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No Internet connection in VMware Player (Guest OS is Ubuntu 10.04)
I don't get internet connection in the guest OS. Could you please help me to find out why?
The host OS is Windows 7, guest OS is Ubuntu 10.04.
Type of network connection: NAT.
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Ubuntu doesn't turn off the VM in VMWare player
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The host OS is Windows 7 home premium x64, the guest OS is either ubuntu x86 or x64 (checked both, the same behaviour).
When I turn off the virtual machine with halt - it doesn't turn off ...
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How to create new Virtual Machine (VMWare) on OSX?
Is there any free product that I can use to create new VMWare Windows virtual machine on OSX 10.6.2?
Is seems to me that there is no OSX version for VMWare Player.
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DB Paradox 3.5 and DOS on VMWare Player 4
My organization have to work with Paradox 3.5. We have 2 HD on a computer. One with Windows and one with DOS, where Paradox 3.5 is placed. So we bought a new printer, which does not work on LPT port. ...
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All VMware software & their installers fail to start, all of sudden, with no error messages & without getting listed in Task Manager
I have been using VMware Player on a Windows 7 machine.
Today I noticed that my VMware player wasn't starting so tried to repair it using the installer but even that failed to start. After clicking ...
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Making VMware player fullscreen in windows?
How can I make VMware player run the VM in full screen in windows? I'm using VMware Player 4.0.2.
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Portable Virtual Machine
I'd like to make myself a portable virtual machine for bringing my own sandboxes for development and staging on-the-go.
I'd mainly run Arch Linux and Windows Server 2008 on those.
I was thinking of ...
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how do I 'hard refresh' a shared directory?
VMWare player 4.0.1 build-528992
I added a file to a shared directory in Windows 7. When I ls -l that directory in Ubuntu 11 it looks like: (2nd line)
ls: cannot access item_spec.rb: No such file ...
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SSH windows to vmware
I have a VMWare Player running a
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64) VERSION = 10 PATCHLEVEL = 1
All works fine execpt that I cannot connect from the windows host to the image.
From ...
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Configuring Bridged network connection on hypervisor
I have tried this on both VMware Player and VirtuaBox. I am working on Windows 7. In the hypervisor I install a standard Ubuntu 10.04 image. I wish to set up a web server on this image for incoming ...
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Can I take an existing Windows XP installation and mount it using VMware Player on Ubuntu Linux? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to convert physical environments to virtual machines
I'm looking to take my Windows XP installation and mount it using VMware Player.
Is this possible ...
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VMware Player Installing Windows 7 in Chinese?
When I install Windows 7 x64 Professional using VMware player, the initial Windows installation guide is in English. When the install completes and it restarts the vm to boot into Windows, it changes ...
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Vm ware Lost Password Windows XP Virtual Machine [closed]
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How do I reset the admin password of a Windows XP VM running in VMWare?
I have Win Xp as virtual machine, but I lost the admin password. Is it possible somehow to reset ...
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VMPlayer, Windows 7 and mouse scrolling
I'm using VMPlayer 4.0 and Windows 7 image in it.
My biggest problem is, that I can't use mouse vertical scrolling.
Did anybody of you have the same problem and know solution?
Thank you in advance,
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Keycode for dead_acute in VMWare
I installed VMWare Player on RedHat 6 and my German keyboard does not work correctly. I figured out how to solve AltGr problems with the help of this post
several keyboard keys not working in vmware ...
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VMware Player flooding my event log with information events about “I120: Service being interrogated…”
Every few seconds a few entries of Information Event 1000 shows up in my event log saying vmauthd was the source. Here is the xml log of the event. all the others are identical other than a ...
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How to change Win7 taskbar icons for VMWare Unity applications
I am running Ubuntu 11.10 in VMWare Player on Windows 7 under Unity mode. Many applications's icons display properly in the Win7 taskbar (e.g., terminal, firefox). However, Google Chrome does not ...
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VMWare guests unable to communicate beyond the VMWare lab
I've got a few VMWare machines I'm trying to get networked, but it seems that none of them are able to communicate beyond the VMWare lab environment.
The machines seem able to communicate with one ...
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Running VMware Player from An External Drive
I would like to run VMware Player from an external USB Harddrive (1TB USB 2.0) but I am unsure if it will even work, I do not need speed as much as I need to be able to run a few test. