startx gives segmentation fault error. I don't know what caused this but it was working normal before.

You can see the screenshots below:

How can I recover from this?

Hi!

I encountered this problem with VMware Player 5.0.2 and 6.0.0.

See NAT: DNS returns bogus entries for gory details.

In short: With a VM that uses NAT networking (which is the default), VMware sometimes picks up and uses the wrong DNS server from the hosts network.

In my case, my host (Windows 8) is connected by LAN cable to a home router. Once in the past, I connected via WLAN to another network.

VMware Player uses the DNS settings from the WLAN, even if it is currently not connected.

Workaround: turn off automatic "Auto detect available DNS servers" in the NAT settings and enter the correct DNS server IP manually.

Details:

- my hosts LAN connection has the IP 192.168.222.117, the default gateway is 192.168.222.1 and DNS server also 192.168.222.1

- the now disconnected WLAN adapter had the IP 192.168.1.3, gateway 192.168.1.1 and name server 213.161.0.10 213.161.0.20

I used a network sniffer (WireShark) to find out that VMware player was sending DNS queries to 213.161.0.10.

Feel free to ask for any other information.

Regards,

David

Folks,

Hello. I am running VMPlayer 3. My host OS is Windows 7 and guest OS is Windows XP.

Because the Virtual hard disk of guest OS Windows XP is full, I need to expand it. http://wmtoolkit.com/files/folders/converters/entry87.aspx is not working.

My question is:

Can any folk provide a link to download VHD Resizer for guest Windows XP and host Windows 7 ?

Thanks in advance.

what is the right VMware Player version for Windows 7 32bit OS? There are several versions available, as far I understand, I don't need the latest version with Windows 8 support.

I'm finding that the copy/paste from host (Win7) to guest (Ubuntu 12) is really wonky. I can get it to work, but it seems that I have about a 20% chance of it actually happening. It definitely does work but so poorly that I wonder if it isn't bugged. I reinstalled VMWare tools yesterday. Since then I've tried copying text from Windows and pasting into Ubuntu about 50 times. Of those, only about 10 have worked. I've tried clicking around in Windows before pasting into Ubuntu.

Is there some sort of delay? Some trick I haven't tried? I've reinstalled vmwre tools dozens of times to try and fix this -- now I realize it was probably working all the time, just so poorly that it seemed like it wasn't.

Hello,

I have a VMWare Player running a VM at all times. However I want the server to run that Virtual Machine on boot (without logging in). This will allow me basically to restart the Server and when it loads to the login screen it's already running VMWare.

So I am looking to either make VMWare Player a service or if anyone else has any other ideas?

Thanks,

Hi,

The importation with Vm  Player seams to work well, BUT the VM created is ALWAYS an empty Windows XP machine.

I never get my XP mode machine.

The string xpmode.enable="TRUE" is into the .vmx, the activation key is not required.

The .vmdk is less than 60 Mo, my XP mode machine is about 14 Go ...

Regards

Hi!

I have been using VMWare Player for years now on several computers and locations.

Recently I purchased a new Dell notebook, and in parallel I upgraded to Player version 6.0.1. Since then I am having the following problem:

DNS resolving doesn't work on my virtual machines when using NAT.

What I've tried:

1. On the host everything works fine.

2. On the guests pinging the router and outside IP addresses work fine.

3. On the guests name resolution doesn't work, that is no name can be resolved at all.

4. I checked on different locations (so different routers, ISPs, etc.)

5. I reinstalled the player, the problem persists. (Reinstall = uninstall + restart + install + restart)

6. I checked and I have the latest drivers for the notebook.

I'm out of ideas for the moment, anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advacne,

Szidor

Hi all,

Probably this is a very simple for you guys, but I can not figure this out. So I have Vmware Player. I installed two Windows server 2008 R2. First machine is going to be DC. So I added second network controller. I left first as NAT connection and Second I did static ip: 10.10.10.2 255.0.0.0

Second Server has one network controller host-only with ip: 10.10.10.5 255.0.0.0

Machines can not see each other. What should I change/do to build network please?

Many thanks

Dagged

I have used VMware before w/o trouble. But after a fresh reinstall of the Host OS, I can not get the sound to work (all drivers are up to date and VMware tools is installed. I have tried multiple linux guests. Ubuntu (12.04 LTS & 13.10), Mint Mate & Cinnamon, XFCE. The guest shows no errors, seems to think sound is working fine, but no output. I have tried some of the standard fixes like selecting "Analog stereo output". Sound works fine on host.

Any ideas?

