Hello,
I have had the message "Copying "" to virtual machine" (something like that, I don't remember the words) show many times. It can happen when I start up the virtual machine (host is Windows XP, vm is linux) or even later.
It seems that when I have copied files in host to/from external storage earlier, vmware player wants to copy it to virtual machine as well at some point later.
For example, I copied virtual machine files (over 10 GB) to a external hardisk at home. At school when I opened laptop and started vmplayer, the screen grayed out and the progress bar said it was copying the vm disk file to virtual machine? I couldn't stop it so eventually, after half an hour I killed the vmplayer process (corrupting the vm in the process so it wouldn't start again :). So I plugged the hard disk in, copied the vm files to laptop (and forgot the hard disk connected). Now when I started the vm again, it would come up and bam! Screen greyed out and the Copying file to virtual machine progress bar appeared. This time I waited until the vm disk became full and the copying was aborted.
Why is the vmplayer copying files to virtual machine without me trying to copy anything? The external hard disk was never mounted in the virtual machine, and vmplayer wasn't even running when I first copied the vm files to the external disk.
Thanks, Tomi
I'll try to get a screenshot of the situation. (hmm... time to copy some files back and forth in Windows...)
