Windows key in Unity view?
I'm running win8 as my host with a win7 guest in Unity View. Whenever I hit my windows key (even if I'm focused on a window on the guest system), it only operates for the host. Is there a way to push...
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Unnecessary vertical scroll bar if host screen height is large enough
Enhancement bug reportDescriptionWhen the width of screen resolution of guest OS is larger than host, but height of screen resolution of guest OS is smaller than host, VMware Player will display...
View ArticleProblem Maintaing High Resolution in Windows 8 Guests
My host system is Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit, running on a Dell Vostro 460 Tower with an AMD Radeon HD 6670 video display adapter. I currently have 2 VMPlayer guests (version: 5.0.2 build-1031769)...
View ArticleVery high and persistent disk usage after closing down VMPlayer.
Ive noticed that after i close a virtual machine running on my pc the disk usage goes through the roof for about 5 minutes and then returns to normal. VmWare player seems to be doing alot of work in...
View ArticleNetwork connection on VMware-player 5.0.2 - build 1031769
Hi One of our work stations is end of life hardware-wise (runs WinPro 7 32 bit which is fine) but rather than giving my operative a new box to learn I've picked up VM player (VMware-player 5.0.2 -...
View ArticleNo option to create a new virtual
I have downloaded VMWare Player version 5.0.2 and installed on a Windows 8 PC. It does not give me the option to "Create a new virtual". I have never used this product and I would like to use Windows...
View ArticleSnow leopard installation in VMWare Player
Hi, I am after some help. I purchased a copy of snow leopard from apple so this is a legitimate copy. I have an intel i7 3770k processor 16gb ram. I am wanting to try and install snow leopard on my...
View ArticleMultiple VM's, one physical NIC, VLANs with different NICs?
Hows it going? I'm a student in Ireland trying to get advice for a project I am trying to accomplish in the Cloud Computing course I am doing. Im fairly new to this these are my first VMs and I am...
View ArticleCreating and consolidating Snapshot only possible with Workstation (not with...
As far as I can see creating and consolidating a Snapshot is only possible with VmWare Workstation and NOT with VmWare Player. Is this correct? Matt
View ArticleHelp with my Virtual Machine
Hi, I created a new Virtual Machine,but I only receive erros on Startup,as far as I can see, no Installation was done. I tried to Install .Windows XP Professional Here the Error Message.VMware Player...
View ArticleCan not install XP SP1
Hi, I just started my very first foray into virtulisation and have hit a problem. I have installed VM Player on my Windows 8 system. When I try to install XP the install appears to be going normally,...
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Can't ping guest from Win7 host using NAT in Player 5 -- wrong IP address on...
The guest gets a sane-looking IP address from vmware's DHCP server (192.168.47.47.130) and can talk to the host and to the Internet but I can't ping or telnet the guest from the Windows host. I...
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Change resolution in MS-DOS
Hey guys, i was just getting my VM with MSDOS started when I recognized that the resolution of the DOS Window was kinda small. I was trying to change it by using a manual resolution in the VM-Players...
View ArticleOnly the First guest OS I boot up can see the network
Hello everyone, At work we currently work exclusively out of VMs. Usually we have more than one VM open at a time, but we always boot up and shut down multiple VMs everyone day. We are using VmWare...
View ArticleVMware Player unrecoverable error: (vmplayer) NOT_IMPLEMENTED
Hi everybody, I've installed VMware Player the first time in my life. I'm not able to start the Windows VMware Player 64 bit. I tried varies Versions (5.02/01/00) and every version results in the same...
View ArticleNetwork-Access-Problems
Hello, I set up a VM with W7 64bit on my PC with Windows 8. My W8-PC is connected to some networkdrives on a nas. Now I want to access from my VM on the same NAS but with other userdata. So I'm able to...
View ArticleCannot Copy VMDK file
I am currently attempting to copy my XP VM to another PC. Everytime I attempt to copy the file, I get a disk I/O error and the source Drive becomes unmounted. I have to restart my PC in order to see...
View ArticleNo ethernet in vmware 5 with Linux 3.6
Hi there I am struggling to figure out why there is no eth% device when running Linux 3.6 in vmware player version 5 ?I've have compiled vmxnet support into the kernel and the boot up messages says...
View ArticleVMDK file cannot be opened or unlocked
I've been running a Windows XP professional virtual machine for a few weeks now, and until today it's gone well. But today, when I started it up, the machine informed me that the VDMK file "cannot be...
View ArticleIs it possible to resize a virtual disk in VMware player 4.0.1?
I have a redhat linux 64-bit guest OS vm running in VMware player 4.0.1. The host OS is windows XP. I found this article:...
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