Re: trouble installing vm tools
Hi,try this:http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022525 You can try this one...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Converter and v4.0.1 download?
All I can tell you is the steps I presented is exactly what I did and when I got to the place shown in the image I clicked Manually Download and it downloaded the VMware-converter-4.0.1-161434.exe file...
View ArticleRe: "The virtual machine is busy" error
Oooohh.... kay....Unplugging all USB devices seems to work just as well as killing the usbarbitrator process.Tried if I could narrow it down to one specific USB device, and found that the situation is...
View ArticleHow to get 2 vm players to communicate on a hostmachine
Hi Guys, I recently swapped from VPC to VM Player and am finding it difficult to create a network of virtual machines. I need to create a test environment to replicate an error that is occuring on a...
View ArticleRe: trouble installing vm tools
Pablo,I tried the second method that you mentioned. To use the command line from this site: http://ghosttx.com/2012/03/how-to-install-vmware-tools-v4-on-ubuntu-11-10-server/And when I get to step six...
View ArticleRe: How to get 2 vm players to communicate on a hostmachine
I'd strongly suggest you read chapter 7 "Configuring Network Connections" in Getting Started with VMware Player (PDF). The bottom line is configuring network connections in a Guest OS in a Virtual...
View ArticleRe: How to get 2 vm players to communicate on a hostmachine
Welcome to the Community, the network configuration you need to configure depends on whether you need Internet access form the guests.Without Internet access use: "Host-Only" (=VMnet1)With Internet...
View ArticleRe: trouble installing vm tools
As I've already told you, "Have a look at "Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Linux Virtual Machine" starting on page 28 in Getting Started with VMware Player (PDF)." and these directions...
View ArticleRe: How to get 2 vm players to communicate on a hostmachine
I would like to have Internet available on the VM's as they will need to have Windows Updates applied periodically. Ok so following the information you posted I have done the folowing to my machines....
View ArticleRe: How to get 2 vm players to communicate on a hostmachine
Basically the VMs should see each other just fine. Please check if there's a firewall on the guests or the host which may block the traffic.Are you able to ping the guests from the host? André
View ArticleRe: How to get 2 vm players to communicate on a hostmachine
Hi André, I couldnt ping the Guests from the Host machine either. I checked the firewalls on both vm players and turned them both off. The result is that I am now able to ping both the guests from the...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Converter and v4.0.1 download?
Thanks Woody, but as you can see from my other posts, too many things not working or are going wrong. I cannot adjust the screen resolution it is jammed at 16-colors. I tried setting to 1440 x 900 (the...
View Articlewindows 7 firewall vmware player.
Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to stop the network connection of a vm based on the network you're connected to. For instance if I have a certain application I'm using on a normal network I...
View ArticleAccess with another computer
Hi,In Windows 8, I have VMWare Player 5 installed with CentOS and a Rails server. Here is the result of the ifconfig command: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:60:0F:AF inet...
View ArticleRe: Access with another computer
Welcome to the Community, what you redirect in the NAT settings is a host port. So what you need to access from other systems is the host's IP address with the port you defined, not the VM's IP...
View ArticleRe: windows 7 firewall vmware player.
This website has a fix for the adapters. http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2008/09/05/VMWareVMNETAdaptersTriggeringPublicProfileForWindowsFirewall
View ArticleRe: Access with another computer
Thanks.Not sure to understand everything. My IP is 192.168.2.120.So with the current settings, calling 192.168.2.120:3000 should work?I can ping correctly 192.168.2.120 with the other computer, access...
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That's how it should work, unless the traffic/port is blocked by the host's firewall.Basically you can redirect each port you want to the guest, it doesn't have to be the same port as used in the guest...
View ArticleRe: Access with another computer
Ok, got it.Windows Firewall was blocking it.Thank you so much for your help
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