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How to make vwmare and host operating system use same serial port simultaneously??

oliverlee — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:10:23 GMT

hi,every one,good day~

I found that vwmare player will hold the serial port connection after startup,but this cause another application in host operation system cant connect to the serial port,of coz,if i disconnect the vwmare's connection,the other app can use the port properly,but i have to use the two apps simultaneously,
how to share the serial port between vwmare and host operating system??

thank you !!very appreicate!!

Heavy mouse lag when using VMWare player through remote desktop

AndersJo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:31:52 GMT

I might add that the problem appears only when using the VM through remote desktop. When I use my office computer directly, eveything is fine.

VMware not sending out the authorization email for new VMware player downloads

smolaw — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:43:03 GMT

I have tried telling VMware to send me the email about 5 times now. I have checked my spam folder, put vmware on the whitelist for my email, etc. Nothing. Can someone please correct this asap?

Unable to set ip address statically

rajjeshgnair — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:11:23 GMT

Thanks ckousoulis,
I wanted a service outside my host to serve the VMware with a ip address
Its working now
Regards

Vmware Player 3 doesn't compile modules on Ubuntu Studio 9.10

Cattus — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:55:20 GMT

There's some bad karma for this system and Ubuntu with this release.

After the installation of the bundle and launching Vmware Player, the modules building fail for vmnet and some other components. I've seen a patch for a previous version of the player on RT Kernels, but I'm yet to find a fix for this one.

This is an Ubuntu Studio 9.10 i386 with the released 2.6.31-9-rt kernel running on an Asus A8Js.

Here's some output from the console when launching vmplayer, I'm attaching also the log and the complete output for further analysis:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-9-rt/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-rt'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driverLog.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIFReadUptimeWork’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1944: warning: ‘newUpBase’ may be used uninitialized in this function
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/iommu.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/common/comport.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/common/hashFunc.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/common/task.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/vmmon.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-rt'
make -C $PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= postbuild
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only'
make[1]: `postbuild' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only'
cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only'
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-9-rt/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-rt'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/driver.o
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/driver.c:116: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/driver.c:116: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘DECLARE_MUTEX’
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/driver.c:116: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/hub.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/userif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/netif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/bridge.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/filter.o
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/filter.c:79: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘DECLARE_MUTEX’
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/filter.c:79: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/filter.c: In function ‘VNetFilter_HandleUserCall’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/filter.c:1085: error: ‘filterIoctlSem’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/filter.c:1085: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/filter.c:1085: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/filter.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** --_module_/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only-- Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-rt'
make: *** http://vmnet.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only'
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-9-rt/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-rt'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/linux/block.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/linux/control.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/linux/dbllnklst.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/linux/dentry.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/linux/file.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/linux/filesystem.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/linux/inode.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/linux/module.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/linux/stubs.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/linux/super.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/vmblock.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/vmblock.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only/vmblock.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-rt'
make -C $PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= postbuild
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only'
make[1]: `postbuild' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only'
cp -f vmblock.ko ./../vmblock.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only'
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-9-rt/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-rt'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only/linux/driver.o
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Open’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only/linux/driver.c:375: error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_MUTEX’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** --_module_/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only-- Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-rt'
make: *** http://vmci.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only'
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-9-rt/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-rt'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only/linux/driver.o
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Open’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only/linux/driver.c:375: error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_MUTEX’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** --_module_/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only-- Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-9-rt'
make: *** http://vmci.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmci-only'
Starting VMware services:
VMware USB Arbitrator done
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual machine communication interface failed
VM communication interface socket family failed
Blocking file system done
Virtual ethernet failed

Any help at all will be greatly appreciated!

kernel compile error for VM Player 3.0 install w/ Ubuntu 9.10

stav — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:48:33 GMT

@studentdriver, thx so much for your comments, appreciate it. I quickly checked the ubuntu site for such help but not yet 100% where to look at. Will keep trying,

Thx again,

Stav

Can not "drag and drop" between host and guest

bhe999 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:17:16 GMT

I don't have the "VM Tools" folder at the specified directory in the host system

Under the guest system, there is "VM Tools" folder, but there is no tools.config file, there is only a manifext.txt

VMplayer stuck at downloading extra components

litwin7 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:00:49 GMT

By completing the steps you requested and letting it run over night the window remaing saying "Connection Status: Connecting..." Any ideas? When will the next release come out so i can get this thing working??

Player v3.0 under Fedora 12 as HOST

SVRCFL — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:41:34 GMT

The VMware Tools are CD image files (.iso) - you can copy them over to your Player installation from a full Workstation bundle install and then mount them as a CD image.

Win7 + VMware Player - install of VMware NetAdapters disables Win7 internet access

Student Driver — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:36:56 GMT

I typically don't recommend dual booting as it takes time and kills access to one OS (not to mention the convenience of moving your VMs from host to host). As for your networking issue, you should have at least 3 adapters in there: 1 physical connection (WiFi, ethernet, whatever) and then the two VMware networks. Your host should be using the regular network connection, but can connect to the VMs if they are on VMnet 8 with the approriate IP. You shouldn't need Internet Connection Sharing enabled if the VM is connected via NAT or Bridged modes, as those share the currently "hot" network connection the host is using.

Are you saying that your host can't go online, but your VM is able to? It looks like you might have tried making adjustments that, in the end, weren't necessary. Do you recall all the steps you took while trying to get this working?

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

3D Acceleration in Linux Guest?

saphetiger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:14:50 GMT

http://thefinalzone.blogspot.com/2009/09/gnome-shell-useless-with-nouveau-driver.html
http://www.kirsle.net/blog.html?id=66
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell
The first two links are random posts from people (one of whom was running linux on vmware) runnling linux without 3D acceleration trying to run the new
Gnome-Shell. The last is from the project itself, which states that they intend to make Gnome-Shell the default interface in GNOME-3.0 and that it will be a compositing manager (which to me implies 3d capability).

It should be noted, so I don't get flamed or anything, that gnome says that it will keep support for it's 2.x branch (which does not require 3D) for as long as they feel they need to. I would assume that in the absence of 3d support in commercial environments, that this (using the 2.x branch) may be what RHEL and Novell decide to do for the time being.

