VMware Communities : Thread List - VMware Player

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

johnhickley — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:50:49 GMT

I have a SuSE 11 file server running samba to share files and directories to my XP x64 PC. I have installed VMware Player on my XP box and have gone through the steps to create a VM on my SuSE server. The vmx and vmdk files create successfully but when I try to start the VM I get the message: "Failed to open virtual machine: You do not have access rights to this file.". Yet VirtualBox (also installed on my XP box) has no such problem. Indeed, I created the Player VM in the same shared directory I use for my VirtualBox VM to eliminate permissions problems on the linux side. Is this a limitation of Player?

Regards,

John

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

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

dubeysom — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:30:55 GMT

I have 32 bit XP host and installed VMware player 3.0.
I am trying to install 64 bit Linux redhat but the system does not allow me to.
I turned on VT in BIOS.
But still the same problem. I shut down the machine, took the cable off, even left it for one night all that good stuff but it still gives me the same error.
I have T-60 Lenovo.
Could you please help with this.
Also I read somewhere that I need to enable 'Execute disable' but I could not find it.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Som

Vmware networking confusion

grdoorguy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:45:09 GMT

Hello,

I have VMware Player running on an Ubuntu 9.04 Dektop. I have a guest vm CentOS 5 that has Snort and NTOP on it. The guest has 2 NICs on it eth0 and eth1. They are both set as bridged in VMPlayer. Eth0 has a static ip for snort and ntop's web interface, Eth1 is set to promiscuous mode with no ip address assigned. Eth1 is physically connected to the mirror port of my switch. I was collecting no information from my snort sensor so I ran a tcpdump for the configuired eth1 interface and all I see is arp traffic. When I run tcpdump on the same interface of the host machine I see all the appropriate traffic. I'm sure that there is some kind of network configuration problem or a step I am unaware of. Any suggestion or even a push in the correct direction would be most helpful.

Very Best Regards

Josh

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

bobvilla — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:32:05 GMT

Hi, I've moved from OSX to windows 7 with my new laptop and I have installed VMware player 3 to virtualize Ubuntu. The vmware install went fine and the Ubuntu Virtual OS install 1st failed with options then succeeded with defaults. However, I could not get internet access in Ubuntu (setup with NAT, not Bridge) and when checking in Win7 realized that that connection was up but the internet connection was blocked. VMware added 2 "adapters" to my Network Connections panel, VMware Network Adapter (VMA) VMnet1 and VMA VMnet8. Win7 connected the VMware network but placed the "Unknown Network" in the public zone and won't let me make adjustments. Disabling the 2 VMware Network Adapter entries restores the internet connection for win7.

I made an entry for VMware Player in the MS Firewall.

I tried enabling connection sharing under the Win7 network adapter settings.

Any idea what's going on?

on a side note: Is VMware server 2 a cycle behind VMware Player 3 or are the version numbers incomparable? Is performance comparable? I'm looking at the server edition because I might try dual booting Win7 and a Ubuntu and would like to have virtualization access as well from Win7. I got used to this in OSX with Windows XP using parallels.

Thanks

VMware player 3.0 window unexpected resized

kabababa — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:32:08 GMT

Hi,

I have found an interesting bug (feature) in the latest VMware player (3.0) running on Windows host (Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit).
I have a Windows XP Sp3 32 bit OS as guest. Whenever I start any java based program on the guest the very first time after a new boot of the guest, the maximized VMware player window is suddenly switched to normal mode and resized to 640x480 resolution, resizing all running guest application windows too. It is very nasty.

Starting a java program afterwards works as expected - now window resize.

Any workaround?

Host network connection to Virtual using NAT

hjanum — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:42:28 GMT

I have been reading through the forum, and as far as I gather, it is not possible with VMWare Player 3.0.0 to set up the network, so if I use NAT (on a corporate network) I cannot ping/connect from the host to the virtual.

I have the setup on my laptop and I connect to corporate networks, airport networks, hotel networks, so I really don't want to expose my virtual to the external networks by using Bridged.

Is this correct?

Thanks,

Performance Issues Windows 7 Host and Guest

DonRule — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:03:28 GMT

I have a HP Media center machine with a quad-core AMD Phenom with 3 GIG of RAM
Windows Ultra 64bit as host and guest
Started the VM at 1 gig and bumped up to 1.2 then 1.5 with no improvement
The VM is running on a physically separate drive from C:\

The CPU meter in the VM is 100% most of the time, any simple operation takes seconds to initiate and a long time to run.
I try putting the VM in full screen mode and it seems that the frame goes to full screen and then falls back to partial mode.

I am trying to use Visual Studio 2010 but not having any fun at all.

Am I just too low in memory?
I saw a configuration setting that implies that I will only be using one CPU - is this the limit for the Player?
Would an upgrade to Workstation help?

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Don Rule

Can not "drag and drop" between host and guest

bhe999 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:07:02 GMT

Host is x64 Win 7 Ultimate

Guest is x86 Win 7 Ultimate

Using VMPlayer 3

VMTools installed.

Any ideas?

VMWare converter installation fails on NT4 SP6 machine

ErikDe — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:12:20 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to convert a physical NT4.0 SP6 machine via ethernet to a VMWre 6.5 Image. I have an Admin account on the machine, and use Workstations Conversion Wizard. However, when it tries to install the converter agent, I get an error, please see logfile below.

I then tried to copy the vmware converter.msi manually to the remote machine, and execute it, but I keep getting an Error 1723 by the msi setup telling me that A required DLL cannot be found.

Below is the logfile from the conveersion wizard. Please help, how can I convert this machine?

[code]

Log for VMware Converter Hosted Client, pid=1980, version=3.0.3, build=build-132753, option=Release, section=2

~~2009-11-17 06:40:30.498 'App' 2612 info~~ Current working directory: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\tb10dit

~~2009-11-17 06:40:30.498 'Libs' 2612 info~~ HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1.

~~2009-11-17 06:40:30.498 'Libs' 2612 info~~ HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.

~~2009-11-17 06:40:30.498 'ThreadPool' 2612 verbose~~ TaskMax=15, IoMin=1, IoMax=31

~~2009-11-17 06:40:30.498 'P2V' 2612 info~~ p2vSupport,219 P2V logger created

~~2009-11-17 06:40:30.498 'App' 2612 verbose~~ ,0 Skipping NFC initialization during Sysimgbase_Init!

~~2009-11-17 06:40:30.498 'P2V' 2612 info~~ p2vSupport,236 Initialize sysimgbase without NFC/SSL.

~~2009-11-17 06:40:30.498 'Libs' 2612 info~~ Using system libcrypto, version 9070CF

~~2009-11-17 06:40:35.326 'App' 2612 info~~ Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000

~~2009-11-17 06:40:35.326 'P2V' 2612 info~~ p2vSupport,242 SSL context created

~~2009-11-17 06:40:35.326 'P2V' 2612 info~~ p2vSupport,252 AppInit completed

~~2009-11-17 06:40:38.514 'P2V' 2612 verbose~~ p2vLicenseManager,232 License job init with license file: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\tb10dit\Anwendungsdaten\VMware\p2vlcns

~~2009-11-17 06:40:38.530 'P2V' 2612 verbose~~ p2vLicenseManager,247 License job Success !

~~2009-11-17 06:40:38.530 'P2V' 2612 verbose~~ p2vLicenseManager,232 License job init with license file: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\tb10dit\Anwendungsdaten\VMware\p2vlcns

~~2009-11-17 06:40:38.530 'P2V' 2612 verbose~~ p2vLicenseManager,247 License job Success !

~~2009-11-17 06:40:54.796 'P2V' 8688 verbose~~ task,339 Transition from None to InProgress requested

~~2009-11-17 06:40:54.796 'P2V' 8688 verbose~~ task,388 Transition succeeded

~~2009-11-17 06:40:54.796 'P2V' 8688 info~~ task,274 Starting execution of a Task

~~2009-11-17 06:40:54.796 'P2V' 8688 info~~ clientConnection,101 Connecting to IPC$ on beckhoff-nt as beckhoff-nt\Administrator

~~2009-11-17 06:40:54.843 'P2V' 8688 info~~ clientConnection,104 Successfully connected to IPC$ on beckhoff-nt

~~2009-11-17 06:40:54.843 'ClientConnection' 8688 info~~ Connecting to \\beckhoff-nt\pipe\vmware-ufad-ws60-beta3-vmdb, use SSL: true

~~2009-11-17 06:40:54.859 'ClientConnection' 8688 warning~~ Failed to connect to \\beckhoff-nt\pipe\vmware-ufad-ws60-beta3-vmdb. Reason: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. . Error code: 2.

