antivirus for vms
what is the best antivirus on vMs? I have user VMs running on their laptops. (not VDI) its vms running on vmplayer onm their laptops. Can anyone recommend a good antivirus solution for the VMs?
View ArticleInstall Tools Offline
Hi, Been searching everywhere for an answer to this but can't find one, can't believe I'm the only person with this problem.Either that or I've missed something! I've installed VMWare Player 3 on a...
View ArticleNetworking problem on a windows 8.1 guest
Hello, I am discovering VMware Player and I started to play with this software a few days ago. The host machine is Linux Mint Maya 64 bits and the current guest is a Windows 8.1 pro 64 bits. Setup was...
View ArticleWhere may I find Vmware player 3.0?
Hello to everyone I write here because I have a headache over a problem: I need a VM with windows98/95 and Vmware seems the only virtualizer who works with them (I have tried VirtualBox, which is...
View ArticleVmware Tools won't install in XP Pro Sp3 guest
I think VMware tools is supposed to install drivers for these (Vga adaptor and SCSI which are unknown devices in my device manager) but it hangs in safe and normal mode on my xp after manually run...
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Running VMWare PLayer on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS problems installing...
Currently we use Watchguard´s Dimension Server to monitor all of our devices. I was testing Dimension using the VMWare Player on my Windows 8 desktop and their Dimension 1.1U ova file and it works just...
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Can't install VMware Player 6.0.2 when username contains apostrophe
I was trying to install VMware Player 6.0.2 in a Windows 8.1 Professional 64-bit O/S. I kept on having "Script Error" (cf image below). After some investigations, I found out the cause of the problem....
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Crashing XP (with final rollup) file transfer
Player : 6.0.2 build-1744117 Hi, I have about 3GB in 34,447 Files, 1,435 Folders to transfer from the local host C (shared folder) to the guest C. I left it running and minimized Player and when I came...
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Access Guest folders from Host?
Hi, I am, having trouble copying a large number of files using Shared Folders. Is there any way I can access the Guest folders from the win8 Host and try pushing the files from there? Win8 may be a lot...
View ArticleVMWare installation problem...why?
I am trying to install VMWare Player (although actually I would like to have a web server version although I am not sure which is the most suitable product for me), however unfortunately I am getting...
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Vmware Player VS Hyper-V/Virtual Box for future use of XP Guest
As Microsoft has dropped XP-Mode and Virtual PC how likely will it be that in their future operating system eg Windows 9, they will drop support for running Xp as a guest as well? How likely do...
View ArticleVMware Player Virtual Machine RTC accelerated?
I just came across a new, at least for me, well quirk? A VMware Player VM where the VM RTC is or appears to run accelerated, the question is why? The actual tick duration appears to be incorrect. I...
View ArticleWindows 7 Driver issue
I have a Windows 7 Enterprise VM and trying to install a USB webcam. However, when Windows recognizes the driver and tries to install it there is an error message. The message indicates that there is...
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Player 6.0.2 cannot find bootfiles to load Win98 or Win95 guest/s in Windows...
Hi everyone, this is my first post on this website, and thank you to etung for your proforma re; 'how to ask a question'. I will attempt to include all relevant data required for resolution.I have only...
View ArticleVMware Ubuntu host's Internet Connection is dropped when running Windows 8...
Using a 64 bit system running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as a VMware host and Windows 8 Pro as the guest system. My problem is my Ubuntu host’s Internet connection is dropped when I run the Windows 8 guest in...
View ArticleUse IPv6 Internet connection to ISP.
After much searching, I cannot find any ideas that work to allow my VMware Player guest to use my host ISP IPv6 connection. Most of what I found says to use a Bridged connection and it should work. I...
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CPU ID Thingy
Hi. I'm not a coder or a programmer or and ICT technician person thing or whateverrr so this question isn't really technical it's more personal. Sorry if the context of my question offends you a little...
View Article64bit Intel T6400 and Windows 8
I'm using a Toshiba M300 Notebook running Windows 7 Pro 32bit and recently installed VMPlayer 6.0.2. I have installed Windows XP Pro as a guest without any problem, but when trying to create another...
View ArticleNo network connection on guest
Hello, My Win7 guest can't connect to the network, it complains about a unpluged ethernet cable. No network problem on host. It used to work until I upgraded the host from Win8 to 8.1 (not sure if...
View Article"The MSI 'C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp\vmware 1398566\vmwareplay er_x64.msi'...
I keep getting this message when I try to install VMWare Player. "The MSI 'C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp\vmware 1398566\vmwareplay er_x64.msi' failed. Could not write value to key...
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