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BSOD - Win7 Compaq Presario CQ61 - VMPlayer 3.0

lmenten — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:54:53 GMT

I have installed VMPlayer on a Compaq Presario CQ61 running Win7 and got a BoD on the mandatory reboot to complete installation of VMPlayer 3.0. Has this sort of failure been reported? Environment is relatively pristine.

Lock Player 2.5.3. No rights for normal Useres

Syntetic — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:58:45 GMT

Hi,

i woud like to create a VM on a Laptop. The user should not be able to switch between NAT & Bridged Networkmode. He has only to use the configuration that i give him and he should not able to change the configuration. Is there a way to do this?

Player 3.0 full screen mode issues

brf — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:52:04 GMT

I've used VMware Workstation 4, 5, and 6 quite a bit in the past, just decided to give VMware Player 3.0 a try. Linux host, Windows XP guest.

A "feature" I've noticed is that when you resize your VMware Player window to take up all of your screen (not counting your KDE taskbar, apparently), it automatically jumps to full screen mode. This is actually extremely annoying because I want my KDE taskbar available at all times. I don't want VMware Player to ever go into full-screen mode. Is there a way to make this happen? Hard to believe there isn't, but I haven't found any info (or, surprisingly, anyone else complaining about this) on the net.

VMware Player 3.0 installer hangs with index.htm in same directory

madmac89 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:25:26 GMT

Environment is Windows Server 2003 64 bit, with various IDE environments include the Visual Studio 10 Beta. IE 8 and FF 3.x installed, cygwin too.

Double Tap the installer, it brings up the index.htm file in a display window with no controls, though it does have vmware player install in the window title... then promptly hangs (I let it sit for ~10 minutes) with zero CPU consumed.

I'd include a bitimage copy of the window, but it's not something I can publish, and after chasing this for an hour... no, I'm not that charitable...

no Desktop appearing at Small business Server 2008

gaspedalo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:13:20 GMT

Hi!

I've installed a Small business Server Trial Edition with the VMWare Player under windows 7 64bit. Installation went smooth, machine is up and running, just those desktops don't appear after logging on. During my install I hadn't provided the recommended Memory but now I did and even then the desktop is not accessible. I can access Task manager, but that's it. I'm clueless!

Poseidon Linux on VMware

andy1111 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:49:14 GMT

Hi everyone,

I wondered if someone could help me, I've installed VMware Player on Win XP and I've got Poseidon Linux (I think built on Ubuntu) v3.1. Install goes fine, but once installed, and it asks me to log in, I cannot do anything but shut down / other random stuff. Screen shot attached.

Anyone have any ideas?

Would be much appreciated..
Andy

Heavy mouse lag when using VMWare player through remote desktop

AndersJo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:29:55 GMT

Hi everyone!

I have VMWare Player installed on my office computer, which I frequently access from home using remote desktop. The OS is Windows XP on the host, as well as on the VM. Since I updated to Player 3.0, I experience very heavy mouse lag when ever I use the VM. This was never an issue with the previous version.

Any ideas?

Shared writable mmap detection

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

Hello,

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

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

crashing means, that exceptions not being handled properly.

sigh

Virtualbox VDI file to Vmware

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks,

Mihai

Vmware 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

Mouse focus problem

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

Hello:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks

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

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

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

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

Player 3.0 and Java in Linux Guest

shane.walton — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 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

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,

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.

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!

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?

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 !

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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,

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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 – Not receiving download email

flood0 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:26:05 GMT

Anyone able to download VMware player 3.0 since Saturday (10/31)? I've requested it several times over the weekend and twice this morning, but the email from VMware containing the download link and the serial number information never comes. I've verified that our Email Firewall is not dropping the message and I've ensured that vmware.com and connect.vmware.com have been whitelisted.

I've also sent an email to the website feedback/support site, but no response.

Anyone have any luck with this lately?

System req NOT defined

jelabarre — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:14:10 GMT

I just **TRIED** to use the new version of VMplayer on my laptop. Turns out your new version requires PAE in the processor, which NONE of my equipment has. I will not have the budget for upgrading my home HW anytime in the forseeable future, and I doubt my company will be providing me with any upgrades either. But that's how things are.

What seriously P**ses me off is that you do not state ***ANYPLACE*** on the product page, on the download page, etc that you have changed the application requirements. Prior versions did not, and if you have made this level of change, you *****MUST***** clearly define it. I wasted my time downloading this useless player, when I could have been spending it searching for a replacement to an application that obviously will no longer serve my needs.

IF YOU MAKE CRITICAL CHNAGES TO HW/SW REQUIREMENTS, YOU MUST CLEARLY STATE THOSE CHANGES.

BUG + workaround: can not do a fresh install on Windows

continuum — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:00:48 GMT

BUG + workaround: can not do a fresh install on Windows

I thought I was the only one getting this but I just saw the first post of another user running into the same thing ....
This problem has been seen on 2k3-32bit and Windows 7 - 64bit and may occur with Workstation7 and VMplayer3

When trying to do a fresh installation the setup fails with non-helpful message "The MSI fails" - this only applies to fresh install - not upgrades.

WORKAROUND:

this is a stupid bug in the installer - it does not even consider that you are not upgrading but doing a fresh install.
The setup then tries to uninstall a non-existing earlier version.
It tries to find this non-existing earlier installation but gives up as it does not find anything ...

So you must run the installer with a special command line to tell it that you are really planning to do a fresh install and that uninstalling older versions really is neither necessary nor wanted.

VMware-player-3.0.0-203739.exe /z "action"="install"

Ulli
___________________________________

VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

VMPlayer 3.0 network settings VMTools updates FC10

jezyk — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:37:15 GMT

Hi there.

I have two problems with new version of VMWare Player
3.0.

I've changed from VMServer 2.01 to VMPlayer 3.0. I
mean that I've deinstalled server and installed player.

1st - How to change default configuration of network
interfaces? I didn't find something like vmware-config.pl script in
vmserver. I want to change range and pool of DHCP for NAT and
host-only interfaces.