Shared writable mmap detection

devzero — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:18:06 GMT

Hello,

after about 10 years of development of hosted products, it`s hard to believe that recent linux version of vmware player crashes/segfaults when a vmdk is stored on a filesytem without shared writeable mmap support, as it is the case with FUSE based filesystems very often. i`d wonder if workstation 7 is different here....

what is so hard to add a detection routine ?
and why does player crash at all here?

crashing means, that exceptions not being handled properly.

sigh

Performance Issues Windows 7 Host and Guest

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:12:11 GMT

the vmx-file XML ?
no - it is similar to ini-format
you probably mean the vmxf - thats xml.

However, I run win 2008 server the system has only 870k not enough to do run SQL server....

870k ??? - explain please

___________________________________

VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

Unable to install VMware tools in Win7 guest - connecting to update server (with no response)

Sonoben — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:46:22 GMT

FTC,
thanks for the reply. I uninstalled player and then installed workstation with tools eval to get tools into virtual machine using the included .iso.

Then I uninstalled workstation and reinstalled player. But of course, if I select "reinstall tools" it does the same thing.

It occurs on a wired and wireless connection.

I am not using a proxy.

I can get to internet on both guest and host.

I have admin priviledges.

Below is my UI Log and my vmware log for the previous session is attached.
Nov 21 14:35:11.937: player| Log for VMware Player pid=8552 version=3.0.0 build=build-203739 option=Release
Nov 21 14:35:11.937: player| The process is 32-bit.
Nov 21 14:35:11.937: player| Host codepage=windows-1252 encoding=windows-1252
Nov 21 14:35:11.937: player| VMware Player: VMware virtual machine player
Nov 21 14:35:11.937: player| Command line: "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\vmplayer.exe"
Nov 21 14:35:11.937: player| Using system libcrypto, version 90809F
Nov 21 14:35:11.968: player| Could not open registry path: Software\Thinprint, ret = 2
Nov 21 14:35:12.062: player| Debug VMX was requested, but not present. Using standard VMX.
Nov 21 14:35:12.062: player| Stats VMX was requested, but not present. Using standard VMX.
Nov 21 14:35:12.125: player| HostDeviceInfo: Failed to enumerate host parallel ports via the registry. Could not open device map parallel port registry key.
Nov 21 14:35:12.312: player| Host OS: 'Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600, Service Pack 2', product type '1', suite mask '0x0100'.
Nov 21 14:35:12.312: player| HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1.
Nov 21 14:35:12.312: player| HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.
Nov 21 14:35:12.468: player| Foundry Init: setting up global state (0 threads)
Nov 21 14:35:12.468: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogLevel = 0
Nov 21 14:35:12.468: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixApiTraceLevel = 0
Nov 21 14:35:12.468: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixDebugPanicOnVixAssert = 0
Nov 21 14:35:12.468: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogRefcountOnFinalRelease = 0
Nov 21 14:35:12.468: player| LOCALE windows-1252 -> NULL User=409 System=409
Nov 21 14:35:12.468: player| VixHost_ConnectEx: version -1, hostType 3, hostName (null), hostPort 0, options 8707
Nov 21 14:35:12.484: player| ACEIsManagedVMInternal: Could not get canonical path of
Nov 21 14:35:12.531: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: m_bActive=1
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| REM-USB: Protocol version 10
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| REM-USB: Initializing 'Generic' backend
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| USBGW: Write arbitrator op:0 len:4
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| HOSTINFO 49158033127 @ 3579545Hz -> 0 @ 1000000Hz
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| HOSTINFO ((x * 2399728063) >> 33) + -13733039565
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| USBGW: Write arbitrator op:13 len:13
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| CDS: Initializing CDS Client 1.0; product=player-windows version=3.0.0 workspace=C:\DOCUME~1\Steve\LOCALS~1\Temp\vmware-download-2168
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| cui::DownloadJobMgr::DownloadJobMgr: Component state=
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Fusion Core: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='fusion'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- McAfee VirusScan Plus: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='fusion-antivirus-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- MacFUSE: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='fusion-macfuse'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Player for Linux: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='player-linux'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Player for Windows: 3.0.0(-1) install=new update=no! url='' id='player-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for Mac OS X: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-darwin'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for FreeBSD: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-freebsd'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for Linux: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-linux'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for Netware: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-netware'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for Solaris: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-solaris'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for Windows 95, 98, Me, and NT: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-winPre2k'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for Windows 2000 or later: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Workstation for Linux: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='ws-linux'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Workstation for Windows: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='ws-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Fusion Core: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='fusion'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- McAfee VirusScan Plus: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='fusion-antivirus-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- MacFUSE: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='fusion-macfuse'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Player for Linux: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='player-linux'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Player for Windows: 3.0.0(-1) install=new update=no! url='' id='player-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for Mac OS X: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-darwin'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for FreeBSD: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-freebsd'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for Linux: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-linux'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for Netware: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-netware'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for Solaris: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-solaris'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for Windows 95, 98, Me, and NT: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-winPre2k'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Tools for Windows 2000 or later: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Workstation for Linux: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='ws-linux'
Nov 21 14:35:12.593: player| -- VMware Workstation for Windows: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='ws-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| CDS error: Couldn't determine proxy for URL https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds (12180)
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| CDS warning: Could not use PAC file or automatic proxy detection.
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| cui::DownloadJobMgr::OnConnectStatusChanged: Connect state=CONNECTING Component state=
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- VMware Fusion Core: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='fusion'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- McAfee VirusScan Plus: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='fusion-antivirus-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- MacFUSE: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='fusion-macfuse'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- VMware Player for Linux: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='player-linux'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- VMware Player for Windows: 3.0.0(-1) install=new update=no! url='' id='player-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- VMware Tools for Mac OS X: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-darwin'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- VMware Tools for FreeBSD: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-freebsd'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- VMware Tools for Linux: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-linux'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- VMware Tools for Netware: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-netware'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- VMware Tools for Solaris: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-solaris'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- VMware Tools for Windows 95, 98, Me, and NT: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-winPre2k'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- VMware Tools for Windows 2000 or later: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- VMware Workstation for Linux: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='ws-linux'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| -- VMware Workstation for Windows: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='ws-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:14.875: player| CDS: Fetching repository index from https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/index.xml
Nov 21 14:35:17.140: player| CDS error: Couldn't determine proxy for URL https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/index.xml (12180)
Nov 21 14:35:17.140: player| CDS warning: Could not use PAC file or automatic proxy detection.
Nov 21 14:35:17.140: player| CDS warning: Could not automatically detect a proxy for https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/index.xml. Assuming none.
Nov 21 14:35:17.140: player| ACEIsManagedVMInternal: Could not get canonical path of
Nov 21 14:35:17.140: player| Checking for updates using URL http://vmware.com/info?id=918&build=203739...
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| cui::DownloadJobMgr::OnConnectStatusChanged: Connect state=CONNECTING Component state=
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- VMware Fusion Core: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='fusion'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- McAfee VirusScan Plus: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='fusion-antivirus-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- MacFUSE: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='fusion-macfuse'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- VMware Player for Linux: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='player-linux'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- VMware Player for Windows: 3.0.0(-1) install=new update=no! url='' id='player-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- VMware Tools for Mac OS X: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-darwin'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- VMware Tools for FreeBSD: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-freebsd'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- VMware Tools for Linux: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-linux'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- VMware Tools for Netware: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-netware'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- VMware Tools for Solaris: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-solaris'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- VMware Tools for Windows 95, 98, Me, and NT: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-winPre2k'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- VMware Tools for Windows 2000 or later: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='tools-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- VMware Workstation for Linux: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='ws-linux'
Nov 21 14:35:17.328: player| -- VMware Workstation for Windows: 3.0.0(203739) install=not update=no! url='' id='ws-windows'
Nov 21 14:35:17.343: player| WSAEventSelect() on closed socket, ignoring.
Nov 21 14:35:17.453: player| CDS: Fetching vendor index for VMW from https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws-linux.xml
Nov 21 14:35:17.453: player| CDS: Using NONE proxy (null):0 for https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws-linux.xml.
Nov 21 14:35:17.453: player| CDS: Fetching vendor index for VMW from https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion.xml
Nov 21 14:35:17.468: player| CDS: Using NONE proxy (null):0 for https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion.xml.
Nov 21 14:35:17.468: player| CDS: Fetching vendor index for VMW from https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/player-linux.xml
Nov 21 14:35:17.468: player| CDS: Using NONE proxy (null):0 for https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/player-linux.xml.
Nov 21 14:35:17.468: player| CDS: Fetching vendor index for VMW from https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/player-windows.xml
Nov 21 14:35:17.468: player| CDS: Using NONE proxy (null):0 for https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/player-windows.xml.
Nov 21 14:35:17.468: player| CDS: Fetching vendor index for VMW from https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws-windows.xml
Nov 21 14:35:17.500: player| CDS: Using NONE proxy (null):0 for https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws-windows.xml.
Nov 21 14:35:17.500: player| CDS: Deferring download (currently running DLs: 4/4)
Nov 21 14:35:17.671: player| CDS: Fetching compressed metadata file from https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/player/3.0.0/197124/windows/metadata.xml.gz
Nov 21 14:35:17.671: player| CDS: Using NONE proxy (null):0 for https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/player/3.0.0/197124/windows/metadata.xml.gz.
Nov 21 14:35:17.671: player| CDS: Fetching compressed metadata file from https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/player/3.0.0/203739/windows/metadata.xml.gz
Nov 21 14:35:17.671: player| CDS: Using NONE proxy (null):0 for https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/player/3.0.0/203739/windows/metadata.xml.gz.
Nov 21 14:35:18.250: player| Update check succeeded. No updates needed.
Nov 21 14:35:18.281: player| FILE: FileLockMemberValues file size failure on 'C:\Documents and Settings\Steve\Application Data\VMware\preferences.ini.lck\M31056.lck': No such file or directory
Nov 21 14:35:22.578: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActiveFullScreen: action=0
Nov 21 14:35:22.593: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActiveFullScreen: Ungrab MKS
Nov 21 14:35:41.375: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: m_bActive=0

