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Deleting Windows XP Mode
Awhile back I asked a question if I could clone my Windows XP Mode on Windows 7 so I could run it in vmware workstation 8 and I was able to do it by using the vm cloning software and adding the line ...
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nvidia graphic drivers using VMware Fusion on a macbook pro
I have a macbook pro retina with a nvidia gt 650m video card.
I use VMware Fusion and i want to update the drivers.
I downloaded 320.18-notebook-win8-win7-64bit-international-whql.exe
When i try to ...
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When is the right time to migrate to virtualization [closed]
I have an issue in our company. We are food and beverages retailers we have all together 7 brannches and HQ with around 100 workstations. I began to notice that each of the users starting to infect ...
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1answer
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Harmonize keymappings in vmware fusion on win 7 guest
I'm having OS X Mountain Lion as host and I'm running Win 7 as guest with vmware fusion. And I'm using a mac keyboard. Trying to enter special characters become really confusing and a pain if you want ...
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vSphere Client 5.1.0 usb device connection issue (USB Device 1 Connecting… )
I am running vsphere client 5.1.0 on a win 7 x64 box. I m trying to connect a usb device to my virtual machine. The host OS has detected the usb device with proper drivers, but when i connect it via ...
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How would I recover a crashed Windows 7 instance running in VMware Player?
I run a VMware Workstation 9.0 VM (Windows 7 x64) on a Windows XP (32bit) host on i7 hardware in free VMware Player. This VM had dedicated only 1GB memory and run accordingly slow with a lot of ...
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Connect virtual machine to host via IEEE1394, USB or Serial Port?
I have a host machine (Laptop, Win 7 Home Premium x64) running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on VMWare Workstation 9. I've got this system set up for UMDF driver development, because I need a target machine ...
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VMware Player 5.0.2: Hide full screen menu?
I'm trying to find a way to permanently hide the VMware menu bar when running in full screen mode. For earlier versions one could add pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.nobar = “TRUE” in the preferences file, ...
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VMWare workstation installation error: The MSI '' failed
I am installing on windows 7. The vmware workstation version is 9.0.2-1031769.
Installation proceeds as expected until about 70% when it fails with the following error:
The MSI '' failed.
I have ...
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1answer
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Windows 7 64-bit stops sharing of Internet connection with VMware virtual machine
First of all I'm using VMware Workstation, which has it's own Internet connection sharing implemented, but I don't want to use it, as it does not implement the full stack. Things like tracing packet ...
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I get “Not enough storage is available to process this command” whenever I install a driver
If I try to install any driver(I tried Vmware, Virtualbox and my webcam driver) I get the error
Not enough storage is available to process this command
I tried increasing the IRPStackize as ...
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If I run an infected file on VMware does my main OS gets infected as well? [duplicate]
If it does or could potentially happen what about if I have linux (as an alternative installed native OS) and run VMware in linux to run a windows virtual machine and run it in there?
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Inaccessible boot device in P2V Windows 7 due to missing chipset driver support
I used VMware standalone converter (5.0.x) to create a VM of a Windows 7 32-bit system.
This is my standard practice when migrating to a new computer - create a VM of the old system for use as needed ...
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Mouse gets stuck in VMware Workstation on Debian 32-bit
I'm currently running a 32-bit version of Debian 6 on VMware Workstation 9.0.1 with VMware Tools installed on Windows 7 64-bit.
It appears that one time out of five, when I try to drag something ...
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Running an ubuntu server VM on a windows home server - viable?
I've been pondering the idea of building a home server for a while now. I want linux for development, but I want windows for streaming files (subsonic, plex, etc). So, I figure I can just create an ...
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Simultaneous/shared internet access between \windows 7 and Ubuntu on vmware workstation
I am trying to set up hotspot using easyhotspot full distro (Ubuntu acts as host for easyhotspot). I am trying to do this in VMware Workstation 9 with Windows 7 as host. I am able to access internet ...
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How do I make an AutoHotkey script work in a VMware virtual machine only?
I'm running VMware Workstation 9 on Windows 7 and I wonder how do I make an AutoHotkey script (which does some key remapping) work only when the input is grabbed by a VMware virtual machine?
