Re: Virtual BIOS and boot order
And 'yes' the virtual CD is 'connected' when I have the BOOT menu. BTW, is there an easier way to get to the virtual BIOS or BOOT menu? The window of opportunity is very very short.
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With VMware Player closed, addbios.bootDelay = "5000"to the VM's .vmx file. This will delay the boot for 5 seconds and give you enough time to hit the ESC key. André
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I use VMware Player 5.02 under windows 8 64 bit system to create a virtual system windows 8 32 bit. I can connect USB 2.0 devices in the host and guest systems and I can use USB 3.0 in the host system....
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View ArticleDownloading the latest VMwareTools for player and workstation
I work with VMware player and workstation on isolated environments. Where can I download the latest versions of VMwareTools for player v4, v5 and workstation v8? Thank you.
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I do not believe VMware intends for Users to manually download VMware Tools for VMware Player outside of the program and VMware Workstation comes with and installs the VMware Tools ISO Images however...
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That is exactly what I needed. Thank you.
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Just an FYI... On a Windows Host after downloading and untaring and executing the resultant executable it is a silent installer. In other words it will appear as if nothing has happened however in...
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I burned the gparted iso to a physical disk, then switched the VM CD/DVD to physical drive auto-detect. The VM found the cd/dvd, connected, and quick as a flash ... I got the grub bootloader menu....
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After reading your response, I downloaded the latest stable version of gParted (gparted-live-0.16.1-1-i486.iso), verified the checksum and attached it to a VM in VMware Player. After hitting "ESC" and...
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What is the exact name of the GParted Live ISO Image you're using and did you validate its MD5 checksum against its published value before trying to use it or burning it to optical media? BTW If your...
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[SOLVED] Used old Knoppix CD and CD/DVD, boot was successful and altered partitions. Support suspicions that checksums on my downloads of gparted were incorrect were right on. Two downloads were...
View Article32 bit USB driver in VMware Player
I have a USB Oscilloscope that does not have 64 bit drivers for Windoes 7. So I thought I would try a virtual machine. Should I be able to install the 32 bit version (which runs on XP) into VMware...
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Re: 32 bit USB driver in VMware Player
I have a USB Oscilloscope that does not have 64 bit drivers for Windoes 7. So I thought I would try a virtual machine. Should I be able to install the 32 bit version (which runs on XP) into VMware...
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I was able to get this to work by plugging directly into the computer's usb port and not going through a hub. My main question was "should this work"? I didn't know if a 32 bit USB driver could be...
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View ArticleThe operation is not supported for the specified parameters
"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" -T player [command] "D:\Documents and Settings\APB.XP80GB\My Documents\My Virtual Machines\Ubuntu\Ubuntu.vmx" Tried start, stop, list for [command]....
View ArticleRe: Access Linux (Host) folder from Windows 7 (Guest)
I am also having this issue. I can see everything in my VMware windows 7, but i cannot access any file. Not sure the setup required to get this accomplished. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in...
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