~~2009-11-17 06:40:54.859 'ClientConnection' 8688 info~~ Starting ufad-ws60 on beckhoff-nt

~~2009-11-17 06:40:54.859 'P2V' 8688 info~~ ,0 Failed to open service handle to ufad-ws60 with access level 983103: 1060

~~2009-11-17 06:40:54.859 'ClientConnection' 8688 warning~~ Failed to startup VMware Converter Agent service on beckhoff-nt. Reason: Service control manager error.

~~2009-11-17 06:40:54.859 'ClientConnection' 8688 warning~~ Unable to start ufad-ws60 service

~~2009-11-17 06:40:57.859 'ClientConnection' 8688 info~~ Connecting to \\beckhoff-nt\pipe\vmware-ufad-ws60-beta3-vmdb, use SSL: true

~~2009-11-17 06:40:57.875 'ClientConnection' 8688 warning~~ Failed to connect to \\beckhoff-nt\pipe\vmware-ufad-ws60-beta3-vmdb. Reason: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. . Error code: 2.

~~2009-11-17 06:40:57.875 'ClientConnection' 8688 info~~ Starting ufad-ws60 on beckhoff-nt

~~2009-11-17 06:40:57.875 'P2V' 8688 info~~ ,0 Failed to open service handle to ufad-ws60 with access level 983103: 1060

~~2009-11-17 06:40:57.875 'ClientConnection' 8688 warning~~ Failed to startup VMware Converter Agent service on beckhoff-nt. Reason: Service control manager error.

~~2009-11-17 06:40:57.875 'ClientConnection' 8688 warning~~ Unable to start ufad-ws60 service

~~2009-11-17 06:41:00.875 'ClientConnection' 8688 info~~ Connecting to \\beckhoff-nt\pipe\vmware-ufad-ws60-beta3-vmdb, use SSL: true

~~2009-11-17 06:41:00.875 'ClientConnection' 8688 warning~~ Failed to connect to \\beckhoff-nt\pipe\vmware-ufad-ws60-beta3-vmdb. Reason: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. . Error code: 2.

~~2009-11-17 06:41:00.875 'ClientConnection' 8688 info~~ Starting ufad-ws60 on beckhoff-nt

~~2009-11-17 06:41:00.875 'P2V' 8688 info~~ ,0 Failed to open service handle to ufad-ws60 with access level 983103: 1060

~~2009-11-17 06:41:00.890 'ClientConnection' 8688 warning~~ Failed to startup VMware Converter Agent service on beckhoff-nt. Reason: Service control manager error.

~~2009-11-17 06:41:00.890 'ClientConnection' 8688 warning~~ Unable to start ufad-ws60 service

~~2009-11-17 06:41:03.891 'ClientConnection' 8688 error~~ Giving up trying to connect to \\beckhoff-nt\pipe\vmware-ufad-ws60-beta3-vmdb

~~2009-11-17 06:41:03.891 'VmdbSvc' 8688 verbose~~ Shutting down VMDB service...

~~2009-11-17 06:41:03.891 'VmdbSvc' 8688 verbose~~ Unregistering callback...

~~2009-11-17 06:41:03.891 'VmdbSvc' 8688 verbose~~ ...done

~~2009-11-17 06:41:03.891 'P2V' 8688 error~~ task,295 Task failed: P2VError UFA_NOT_RUNNING()

~~2009-11-17 06:41:03.891 'P2V' 8688 verbose~~ task,339 Transition from InProgress to Failure requested

~~2009-11-17 06:41:03.891 'P2V' 8688 verbose~~ task,388 Transition succeeded

~~2009-11-17 06:41:33.705 'P2V' 2612 info~~ installAgentTask,79 Installing UFAD to hostname=beckhoff-nt, username=beckhoff-nt\Administrator, postponeReboot=1, verifySSLCerts=0

~~2009-11-17 06:41:33.705 'P2V' 12248 verbose~~ task,339 Transition from None to InProgress requested

~~2009-11-17 06:41:33.705 'P2V' 12248 verbose~~ task,388 Transition succeeded

~~2009-11-17 06:41:33.705 'P2V' 12248 info~~ task,274 Starting execution of a Task

~~2009-11-17 06:41:33.705 'P2V' 12248 info~~ clientConnection,101 Connecting to ADMIN$ on beckhoff-nt as beckhoff-nt\Administrator

~~2009-11-17 06:41:33.720 'P2V' 12248 info~~ clientConnection,104 Successfully connected to ADMIN$ on beckhoff-nt

~~2009-11-17 06:41:33.720 'P2V' 12248 verbose~~ installAgentTask,106 Copying C:\Programme\VMware\VMware Workstation\VMware Agent.msi to share ADMIN$, subdirectory vmware-p2v-ws60-install-kjnjqoxokcogntwv on host beckhoff-nt

~~2009-11-17 06:41:40.111 'P2V' 12248 verbose~~ baseAgentDeploymentTask,82 Executing msiexec /i "VMware Agent.msi" /qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress on beckhoff-nt

~~2009-11-17 06:41:40.111 'P2V' 12248 info~~ ,0 MakeSafeDirectory: directory exists, skipping safety check

~~2009-11-17 06:41:40.346 'P2V' 12248 info~~ ,0 Starting service with args: com.vmware.courier-neomlyygxpcflisy

~~2009-11-17 06:41:46.096 'P2V' 12248 error~~ baseAgentDeploymentTask,123 Install failed, msiexec exit code=1603

~~2009-11-17 06:41:46.112 'P2V' 12248 info~~ ,0 Stopping service

~~2009-11-17 06:41:47.143 'P2V' 12248 info~~ ,0 Deleting service

~~2009-11-17 06:41:47.159 'P2V' 12248 info~~ ,0 Deleting service failed: 1072

~~2009-11-17 06:41:47.237 'P2V' 12248 info~~ baseAgentDeploymentTask,132 Cleaning up temporary directory \\beckhoff-nt\ADMIN$\vmware-p2v-ws60-install-kjnjqoxokcogntwv

~~2009-11-17 06:41:47.237 'P2V' 12248 error~~ task,295 Task failed: P2VError REMOTE_UFA_INSTALL_FAILED(beckhoff-nt, 1603)

~~2009-11-17 06:41:47.237 'P2V' 12248 verbose~~ task,339 Transition from InProgress to Failure requested

~~2009-11-17 06:41:47.237 'P2V' 12248 verbose~~ task,388 Transition succeeded

[/code]

No Wireless device in network connection

luddyspence — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:14:39 GMT

I installed Windows XP in VMware player. I can connect to the internet using my wireless connection on Vista. However I cannot see my wireless adapter in Network Connection. I want to be able to configure my wireless connection when using Windows XP.
How can I get the Wireless Adapter to show under Network Connection? Thanks.

Drag and Drop function

statcan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:33:10 GMT

After I install the VM tools the Drag and Drop function still doesn't work between Guest and host. So, how to configure this function for the VM player 3. Thanks.

Player v3.0 under Fedora 12 as HOST

waby38 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:48:36 GMT

Hi,

I've just tried to use the latest Player v3.0 under my fresh installation of Fedora 12

Installation is ok, and compilation of kernel module is also fine.

=> I've cross check this operation using : "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all" , and my kernel is "2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE"

Now, if I start vmplayer, then I got the main screen for less than 1 second, and after disappear / crash without any message

Using strace, I able to see that SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) append just after reading some stuff from "/usr/lib/vmware/resources/mozilla-root-certs.crt"

Is there any bad experience for Fedora 12 users ?

Using the previous Fedora 11, everything was fine with this Player v3.0!!

Any tips ??

