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Hi I have got a new Thinkpad-T420S with Windows 7 and I am trying to run Ubuntu by VmwarePlayer.My VmwarePlayer version is 5.0.1 build-894247 At first I tried to install Ubuntu-64 bit version, but it...
View ArticleVMware player 5.0.1 AGP texture accelaration not available
Hello I am new here, and i'm new with VMware App. I'm here to ask some question about Vmware 5.0.1 that i installed last night.the Installation works fine but when i checked the Dxdiag . In the Display...
View ArticleConfigure VMware Player 5.0.0 to discard changes or save changes upon shutdown?
Is it possible to configure VMware Player 5.0.0 so that upon shutdown I can choose to discard changes or save changes from the Player close menu? I have configured this version of Player to always...
View ArticleVisual studio 2005 fails to install
Host system is a windows 8 machine. Using VMPlayer to run windows 7. The windows 7 is required to run matlab 2010 which also requires visual studio 2005 as a compiler. However I seem to have a...
View ArticleHelp reqd with XPMode upgrade
Hi I am using Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit together with VMWare 4.0.4 build-744019 Some time ago I installed XPMode from Microsoft and converted the resulting virtual machine using VMWare VCenter...
View ArticleNot able to install VMware player 5/5.0.1 on XP host
I downloaded VMware-player-5.0.1-894247.exe and tried to install it on my desktop with XP SP3, from an administrator account.It gave me the following error: Windows cannot access the specified device,...
View ArticlePerformance problems with VMPlayer 5.0 and RHEL
Hi, I've been searching around for help with this problem but have so far drawn a blank, so hopefully someone here might be able to help. I have a number of Red Hat machines which run Windows 7 x64 in...
View ArticleScheduling VM to power-down via command line
Hi, I have a linux guest VM on a Windows 2003 server host running under VMware Player. Is there a way to gracefully power down the linux guest on schedule by using the windows task planner for backup...
View ArticleMap vmnet0 to tun0 on Linux host
VMware Player 5.0.1Ubuntu 12.10 hostWindows 7 in a guest On my Ubuntu host, I establish a VPN connection (using Juniper NetworkConnect) to a VPN server. This creates a tun0 network interface on the...
View ArticleXP guest using Services for Unix causes white borders on windowed unix...
So I have XP and I need to run a Unix app for various reasons. It's an "X" app so has a window like Java apps do, but if I size or move the window outside of the top left part of the screen, every part...
View ArticleNo .exe extension for the downloaded file
I have downloaded VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.i386.bundle. After the download finished, I found that the downloaded file has .txt extension not .exe. In this case how can I run the downloaded file?...
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cant install vmware player on windows 8 64bit ?
Hello , i Try to install vmware player on windows 8 64bit , and i always get this problem , even if i click on yes or no , nothing happened ?can somebody help me ?regards ,
View ArticleCan't UNINSTALL VMware Player 4.0. runs a few minutes then "MSI Failed"....
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View ArticleUsing Services for Unix in XP guest - Can't access /dev/fs/
I have my virtual machine configured to use my F: drive as a shared drive, but no matter what string I use, I can't get my unix applications to access it. I know the correct string should be /dev/fs/F...
View ArticleGetting rid of Unidentified Network in Win7 VM on CentOS5 host with VMware...
Hi, I'm running a Windows 7 VM on a CentOS 5.8 host with VMware Player 4.0.4, the network type is NAT. Often (not always) I notice that Windows recognises two networks, one named as "Unidentified...
View ArticleSuspend Guest button disabled in Player 5.0.1
Hi,I recently upgraded player 4 to 5.0.1 build-894247and I cannot suspend any of my VMs anymore.I have several Windows and Linux VMs, some with Tools,but most without,and all of them used to suspend OK...
View ArticleTwo VM's Cannot Communicate or Ping Each Other
Hello and Good Day, I have done a fair amount of research today and have seen people have this problem with older versions of VMWare, but I don't see anyone having this problem with the current version...
View Articlewhat is in each of the 6 Player versions?
Looking at the VMWare Player download page, there are 6 versiob og Player 5 whcih can be downloaded. What is the difference in the 6 versions? from page (...
View ArticleWifi for guest only
Hi, on vmwareplayer the host is win7 with both wifi and lan, the guest is windows xp professional. I want the guest and host to be on different networks, the host connected to my lan and the guest...
View ArticleStill having problems connecting to the internet through VMware player for my...
I can't connect to the internet with my XP VM. The vm is set to NAT and both adapters for vmware show DHCP is enabled but my network connections show them as "unidenitfied network" with no internet...
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