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5.0.0 build 812388, sound, screen problems - not ready for prime time?

September 5, 2012, 1:50 pm
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VMware Player 5.0.0 does not seem to be ready for prime time.  I could hear no sound (VMware Tools 9.2.0 799703 installed and restarted) until I turned all volumes up to the maximum - host sounds like a bomb but the VM is still barely audible.  It stopped working, now I can hear nothing.  The full screen management has always been poor in Player but now it is even worse.  Sometime I need to click a funny set of options to get full screen or just to get the screen to unfreeze.  BTW, why does it say at the top of this forum to DL 4.0 and "VMware Player 4 includes the latest and greatest VMware...".  Anyone got ideas on the sound problem?  USB 3.0 still does not work.  Thanks and enjoy, John.

 

EDIT:  After shutting the VM down and starting it from scratch, the sound started working again but still too low to be usable.

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On resume from sleep, Player 5 often freezes

September 10, 2012, 12:46 pm
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Host: Win7. Guest: Ubuntu 12.04. Player v. 5.

 

I was using Ubuntu in Player v4. Upgraded to 5. Reinstalled latest vmware-tools. I run Ubuntu (Gnome 2) in VMware's Unity mode. I put my laptop to sleep occasionally. On resume, Unity will not work. Instead, the Player window will be all black and unresponsive. I have to suspend the VM, then start it again to get my image working. Everything worked without fail in Player v4.

 

Do I need to install something in Linux to get it working smoothly with Player 5? I thought vmware-tools was enough.

 

Thanks.

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Ram usage with VMware Player

September 10, 2012, 11:54 am
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I have tried to find an answer to this on the forums, but could not find something to specifically address my questions.

 

I am using WMware Player on a Win7-32 Bit Host OS and trying to run a Win7-32bit Guest OS.  My host system has an intel i5 processor with 4 GB of ram and I have tried different configurations of guest ram ranging from 2 to 3.5 GB.   When I run the VM I find both OS systems run extremely slow.  I have read the requirements of the software and it indicates 1 GB of ram, preferrably 2 GB, but my systems still seem to be extremely slow with 4 GB ram.  My questions are as follows:

 

1) Are there other settings (host or guest) that I can make to speed up my system, both host and guest

2) Since Windows 7 - 32 bit only utilizes 4 GB of ram, if I increase my system ram beyond 4 GB will the guest utilize the extra ram, or does this Win7-32 bit limitation also limit the space in which the VM will operate? i.e. if I have 8 GB ram in the host computer, will the host Win7 use 4 GB of ram and the guest OS use the other 4 GB ram?

 

Thanks in advance

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VMWare Player - Does not save guest operating system changes

September 10, 2012, 2:34 pm
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I am running VMWare Player 5.0 on windows.  I load CentOS 6.3.  When I run my  virtual machine, install new software, and then reboot, all my configurations and files are removed and the virtual machine starts all over again.  Am I doing something wrong?  I want to save all the configuraiton changes and software that I install.  It is like I have to start from scratch again in terms of installing the applications.

 

I tried to change the vmx file but this doesn't work

 

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "Linux2.6-tomcat-apache.vmdk"
scsi0:0.mode = "independent-persistent"

 

and

 

ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.filename = "Linux2.6-tomcat-apache-hd.vmdk"
ide0:0.mode = "independent-persistent"
ide0:0.deviceType = "rawDisk"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ide0:0.writeThrough = "FALSE"
ide0:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

 

 

Help!

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Vmx parameters behave differently if set in vmx file or config.ini

September 8, 2012, 7:04 am
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I am using VMware Player 5.0.0 build-812388, host Windows 7 32-bit, guest Ubuntu 12.04

 

I am used to set the following parameters to tweak VM behavior and memory usage (I have been doing this for years, as I have consistently verified much better performance on all my machines in particular due to mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"):

 

     pref.hotkey.shift = "TRUE"

     mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
     sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"
     MemTrimRate = 0
     prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "TRUE"
     prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100"

 

With recent versions of VMware Player hower I found out that some of these parameters work only if set into the vmx file, while other must be set in the config.ini

For instance, pref.hotkey.shift = "TRUE" work only in config.ini, while mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE" work only if put in the vmx file of each VM.

In doubt, I now always add all parameters in both vmx files and config.ini

 

Is this normal or a bug?

Thanks

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How to get Workstation 9 VMs in player?

September 8, 2012, 8:32 am
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Player 5 is based in Workstation 9 but if you create a VM in it it is always a Workstation 8 VM. Is there a way to convert it to version 9 just with the player?

 

What's the reason anyway that workstation 8 VMs are the default?

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How to assign .vdmk files to specific guest mounts? (Solved)

September 10, 2012, 11:28 am
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Running Player 9 on a W7U 64-bit host OS.  Player 9 is installed on my Apps (E:) drive.

Installing either Ubuntu 12.4 or Fedora 17 gives me virtual disk problems.