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

vmj — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:46:22 GMT

Hi,

I don't know how long, but since some days I have serious problems starting most of my vm-guest systems. I usually double click the VMX file for starting a vm guest which worked very good the last years.
But now I often run into the problem that the VMWare Player window does show up but does not start the guest. If I try to close the window I get a message dialog saying "The virtual machine is busy". The only way to stop that machine is killing the correspondent vmplayer process.

First I thought that this only happens to guest that had been suspended, but it happens also on guests that had been shut down correctly (empty VMSD file).
Sometime I manage to make the affected vm guest by deleting everything except the VMX and the VMDK file(s).

BTW: If this error happens VMWare Player does not even reach the point where it starts logging into the log file.

System: WinXP 32 & VMWare 2.5.1 build-126130

Has anybody a clue what is going wrong on my system?

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

Unable to set ip address statically

rajjeshgnair — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:22:19 GMT

Hi,
My vmware player is installed on windows xp host. I have connected by pc to a ipsharing device and the windows ip is assigned by the ipsharing device however linux generates its own ip address irrespective of which ever static ip address I assing to it.Could anyone suggest some solution?
Regards,
Rajesh

VMplayer stuck at downloading extra components

crapp0 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:22:27 GMT

I have recently upgraded from the RC to the full version of vmplayer 3.0 but i am still having the problem of updating vmplayer 3.0 with the necessary vmtools.

Does anybody here encounter the same problem and hopefully there is a fix to my predicament.

Whenever i try to download all of the components of vmtools, its stuck at the window where its vmplayer is trying to connect to the update server.

This problem was also present in vmplayer 3 RC and i thought it would go away after upgrading it to the version 3 but it seems it hasnt.

Player 3.0 and Java in Linux Guest

shane.walton — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:02:18 GMT

Product: VMware Player 3.0
Host OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
Guest OS: Ubuntu 9.04
JDK: OpenJDK 1.6.0_0

For some reason, player goes into a state like it is going to take a snapshot where the screen grays and a progress bar is shown across the bottom. I don't know what this is at it happens very quickly. If I happen to have a Java based application open like Netbeans, the application is non-responsive after the vmware progress action is completed. I can't even kill the application, it just shows a defunct java process for ever, so I am forced to restart the guest to remedy the issue.

Thanks!

Shane M. Walton

Change language settings from Japanese to English.

Hiougi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:44 GMT

Is this possible? VMWare Player automatically installs itself in japanese because of my system settings, but I don't actually want it to run in japanese (I keep my system settings to japanese in order to play Arad Senki and some other games).

My OS is Windows XP.

Does VMware Player 3.0 require VT?

Anton V Zhbankov — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:27:37 GMT

Does VMware Player 3.0 require VT to run 32bit guests? WS7 doesn't, so I'm pretty sure Player also doesn't require but want to be absolutely certain.

Thanks.

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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.

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

hubertf — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:28 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to get a decent console on my linux workstation for my Vm's...

I try to use vmware Player to get this...

vmplayer -h svlyovmw17 -u 'myusername'

show me a login/password window ... ok, after it shows a list of registered VM's... ok

But if i select a VM, i get this strange error : +Error opening virtual machine 144: Unable to retrieve any hosts on this connection.
+

Does anyone knows this problem?

Thanks

Windows 7 Performance, is it Windows or VMware Player 3.0

soodvarun — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:20:07 GMT

Hi,

I installed new VMWare player and installed Windows 7. The experience so far is sluggish. It looks good, but its slow. For example, resuming the virtual machine take about twice the time than it takes for Windows XP. Minimizing and closing windows gives curtain effect.

With claims of Windows 7 as fast as XP, is it Vmware which needs to improve?

Vmplayer 3's library shows items twice

sefsinc — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:26:45 GMT

When I open a vm in vmware player 3 the left side which shows previously opened vm's shows an item up twice.

This is on ubuntu 9.10

Anyone else experiencing this?

Win7 Host, Win XP VM - problem with USB

baxter5 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:55:57 GMT

I created a VM with Converter, then was running it with Workstation 6.5. I then uninstalled Workstation and tried Player 3.0.

The problem I am having is that the Win XP VM does not see the USB devices. I end up with a device in Device Manager in my VM called "VMware Virtual USB Hub" and no driver is loaded for it.

I have the VMware Tools installed on the guest OS.

The device ID for this is
USB\VID_0E0F&PID_0002\5&CD6272B&0&2

How do I load a driver for this device? I can't find the right one.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!

VMPlayer is sending traffic and classified as IP spoofing by Netscreen

RutledgeIT — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:34:29 GMT

Hi

We are using Juniper Netscreen NS5GT as a firewall. Firewall is receiving lots of traffic from a machine which is classified as IP Spoofing as shown below:

2009-11-18 11:51:11 alert IP spoofing! From 192.168.197.1:1742 to 75.101.138.128:3478, proto UDP (zone Trust, int ethernet1). Occurred 1 times.
2009-11-18 11:51:10 alert IP spoofing! From 192.168.197.1:1741 to 75.101.138.128:3478, proto UDP (zone Trust, int ethernet1). Occurred 1 times.
2009-11-18 11:51:10 alert IP spoofing! From 192.168.254.1:1740 to 75.101.138.128:3478, proto UDP (zone Trust, int ethernet1). Occurred 1 times.

VM machine is running in bridged mode. Ac

Two things that I will be trying shortly are:

Change to NAT and test
Change to Host-Only and test

Is there any way that I can stop it happening at VM Player end without changing ?

Cheers !

Reboot resets network settings

RoastedDonut — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:38:55 GMT

Host OS: Windows Vista SP2

Guest OS: Windows XP SP3

VMWare Player: 2.5.3

Hi,

I just upgraded Player from 2.5.2 to 2.5.3 and I have run into an issue. After the upgrade, I had to go through setup of how I want my NICs to be bridged ( this was expected). This originally worked for accessing my VMs. However, after reboots of the host OS, I have found that the settings are lost and that I need to go back into vmnetcfg.exe to set them again. Is this a known bug / feature / something random in which I should try reinstalling?

--Mike

problems with vmware player

rini11 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:47:29 GMT

hi,
i have vmware player (v 2.5.2) running linux(knoppix) as guest on my host( windows xp) and i have two problems:
1.i have a lexmark 1200 printer that the vmware recognise but i cant print with it from the guest even though it is marked as connected.
2.i cant connect to the internet from the guest (not when the network adapter is set to NAT nor to bridged)

I have checked that vmnet1 and vmnet8 on windows are enables and working properly
no vmware related execs are firewalled.
I know that NAT is working on another computer with the same virtual machine definitions.

this is the output of the ifconfig on linux(the guest)

knoppix@2knoppix$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:3B:7D:63
inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe3b:7d63/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:542 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:65004 (63.4 KiB) TX bytes:9308 (9.0 KiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x1080

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1300 (1.2 KiB) TX bytes:1300 (1.2 KiB)

knoppix@2knoppix$

and this is the output of the ipconfig on my host

C:\Documents and Settings\user>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.101.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.107.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.138

PPP adapter adsl:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 83.130.98.221
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 83.130.98.221

C:\Documents and Settings\user>

CAN ANYONE HELP??
thanks

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 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:48:49 GMT

I've been using Player 2.x on Windows 7 without isues - but I hadn't used it much. Trying Player 3 on ThinkPad T400 running Windows 7 Pro 64. Brought up existing Solaris 10 client OK. I was pleased to see the new player features. Tried "Install Tools". BSOD.

"The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000fe (0x0000000000000008, 0x0000000000000006, 0x0000000000000005, 0xfffffa80074a07a0)"

Ouch. Broke my desktop wallpaper in the process. Could have been worse.

Trying it again, it just shows "connecting..." indefinitely. Firewall off or on doesn't seem to matter.

Not installing tools isn't that big a deal but the BSOD is.

Any ideas? Thanks,

Error installing vmware tools

ddockter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:58:59 GMT

I just upgraded my vmplayer from v2 to v3. When the VM (NT 4) starts, it attempts to install Tools but gets the following message. VMware tools for Windows 95,98,ME and NT .... incompatible database on the update server (41) .....

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

PeteHunt — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:40:25 GMT

I have a Windows XP SP3 host with a Windows 2000 SP4 guest, using vmware tools from the vmware workstation demo to get unity mode working.