Is it possible to create a VM on a network share?

Student Driver — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:34:05 GMT

Right, but if the XP machine isn't forwarding your credentials, then the authentication will never happen via the LDAP server. This happens all the time when that one setting is enabled, but I think this is a process management issue.

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

Virtualbox VDI file to Vmware

iceman3 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:17:57 GMT

I'm using Virtualbox 2.1.4
and want to convert a VDI file to load it in Vmware (vmplayer 3.0.0
build-197124 on Vista Home Premium).

I think we can change the vdi-Format to vmdk with a tool provided by virtualbox.

VBoxManage clonehd /vboxdata/old.vdi /vmwaredata/new.vmdk -format VMDK
Its also possible to get the vmdk file by this :

qemu-img.exe convert -O vmdk hdd.vdi hdd.vmdk
But this does not generate the vmx file . How to get that ?

Just for information ,the vmware converter 4.0.1 says that the supported backup images or third-party virtual machines are:

Microsoft VirtualServer 2005
Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 or 2007
Parallels Desktop 2.5, 3.0 or 4.0 for Mac
VMware Consolidated Backup
Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 6.5, 7.0, 8.0
Symantec LiveState Recovery 3/6
Norton Ghost versions from 9 to 14
Acronis True Image Backup
ShadowProtect Desktop, Server, SBS,
IT, etc versions from 2.0 to 3.2

Vmware tools for Windows 2000 and Linux

iceman3 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:15:48 GMT

I'm using Vmware (vmplayer 3.0.0 build-197124 on Vista Home Premium). Where can I download the Vmware tools for Windows 2000 ? vmplayerautomatically downloads from the internet but I want to install it on multiple machine.

Trying to connect to vmware ESX 3.5 with VmWare player 3 on ubuntu

wila — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:34:06 GMT

Hi,

OK, I've just installed VMware player 3 on a mandriva 2009.1 box of mine and I see pretty much the same problems as you are reporting.
It works indeed with VMware Server, but don't click on the menu item "VM Settings" or player will crash with

NOT IMPLEMENTED /build/mts/release/bora-203739/bora/apps/lib/cui/vmStatusVIM.cc:695

And if I try to connect to an ESX 3.5U4 host I get the errors:

Unable to connect to the MKS: Internal error.
Unable to connect to the MKS: MKS ticket acquisition was disallowed at the time of scheduled invocation.

So it appears to me that this functionality is indeed broken.
The only solution I see at this moment is to uninstall VMware Player 3 and install Player 2.5.3.
It is a bit of a catch-22 advice as you then probably get issues getting the kernel modules compiled on a current desktop linux.

As for the Alt-Ctrl keys now working properly with the vmrc I think that is a ubuntu issue which has work arounds. I don't have an ubuntu box around anymore, but there's posts on the keyboard issues.
Try this:
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/11/19/vmware-workstation-ubuntu-ctrl-alt-ins-not-working/
and
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/12/01/vmware-workstation-ubuntu-and-unity/

Oh and I'll update my document Web Access with what you've found.
Thanks for the report.

