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WS 7 major problems

Student Driver — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:53:41 GMT

So, what host OS and hardware are you using?

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

Disadvantages with running VMware Workstation (7) on a Xeon rack server?

Student Driver — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:59:54 GMT

Scaling. Workstation, to my knowledge, won't do the RAM consolidation and over-commitment that ESXi can do. Workstation can page portions of RAM to the harddrive, but ESXi will actually consolidate pages of RAM that are share amongst the VMs. So, if you're running 8 or 10 instances of Windows Server 2008, you will see quite a savings in RAM usage.

If you don't want to use it, that's fine, but at least use Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. I like that product too, and you will have Windows on the host as you desired.

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

VMXRequestReset = Access to misconfigured virtual devices

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:31:51 GMT

While booting a LiveCD in a VM I get a messagebox with the suggestions to reset the VM because of misconfigured vortual devices..
This happens during Hardware - detection of the guest ...
If this is interesting - its reproducable - no custom edits to the vmx-file - I'll post details

USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12

VMXRequestReset
Msg_Hint: msg.monitorEvent.14552 (sent)

Access to misconfigured virtual devices ***

Your guest operating system has accessed an I/O range where multi ...

USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
reset: The virtual machine is in state 3
Msg_Hint: msg.monitorEvent.14552 (sent)

Access to misconfigured virtual devices ***

Your guest operating system has accessed an I/O range where multi ...

USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
reset: The virtual machine is in state 3
Msg_Hint: msg.monitorEvent.14552 (sent)

Access to misconfigured virtual devices ***

Your guest operating system has accessed an I/O range where multi ...

USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
reset: The virtual machine is in state 3
Msg_Hint: msg.monitorEvent.14552 (sent)

Access to misconfigured virtual devices ***

Your guest operating system has accessed an I/O range where multi ...

USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:12
reset: The virtual machine is in state 3

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VM location - use suggested default or rather not?

ibauer — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:08:55 GMT

Thanks a lot, continuum. I've got the answers I've been looking for.

Compatibility Issue - Windows 7 with WS7 and HP Connection Manager 3

cweber@dtc.ch — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:36:18 GMT

Hi all

I hope someone can help me. I've got the following configuration:

HP 8530w Notebook
HP un2400 builtin Broadband UMTS Modem
Windows 7 Professional x64
VMWare Workstation 7

My problem is that the HP Connection Manager 3 for the HP un2400 is not working anymore after installing VMWare Workstation 7. I'm unable to connect to an UMTS network because the Connection Manager thinks, that the virtual nics for the vmnet1 and vmnet8 are online an connected to the internet.

I tried to disable the virtual networks through the VMWare Network editor. I can disable the adapters but when I apply the settings, the GUI hangs.
I need to uninstall the HP Connection Manager. After that I'm able to disable the adapters.

But in the end I need both for my work, the vmnet1 + 8 adapters on the host and the HP connection manager.

Does anybody have simmilar problems?

Thanks for your help

Kind regards
Chris

Workstation 7 Backup

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:58:28 GMT

Unknown.

Don't make backups like that. Instead find out where the VM is stored exactly and copy that complete directory

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Cannot Purchase Upgrade To Workstation 7

Student Driver — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:19:14 GMT

Strange. I found that I had difficulty initially just getting a license at all because the site seems to be going through an eternal upgrade process (couldn't log on to the forums again this morning because of it).

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

Boot USB stick and VMware Workstation 7.x

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:11:43 GMT

sure - boot from PLOP CD and make sure you have USB-stick connected.
In PLOP-bootmanager then select USB

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USB devices will not connect in Guest OSs

bobcal2008 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:20:24 GMT

I'm using Workstation v6.5.3 on SUSE SLED v11.0 and mostly XP Pro Guests.

The problem is my XP Pro guests will not see most USD devices. Thumb drives work but run at USB v1 speed. My Sony camera and TomTom GPS are seen by the guest OS by name and say they will run at slower USB v1 speed, but never become available to the guest OS as a device.

Workstation v6.5.3 does support USB v2 doesn't it?

Thanks for the help in advance.

vmware 7 and server 2008 r2

jneuhaus — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:14:54 GMT

I was able to fix this issue on Windows 7 by doing the following:

Turning off my antivirus (Panda Cloud Antivirus)
Control Panel | Programs | Turn Windows features on or off
Turn off Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1
Install VMware Workstation 7
Turn on Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1
reboot

Sound broken with Ubuntu 9.10 guest

Student Driver — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:52:34 GMT

As I posted in another thread:

" I just fired up my Fedora Core 12 VM; it appears to play MP3s just
fine, and it uses pulseaudio as well. So, I have to wonder what's so
different about Ubuntu's implementation that makes it so sketchy on my
Dell Mini 9 and inside the VMware products."

In that other thread, another person found that 9.04 was fine in Parallels, yet 9.10 has sync issues and other problems. It looks like 9.10 just has something different going on in its audio setup. It would be nice if they could just get to a configuration option and stick with it, but I suppose this is the risk you run when the OS expects major changes every 6 months.

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

Error Oxc0000005 when enabling Aero in Win7 guest and performance issues

Franky01 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:23:55 GMT

I just installed a vista VM to see if that is any better but it give's me the same performance issue's and aero problems ... As soon as I do the hardware check the error come's.

