louyo's Posts

I am confused. You started out by asking about the usb arbitrator, now you are saying Ethernet and WiFi. Please define your network environment. NIC is USB or PCI card or what? Connecting to local wireless AP or your provider? What can't you do? Any error messages? Result of ip addr? Does it work if you use NAT?      

Does it show up in VM removable devices? What version of USB Controller do you have selected in the VM settings? Have you tried both 2 and 3? Do you get any error messages when you try to connect them in removable devices?

This was reported during the trial: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Workstation-2023-Tech-Preview/BUG-VMware-NAT-Service-high-CPU-usage-build-22060606/td-p/2978665 His "fix" seems a little drastic. Hopefully, someone else has a better one.  If you have support contract, you might want to contact them.

I guess I don't understand what you want to do. If you want to start the VM's prior to login, you won't have GUI, there is no X engine running. I have seen hacks but have no idea if any would work. This is true for any program. If you need the GUI, run the script from startup programs for each user. Or just put a launcher on the panel and give it a click. This is really a Linux question.   Lou

I am not sure what you mean by off line. You can always use the shared folders option in each VM. That allows access for host only network VM's as well as bridged/NAT. Can be a little finicky on Linux clients. My preference is Samba for all.  Samba server is open source and there are many tutorials on line. I share a large data drive on my host, available to any system on the LAN that has credentials. I installed Samba server and make access for any Windows and Linux systems on the LAN, not  just VM's. My  smb.conf for a share named data looks something like: [data] comment = data path = /data writable = yes force create mode = 775 force directory mode = 775 Permissions set for directories.  Shows up in Network via Caja on Debian, or use on windows via "net use *...\data"  or via \\IP address\share Name in Windows Explorer.  

My bad. Turns out that I only tested from  host to guest dragging a file and that works. So, if I go the other way, it says it can't find the file. Turns out it is looking in the wrong place, I think. If I get the details and get the path, then click skip, I can see the file (test.txt.pgp) in .cache/blah/blah... Example: “~/.cache/vmware/drag_and_drop/ptm3Gg/test.txt.pgp” I can  drag it from there.  I have always used shared folders or Samba. 

I am running Debian 12 VM on Debian 12 and: vmware-toolbox-cmd -v 12.2.0.41219 (build-21223074) From the apt install:  open-vm-tools-desktop is already the newest version (2:12.2.0-1+deb12u1) Drag and drop is OK here, maybe it isn't your version versus source, of open-tools?   Lou

I guess the easy thought is about version 14 and Ubuntu 22... I would try launching it from the command line (here on Debian, it is "/usr/bin/vmware" See if you get an error message, although there may be a warning or two). When I do that, I see entries in the latest log at /var/log/vmware. Since mine is working (WS 17 on Debian 12), I see no errors, one warning about an xml file.