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Running VMware Workstation in background with a Unity-enabled VM?
How can I dismiss the taskbar button for VMware Workstation (8) on Windows when running a VM in Unity mode? For other VMs I can simply close the VMware GUI and tell it to "Run in background". When I ...
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Connecting to a Windows XP network share from a Windows 7 PC
Currently I have the following set up over a Belkin router:
1 machine running Windows XP Pro SP3 (XP)
1 machine running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (W7)
The XP machine has a network share on it that ...
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Getting event 57:The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur
I have a weird issue with my Windows7 desktop. There are two separate disks, C: (system) and D:. Both are encrypted with TrueCrypt.
Every once in awhile I am getting following issue: all writes to ...
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How to automate VMware to switch to multi-monitor mode after startup?
How can I automate VMware player 5 to switch to multi-monitor automatically at startup?
I already managed to start it up in full screen.
I tried to shut down the VM when it was in multi-monitor mode ...
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1answer
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Free 'no-host OS' virtualization and vm management for desktop
Is there good, robust enough for every-day use, way to setup free hardware-based virtualization which would support at least Windows and Linux and also be supported by some usable, user-freindy and ...
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2answers
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How to mount Ubuntu server to windows network drive?
I am using windows 7 client and the latest version of ubuntu server installed inside vmware workstation.
Ubuntu server is a fresh install with just openssh server as the only program I installed in ...
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How to access files on a guest OS from a host OS in VMWare?
It's easy to share a folder which resides on the host file system with the guest OS, but is it possible to do the reverse?
i.e. is it possible to share a guest directory with the host OS, so that the ...
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Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain lion doesn't accept keyboard input when running under VMware on Windows 7 [closed]
I have just installed MAC for the first time using VMWare on Windows 7. Everything has been installed smoothly but after the installation, the login screen username prompt appears. When I try to enter ...
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Host-only openSUSE VMWare Player guest not pingable from Windows 7 host
I'm running VMWare Player 5.0.1 build-894247 on my Windows 7 computer. I need to have the openSUSE virtual machine run with a static IP but only be accessible by the host (i.e. not be on the ...
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1answer
299 views
VSS Error 0x8004231F
I'm trying to convert my powered-on Win7 Ultimate SP1 to a VMWare Virtual Machine using Converter Standalone. Problem is, the conversion fails because of a VSS error:
FAILED: The VSS snapshots cannot ...
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1answer
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If I uninstall VMWare Player in windows 7 in order to upgrade, do I lose my VM?
I have a VMWare Player 4.0.2. I can upgrade it to version 5.0.0. I started the process and it asked me to uninstall the current version of VMWare. I am afraid of losing my VM inside the VMWare ...
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1answer
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VMWare Win7 guest on Win7 host can't access internet
I have a Win7 guest on VmWare Workstation 6.5 running on another Win7 that is on a notebook with wireless network. Seeking this same problem on web pages I do not found and answer for my problem not ...
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add VMWare virtual machine to the domain [closed]
How can I add VM to a desired domain. My Dev machine is connected to Domain1 but my VMWare VM is connected to WORKGROUP. When I try to connect it via Control Panel, Settings.. I get an error message ...
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Using Windows 8 via Virtualisation Software on a 64 bit Windows 7 Desktop PC?
I have no intention to currently upgrade my Windows 7 64 bit Desktop PC to Windows 8. However Windows 8 intrigues me, with all it new features including the brand new tile start screen.
Is it ...
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Crystal Reports XI installation ended prematurely because of an error
I am getting the "Crystal Reports XI installation ended prematurely because of an error" when trying to install it on a windows 7 VMware. I am using a silent msiexec command for msi.
Anybody there to ...
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Running Dual-Boot ubuntu within windows causes reboot
I am attempting to run Ubuntu within Windows. The Ubuntu is actually dual booted on my computer.
I am running VmWare workstation in Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10. I am attempting to do this using this ...
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Access a windows dynamic hard drive through a virtual machine on ubuntu?