Workstation 7: Can't SSH to guest from host....Bridged networking broken?

donmichelangelo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:09:42 GMT

Another User-Report here: I also had the same problem that i couldnt connect via ssh/smb (other services i didnt checked) on my ubuntu 9.10 guest. First I thought it was a firewall related problem then ssh prob in the same time also figured out that smb doesnt work as it did before. Beside nearly pulling out my hair (yes I still have hair), I was close put this problem on the Ubuntu Upgrade what I had done before. After reading this thread this morning and applying the workaround with disabling the TCP Checksum of my Realtek NIC it finally works.

Specs of the host machine:

Windows XP SP3 german

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 Mainboard with Realtek NIC

VMw Workstation 7

Open application from host in guest like unity

Franky01 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:22:08 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to open a application from a win XP host (in this case a ms acces based crm system) inside a win 7 guest ?

thnx !

Workstation 7 on Ubuntu 9.10 host -- VMs run dog slow

Neilly — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:56:16 GMT

I have tested this on two computers and one exhibits high utilization and the other does not. Although the one that does have the high cpu utilization does settle down to normal levels after a few minutes. Here is a brief summary of the Good and the Bad:
Good Guy:
AMD Opteron 165 (dual core) cpu 1.8GHz OC'd to 2.48GHz
ASUS A8N-SLI mobo
3GB RAM
nVidia 7950 GPU
openSUSE 11.2 (upgraded from 11.1)
- KDE 4.3.3
- ReiserFS
- two Seagate 320GB hdd in a software raid 0 array
- kernel-desktop

Bad Guy:
Lenovo T61 Laptop
Intel Core2 Duo CPU 2.2GHz
3GB RAM
nVidia 140M workstation-class video card
openSUSE 11.2 (clean install)
- KDE 4.3.1
- ext4 mounted with noatime,nodiratime,barrier=0,data=writeback, also readahead is set to 4096KB
- 120GB hdd
- kernel-desktop

The guest vm's on both systems are the same (identical copies) : Windows XP sp3. The vm hardware is the same : 1GB RAM, 1 vCPU. Seeing that some are reporting issues with the # of vCPU's I tested on the GoodGuy with 2 vCPU's to see if I could make it behave badly. I it did not get worse, it did not get better either which is fine.

So I'll need to do some further testing to see if I can make the GoodGuy bad or the BadGuy good . Towards that end I am going to format a spare hdd in my GoodGuy system with the ext4 filesystem to see if it possible that ext4 is causing an issue. Also I will reinstall openSUSE on the laptop with ext3. This should help, depending on the outcomes, to narrow the problem down to either the filesystem (ext4) or the brand of cpu (amd good, intel bad). Both of my cpu's have the virtiualization support and it is enabled as well.

Another test - should anyone else care to test it - is in regards to the kernel. There are some that are indicating it may be an issue with the kernel and the scheduler. It occurs to me that it may also be the timer as the kernel-desktop that is available with openSUSE changes the timer from 250Hz (used in openSUSE 11.1 and prior) to 1000Hz. The purpose of the change (option really) is to provide a more responsive single-user desktop experience vs the prior setting. Fortunately openSUSE also ships with the server oriented kernel (250Hz) so it is easy to test this hypothesis. I have no idea if other distro's are doing the same thing....

I'll let you how it goes.

Cheers,

Ron

Space character in Remote Name

Zevi — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:48:12 GMT

Steve,

Thanks you! That was exactly what I was looking for -- how to rename the "Shared Folder" without the space. I actually renamed it "Shared_Folder", and all is well now.

Thanks again,
Zevi

How to have custom resolution in Linux guest consoles?

Nazgulled — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:39:36 GMT

I think it goes something like this:

We have a virtual graphics card, both in VBox and VMware. These graphics cards support some combination of resolutions and depth colors but they are not truly variable (just like a regular graphics card). They are only variable if VMware tools are installed and running properly on X (talking about linux of course).

What VBox does is simply add a new resolution to the supported resolutions in that virtual graphics card and that's it. The system will recognize that custom resolution as another resolution supported by the graphics card and you can choose to use it just like any other resolution.

Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 install error on VMWare Wkstn 7

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:23:20 GMT

I cant use use IDE drives fearing performance hit.

there is no performance hit - on the contrary - IDE disks are more stable on heavy loads than SCSI

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does it work?

mclavey — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:23:07 GMT

I found a command that does work:

sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation

VCP W'station Key not working on W'station 7

Student Driver — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:14:28 GMT

Well, yes and no I suppose. I'm certified with Red Hat and Microsoft and don't receive free operating systems or maintenance from them, so getting the current version at the time of their flagship workstation product is a gift. I would also treat it as such, and if needed just upgrade it. Otherwise, they have ESXi and Player that are both free if money is an issue. However, I wouldn't presume that being a VCP would guarantee a lifetime subscription to their workstation product.

Now, when I was a Micrsoft MVP I got a free MSDN subscription, but there was ongoing work that I did to keep it. Maybe they'll consider doing the same for furm members (or do they already)?

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

BSOD during Workstation 7 upgrade

Student Driver — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:07:47 GMT

Strange, I suppose I should update my Acronis as I have the RTM of 2010. Also, System Restore only recovers various areas of the installation, but not all of it; it isn't a complete snapshot and recovery like Acronis is.