2nd - How to install updates of VMWare tools? When I
try to install it appears an error without any details. Maybe this is
problem of privileges. I'm not sure.

Thanks for any suggestion.

unity and xinerama (dual monitors on linux)

prescaler — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:41:01 GMT

Is vmware player 3.0 unity mode supposed to work with xinerama on? I know the release notes says multiple monitor support. It does use both of my monitors in the regular mode. But I can not switch to unity mode. The error window says "this virtual machine's display settings are incompatible with unity". Here is the layout section of my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Multihead layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Option "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Player 3.0: Network and sound in Linux

FredFlinstone1 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:51:57 GMT

I try open virtual machines based on Linux Ubuntu in VMware Player 3.0. Virtual is started in Player correctly, but doesn't work network connection in virtual, although I set any setting ("Bridged..." or "Bridged with Replicate phys.network...", or "NAT ..." or "Host only..." or "Named network (bridged)").

On local host network works correctly.

What is problem? Do you help me?

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 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?

Low cost vmware-based VPS that can do this

UlyssesOfEpirus — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:58:28 GMT

Does anyone know of a decently-priced vmware VPS that is fast enough to do this:

1. Play a youtube video and show the output to my linux pc over an encrypted remote X connection (eg using NoMachine NX)

Also does any VPS service exist where they would allow me to do this:

2. Boot the virtual machine off a linux liveCD that is stored as an iso image in the host

Virtual Machine without Ethernet on Ubuntu 9.04

raucha — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:12:45 GMT

I
have some virtual machines running on a few servers. After upgrading to
VMWare Player 2.5.3 the machines running on Ubuntu 9.04 (64bit) fail to
connect to eth0 devices. In /var/log/messages I find the error message

/dev/rtc open failed: -13

The virtual machines running on CentOS 5.4 as host are working fine
without that error. Downgrading the version of VMWare Player running on
Ubuntu to 2.5.2 gives me ethernet access without errors again. There seems to be
an incompatibility between the current versions of Ubuntu and VMWare.
Are there any settings that would allow me to upgrade VMWare Player on
Ubuntu?

VMWare Player 2.5.3 on Gentoo Host

lyallp — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:54:02 GMT

I cannot install VMWare Player 2.5.3 on a Gentoo 32 bit Intel Host.

I can't get past the fact that it is looking for the runlevel directory.

Is there a way to install without VMWare trying to do the runlevel installation (and failing)? I am quite capable of performing the runlevel configuration myself.

...Lyall

Bridget and NAT networking issues for guest OS in VMWare Player

s91066 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:55:13 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 I have only one card), removed player and re-installed it, used the VM player from another user etc.

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

Thank you in advance,
Peter

vmware player routing capabilities

dirtdevil01 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:22:06 GMT

Does vmware player have the same routing capabilities as vmware workstation? Meaning when I power on a vm under player, does it get connected to an internal nat router that gives it an ip address and routes traffice for it to outside the box like workstation does? And if so, can I configure that router by adding route entries in it?

VMware Player - Networking problems Opensuse 11.1

Ralliart — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:12:46 GMT

Hi all, I'm running OpenSuse11.1 within the VMware player on my laptop (xp operating system), whilst I can access my laptop (XP) shared folders/files in Suse thru Samba, when I go to XP (my network places folder) I cannot see any Samba/Linux shared folders. I'm totally new to linux so any help/pointers as to what I could try or am doing wrong would be much appreciated. Thanks

vmplayer issues with ubuntu 9.10 on amd64

hakir — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:24:53 GMT

There are three issues, that may be related. Bottom line is that I cannot get a working system. I would like to run VMs located on an ESXI server with vmplayer. On Ubuntu 9.04 this works with

vmplayer -h esxihost

select the vm to run and be happy. On Ubuntu 9.10 I cannot do this, because I do not get a working setup as follows:

1) vmplayer 2.5.3 cannot be installed, because the installation process hangs. The cause are deadlocked compiler processes trying to communicate through a pipe with the main installer process.

vmplayer 2.5.1 installs fine and nearly works, except:

2) If I do not use export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force in /etc/vmware/bootstrap, I cannot use the mouse in the whole guest window, but rather only in the top left 640x480 pixels, so it is mostly useless.

3) If I do use the above setting, then the window to select a vm looks like in the attached screen shot. I see some icons, but no names, so I would have to guess which vm is which.

Since the first 2 are well covered in different discussion entries, i wonder if somebody has a cure for the 3rd, because this would get me going again:-(

Harald.

Does Player 2.5.3 Officially Support Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) as HOST ?

rchin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:46:33 GMT

Simple question:

VMware Player 2.5.3 | 20 August 2009 | Build 185404 --- for Linux (i.e. VMware-Player-2.5.3-185404.i386.bundle)

Does this release officially support Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) Host?

I have read the following but found no reference to 9.04 as one of the supported Hosts

VMware Player 2.5.3 Release Notes EN
VMware Player 2.5.2 Release Notes EN
VMware Player 2.5.1 Release Notes EN
VMware Player 2.5.0 Release Notes EN
Getting Started Guide EN

thanks

Keyboard does not work at all

sb1234 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:37:51 GMT

Hello,

Can someone help me diagnose this issue? I searched the discussions but did not find anything pertaining to my specific problem.

After the guest OS (appliance) boots up in VM Player, I am unable to type anything using the keyboard. Interestingly, the mouse works fine. I am able to move the mouse pointer, navigate GNOME menus in the browser appliance, etc.. I just cannot type anything using the keyboard.

Hardware - Dell Vostro 1500 laptop with Intel x86 CPU and 4 GB RAM

VMware Player version 2.5.3

Host OS -- Windows XP Professional SP3

Guests/Appliances tried (all downloaded using links from VMware's site):

Ubuntu 9.04 with VMware tools

Ubuntu 9.04 without VMware tools

VMware browser appliance

Is there something obvious that I am missing?

Thanks.

VMnet8: "The system cannot find the file specified" after upgrade to 2.5.3

texaganian — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:24:17 GMT

Hey all...

Running a couple of pre-built appliances under VMware Player on WinXP at work. Everything was fine and rosy until I upgraded to Player 2.5.3.

Now whenever I start one of the VMs I get the following dialog box:

And, sure enough, once my linux vm is running, eth0 is not up & running.

Alas, I don't have the older version of Player on hand to reinstall, nor am I sure what version it was (long story).

Happens whether networking is set for NAT or bridged (and both worked before).

So, anyone have any suggestions?

Mouse problem. Do I re-install vmware tools ? How ?

Bluegroper1 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:40:48 GMT

Hi forum
I have PCLinuxOS host, and vmplayer 2.5.1 running Windoze 2k guest.
Its been working fine, until the latest PCLOS update.
Win2k boots ok within vmplayer, however the mouse is now all over the place.
Using the mouse within the Win2k guest makes the pointer jump randomly from the arrow pointer (Win2k) to the hand pointer (Linux) within the same window.
And its impossible to point and click reliably at any place within the window of the Win2k guest.
Mouse works fine in PCLOS, and also worked fine before update, so I'm suspecting vmware software issue/s.
I do have vmware tools installed, since I can find them (using the keyboard) in the Win2k Control Panel menu. It says vmware tools for Windows Build 29772
So, I'm guessing that I should reinstall these tools, and perhaps update them too.
How to do that ?
In my vmplayer there seems nothing in the menu/s about vmware tools.
I'm really keen to get this working again, so am grateful for any clues.
TIA's

Installing and running VMware Player on CentOS

tcolonel — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:18:36 GMT

Hello everyone.

I have a problem with running VMware Player 2.5.3 on CentOS release 5.3 (Final).

After instalationI can't find file vmware-config.pl because there is no such file.

And if I try to run /usr/bin/vmplayer I have the error:

(vmware-modconfig:17095): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Any comments?

Thanks.

Error 1303 when installing tools under Windows 98

LadyDeath — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:02:18 GMT

When I attempt to install the VMware tools under Windows 98 as a guest I constantly get the error message:

Error 1303. The installer has insufficient privileges to access this directory: C:\Program Files\VMware. The installation cannot continue. Log on as an administrator or contact your system administrator.

Excuse me, but this is Windows 98 and therefore has no administrator account. So the question is how do I get the VMware tools installed?

WAN<-->ADSL Vhost<--> WINXP host (portmap)<-->ubuntu guest(NAT)<-->webserver(no firwwall) Not working

pdhag — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:58:29 GMT

Dear All

Following procedure is followed for web hosting from guest OS (ubuntu desktop9.x) under vmware player and host Os winxpsp2 with one interface card eth1 and ADSL modem/router from ISP for LAN-WAN interface with fixed IP for my ADSL (fixed WAN IP:61001, Local LAN IP:61001 admin mangement screen for ADSL)

i changed the port for mangement via http as i want that fixed Ip:80 should come to my webserver and not open the management screen.

changes are saved and seen even after power recycle on ADSL modem.

virtual host is defined for LAN side WINXP IP (192.168.1.4:80) for any prototcol on WAN port 80 (request for fixed IP:80 should come to 192.168.1.4:80)

ipconfig on WinXP shows 192.168.1.4 as its IP.

WinXP firewall is diabled. Firestarter is disbaled.

Port mapping is done for winxP IP (192.168.1.4:80 to guest NAT interface port 80)

webserver listen on 80, virtual host *:80

guest ifconfig results 192.168.222.128 (DHCP alloted) as interface IP. ping successfull for WAN fixed ip(59...*), winxp LAN ip from guest OS.

Website (IT WORKS) on apahce2, seen in winxp at 192.168.1.4:80 (port mapping works from host to guest) seen at 192.168.222.128:80 in guest

Since no firewall in winxp and ADSL virtual host local IP is 192.168.1.4:80 for WAN port 80 for any protocol(as i cant set guest IP 192.168.222.128 out of subnet 192.168.1.*) my expectations are i should see or connect in telnet at fixed ip:80. but timed out.

i can connect to ADSL management screen by fixed IP<59...*>:61001 or LAN side 192.168.1.1:61001 for ADSL showing that WAN is mapped to LAN

Question

1> how can i find that which part of route from fixed IP:80 to guest os:80 is not working?

2>i am running <http://fixed IP:80> from dev PC only, shoudl it be done from outside second PC connected to internet? why?

i know it is related to host winxp accepting the http from ADSL and fwd to guest 80. since i see website at host's ip (192.168.1.4:80) doesnt it mean that local fwd is working from host-guest? since WAN-LAN fwd happens as said for manegemnt screen at http:61001 (192.168.1.1:61001 or fixed ip:61001) i doubt anything to do that side. Earlier it used to work at 80 by default so my ISP is allowing incoming http at 80 from WAN (fixed ip:80 opened manegemnt screen).

the virtual host is winxp PC at 192.168.1.4:80 to *:80 (WAN).

pls comment

dhananjay

fedora 11

jpdamigaman — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:35:24 GMT

HI how do you install vmware player in fedora 11?

Problem running VMWare Content in VMWare Player 2.5.2 build-156735

nsnavare — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:06:58 GMT

Hi all.

I downloaded VMWare Player 2.5.2 build-156735 about 2 months ago and installed it successfully. I tried out the SAGE VMWare package at that time and it ran smoothly.

I had not used the player for 2 months, when today, I needed to use it again to run SAGE. Surprisingly, it does not run at all. During my previous usages, it used to show me the bootup screen of the virtual machine and ask me for a logon. Now, it just brings the VMWare logo in the middle and then, nothing happens. I can access the VMWare player menus, but pressing Ctrl+G does not have any effect. I tried uninstalling and installing the player again, but with no success. If I try to close the player, it says that the virtual machine is busy and even that dialog box does not disappear after I press the OK button.

Please help me as it is very urgent.

Thanks in advance.

Nikhil

Unity draws Linux window with Windows' thick frame

projectshave — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:17:09 GMT

VMware Player 2.5.2 running Ubuntu 8.10 guest on a Vista SP2 host. In Unity mode, a Linux window is usually drawn perfectly with thin Gnome window borders. When I minimize the window and then restore, Unity draws Windows' thicker border which occludes a little bit of the Linux window. I've attached a picture showing the border overlapping the Close, Minimize and Maximize icons on the top right corner of my Emacs window.

