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[Fixed] VMWarePlayer - IOS error

Hello everyone, I've got a problem with my W98 virtual machine.I'm very satisfacted about your software. I'll definitevely use it.I installated Windows 98 without problem.But, after the 1st boot, I get...

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XP-mode slow with screen actions (since v5)

Hi, I got VMWare Player with a couple of machines, some which are XP mode. Since I upgraded my Player v3 to v5, I have the impression that the XP VM's are very slow withwindow manipulations (scrolling,...

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Is VMPlayer the only free offering from Vmware?

I've decided to stay with KVM for the time being. But if I wanted to run Win 7 in a VM on Linux is VMware Player the best option for me?

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Re: Fedora 17 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 kernel update & vmware player

Works also for the new -102 kernel

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Can Not Install Player on fresh copy of Windows 7 64-bit

I recently had an issue where a MS update killed my windows explorer and forced me to do a wipe and reload.  I completely erased by hard drive, deleted the partitions, recreated the partitions and then...

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Re: Is VMPlayer the only free offering from Vmware?

AFAIK, VMware Player, for noncommercial use, is the only free Type 2 Hypervisor offered by VMware and what I'd suggest it you give it a try and also give VirtualBox a try too.  That is of course if...

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Re: System is restarted when starting a virtual machine

And someone, please help to share all your files under: /et/vmware Please!!!!!!!

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Unable to install VMWare Player - Windows XP

Hi everyone, I am running Windows XP on a Samsung Netbook as a sole user. I have downloaded VMWare Player from a link on this site, when I run the exe file I get a popup saying 'An ActiveX control on...

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Re: Unable to install VMWare Player - Windows XP

Have a look at VMware Player Installation Requirements and if your system does not meet the requirements, which apparently it doesn't, then you'll have to use VMware Player 3.x because 4.x and 5.x have...

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Re: Unable to install VMWare Player - Windows XP

Thanks for the prompt response Woody. I tried downloading version 3.  I had the same ActiveX question then just the empty setup box again but without the error message.  I guess it's not to be

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Re: Unable to install VMWare Player - Windows XP

Even though this is for VMware Workstation nonetheless have a look at: When installing VMware Workstation, the Setup window displays a blank screen Another option is to extract the contents of the...

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Re: Unable to install VMWare Player - Windows XP

I'll check that out, thanks Woody.

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Re: Unable to install VMWare Player - Windows XP

To extract the files run the following command in Command Prompt VMware-player-*.exe -e c:\vmptmp It takes a minute or so to extract everything however when finished execute the setup.msi.

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Re: Network connection broken on resume from suspend after ugrade to Player 5.0

I had a similar problem. Networking broken after resume, and continued to be broken after restarting both *host* and guest, and reconfiguring VMWare Tools :-( I eventually got it working by manually...

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NAT not working

I have just installed VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.i386.bundle on my host Ubuntu 12.10 without problems .Then I 've created a windows 7 guest with NAT internet connection not working .The message  "...

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Re: Windows 7 becomes unable to shutdown and gets "glitchy" after VMWare...

has anyone found a solution to this issue?  I'm having the same problem and can't find a solution. Windows 7 Ent 64-bit SP1Intel i78GB Ram1TB HD VMWare Player 5.0.0 b812388Running Win7Ent image I was...

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Re: Windows 7 becomes unable to shutdown and gets "glitchy" after VMWare...

I've solved the issue for me so far: The bootleneck was I/O via SATA-Channel. After detecting, that bottleneck, I moved all VMs to a separate disk - and I never got the issue again.

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Windows XP Dies on bootup

I ran a P2V on a windows XP machine and when I start it in player for the 1st time it dies.  The error is  *** VMware Player internal monitor error ***vcpu-0:DoubleFault @ 0x4020:0xc9410...

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Re: Windows XP Dies on bootup

ctvader wrote: I'm running player on Windows 8 (not professional) 64-bit.  I'm running VMWare player 2.5.5 build-328052. VMware Player 2.x is not supported under Windows 8.  VMware Player 5.x is the...

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Re: Custom NAT addresses do not route in Windows 7, what is missing?

As an update, this problem is also present in VMware Workstation (9.0.1 build-894247) with a minor twist. When I have changed the network configuration with the vmnetcfg.exe, I can start the guest...

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