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

Workstation Installer Hang 6.5.3 and Workaround

martyfelker — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:57:38 GMT

Incredible! Thank you so much. Following the instructions to the letter I installed WS 6.5.3 on karmic 64-bit kernel 2.6.31-15!

Marty Felker

Guest OS (XP) hangs, causing host to 100% cpu

virshu — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:41:23 GMT

I was getting all these errors (vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out. and vmx| GuestRpc: app toolbox's second ping timeout; assuming app is down) and constant freezing... I noticed some questionable references to USB devices; so I disabled USB controller - and it seems to be working fine.

I don't need USB devices (webcam, tuner, etc) - so it may not be a solution...

I have VMWare Server 2.0.2, with Vista 64-bit host, and Windows 7 64-bit guest

VM 7 hangs and wont launch XP workstations created with VM Workstation 6.0

wila — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:26:12 GMT

Hi,

Welcome to the VMware community forums.
No, you won't have to run a tool to migrate the virtual machine in order to be able to boot them.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "it won't launch" as it could mean a number of things.
Please attach the vmware.log file found in the folder of one of the virtual machines it doesn't want to run.

--
Wil
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Major Unity Problem

Bernd Nowak — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:44:55 GMT

Hi all,
I have a Windows 7 64 Bit host with 8 GB RAM, Intel Quad Q9300, Nvidia 8800 GTS and VMware Workstation 7.0.0 build-203739.
I setup a Windows XP SP3 VM with Vmware Tools installed.
If I choose Unity via View/Unity vmware workstation is minimized and I see the Unity start menu integration and can access the installed programs there. However if I launch a program from there it's not displayed on the host.
If I restore VMWare workstation and exit unity mode the program is opened in the VM. I have uninstalled several times and cleaned the registry, deleted C:\ProgramData VMware directories but no matter what I do unity don't work.
I have found a thread dating a long time back with users having the same problem but no solution. No event log entries when I try to launch a program through unity.
Attached is the UI log. I found only these errors but my search haven't lead me anywhere

Nov 21 21:20:50.954: vmui-4040| CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectPipe failed
Nov 21 21:20:50.954: vmui-4040| CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed
Nov 21 21:20:50.954: vmui-4040| Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed
Nov 21 21:20:50.954: vmui-4040| Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to read vmware-authd port number: Cannot connect to VMX: F:\Vmware\XPVmwareTools\XP Vmware Tools.vmx

So maybe someone can help ? Or someone from VMware ?

Workstation 6.5 and 64-bit Guest OS on a 32-bit computer

Troy Clavell — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:22:14 GMT

what is your CPU model? Have you checked your BIOS of the laptop to see if your have VT to enable

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (mks) Inception 0x0000005 (access violation)

Sonoben — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:23:49 GMT

Thanks. It happened just after it woke-up.

Running games in Windows 98

aaditya.chandrasekhar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:42:43 GMT

The Vista/Win7 WDDM driver emulation of legacy DirectX versions is pretty decent. If you have a copy of Vista/Win7 and can run the game in a compatiblity mode, there is a reasonable chance it may work. VMware does not provide graphics acceleration of any kind for < Win2K.

WS7 and W7 non enhanced 3d

aaditya.chandrasekhar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:37:21 GMT

svga.vramSize is set to 8mb when 3D is disabled and that really limits the resolutions that you can set in the guest. Try bumping it to 64/128MB and most resolutions should work. The corresponding line to add to your vmx would be "svga.vramSize=67108864" for 64MB.

VMWare Workstation 6.5 Auto Start Guest OS on bootup?

vivithemage — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:08:16 GMT

something similiar? I am afraid to try it without know it's not the correct syntax

Vmware not detecting host vista network adapters

sukumar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:28:56 GMT

Hi all,

Recently I got my dell laptop1420 with built in windows vista. I installed vmware workstation ACE edition 6.0.4 build-93057. As a guest OS I selected linux redhat(fedora 8). when I try to power on my guest os (Linux) it had given "eth0 device is down". When I try to bridge manually using vmware network editor, I found strange thing.. "automatically choose an available physical network adapter to bridge to VMnet0" option is entirly disabled. even
for addition it is not showing any network adapters.

from last one month I am trying to solve this problem. But I am not able to solve this issue. Please some one kindly provide any suggetion to resolve this issue.

Details about the system
Vmware workstation ACE edition version: 6.0.4 build 93057.
host os: windows vista
guest os: fedora 8
network adapter: Broadcom netlink fast ethernet
intel wireless adapter

Thanks and regards,
Sukumar

found a bug in vmware workstation 7

ubergitler — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:24:12 GMT

it dosn't mater if any VM is running
it matter of vmware usb arbiter service is running
if it running when i plug in modem, it detects as first of it part device and does not switching to modem mode
and looks lite full usb subsystem is locked up:
it meen
if any usb device was plugged it works,
but if after plugging in modem i try to plugin something other, pc didn't see it
i attached log
but nothing seems interesting in them

is there a way to remove the top tool bar ?

mclavey — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:54:10 GMT

I am evaulating VMware ...very new to it ..... I have not read all the manuals and docks.... I am on a laptop

running win 7 as a guest the resulting window is so small ... with scroll bars on the side and bottom .

Is there a way to remove the top "VMware" tool bar so the window can be large enough to make it usable?

