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Hello VMWare experts, I have VMware Workstation 17 Player (registered for commercial use). I have Windows 10 Virtual machine and inside this machine, when I enter device manager, NIC (LAN) adapter are recognized as Intel NIC.  On the other hand, if I install Linux Mint inside VM and execute lspci terminal command to get information about the NIC, I gt something like this: Ethernet controller [0200]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 79c970 So, somehow Linux Mint recognized virtual NIC inside the VM as AMD NIC. Is it possible to define that this virtual NIC adapter show inside the Mint also as Intel NIC?  I have tried to install Intel pro Linux drivers inside the machine but didn't have any success? Is this even controllable by the user or only by the OS itself that is installed inside VM?   Thank you.

Hello, I have read the following blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2014/03/whats-cool-vmware-kvm-utility.html and I like this functionality very much. However, how to set up to start VM on 2 monitors? I have host OS that uses 3 monitoris and when M starts I would like to start in full screen on monitors 1 and 2. Is this possible? When VM starts, I can choose multiple monitors from the toolbar, but would like to make a shortcut on the host desktop, so all can start preconfigured.

Hello to all, I have made a .tib image from physical machine and restore it successfully in VMWare Player v15. The guest OS is win XP and I need this because of some legacy sw. Now, I have installed vmware tools and everything is OK. I have made some changes in the sw in the VM in the sw application and test it. Now, since VM use virtual network adapters, of course, old real hw adapters are now hidden in the device manager of the VM because they are not present in the virtual machine anymore. These adapters have some static IPs on original machine (I can verify this on virtual machine in windows registry). So nothing is removed from the device manager (at least not by myself). Now, my plan is to make another .tib image, now from the VM, so basically I'm backuping up the VM guest now, and I want to restore this image on a new HDD in the original physical machine (I don't want to mess up original hdd). Since I diidn't uninstall any drivers in the guest OS that was running on the VMWare Player, and some new drivers are installed for the graphic and virtual network cardsby vmware itself, I wonder if restored system would work on original physical machine. In theory it should work, since windows would recognize all hw that originally was installed in the first place, and I should have all orignal drivers and settings for the gpu card and network cards. Is that right? What is your experience, did you have a situation like this? 

Hello virtualization exerts, I have converted physical machine to VM. This machine used AMD Fire Pro graphics card with two display ports for two monitors. https://www.amd.com/Documents/W2100-Data-sheet.pdf Now, I wonder if it is possible to install this graphics card inside vmware in order to enable two display ports and to have two monitors again? Thank you.

Hello, I wonder if I can use vmware player 15 when I have two network cards on host OS? I need them be in bridged mode, so one guest OS (VM) can be part of one network, while other guest OS (VM) be part of totally different network (i think one or both of them can be NAT, in that case host OS would need to set up proper IP addresses for both network, but bridged seems more suitable for this). It seems that in vmware player it is not possible to link specific virtual adapter to specific NIC on the host. Any recommendations? Thank you

Hello vmWare experts, Can I use vmware converter on windows machine to make a virtual machine (virtualize) running red hat linux 9.0 machine via network. For example, I would connect windows machine on the same network like linux machine (set up IP addresses and similar), and then I would start vmware converter entered IP address of remote machine and root passwords. Is there something else I need to pay attention to? Thank you.

Hello to all, I wonder if I need to pay Vat when buying vmware pro product. I live in Europe but outside EU. I need to buy this software product and deliver to one client that ia also outside EU. Any advices are welcome. BR

Hello guys, this is my first virtualization project in vmware player. I decided to "virtualize" two machines with windows XP OS and put it on one new machine with windows 7 as host. Machines A and B had a network connection between them and this connection was used by some applications installed on them. In addition to these connections, both machines had their own network connection to other networks. For example machine A had two LAN connections: IP address 10.0.0.15 and 192.168.0.1, and machine B had IP address 172.20.0.15 and 192168.0.2. IP addresses 192.168.xxx.xxx. were used between these two machines. Since these machines will be virtualized, I need one new host machine with only two LAN interfaces (third network is between virtual machines i.e. internal network). So I used standalone converter and successfully made two VMs and I set up internal network between them. I have test the communication between them and it is OK So, right now, I need to set up network connection on virtual machine A to network 10.0.0.xxx and network connection on virtual machine B to network 172.20.0.xxx. Should I set up virtual network adapters as NAT or Bridged? I have tried the following: - I have set up first LAN interface of host machine to IP address of machine A (10.0.0.15), and second to 172.20.0.15 - In properties of virtual machine A I have set up virtual network adapter to Bridged and I have chosen physical network card  (configure adapter) with address 10.0.0.15 - In  properties of virtual machine B I have set up virtual network adapter to Bridged and I have chosen physical network card with address 172.20.0.15 The result is that I have a limited connectivity and cannot ping network 10.0.0.xxx from VMA and I also cannot ping network 172.20.0.xxx from VMB If I chose NAT, then how can I be sure that VMA cannot access network 172.20.0.xxx? This should not be the case. Basically I want that my virtual network adapter from VMA can only be bridged to host network card with IP address 10.0.0.15 and VMB to be bridged to 172.20.0.15. Attached, please find my block diagram that. Thank you very much for your help.