After some trouble running VMware Player using VIX headless I get now this error:

~/VMware$ vmrun -T player start vmplayer.vmx nogui
Message from syslogd@v22014041507617905 at Apr 17 09:43:12 ...
kernel:[590498.736640] general protection fault: 0000 [#8] SMP
Message from syslogd@v22014041507617905 at Apr 17 09:43:12 ...
kernel:[590498.740029] Stack:
Message from syslogd@v22014041507617905 at Apr 17 09:43:12 ...
kernel:[590498.740029] Call Trace:
Message from syslogd@v22014041507617905 at Apr 17 09:43:12 ...
kernel:[590498.740029] Code: c5 e8 b8 15 cf e0 89 e8 48 3b 43 08 72 ec 48 89 df 5b 5b 5d e9 7f e9 d1 e0 41 5b 5b 5d c3 45 31 c0 89 f9 44 89 c0 44 89 c2 0f 32 <31> ff 41 89 c0 48 c1 e2 20 89 f8 4c 09 c2 48 89 16 c3 55 48 83
Error: Unknown error

/var/log/syslog contains following stacktrace:

Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.736640] general protection fault: 0000 [#8] SMP
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.737159] CPU 0
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.737262] Modules linked in: vmnet(O) parport_pc parport vsock(O) vmci(O) vmmon(O) fuse pci_stub ts_bm xt_string xt_length xt_dscp xt_comment xt_hl ip6t_rt xt_tcpudp iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_TCPMSS ip6t_LOG ipt_LOG ip6t_REJECT ipt_REJECT ip6table_mangle iptable_mangle xt_multiport xt_state xt_limit xt_conntrack nf_conntrack_ftp nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables nfsd nfs nfs_acl auth_rpcgss fscache lockd sunrpc loop snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_timer snd psmouse processor i2c_piix4 i2c_core soundcore evdev serio_raw joydev pcspkr crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel aes_x86_64 aes_generic cryptd virtio_balloon thermal_sys button ext4 crc16 jbd2 mbcache usbhid hid sg sr_mod cdrom ata_generic virtio_blk virtio_net floppy uhci_hcd ehci_hcd ata_piix usbcore virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio usb_common libata scsi_mod [last unloaded: vmnet]
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] Pid: 5745, comm: vmware-vmx Tainted: G      D    O 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 Debian 3.2.54-2 Bochs Bochs
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa03cd1ce>]  [<ffffffffa03cd1ce>] HostIF_SafeRDMSR+0xd/0x1f [vmmon]
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] RSP: 0018:ffff8802b5d3bb30  EFLAGS: 00000246
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] RAX: 0000000000260d32 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000480
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88040ccf5dd0 RDI: 0000000000000480
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] RBP: ffff88040ccf5dc0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88040bf6e958
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] R10: 0000000000003246 R11: 0000000000003246 R12: 0000000000000000
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] R13: ffff88040ccf5dc0 R14: 00000000fffffff4 R15: 00000000025964e0
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] FS:  00007f500a77e700(0000) GS:ffff88041fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] CR2: 0000000001403970 CR3: 000000039a9cc000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] Process vmware-vmx (pid: 5745, threadinfo ffff8802b5d3a000, task ffff8801c0141810)
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] Stack:
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  ffffffffa03cf807 ffff88040bf6e958 ffffffffa03cf77b 0000000002596480
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  00000000000007f2 ffff88040bc6c380 ffffffffa03ccb65 ffff88040bc6c380
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  ffff8802b5d3bb88 ffff88040ccf5dc0 ffffffffa03d0926 0000000000000001
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] Call Trace:
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffffa03cf807>] ? Vmx86GetMSR+0x8c/0xa4 [vmmon]
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffffa03cf77b>] ? Vmx86EnableHVOnCPU+0xa9/0xa9 [vmmon]
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffffa03ccb65>] ? HostIF_CallOnEachCPU+0x12/0x2a [vmmon]
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffffa03d0926>] ? Vmx86_GetAllMSRs+0x23/0x3b [vmmon]
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffffa03cb143>] ? LinuxDriver_Ioctl+0x6c7/0xaec [vmmon]
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff810b60d4>] ? __generic_file_aio_write+0x248/0x278
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff810b4cd7>] ? find_get_page+0x40/0x62
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff811aacc9>] ? cpumask_any_but+0x24/0x37
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff81031a61>] ? flush_tlb_page+0x54/0x6f
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff810c2c15>] ? page_evictable+0xf/0x7b
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff810be88e>] ? __lru_cache_add+0x2b/0x51
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff810ce7cd>] ? set_pte_at+0x5/0x8
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff810cfefb>] ? do_wp_page+0x4a7/0x563
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff810d1768>] ? handle_pte_fault+0x739/0x79f
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff810de467>] ? free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x48/0x60
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff810ce865>] ? pte_offset_kernel+0x16/0x35
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff81352d18>] ? do_page_fault+0x30a/0x345
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffffa03cb579>] ? LinuxDriver_UnlockedIoctl+0x11/0x18 [vmmon]
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff81107e35>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x459/0x49a
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff81107ec1>] ? sys_ioctl+0x4b/0x72
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  [<ffffffff81354d92>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] Code: c5 e8 b8 15 cf e0 89 e8 48 3b 43 08 72 ec 48 89 df 5b 5b 5d e9 7f e9 d1 e0 41 5b 5b 5d c3 45 31 c0 89 f9 44 89 c0 44 89 c2 0f 32 <31> ff 41 89 c0 48 c1 e2 20 89 f8 4c 09 c2 48 89 16 c3 55 48 83
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029] RIP  [<ffffffffa03cd1ce>] HostIF_SafeRDMSR+0xd/0x1f [vmmon]
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.740029]  RSP <ffff8802b5d3bb30>
Apr 17 09:43:12 v22014041507617905 kernel: [590498.783907] ---[ end trace 07511f52bf2ac3bf ]---