--
Wil
_____________________________________________________
VI-Toolkit & scripts wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com

edit: Actually I can't update my post as the VMware web site feature for doing this is broken ... again
I'll write a post about it on http://www.planetvm.net instead.

Drag and Drop function

savantsingh — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:06:28 GMT

Yes with player this is the only way ... with workstation it works by default if you have VM tools installed..

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64 bit linux redhat on 32 bit xp professional on Vmware player

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:02:24 GMT

read http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8978

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Vmware networking confusion

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:59:12 GMT

post your vmx-file - maybe you did not enable promiscuos mode for the bridged nic

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Simple Network help - bridged mode?

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:55:17 GMT

what is your host OS ?
how many Nics do you have in the host ?
any firewalls involved on the host ?

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Windows 7 (guest) network adapter does not work (VMPlayer 3 with Fedora12 host) despite *NdisDeviceType fix

MihaiSapteCai — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:55:11 GMT

I found that others had problems with Vista's identification and fixed it via the Registry with *NdisDeviceType. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be sufficient for Windows 7 - it solves the identification problem (stops complaining about "Nework not identified"), but it still does not seem to get an IP address from the VMWare Player.

VMWare Player was configured to use NAT (was unable to bridge). Any ideas are welcomed!

:edit: command line in Windows 7 %ipconfig /renew

fails saying that DHCP server does not answer - it seems that (finally) Windows7 tries to get the IP address, but the VMWare DHCP server does not oblige.

Thanks,

Mihai

VMware player 3.0 window unexpected resized

kabababa — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:32:35 GMT

Hi,
Thank you for the reply..

The application is DbVisualizer.
I have VMware tools, I thing the latest version (8.1.3, build-203739)

Attached are the logfiles.
Thanks.

Host network connection to Virtual using NAT

hjanum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:18:59 GMT

My host system is Windows 7.
The IP config is:
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.146
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

My virtual system is Windows 2008 32bit
The IP config is:
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.234.128
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.234.2

The virtual can talk to the host network and the internet from there.
I just can't ping the virtual by name or IP.

VMWare converter installation fails on NT4 SP6 machine

continuum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:23:15 GMT

AFAIK the embedded Converter of Workstation can not handle NT 4 - use Converter 3.0.3 or your favorite Coldclone Cd

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No Wireless device in network connection

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

that only works with USB-wlan sticks directly connected to the VM

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On vm startup: Gues system does not start - "The virtual machine is busy"

chifu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:05:11 GMT

I'm facing the same issue

has anynone found the origin of the problem?

Mouse focus problem

klui2k1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:16:03 GMT

Hello:

I'm using Player 2.5.3 build-185404 hosted on Server 2003 with a config.version 8/virtualHW.version 7 VM running XP SP3. The VM has VMWare Tools 7.8.5 build-156735 installed.

I run dual monitors and the VM is on a secondary monitor maximized. Whenever I close a window on my main monitor and focus automatically shifts to VMWare Player, my cursor moves away from the main monitor and back to the secondary.

This behavior never occurred under Player 2.0.5 build-109488 and config.version 8/virtualHW.version 3 before I used Converter 4.0.1 build-161434 to upgrade.

How can I change the mouse driver to have the old behavior?

Drivers:
HID-compliant mouse driver: 5.1.2600.0 Instance id: HID\VID_0E0F&PID_0003&MI_00\8&3460D90F&0&0000
HID-compliant mouse driver: 5.1.2600.0 Instance id: HID\VID_0E0F&PID_0003&MI_01\8&BF62B46&0&0000
VMware Pointing Device driver: 12.4.0.2 Instance id: ACPI\PNP0F13\4&5289E18&0

I noticed there is a new usb device for mouse that was not there before in the vmx file.
usb:0.deviceType = "mouse"

The old VM only has VMware Pointing Device driver: 12.0.0.0. Could I possibly remove the mouse entry in the vmx and revert to the old behavior? There's also:
usb:1.deviceType = "hub"

Thanks

VM Player 3.0 Windows 7 host, XP Guest. Ultimate Race Pro won't work

pcousins — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:30:37 GMT

I know this is a bit of a long shot, but was wondering if anyone might be able to help with the following problem:
I have just installed Windows 7 Professional 64-bit on my PC. One of our favourite games - Ultimate Race Pro will not install. This was originally written for Windows 95 and DirectX 5!! It runs fine on Windows XP. So I installed VM Player 3.0, and built an XP virtual machine. Ultimate Race Pro installs fine, and runs. However, after clicking to start a race - when I guess the program starts to use the 3D graphics acceleration, the XP guest completely freezes up, and the only thing to do is shut it down. I've tried disabling DirectX in the game, disabling 3D acceleration for the VM etc, but still no luck. My next plan is to create a new virtual machine with Windows 98, but I suspect that won't work either. Anyone have any suggestions?
My PC has the following specifications:
AMD 4800e, 4GB RAM, ATI 3450 graphics card with hybrid Xfire using the gpu on the motherboard (785G).

If I can't get it to work, can anyone suggest a good multiplayer LAN game suitable for playing with my kids (i.e. not lots of killing!).
Many thanks,
Pete Cousins

Player 3.0 and Java in Linux Guest

shane.walton — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:48:49 GMT

Ah, it has to do with Shared Folders between the guest and host. I caught a glimpse of the title over the progress bar this time, and could see that it stated something about copying a file that I had recently (in terms of minutes) copied to the host. The issue occurred this time when I started Netbeans, very strange. Could it be something was cached and starting Netbeans caused the shared folder stuff to flush?

Shane M. Walton

Change language settings from Japanese to English.

continuum — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:02:30 GMT

try to rename the directory ...\messages\ja to ...\messages\ja-org
That may do the trick

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Does VMware Player 3.0 require VT?

jmattson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:43:03 GMT

Almost all 64-bit AMD CPUs (except for the very earliest ones) support segment limit checks in 64-bit mode. This allows the virtual machine monitor to share a single virtual address space with the guest OS, yet still protect itself from the guest OS without the overhead of page-level protection. Segment protection for the virtual machine monitor is crucial to the success of our binary translation technology.

No 64-bit Intel CPU supports segment limit checks in 64-bit mode. Therefore, we can't use binary translation with 64-bit guests on Intel hardware.

3D graphics acceleration will be disabled. This computer does not have a 3D graphics system supported by VMware Player

iamagui — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:07:51 GMT

When the VMware boots up, we are getting "3D graphics acceleration will be disabled. This computer does not have a 3D graphics system supported by VMware Player" message, please refer attachment. Please advise.