Have three physical HDs.  Two 240G SSD's and one 600G Velociraptor

 

Got install issues (meaning Player 9 is not doing what I want it to do):

Player 9 is putting all it's guest OS virtual file descriptors (.vmx and .vdmk files) on my C: (SSD) drive; not my E: (SSD) drive where the app is installed.

Player 9 is creating and mounting only the linux swap and root volumes.  I need five volumes and mounts: root, home, tmp, var, and swap.

Player 9 appears to be allocating space for its virtual drives from the host's C: drive.  This drive is full (or will be soon).  There is no free space for virtual file expansion on this SSD.

 

I need to move the virtual machine and file descriptors from my C: drive to my E: drive.

I need to allocate physical space for five virtual volumes from the free space on the other two drives (143G on the SSD and 430G on the Velociraptor).  I need to convey these setting changes to whichever (Ubuntu or Fedora) guest OS I decide to use.

 

I am significantly hampered by my knowledge of Windows, VM, and Linux.  I am not a noob, but there are days, like this one, where I feel sooo ignorant.

 

Thanks for the help ...

 

Solution:  I switched to Workstation because it has the disk manager program file I needed to create and/or move physical or virtual files to specific drives and/or partitions on drives.  I am a happy camper now.  But why this disk manager program is not included with Player 5 is beyond my ken ... it's such an obvious need.

 

And a big thanks to everyone who helped me ramp up my knowledge curve; it was appreciated.

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VMWare Player 5 - several issues, possibly rant

September 11, 2012, 12:11 pm
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I've been using Player 5 for few days now after upgrading from Player 3 and have noticed some really strange behavior and some blatant bugs, perhaps some of you can shed a light or confirm that you are experiencing same issues. My box is a bit oldish, host xp64 with few guests xp32, but so far everything was working ok - at least Player 3 was not complaining.

 

Issues I have, or have had so far with player 5:

 

- extreme time skew in virtual machines after they have been working for over 12 hours. I do have AMD processor, but Cool'n'quiet has been disabled in BIOS, so MS Support article 895980 about QueryPerformanceCounter should not count. Player 3 did not have such issues. Quasi-solved by disallowing VMWare Tools to adjust VM time to host time and using Internet time. This situation had lead to...

 

- stopping of VMWare Tools services in 2 VMs, leaving them in such a state that they would not restart. Fixed through reboot of host .

 

- lost keyboard control / GUI control to switch from one VM machine to another directly (Ctrl-Alt-LeftArrow or Ctrl-Alt-RightArrow). Since there is no GUI segment that controls this as there was in earlier versions, I can only assume that this had been removed on purpose - can anyone confirm? Really VMWare?

 

- spike in CPU usage from ~15% to 50% if CPU on host is busy otherwise (for instance, I was opening a 30MB binary firmware file in Notepad) - and vmware-vmx.exe would happily take half of all time on cpu while notepad was taking the other half? Out of 6GB physical RAM, only 2,5 were used with VM's up, binary file was on completely other physical disk...

 

- VM's are still not liking dual monitors, especially so when running in fullscreen.

 

Had anyone else experience these or similar phenomenons?

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Possible Player 5 Bug! (Solved)

September 11, 2012, 3:59 pm
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Hello everyone,

 

I installed Player 5 on the E:\ drive of my W7U 64-bit OS.  Since I had never used the product before, I clicked on the Help button.  No Help.  Clicked the button again; nothing happened again; no Help and no error message.

 

Talked to a buddy of mine to verify my suspicions; his Help button was working just fine.  The difference being my buddy installed his Player 5 on the default C:\ drive and in the default directory.

 

So, I was wondering if anyone else had experienced the same problem as me?

 

Jack

 

Solution:  Turns out, the culprit was NOT Player 5 but a Firefox Add-on named "Ad-Block 2.1.2".  The latter was blocking the help screens as potential "malware".  You fix the problem by turning the "allow some non-intrusive advertising" option ON.  It's under the Filter Preferences button.

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VMWare Player 5 Sound jitter on HOST while starting VM

September 10, 2012, 5:05 am
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Running Player 5.

From the moment I start a VM the sound on the host turn to jitter. VM seems to be starting delayed as if it is constantly being interrupted by the sound on the host.

 

After the VM is started the sound on the host returns to normal.

This occurs with both Linux VM's as Windows VMs.

 

System Windows 7 X86.

Laptop: HP 8530w, 4GB.

 

Does anyone else experience this?

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Installation failed (VMWare Player): Error 25035

August 9, 2009, 11:27 pm
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Hello

 

I am trying to install VMWare Player on a Windows XP system (Service pack 3, 32bits).

 

During installation I encounter the error

 

Product: VMware Player -- Error 25035. Unable to give program VMware Authd permission through the firewall. Please contact your administrator.

 

After which, the installation fails, and rolls back the changes it made.

 

Installation was performed as local Administrator. Upon failure a new user with administrative rights.

 

I have tried disabling the firewall, enabling it, restarting the machine, and manually adding the firewall exception where necessary.

 

I have a McAfee AntiVirus + AntiSpyware version 8.5.0i. When enabled the installation crashes earlier with SSL key creation failure. When disabled, the error described above is exhibited.

