjustable screen resolution, but some other parts
of ./vmware-install.pl were not happy - especially somthing called gcc.
A most frustrating experience. I have scoured documentation and sources but cannot determine which .iso file to download
to get the process back on track.
Hi folks,
I need a help regarding installing Virtual Machine.
My Requirement:
I need to install Virtual Machine on My laptop and then need to install and configure Cloudera's Distribution Hadoop (CDH) with Mahout.
To be frank, I do not have any technical back ground on computers or its soft wares. Please treat me as a laymen and guide me how to proceed ahead.
Please find my below system details:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3.
Computer: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU
T5270@1.40GHz
1.19GHz, 1.99 GB of RAM
Please do let me know, in case of any other details required. Thanks in Advance.
Best Regards,
Venu Gopal
Hi
For some time now, we have been using vmware Player 3.1 to provide a number of non persistent virtual machines in an educational environment.
We have previously been able to have the folders and files that comprise the virtual machine as read only for the user, but it appears that Player 6 (and 5) now requires write access to the vmx file and also to folder for the creation of a vmsd file.
Does anyone know if it is possible to :
(a) change the requirement for write access to the vmx file?
and
(b) specify a different location for the vmsd file eg /tmp
Many thanks
Craig Howie
School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Australia
Hi All,
I am relatively new to this forum and virtualization in general. At any rate, I have received a Kubuntu VM that I am trying to open with VMware Player. VMware Player sees the VM just fine but when I try to open it I get an error that it won't launch. The VM is password protected and I have the credentials to launch it and I'm fairly confident that they're correct because the error occurs several seconds after I enter the credentials. If I enter the wrong credentials, it informs me right away that the password is incorrect. Is there some special setting that I need to change within VMware Player? Is there something additional that I need to install? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
I'm on a Windows 8.1 64x laptop that has issues loading any OS on vmplyer. Once I start it, it only shows a black screen and when I try to exit I get an error message of "The virtual machine is busy". May I have assistance please?
Having problems using VM Player (ver 6.0.2 on Windows 8.1).
It isn't able to update as it can't seem to find the update server (given as https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds ). It also can't install the VM tools within the virtual machines because it can't find the update server.
Any ideas of what I may be doing wrong?
MB
I've been using VMWare for a long time and one of my recent uses requires a USB soundcard to be fed in passthough to the VM. It works wonderfully in workstation 9 hardware version, but in version 10 it just throws errors recognising device.
I've tried changing the usb arbitrator to the USB 2.0 version the effect is the same. Any suggestions? It works fine now, but I have to use an old version of VMware.
Thanks!
I am having problems getting the the vmxnet drivers to build on my Ubuntu guest, Window 7 64-bit host. I have tried editing the Ubuntu 64-bit.vmx file and changing the network adapter to vmxnet3 or e1000e. Lspci shows the correct adapter, vmxnet3, All attempts to build the vmxnet drivers fail with:
...
LD [M] /tmp/modconfig-r6S8pq/vmhgfs-only/vmhgfs.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /tmp/modconfig-r6S8pq/vmhgfs-only/vmhgfs.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/modconfig-r6S8pq/vmhgfs-only/vmhgfs.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic'
/usr/bin/make -C $PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= postbuild
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-r6S8pq/vmhgfs-only'
make[1]: `postbuild' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-r6S8pq/vmhgfs-only'
cp -f vmhgfs.ko ./../vmhgfs.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-r6S8pq/vmhgfs-only'
The vmxnet driver is no longer supported on kernels 3.3 and greater. Please
upgrade to a newer virtual NIC. (e.g., vmxnet3 or e1000e)
I am using VMware Player V6.0.2 and VMWare tools 9.6.2.
I have this working properly on CentOS 6.5, kernel 2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64, and Fedora 20, kernel 3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64 .
Any help in getting the driver to build would be appreciated.
Mike
Is there any way to configure VMWare Player so that, when coding, there is an automatic entry of matching quotes, brackets, etc. for C-programming, as is present on several other such apps?
Hello
Although this is my first post, I have watched tutorials and read literature.
I wish to use some type of VMWare to use Zorin as guest.
t am not sure which VMWare I should use.
If you could please suggest an appropriate one for a slightly better than average user, I would be very grateful.
I would then attempt to create the VMWare product and install Zorin in it.
I use YouTube as a tutorial.
Thank you
Peter
2014-05-31T14:14:20.809+05:30| vmx| I120: Log for VMware Workstation pid=2876 version=10.0.1 build=build-1379776 option=Release
2014-05-31T14:14:20.809+05:30| vmx| I120: The process is 64-bit.
2014-05-31T14:14:20.809+05:30| vmx| I120: Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
2014-05-31T14:14:20.809+05:30| vmx| I120: Host is Linux 3.5.0-23-generic Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
2014-05-31T14:14:20.711+05:30| vmx| I120: VTHREAD initialize main thread 0 "vmx" pid 2876
2014-05-31T14:14:20.717+05:30| vmx| I120: LOCALE en_IN -> NULL
2014-05-31T14:14:20.718+05:30| vmx| I120: Msg_SetLocaleEx: HostLocale=UTF-8 UserLocale=NULL
2014-05-31T14:14:20.741+05:30| vmx| I120: Msg_Reset:
2014-05-31T14:14:20.741+05:30| vmx| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
2014-05-31T14:14:20.741+05:30| vmx| I120: ----------------------------------------
2014-05-31T14:14:20.741+05:30| vmx| I120: ConfigDB: Failed to load /usr/lib/vmware/settings
2014-05-31T14:14:20.741+05:30| vmx| I120: Msg_Reset:
2014-05-31T14:14:20.741+05:30| vmx| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/home/ashish/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2014-05-31T14:14:20.741+05:30| vmx| I120: ----------------------------------------
2014-05-31T14:14:20.741+05:30| vmx| I120: ConfigDB: Failed to load ~/.vmware/config
2014-05-31T14:14:20.755+05:30| vmx| I120: OBJLIB-LIB: Objlib initialized.
2014-05-31T14:14:20.767+05:30| vmx| I120: Msg_Reset:
2014-05-31T14:14:20.767+05:30| vmx| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
2014-05-31T14:14:20.767+05:30| vmx| I120: ----------------------------------------
2014-05-31T14:14:20.767+05:30| vmx| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/settings. Using default values.
2014-05-31T14:14:20.767+05:30| vmx| I120: Msg_Reset:
2014-05-31T14:14:20.767+05:30| vmx| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/home/ashish/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