SSD performance with VMWare Workstation over SATA

Ericinboston — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:01:59 GMT

Hi all,

I have been reading rave reviews about the Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M160G2XXX 2.5" 160GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD) drive especially regarding its performance over SATA drives.

I use a laptop (Lenovo W500) and currently use 7200 RPM SATA drives. I run VMWare Workstation a lot and am looking for performance improvements that possibly the above SSD will provide.

Here are a few performance questions/topics that hopefully you can help me with:

Typically the best way to have good VMWare performance (other than CPU and RAM) is to be sure to store/run the VM images themselves from another internal, non-USB drive. Meaning, you power up your pc and VMWare Workstation is installed in c:\program files yet your actual VMs are stored in d:\vmfiles or something...this way the 2nd hard drive is free from Windows' normal disk i/o nonsense. Therefore, I can imagine improving drive performance by 1 of 2 options:

1)Install the Intel SSD drive as my 2nd drive...the c drive (where Windows is installed) will still be a SATA 7200 RPM drive.
2)Install the Intel SSD drive as BOTH my drives...therefore, a definite performance gain because I am no longer using traditional non-SSD drives

My big question is: Do you think #1 will give me a performance increase in my daily use of VMWare or will I really need to go with option #2? I'm not a super VMWare expert but I believe all VM disk i/o is done on the drive where the VM files are stored (in my case, the D drive)...and therefore, theoretically #1 would give me a performance increase if I am correct. But, a part of me says that VMWare Workstation's inner workings (not the VM) is utilizing the Windows Page File that is stored on the C drive...so if I do #1, I won't get as much of a performance gain as doing #2.

I hope my question makes sense.

Again, my use case is all around Windows (XP or 7 or 2008 Server) as the host and VMWare Workstation 6 or 7...the W500 laptop currently has 4gig of RAM and will likely go to 8GB soon...and the CPU is a 2.53GHz dual core Intel. The VMs run ok now, but after reading about the Intel SSD being faster than many RAID configurations, I just had to come here and ask around. I am aware of the traditional methods of increasing system and VM performance, but until recently, drive performance was the last frontier to be improved.

Thanks so much in advance for your help!

-Eric

Which one - AMD 6400+ Dual or AMD X4 9950 Quad core?

briansnj — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:34:33 GMT

Your answer helps me a lot actually. I thought the QUAD core could provide some better performance as far as providing more resources "cores" and not as much as "speed". Typical cpu benchmarkls show the 6400 to be equal to the 9950 as far as general performance (speed of getting tasks done). This is good to know. Sometimes I do have to kick on 3 VMs at once to test network scenarios but normally I only have 1 or 2.

But if a QUAD core will allow me to run 1 or 2 VMs and allow me to use my host PC at the same time more easily, then I am going to install the 9950 and utilize the quad cores.

Any guides for tweaking WORKSTATION and multiple cores?

How to get best performance?

Nidhin9 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:11:48 GMT

Friends i have been assigned to another project, with the current on hold. So i will be updating this thread as soon as i get back to old one. Thanks for your patience.

MEM_ALLOC bug

marcosestevesbarbosa — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:13:40 GMT

VMware 7 running on Linux. This is strange, because in my other machine run perfectly!

aero in windows 7 vmworkstation 7

Franky01 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:12:44 GMT

Having the same issue on a Dell latitude E6400. Any sollution ?

tia !
Frank

VMWare Workstation 6.5, can't seem to get networking to work

louyo — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:28:29 GMT

Run ipconfig/all on both host and guest and make sure the network cards have different MAC addresses, I am not sure what you get when you do a conversion.

I think you have 2 choices:
1. Used bridged mode with a static IP address on your LAN (if allowed). This would be similar to how your host is running.
2. Use NAT mode for your VM with all VMnets set to their defaults.

If you are on a corporate LAN, make sure it is possible to do NAT via your host.

Lou

WHY is a clone not a clone! If you clone with pre-allocated disc, the resulting clone is variable!

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:15:23 GMT

If you want full control over the result I would never use Converter as it likes to do strange things to the guests registry
Use vmware-vdiskmanager instead

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Does remote display via VNC work with WS 7 ?

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:12:14 GMT

oh dear ... oh dear ....
you were right with the loop back
the problem was actually sitting in front of the screen
sorry

Ulli

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workstation v7.0 Host usb device connection disabled not working (host OS: win 7)(guest OS: backtrack 3)

BrockTheBadgerUK — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:21:30 GMT

I have had the same problem on an AMD Vista x64 host. I now run a batch (.bat) file with the following command before running VMware Workstation.

sc start VMUSBArbService

This allows all my Workstation guests to function normally. Not elegant, but at least I can continue to use VMware!

HTH

Richard

Keyboard is not working in unity mode

SomeWeirdText — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:18:13 GMT

any ideas?

Cannot update WS7 preferences on XP Pro for standard user

kdshapiro — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:38:36 GMT

It's been a while since I actually changed any preferences or virtual network settings on XP as a standard user under 6.5.3 so I don't exactly recall. Are saying to change the preferences, such as the display of the workstation icon does not require admin but changing virtual network settings does? I'll do some further digging and report back. Thanks for the reply.