 

Additionally, I am behind a university proxy, however installation on other computers behind the same proxy (and in the same network segment) succeeds (Systems are Windows XPs and Windows Vistats.)

 

Thanks in advance

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"Missing driver" error on install Windows 8 Enterprise

September 12, 2012, 2:43 am
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Hello!

 

Try to install Windows 8 Enterprise x64 on VMWare Player 5.0.0-812388. But in the beginnning when I click "Install Now" I have message about missing drivers (look screenshot in attach). All parameters are default. On machine creating I choose Windows 8 x64. How I can fix it?

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VMWare Player 5.0 license

September 12, 2012, 3:52 am
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Hi,

this is mentioned as being free - but the terms and conditions given when it is first run state: 

 

"VMware Player is intended for your own personal non-commercial use only. Player may only be used commercially or be re-distributed with written agreement from VMware."

 

Is that correct ?

thanks

Rich

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player 4.0.1 "switching arrows" missing (vs 3.1.x)

January 2, 2012, 5:00 pm
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A small issue, but my users have pointed out to me that it slows them down considerably.

 

The users have two full-screen VMs running, between which they frequently switch.

 

We upgraded from player 3.1.x to 4.0.1 on ubuntu 10.04 hosts.  With the 3.1.x version, there ware orange left and right arrows in the little window shade widget at the top of the sceen.  In the 4.0.1 version, those arrows are missing.

 

This makes switching much slower for my users.

 

Any way to get those arrows showing up in the 4.0.1 version of player?

 

Cheers!

d.

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Issues with Fedora 9, Windows 7 anybody?

September 4, 2012, 12:15 pm
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I have the following issues on VMWare with Fedora 9, started after Fedora updates. Anybody else have the same issue:

 

Mouse gets "uncaptured" when moved out of the VMWare player windows

 

To open the menus, I have to keep the mouse pressed, i.e. single or double click won't do it.

 

Host system is Windows 7.

 

Thanks.

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can't play my VM after upgrade to VM Player 5

August 28, 2012, 10:20 pm
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It gives an error about an unexpected signal 11 as soon as the boot up screen starts to appear.

 

Here's what I get on the console:

 

Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-modconfig-31585.log
filename:       /lib/modules/3.2.12-gentoo/misc/vmmon.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author:         VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic:       3.2.12-gentoo SMP mod_unload CORE2
Unexpected signal: 11.

 

I tried rebuilding the modules and restarting the machine.

 

Any ideas please?

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Dual monitor on Player 5.0.0 build-812388 Broken?

September 11, 2012, 11:24 am
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Clicking "Cycle multiple monitors" in VMware Player 5 has no effect.

 

I just upgraded to VMware Player 5. I rebooted my system and installed VMware tools in my Windows 8 Release Preview virtual machine. The screen resolution within the virtual machine is correct.

 

When using VMware Player 4, I could click the monitor icon on control bar and the Player would occupy both monitors. This does not work with VMware Player 5.

 

My configuration is as follows:

  • Dell Optiplex 980 (Intel i7 860) with 16GB RAM
    • ATI Radeon HD 4550 display adapter
  • (2) Two Dell U2410 monitors in Portrait Configuration (1200x1920 resolution)
  • Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit
  • VMware Player 5.0.0 build-812388
  • Windows 8 Release Preview VM build in VMware 4 Player
    • VM has installed: VMware Tools for Windows Version 9.2.0, build-799703
    • VM's screen resolution is set to 1200x1920 -- display is in portrait configuration

 

I have seen one other reference to this issue by ShadeAnalyzer, but ShadeAnalyzer did not appear to have updated VMware Tools within the VM so I do not know it that contributed to the problem in that instance.

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Player Question

September 12, 2012, 4:50 pm
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I want to set up a win7 desktop with 2 win7 and 2 ubuntu virtualizations so each of my kids can have a place to experiment without messing up  the os or installing crap on my main machine, is this possible to run 4 virtualizations at the same time on a dual core intel cpu with 6 gigs of ram?

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Trying to have the guest VM resolution set to the same as the host machine resolution

September 10, 2012, 10:10 am
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As the title states, I am trying to have my vm start with the same resolution as my host machine.

Is there an option in VMware Workstation? Or is there a line that I can add to my preferences file in order to do this?

I've tried adding

pref.autoFitFullScreen = "fitHostToGuest"

but it doesn't seem to affect anything.

 

I'm using VMware Player 4 and VMware Workstation 8. Linux host and Windows 7 guest.

 

Thanks!

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twin USB sound cards act crazy

September 13, 2012, 12:40 pm
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Hi, I was very happy to find VMware Player works well with mounting a low cost USB sound card, and all seemed to go smoothly for two such sound cards.  But when actually trying to independently use the two USB sound cards at once (for experiments), they act crazy, with one working for a little while and then at other speaker frequencies the other one works (they keep switching which one works properly).  Probably a serious problem, but any fix ideas?  Thanks. 

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