It's a minor issue, but it bugs me when it happens. Any solution for this? Thanks.

I

Problem with sound in VMware Player with Windows 7 Guest

beohna — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:25:54 GMT

Hello,

I intsalled Windows 7 Enterprise RTM 32bit as a Guest on a Windows XP 32bit. I tried the SoundAdapter "es1371" and"sb16" but no adapter will work in Windows 7.

Sound in the Host-OS still works, also in other VMs (XP, Vista).In Windows 7 it seems that there is no driver for that sound-adapter. I'm using a older Version of VMware PlayerV2.03 (this is because other reasons,so I can not simply update the VMware Player Version.)

Any idea?

Greetings,

beohna

hostname: Host name lookup failure

nunolf — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:28:56 GMT

Dear all,

Oh ... first dificulty, which community to post a question.

Host machine: Windows XP Home edition (SP3)
VMWare player: 2.5.3 build-185404
Guest machine: Scientific Linux 5.1, configured to run on NAT, hostname = science

The VMWare instance was created by the IT from our department, such that students can now run it (most use windows) and use during classes. I was trying to install a software package on the instance running on my computer, whichy requires a FQDN defined. I tried to play with /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfic/network (defining for example hostname as science.students.priv) but I'm getting the following
error:

~~root@science ~~~# hostname -f
hostname: Host name lookup failure

How can I setup a FQDN on this VMWare instance, knowing that the final
image will be used by many students on their own laptops during classes?Thank you.

N.

Hotkeys (deactivate/avoid)

repllccax — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:40:00 GMT

Hi guys!

I'he read a lot of threads and posts concerning the "hotkey" issue, but couldn't find the right answer..

Is it possible to avoid/deactivate the VMware hotkeys??

I don't want my VMware to quit the fullscreen by using the hotkey-combination.

I wrote different settings (parameters) into "preferences" a.s.o. - didn't work!
I deactivated the buttons in linux - didn't work also!

So - are there other possibilities????

Thank you!

Serial port error: Overlapped I/O operation is in progress.

mperelli — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:01:19 GMT

I have a serial port configured in vmx as:

serial0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.fileName = "COM1"
serial0.autodetect = "FALSE"

when I connect in player everything is ok, but when receive data I have this error:

Sep 27 02:31:26.470: vmx| Msg_Post: Error
Sep 27 02:31:26.470: vmx| http://msg.serial.device.readFile serial0: Unable to read from the "COM1" serial port: Overlapped I/O operation is in progress.
Sep 27 02:31:26.470: vmx|
Sep 27 02:31:26.470: vmx| http://msg.serial.disconnect The device will be disconnected

what kind of error is this one? Maybe the port is already use in the host?

Change dhcp subnet VMplayer 2.5.3 on linux?

ElectroVM — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:58:35 GMT

I have a VM that needs to be on a specific subnet, but when I play it on my linux VMplayer 2.5.3, the dhcp address is not on the same subnet as the static VM that I use in windows. I know you can modify the subnet in the Windows player, but how do I modify the dhcp address range in Linux VMplayer?

Thanks

Smartcard reader VMWare Player on Ubuntu 8.04 host SO

pagg75 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:38:44 GMT

Hi,

I have a Dell Latitude D610 and I have installed Linux (Ubuntu 8.04) and Windows XP Pro. On both SO I have installed VMWare Player 2.5.2 and I'm running and XP virtual machine. The machine runs ok on both SO.

The laptop has a SmartCard reader (Texas Instruments PCI6515) recognized by both SO.

When I run the XP Virtual Machine on Windows, VMWare recongnize and show the smartcard reader and I can use it without a problem (Connect and Disconnect).

When I run the XP Virtual Machine on Linux, VMWare can't recognize and show the smartcard reader.

Is there a way to configure VMWare (on Linux) so they can view the device and use it on XP Virtual Machine?

If anybody has any ideas, that will be great.

Thanks a lot.

my convergys vmware player is slowing down my upload speed

alcocer — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:53:41 GMT

my upload spped is 1.0 meg up load without the vmware player running with the player runing is 300 kbs. How do i speed up the upload with the vmware player. any suggestions

can't ctrl-c vmplayer 2.5.3 in linux

ElectroVM — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:29:17 GMT

I'm running the latest vmplayer 2.5.3 in Centos 4 update 5 and am unable to kill the process using ctrl-c for VM that is playing. I want to be able to kill the session regardless of its state.

I get this error:
^C
(vmplayer-daemon:8347): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_source_unref: assertion `source != NULL' failed

Any ideas wha the problem could be?

Win98 game does not run at proper resolution

PolishPaul — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:10:15 GMT

I'm using VMWare Player with win98SE with integration tools installed. I'm able to set the resolution of the VM to match my laptop monitor. However, when i run a game Panzer General 2, it launches at a lower resolution and i get a small box in the middle of my screen (about 1/4th the resolution). When i run the game outside the VM, it runs at whatever resolution i have set (nice large display); the game doesn't work completely in XP so i'm using VMWare + win98. Besides the fact that i get a tiny screen (full screen mode or not), i can't play the game well because it relies on edge-of-screen scrolling of map. When the game launches at this low resolution, the mouse will leave the game area and no longer be "inside" the VM (as if i hit ALT+CTL).

The game had always adjusted to whatever the desktop resolution is, except with VMWare Player. Does anyone have any suggestions on how i can force this game to launch at the VM's native resolution?

I'm attaching a screenshot - note that the mouse cursor on the left edge of the game's screen. You can't see this on the screenshot, but MY mouse cursor is in the black area of the VM (outside of the game's area).