Note: same error trying to run as root.

I am using the following config file:

.encoding = "UTF-8"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "10"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.filename = "~/discs/VMware-Titan.vmdk"
memsize = "3072"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "~/X17-59886.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
usb.present = "FALSE"
sound.present = "FALSE"
displayName = "Titan"
guestOS = "windows7"
nvram = "someos.nvram"
MemTrimRate = "-1"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
uuid.location = "56 4d 0d 92 c9 cd 3c 25-c5 bf 91 91 43 5d bf 33"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 0d 92 c9 cd 3c 25-c5 bf 91 91 43 5d bf 33"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:5d:bf:33"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
uuid.action = "create"
checkpoint.vmState = ""
tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"
extendedConfigFile = "vmplayer.vmxf"
numvcpus = "1"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
;vhv.enable = "TRUE"

Starting row 33 is new stuff I tried from various google results, no changes. ~ is actually a full path of the home dir, just censored for the dump.

The server is running:

Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Since this is a virtualized server via KVM not all CPU feature are avaible, this is what /proc/cpuinfo says:

So essencially VT-x is missing on this "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz". I tried to ensure it doesn't try to run a 64bit guest, I just can't find any reasonable complete documentary on the config file to ensure it doesn't try it, just because it detects a 64bit CPU and assumes it supports VT-x even though it doesn't. I also know you should try to start 2 diffrent virtualizations within the same host, but could a parallel running QEMU (which is working, but pretty slow, I had hoped VMware would run faster) doesn't block something on the kernel, but I thought since QEMU without KVM is just a emulation, it shouldn't make any troubles, but I can't confirm that for a few more hours and I'd really like to see if VMware was running much better. VirtualBox was also running stable on this condition, however it had like 10% of the performance of a bare QEMU emulation, so it was totally useless for our case (which is running a Team Foundation Server 2010 that requires an IIS and MSSQL service on Win Vista or above).

Can you give us any hints on the error or the configuration?

Update: QEMU is unrelated to that error, I just had the opportunity to verify that.

Hello everybody,

I run a virtual XP on a Windows 7 Host PC in vmPlayer.

There is an Icon on the Windows 7 which opens an Application on the virtual XP in Unity Mode.

Now I want to keep my virtual XP running even when my guest PC is in Standby mode. Is this possible?

When I leave the vmPlayer open with the virtal XP in Unity mode and switch the Guest PC to standby and reactivate it again,

the vmPlayer is opened up with a black screen and crashes.

Thanks in advance!

mojodo

Hi guys,

I've deployed an ESXi5.5 on VMware Player 6.0 Open Source on my DELL XPS (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) .

On ESXi I've deployed a vCenter Server Virtual Appliance using a virtual Windows 8, deployed using VMware Player.

The Windows 8 guest is able to connect to thte ESXi but not to the vCenter.

The vCenter has an 172.16.23.158 IP, subnet 255.255.255.0 and 172.16.23.2 gateway.

The ESXi has 172.16.23.100, subnet 255.255.255.0  and 172.16.23.2 gateway.

The Windows 8 get IP by DHCP server.

Where is my mistake?

Regards.