If I open an explorer window containing shortcuts/files or an application in the guest and then turn on unity mode, the shortcuts / files / apps all work fine in unity mode.

However, the menu that pops up above the hosts start menu button never populates - it sits at "(Building Menu)" and never has any contents.

The user on the guest does have valid start menu entries.

Any ideas as to why?

Thanks

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

Shace — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:53:20 GMT

The title basically says it all. On the initial installation screen for Windows 7, the progress bar will consistently get 3/4 completed and then the setup crashes with the error Oxc00000e9: "Windows has encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to your computer. ... An unexpected I/O error has occurred." I am running Linux Mint 8 RC (based on Ubuntu 9.10). The virtual machine is assigned 1 core out 2 (Core Duo processor) and 1 GB of RAM (out of 2), along with 40 GB of hard drive space.

Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this problem, or a way to pinpoint the source of the problem and fix it?

Thanks for your time.

3D Acceleration in Linux Guest?

nepthar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:18:56 GMT

Alright, I've been googling and searching through support forums for about an hour now and I figured I'd just post.

I'm looking for a way to enable 3D acceleration in a linux guest (specifically ubuntu 9.10). I've found two possibilities

1. Gallium Drivers
2. VMGL

I've tried to compile/install both of them, but due to my lack of experience, failed. My question is this:

Is there any user-friendly way to enable openGL acceleration in VMware Player with a linux guest?

Thanks for any assistance.

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

MadhuG — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:16:34 GMT

I am trying to share my virtual machine with a friend over internet and was unable to configure (Host/VM/RG) successfully. My router/gateway shows my VM as inactive and can't connect to VM, even though I can access my VM on locally.

My setup is as follows:

Host: WinXP - SP3

with two network adapters (Wired & Wireless) NICs. Only one NIC used.
VMPlayer 3.0

Guest VM: TurnKey Linux

Bridged Network Configuration

Currently, I am using only one NIC (Wireless) on my host. The VM is also using the same NIC. I was able to configure it as Bridged Network and connect to VM with in local network (including host).

Since, I am having problems with RG and have unused NIC, I would like to configure one NIC for on my host machine and configure the other NIC for my VM. Something like this,

Host: WinXP - SP3

with Ethernet enabled & Wireless disabled
VMPlayer 3.0

Guest VM: TurnKey Linux

with Ethernet disabled & Wireless enabled
What network configuration?

Is it possible? if so, how to do it?

Thanks for your help.

MadhuG

Playing DVDs in VMware Player

avmad — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:19:21 GMT

Hi all,

I have an XP Pro host with XP Pro guest and 3.0 VMware player, running on a Dell E4300 laptop (i.e. not a powerful desktop but a modern laptop).

DVD playback (with PowerDVD) is fine in the host but is very jerky in the guest.

Would you reasonably expect a VM to be able to play DVDs smoothly? I had hoped it would be possible but on reflection I guess I see why that would potentially be an issue.

Thanks.

avmad

Transferring Unidentified Device to VM

bearsomg — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:37:26 GMT

I have the 32-bit version of the Windows 7 with VMware Player 3.00. I installed Player because I have a USB device with no driver for Windows 7, only XP and Vista. Because there is no driver installed, it shows up as 'Unidentified Device'. Is there a way to transfer it through VMware Player so that I can get at the device with the XP driver in my XP VM?

Locking down Player

diddlina — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:06:54 GMT

Hi!

I'm trying to see if I can get Player (2.5.3) locked down as much as possible. I can disable NAT no problem but what about locking down the interface so other users in my organisation can't download the FalconStor pre-configured VM? Or blocking all downloads for VMs on the interface itself? We only want our users to use the VMs we create.

Has anyone had any luck in blocking automatic updates? Either by scripting or GPOs?

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 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:37:06 GMT

I have installed VMWare Player (tried in both 2.5 and 3.0) on a Win7 host (32bit Professional). The installation works without error but when I try to open an image (tried with several) that was last opened in VMWare Server 1.x a window opens with no content, at least no visible content.

When I try to close the window I get an error message from Win7 saying the program has stopped working. I can then close the program or wait for it to resume. I tried to wait but gave up after 45mins.

Has anyone seen this before and could point me to some help/a solution?

I have attached a screenshot to show what the problem looks like

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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 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:08:07 GMT

Hello all,

I have recently installed vmware player 3.0.0.Build-203739 and I now have a Win XP pro guest running on my Win XP pro host.

I was initially having problems getting the vmware tools to download as each time I was prompted to download them, the player would tell me that it couldn't see the server(even though I was verifiably online).

Today when I entered the VM, I was prompted to download the tools and this time, the download seemed to start (at least, there was no error and the progress bar indicated that the download had worked).

Current state is that inside my VM menu, it now says "Cancel vmware tools installation" presumably implying that the install is still progressing. However, this same message has been there for about six hours now.

Can anyone tell me whether this install is still running, pending or whatever? Do i need to do anything to know that the install has completed?

Thanks for your help!

avmad

Intalling VMware Player 2.5 fails in XP Pro OS.

JordanFei — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:38:41 GMT

Hi,

Can anybody here give me some comments about my installation fail? I want to install VMware player 2.5 in my XP pro OS. When installed to the end part(about finished 95%, "installing service..." part), my XP OS will automatically reboot, and fail to restart XP again.Then i can only use the "the recent time start setup" to reboot my XP. What's the possible reasons for my case?

Thanks,

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 17:34:37 GMT

How can I disable the bogue upgrade notice to the version below. My version of Player is already at this build level. The link send me to the RC1 page anyway.

VMware® Player

3.0.0 build-197124

Marty Felker

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

mecole1179 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:30:59 GMT

I am running Windows XP Pro 64bit edition, I have a a AMD 9600 quad core processor with 16gb memory and a TB hard drive. Once I complete the install of the player it ask me to reboot, so I do and once I get passed the splash screen my PC resets everytime. The only way to get passed that is to do a restore before the install.

Proxy settings (installation/ update VMware Tools)

pucicu — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:43:31 GMT

Hello,

after upgrading to vmware player 3 for Linux, I have the problem that the vmware tools cannot be updated. I have found out that the vmware player tries to establish a network connection using a proxy server. The strange thing is that this proxy server was used when I was on another institute. Now I have direct Internet access and I cannot use this old proxy server anymore. More strange is that I could not find nowhere any settings using this old proxy server. I have scanned the entire harddrive for the name of this proxy server, and I have only found one place: the vmdk file.

Here the snippet from the player.log:

Nov 16 10:22:47.943: player| CDS: Fetching repository index from https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/index.xml
Nov 16 10:22:47.944: player| CDS: Using HTTP proxy proxyXXXXXXXXXXX.de:80 for https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/index.xml.
Nov 16 10:22:47.945: player| Update check succeeded. No updates needed.
Nov 16 10:22:47.946: player| Cmd /host2/#_client/util/file/cmd/##96/op/stat/ failed: Invalid path

I have tried to add some lines in .vmware/preferences, e.g. using pref.downloadProxy="", but the problem is that I don't have a proxy server I could add here. Is there an option to explicitely state that a proxy server should not be used? Where vmware player finds the name of the old proxy server?

I use vmware player to virtualise a MS Windows OS. There I don't use a proxy connection and itInternet Explorer etc. works well.

Thanks for your hints!

Pucicu

Can you lock the Guest OS screen resolution?

Kihlman — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:13:04 GMT

Due to legacy application issues, it is necessary for us to sustain a Windows 2000 environment currently contained in a virtual machine. An added complication is the fact that the application does not tolerate resolution changes while it's open. All of which leaves me trying to lock the resolution of the VM in Player. This can be done with Microsoft VPC by setting "...use the guest OS resolution...", I would assume there is a way to do this with VMWare Player, but my searches have come up empty.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

VMware Player 3.0 freezes at startup for about 30 min

Sarge67 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:13:01 GMT

Hello,

Just installed Player 3.0 on Windows XP Professional SP2 (32-bit).
No Errors occurred, but the Player does not start.

I only get the "frame of the Window" of the Player-Application, no content. The Window/Player-App then freezes and never comes back. Windowsw TaskMgr says: VMware Player is "not responding". Can only be killed.