Ubuntu 8.10 not booting in vmware 2.5.4

adi9833 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:22:30 GMT

I have been using vmware player for almost 3 months for now.But suddenly i don' t know why when i try to boot my guest OS ie Ubuntu 8.10 in Vmware it doest not boot up. Vmware is not giving me any error messages or anything as such, just when i used to double - click the .vmx file VMware used to open up my Ubuntu inside it, but know on double-clicking i just see the Vmware player coming up but no booting of Ubuntu.When i try to close the player it says that the virtual machine is busy.Please feel free to view my .vmx file details at http://www.box.net/shared/xcjtyt7unx and also the details of my installation(.jpg) files at http://www.box.net/shared/6ff16c9rje (Though i have this files attached here also as i was unaware it can be done here..).Can anybody please help coz i am a porgrammer and i don' t want to reinstall ubuntu again and downloading all the compilers would be a big chaos for me.Responses would be appreciated.Thanks.

Create virtual NIC in Player?

theallan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:50:43 GMT

Hello all,

I'm looking to run two different virtual machines, side-by-side on a host machine, and have them able to communicate with one another (presumably this is accomplished using a virtual NIC). One of the VMs will use the host machine's eth0 interface, and then communicate with the other VM using (for example) eth1 (as it sees it). But I don't see any way to configure multiple (or virtual) interfaces in VMWare Player. I'm using the Linux version on Ubuntu if that helps

Many thanks,
Allan

Ubuntu guest update - no more shared folders

Java1Guy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:38:19 GMT

Hi all!
I have an Ubuntu 9.04 appliance running in Player 2.5.3 Vista64 host.
Shared folders were working fine, then last night I let Ubuntu run an update, then no more shared folders. Checked the /etc/fstab - still has the proper line. Shared folders are still enabled in the dialog, showing the proper windows and Linux mount points.
No occurrence of vmhgfs in the dmesg log. Only error in the VMware player log is 'File "" does not exist and therefore cannot be connected as a CD-ROM image" (twice) Virtual device ide 1:0 will start disconnected.

FBOW, uninstalled VMware tools and now trying to re-install via instructions at: http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Installing_VMware_Tools_with_VMware_Player.html

Any other ideas?

Also noticed, resizing Player window has no effect - just snaps back to original size. I sure thought that used to work.

TIA,
Mark

Starting VHD images in VMWare Player - converter still needed?

vmj — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:22:27 GMT

Hi community,

I am just trying to run the Windows 2008 R2 trial in my VMWare player (VHD image):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9040a4be-c3cf-44a5-9052-a70314452305&displaylang=en
If I interpret the latest release notes correctly, this should be possible without any special conversion:

Player has been updated to power on the latest Microsoft Virtual PC files (.vhd). VMware recommends that you create a copy or linked clone of the image. If you do not create a copy, you cannot run the original virtual machine in VPC after running it in Player, because the virtual hardware layer has been modified.

But I do not manage to load the VHD using VMWare Player. Is anything special needed to run a VHD or is the converter still the only way?

EDIT: OK, now I got it. The VHD is only the hard disk image that needs to be mounted into a regular vmx virtual machine of VMWare. It has to be mounted as lsilogic SCSI hard disk then it can be used with VMWare player.
Stupidly this does not get me much closer testing Windows 2008 R2 as the boot process ends with an blue screen that is so fast away that I can not read it. The recovery console works but requires the (unknown) admin password...

auto suspend at shutdown sequence of ubuntu

emikesch2 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:35:20 GMT

Hi!

I try to auto suspend a vmware player VM at the shutdown sequence of ubuntu 9.10.

Does anybody have a solution?

I tested this:

kill from shell with SIGTERM or SIGHUP - no success

added signal.suspendOnHUP ="TRUE" and signal.powerOffOnTERM ="TRUE" - tried kill - no success

the vmware player is stopped but no suspend is done

Thank you!

emikesch

Windows 95 makes player cpu hog

bobroosth — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:38:49 GMT

I have a Win 95 VM that makes both VMWare Server Console 1.0.8 and Player 2 consume 50% or more of processor time on the host (Win XP). No apps running. Other VMs, XP, Win 98, Win 7 do not do this. Host computer is a new Core 2 Duo machine with plenty of RAM. How can I make Win 95 really idle.

VMnet0 automatically uses eth1, sometimes

Erny — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:19:00 GMT

My PC has two NIC's. eth0 is used to
connect to other PC's on a private local network via a switch. All
PC's on this network have static IP's. eth1 is used to connect to the
internet and it is assigned an IP automatically.

I require my virtual machines to be
bridged with the local network (eth0) and therefore have the
following two lines in my vmx files.

ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"

ethernet0.vnet = "Vmnet0"

When I run the virtual machine the
bridge seems to be setup with eth1. If I leave the WAN cable
unplugged during start up the bridge is correctly setup with eth0 and
I can then plug the cable back in to achieve the correct set up.

Why does VMPlayer automatically decide
to use eth1 sometimes instead of eth0? And how can I stop it doing it
and use manual mappings?

Running XP VM's on Ubuntu 9.04

+Have tried both VMPlayer 2.5.2 and
2.5.3+

BSOD after installing VMware Player 2.5.3

kristjanbjarni — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:25:26 GMT

I tried to install VMware Player 2.5.3 for Windows on my computer, but soon after I got a a BSOD. After I unistalled WMWare Player, the computer has returned back to normal. I ran the dumpchk utility on the minidump after the crash and the dumpchk said "Probably caused by : hcmon.sys" which is a part of WMWare Player.

VMware Player 2.5.3 will not open OVF 1.0 file

R2AD — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:58:20 GMT

Hello,

I created an XP SP3 vm using Workstation 6.5.3. The image was then sysprep'd using the XP SP3 version of the sysprep tool. I then used the vCenter Converter v. 4.0.1 tool to convert this VM to and OVF appliance for distribution.

My end users are attempting to use VMware Player 2.5.3 to open the VM ovf file. The player GUI launches and displays the VMware Player splash screen, then freezes. No conversion or expansion of the ovf image takes place.

Thanks,

whats causing this problem ?

jpdamigaman — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:41:11 GMT

whats causing this problem in windows xp and vista?

This virtual machine's display settings are incompatible with Unity.

pjparkasxdvas3r23f — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:05:16 GMT

I have no idea what to do with this error. I've tried searching around here and on Google with no luck.

Informations about video quality in Vmware Player (Ubuntu host)

Elan42 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:48:04 GMT

Hi.

