VMware Workstation Player Documents articles

Need to recover Virtual Machine

Kungfupand4 — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 07:23:53 GMT

I'm working with VMware Workstation 16 Player and having an issue after several time expand the disk capacity. It originally run on 50GB then expand to 100GB and the to 150GB.
The reason I expand the disk space cause I'm trying to restore an image into a VM with this VM (run a bootable acronis mounted to the VM CD/DVD SATA, the image that i want to recover is located in drive C). The recovery is failed several times because of the insuficent storage space. And comes to the time that i expand the disk space to 150GB, the recovery task is run until about 70% then failed because again the insuficent storage. I try to cancel the recovery task and boot the win 10.
Somehow the VM performance goes slow, it can boot to win 10 but i can't open anything, even task manager took so long to open it.
Is there any solution to recover the VM, cause I need to backup some license that activated to this VM?

I attached the log below.

[Linux] VMware Player - Host Only Network - DHCP

Ebiko — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:21:21 GMT

Symptoms

Your Windows VMs are assigned an IP Address from the VMWare Player automatically - but you want to learn more about DHCP and want to install and configure a DHCP by yourself for the VMs.
(And the Documentation is from 2015!!!)

Diagnosis

The default Setting for Networks in the VMware Player is "DHCP" enabled. Including the Host-Only Network.

Solution

To disable or configure the Network setting on Linux (VMware Player 17):

Turn off any started VM
Start in a terminal the following (Requires Desktop, the same way the player does)

user@localhost:~$ /usr/bin/vmware-netcfg #Virtual Network Editor

Select VMNet1 (Host-Only) and deactivate "Use local DHCP Service to distribute IP-Adresses to local VMs"
Press Save
restart vmware service

user@localhost:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware restart # Restarting VMWare Service, to reinitialize DHCP Config # This will give you more output if something failed, then starting the service with systemctl

Start VMs again and try

Attention: You can keep NAT unchanged. This way you can have one local network and one network with internet access on the same VM.

Screenshot of the Tool for comparison:

VMware Player 17 new release can't install vmci.sys, the certificate expired 6/22/2022

sydhv — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:49:26 GMT

Question

How do you get a newer copy of this driver and how did VMWARE release this product with that far out an expired certificate

Answer

I can't share a folder with the host

Giampiero_C — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:59:18 GMT

Hi everyone,
I just installed Windows 11 Pro on 'VMware Workstation 16 Player', precisely version '16 .2.1 build-18811642 '. I can't share a folder with the host. Windows 11 asks me for the password and user of the host but I have not set user on the host. How do I resolve?
Thank you

running VMware on old machines

Will-007 — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:43:49 GMT

WMware old or older H/W. IBM Lenovo ThinkPad

objective1-1-configure-scratch-parition.mp4

dja234 — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 14:34:28 GMT

VCAP 6 Deploy-Objective 1.1-How to configure scratch partition

Grafik Error on Boot VM

Tbauer3 — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 05:20:19 GMT

Hi there, (first sorry for my bad English)

I use Vmware Player 7.01 on a Ubuntu 14.04.2 x64 with latest kernel 3.13.46

In the last view days when i boot up any VM if Linux or Windows i see this error (see Pic) on the bootscreen.

What could this mean?

Is my hardware Damaged or is my system infected with some Maleware?

I Reinstalled the Host System but the error is present after this i made a new VM and also the error is show n Up again.

Is there someone that could help me with this problem or got the same error?

Please i need Help.

Timo :smileyconfused:

vmware player not working "cant find file specified" and vmx file corrupted

kirankeeks — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:51:40 GMT

HI I am messaging to ask if there is any way possible to fix my vmware player on Windows 8.1, When my linux Ubuntu virtual machine was running our of space on the partition I created for it, I tried to add space for it using the "add" option under utilities in the hard drive, I then tried to repartition the disk, it wasn't working so I closed the VM and now it says this message when I try to run it....

Error while powering on: Unable to open file "C:\Users\kiran\Documents\Virtual Machines\Ubuntu 64-bit\Ubuntu 64-bit.vmdk":

The system cannot find the file specified.

It also says the my VMX file is corrupt, is there any way of being able to get it back up and running it has a lot of my uni work on there!

Thanks

Kiran (Uni Student)

Ive attached my most recent vmware log

vmsupport-2014-12-09-09-08.zip

kdahltx — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:42:19 GMT

I uploaded the zip file generated by using vm-support (not sure I did everything right).