VMware reports/reported no Error

upon Start (only freezes)
during the Installation
in the Windows EventLog.

All services seem to be running (at least those, starting with "VMware...") / drivers successfully started. VM Networking seems okay.

No Idea what's going wrong here.
I installed VMware VIX 1.8 (want to test the "vmrun" controls) immediately after Player and Reboot. Also no errors, everything seems to be in place.)
The only thing, that occurs a little strange to me: The MSIInstaller reports "VMware VIX Installation operation completed successfully." appears in the Eventlog about 30 min after the GUI had finished (without errors).

Can anybody help?
Thanx.

Best regards,
Sarge

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problem reoccurred ...

VMPLAYER install, how do I open VM?

gia9006 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:33:10 GMT

I found the same question posted, however, I didn't understand the response provided. I have a presentation Monday for a proof of concept running Bugzilla. Ultimately, if implemented it will run on a unix server. For the demo I am running it on Windows XP so I need to install a VM partition so I can install Linux. (Redhat appears to be gone so I am guessing Fedora would work). I set this up a year ago, and installing VMWARE was simple. But now I am stuck at step 1. I downloaded VMPlayer 2.5.3-185404.exe. I have not had any error messages. When I attempt to open vmware player, i see 3 icons/links COMMANDS (1) browse for available virtual machines when you select a machine it will play in this window. When I select open it gives me a browse screen for VMware configuration files *.vmx (2) download - virtual appliance

I have a vmware folder in my program files. but do not have a *.vmx file. I have followed the instructions closely. Step 1: Start your VMware product and connect to the virtual machine. It seems I can start the player, but not connect to the VM. What should I do? Why isn't this working? This was so easy last time I tried it.

Unfortunately this is step 1 in a very long configuration. I am running out of time, can anyone help?

Slow suspend/resume

Emmanuel Stapf — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:23:01 GMT

This week-end I've upgraded from VMPlayer 2.5.3 to 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04 and was disappointed by one thing. The speed of suspend/resume. In 2.5.3, it would take about 3 seconds to suspend a virtual machine (the title bar actually disappearing when printing out 49%, strange indeed but that the way it was). After that, if I was restarting the virtual machine right away, it would resume almost immediately.

Now with 3.0, it takes a good 10 to 15 seconds to suspend and this time the progress bar goes up to 100%. And if I restart the virtual machine right away it takes about the same amount of time to resume.

What has changed? Is this a VMWare Player setting?

Thanks for any input,

Manu

Bridge and NAT networking issues for guest OS in VMWare Player

s91066 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:55:18 GMT

Hi all,

My setup is the following:

Host OS: Windows XP SP2, 32bit
Guest OS: openSuse 10.2, Kernel version: 2.6.22.19-0.3-default

In attachement net.txt you may find the Windows network confuration.

The .vmx file contains the configuration of my VM Player.

The host OS was not modified. But, the problem arise when my PC changed domain due to new offices. After that date, a new profile was created and I moved everything from the old profile to the new one. Both OS Host and guest) use DHCP and I have 2 IPs assigned to the MAC address of my NICs. The problem is:

Using NAT in Player's options , I can access the company's LAN but I have no access to the internet, since I must use the company's proxy., Somehow, it's not possible to use it via NAT.

Using Bridge in Player's option, I can access everything for a *few moments*! For example: I can access a web site via company's proxy server and download it's home page, or I can sync the guest's clock against company's NTP server. Suddently and with no apparent reason, network connection is not working! I cannot ping and I cannnot access the internet or the LAN.
If I do a /etc/init.d/network restart, guest OS cannot obtain IP from the DHCP server. If I do a /etc/init.d/network stop, wait a couple of seconds and then start the network again, I have the assigned IP obtained, ping hosts again and access the LAN but only for a few moments.

My PC is a Dell optiplex 745 with an onboard NIC, and I have installed the latest drivers from Broadcom. Host OS has no issues! I used the vmnetcfg.exe application in order todisable automatic bridging (although Ihave only one card), removed player and re-installed it, used the VM player from another user etc.

The guest ifconfig is:

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:0D:D8:6D
inet addr:10.32.9.225 Bcast:10.32.9.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:13152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6535 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2536665 (2.4 Mb) TX bytes:490912 (479.4 Kb)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x1400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:257 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:257 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:111197 (108.5 Kb) TX bytes:111197 (108.5 Kb)

I really need to use my Guess OS, so I really need your help...

Thank you in advance,
Peter

Network gets lost and can't be re-established

caos31 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:59:41 GMT

We run a VMWare Player on a Laptop for demonstration purposes. The demo setup includes a network connection to another computer.

My Problem is: Whenever the network connection of the host computer is disconnected (eg. the cable is unplugged), the network access from within the guest system in the VMWare Player is lost and cannot be re-established, even if the network cable is plugged into the host computer again.

To get network access from guest system again, the host computer must be restarted and the network cable must remain plugged in right on from boot time.
This is quite annoying, because rebooting the computer is not what we want to show within our demo.

I tried deactivating/activating the VMWare Network Adapters (within guest and host), restarting the VMWare services in the host, but nothing helped.

This problem appears to be in the WMWare Player and WMWare Workstation configurations.

Has anybody a idea how to re-connect to the network from guest system after the cable was temporarily unplugged to the host computer?

(Both host and guest systems run Windows XP (SP3 but the same problem existed with SP2 as well)).

Thanks a lot for any help!

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 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:00:46 GMT

Hi all,
for some reason and after a Windows XP update, the vmplayer 3.0 stopped responding.
I had to format the laptop in order to make it work again.
However unfortunatelly and in order to install the explorer 8 the Genuine advantage software of Microsoft had to be installed and after this vmplayer stopped working.
Actually I tried to re-install it but it will just won't start up!!!!
Any solutions?
Best regards
Spiros

vmware player freezes during install

omergrigg1 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:10:12 GMT

I'm trying to install vmware player on a win7 64-bit system.
During the "installing packages on the system" phase, near the end, it just freezes. I can still move the mouse around a bit etc, but after a while the whole system freezes completely.
When I reboot (after forced shutdown), it looks like vmware was installed, but when I try to open a machine/app in the player it says that certain packages are missing. So the install didn't finish properly.
The same happened when I tried installing vmware workstation.

Please help...
Thanks!

VMWare 3.0 and KVM switch interaction

twinclouds — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:44:50 GMT

I installed VMWare player 3.0 on my Windows 7. The guest system is Ubuntu 9.10. It works fine. However, when I move mouse point from Ubuntu to W7, the AVM swtich automatically changed the selection. From my previous experience with VMWare server 1.0, it can be resolved by disable the mouse auto release feature. However, I cannot how to do that under Player 3.0. Can anyone point me to where I can find the solution.

Sorry if it has been posted somewhere but I searched and cannot find this topic.

Thanks in advance.

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 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:53:32 GMT

a simple question, but I'm having a ba day.

thought I'd try the new vmware player 3, on an amd / xp machine.

seems I was also getting the Msoft update tuesday stuff at the same time .

anyway, the machine now only boots in safe mode.

so thought lets remove vmware player 3,

run the supplied un installer, get error "failed MSI"

so try re installing from the downloaded package.

get error " the MSI 'c:\temp\vmware_1257968410\vmware player.msi failed.

Now have no unistall option on the Msoft add / remove program, but vmware still installed,

In desperation have tried to crash vmware by removing the c:\program files\vmware directory, on basis I could then recover, but no, that did not work.

Having bad day, any help please

Xp host crash when Xp on VM Connect USB device

dcube — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:26:22 GMT

Hi,

when i "Connect (disconnect from host)" a usb key (Rainbow usb Ultrapro) :

1) Key light off (it's disconnect from host")

2) Key light on (it's connect to VM)

3) after some seconds host crash with a blu-screen

Host Config : XP-PRO SP3 with AMD Athlon 64

VM Config : XP-PRO SP3

VM was created with VMWARE WORKSTATION 6.5.3.

VM was played with WMPLAYER 3.0.0-203739, after the 1° boot I have update VMTOOLS (ver 8.1.3)

Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me.