I use a vmware Windows XP virtual appliance with my Ubuntu system, to use Photoshop as a professional photographer.

I want to know, if I buy a professional monitor (with a great color depth and quality) will vmware reduce it to cpu-load reasons?

Is the video quality reduced someway?

Is there ALSO a way to configure the monitor I'm using inside a virtual windows? I see that the "default monitor" can't be changed, actually.

Player 2.5.3 Guest Fails on Migration from Single to Dual Core CPU Host System

BB202 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:38:37 GMT

For some time, I've had a Windows XP machine living happily on my Linux Host:

Guest: Windows XP, SP3, all updates current, 1GB RAM, 50 GB disk. Host: Ubuntu 8.0, current, 1.6 Ghz Intel chip, 2GB RAM, 120 GB disk; on an IBM thinkpad T41 2379-DJU. VM Software: VMware Workstation 6.0.4 build-93057 (created the guest and ran it)

LCD backlight failure on the host machine necessitated a move of the virtual machine to a healthier host. So I loaded up VMware Player on another host and transferred the entire guest folder by network. New attempted configuration:

New Host: Windows XP, SP3, all updates current, 3GB RAM, 100 GB disk, 2Ghz Intel dual core; on an IBM thinkpad T60 2007-76U. VM Software: VMware Player 2.5.3 build-185404

The Problem: Guest suffers BSOD and can only run in safe mode. Stop code: 0x0000007e (0xc0000005, 0x00000000, 0xf79c50c0, 0xf79c4dbc) No other technical information. System event log shows FIPS driver failed to load - event id 7026 - (and system update can not run in safe mode). All else is clear. To test out the possible issue of FIPS failure on system boot, I disabled the FIPS driver through the registry on the old host. The driver failed to load and produced the same event log entry, but the VM booted fine - no blue screen on the old host even with FIPS failure.

I also tried using Workstation to clone the VM and moving the clone to the new host. Player takes ownership of the clone, but same result - a blue screen on the guest. VMware log attached.

I have no idea how to diagnose this issue. The guest runs fine in either player or workstation on the old host, no events. Where am I going wrong? On trying to open the guest with player on the new host, player asks if I've copied or moved the machine. I've tried both options - same result.

Reflexive Arcade on Win XP SP3

1080p — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:44:58 GMT

Anyone here successfully ran any reflexive arcade games on vmware player in Win XP SP3 ? because I cant, it crashes everytime I try to run the game. Please help me, thank you.

Pipe Audio from Host to Guest

davemcallister — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:35:59 GMT

Greetings all,

I am having trouble piping audio from my host OS to the guest OS.

Host: Vista Home Premium SP1.

Guest: XP Professional SP3 with VMWare Tools installed.

Player version: 2.5.3 build-185404.

Host hardware is Intel Core I7 920, 2.67 GHz, 8 GB RAM.

I created the VM in VMWare Workstation 5.5.9 on a machine running XP Home SP3 (AMD 64 ML-40, 1.58 GHz, 2 GB RAM). On that machine, when I play audio in the host, the guest system receives it, can record it and so on.

When I run the VM in VMWare Player on the Vista box, audio generated in the host does not get to the guest. The guest system plays sounds just fine, and I can hear them through the host speakers, but audio does not appear to move in the opposite direction.

Is this expected behaviour because of the different ways that XP and Vista handle sound? If so, is there a workaround?

My problem is that I have custom audio software that does not work under Vista. I was hoping to pipe the audio generated by an app in Vista for processing in the custom app in an XP VM. Am I out of luck, or am I missing something obvious here?

I have thoroughly read the documentation, and I have searched the knowledgebase, the communities, and on the internet without success. Perhaps I am just not searching using the correct terms?

Thanks all in advance.

Dave

increase size of virtual machine file

higgins29 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:15:58 GMT

hey,

I'm running vmware player 2.5.3 build 185404 on windows. have a xubuntu virtual image working flawlessly -BUT - I need to increase the size 'cause diskspace is getting full.

First, tried to merge all vmdk files to one (xubuntu.vmdk, xubuntu-s001.vmdk, xubuntu-s002.vmdk, xubuntu-s003.vmdk and xubuntu-s004.vmdk) with vdiskmanager (tried it on windows and linux, no luck)but I always get an error message that my vmdk files is not valid.

Then, I tried to load the vmx, vmdk files in my vmware server. The adding works, but the harddisk says: Hard disk not valid

How can I increase size of the image then?

Thank you for any help,

chris

Windows XP in Full Screen - 800x600 w/ 120 dpi

rfix — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:18:03 GMT

I hope to find a solution before 09/01/09... school starts.

I support a Virtual Machine that requires specific settings for the user. His needs require the VM be configured with 800x600 with dpi 120 due to a specific application he uses for classroom lecture. When selecting to display the VM in full screen the VM does not expand (stretch) to fill the screen space. (Leaving the black boarder around the desktop. The resolution of the host system is 1024x768 with dpi 96.

Last winter I successfully set the system up so it would do exactly what I described above it is not doing now. Unfortunately I left myself bad notes and I just discovered someone to deleted his user profile, thus losing the preference.ini file I specially coded for him. I have ready through many other discussion forums and have been unable to find any clues to what I found previously as the solution.

Our campus network does not allow for users to operate as administrator on the host machines, thus he would be unable to change the host system settings as a work around until a solution is in place. Classes start next Wednesday and I am desprate to get this system back to where it was before then.

Windows XP VM on a Windows XP Host, VM: 800x600 dpi120 Host: 1024x768 dpi96, need to expand to full screen stretching so the black boarder does not appear, System will operate in VMWare Player for the user, VMWare Workstation is available for troubleshooting...

Please Help!

DHCP Server terminates on bootp request

axelsino — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:15:46 GMT

I am using Windows XP as a host for vmplayer and I am trying to run a guest using bootp.

I modified vmnetdhcp.conf to include dynamic-bootp so that the service can service bootp requests.

But at the moment of the bootp request, dhcp server terminates.

