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SpooRancher · ‎11-22-2022

Hi - I upgraded WS Pro 15 for Windows to WS Pro 16 a few days before WS Pro 17 was announced. I'm disappointed to see that the ordering web page is today charging me the full amount for an upgrade f...

Hi - I upgraded WS Pro 15 for Windows to WS Pro 16 a few days before WS Pro 17 was announced. I'm disappointed to see that the ordering web page is today charging me the full amount for an upgrade from 16 to 17 - I think it's common practice for vendors to offer a grace period in cases like this and give a free or heavily discounted upgrade. Is this available? Have I missed an option on the order page? Thanks

SpooRancher · ‎09-23-2015

That seems to do the trick! I don't care about hardware acceleration here, fortunately. Many thanks

SpooRancher · ‎09-21-2015

I'm using Workstation Pro 12 on 64-bit Windows 7. I had a Vista 32-bit VM runing on Workstation 11, which I had set to resize the guest automatically to fit the VMware host window. I upgrad...

I'm using Workstation Pro 12 on 64-bit Windows 7. I had a Vista 32-bit VM runing on Workstation 11, which I had set to resize the guest automatically to fit the VMware host window. I upgraded to Workstation Pro 12, opened the VM and upgraded for Workstation 12 compatibility. I started it up, and everything was fine, with the guest resizing as before to match the host window. Next, I updated VMware Tools. And now, if I resize the VMware host window, the Vista guest sounds the USB connect/disconnect bongs, and after a few seconds the host window snaps back to its previous size. This is the only 32-bit VM that I have, but with 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 VMs the version 12 VMware Tools work fine, and guest autofit works exactly as it did before. Any workround (other than not upgrading VMWare Tools)? Thanks Alan

SpooRancher · ‎11-29-2008

I have an annoying issue affecting one of the systems on which I run VMware workstation. They're all WinXP SP3 hosts, and all WinXP SP3 guests. What happens is that intermittently t...

I have an annoying issue affecting one of the systems on which I run VMware workstation. They're all WinXP SP3 hosts, and all WinXP SP3 guests. What happens is that intermittently the host's desktop will freeze. Other host applications remain running and responsive, but the Explorer desktop and taskbar stop dead. CtrlAltDel works fine; mouse works fine; the VM guest keeps running. The freeze lasts usually a couple of minutes, then everything goes back to normal. Monitoring I've done shows that it might happen when the guest accesses its disks. I've had a XP guest running PostgreSQL do it regularly, probably when the DB server does an auto-vacuum; and I've had the host desktop freeze for the whole time the guest was running the Windows disk defragmenter. In the first case, I had PerfMon on host and guest. There was a small spike in disk activity on the guest, which seemed to give a huge amount f disk activity on the host. The machine I see this on has an Intel 6850 dual-core processor; 4GB physical memory; 1GB memory for the VM. Disks are SATA II 750GB, and the OS and the VM files are on separate spindles. The VMs have up-to-date VMware Tools installed; the physical disks and virtual disks are defragmented. On the host I run Diskkeeper in background mode; turning this off doesn't seem to change anything. I get the effect on VMware workstation 6.0, 6.1 and 6.5. What might I look at or tweak here? Thanks Alan

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Upgraded to WS Pro 16 a few days before 17 released

Re: Workstation Pro 12 will not autofit 32-bit Vista guest when host window resizes

Workstation Pro 12 will not autofit 32-bit Vista guest when host window resizes

WinXP Host desktop freezes intermittently when VMware Workstation guest runs