Regards

dcube

Promiscuous mode in VMware Player

HMVM123 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:51:19 GMT

I'm running VMplayer 3 on a Windows XP SP3 host. The appliance I'd like to run is a sniffer application and this requires that the sniffing interface be placed in promiscuous mode. I've been searching for tips on how to do this, but most of the pages I can find refer to network utilities that don't exist in the distribution I've installed. Anybody have clues on how to do this?

VMware Player toolbar

u03pje — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:20:20 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm sure this has been asked on numerous occassions, but has the issue about being able to completely remove/disable the toolbar in VMPlayer been addressed yet?

Cheers,

Pete

When I want to play virtual mashine - BSOD

Vizir — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:11:41 GMT

Hello, when I want to play virtual mashine my notebook crash by BSOD. In BSOD is file "vmx86.sys" ... I tryed Instal vmware workstation 7 and there is the same ...
I can create virtual mashine but when i want to run - notebook crash ...

So, I formated my HDD and instal OS (windows 7 64bit) again a tryed again but its the same ...

My notebook is Asus K50AB (Turion X2 RM74, 4GB RAM, and Ati 4570)

I attach photo of BSOD

thank you for help ...

Two Bridged Network interfaces

DirkVDB — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:19:22 GMT

Hi,

I'm running VMWare Player 3.0.0 build-203739 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on a machine that has 2 physical network interfaces (eth0, eth1)

I want to have bridged access to these interfaces in my virtual machines, but when I create two virtual adapters they both get an ip from the eth0 interface.

How do I map the second virtual interface to eth1?

/etc/vmware/networks looks like this:

answer VNET_0_INTERFACE eth0

answer VNET_1_INTERFACE eth1

Thanks

VMware player problem : no display at maximize

aelhossi — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:30:57 GMT

I just recently started using VMware V3. The host is Windows Vista SP2 , 3G memory , Dual core , Core2 processor with GetForce 8600. I have 3 images that were running perfectly: Windows XP, Windows 98, and Fedora Linux. Everything was running smoothly until the last Windows update. After that update VMware started to act very weird. With any image, whenever I maximize the VM the desktop is lost. What I mean by that is the Guest desktop is lost and only what ever the host was displaying is there. Keyboard and mouse are still captured by the guests, and the VMware many still accessable although it is not displayed. I just try clicking at the top window until I catch it. From there I can suspend the VM. But the I can't restore the desktop again.

Any help for that

Regards

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

Tronchaviones — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:52:48 GMT

Since the new VMware Player 3.0.0 (build-203739) has eliminated the essential support tool vmnetcfg.exe (Virtual Network Editor Application), we have to find other way to configure its port forwarding. We have three options (apart from using other virtualization platform):

Buy WMware Workstation (No, thanks. This is not the way to improve its market share)
"Upgrade" to VMware Player 2.5.3 (yes, it is really an upgrade from a crippled new version). download VMware Player 2.5.3
Use the old vmnetcfg.exe over the (not improved at all) virtual network of vmplayer 3.0.0. It works, so there is no need to "upgrade" to 2.5.3 if you have already reconfigured your VMs on the new version. Since the current DLLs will crash vmnetcfg.exe, it is necessary to keep vmnetcfg.exe on another directory, with the 18 DLLs it needs. This is the list of files needed (all taken from the "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player" directory of a 2.5.3 install):

vmnetcfg.exe
glib-2.0.dll
glibmm-2.4.dll
gmodule-2.0.dll
gobject-2.0.dll
iconv.dll
intl.dll
libxml2.dll
sigc-2.0.dll
sysimgbase.dll
vixDiskMountApi.dll
vmcryptolib.dll
vmnetmgr.dll
vmnetui.dll
vmwarebase.dll
vmwarecui.dll
vmwarestring.dll
vmwarewui.dll
zlib1.dll

19 archivos 23.861.648 bytes

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

anervoustwitch — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:18:39 GMT

Im having lots of difficulty intsalling tools with vmware player 3.

it starts the download just fine, but once the download is complete the process immediately errors out and i get the message 'Error: Install of VMware Tools for Linux failed. Please report this to VMware or your system administrator as appropriate.'

It doesnt matter if the tools are for linux or windows guests, the install fails either way.

any ideas? i checked /var/log but there are no message on either the host, or the guests.

Host OS: Fedora 11

Guest OS: Centos5.3, ubuntu 9.10, win7, vista

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

Sonoben — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:34:04 GMT

Hi. I am running XP, win brand new install of VMWare player installed today and a Windows 7 virtual machine (guest). When I click the VM menu on player and select "Install VMWare Tools...", the computer takes a few seconds, then opens a dialog box titled "Downloads" and the message within is "VMWare Player is connecting to the update server ..." and an activity bar (see below ) just keeps going across. It could stay there indefinitely. Is this an issue with Windows 7 security? Or something else.

I would love to get this working so that I could copy and paste across guest and host computers, but if not... I'll just have to give up on Player and install 7 directly.

Thanks for any help.

P.S. It seems this same problem was experienced by the person who posted this thread: "VMware Tools" download DOWN. I don't see the solution. How do I get to the log in a win xp vmware player?

auto-start a vm with pc start?

redleaf65 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:08:41 GMT

Hi all,

Is there a way to auto-start a vm (either in player or workstation) when the pc starts?

Thanks.
Tom

HGFS and Shared Folders stopped working

ndanzig — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:29:02 GMT

On running vmware-config-tools.pl -d
we see the error
mounting HGFS shares: failed

The host is running XP SP3 and the Guest is Ubuntu . We are using Player 2.5.2

The host shares a network drive and we want the guest to be able to read and write to this drive

We enabled the folders in vmware. The funny thing is that this worked at one time and then stopped working.

We are Ghosting this station to several hundred lab stations. How can we fix this? Could it be fixed by using player 3.0?

Installing VMware image as seperate OS

hareeshgur — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:13:21 GMT

Hi Gurus... I am using Windows Server as image for working on a custom ERP Package. I am executing the same using VMware Player. I would like to install the entire image i am having as a seperate OS in my PC. Is there any possible option that i can do the same. (i.e., i need to convert the VMware image to a installed OS in my system.)

Thank you in advance...

guest operating system installation

abiggy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:57:20 GMT

When i run the guest operating system, an error comes up,
"Error while powering on: The Vmware Authorization Service is not running"
How do i solve this problem?

Need a possibility to protect switching to host with a password

JulesRaster — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:43:36 GMT

I'm investigating the use of VMware for a very specific application.

My Question is:

Is there a possibility to prevent users, inside VMware or the VMware player
from accessing the Host operating system on the same system?

I need a PC to start, directly the VMware image with the VMrun command, no problem.
but I like to protect users inside the Virtual machine to enter a password before switching to the Host.

Is there a solution for this. I don't mind having to buy stuff. but I do not prefer 3rd party tools

commercial use of vmware player

nyoman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:25:12 GMT

Hi,

I have a license related question:

does the VMware Distribution Agreement include the right of distributing vmware player within a company for commercial use?

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

continuum — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:53:17 GMT

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

how is a unexperienced user supposed to configure the vmnets without this tool ?

Ulli

___________________________________

VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

Simple question re: Network setup

traycerb — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:08:49 GMT

I'm trying out the VMWare Player Beta 3, starting from an image converted from MS Virtual PC to VMWare by VMWare's converter.

Works great so far, but I can't setup the network. My host is a XP/sp3 running and the VM is XP. I'm temporarily without a router, so my ethernet card is plugged into my DSL modem directly. I set it to bridged and used vmnetcfg.exe (which, unhelpfully, needs to extracted manually from the setup files) to verify that it was automatically connecting to the right LAN card.

Still, nothing works. ipconfig in the virtualization shows nothing connected, nothing can be pinged, etc.

What am I missing? The help files aren't clear on how I need to Windows up in both the host and the VM. Things will be more straight-forward when I'm settled in and have a proper router, but until then, any suggestions? Would there be benefit in trying NAT?

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 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:56:36 GMT

I used VMware Player 2.5.3and tried to upgrade to 3.0.
But after the installation and starting a VM I got the message:
PAE is required
and the player ended.

Yes I the CPU does not have PAE support - but why is it required starting from 3.0?
It could be an option - that would be cool.

