vmware user for years, first time using player and an image gets corrupted?
Hi Folks, As the title suggests, i've used vmware server/esxi (and virtualbox) for years. For some reason I installed player on a new laptop and within a week have somehow managed to corrupt a disk...
View Articleuse physical disk on WinXP host.
Hello, i have follow problem.Host: Windows XP2 Harddisk first HD: C: (NTFS), D: (NTFS) sec HD: ext4 With VMWare Player 3.x i can use PhysicalDisk1 in a VM with Ubuntu, that mount the...
View ArticleClosing player takes half hour and more
My colleagues ans ID are using VMWare player for development. We use the vm on a separated usb disk. The problem we have is that closing the vm takes half an hour and sometimes more than one hour. When...
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Windows 8 : no more network, no Wacom stylus
Hi, and happy new year everyone, Let's start with the good news : I have uninstalled and reinstalled VmPlayer yesterday, according to Troubleshooting network connection failures...
View ArticlePower off delay
Hi, I have a problem with vmware player (5.0.1 build-894247, host Windows 7 professional x64) during guests poweroff.The problem occurs after guest os shutdown (successfully completed) or during hard...
View ArticleVM Help needed. (Server 2.0.2)
Good morning! I am totally frustrated by this situation and I am at wits end... Back story: I was running Server 2.0.2 on a machine which had a hard drive die. Replaced the hard drive, reinstalled...
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How to connect 2 VM (Windows Server 2008 & Windows 7)
I have set up two VM (Server 2008 & Windows 7) I cannot open connection between them SERVER C:\Users\User>ipconfig /allWindows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . :...
View ArticleNo more 3d (Aero?) in win7 guest on vmplayer 5.0.1?
I am running vmplayer 5.0.1 on a kubutnu 12.10 host and xorg-edgers PPA installed. My win 7 guest refuses to turn on 3d. This worked fine with vmplayer 4.x.x. Has this been turned off in vmplayer 5.x.x?
View Articletrouble installing vm tools
i am using vm player 5 and i cannot get tools to install. i am new to linux and when i try to run ./vmware-install.pl i get error of no such file or directory. where to i have to put the .pl so that i...
View ArticleVMware Player now gives "syntax error" message; how do I fix??
About 18 months ago I installed VMware Player on my new laptop, running Windows 7 Professional (and Chome), in order to use an old software program that could not operate on my new 64-bit machine. The...
View ArticleCisco VPN Client and VM Player
Cisco VPN Client 5.0.07.0290VMware Workstation 9.0.1 build-894247VMware Player 5.0.1 build-894247Linksys WRT54GSV4Hello,I built a VM in Workstation, installed the VPN client and ensure that it’s able...
View ArticleVMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
Using VMware 3.5...installed Windowsxp service-pc 3. When I start the Player Window XP runs well for some time but son it hangs showing ERROR below : "VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)Unable...
View Articlecan i fix it?
hi everyone, i was running windows xp on vmware player. And then my harddisk damaged. I copied some of my .vmdk files from damaged harddisk to new solid state disk. But i can't copied some each of my...
View ArticleVMWAREver8 port redirect
Win7 Ultimate 64 bit host. Winxp Pro 32 bit guest. Can the guest redirect from a com port to a host usb port with an adapter pluged into it. It would be a direct conection like a com to com but the usb...
View ArticleVMware Player thinks VM is in use when it is not
Up until a few days ago, I had had for many months a VM for Windows Server 2008, with which I never had any issues restoring it after suspending it. I then created a second VM for Windows Server 2008,...
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Problems with logging in Win7 on Fedora host
Hello everyone,I have Fedora 14 as a host and Win7 as a client (VMPlayer 3.1). After some updates of Linux and Windows simultaneously I can login in Windows only in safe mode. When I try to login in...
View ArticleTools will not install
Hi All, 5.0.1 and win2000pro SP4. Install Tools returns a message "Microsoft runtime DLLs cannot be installed on this Operating System. Any thoughts? Thanks
View ArticleNetwork gone missing
Hi, 5.0.1 Player - win2000pro SP4 I installed win2000 and checked the network connection back to the win7 Host and all was fine. Closed down the Player with w2k Suspended and restarted, w2K comes up...
View Article"The virtual machine is busy" error
I've been getting this problem lately: When trying to start a VM, VMware Player just sits there, doing nothing; the VM does not boot.Trying to close the VMware Player window brings up the error message...
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How to get 2 vm players to communicate on a hostmachine
Hi Guys, I recently swapped from VPC to VM Player and am finding it difficult to create a network of virtual machines. I need to create a test environment to replicate an error that is occuring on a...
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