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VMWare Player 5.0.1 installation errors out on Windows 7 machine
Had VMWare Player 5.0.0 installed just fine. Also, I am the Administrator of my machine and have correct permissions (full control for folder and all sub folders / files) for my %TEMP% directory....
View ArticlePrinting question for XP Mode Guest
I have Windows 7 as the host and XP Mode as the Guest and I am running version 5.01 of Player. If my printer is already switched on prior to opening XP Mode then I have no problem in printing...
View ArticleCan't connect with the USB HDD
Hey, I have the problem, that i can't connect with my USB HDD (it's an Western Digital Passport with 500GB). Does anyone have an idea of what it could be?
View ArticleChallenge For WM Player or Workstation On Ubuntu 12.10
Hi, My name is Caron and I live in Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean.I was fully satisfied with your product when I installed Win 98 SE as guest on Windows 7 host... apart that it made a conflict with my...
View Articlehow do I re-download vmware tools for Linux?
When I installed Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit in VMWare Player, it offered to download and install the tools for me. I'm not sure it succeeded. (This computer has had troubles recently with truncated/corrupted...
View ArticleVMWare player on USB - where is my virtual machine?
Hello, I am trying to set up VMWare Player and Winows XP on a USB stick. I have installed them both successfully and can access XP from my USB stick as long as I open it from the computer I used to...
View ArticleHP p1102w printer problem, Win7 host, Ubuntu10.4 guest
Hi all,I am having a problem printing from my Ubuntu10.4 VM to an HP p1102w connected by USB to the Win7 x64 host. I'm using v5 of VMplayer, have VMtools installed and configured, printer connected...
View Articleproblems with Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit guest
My Windows 7 VM works fine but a newly-created Ubuntu VM doesn't work. Symptoms: Nautilus crashes.The guest doesn't remember my resolution.The guest hangs for 30 seconds everytime I try to set the...
View ArticleCustom NAT addresses do not route in Windows 7, what is missing?
I have a VM where the internal IP-space created by the NAT is required to be the same across several hosts. In order to do this, I change the network setup as detailed in the following link:...
View Articlecan't ping guest machine
Hello, I'm a new vmware user, I'm running vmware player version 3.0.0 build-197124 on windows xpI've created a new VM and installed Centos v5.0 on it, I'm using NAT as the network connection type.for...
View ArticleVMWarePlayer - IOS error after 1st boot of W98
Hello everyone, I've got a problem with my W98 virtual machine.I'm very satisfacted about your software. I'll definitevely use it. I installated Windows 98 without problem.But, after the 1st boot, I...
View ArticleXP-mode slow with screen actions (since v5)
Hi, I got VMWare Player with a couple of machines, some which are XP mode. Since I upgraded my Player v3 to v5, I have the impression that the XP VM's are very slow withwindow manipulations (scrolling,...
View ArticleCan Not Install Player on fresh copy of Windows 7 64-bit
I recently had an issue where a MS update killed my windows explorer and forced me to do a wipe and reload. I completely erased by hard drive, deleted the partitions, recreated the partitions and then...
View ArticleIs VMPlayer the only free offering from Vmware?
I've decided to stay with KVM for the time being. But if I wanted to run Win 7 in a VM on Linux is VMware Player the best option for me?
View ArticleUnable to install VMWare Player - Windows XP
Hi everyone, I am running Windows XP on a Samsung Netbook as a sole user. I have downloaded VMWare Player from a link on this site, when I run the exe file I get a popup saying 'An ActiveX control on...
View ArticleNetwork connection broken on resume from suspend after ugrade to Player 5.0
Product: VMware Player 5.0.0 build-812388Host OS: Win7 64-bit, SP1Guest OS: Xubuntu 12.04, 64-bit After upgrading VMware Player from 4.x to 5.0, whenever I resume the Xubuntu 12.04 VM from a suspended...
View ArticleNAT not working
I have just installed VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.i386.bundle on my host Ubuntu 12.10 without problems .Then I 've created a windows 7 guest with NAT internet connection not working .The message "...
View ArticleWindows 7 becomes unable to shutdown and gets "glitchy" after VMWare Player...
A few days ago, I installed VMWare Player on my new Windows 7 laptop. The system was subsequently unable to shutdown (it would hang forever at the 'shutting down' screen), and it also did the BSOD...
View ArticleWindows XP Dies on bootup
I ran a P2V on a windows XP machine and when I start it in player for the 1st time it dies. The error is *** VMware Player internal monitor error ***vcpu-0:DoubleFault @ 0x4020:0xc9410...
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...
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