When leaving the fullscreen mode, VMWare player resizes to a very small size...
When leaving the fullscreen mode, VMWare player resizes to a very small size forcing all the guest windows to resize. As a consequence, I have to resize all my windows back to the original size when I...
View ArticleUnusual artifact after OS upgrade
I have been a VMware Workstation and VMware Player user for the last several years. Within the past few days I wiped my system clean and installed Linux 14.04 LTS and installed the latest version of...
View ArticleDoes VMplayer’s guest OS have a memory bandwidth limitation, compared to an...
1: Does anyone know if VMplayer has a limited memory bandwidth, compared to the physical bandwidth in the host computer? Is there a bottleneck? I do BOINC crunching on VMplayer guests on two different...
View ArticleInstallation of VMware player on a non GUI OS
Hi All, I am using ubuntu 12 server edition and it is only CLI. Can I install vmware player in it and install a GUI OS. If yes please provide the steps for it. Please help Thanks for your timeAchyuth...
View ArticleBest hardware setup for vm windows 7 ultimate
Hello,I want to run windows 7 ultimate insite VMware Player and would like to know how many ram and processors cores I should specified in the setup please.here is my config:Laptop Asus G75vw...
View ArticlePatch: VMware Player 6.0.2 compilation fails on kernel 3.15.0-rc7, Ubuntu...
VMware Player ran into compilation issues after installing kernel 3.15.0-rc7 on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit. The errors are thrown when compiling the vmci and vsock modules. I have fixed the issues and shared...
View ArticleVMPlayer behaves like a jealous child
VMPlayer is very frustrating because whenever any other process on the host increases the CPU load, VMPlayer (vmware-vmx.exe) immediately spikes to match it. It is like a jealous child jumping up and...
View ArticleCan't install 64-bit VMware Player - So what am I missing?
I've got a new Acer Aspire V3-772G-9829 on which I am trying to install VMWare Player so I can run a 64-bit OS. Unfortunately I can't get Player to install the 64-bit version. I've been searching and...
View ArticleSlow Erratic mouse behavior in Unity Mode.
Hello All, I have read the other posts on this forum for this same behavior, but the "workaround" that most people posted was to "Always Optimize mouse for games", or something very similar to that....
View ArticleAnother newbie fails vmware-tools install
I know the process is supposed to be automated, idiot-proof and user friendly, but my newly installed Player with guest Debian Linux 7 doesn't want to install vmware-tools V9.6.2, which it keeps...
View ArticleHelp me to downoad and install Virtual Machine
Hi folks, I need a help regarding installing Virtual Machine. My Requirement:I need to install Virtual Machine on My laptop and then need to install and configure Cloudera's Distribution Hadoop (CDH)...
View Articlevmware Player 6.0 and .vmx file permissions
Hi For some time now, we have been using vmware Player 3.1 to provide a number of non persistent virtual machines in an educational environment. We have previously been able to have the folders and...
View ArticleNeed Help Launching a Kubuntu VM
Hi All,I am relatively new to this forum and virtualization in general. At any rate, I have received a Kubuntu VM that I am trying to open with VMware Player. VMware Player sees the VM just fine but...
View Articlevmplayer will not load any OS
I'm on a Windows 8.1 64x laptop that has issues loading any OS on vmplyer. Once I start it, it only shows a black screen and when I try to exit I get an error message of "The virtual machine is busy"....
View ArticleProblems with setting up VM Player
Having problems using VM Player (ver 6.0.2 on Windows 8.1). It isn't able to update as it can't seem to find the update server (given as https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds ). It also can't install...
View ArticleUSB device works on workstation 9.0, doesn't on workstation 10.0
I've been using VMWare for a long time and one of my recent uses requires a USB soundcard to be fed in passthough to the VM. It works wonderfully in workstation 9 hardware version, but in version 10 it...
View ArticleVMXnet will not build on Ubuntu 14.04, kernel 3.13.0-24-generic
I am having problems getting the the vmxnet drivers to build on my Ubuntu guest, Window 7 64-bit host. I have tried editing the Ubuntu 64-bit.vmx file and changing the network adapter to vmxnet3 or...
View Article"auto" matching brackets, etc.
Is there any way to configure VMWare Player so that, when coding, there is an automatic entry of matching quotes, brackets, etc. for C-programming, as is present on several other such apps?
View Articlehost Win 8.1 x 64, guest Zorin 8 ultimate
HelloAlthough this is my first post, I have watched tutorials and read literature.I wish to use some type of VMWare to use Zorin as guest.t am not sure which VMWare I should use.If you could please...
View ArticleVMWARE ERROR:I got an error after my ubuntu vm had started.It told me to look...
2014-05-31T14:14:20.809+05:30| vmx| I120: Log for VMware Workstation pid=2876 version=10.0.1 build=build-1379776 option=Release2014-05-31T14:14:20.809+05:30| vmx| I120: The process is...
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