I'm running VMware Player 5.0.2 on Windows 8 Professional 64-Bit, and am attempting to launch a custom Ubuntu virtual machine disk that was created to manage multiple virtual machines remotely. My employer wants me to get the VM working on my personal machine before we deploy it and use it to manage hundreds of other VMs. Ultimately, this will involve vSphere, View, and ESX servers, but for now, my part is just to get one copy of it working in the basic VMware Player.
Whenever I try launching this vmdk, I get multiple errors:
"Binary translation is incompatible with long mode on this platform. Disabling long mode. Without long mode support, the virtual machine will not be able to run 64-bit code."
(this shouldn't be a problem; my employer only wants to run 32-bit software)
then:
VMware Player cannot open one of the virtual disks needed by this VM because it is larger than the maximum file size supported by the host file system. Some remote file systems do not support files larger than 2 GB, even though the file system on the server might.
The file is too large
Cannot open the disk 'E:\PCoIP_MC_Rel-1.8.1_GA\PCoIP_MC_rel-1.8.1-rc_pcoipmc_1_8@3212.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
The VM then crashes. I've searched all over for forum posts documenting similar problems, but the only ones I've seen are from people who were trying to use FAT32 (I've checked, this hard drive is definitely NTFS).
Does anyone have any ideas what is wrong, and how to resolve the problems?
If it helps, here are my system details:
Host: Core 2 Duo SL9400 1.86GHz 6MB L2, 4GB 1066MHz, 160GB 7200RPM HDD (NTFS), Intel Mobile Series 4 Graphics, Windows 8 Professional 64-Bit
VM: 1 Core, 640MB RAM, 4GB Storage, Ubuntu