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VMware Player can't connect to usb drive

I am using Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit 6.1.7601, Service Pack 1 and have installed VMware Player 5.0.2 build-1031769. I am connecting a seagate 1tb usb hdd to my pc after i have opened VMware...

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Re: VMware Player can't connect to usb drive

Not a direct answer to your question, but is there any reason you don't want to just connect it to the host and then from your guest map to it as a shared network drive?

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Re: VMware Player can't connect to usb drive

garagedays wrote: I am connecting a seagate 1tb usb hdd to my pc after i have opened VMware player.  I am trying to connect to the usb drive in order to run a virtual image off of the drive.  If the...

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Supplying with Fusion Pro license

I want to supply PC's to my customers with VMWARE player installed with a virtual machine. I need a Fusion Pro license to do this. But I can only find Fusion Pro licenses being sold as 'Electronic...

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Re: Supplying with Fusion Pro license

Welcome to the Community - I am confused VMware Player and VMware Fusion are two different products - can you provide a link as where you are being told you will need a Fusion License?

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Re: Supplying with Fusion Pro license

Well you actually have 2 issues here... one is the actual distribution of VMware Player and then if you what to provide a License key for commercial use.  For the first you need to fill out this form...

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Re: Supplying with Fusion Pro license

weinstein5 wrote: I am confused VMware Player and VMware Fusion are two different products - can you provide a link as where you are being told you will need a Fusion License? From VMware Player FAQs:...

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Re: VMware Player can't connect to usb drive

I apologize, technically I have created a new virtual machine on my C drive, I have a new third party backup image on the usb drive I am trying to connect to in order to install the OS image.  I am...

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Re: VMware Player can't connect to usb drive

I am new to VM software and had a hard time figuring out how to connect the guest to a shared network drive.  If you have a how to on how to connect the guest to a network drive I am all ears. Thanks,...

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Re: VMware Player can't connect to usb drive

garagedays wrote: I am new to VM software and had a hard time figuring out how to connect the guest to a shared network drive.  If you have a how to on how to connect the guest to a network drive I am...

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Re: VMware Player can't connect to usb drive

Okay, that's more clear, however just to recap...  you have a "true image home 2013 tib" image on the USB Drive that you want to restore to a newly created empty VM, right?  Then boot the VM from the...

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Slow, unsychronised crosshair cursor when using AutoCAD 2013 with VMware...

Hi there, I've been having this issue with my VM all week, my cursor tracks fine outside of AutoCAD 2013, and within AutoCAD it tracks fine when I'm using any cursor EXCEPT the big crosshair (so...

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Advice needed: Player and native file systems

Hi, all -- We have an application that we'd like to deliver in VMware Player. This would work best if it could open files in the native file system (i.e, on the host OS). We're running lots of VMware...

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Re: Advice needed: Player and native file systems

If the Guest has been configured with a VMware Shared Folder or the Host has Industry Standard SMB/CIFS Shares enabled then yes from a File > Open dialog box one should be able to access files on...

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Re: Supplying with Fusion Pro license

Oh dear, it looks even more complicated! Let me explain. I supply specialist systems, usually on a turnkey basis, i.e. with all specialist hardware connected up to a PC with software installed and...

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How to set up VMplayer 3 network for VMs to comminicate with each other ?

Folks,Hello. I am using VMPlayer 3.Host OS: Windows 7Guest OS:Windows XP and Oracle Linux 5I need to set up the network and enable Windows XP communicate with Oracle Linux 5. I follow this tutorial...

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Re: How to set up VMplayer 3 network for VMs to comminicate with each other ?

Have you tried pinging the IP addresses of the machines - XP_IP => Linux_IPLinux_IP => XP_IP Host the host names are defined in DNS or in HOSTS file PING will not work using hosts name Also have...

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Re: Advice needed: Player and native file systems

Thanks Woody ... OK ... that's a decent orientation. So, the native file system would be considered essentially as a foreign file system to the application ... and the application still sees its root...

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Re: How to set up VMplayer 3 network for VMs to comminicate with each other ?

Folks, Helo. Thanks a lot for replying. Because localhost, 127.0.0.1,  cannot be accessed by any remote system, we need to set up a network and assign IP addresses to Host Win 7 and Guest Win XP and...

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Re: How to set up VMplayer 3 network for VMs to comminicate with each other ?

Perhaps this might help - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_player310.pdfadditional vmplayer documentation can be found here http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/player_pubs.html

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