Host is Ubuntu 9.04 Server on HP ProLiant ML370 G6, guest is Ubuntu 8.04.1

Snippet of vmware.log is also attached.

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"

Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "34.52.8.197:0.0".
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.4

Below are the details of our graphic system:

01:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02)

description: VGA compatible controller

product: ES1000

vendor: ATI Technologies Inc

physical id: 3

bus info: pci@0000:01:03.0

version: 02

width: 32 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list

configuration: latency=64 mingnt=8

Kindly let me know if I am not clear and need more information, thanks.

Windows 7 Performance, is it Windows or VMware Player 3.0

NagaT — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:37:17 GMT

512 MB is too low for Windows 7. Recommended value is 1 GB and optimal is around 2 GB. (CPU speed on host also matters)

Try increasing the RAM allocated to the VM and see it helps.

Thanks.

Vmplayer 3's library shows items twice

sefsinc — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:34:55 GMT

No i don't. Sometimes I would have them open at the same time by mistake.

But mostly it's one or the other.

Strangely enough just the opposite was happening before I upgraded to Player 3. With player two when i open a vm it did not remember it so the library had no entries. This behaviour started in ubuntu 9.10 only.

I delete the entries that continumm told me to delete but the problem persisted. So i went in there again with the butcher's knife and did a hatchet job on anything that looked like a library entry and now the problem is gone.

So between delete what continum suggesting and further deleting all library entries altogether seems to have solved it for now.

Win7 Host, Win XP VM - problem with USB

baxter5 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:40:22 GMT

I found the solution to this issue.

The Win XP was missing usb.inf which should be in C:\WINDOWS\INF. I copied it and usb.pnf from a working Win XP VM and it was able to load the right drivers for the vmware usb hub.

VMPlayer is sending traffic and classified as IP spoofing by Netscreen

RutledgeIT — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:59:40 GMT

Thanks for reply.

I can setup in NAT mode and try. But why is it sending packets to outside on ports 3478 (STUN)?

I am new to VMWare so don't know the working of it.

Cheers !

Reboot resets network settings

continuum — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:45:00 GMT

try again - but before that learn how to save your existing settings via vnetlib.exe - see my site for info on this

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problems with vmware player

rini11 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:23:23 GMT

something strange is happening...
I finally could load some pages but not all ,and I could not get any sublink
from those pages to be loaded.
some of this sublinks even cause the browser to crash,while other reported
an error of unknown host.
any ideas??

drag and drop into ubuntu 9.10?

nispio — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:17:05 GMT

I am using vmware player version 2.5.3 on fedora to host a ubuntu 9.10 virtual machine, but I can't make the drag-and-drop features work. The guest machine has vmware-tools installed, and I know that they installed properly because I can run in "unity" mode just fine. My .vmx file contains the following lines:

isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "FALSE"
isolation.tools.dnd.disable = "FALSE"

Is there something missing to make drag-and-drop features work? Could it be a problem with the way vmware-tools is setup on the guest OS?

Player 3 + Windows 7 64 Host BSOD

zoltanthegypsy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:23:10 GMT

Unfortunately that folder is empty. IIRC, the only remains I could find was the event log entry that was made after rebooting..

Error installing vmware tools

jbojan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:39:23 GMT

I may of found a workaround to fix the issue. When I am prompted to update the Tools as the VM boots up, I choose "Remind Me Later". When I log into Windows OS, on the startup tray their should be an ! over the vmtools icon. I right clicked on it, choose Open VMtools and clicked on Updated Tools button. The VMTools CD installation started to run and installed ok. Oh, don't know if this helps but I also did a fresh install of VMPlayer 3. I removed the old player via Add Remove Programs. I didn't let the VMPlayer 3 install uninstall it.

Forever "Building Menu" in Unity mode on VMware Player 2.5

mariuszh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:51:27 GMT

I had identical issue. Source of problem was in too many positions in the menu. After I removed some number of unused menu entries (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu), everything is OK.

Can't get past Windows 7 install loading screen (VMware Player 3 on Linux Mint host)

continuum — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:56:13 GMT

"Windows has encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to your computer. ... An unexpected I/O error has occurred."

Interesting - post the vmware.log after you get that message

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VMware Player 3.0 - Can VM be configured with different network adapter, otherthan Host network adapter?

ckousoulis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:11:21 GMT

continuum is correct, though there are possible workarounds (which I will provide if need be).

Thanks for posting this request, because it provides concrete fuel for the re-evaluation of the aforementioned decision.

Playing DVDs in VMware Player

asatoran — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:40:42 GMT

Quick clarification: you have VMWare Tools installed in the guest? And 3D acceleration enabled? (It's not that you need 3D, but it does give more video RAM to the guest.)

For me, on one of my slower laptops, I could play DVDs in a Windows guest, but not at full screen. Maximum sized window, but not "full screen mode" of the DVD player program.

Transferring Unidentified Device to VM

bearsomg — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:34:46 GMT

Actually, I got it to work. Well, I plugged in my device and started my XP VM in Player, and it shows 'Cypress USB Device' under 'Removable Devices' which is the device I need to connect. Also, I have tried to find the actual driver, but sadly, I found that it was stored in the installer for the software that came with it. It isn't just sitting in the CD somewhere, it is in the executable. When I installed the software, it automatically detects what system you are running and decides whether to install the driver or not. 7 was detected as Windows NT, which is unsupported.

Thanks for the help anyways!

-BearsOMG

Locking down Player

continuum — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:46:25 GMT

this maybe considered as illegal - I don't take any responsibility

replace original vmplayer.exe with the patched one

Ulli

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Details on error incompatible database on the update server (41) .. worked only once, why?

jbojan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:50:50 GMT

When upgrading to VMWare Player 3.0, I somehow manager to get past the error "incompatible database on the update server (41)" when it was installing the updated VMTools on my VM. In turn, the new VMTools got installed ok and my dual monitors started to work. Now I am trying to do this upgrade/install of VMTools on another VM and I keep getting the "incompatible database on the update server (41)" error. I tried to do the upgrade from Player version 2.5.1 -> 2.5.3 -> then to 3, but same issue.
Can someone please tell me what this "error incompatible database on the update server (41)" means? What files is it comparing, what values .. can I manually updated it in a VM file somehow? Since I managed to get the VMTools installed on another VM, can I copy the VMWare Programs Files folder on the working host system and overwrite it on another host VM that gave me the error?
I really need more technical information about the error "incompatible database on the update server (41)"

Thank you all for your time
jay

cannot open image created in VMWare Server 1.x in VMWare Player 3 running on Win7 laptop

arnold.warhonowicz — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:01:52 GMT

Yes, only have one user account and that is an admin one ... think I found the problem, I moved the image file to another location and it worked. So, once I was actually able to see the error message it was quite simple to solve

VMWare Player 3.0 on windows 7 mouse problems

stephenb@cougar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:15:21 GMT

I have a problem with the mouse not enabled (gives focus to window of player when first clicked but has no function other than right click to bring up "arrange Icons By..ect") in the player running a XP virtual Machine.

The problem started when I installed player 3 instead of workstation 6.5. I have tried reinstalling vmtools several times but now the mouse is not registerd at all, i have to use keyboard shortcuts.

On reinstall of tools it askes for the windows XP CD to load mouse and other drivers

ps5ui.dll
pscript.dll
pscript.ntf
pscrpt "help file2

hidusb.sys
i8042.sys
mouseclass.sys
usbccgp.sys

The virtual machine will not reboot correctly between reinstalls of vmtools but stops just after the windows restart message and requires a restart from the VN control bar.

Base machine running Windows 7 Enterprise

VMware Player 3.0.0 build -203739

Virtual machine XP pro Service pack2

I have oth VM's that seem to work corectly, but also asked for XP drivers when upgrading vmware tools.

many thanks in advanced for any help that can be given.

vmware tools install question

avmad — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:47:16 GMT

Thank you both!

I browsed for setup and was able to run the install.

I can now map my host drives which was my original goal.

Thanks!

avmad

Intalling VMware Player 2.5 fails in XP Pro OS.

JordanFei — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:08:42 GMT

Thanks for your replying.

do you know which service exactly ?

[A]: No. How can i know which service it is?

did you disable any malware like Norton or Symantec suites while trying to run the setup

[A]: Yes. I tried to install three times, the last time i disabled the malware and disabled the network, but still failed and reboot my machine.

Ask you a more question here: is there any log file i can check the intallation issue? Where is the log file i look for?

Thanks again!

Jordan

Copy and paste accented characters

dominic73 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:20:30 GMT

I am running VMware Player 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.10. I can copy and paste text from Ubuntu to Player, but only if there are no accented characters anywhere in the text. If there is an accented character (above ASCII 127) anywhere in the text, paste does nothing. This makes it very frustrating to do anything in Spanish.

Copy and paste of accented characters works fine within Ubuntu, but not from Ubuntu to Player 3.0.

Copy and paste of accented characters also works fine within Player 3.0.

I did not have this problem when I was using VMware Server 1.0.

My guest in both cases is Windows 98 SE.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Bogus upgrade notification on startup of Player 3.0

martyfelker — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:43:18 GMT

Just saying the upgrade message on the earlier version is as I stated. I'll have to runnagmed around for the new version.

Thanks

TMarty Felker

Host OS fails to boot after install of VMware 3.0 player. Please Help

mecole1179 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:22:05 GMT

I did not get a blue screen, My pc would get past the splash screen and then reset its self. I figured out the problem, I had my PC OC at 15% and it was causing a problem with VMware player on the reboot. I put my settings back to normal and what would you know the PC rebooted just fine.

Proxy settings (installation/ update VMware Tools)

pucicu — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:33:50 GMT

Thanks for your suggestion.

The post you mentioned says:

Do you use a proxy server? If so, could you try going to Control Panel

Network and Internet > Internet Options > Connections >

LAN Settings and either:
A. Unchecking "Automatically detect settings"
B. Explicitly specifying a proxy server manually

Or try running Workstation and going to Edit > Preferences >
Updates and unchecking "Check for new software components as needed".

(1) My host system does not use a proxy.

(2) I tried the "Edit > Preferences > Updates ..." solution already last week and it did not solve the problem.

Can you lock the Guest OS screen resolution?

Kihlman — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:39:37 GMT

Thanks, hopefully your right about the changes I need being in the final release.

And just to be clear, my frustration is not with VMWare, but rather my companies reluctance to update vital programs. We could have had a version of IDEAS (CAD software) that was compatible with XP, instead of W2K SP3, and I wouldn't be having this issue.

I have not installed and tested version 7 yet, which may be what you are referring to, but I'll do more testing and report the findings.

Just too many things to work on.

VMware Player 3.0 freezes at startup for about 30 min

Sarge67 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:24:13 GMT

Hi,

here you go.

starting the Player today, it worked fine again.
It seems it likes cloudy Monday noons! Or 3rd-floor north windows better than 2nd-floor south?
No idea what has changed over the last 1,5 weeks! (Host is online)

However, i zipped the entire direcory.

the most current logfile (pid=3884) is the running instance. there's quite a history of logfiles resulting from the player was/had to be killed.
The DownloadJobMgr is (or thinks to be) DISCONNECTED, this at least fits into the picture. The host is in fact online and connected to the internet in the manner described above.

Hope you can find something.

Best regards,
Sarge

VMPLAYER install, how do I open VM?

ckousoulis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:15:44 GMT

There is probably a virtual machine somewhere that you need to move to this XP demo machine.

If the XP computer is where you previously used VMware, then I would suggest looking in your user profile for a directory called "Virtual Machines" (maybe you used a different user account last time?). This is the default directory where virtual machines are stored.

In all honestly, it's less work to just create a Linux VM than it is to find the old one. Install VMware Player 3.0 (which has VM creation capabilities not available on previous versions). Use the "Create a virtual machine" option, select the Linux distro you wish to install (tell the New VM Wizard where the install disc for the Linux OS is located), and you should be good to go in no time.

Slow suspend/resume

ckousoulis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:54:22 GMT

Please upload the VMX log from the VM that is experiencing slow suspend/resumes. Thanks.

Bridge and NAT networking issues for guest OS in VMWare Player

ckousoulis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:49:38 GMT

You will likely have to talk to your corporate IT to resolve this.

1. If using NAT, you have to replicate your host proxy configuration in the VM. If your proxy settings are transparent to you (because they are passed down by the domain controller), then you may have to ask your IT folk for what proxy settings to use.

2. If using bridge, your VM is probably explicitly being blocked (since your domain doesn't have knowledge of the virtual machine). You'd have to get that VM registered on your corporate LAN.

Network gets lost and can't be re-established

ckousoulis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:23:20 GMT

Open VM Settings, select the virtual network adapter, and set the adapter to use NAT networking.