VMWare Player 2.5.3: Unexpected deletion of files in vmware shared folder(HGFS)

morass — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:53:31 GMT

Host OS: Windows XP3

Guest OS: Ubuntu JeOS 9.04

I upgraded my player from 2.5.2 to 2.5.3, like before, I exported a directory from host to guest, served as www home directory(the web server resides on the guest).

When repeat following steps twice

1. vi wwwhome/foo.html on guest, save and exit;

2. Access foo.html on host browser;

Then edit foo.html again, I can load the file but cannot save the file, vi complains like below:

"E212: Can't open file for writing
WARNING: Original file may be lost or damaged
don't quit the editor until the file is successfully written!"

foo.html is gone from the wwwhome/ directory by listing. On host OS, I can see foo.html, but I cannot open it(After rebooting guest, foo.html gone as well on host).

Attached is log catured with filespy, STATUS_DELETE_PENDING shows up on the file being operated.

Did anybody see same issue?Any help or comment woule be appreciated.

EMERGANCY: VMware Player running Linux Ubuntu 9.04 data recovery

Harbz — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:48:45 GMT

Dear magical forum people,

I was doing some programming for a university project in Ubuntu 9.04 in VMware Player in Windows XP and Linux just froze when I tried to compile a program I was writing in terminal. It compiled fine (in fact all of my 10-14 '.cpp' files and 10-14 '.h' files compiled until I added something like another cout << "whatever I wrote" << end to the one I tried to compile when it froze).

I then made a backup of my OS folder (where my iso, OS.zip files were), and reset VMware player. As I expected, it started with a fresh version of Linux. To make matters worse however, when I tried to use my backup folder (where the crashed instance should have been stored), it started with a fresh version of Linux (all my files were gone).

Unfortunately, I only have backups of some of the files so I really need to retrieve the files that were in linux otherwise I'll get a C+ instead of like an A- for the project (worth 20%).

The project is due in 3 hours and 10 minutes and I want to know how to recover my data. I've e-mailed the lecturers so may be able to get an extension.

Basically, I need to know how to recover those files ASAP

Please help

Can't install vmware player on open suse 11 64 bit help!

jpdamigaman — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:23:14 GMT

HI I can't install newest player on suse 11 64 bit.

I click on rpm and if I look in yast installed programes it therebut not properly installed!

I got it to start up but it was look ing for another kernel and older kernel than the one I'm on!

VM in VMware Player 2.5.x freezes

Norgan42 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:43:20 GMT

Good evening,

I use some VMs for testing in defined environments.

i just tried to move from VMware Server 2.0.1 to VMwareplayer 2.5.2 in the hope of saving some RAM. Unfortunately, my Tester-VM will freeze, when I start my testenvironment. The VM is running fine, until I start my testing stack. A disk defrag, for instance, ran perfectly for over an hour. The second I try to start testing and switching to Full screen, the screen freezes. Here are the details.

Host : WinXP Prof SP3, 2GB ram

VMWare Player 2.5.1 & 2.5.2

Guest : Win Xp Prof SP3 with IE8, Cisco VPN 5.2.1, JRE 1.6.0_14

Way to reproduce my failure :

start VM

change to Fullscreen

start IE and Cisco VPN (any sequence)

start Java Webstart Application

BANG - the VMware player switches from Fullscreen to Window-Mode.

I can continue working until I try to resize to Fullscreen. Some seconds (2-5) after I switch to Fullscreen, the apps stop reacting, Mouse and VMWare Player Menu still react.

I tried both 2.5.2 and 2.5.1 and am moving back to Server 2.0.1 again - so at least I can work there. Any ideas, though ?

Norgan

Windows 7 Guest (NIC & Audio not working)

cwhitmore — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:17:41 GMT

I setup Windows 7 on vmware player and everthing seems to be working except the NIC and Audio drivers. In device driver manager it just says that there is no driver available.

My host system is Windows Vista business with SP1. Vmware Player is version 2.0.5 Any ideas?

vmplayer appliance has no network if mounted over nfs

grichner — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:54:04 GMT

Hi,

I've got the following problem:

I installed an OPSI-appliance on a local HD and networking over bridge works like promised...

BUT

If I mount this vmx containing directory with

<code> mount -t nfs -o soft,rw,timeo=21 nasserver02:/opsi-vm /data/opsi-vm </code>

and try to start the vmx with vmplayer over this NFS-mount

networking won't work...(eth0 no such device in guest)

The Hosting-System is the same on both cases .

I tried this with multiple vmplayer versions and the behavior is alwarys the same ... no network when starting an nfs-mounted vmx-file

If someone could shed a light I would be thankful

Gregor Richner

Installation failed (VMWare Player): Error 25035

RojSmith — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:27:50 GMT

Hello

I am trying to install VMWare Player on a Windows XP system (Service pack 3, 32bits).

During installation I encounter the error

Product: VMware Player -- Error 25035. Unable to give program VMware Authd permission through the firewall. Please contact your administrator.

After which, the installation fails, and rolls back the changes it made.

Installation was performed as local Administrator. Upon failure a new user with administrative rights.

I have tried disabling the firewall, enabling it, restarting the machine, and manually adding the firewall exception where necessary.

I have a McAfee AntiVirus + AntiSpyware version 8.5.0i. When enabled the installation crashes earlier with SSL key creation failure. When disabled, the error described above is exhibited.

Additionally, I am behind a university proxy, however installation on other computers behind the same proxy (and in the same network segment) succeeds (Systems are Windows XPs and Windows Vistats.)

Thanks in advance

VMware and atom z520

gloomdemon — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:59:03 GMT

I have netbook with intel atom z520 and windows vista sp2 installed. Securable program shows that intel vt support enabled and locked on, but vmware when loading virtual machine with windows xp sp3 writes to log:

MONITOR MODE: allowed modes : BT

MONITOR MODE: user requested modes : BT HV HWMMU

MONITOR MODE: guestOS preferred modes :HWMMU HV BT

MONITOR MODE: filtered list : BT

HV Settings: virtual exec = 'software' ; virtual mmu = 'software'

I tried to add

monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "true"
monitor_control.vt32 = "true"
monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"

and no result.

