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Re: Workstation 16 Player - defragmentation

Kris3 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 16:16:38 GMT

THANKS!

Re: Workstation 16 Player - defragmentation

Kris3 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:06:05 GMT

Can I get some help on this?

Thanks!!!

Re: Workstation 16 Player - defragmentation

Kris3 — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 02:06:47 GMT

Thanks. - Definite partial solution!!!

Any way to split that?(without destroying the win10 machine I have on it?)

found this for windows but nothing for Linux. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2006898

WS 16 Player - how to split monolithic vmdk in Linux?

Kris3 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:07:35 GMT

Mint 21 Cinnamon current
winver: ~~21H1 19043.1889(needs a couple updates)~~(edit: now updated to 21H2 19044.1889)
VMWARE: 16.2.4 build-20089737 (supposedly current) (single vmdk says 16.6GB)

This concern started because my win10 in VMware apparently took an update, even though I had WUMgr (but I had forgotten to check the box for "don't use WU".). So I checked that box and rebooted and checked again and WUMgr says I have a 04-2022 updte available which I figure I should take but first powered win10 off so I could (in VMWARE) defrag and compact the space. Oddly, defrag said it didn't have enough space to defrag even though there was showing about 22GB used and 16GB free. So duh! So I booted back to win and using properties/clean, cleaned it including system files though this was only a gain of about 600MB - 300MB from temp and 300MB from update.
Powered win off.

VMWARE defrag still said not enough space. Compacted again and now defrag was okay and defragged it.
Confused!
So booted win again, grabbed defraggler and defragged C. after defrag (about same as before) C shows 22.5GB used. 22GB free.
Then power win off so i can compact vmware stuff....

VMware hard disk = 45GB, again defrag says not enough space, so compact, then defrag went okay. says current size 14GB, system free 20.6GB

Wondering: what is normal care and feeding of VMWARE and win in VMWARE?
Thanks!

EDIT: OH, I wonder if it is having problems because I chose single vmdk segment on this build???

(solved) VMware under Mint 20.2 Upgrade to 16.2, now error and ends

Kris3 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 01:10:40 GMT

get error trying to power on win10

"Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded."

HELP!!!

THANKS!

I found a long procedure that mentioned "secure boot" which I had recently turned on but I did not understand how to name the keys so I just turned secure boot off. PITA.

Re: not able to share folder/file

Kris3 — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 17:24:14 GMT

"VMware tools"... at least that's my guess, and a temporary prob at that.

I had just installed 16.1 Player and let it update its tools. I went to install win and got a message that there was an update to tools, "remind me later or apply". G** I just did that!!! Since the win install was going, I said remind me later. did that twice and both times when windows got installed and started and went to desktop it gave me an error message something about an update file missing, and wouldn't share.

the 3rd time I tried to install windows I let it update tools. I forget but I think that particular win install hosed but when I did it over all went well, no win error message, and share worked fine. Go figure.

Yes, target location makes no difference. I've done both external SSD and internal SSD linux local. Speed depends on where you put it - runs okay on a USB3 external Unitek adapter sata3 SSD, but good on a M.2 (which is to be expected).

I did find that fix for it saying there was no display acceleration on Win startup. Easy.

However, though Schwab SSE runs perfectly, NWN2 does not realize when it is running full screen and can't adjust gamma, so, worthless.

So VMware under Mint 20.1 gets 5 stars but NWN2 gets zero. Or at least under 16.1 Player. Or maybe current ver of tools.........

So far...

not able to share folder/file

Kris3 — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 00:30:13 GMT

New install of Mint 20.1, new install of VMware player 16.1, new install of Win10 21H1(several times).

I did this on a previous build but the windows build was allowed to go to the default location in .local .(that's one of the settings when first setting up a newly installed VMware.)

This time I chose to put it on an external SSD. Would that make a difference?

Before I was able to share an outside folder. On this one I cannot.

I power down windows, click on vm for that windows, edit virtual machine settings / options / shared folders set to always enabled, map as network drive.

But it doesn't show up in windows explorer network.

EDIT:started working for some reason.

16 Player under Mint linux - audio scratchy

Kris3 — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 03:58:13 GMT

noob to VMware.

Mint 20.1 Cinnamon fresh install.

VMware workstation 16 Player installed, Win10 21H1 installed in that, GOG NWN enh game installed. Plays fine but sound is scratchy/skippy.

Any fix? Please be specific as I know very little about this - am a windows person trying to switch to Mint.

THANKS!!!

EDIT: this is apparently a problem with the game under win under VMware (game works fine elsewhere) since audio for win under VMware is fine. alsa or PCH makes no difference.

EDIT2: never mind. I did a lot of googling and apparently sound is a big prob with NWN enhanced. I installed NWN Diamond and plays and sudio just fine.

Sorry!