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Re: Booting VM from USB stick: USB not detected/locked by hostOS

you can use Plop Boot Manager to achieve your goal. How to Boot a VMware Virtual Machine from a USB Drive it is very easy to do. 

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Re: Specifying number of processors in VM hardware settings = maximum or always?

If you try to set more cores than the Host has from the VM's Settings you should get an error message like, "Powering on the virtual machine will fail because it is configured to use more virtual...

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Re: Specifying number of processors in VM hardware settings = maximum or always?

Its an always use config setting. Message was edited by: Brian Atkinson - WoodyZ is correct!

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Why not always select USB compatibility = 3.0 in hardware configuration?

When I go to hardware configuration of a VM in the section "USB Controller" then there is a drop down boxwhich let me select the USB compatibility. On my notebook I have 2 USB v3.0 and two USB v2.0...

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How to specify the maximum possible/initial screen resolution (in *.vmx ?)?

As far as I know the booting guestOS tries to find out at first what the maximum possible/current screen resolution is (similarly to the "normal" hostOS). Then the guestOS adjusts the initial screen...

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Re: Booting VM from USB stick: USB not detected/locked by hostOS

Great. It works.Thank you

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Physical Network Adapter disappears after install - Win 8.1

Have installed Windows 8.1 but need to use a virtualisation solution like Vmware player or Virtualbox to run sandpit windows 7 desktops. Problem im having is each time i install te software and it...

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SOS - network inhibited by windows 8.1

I've installed vmware player 6.01 built 1379775 in win8 on a Samsung NP900X3E,to use winXP. It has well functioned until I've upgraded win8 in win8.1From such moment the virtual machine wasn't able to...

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Re: WHEA-Logger warnings only with VMWare Player

as a quick update, the psu swap didn't change anything, I'm also getting the exact same errors with a server which has months of uptime and is brand new on complete different hardware, an Haswell...

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Re: WHEA-Logger warnings only with VMWare Player

So these errors are now gone after updating windows 8. What patch did it? I have no idea. Its windows 8 pro. its been running for over 3 months ( so the update was at least 3 months ago) with no...

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Re: WHEA-Logger warnings only with VMWare Player

hey thanks for reply,well its happening also under qemu/kvm, even with -cpu haswell flag, I hope it will get fixed for Linux, still getting errors with latest kernel 3.13-rc1.

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Re: Specifying number of processors in VM hardware settings = maximum or always?

Ok, thank you. One more question: When we talk about "processors": Does that mean pyhsical full CPUs or cores? The Intel core i5 for example has 2 CPUs but 4 cores! Furthermore: If I specify e.g. 2...

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Re: Booting VM from USB stick: USB not detected/locked by hostOS

WS 10 and VMplayer 6 now have USB-boot-support when you setfirmware = "efi" Do not change that for existing VMs as your existing guests may not boot with that entry

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Re: Maus gefangen in Player: Lösung

Hiim deutschen VMware Forum http://vmware-forum.desprechen wir alle deutschUlli

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Problems with Wireless connection

Hi, I read already several questions about trouble configuring the VMWare Player to recognize the wireless adapter, but I could not solve my problem.I don't understand much about this, I am trying to...

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Re: Booting VM from USB stick: USB not detected/locked by hostOS

Also to add to what Ulii said, the firmware = "efi" .vmx configuration file option is not officially supported in VMware Player/Workstation!

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Re: Can't install VMware-Player-6.0.1-1379776.x86_64.bundle on Fedora 19 with...

I can't even *download* it! Neither Firefox nor Chrome will download it - nothing happens when you push the button.

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Re: Can't install VMware-Player-6.0.1-1379776.x86_64.bundle on Fedora 19 with...

Itis notclear what "it" is in "I can't even *download* it!"!   Obviously it's either VMware Player, since that's the forum this message is posted in or it Fedora as that's the only other object...

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add / updating vmtool

hello -- I have an  win / nt ( that nt 4.0 ) running  under player.  I tried to update  vmtools, but not the  item seems to be stuck  say "(downloading vmtools)" --  tried to install manually by mount...

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Re: add / updating vmtool

What VMware product, version and platform are you using!?

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