Any help?

Player can't connect through VPN'd host

dadkind — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:13:10 GMT

Hello All,

This issue may have been addressed elsewhere , but Imay have not seen it (or perhaps understood it!).Here's what I need to do.

1. I need my host to connect via VPN to my work network.We are using SonicWall VPN clients.

2. I need a development environment to connect to the work network though the hosts VPN connection.

My host has Win7 (problem existed when the host was on Vista Ultimate as well). The development environment has Windows Vista installed.

I can connect from my host environment to the work net work using VPN.

I can connect from my development environment to the work network using the VPN client.

The developent environment has a Bridged network adapter and has full connectivity if the host is NOT on the VPN.

But as soon as the host connects to my work network via VPN, my development machine can no longer connect to the work network on the VPN client.

I've tried setting the network adapter to NAT in my development environment, but there is not connectivity at all whn using NAT. So there is no opportunity for the client VPN to even try to connect.

Questions:

Is it even possible for my desired configuration to work?

What settings do I need to set/change?

Any help is appreciated!

-tomas

preferences variables used by VMware Player ?

Tony Musgrave — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:37:00 GMT

I'm using VMware WS 6.52. Instead of using the WS GUI, I'm using the GUI provided by VMware Player 2.5.2.

Does VMware Player even care what values are set in the VM's "preferences" config file for the following 4 variables ?

pref.autoFit

pref.autoFitGuestToWindow

pref.view.toolbars.power

pref.view.toolbars.view

Unlike the WS GUI where clicking on the View button provided access to toggling on/off these 4 variables, the Player GUI does not appear to provide the user any access to these variables.

After all, the Player GUI lacks a toolbar.

So, I'm looking for confirmation that Player does not care how these 4 variables are defined in the "preferences" file, or indeed, even if these variables are present or absent in this config file.

Thanks,

Tony

DOS in Full Screen mode in VMWare Player 2.5.2

vadimsob — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:39:27 GMT

Host = Windows XP sp2b 1280x1024

Guest = DOS (FreeDOS) 80x25 text mode

VMWare Player 2.5.2 build-156735

DOS window size is small in the center of the screen when Player's window is full screen. How to increase it?

I searched long time on this forum and by Google, but find only tips concerned old versions Player (1.0 and 2.0). Any attempts to add lines to vmx file and to preferences.ini in my version takes no effect.

Please anybody know is it possible to fit DOS on whole screen?

config muiltiple NICs on linux verion of VW player

steveyjnpr — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:33:12 GMT

I'm running linux version VMware Player 2.5.2 build-156735 on my laptop (ubuntu deskop 9.0.4), i would like to switch NIC connection between wire and wireless on vmware player, how to do that? I know windows version of VMware player can config muiltiple NICs, but i dont see the option on the Linux verion.

Steve

VMware Communities : Unanswered Threads - VMware Player

BSOD - Win7 Compaq Presario CQ61 - VMPlayer 3.0

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Virtualbox VDI file to Vmware

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

Vmware networking confusion

Mouse focus problem

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

Player 3.0 and Java in Linux Guest

Host network connection to Virtual using NAT

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

Vmplayer 3's library shows items twice

Win7 Host, Win XP VM - problem with USB

drag and drop into ubuntu 9.10?

VMPlayer is sending traffic and classified as IP spoofing by Netscreen

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

VMWare Player 3.0 on windows 7 mouse problems

Intalling VMware Player 2.5 fails in XP Pro OS.

Copy and paste accented characters

Proxy settings (installation/ update VMware Tools)

Mouse points to different location

Player 3 + Windows 7 64 Host BSOD

Connecting Novell Netware 3.12 thru win-xp VM

VMplayer 3.0 will not react after installation of Microsoft Genuine Advantage

Crazy bridged network behavior

Mouse/Graphics Speed in VMWare Player

Setting subnet for host-only in player 3.0

Access vm from within LAN

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

32 bit vs 64 bit

Can you lock the Guest OS screen resolution?

VMware player 3.0 – Not receiving download email

System req *NOT* defined

BUG + workaround: can not do a fresh install on Windows

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unity and xinerama (dual monitors on linux)

Player 3.0: Network and sound in Linux

Can not "drag and drop" between host and guest

VMware player 3.0 window unexpected resized

Low cost vmware-based VPS that can do this

Virtual Machine without Ethernet on Ubuntu 9.04

VMWare Player 2.5.3 on Gentoo Host

Bridget and NAT networking issues for guest OS in VMWare Player

vmware player routing capabilities

VMware Player - Networking problems Opensuse 11.1

vmplayer issues with ubuntu 9.10 on amd64

Does Player 2.5.3 Officially Support Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) as HOST ?

Does this release officially support Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) Host?

Keyboard does not work at all

VMnet8: "The system cannot find the file specified" after upgrade to 2.5.3

Mouse problem. Do I re-install vmware tools ? How ?

Installing and running VMware Player on CentOS

Error 1303 when installing tools under Windows 98

WAN<-->ADSL Vhost<--> WINXP host (portmap)<-->ubuntu guest(NAT)<-->webserver(no firwwall) Not working

fedora 11

Problem running VMWare Content in VMWare Player 2.5.2 build-156735

Unity draws Linux window with Windows' thick frame

Problem with sound in VMware Player with Windows 7 Guest

hostname: Host name lookup failure

Hotkeys (deactivate/avoid)

Serial port error: Overlapped I/O operation is in progress.

Change dhcp subnet VMplayer 2.5.3 on linux?

Smartcard reader VMWare Player on Ubuntu 8.04 host SO

my convergys vmware player is slowing down my upload speed

can't ctrl-c vmplayer 2.5.3 in linux

Win98 game does not run at proper resolution

Ubuntu 8.10 not booting in vmware 2.5.4

Create virtual NIC in Player?

Ubuntu guest update - no more shared folders

Starting VHD images in VMWare Player - converter still needed?

auto suspend at shutdown sequence of ubuntu

Windows 95 makes player cpu hog

VMnet0 automatically uses eth1, sometimes

BSOD after installing VMware Player 2.5.3

System req NOT defined