player running old vm's
Hello – I just used converter to convert XP system that ran on an old version of workstation to player I did the conversion to the latest version of player. I started up the vm and it all seemd to...
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Which version did you use before? Basically there's no need to convert the VMs. They should just run fine with the new version, although you may consider to upgrade VMware Tools and the virtual...
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thanks for the reply -- it was workstation 6.5 -- when I ran it under player 6, it worked fine and i did the tools update and that completed without error -- do, if this works I don't need to do...
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You don't necessarily need to do anything else, but you could upgrade the hardware version (i.e. the virtual machine compatibility) from 7 (default for WS 6.5) to 10 (latest HW version) to benefit from...
View ArticleRe: Windows 7 Guest Not seeing Intel Centrino Wireless Adapter
Hi WoodyZ, I was seeing this using Bridged mode. After switching to NAT the VM was able to utilize the wireless connection from the host. Thank you for the response. Cheers
View Articlenew disk added is offline
Hi,in VmWare player 6.0.1 build-1379776I created a virtual machine (OS Win Server 2008 64 bit.I added a new HDD to that machine.When restarted the machine in Windows manager , storage I can see that...
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Can you right click it where it says offline and try selecting online? And then initialize the disk. Then you will be able to format it. If this doesn't work you can remove and add it again.
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thank you.No option was available when right click it.I think because the added disk was SCSI. I dropped it and added an IDE.Now it's fine. Regards.
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View ArticleRe: VMWare Player 6.01 -- VM not getting network connection
I've answered my own question by using a Windows Vista installation I did from scratch. I have a licensed DVD of Vista from 2007 that I used on an older Mac/Boot Camp. The license is still valid,...
View ArticleRe: How to Fix - software update can't connect
there isn't need for all this complicated procedure often useless, for fixing the problem. Just start VMWare Workstation with administrator privileges and the problem is solved.
View ArticleProblem mouse buttons Host Linux / Windows (VMPlayer)
Usingthe layout of thebuttons on themouseforleft-handers.Whetherin the car(HOST) and'set so'.In WindowsnormallyI performthereverse operationeven in theGuestmachinesandall isok.If I openLinux anduse...
View ArticleRe: Bridged Network : Duplicate Ping and no network
I was annoyed by these (DUP!) pings, googling found that the culprit on a Windows 7 host is a service called "Routing and Remote Access". Stopping and disabling it immediately ceased duped pings on all...
View ArticleHow to send Ctrl-RightClick to guest in VMWare Player?
I am running VMWare Player 6 on CentOS 6.5. I created a Ubuntu 12.04 guest and installed gnome-fallback-session so that the guest is running gnome 3 rather than unity (which looks like a smart phone)....
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Re: How to send Ctrl-RightClick to guest in VMWare Player?
This is not a VMware issue and why Users come here and ask basic OS specific related questions instead of going where they should, like an Ubuntu forum in this case (or try searching the Internet...
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Hello -- Thx for the info ... I don't think that player lets you do a "hardware update" but if I was able to do that say using workstation 10, I could have the same issue with the XP system looking...
View ArticleDead PC after update to CentOS 6.5
I was successfully running my Windows 7 virtual machine with the current vmplayer update under CentOS 6.4 64bit.When I started it after the update to CentOS 6.5, the modules were created and after the...
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What does "completely dead" mean? Does it boot? Is there an error message? Any clues in the logs? // Linjo
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Hello Linjo,thank you for your interest!"completely dead" means: No reaction on any mouse or keyboard (including ctrl alt Fn and ctrl alt DEL) input. Linux clock display is frozen.After the hardware...
View ArticleRe: how to hide or disable "virtual machine settings" menu item in player 6.0?
Hi, have you found how to use this feature? Thanks
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