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Win10/64bit running FreePlayer12.1 however task manager states (32bit)??
New Dell tablet with windows 10 PRO 64bit with the latest Workstation Player 12.1.I confirmed I downloaded the 64bit versiontaskmanager reflects 32bitis that because the virtual running is Win7 32bit?...
View ArticleBe careful when destroying VMs!
So I was on a Win7 virtual machine, and I downloaded a shady software on purpose. My host's Avast blocked two viruses, so I rolled back to a snapshot and pledged to only use the VM for tech support...
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Can't create a osx virtual machine
Hi guys I used to be able to create a osx virtual machine on my Elitebook 2540p i7. I tried reinstalling player 12 but when I try to create a machine i can't choose OSX anymore I have Virtual...
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workstation player 12 installation fail on windows 10
I'm trying to install player 12 on Windows 10 (VMware-player-12.1.1-3770994.exe). It silently fails when run from desktop icon (as admin or not) and command prompt (also admin or not). Also disabling...
View ArticleUpdate a Workstation 6.5.5 VM
I have a DSP software development VM for some old tools that only run on WinXP. I set this up years ago using VMware Workstation 6.5.5. I need to transfer this VM to another company and run it using VM...
View ArticleVMware-Player-7.1.0 on Linux suddenly denies starting Win7
hi,everything went fine since using Win7 als VM on Linux since 1 Month. Suddenly Win7 won't start any longer: "machine in use".Deleting all *.lck (even directory) had no effect. I moved "caches", but...
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Error while running sound stream: Recording may not work
I realize that one cannot expect too much in regards to sound/VoIP within a VM but I would like to at least give it a try in troubleshooting this error, since the sound actually works for a short time....
View ArticleIssue with Player menu bar in VMware Workstation Player 12.1.1 with host OS...
Using VMware Workstation Player 12.1.1 build-3770994 on Linux Mint 18 to make a Windows 7 VM. The issue is that on the VMware Player menu bar, where you usually see items like "File", "VM", and...
View ArticleConverting a Windows XP OEM Physical Machine into a Windows XP Retail or...
Thought I would share these with the VMware community. I was playing around with virtualisation and connecting to legacy hardware via USB and Serial Ports so decided to make a video tutorial and...
View ArticleMore problems with mouse with Workstation player 12.1.1 and Linux Mint 18
Okay, this is really annoying. Using Workstation player 12.1.1, the latest, on a Linux Mint 18 Host OS, with a Windows 7 VM. Occasionally the mouse cursor gets offset somehow, and I have to click...
View ArticleVM Tools: Copy&paste not working
Hi,Copy&Paste is not working anymore between host and vm. I already re-installed the VM tools. While configuring the tools I get the attached exceptionHost: Win10, VM: Ubuntu 16.04 Thx for...
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vmware workstation player screen turns black after about 16+ hrs
Hi, After having my 2 vm instances run about 16+ hrs on my video game, screen turns black on my instances and becomes unresponsive. I've only found threads on black screen at startup but haven't had...
View ArticleDoes player support suspend on host shutdown?
Does VMware player (I'm using version 7.1.4) support suspending the running VMs when the host OS (Windows 7) is shut down (or the user logs off)? I just tried to shutdown the host and Window tells me...
View Articleworkstation 12 much slower after win 10 "anniversary" upgrade
The difference is dramatic, near the point of unusability. The laptop has 8GB RAM. The VMWare virtual machine has 2GB. An Adobe Acrobat PDFmaker task in the VM is more than an order of magnitude...
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Windows 10 guest on Magia Linux host
I have a small LAN.My main machine as above communicates with the others via samba.This machine has an XP guest that communicates the host's folders via samba, not by VMware's shared folders facility...
View ArticleSurface Pro 4 and VM Workstation 12 Scaling
HiI have a Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10 and VMWare Workstation 12 (12.1.1), using Mac OS X (10.11.6) as the guest OS Has anyone solved the scaling issue when using VMWare 12 Player and Mac OS X as...
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Failure to access VMDK disk
Hi all, I have a VM for DragonFly BSD. It runs on a laptop on Windows 7 Pro and the virtual machine files, including the disks, are on a NTFS compressed folder.After some time the VM stopped working...
View ArticleVMware Kernel Module Updater - NEED URGENT HELP
So I have tried every possible solution on the web, nothing works...Kali version: 4.6.0-kali1-amd64VMware version: VMware-Player-12.1.1-3770994.x86_64My log file:2016-09-12T15:57:55.525-05:00|...
View ArticleWin7 host, CentOS 7 guest, spurious unwanted keypress repeats
I'm having a problem with my CentOS 7 guest on Windows 7 host, whereby every once in a while (and fairly often), a keypress will just start to repeat so I get a whole string of "s" or "a" or CRs or...
View ArticleYou can not run "vmrun -T ws start xxxx.vmx nogui" in WS12.5
●DistributionCentOS6.8 Kernel 2.6.32-642.4.2.el6.x86_64 Until Ws12.1.1 was able to run
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