Been trying for over a month to convert an HP Compaq 6000, windows 7 32-bit system into a VM.

If the conversion works, I can get the VM to run once unless I delete all the flagged devices before shutting the VM down. Otherwise it blue screens on startup and I can't get windows to startup again, making the VM useless. Repair, etc doesn't work.

It seems to have an issue with the network interface device and can't install. PCI to PCI interface device issues.

Regards,

Kevin Dahl

64bit Intel T6400 and Windows 8

duwali — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 03:59:07 GMT

I'm using a Toshiba M300 Notebook running Windows 7 Pro 32bit and recently installed VMPlayer 6.0.2.

I have installed Windows XP Pro as a guest without any problem, but when trying to create another virtual machine for Windows 8, VMPlayer reports that my processor needs to be 64bit.

I run the Processor Check for 64bit Compatibility app and it reports that my processor is not 64bit. When I checked with Intel, it said that my Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T6400 indeed has a 64bit instruction set. VMware Document #1003945 also confirmed that my Core 2 Duo Processor is a 64bit processor.

How can I proceed to install Windows 8 as guest? Thank you.

duwali_my@yahoo.com

VMware player unstable, is cause ifself or hardware?

ALBO_Jay — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:49:48 GMT

VMware(player) is really a fascinating software, thanks to its developers.

When I use VMware player and full version, I find player seems more unstable than full version does. VMware Player may cause the PC hang, autoboot or bluescreen before it, and fuzzy screen, then the real XP system starts to autoreboot after a few times of malfunction of the virtual system. I think the virtual system's breakdown may have destoryed C drive's partition table of the real one, which seems not able to be fixed by its own disk check. Fortunately, I have a PE disc that helps me to maintain the real system and I have backed up the intact C drive to a ghost image which can be easily restored to C drive.

Each time when I use vmware full version to watch video, the vido player is black screened after a few glints, which I think is a protective mean for hardware like display card, while VMware player never displays black screen.

Could you give a clue on what to do to prevent such malfunction? Thank you.

unable to start vmplayer after installation on openSUSE

rupeshforu — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:21:06 GMT

Sir,

recently I have installed openSUSE12.2 X86-64 on AMD FX 4100 machine completely. Then I have downloaded and installed vmplayer from your site then the message "installation successful appeared" and also I have followed suggestions given in opensuse site and compiled the sources. Still I am getting errors which I am submitting to you as text file.

On observing the error file kindly please suggest a solution to successfully run vmplayer on my machine.

Regards,

Rupesh.

Guide: How to get programs with fixed resolutions to scale to your monitor in VMplayer

bdeleeuw — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:58:24 GMT

Many users have posted questions regarding their inability to make some of the programs they run in VMplayer scale to fit their entire display, rather than look at a very small image surrounded by large black bars. Unlike some other VMware products, VMplayer itself lacks a scaling option. However, I have found a workaround that should help.

1) Install VMplayer and create your virtual machine as normal. (If you've already done so, just skip to the next step.)

2) Download and install 12noon's Display Changer program here, for free.

3) Create a new shortcut to VMplayer on your desktop (or wherever you want). This is the only somewhat tricky part. I will use my own as an example:

In the "Target" field, I entered "C:\Program Files (x86)\12noon Display Changer\dc64.exe" -width=640 -height=480 -depth=32 -refresh=60 "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player\vmplayer.exe"

* The "C:\Program Files (x86)\12noon Display Changer\dc64.exe" portion is the location of the Display Changer program on my system.

* The -width=640 -height=480 -depth=32 -refresh=60 portion gives the width in pixels, height in pixels, color depth (eg 16 for 16-bit or 32 for 32-bit), and refresh rate. So, if the program you want to use is fixed at 640x480 resolution, you might use the same text as me, possibly adjusting the color depth to 8 or 16-bit if the program requires.

* The "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player\vmplayer.exe" portion is the location of VMplayer on my machine.

In the "Start In" field, I entered "C:\Program Files (x86)\12noon Display Changer" because the Display Changer program executable is located there.

4) Create additional shortcuts as needed, if you need to use this trick for additional programs with other fixed resolutions.