Ken

workstation 7 crashes after pressing ctrl+alt

ckousoulis — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:17:35 GMT

OK, so this issue is a known bug in Kingsoft PowerWord. We are tracking a workaround internally to address the issue, but the defect is in their DLL. It's up to you to decide if you feel it is worth having VMware and PowerWord at the same time, but if you try uninstalling PowerWord, let me know if the crash in VMware goes away.

Thanks!

Activating OS via providing key in wizard vs when using the OS

BladeR1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:07:18 GMT

Hi,

I was just wondering, when setting up a VM and providing the OS ISO file in the wizard, is there any difference or implication to not providing the serial key at this stage but then activating the OS when it's installed and you're using it?

In my case, this is Windows Server 2008 R2.

ChromeOS in Workstation 7

Student Driver — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:49:33 GMT

Yeah, it's pretty cool. I dig it. I was up that late anyway, so I grabbed it straight away and started working with it. The torrent didn't work for me, but the gdgt image did.

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

openSUSE 11.1 WS 7 won't start a VM

Dan Essin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:02:30 GMT

Trying to eval

When I choose "power on vm" it get "Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded. "

What's this? How to fix?

Problems with networking using Workstation 7

Student Driver — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:10:52 GMT

Have you checked the security log of the VM, and the domain controller, to see if there are any NTLM or Kerberos errors? When the VM is bridged, does it have the correct DNS setting?

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

DOS printing to USB device

BillPedersen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:07:59 GMT

Ok, which configuration? I am assuming with the PCI/Parallel interface. I can see about set this but. As I have moved forward with implementation of the new application with minimal support for the old application on the new systems. They can query and run the appl but no printing.

IF I can find a solution to the printing issue then all will be more more comfortable. But other than that there is no really issue here.

Thanks for the suggestion. Once I find some time I will see about getting this tested a bit more.

Bill.

Cannot Install Tools on Workstation 7 Guest

continuum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:43:28 GMT

check guest OS selection - looks like you selected one of the older Windows versions so Workstation will mount the wrong iso when you hit "install vmware-tools" button

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How can I force download of solaris.iso vmware-tools ?

continuum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:31:22 GMT

bump

Cant authenticate with domain accounts?

Student Driver — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:54:02 GMT

How many domains are in your forest that you're using? Are the machine accounts in the same domain as the one you're trying to connect to? It sounds like you're trying to do some cross-domain authentication. Are your DNS properties pointing to the DCs (hosting DNS, of course) within the home domain of these systems? If the machine accounts aren't showing up in your AD Users and Computers for their "home" domain, that would explain your issues. Also, how old are these clones? The machine account changes its password at regular intervals, and if the native machine has changed its password since the clone was taken, that can also cause problems. If the machine was removed from AD following the cloning, that will also cause this problem and the clone/VM will have to be re-joined to AD.

Dell SXPS 1340, P9600, 8GB RAM
MCSE/MCSA 2003, MCTS, RHCT

Windows7 Guest hangs / Excessive HD IO

continuum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:34:36 GMT

you use a monolithicSparse vmdk - when did you last shrink it ?

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unable to open file

sjlukacs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:15:06 GMT

hello one and all,

i have osx snow leopard 10.6.2 and vmware fusion 3.0. i installed win7x64 under my osx "lucas" login on my win7 harddrive on my mac pro. vmware and win7 work fine under my osx login. however,when my girl "brooke" logs into her osx account and tries to open the win7 she gets,

"Unable to open file "/Volumes/Win7/ Windows 7 x64.vmwarevm/Windows 7 x64-000002.vmdk": Insufficient permission to access file."

so i logged in under myself, which i am an osx admin and gave full permission to brooke for the above file and the win7 partitition. however, brooke can not still use the vmware and the same message comes up. please point me in the direction of where to fix this. thank you in advance.

lucas

WS7 Mouse tracking in Linux "Live CD" guests

continuum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:18 GMT

see http://sanbarrow.com/workstation-faq.html#p1

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Need Help: Remote Desktop unable to display more than 8-bit Color quality using high resolution 3840 x 1024 pixels

vcpwj07310 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:16:17 GMT

Turns out the "Color Depth" issue is well documented in the article below:

support.microsoft.com/kb/942610

While the fix primarily applies to Windows Server 2003-based computer. it also works for both Windows XP 64-bit physical and virtual machines.

Any way to "magnify" a guest to just appear.. bigger?

j_mosk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:47:44 GMT

Hmm.. Well, that "worked." But the zoomed in screen is kinda "janky" depending on my guest.

Well, it's better than nothing. Thanks for the tip.

Does anyone know of a program that will specificall zoom in on ONE WINDOW (the vmware app) and just.. make that bugger bigger?

power on guest fail

AWo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:04:27 GMT

continuum schrieb:
meinkoch, deinkoch ... der koch ist fuer uns alle da

Yes, post it!

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VMWare guest OS and VPN

louyo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:02:16 GMT

I don't recall seeing so many BSOD posts in the forums. I have never had a blue screen, that I can remember.
Have a look here:
http://sanbarrow.com/workstation-faq.html
and join this thread:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/242746?tstart=30
It sounds like VMWare folks may be looking for cases to work on.

That said, I have only updated my Linux host to VMW 7.0, I am waiting for the dust to settle before upgrading my laptop (W7).