Or those with PAE and more than 4GB RAM - they could use workstation...

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

Kind Regards

root@kim:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 600.000
cache size : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up bts est tm2
bogomips : 1196.18
clflush size : 64

Bug with the new graphic driver & WPF applications

NakahVirtual — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:32:31 GMT

Hi,
I've installed VMware Player 3.0 today and it works perfectly with my Windows 7 Ultimate 32bits (Aero enabled).
But I have issues with WPF applications. I've installed Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 (which uses a full WPF interface) and menus are blurry.
I have to use "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics\DisableHWAcceleration" registry key to disable hardware acceleration on my virtual machine.
This registry key is used when there are issues with graphic drivers as seen here :
MSDN

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

mfeller — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:29:20 GMT

How do I change the default network for VMware Player 3.0 NAT?

I have an appliance for software test that is a real pain to change IP on the guest.

Thanks!

can vmware player configure with port forwarding

terechua — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:21:30 GMT

i was new here, and is great if any expert can help to answer my question.

i know vmware workstation can set the port forwarding. so i wonder is that for the vmware player also can do it?

if yes may i know how this can be done.

thanks a lot.

best regards

terence chua

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

Syphonfilter — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:20:51 GMT

Dear Reader,

I have installed CentOS 5.

When I want to install VMWare tools I got the message that a load of packages was not install.
Using YUM I installed these packages.

Now, everything goes fine untill he asks me for "c headers". Something with a C++ compiler.
I installed this one to, but he keeps asking me for "c headers". I ran a YUM UPDATE and did
everything I could possibly find on the internet but nothing is working for me.

Can someone please help me out?

CentOS 5
VMwareTools-7.8.5-156735.tar.gz

I open a teminal and use the command:

/root/tools/vmware-install.pl

I will be prompted for some questions which I answer with the standard answer (ENTER BUTTON).

At the end I get the message:

None of the pre-build vmmemctl modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your running kernel blablabla...

using compiler "usr/bin/gcc. Use environment variable CC to overwrite.

What is the location of the directory of C Headers file that match your current running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

But that last one wont be accepted.

He says:

The directory running the kernel headers (version 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5) does not match your running kernel (version 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen). Even if the module were to compile succesfully, it would not load into your running kernel.

Anyone knows how to solve this?

Best regards

Autofit Guest in VMware Player

paperbridge — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:46:16 GMT

Is it possible to autofit the guest in VMware Player?

Thanks in advance!
Peter

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.

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

mlandis — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:23:11 GMT

I recently performed a fresh install to Ubuntu 9.10 (realtime kernel). I attempted to install VM Player 3.0 (though received the same errors w/ 2.5) and received the following errors upon the kernel recompile. I was running VM Player 2.5 w/ Ubuntu 9.04 previously with no problems.

Any advice is appreciated.

mlandis

Here's the bundle I installed.

mikee@poignetta:~$ ls *.bundle
VMware-Player-3.0.0-203739.x86_64.bundle

Here's my kernel.

mikee@poignetta:~$ uname -a
Linux poignetta 2.6.31-9-rt #152-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Oct 15 13:22:24 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Here's the kernel rebuild error.

mikee@poignetta$ sudo vmplayer

http:// ...

Stopping VMware services:
VMware USB Arbitrator done
VM communication interface socket family done
Virtual machine communication interface done
Virtual machine monitor done
Blocking file system done
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
In file included from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm.h:42,
from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:100:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86_64.h:50:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm.h:42,
from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:100:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86_64.h:50:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driverLog.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm.h:42,
from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:67:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86_64.h:50:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/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
In file included from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm.h:42,
from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/common/task.c:50:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86_64.h:50:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm.h:42,
from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.c:43:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86_64.h:50:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
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

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

tmeyer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:18:35 GMT

Hello,

I have recently upgraded to VMWare Workstation 7 / VMWare Player 3. Now I am having the problem that what used to work under the previous version of VMWare Player (v2.5.3), namely that you could vnc into a guest running in VMWare Player, doesn't seem to work anymore. It still functions when I use VMWare Workstation to run the guest.

I have already searched the groups here and most of you state that what I want to do is only possible with Workstation but unsupprted by VMWare Player.

However, I swear it did work with VMware Player v2.5.3. Additionally, when you do a search for "vnc" in the online help of VMware Player 3 then you will find the following section:

Configure a Virtual Machine as a VNC Server
You do not need to install specialized VNC software in a virtual machine to configure it as a VNC server.
Procedure
1 Select VM > Settings.

2 Click the Options tab and select Remote Display.

3 Click Enable remote display.

After remote display is enabled and users connect to the virtual machine with a VNC client, use the View Connected Users button on Remote Display settings panel to see a list of the connected users.
4 (Optional) Change the port number.

To connect to multiple virtual machines on the same host with a VNC client, specify a unique port number for each virtual machine. VMware suggests that you use a port number in the range from 5901 to 6001.
Other applications use certain port numbers, and some port numbers are privileged (only the root or Administrator user can listen). For example, the VMware Management Interface uses ports 8333 and 8222. On Linux, only the root user can listen to ports up to port number 1024.
5 (Optional) Set a password for connecting to the virtual machine from a VNC client.

The password can be up to 8 characters long. Because it is not encrypted when the VNC client sends it, do not use a password that you use for other systems.
6 Click OK.

I cannot find the item "Remote Display" under the Options tab in the Player, only in Workstation (which I used to configure the vm).

Can someone help to clarify the situation for me?

My configuration:
Host: Windows Server 2003 SP2 32bit, also tested on Vista SP2 64bit
Guests: Ubuntu, XP
VMware: VMWare Player 3.0.0 build-203739

Thank you very much
Thomas

Hibernate does not work

hefeweizen — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:49:30 GMT

Hi,

I always use hibernation in windows xp sp2, so I can power down my computer and when it reboots my system is fresh and with exactly the same programs that before. Yesterday I insatlled vmplayer and now hibernate does not work anymore. I checked it out that uninstalling vmplayer makes hibernation to work again. Is there a better solution than this to have hibernation and vmplayer working together ?

Thanks

Running VM Player on Linux

u03pje — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:32:53 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone know how to run VM Player on a PC with Red Hat Linux installed, which then loads an XP virtual desktop, giving the impression that only XP is running on the PC and not actually a virtual desktop with the Linux OS?

Cheers

32 bit vs 64 bit

dkabat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:53:38 GMT

Can a 32 bit guest be operated in a 64 bit host virtual machine.

Thanks

Dan

[HOWTO] Slackware 13.0 Linux Guest + VMware Tools on Slackware 12.2 Linux Host, VMWare Player 3.0

geep999 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:47:04 GMT

Hi,
Configured VMWare Player 3.0.0 on a Slackware 12.2 Linux host, with guest Slackware 13.0 + KDE.
But there are a few little wrinkles to iron out to install the VMWare Tools on the guest.
Once Tools are installed they usually run OK: mouse + copy and paste text, window resize.

A few times the mouse judders at the edge of the guest window, copy and paste text failed,
and the mouse on the host failed to select properly. Had to revert to a text window (CTRL+ALT+F6) to reboot the host.

Network (bridged) and sound also OK, but these don't need the Tools.
Didn't test: any USB peripherals, Unity Mode, Shared Folders.

There may be other ways to configure all this, but this recipe works for me.
Maybe interesting for other Slackware users out there...

1/ Installed VMWare Player 3.0.0 on host.
During installation it downloaded all the VMWare Tools .iso images into /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/
No problems.

2/ Installed Slackware 13.0 from .iso image as "Other Linux 2.6.x kernel" using the
default 2.6.29.6-smp huge kernel and the Slackware default LILO boot loader.

Virtual Machine Settings: Hardware: Selected Network Adaptor > Bridged.
Virtual Machine Settings: Options: Shared Folders Disabled

No problems.

3/ Start the Slackware guest and login as root.

4/ At this point there isn't an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
Maybe it isn't necessary, but vmware-install.pl will probably complain about lack of xorg.conf.
Used this xorg.conf was copied from xubuntu:

Section "Device"
Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier      "Default Screen"
Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
Device          "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

5/ Create this directory:

mkdir /etc/pam.d

In the past vmware-install.pl complained if it did not exist. So I always create it.