This should solve this issue.

Mouse points to different location

skoe — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:43:23 GMT

Hi anyone,

I installed Fedora 11 on my vmware player (running on windows xp).

Fedora is working but the mouse seems on another location then it is pointing to
Moving the mouse around it looks like the virtual mouse is less moving than the the real one.
In the upper left corner it seems ok but in the lower right corner the difference is half a screen.

I have found a solution for Fedora 9 (xorg.conf in /etc//X11) but that doesn't work for 11.

Anyone a solution to this ?

Thanks in advance.

VMplayer 3.0 will not react after installation of Microsoft Genuine Advantage

spirost — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:09:03 GMT

Any ideas?!?!?!?! Please help on this.

vmware player freezes during install

continuum — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:12:05 GMT

sometimes the installer does not find the file vmnetbridge.dll and popsup a windows to browse for the file - make sure that you are able to see any popups

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VMWare 3.0 and KVM switch interaction

continuum — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:22:27 GMT

post it

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Connecting Novell Netware 3.12 thru win-xp VM

manmadh — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:11:32 GMT

I installed Win-XP VM in Windows 7 OS. Please someone help me in connecting Novell netware 3.12 server thru Win-XP.

how to uninstall vmware 3 ?

drjohnsmith — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:41:07 GMT

Thank you

that did it,

Don't know why it was so easy to get wrong, and so hard to find the way to correct it, but thanks, your page did the trick

Xp host crash when Xp on VM Connect USB device

dcube — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:46:11 GMT

Thank you, at http://sanbarrow.com/workstation-faq.html I found very good information to detect the problems.

Problems was made by a software-drive install in the past to use usb with microsoft virtual machine. After deinstall it all run well

Best regards

dcube

Promiscuous mode in VMware Player

continuum — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:12:45 GMT

On Windows hosts you always use promiscous mode - it should already work.

Keep in mind - the so called virtual switches are actually virtual hubs

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VMware Player toolbar

u03pje — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:06:33 GMT

Didn't get a syntax error, but you're a legend, now working. Cheers!

When I want to play virtual mashine - BSOD

continuum — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:22:33 GMT

try Workstation without license - thats more or less a VMplayer Pro - see if that works

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Two Bridged Network interfaces

DirkVDB — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:53:16 GMT

I made the changes you proposed (Don't know why the file was so messed up, I only used the gui to change things) The first virtual network now works but the second one can't be connected.

I think this is because there is no vmnet2 running (I did restart the vmware service)

sudo vmware-networks --status
Bridge networking on vmnet0 is running
Network detection service is not running
All the services configured on all the networks are running

After adding

add_bridge_mapping eth0 0
add_bridge_mapping eth1 2

to /etc/vmware/networks things are running ok.

Thanks a lot for your help!

VMware player problem : no display at maximize

aelhossi — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:00:25 GMT

Hi again

I'm attaching some of the logs. I'm not sure if they contains all the
information that you may need.

Also after the last installation of Ver 3 of the player after removing Ver
2.5, things seems to be back to normal. But I will test it more!!

Regards

A workaround to enable NAT port forwarding on the crippled VMware Player 3.0.0

Tronchaviones — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:10:09 GMT

Thanks, continuum and popej. Your workarounds are very helpful. The next is just for vmware staff...

Player 3.0 contains vmnetcfg.exe, but probably this file is not installed

It is a very clever move from VMware, Inc. The best strategy to build a big and happy customer base is not to improve service, but to play a game of "where is it hidden" against the new customers. Since millions of customers love Nintendo's "Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box", next gaming industry's bestseller will be "VMware Player and the Hidden Utilities". A lot of laughs for free.

There is only a reason to hurry up to deploy versión 3.0.1... someone forgot to hide vmplayer.exe! After patching this critical bug, success will be guaranteed: it will be very funny to see all that customers asking "where I have to click?", "what is my mistake?", "how is it possible I cannot install a simple program?".

Crazy bridged network behavior

jazzman007 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:05:57 GMT

I'm using VMware player 3.0.0 build-203739 with an XP Pro laptop as the host, and the guest is also XP Pro. What I'm trying to accomplish is have the host connected to one VPN and the guest connected to another VPN. This worked fine using VirtualBox, but now that I've migrated to Player things are behaving strangely.

The first problem is that when neither is connected to their VPNs...with the guest set to use bridged networking the guest has no connectivity...but it did get an IP address on the host network via DHCP! It is unable to ping anything on the host network.

It gets even stranger...once I connect the host to its VPN, the guest is now able to communicate via the host network! Both VPNs are set to route all traffic through the VPN, so I initially thought that it was routing the guest through the host's VPN network. A tracert confirmed the opposite...that the guest's traffic is going out through the host network and not the host VPN! I suspected that the bridged network was bridging with the VPN adapter, but even after changing it to explicitly bind to the wireless adapter this was still working as described above.

So at this point I'm thinking that it may be due to the different filters that are on the network connections. In addition to the VMware Bridge Protocol, the other non-standard filters include a "McAfee NDIS Intermediate Filter", a "Deterministic Network Enhancer", and an "Eacfit Driver". The last one is related to the VPN, which throws a fit if it is not enabled on all interfaces.

Is there any sort of priority on the filters? It just seems very, very strange that the guest can talk to the host network only once the host has connected to the VPN.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
John

VMWare player 3.0 tools install fails

ckousoulis — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:20:07 GMT

In the UI, you can check out the About dialog (Help > About), and I believe that it shows the location of the UI log file that corresponds to the current session. In general, those logs are stored in /tmp/vmware-<username>/ and are named something like ui-<pid>.log.

The log will be most valuable in determining what went wrong. A user shouldn't have have write permissions to /usr/lib/vmware, but some part of the download process should prompt for sudo credentials. The log will likely indicate clearly what actually went wrong, include permission issues.

auto-start a vm with pc start?

ZKrieger — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:01:43 GMT

create a shortcut to the virtual machine configuration file (.vmx) in your startup folder.

Make sure you use a shortcut, and not copy the file.

Under vista/win7 the location of the startup folder changed, the quickest way to get there for all users is click start, then right click the "all programs >" and open all users. then simple browse into programs, then startup.

for systems with UAC enabled, you have to create the shortcut first (I usually create a shortcut on the desktop anyway) then move or copy the shortcut into the folder. if you try to drag and create a shortcut all at once, UAC causes that to fail.