Lou

vmware workstation 6.x

RDPetruska — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:24:42 GMT

First off, your host will never display a VMnet0 connection... each physical NIC in your host that you desire to bridge to will have the VMware Bridge Protocol service in its properties list.

To retrieve your serial, go to the Support pages, and select Manage Product Licenses. Select your Workstation version in the Desktop Products combo box. Log in with your VMware Store account info. You will see a listing of your registered serial numbers.

virtual machine cannot connected to Internet

AWo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:25 GMT

ChrisLopes schrieb:
Using NAT does not work either. It show request time out. If I used custom(NAT), it does not get the DHCP IP Address from the router.

That it does not get an address from the DHCP router is correct. By using NAT you put the guest in a different (virtual) network and it gets an DHCP address from the internal VMware DHCP server (if you haven't changed the default. That is maybe the reason why NAT doesn't work. You may have given it the wrong IP address manually. Can you post the IP setup while the guest uses NAT?

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disk resizing in WS7

RDPetruska — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:00 GMT

Re-read the release notes carefully. The ONLY OS's which the vmware-vdiskmanager can extend the partition of the formatted filesystem inside the virtual disk is Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7. ALL other OS's, you must manually run a disk partitioning utility to create or extend an existing partition into the newly created disk space.

VMware Workstation 7 - Loop on signal 11

murzic — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:20:05 GMT

I add output of

#strace vmware

may be it is usefull information.

Recommended Guest hardware configuration

AWo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:09:26 GMT

IMHO a preallocated disk saves performance when new data is written on it, that means when a not preallocated disk has to increase its size. It doesn't increase the the performance when accessing already written data. In other words when a not preallocated disk reaches its size limits it behaves like a preallocated one. Therefore only the time need to expand the size might cost some performance.

You have to see which is moe important to you. Having some more performance when the disk otherwise would expand itself or to save diskspace.

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vmware not installing

akashj — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:54:20 GMT

i want to install vmware workstation 7 on win 7 home premium ..

earlier i was facing issue with incorrect cab file so i again downloaded the setup..and now when i am running it it says "setup has detected VMware software runnin on this machine. please power off all virtual machines and close all vmware applications before continuing"

I dont have any vmware app running as i uninstalled vmware 6.5 and after that ran the windows cleanup utility

any help ?

Need help about iSCSI .

continuum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:15:05 GMT

Starport is really easy to use ...
Open it - click "add remote iSCSI-device"
Next enter IP of your host - then Starport should already find the remote device.
When the device is connected open diskmanagement and format the device - then assign driveletter.

It really is easy - if you have problems the first time it will improve your troubleshooting skills

You should be able to manage it in maybe 15 minutes if it is your first time ...

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map virtual disc fail

Homeier — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:44:12 GMT

Hi Community,

VMWare WS 7

Host: Windows XP SP2

Guest: Windows any Versions

I try to map a virtual disc - an error occurs:

AppName: vixdiskmountserver.exe AppVer: 6.5.0.6401 ModName: msvcr80.dll
ModVer: 8.0.50727.3053 Offset: 000046b4

any idea?

Ralf

vmware workstation and cisco vpn

ajauhar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:09:25 GMT

I have a guest OS of winxp having a cisco vpn software. When I try to
connect the cisco vpn software in the guest os, the guest OS dies with
a blue screen. Guest OS is running on a bridged network connection and
uses the wireless card of the host OS.

Here the configurations

Guest OS

Win XP SP2, cisco vpn 4.8 running on a bridged network connection and uses the wireless card of the host OS.

Host OS

win xp Sp3, 2 GB RAM, broadcom LAN Card, Intel 3945G wireless card

has anyone successfully connected a cisco vpn software in the guest OS over a wireless bridged connection.is so how ?

Lan Segments with VMWare Workstation 7

janpan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:24:40 GMT

Works - that was it! Thanks!

Resume suspended guest on host bootup

ShaZAM42 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:44:30 GMT

I have a win2008 server running on top of win7 with Workstation 7. I typically keep the server up in the background full time. I was wondering if there was a way to syncronize the guest and host power cycle. I'd like the guest to suspend when the host shuts down or restarts and resume when the host boots up. Any suggestions? Thank you.

ShaZAM!

WS 6.5.1 crashes when you start a Virtualbox VM with VT-support

jmattson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:12:22 GMT

sque wrote:
kvm: unhandled exit 6
kvm_run returned -22

kvm may be able to recover from this error by doing a VMCLEAR of the current VMCS, followed by a VMPTRLD of that VMCS, followed by a VMLAUNCH. This should force the hardware to discard any cached VMCS information and re-synch from the in-memory VMCS. The VMLAUNCH cannot fail due to "corrupted VMCS."

If everything else has gone smoothly, the in-memory VMCS will actually have correct and up-to-date information when this kind of failure is observed due to an interaction with VMware products, so this sequence should work around the problem.

Since this new code sequence would only be in response to a condition which currently causes a fatal exit, there is no performance penalty involved for kvm. However, it does rely on unarchitected behavior and stacks the house of cards even higher.

The one drawback is that this attempt at recovery could result in data corruption or other problems if the in-memory VMCS truly is corrupted.

Configuring VMWare in Windows 2003

vePortal — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:11:42 GMT

Im not sure what else you would need?

Using "Bridged" gives me an error VMNet0 Not Running? Do you have a messenger or some way i could possibly provide access to this to try for yourself maybe? I can pay for support?

