Re: updating vmware player
Don't worry, the update does not touch the virtual machines. What I would recommend though, is to download the installation package and run the update manually rather than using the online update. André
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Thanks for the info guys, wanted to be sure, being the type of software that it is was not sure about how it worked.
View ArticleHow to switch between multiple vm?
Hi! I have a win7/64 host and run up to 4 vm's on it, each one in fullscreen mode. In version vmware player 4.xx I had two arrows in the bar at the upper side of the screen, which allowed me to switch...
View Article5.02: NAT stopped working (bridged works)
Running VMWare Player in Linux (Ubuntu 12.10), updated to 5.02 and now the NAT networking isn't working. The only way I can get a network connection from the VM is via bridged. This is true of guest...
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i have firewalls turned off!! the same situation i have wit linux on vmware. i cant ping from computer on which vmware player is instaled whis virtual machine. ANY IDEAS????
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Re: Unable to install VMWare Player - Windows XP
I hope I did this right - I get the error message above (two attempts showing). The directory showing came up automatically and the download is in a sub directory, do I need to add more to the path...
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The command line I provided is the basic syntax and you need to either change to the directory the executable is in or include it fully qualified pathname. This is basic command line practice when the...
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Sorry, you have probably guessed I am not familiar with this methodology. Will keep trying.
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Re: Unable to install VMWare Player - Windows XP
That's fine however the question is do you now understand what to do? As an example, say the VMware Player installer executable is in the Downloads folder within the present path shown in the Command...
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Re: Unable to install VMWare Player - Windows XP
I put a copy in the 'Stephanie' folder so it didn't have so far to look before I saw your reply. I thought nothing happened but I just spotted the vmptmp folder
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So now there is a long list of files unpacked in vmptmp but no sign of 'setup.msi' where do I look for that? Thanks.
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There are probably two .msi files in the extracted files, vmwareplayer_x86.msi and vmwareplayer_x64.msi, and you need to select the platform appropriate and then right-click and select Install, or just...
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Re: Unable to install VMWare Player - Windows XP
The command box shows system 32 so I guess that's a good clue However I don't see either of the msi files you mention: So I'm double checking... do I try the vmware player indows Installer Package...
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VMware refuses to install
Hi everyone, I downloaded VMware 5.0.2.1031769. After I press enter on the installing package all I get is the setup stuck at this window: And nothing else.Tried many times with no luck. I tried even...
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Welcome to the Community, please take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1027986 to see whether this solves the issue. This is often caused by a wrong registry entry for the Internet Zones. André
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Nice hint André. I tried to register again the dlls but everytime is needed something goes wrong and I can't success.I tried to follow the others suggestions instead; in particular I had to delete a...
View ArticleRe: Unable to install VMWare Player - Windows XP
The previous info was for VMware Player 5, sorry, for VMware Player 3 it is the "vmware player.msi" file. Note the .msi extension is hidden by default.
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Re: VM Player & Windows 8
SteveH68 wrote: Installed the 5.0.2 update, it's still broken...I'd suggest you do what the author of the thread did, Re: VM Player & Windows 8, switch to VirtualBox!
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SteveH68 wrote: Installed the 5.0.2 update, it's still broken... The distorted audio in the XP Guest OS? Did you see my previous post? Did you try any of those fixes? If you run Windows XP Media...
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