6/ vmware-install.pl will complain that it can't restart hal daemon. It's looking for /etc/rc.d/init.d/haldaemon
To fix this:

cp -a /etc/rc.d/rc.hald /etc/rc.d/init.d/haldaemon

rc.hald and haldaemon must be executable.

7/ startx to start KDE.

8/ Mount the VMWare tools /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/linux.iso

Expand the tools archive file: VMwareTools-8.1.3-203739.tar.gz.
I expanded from /root so the installer is /root/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl

9/ Start two konsole windows.
From the first konsole execute the installer vmware-install.pl
I used the defaults for ALL the answers.

It should compile lots of kernel modules and then the screen will flash and X windows should restart.
The konsole should then be displaying:

(++) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

X is running fine with the new config file.

But the install script has not finished; there is no command prompt. Read on...

10/ From the second console window type

top

You should see that the command mkinitrd is taking lots of cpu but seems to be achieving nothing.
Note the PID of mkinitrd.

stop the mkinitrd process:

kill -9 PID

The first console window should now display the following messages.
Note that HGFS failed, I assume because I had previously disabled Shared Folders.
(I use NFS to handle guest/host shared folders. In the past I found HGFS more trouble than it is worth).
I did not change anything in /boot.

Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
Nothing found at location /boot/initrd-tree, so we will create an
initrd directory structure there... done.                        

Now cd to /boot/initrd-tree and install some modules in your
module directory (lib/modules/2.6.29.6-smp).  Then see init 
for more information (there are a few other files to edit). 
Finally, run mkinitrd again once the initrd-tree is ready,  
and /boot/initrd.gz will be created from it.                

Checking acpi hot plug                                  [OK]
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:             
Switching to guest configuration:                       [OK]
Paravirtual SCSI module:                                [OK]
Guest filesystem driver:                                [OK]
Mounting HGFS shares:                                   [FAILED]
Guest memory manager:                                   [OK]
Guest vmxnet fast network device:                       [OK]
VM communication interface:                             [OK]
VM communication interface socket family:               [OK]
Blocking file system:                                   [OK]
File system sync driver:                                [OK]
Guest operating system daemon:                          [OK]
Virtual Printing daemon:                                [OK]

The configuration of VMware Tools 8.1.3 build-203739 for Linux for this running
kernel completed successfully.                                                 

You must restart your X session before any mouse or graphics changes take 
effect.                                                                   

You can now run VMware Tools by invoking the following command: 
"/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox" during an X server session.           

To enable advanced X features (e.g., guest resolution fit, drag and drop, and 
file and text copy/paste), you will need to do one (or more) of the following:
1. Manually start /usr/bin/vmware-user                                        
2. Log out and log back into your desktop session; and,                       
3. Restart your X session.                                                    

Use of uninitialized value $network_path in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl line 11806.                                          
To use the vmxnet driver, restart networking using the following commands:      
stop
rmmod pcnet32
Use of uninitialized value $network_path in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl line 11812.
rmmod vmxnet
modprobe vmxnet
start

Enjoy,

--the VMware team

12/ So that the Tools daemons are started automatically I added 3 lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

echo "Starting vmware tools"
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-tools start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-tools status

13/ To start the Tools when a user logs in, create a file vmware-user.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=vmware-user
Name=VMware User Agent
X-KDE-autostart-phase=1
NoDisplay=true

Every user needs a copy of vmware-user.desktop in their ~/.kde/Autostart/ directory
This causes /usr/bin/vmware-user to be executed automatically when the user logs in.

14/ If you are having problems selecting between the CD and Hard Disk for booting,
you can slow down the guest startup and change BIOS boot parameters. F2 for BIOS setup.

Edit the .vmx file manually, and add this line:

bios.bootDelay = "10000"

This will give you 10 seconds to select the BIOS or allow normally booting.
Or use another value if you prefer.
(I added it after memsize = ).

Cheers,
Peter

Network Support

Anilus — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:21:18 GMT

Do you really haft to have network support in order to use VM Ware Player, as far as installation and which is more reliable to use VM Ware Player or Virtural Box

Win XP Easy Setup Feature: Response file

Sarge67 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:54:55 GMT

Hello,

where can I find the response file of the "Easy Setup" for Windows XP?

I'd like to create an own Installation Image and thew preconfigured VMware file would certainly be a good starting point for this purpos (since correct drivers are identified, and there's no need to scan the virtual hardware ...)

Thanx in advance.
Best regards,

Sarge

VMware Player unrecoverable error

emmanuelkempf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:41:16 GMT

Hi all,

I install vmware player 2.5 on 2 PCs and i have this same error . I install vmware player 2.0 its working. But i can open .vmx because was create with last VM workstation version.

VMware Player unrecoverable error: (player) NOT_IMPLEMENTED d:/build/ob/bora-118166/bora/lib/misc/win32uRegistry.c:76

Please help

Thanks

Vmware player 3.0 XP Mode compatibility

mermade — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:12:58 GMT

Can't get vmware player 3.0 (build 203739) to play / import / convert the Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machine containing the XP Mode installation.

I just get an error "Failed to open virtual machine: Failed to query source for information".

Vmware player isn't installed in a directory containing non-ASCII characters (as per the known issue in the release notes) it's in the default install location C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player

Doesn't seem to be much in the UI log file, just:

Oct 30 12:07:44.235: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActiveFullScreen: action=0
Oct 30 12:07:44.235: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActiveFullScreen: Ungrab MKS
Oct 30 12:07:54.531: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActiveFullScreen: action=0
Oct 30 12:07:54.531: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActiveFullScreen: Ungrab MKS
Oct 30 12:07:54.531: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: m_bActive=1
Oct 30 12:08:01.170: player| VMDlg::ShowDialog: Failed to open virtual machine: Failed to query source for information.
Oct 30 12:08:01.170: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActiveFullScreen: action=0
Oct 30 12:08:01.170: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActiveFullScreen: Ungrab MKS
Oct 30 12:08:03.733: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActiveFullScreen: action=0
Oct 30 12:08:03.733: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActiveFullScreen: Ungrab MKS
Oct 30 12:08:03.733: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: m_bActive=1
Oct 30 12:08:05.498: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActiveFullScreen: action=0
Oct 30 12:08:05.498: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActiveFullScreen: Ungrab MKS
Oct 30 12:08:10.638: player| PlayerFrame::UpdateActivePlayer: m_bActive=0

Should the XP mode virtual machine be completely untouched, i.e. not started by Windows 7, or should it be configured / activated etc before being imported into vmware?

Sizing the VM-player window

EdCarroll — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:56:42 GMT

The VM-player window instnatiates to a size that I can decreae but not increase. Is there a way to configure it to be larger or is this a designed limitation of the free product?

cursor jumps off in vmware player

ronenfe — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:36:52 GMT

I'm pasting here a problem and a solution i found and posted on other forum for the benefit of other users.

I don't know if others experience the same, but it happens too often that when i click the left or right button of the mouse in VMware, the cursor jumps to the edge.
It's annoying and makes it hard to work with the mouse, anyone experience the same or has any solution? I tried 3 different mouses both usb and ps/2.

I'm running it on AMD athlon XP 2400+ with windows xp.

Thanks, I seemed to fix it by installing VMware player version 3.0 which i downloaded from VMware.
It just came out at the end of October.
I can now see that what happened is that the player didn't get full focus and the cursor got confused between the windows and the player, so i could also get the cursor out of the player window.
Now, the cursor only jumps once on the first click , and then can't get out of the player until i press ctrl+alt as it supposed to be, and the cursor doesn't jump anymore.

Host OS (WinXP) slow startup after installation of VMWare Player

mws1 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:34:00 GMT

Hi everyone,
I'm running Windows XP on an HP notebook (dual core, 3 GB RAM). I just installed VMWare Player 3.0 but experienced severe performance issues at windows startup and login. It takes about 2 or 3 minutes before I get to the desktop. Also, I'm encountering issues with the built-in fingerprint scanner as it's not working properly with VMWare Player installed.
When I remove VMWare Player everything is back to normal.
I did not configure any guest OS to start up automatically.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Michael