Workstation 6.5.2 (and 3), WinXP USB Mouse Driver versus VMware Mouse Driver

alexleezoot — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:51:38 GMT

I have the same issue in VMware Workstation 7 and finally solved it by "disabling" the 2 HID-compliant mouse within Device Manger. Do not uninstall as they just keep coming back. Disable top HID-compliant mouse and you still have control of mouse, disable 2nd one and you will lose mouse control. Use Ctrl-Esc to initiate your start menu and reboot system. Once system comes up mouse will be forced to use VMware Pointing Device. Alex

Can create but not open a virtual machine

Maxi789 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:09:25 GMT

Hi,

I've attached the files. Thanks for helping out...

getting kernel panic on CentOS

tekion — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:29:08 GMT

Just for those wondering, I fixed this. My image was corrupted, I restored from an old image.

need to restart VMWare NAT service occassionaly

lumangoy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:02:47 GMT

I've upgraded to WS7 and the problem continues.

when I have a torrent client running on one of my VMs, that when I have to restart the NAT service.

Workstation 7 - BSOD when installing Win7 as guest

JimMcHugh79 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:45:07 GMT

Unknown. That VM was deleted when I created the new one with WS 7

HASP License Dongles & VM Workstation

RDPetruska — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:02:48 GMT

I can report great success using Sentinel HASP USB keys with Workstation VMs... I have been doing so for 5 years.
You may want to refer to knowledgebase article 1648 for details of specifying specific USB devices to always attach to a specific VM.

WS7 Mouse pauses at edges of VM

InTheAir — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:38:21 GMT

Hi all,

I have the same issue with Remote Console. It slows productivity when you have to wait sometimes several seconds when you cross in or out of the remote console. I have the issue in a Win 2003 32 bit VM, a XP Pro VM, and in a Ubuntu 9.10 VM. My remote console software version is 2.5.0 build-122581 running on a Lenovo R61.

Paul

Using raw disk - can only boot if set partition to 'active'

continuum — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:19:36 GMT

can you no longer use the option "partitioned device" at all ?
I don't understand that either.
What happens if you try ?

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documented workarounds for the following issues are needed ...

JJoel42 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:12:19 GMT

Thanks for pulling together this summary of issues. We are looking through them and comparing your list to what has been submitted through our support channel as well as our own internal issues list. As Constantine mentioned in his post, any specifics that can be provided about these items would be helpful.

Problem getting host machine to interact with guest machine.

michaeltm — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:38:15 GMT

Many thanks to VMware's support for helping me out here. Problem stemmed from my particular NIC hardware. Disabling the IPv4 checksum offloading solved the issue. NIC in question is the Realtek PCIe GBE Controller.

Convert / Import Acronis 10 Backup and Recovery Fails

continuum — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:32:55 GMT

attach vmware.log - it will show if the syntax is good

anyway - this is an imported system - expect to find unknown devices in device manager - devices that were present on the source machine may no longer exiust in the VM and so display as unknown

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Mouse cursor not aligned

twoj — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:04 GMT

Confirmed

Mine was on the default of %125, changed it to %100 and you need to do a logoff/logon for the changes.
After that things worked normally.

I've also switched it back to the default %125 and things are continuing to work normally. The size at %100 is pretty small for me.

thanks - much appreciated!!!!!

Unable to open kernel device "\\.\vmci"...

JoergT — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:41:20 GMT

Remove all members from group __vmware__ except __vmware_user__ (re-logon!)
This worked for workstation 6.5.3 and player 2.5.3

or change hardware compatibility to Workstation 6.0
or set vmci0.present = "FALSE"

Workstation 7 ERRORs: Could not open /dev/vmmon.... & grab/ungrab crusor

ConstantinV — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:07:05 GMT

Mark, olz, Tobias posts as useful or correct, if so.

StarWind Software Developer

What are the steps to create, format, and mount a new virtual disk in MS Windows

galgitron — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:30:18 GMT

Bullseye! Thank you!

Recording audio with movie

InforMed Direct — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:46:49 GMT

No, didn't add that switch but will do.

But was doing the test on the latest WS 7 and frame rate was still not good enough for capturing a video.

Cheers, Rob.

scsi0.pciSlotNumber = 160 ???

continuum — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:42:47 GMT

would this be correct for adding 4 SAS controllers ?

scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "160"

scsi1.present = "TRUE"
scsi1.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
scsi1.pciSlotNumber = "161"

scsi2.present = "TRUE"
scsi2.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
scsi2.pciSlotNumber = "162"

scsi3.present = "TRUE"
scsi3.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
scsi3.pciSlotNumber = "163"

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Fresh Workstation installation - weird error - unable to install

thangarajj — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:48:44 GMT

I'm using version 7, the latest version that I'd just downloaded from vmware.com

The installer is named as 'VMware-workstation-full-7.0.0-203739.exe'

Download file info from https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/p/download.php?p=workstation&lp=1
--
Workstation for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
Version 7.0 | 203739 - 10/27/09 Binary (.exe) (512 MB)
.exe installation file for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows with Tools

Ubuntu 9.10 Display Problem

mkd8919 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:53:20 GMT

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit as a guest on VMware Workstation 7. The host is Windows 7 64-bit. I installed Ubuntu using the easy installer. My problem is that I installed the VMware tools, which seem to be working, as I can use unity and autosize the guest, but I have no 3d support. I cannot enable desktop effects. Any Tips?

