vmware user for years, first time using player and an image gets corrupted?
Hi Folks, As the title suggests, i've used vmware server/esxi (and virtualbox) for years. For some reason I installed player on a new laptop and within a week have somehow managed to corrupt a disk...
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Re: vmware user for years, first time using player and an image gets corrupted?
VMware Server runs the VM as a Service would properly shutdown a VM if running upon the Host being being rebooted/shutdown however VMware Player does not have that ability and you absolutely must...
View ArticleRe: "No battery is detected" in Win7 Guest (Win8 host / DELL E6420)
Nothing like answering yourself as proof of early onset dementia... :-) This is now fixed this on my main VM and I will verify later today if the same fix has resolved for the others (I strongly...
View Articleuse physical disk on WinXP host.
Hello, i have follow problem.Host: Windows XP2 Harddisk first HD: C: (NTFS), D: (NTFS) sec HD: ext4 With VMWare Player 3.x i can use PhysicalDisk1 in a VM with Ubuntu, that mount the...
View ArticleRe: VM Player & Windows 8
A little bit more to add to this; when playing a YouTube clip or similar, which will normally start fine until the choppy sound then starts to come and go, it's apparent the video also slows down and...
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Seems like the engineers are asleep at the wheel on this one.
View ArticleClosing player takes half hour and more
My colleagues ans ID are using VMWare player for development. We use the vm on a separated usb disk. The problem we have is that closing the vm takes half an hour and sometimes more than one hour. When...
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You get corruption on 20 gb preallocated vmdks ?Thats interesting - can you post vmware.logs with the error messages ? vmware-vdiskmanagers -R function to repair vmdks is broken. Last vmdks that I...
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Windows 8 : no more network, no Wacom stylus
Hi, and happy new year everyone, Let's start with the good news : I have uninstalled and reinstalled VmPlayer yesterday, according to Troubleshooting network connection failures...
View ArticleRe: "No battery is detected" in Win7 Guest (Win8 host / DELL E6420)
Update:The issue returns after the the next reboot following the automatic reinstallation of the devices previously removed from batteries in device manager.There is no link between this issue and...
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Thanks folks, I understand that shutting it down while the VM's are up and running is essentially abusive behavior. I'm not saying that's the norm, just that over the course of several years, there...
View ArticleRe: VM Player & Windows 8
Just to witness: I had exactly the same sound problem, under XP in the guest virtual machine. Host is Win8.This morning, the problem is gone, in both VMs (under XP and Win7) after having uninstalled...
View ArticlePower off delay
Hi, I have a problem with vmware player (5.0.1 build-894247, host Windows 7 professional x64) during guests poweroff.The problem occurs after guest os shutdown (successfully completed) or during hard...
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How to connect 2 VM (Windows Server 2008 & Windows 7)
I have set up two VM (Server 2008 & Windows 7) I cannot open connection between them SERVER C:\Users\User>ipconfig /allWindows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . :...
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Welcome to the Community, both, Windows 7 as well as Windows 2008 by default have a firewall rule enabled to block ICMP (ping) traffic. You need to allow this in the guest's Advanced Firewall settings....
View ArticleRe: No more 3d (Aero?) in win7 guest on vmplayer 5.0.1?
I'm having similar problems running Windows guests on an Ubuntu host. Can't get the 32-bit color depth needed for Aero.
View Articletrouble installing vm tools
i am using vm player 5 and i cannot get tools to install. i am new to linux and when i try to run ./vmware-install.pl i get error of no such file or directory. where to i have to put the .pl so that i...
View ArticleVMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
Using VMware 3.5...installed Windowsxp service-pc 3. When I start the Player Window XP runs well for some time but son it hangs showing ERROR below : "VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)Unable...
View ArticleRe: trouble installing vm tools
Have a look at "Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Linux Virtual Machine" starting on page 28 in Getting Started with VMware Player (PDF).
View ArticleRe: VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
Welcome to the Community,IOCTL_VMX86_ALLOC_LOCKED_PAGES failed: Not enough storage is available to process this commandUnable to lock memory. Aborting virtual machineCan you please provide some...
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