udaller's Posts

***EDIT I couldn't find the right support option before, but have now managed to file a Connect support request. So it would be great if someone here knows how to fix this but please don't spend time... See more...
***EDIT I couldn't find the right support option before, but have now managed to file a Connect support request. So it would be great if someone here knows how to fix this but please don't spend time on this question otherwise. I upgraded to Fusion Pro 13. AIUI both the Fusion and WS Pro licences should be OK for up to 3 personal machines. My existing licence was certainly OK on Windows Workstation Pro 16. Successfully upgraded my Windows Workstation Pro 16 to 17 with the new license key. Installed Workstation Pro 17 on Ubuntu. Installation seems to have worked fine but when the product asks me to enter a license key, it flags it as invalid. I've checked and double-checked the key itself. The error appears as a small piece of text under the field(s) where you enter the key. I think it just says something like "Invalid License key" Anyone know what's wrong and how to fix it? (As background, I had a Mac Fusion Pro 12 licence key which also worked for my Workstation Pro 16 installation on Windows. AIUI I am supposed to be able to use that licence on 3 machines. However, I was unable to use Workstation Pro 16 on the version of Ubuntu I am using, VM Player 17 worked fine, so I decided to upgrade to Pro 17. The upgrader wouldn't let me upgrade from Fusion Pro 12 to Workstation Pro 17, which I would have preferred, but I assumed the Fusion key would work for WS Pro as before. It worked fine on WIndows WS Pro 17, but it doesn't work on Linux)  
Thanks! Actually, I now see that they have both been installed. FWIW, the problem was that Windows 10 normally puts "Recently Added" applications at the top of the list and all I saw was th... See more...
Thanks! Actually, I now see that they have both been installed. FWIW, the problem was that Windows 10 normally puts "Recently Added" applications at the top of the list and all I saw was the Player. I'd assumed that either the installation or the app itself made a decision about which interface to present depending on whether it was licenced or not. So I have now launched the Pro version, provided the licence nuoo/. and all is OK.
I understood from Announcing: VMware Fusion 12 and Workstation 16 - VMware Fusion Blog - VMware Blogs that a licence for Fusion 12 Pro would be basically for 3 installations of Fusion 12 Pro and/... See more...
I understood from Announcing: VMware Fusion 12 and Workstation 16 - VMware Fusion Blog - VMware Blogs that a licence for Fusion 12 Pro would be basically for 3 installations of Fusion 12 Pro and/or Workstation 16 (on Win/Linux). So I bought the Fusion 11 Pro -> 12 Pro upgrade, downloaded it, installed it and applied the licence key. So far so good. Then I downloaded Workstation Pro 16 ("full") on Windows 10, installed, and provided the licence key. But when I start it, it starts up as "Workstation Player". Have I misunderstood? - should I get to use the full Workstation Pro version with my Fusion 12 Pro licence? - or do I only get to use the *fully licensed" Workstation Player version (rather than the free "licensed for persoal use only" version)? - or what? Thanks!
@MJMullinll Thanks for that - solved the problem here.
FWIW I still cannot get my WFWG3.11 VMs to work on VMWare 6 (release version) on Vista Ultimate 64-bit. However, a. before the release version I couldn't get them to work on WinXP either, bu... See more...
FWIW I still cannot get my WFWG3.11 VMs to work on VMWare 6 (release version) on Vista Ultimate 64-bit. However, a. before the release version I couldn't get them to work on WinXP either, but on WinXP with VMWare 5.5 everything worked fine. b. the people at VMWare clearly are not experiencing this problem. I have successfully created a WFWG3.11 VM that works fine under MS Virtual PC v7 on Vista Ultimate 64-bit, but when I tried to use the VMWare converter to convert that VM to VMWare format (to see if /that/ VM would work in VMWare), the process failed. I think the converter may only work with earlier versions of Virtual PC. But in any case, the virtual hardware in the MS product is sufficiently different that a VM created with the MS product would probably not work well, if at all, in VMWare. I tried to think about what might be different about /my/ systems, and because the WInXP system is really ordinary, the only likely difference seems to me to be that my /host/ machines are both running as workstations in a Windows 2003 server domain. Since it's quite likely that VMWare is not testing in that specific environment, maybe that's the problem - I wonder if your hosts are also in a Win2003 domain (and perhaps more importantly, whether they have security constraints imposed by the domain, or whether the script that runs during domain logon is significant. I haven't got back to VMWare on this one yet, primarily because I have no new information. But maybe we can compare notes. Peter Jamieson
Thanks for the pointer - I completely failed to spot the beta topic before.
Anyone else still using old Win 3.1/3.11 VMs with WS6 beta on any platform? I am running Vista Ultimate 64-bit/Intel Core 2 Duo and have a Win2k VM running fine under this configuration. M... See more...
Anyone else still using old Win 3.1/3.11 VMs with WS6 beta on any platform? I am running Vista Ultimate 64-bit/Intel Core 2 Duo and have a Win2k VM running fine under this configuration. My DOS6.22/Win3.11 VMs also ran fine under VM5.5 on Win XP 32-bit. On WS6beta DOS6.22 starts OK but when I start Win3.11, it gets as far as my login screen, then I can't type anything into the dialog box. The mouse cursor is stuck as well. I don't actually get the impression that the VM has hung, just that it's not getting or processing the relevant events. Tried a few things, e.g. a. run in full screen b. enable/disable DOSIDLE (anyone else working with a different IDLE program?) I notice that DOSIDLE cannot detect the processor type (not surprising considering its age, but I can't easily get back to my XP/VMWS5 setup to see if that was the same in this respect). c. enable/disable a few other CONFIG and AUTOEXEC commands. Same problem under VM Player. Any thoughts? Even "my Win3.1 VM works fine under VMWS6 on xxx" type responses would be helpful. Thanks.