Remote debugging setup/help NEEDED

Jensemann2 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:40:01 GMT

Here comes something new to this case.
After reinstalling Visual Studio with no success, I tried to initiate a remote debug session directly from Visual Studio.
No surprise that didn't work. This time the error was a little bore specific: "A security package specific error occurred".
The workaround that fixed it (even on my system) is described here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsdebug/thread/54f62bca-0d4b-4a64-82e2-ab6d60f859c9, answer by Dave Wheeler.

And here is my solution on how to apply this to the Virtual Debugger:
Preparation

create local accounts for debugging on host and guest (need to be in admin group), i.e. DebugUser.

In Virtual Debugger Settings change following settings:

'Virtual Machine' is set to your VM (obvious)
'Remote Debug Monitor Path' is set to my 'x86' msvsmon.exe. It's not used ( i guess) but Virtual Debugger wants something in that field.
'Remote Debug Monitor Name' is set to your local account name, ie. DebugUser. 'Guest'
'Guest Command' is set to my VM Shared Folder named "Debug" with it's host path set directly to my Visual Studio Debug folder. i.e. \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Debug\<myProgName> and the matching host path in VM settings is C:\VS Projects\<SolutionName>\<ProjectName>\bin\x86\Debug
'Guest Login Credentials' are my current logged on user name and password (on host and guest)

Start debugging:

run Visual Studio Remote Debugger as local user (right click -> run as) on guest. That should log something like: "Msvsmon started a new server named 'DebugUser@guestmachine'. Waiting for new connections."
start virtual debugging. There should be a pop-up, complaining about an already running Remote Debug Monitor already running in the virtual machine. Use the existing instance!

I still don't know why it didn't work in the first place. Might have something to do with Vista/Win7 UAC.

Jens

Copy & Pasting Problem in version 7

Bazzer747 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:30:56 GMT

Hi,
I installed VMWare Workstation v7 last week. I am finding that copying and pasting from Excel to and from the OS and an image doesn't work any longer. The copied section is added as a picture though, which is less than useful.

Is this a known problem, or are there new settings that have to be done to stop this behaviour?

Barry

Vista Guest, XP Host with Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 is slower than slow!

CaptainLeonidas — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:43:52 GMT

Vista can be snappy with the right setup.

I do know that Vista (without any service pack) is slow as a dog, even more so if the hardware is older in nature when the drivers are not up to date (host drivers count too).

And ofcourse Vista can be pruned of unneeded services or disabling Aero.

I suggest you first make sure your host is up-to-date driver wise. Then prun Vista of unnneeded services (aka if you are not printing disabling the printer spooler, if the virtual PC is not part of a domain/workgroup disabling server/workstation services. Superfetch as a service can be helpfull if you boost the RAM with a USB device. However within a virtual pc I kinda find that service not a plus. Indexing within Vista is also a dog on older hardware and other resources. Sure the Index service can be handy but if not needed I would disable it.

This is just a handful of thing you can do. Try that too but make sure to have Vista updated to the latest service pack if you have not done so already. Microsoft did make some performance improvements in teir service packs.

Intel Smackover x58-chipset
Intel i7 965
6GB DDR3
Radeon HD4870 1GB VRAM (5870 version ordered)
Vista Bus. x64/Windows 7 Ulti x64

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"The OVF descriptor file could not be parsed" error importing a Virtual Appliance

mickyp — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:44:16 GMT

Hi all

I've been trying to import a Virtual Appliance into VMWare Workstation (6.5.3 build 185404). I get an error "The OVF descriptor file could not be parsed" when attempting to do so.

The original file was a Xen Virtual Appliance (.XVA) and I could not find an option in VMWare to handle this directly. I used the Citrix XenConvert (2.0.2) utility to convert the Xen Virtual Appliance (.XVA) to an Open Virtualization Format package (.OVF). VMWare was then used to import the OVF file (File -> Import or Export). The Wizard option was: Source Type=Virtual Appliance

Attached are the log files relating to the last attempt.

Does anyone have any suggestions for resolving the import problem? Any alternate way of converting a XVA file into a VMWare VM?

The source XVA file was 7.18 GB.
The converted VHD file was 24.0 GB
An OVF, VHD & PVP files were created by the Citrix XenConvert utility

Incorrect version of driver "vmx86.sys"

rd1381 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:37:50 GMT

how can i do that?

my dfence+ is disabled

and i have granted access to allvmware in firewall.

what more does it want?

VMWare unfair upgrade policy for Workstation 7

thro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:27:49 GMT

I guess it comes down to this: Do you need Windows 7 accelerated 3d support? if so, the upgrade price is worth it, easily (in my opinion).
If you don't - why are you considering upgrading? Just for the bump in version number? If 6.5 works fine, why not just keep using that?

I use/administer: vSphere 4 (ESX) | Workstation 6.5 | Vmware Server 2.0 | Windows 2003 | FreeBSD | Redhat EL

VMware Workstation 7 display problem

zhanghwem — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:33:22 GMT

Thank you very much. It works well now.

Workstation 7 Broken on F12 Beta?

starheart — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:13:34 GMT

This issue seems to be fixed in Fedora 12 Final.