5) Be sure to adjust you host computer's own display stretching settings if need be. Almost all video cards allow you to choose a scaling method. I prefer fixed aspect ratio scaling so my image isn't horizontally stretched on my widescreen display, but others might prefer to leave scaling off so the image fits the entire screen. Your video card should have a special configuration program that can be accessed by the Windows control panel or simply by right-clicking on your desktop.

6) Run the shortcut. Your monitor will be fixed at the settings from your shortcut until you close VMplayer. Under the example I provided above, a program within VMplayer that runs only at 640x480 full-screen resolution will now be scaled to fit the monitor, instead of being tiny and surrounded by black bars.

PLEASE BE CAREFUL. Using improper setting may damage your video card and/or monitor, so use this guide and the Display Changer program at your own risk.

Bodhi-0.1.7-i386-virtual-machine-org

filgur — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:30:22 GMT

BODHILINUX . I Have it installed in WINDOWS XP PROF.,

you start perfecly with VMaware Player.

You ask for :

___ USER___ ___ PASSWORD ___

(To enter BODHILINUX ) That I do not find in the program's documentation;

You would thank somebody give me information about these data.

Greetings and many thanks.

After installing VMWare Player 3.14 sometimes mapped networkdrives don't respond for about 1 minute

Starsilber — Tue, 03 May 2011 06:41:26 GMT

Hello, I have a strange problem with VMWARE Player.

Configuration:

Host:

Windows 7 professional 64 Bit HP Z200 4 GB RAM ; WIN XP Mode installed; VMWAre Palyer 3.1.4 installed

Guest:

WIN XP Pro SP3 1GB.

Both systems host and guest are asigned to a W2K active directory domain.

About 3 or 4 times a day, when you search directories on network shares with the explorer, this explorer session don't respond for about 1 minute or longer.

In this time when you start a new explorer session, this session works fine. Also local drives are not affected by this issue.

There is no matter if the virtual machine is startetd or not.

This issue happens since VMWARE Player was installed.

I hope somebody can help me.

I cant access my virtual server in RDP

Cafe201110141 — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:44:37 GMT

I installed VMware Player 3.13 on my computer that has installed Windows 7 (x64).

I installed a virtual machine with Windows 2003 Server Enterprise SP1 and want toaccess this virtual machine via RDP windows to perform some tests.

However, I could not access the machine via remote desktop, enabling even the optionof remote desktop on the virtual machine.

I use a router D-Link WBR-1310 to access the internet.

Is it any router port to be opened to allow this connection or should I open a door in thewindows firewall?

VMWare Player and Converter

crc111 — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:25:46 GMT

Hello. I downloaded/Installed VM Player on a Win7 machine. I want to image a WinXP laptop using Converter. Does this work? Can Player read an image made by the converter? Or will the Converter work at all to image a WinXP laptop?
Thanks in advance.

redhat 5.5 installation on player 3.1.3

onbo6243 — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:36:41 GMT

Bonjour,

J'ai recuperé la version redhat entreprise server 5.5 du site puis j'ai essayé de creer une VM a partir de vmplayer 3.1.3. Le problème c'est que l'installation se fait automatiquement sans que je puis choisir les options d'installations : nom serveur, partitionnement disque, langue, ....

Par contre quand je fais une installation en bootant mon ordinateur a partir du DVD, redhat me propose de choisir des options d'installation : nom serveur, partitionnement disque, etc, ....

Pouvez vous m'aider a resoudre ce bug ?

Cdt

update to 3.1.3 build-324285

jt01 — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:52:37 GMT

I just updated my player to 3.1.3 and when start any of my existing vitual machines, I get error:

vVMware Player unrecoverable error: (vmx)

NOT_REACHED d:/build/ob/bora-324285/bora/vmcore/vmx/main/hostDisasm.c:606

A log file is available in "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp\vmware-Owner\vmware-Owner-4592.log". A core file is available in "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\VMware\vmware-vmx-4592-0.dmp". Please request support and include the contents of the log file and core file.

To collect data to submit to VMware support, run "vm-support".

We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

Will not go away even if i downgrade to previous version or player.

Problem with installation

DrOmeC — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:33:07 GMT

Hello,

I have a problem with installing VMPlayer on my machine. I have downloaded installation kit

form VM site but it doesn't start. I simply double click the downloaded exec but nothing happens.

I dont't even get any message. I've also tried to install VMWorkstation but had the same effect.

Thanks in advance for any help.