HGFS and Shared Folders stopped working

Texiwill — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:08:01 GMT

Hello,

Moved to the VMplayer forum.

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Installing VMware image as seperate OS

continuum — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:21:49 GMT

running 2003 from a external USB-disk is possible but pretty advanced stuff. Visit boot-land - they have the required info.

Expect a steep learning curve - this is not something that you can learn in a week

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guest operating system installation

continuum — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:39:51 GMT

double clicking any exe-file is not needed and not useful

instead start the service via
net start vmauthdservice

report any messages

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Need a possibility to protect switching to host with a password

JulesRaster — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:47:25 GMT

I've found my solution.

I require an VMware image that has VMware ACE enabled and I have to run this in kiosk mode. (enable option)

an option in this mode is to enter a password on exit (CTRL-ALT) exactly what i need.

thanx Ulli for brainstorming with me.

commercial use of vmware player

JJoel42 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:13:02 GMT

Admittedly, the license is not 100% clear, but it does give you permission to distribute internally and I can't imagine what you would want to do that for if you couldn't use it!

This is on our list to cleanup.

why is vmnetcfg.exe NOT included in VMplayer 3 ???

continuum — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:05:54 GMT

not clever ? - this is nuts ...

why add the new feature of creating VMs and then on the other hand remove basic usabilty features.
On Windows you can still work around the missing vmnetcfg.exe but this workarounds are not documented by VMware and they even say that they do not want to document it.

For now you best install Workstation and run it without license - this will give you a VMplayer that is usable as the missing tools will be present then.

Weird ... really weird

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Simple question re: Network setup

traycerb — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:06:31 GMT

thanks. seems obvious, but I once I knew I needed NAT, it was easier to figure out what to do.

I did have to reinstall the full version of Player 3.0 over the beta (which initially didn't install vmnet8 on the host for some reason). Also, when debugging, I had switched off the "Connect on startup"option in the VMware network adapter settings, and forgotten to turn it back on. Works great now.

Mouse/Graphics Speed in VMWare Player

QuatinqueKJ — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:56:20 GMT

I am having mouse/graphics speed issues through VMWare player. This is my test run into virtual machines and am running Windows XP. I already adjusted the acceleration of the graphics through Settings in the VMWare tools and also through Display-->Settings-->Advanced and speed, neither of which worked.

Is there a way to update the graphics card. The graphics on the hosting machine work perfectly.

Thanks!

VMware Player 3.0 now needs PAE support (2.5.3 did not)

BrunoG42 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:44:47 GMT

Is there a way to use the new player with a CPU without PAE support?

Kind Regards

Bug with the new graphic driver & WPF applications

dcrobinson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:56:09 GMT

Disabling WPF hardware acceleration removes the fuzziness (as reported elsewhere).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970912.aspx

How to change default IP Address for NAT in VMware player 3.0?

continuum — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:51:21 GMT

oh dear - you are right - that is a shame that it is not included - use the command line tool then
and complain here too
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/241645?tstart=0

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can vmware player configure with port forwarding

Tronchaviones — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:53:56 GMT

There is no vmnetcfg.exe on VMware Player 3.0

Setting subnet for host-only in player 3.0

rexxman — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:05:57 GMT

I'm moving from VMware Server 2.0.1 to VMware Player 3.0. Host is ubuntu 9.10.

In VMware Server I could set the specific subnet for vmnet1 host-only by running vmware-config.pl.

I can't find vmware-config.pl or an equivalent script in VMware Player 3., so how can the host-only subnet be set to a specific value?

I do not want to use the supplied default subnet as I have a number of guests that require static Ip addresses that I don't want to have to change.

TIA, Mark

Unable to install VMWare Tools

continuum — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:01:11 GMT

why do you run a XEN kernel inside a VMware VM ?
switch to normal kernel instead

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Autofit Guest in VMware Player

paperbridge — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:50:37 GMT

Nevermind, i did it

Access vm from within LAN

Mykle — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:42:53 GMT

Host: Windows 7 Enterprise x64

Guest: Ubuntu Server 9.10

I am trying to access an apache web server from another machine on my lan. I can access it on my host with NAT networking but not with BRIDGED networking. Which method should I use to access it from my LAN? I will eventually port forward my router to this virtual machine. Thanks.

Is VMWare Player 3 online help misleading (concerning vnc)?

Dgebert — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:39:57 GMT

I am having the same issue. I had a VM that I was using with player that was fully configured with VNC on the previous version. I have updated and now VNC is not working despite the remote.vnc settings being in the VMX file as clear as day.

Was this a change in player 3?

Hibernate does not work

RevAaron — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:26:16 GMT

I'm a bit late to the game, but I do bring news.

I've had the exact same experience- and for me, it's a complete show stopper. It happens with VMware Workstation, VMware Player, and VMware Server. When one of these products is installed, I cannot put my machine into standby, hibernation, software reboot or even shutdown. Which means that I need to keep my laptop running, or force it off by holding down the power button. This happens even when VMware is not running, and there are no VMs running. It happens when VMware is the ONLY virtualization provider on the machine- I tried this on a clean build to make sure that it wasn't a conflict with VirtualBox or Virtual PC.

One suggestion, the only thing I tried that helped, was to disable all VMware network interfaces by right clicking on them and choosing "Disable." With the VMware virtual network interfaces disabled, I can usuall reboot or shutdown; hibernation and suspend still don't work. When I want to use a VMware VM I have to reenable them and remember to disable them after I'm done.

I'm running Windows XP SP4- upgrading your service pack won't help anything.

The only solution I came up with was to try Sun's VirtualBox or Microsoft's Virtual PC. I'd suggest checking them both out. VirtualBox is the closest to VMware as far as features, speed and compatibility; Virtual PC feels and performs a bit like a version of VMware from 4-5 years ago- nothing like we have today with VMware and VirtualBox, but it's nice to have an option when VirtualBox doesn't hack it and VMware is busy killing your machine. :P Because I'm not the only one who has had these problems at work, we're looking into migrating over to VirtualBox. At this point, we're not sure what option we have for our workstations.

Sort of like a Microsoft product: "It's great software, except that it doesn't work." :P

VirtualBox: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Virtual PC: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en

Best of luck to you!

Running VM Player on Linux

continuum — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:56:16 GMT

you mean this ?
http://sanbarrow.com/moa24/videos/kiosk/kiosk.html

I started to look into Linux Livesystems with VMware but the Windows-version is still way better

Ulli

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32 bit vs 64 bit

dkabat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:36:32 GMT

Thank you!!