Re: Access files from a different computer
Is there any reason you can't use Bridged vs. NAT? It's much easier to network and work with systems that are all on the same Subnet vs being behind NAT! Then you can use Samba on the Guest to...
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Well ... I decided to install the VMAFT tool and determine what # worked best as a parameter ... HOWEVER ... when I booted the virtual XP to do this, the startup sound played perfectly !! ... and...
View ArticleRe: Unusable openSUSE after upgrade.
Upgrading to Player 5.0.2 improved the performance.The bug with the Lock screen is not solved yet.
View ArticlePossible bug in VMWare Player 5.0.x
Hallo,I have found a possible bug in VMWare Player 5.0.xI run the VMWare player 5.0.2 and I had the same problem with 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 too.My Setup:Host: Windows XP 64bit, SP2/Updated to the latest...
View ArticleWin98 setup repeating
Using VMware Player on a Windows 7 system and I am trying to use Windows 98 virtual machine to play some old games and it works fine but every time I close VMware Player and restart it and start the...
View ArticleRe: VM Player & Windows 8
Interesting to see if others have the same results if you fully update Windows 8. I have all the latest versions and updates on both the Windows 8 host and Windows XP guest, I still have distorted...
View ArticleRe: VM Player & Windows 8
Likewise, I'e just installed all the available Win 8 updates and then run the XP VM, sound is still distorted on mine. VMAFT has done the trick for me, it's a 'bodge' if you like, but it does work. The...
View ArticlePlayer upgrade vs Mint 14 Cinnamon
After upgrading to Player 5.0.2 this morning, my workhorse Linux Mint 14 32bit Cinnamon became unusable- not responsive to mouse clicks. Fortunately, Ctrl-Alt-F1 works so I got to experiment from an...
View ArticleRe: Fedora 17 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 kernel update & vmware player
Hey all, I have been away, those who have requested help I will try to respond to in the near future. In the meantime, with the latest kernel this fix still work. Updated command: cp -rp...
View ArticleRe: Fedora 17 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 kernel update & vmware player
Can you please provide the output from the following commands: uname -a&rpm -qa | grep -i kernel
View ArticleRe: Fedora 17 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 kernel update & vmware player
Try updating your locate database:"updatedb" and re-runing the locate command, let me know the output and I will try to assist further.
View ArticleRe: VM Player & Windows 8
Are you guys also using the latest version of Player (5.0.2) ??
View ArticleRe: No shared folder in /mnt/hgfs
Thanks, this worked great, until... ... the update to Player 5.0.2. Now I have no working Cinnamon, and no working Shared Folders.
View ArticleMachine already powered on... so how do I open it?
Hello,I've just installed VMware Player on my PC, that runs on Debian Wheezy (kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64).I have a WindowsXP virtual machine that works fine, but sometimes the VMplayer window closes by...
View ArticleRe: Machine already powered on... so how do I open it?
Bioruffo wrote: So far my only solution has been to kill the vmware-vmx process Forcefully killing the vmware-vmx process is a very good way to trash the Virtual Machine and quite possibly beyond...
View ArticleUpdate 5.0.2 broke Shared Folders
I have been using vmplayer happily with Mint 14 32bit Cinnamon for a while now, but the update to 5.0.2 has broken Shared Folders (and other things). I uninstalled 5.0.2 and downloaded the latest, got...
View ArticleRe: Machine already powered on... so how do I open it?
I confess I'm not yet exactly at the point where the two OS actually share a network and can interact via RDC.
View ArticleRe: VM Player & Windows 8
Latest Player, latest VMware Tools, and both the Windows 8 host and Windows XP guest have all the latest updates and drivers.Still has audio distortion.
View ArticleRe: Machine already powered on... so how do I open it?
Hmm ok, Debian now can see the shared documents in WinXP (yay!)If I had a backdoor to suspend the system, that'd work. Could you point me to the right direction?
View ArticleRe: VM Player & Windows 8
Very interesting. My sysem simply "fixed itself" last weekend. The distortion was very consistent; would go away if Media Player was loaded; etc. -- exact same symtoms discussed in this thread....
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