Hi all,

I am having trouble figuring out if I can do the following:

I want to have Windows 7 (x64) running as my host and want to install vmware player on it. I need to create 2 virtual machines, one with windows server 2008 r2 as a domain controller and the other running IIS running on windows server 2008 r2 standard.

I would also like the host Windows 7 to join the active directory that the virtual Win2k8 DC is hosting.

Is all that possible?

Thanks for your advices!

Faadil Sayed

Hi!

I have encountered a problem, probably a bug, running a virtual machine located on my NAS.

When I run the VM it warns me about "no swap space" (true, no swap on host OS) and then fails without further error / warning messages. By this time the .vmx file is already missing! If I replace the .vmx from a saved copy while the swap warning is hanging, the VM starts up properly but by the time the guest OS boots up both .vmx and .vmdk (the small one, with metadata) are missing from VM directory!

What am I doing wrong? Or is it a bug?

There are a few lines like this in the vmware.log file:

2014-04-18T13:33:50.479+04:00| vmx| I120: FileIO_AtomicUpdate: rename of '<some path>/VMs/Ubuntu_14.04_64-bit/Ubuntu_14.04_64-bit.vmx~' to '<some path>/VMs/Ubuntu_14.04_64-bit/Ubuntu_14.04_64-bit.vmx' failed 17.
2014-04-18T13:42:29.868+04:00| vcpu-0| I120: FileIO_AtomicUpdate: rename of '<some path>/VMs/Ubuntu_14.04_64-bit/Ubuntu_14.04_64-bit.vmdk~' to '<some path>/VMs/Ubuntu_14.04_64-bit/Ubuntu_14.04_64-bit.vmdk' failed 17.

But nor the .vmx~ neither the .vmdk~ file is there.

My setup:

Host OS: Ubuntu 12.04.4 x64 3.8.0-38-generic

VMware Player: 6.0.1 build 1379776

Network share is CIFS served by samba of a linux-based NAS

The share's mounted on the host with with command like this:

mount -t cifs //<NAS>/<share> <some path> -o rw,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,user=<NAS username>

The guest OS is Ubuntu 14.04 x64 desktop (though I believe the guest is irrelevant)

Thanks in advance!

Last few lines of log file.  Any thoughts?

2014-04-18T17:43:25.674+10:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 256.

2014-04-18T17:43:25.944+10:00| vthread-3| I120: Setting destination path for vmnet to "/lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/misc/vmnet.ko".

2014-04-18T17:43:25.944+10:00| vthread-3| I120: Extracting the vmnet source from "/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar".

2014-04-18T17:43:25.955+10:00| vthread-3| I120: Successfully extracted the vmnet source.

2014-04-18T17:43:25.955+10:00| vthread-3| I120: Building module with command "/usr/bin/make -j8 -C /tmp/modconfig-9i0ej7/vmnet-only auto-build HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc IS_GCC_3=no"

2014-04-18T17:43:27.375+10:00| vthread-3| W110: Failed to build vmnet. Failed to execute the build command.

cheers

Hello.

I have a Win7-host and XP-VM.

When I copy/paste form XP-VM to Win7-host my host disk space decreases and I have to manually clean c:\users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\vmware-<username>\VMwareDnd folder.

But, when I copy/paste from Win7-host to XP-VM the VM disk space decreases too and I got an out of space error.

What is the folder I have to clean in XP-VM?

Thanks.

I have vmware player v6 on a windows machine

I've installed windows 7 as a virtual machine on a windows machine however I cannot get vmware tools to install - because the install process won't start.

In the vmware window I click Player/Manage/Install VMware tools and nothing happens, ever. I don't get any installer start up. So I also tried start/run/D:\setup and I get 'please insert a disk into the dvd drive'. This is so useless, nothing I do will get the installer to start and after trawling google for ages every page says the same thing, which is what I've already tried and which never works. wtf do |I have to do to get the vmware tools installer to run?

edit: I also tried downloading and running tools-windows-9.6.1.exe and that did sweet FA as well.

Hello,

When I move my mouse from the Host to Guest OS and back the mouse is not smooth.  It bounces randomly and it's kinda annoying.  I have been using Virtualbox and works smoothly, so I figured maybe there is an option that needs to be enabled or disabled to correct this problem.

Host OS - Win7 Pro (all updated)

Graphics - Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 (driver v335.23)

CPU - i7 960

Guest OS - WinXP (all updated and vmware tools installed successfully)

Thanks

I installed VMware 6.02 on an Ubuntu 14.04 (the latest) host and I installed XP w/ SP3 as a VM and the USB is not working properly as my iPod will not be found.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Jim