Player hangs CentOS 6.2 when starting a machine
A few months ago, I downloaded the VMware Player at home because I teach at a college that uses VMware in the computer labs. I worked fine in CentOS 6.2. Then a few weeks ago (while the term was...
View ArticleBinaries for 32 bit Player requires 64 bit ?
Downloaded and installed the bundle for linux 32 bit. Ran vmplayer and setup a virtual disk ready to install. "VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.i386.bundle Binary DetailsVMware Player for Linux 32-bit...
View Articleinstall guest OS as host
I'm running a SuSE guest inside a win8 host and I want to install the SuSE image on the host machine replacing the win8 partition. is this possible? preferably with only a USB hard drive and no cd...
View ArticleUnrecoverable error: (vmplayer) NOT_Reached menucontroller.cpp
Attached log and dump. I copied the VM from one box to another and started seeing the error.
View ArticleWindows XP guest: share mapped printers ...
Dear all, I use VMWare player to run a Windows XP guest. The printers from the host are mapped into the Windows XP guest. But in Windows XP I have a DOS program that needs to print to one mapped...
View ArticleVmware Player 5 on Ubuntu - unable to run two machines?
Hi,just insatlled VMPlayer 5 on my home dual boot PC into Ubuntu 12. The problem I have is that when VM starts and run, I seem to have no option of starting second VM...Is running two VMs concurently...
View ArticleProblems with two monitors in guest system
Hi all,I have a problem with multicycle monitor under VMware Player Version 5.01. Hope anybody can help here.The problem: I can switch to multicycle mode and draw the mouse to the second monitor. If I...
View ArticlePCIE SDCard Reader
Hello, I have a problem using my PCIexpress Realtek SD Card Reader on my Ubuntu 12.04 Virtual Machine on my Laptop.I would like to use the SD Card under my ubuntu machine to be able to make partitions...
View ArticleCPU features for 5.0.1
I cannot ugrade my VMware Player 2.0.3 to the latest 5.0.1. I'm getting the message that it "requires features not present on my CPU". I even uninstalled VMware Player, but didn't help. I looked at the...
View Articleapplication`s view is disabled in vmplayer4+
today i find in vmplayer 4+,the applianceView.coverPage.text config parameter is disabled, the vmplayer change it to annotation, can anybody tell me how to use applianceView.coverPage.text in vmplayer...
View ArticleWin32 exception detected, exceptionCode 0xc0000006 (disk error while paging)
I am trying to restore a VMware image I saved on Friday. It was working fine then. Now I see in the logs the errors below. How can I fix this? 2012-12-17T13:10:34.624-08:00| vmx| I120: Progress 38%...
View ArticleEFI and Windows 8 x64 guest
Hi. I am trying to install Windows 8 guest using EFI. When I add firmware="efi", the system starts with EFI, but does not recognize the Windows x64 installer iso as EFI bootable (with the message start...
View ArticleUnable to install Win XP Upgrade
I am trying to install Win XP Upgrade, install go’s fine tell XP ask me to put copy of Win 98 in drive and hit Enter to verify copy to continue install. Key board is not responsive for some reason...
View ArticleVMPLAYER and OEM Windows XP
I have a dead Dell machine that was running OEM Windows XP. I built an image of the machine and ran it through VCenter convert to build a VM. When I run the converted image with VMPLAYER, the OS...
View ArticleConnecting a DVD-Rom to XP VM?
Hello All, I'm having a bit of trouble connecting/accessing my DVD-Rom within my Windows XP VM... Host: OpenSuSE 11.4Guest: Windows XP Professional My DVD-Rom is located at "/dev/sr0" on my host, so...
View ArticleVMware Player 4 - Configuration Help
Using VMware player 4.0 build 471780 on a Windows Vista Ultimate computer to run a host-only network, for a Novell Course 3078, that consists of two Linux virtual servers (DA-CORP and DA-IDM) and a...
View ArticleVMware Tools doesn't want to update...
Hello! I got this message, when I tried to update my VMware Tools: "There was a problem updating a software component. Try again later and if the problem persists, contact VMware Support or your system...
View ArticleProblem with Wmware Player 5.0.1
Hello, I have a trouble with VMware player, when I try to install another version of windows7. I have a sony vaio vgn-nr11s, professional and win.7 74GO disc (with 50GB free). Trying to create the...
View ArticleVM creation from DVD fails with checksum errors, works from iso.
Creation of SLES11 SP2 vm from mounted DVD fails with random checksum errors on packages read from DVD, yet the installation works from mounted iso image of same DVD. The same DVD has been used to...
View ArticleUnable to uninstal old version of player
Hello,to update vmware player the old version has to be uninstalled. But i´m missing that vmwareplayer.msi file.Can someone send me that file?
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