I have a Windows 7 OS and am thinking about transitioning to a dual boot set up with Ubuntu 12.04. From what I recall, it is not possible to natively access Dynamic Windows Partitions in a Linux OS.
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A little stuck in configuring a VPN using VMware Workstation
I'm trying to figure out how best to set up a VPN using a virtual machine (VMware Workstation 8). I have a Windows 7 host with a Windows XP virtual machine which I'm trying to use as a VPN server or ...
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Loading guest OS's (Windows) localhost through my host's (Mountain Lion) browsers
For work, I have to develop in Visual Studio, which I run via VMware's fusion 5.
I really want to test via my mac's native browsers for a multitude of reasons. that is, view the IIs web stuffs that ...
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Running Mac OS Snow Leopard on HP 4530s
I was trying to run Mac OS X Snow Leopard on my system (HP ProBook 4530s) above Windows 7 host, but it stucks on the initial screen i.e. the gray screen with apple logo. Can anybody provide me with a ...
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1answer
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Can you boot to boot.wim (winpe) in vmware?
I have been testing my WinPe builds by committing my winpe files, copying over my build to a flash drive, and then booting to that flash drive on a different computer. I was wondering if there was a ...
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How can I have a Windows 7 VMware guest without mouse support?
Despite having
vmmouse.present = "FALSE"
mouse.vusb.absDisabled = "TRUE"
pref.motionUngrab = "FALSE"
in my .vmx file and a customized VMware Tools installation on the guest that does not include ...
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Boot an old Win7 32bit parition from Win7 64bit in VMware workstation
Could anyone help me achieve this, I have tried this answer but had no joy. It just has a black screen with various text such as DCHP xyz ./ culminating in it saying operating system not found.
The ...
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virtualized windows 7 from existing disk
I have a laptop that is non functional that had windows vista installed on it. Is it possible to virtualize its harddrive onto my mac?
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VM: Windows 7 host, Linux guest, VT-d?
I am sick of the driver issues of Linux. So I am planning to switch to Windows 7 as a host and virtualize my Linux into it. My laptop has integrated Intel graphics and supports VT-d. For speed reasons ...
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1answer
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Changing global configuration in VMware Workstation 8
I'd like to suppress the "accept license" dialog (et al.) that appears when a user first launches VMware Workstation 8. I know that having a C:\Users\foo\AppData\Roaming\VMware\preferences.ini ...
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Uninstall VMware Workstation v8.04 completely from Windows 7
I wanted to uninstall VMware Workstation v8.04 from my Windows 7 64-bit machine. I could not do that from Control Panel. I received "The MSI failed" error like this:
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Microsoft Mouse Not Detected in Vmware Windows 7 x64 on the mac
i hope someone can help with this problem im having, my wireless microsft mouse is not detected in windows 7 in vmware running on a mac.
i have installed the intellipoint driver version 8, and this is ...
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Windows7 doesn't go beyond Login Screen after Installing vmware
My lap is Windows 7 x32, Compaq Presario . After installing VMware 8, asked me to restart. Then restarted and then, when windows starts, it only shows the login screen. Then just shut it and display a ...
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memory usage of virtual machine more than setting
host:win7 8GRAM
guest:win7 1GRAM
I tried both on VirtualBox and vmware
when guest stop, the free memory of host is 4G~6G
when guest running but "nothing" is working in guest, the free memory ...
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How to create Adhoc network in VMWare-virtualised Windows 7 and join with other windows 7 users?
I'm just curious if (and if yes, how) it is possible to create a wireless ad-hoc network in a VMWare-virtualised Windows 7 and after that join with other Windows-7-based PCs?
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CentOS VM is slow on Windows 7 64-bit
Setup/version numbers
Guest
OS: CentOS 6.0 64-bit (installed from LiveCD)
RAM: 1 GB
Processors: 1
Hard Disk: 20 GB
Host
System: Lenovo T410
OS: Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit (Build 7600) ...
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Installling VMware Player 4.0.3 fails
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and I'm trying install VMware Player 4.0.3.
I get an error:
The MSI 'C:\users.....\Local\Temp\vmware_1338456060\vmwarevmcisockets64.msi' failed.
I had installed ...
