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Re: kernel 6.3.4 may break vmware player

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎07-01-2023 06:08 AM
‎07-01-2023 06:08 AM
This appears to have also tripped up my VMWare; I probably should have looked here before anywhere else when troubleshooting, but oh well. Is there any known fix or workaround to this?

System reboots after going into sleep mode, VMWare as culprit

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎06-14-2021 10:01 PM
‎06-14-2021 10:01 PM
System specs: i5-6300U 8 GB DDR4 SODIMM, 2133 Mhz 256 GB SK Hynix SC308 NVME Intel HD 520 Ubuntu 20.04.2 "Focal Fossa"   My system was having a weird issue where every time I closed the lid or... See more...
System specs: i5-6300U 8 GB DDR4 SODIMM, 2133 Mhz 256 GB SK Hynix SC308 NVME Intel HD 520 Ubuntu 20.04.2 "Focal Fossa"   My system was having a weird issue where every time I closed the lid or told Linux to suspend the system, it would reboot if you tried to wake it up. Without warning.   So I tried a few basic steps. - Reboot? No. - Update Linux? Worked temporarily, but only short term.   I have a few programs with kernel modules on my system, so that was my next thought. VMWare was the one I used most and the only one I used recently, so I uninstalled that first. The issue seems fixed. I assume it was messing up with the kernel modules, given it was installed with a .bundle downloaded from the VMWare site and not through a repository, therefore had no way of updating the modules with the rest of the system on its own. The reason this is being posted, is a question as to maybe how to get around this or to update it manually if this was the problem. This is only an assumption.

Re: 3D Acceleration Questions

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎05-31-2021 09:12 PM
‎05-31-2021 09:12 PM
No, I am not referring to 3D that worked better on the hardware of the era than under the VM. Nothing really type-wise in paticular. And what 3D games in question? Well, I have a bit of a unique int... See more...
No, I am not referring to 3D that worked better on the hardware of the era than under the VM. Nothing really type-wise in paticular. And what 3D games in question? Well, I have a bit of a unique interest with older systems, where i'm not sure exactly just what yet, i'm attempting to run newer than the system natively could run with things like KernelEx / additonal DLLs that werent in 98 but were added in, etc. Not anything on any sort of professional level. Just a little past time thing I like doing with systems in the 95-2k range. So essentially I don't know exactly what yet, but once I decide on something it will likely use some form of 3D acceleration, or at least make an attempt given the nature of these types of experiments and OS changes. Maybe not given the nature of the type of experiment, who knows.

Re: 3D Acceleration Questions

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎05-30-2021 02:52 PM
‎05-30-2021 02:52 PM
I made this post being fully aware, at the very least in a vanilla state, 3D acceleration was not available and would be too old to code for at the time for it to be worth it. My question was if the... See more...
I made this post being fully aware, at the very least in a vanilla state, 3D acceleration was not available and would be too old to code for at the time for it to be worth it. My question was if there was a possible line that could be used in the configuration file to possibly bypass something stopping it from being used or force/allow it, or some sort of code that could be modified/changed somewhere for a bypass on this. Not exactly in the state you are mentioning. So basically a long shot here, given it might likely need to be 9x code specific, but I figured it would be worth a shot to ask anyway. Could have worded the original post better though.

3D Acceleration Questions

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎05-30-2021 01:31 AM
‎05-30-2021 01:31 AM
Here's a basic info of my system: i5-6300U 2.40 Ghz 8 GB DDR4 2133 Mhz (Single stick) 256 GB SK Hynix SC308 NVme SSD Intel HD 520 (SKL GT2 Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Host VMWare Player 16.1.2 build-179... See more...
Here's a basic info of my system: i5-6300U 2.40 Ghz 8 GB DDR4 2133 Mhz (Single stick) 256 GB SK Hynix SC308 NVme SSD Intel HD 520 (SKL GT2 Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Host VMWare Player 16.1.2 build-17966106 with fully updated guest additions     Now, i've got a bit of an interesting question. First to address my GPU: I have found success with systems with a line allowing VMWare to use unsupported drivers to use 3D acceleration, as it appears it does not like using it without that line otherwise. Onto the actual question: Is there a paticular reason Windows 98 isn't supported for 3D acceleration, other than being (hugely outdated/old)? Is there some limitation in the code that could theoretically be changed, or a line that could force/allow VMWare to do such a thing for Windows 9x/98 with 3D acceleration? Or a modification somewhere? IF there is such a thing at all, I will state beforehand I am fully accepting risks of corruption/unstableness/crashes.  

Re: Is it possible to use VMWare without hardware virtualzation? And how? (Where does this go?)

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎12-11-2020 08:34 PM
‎12-11-2020 08:34 PM
Oh, its probably just disabled in the BIOS in that case. I disabled it in the BIOS because I was suspecting the CPU didnt have it. Well, thanks, simple mistake..

Re: Is it possible to use VMWare without hardware virtualzation? And how? (Where does this go?)

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎12-11-2020 04:29 PM
‎12-11-2020 04:29 PM
Ah, im sorry. New to the community, I could not find  the correct forum, scott.

Re: Is it possible to use VMWare without hardware virtualzation? And how? (Where does this go?)

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎12-11-2020 04:25 PM
‎12-11-2020 04:25 PM
Well, its an older HP laptop with an A8-4500M. The BIOS supports virtualization, but I suspect the CPU does not. Im not totally sure.   This is not my only computer, as mentioned in the first post.... See more...
Well, its an older HP laptop with an A8-4500M. The BIOS supports virtualization, but I suspect the CPU does not. Im not totally sure.   This is not my only computer, as mentioned in the first post. Its just what I want to use as it has more storage available, while the other one is a bit tight on that.

Is it possible to use VMWare without hardware virtualzation? And how? (Where does this go?)

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎12-11-2020 01:29 PM
‎12-11-2020 01:29 PM
Sorry in advance, I have no idea where this type of post goes. I have two computers. I switched from VirtualBox due to the graphical memory limitations creating a VM in the program, and because Me/9... See more...
Sorry in advance, I have no idea where this type of post goes. I have two computers. I switched from VirtualBox due to the graphical memory limitations creating a VM in the program, and because Me/9x systems only had 16 color limitations, due to the guest additions not supporting them. I created the 98SE virtual machine on my Windows 10 system with virtualization support in the hardware, but wanted to transfer it to my older, AMD A8 system because it had more storage, which I do not think has hardware support for virtualization. (I am aware of the performance hit with no hardware support.) However, when starting the machine on said A8, it throws an error related to this. Is there a way to work around this? Do I have to create a new machine, or is there something I have to disable? Or can I just not use VMWare on this system? Im using VMWare Player 16x.  I can clarify if needed, and I again apologize for not knowing where this goes on the thread.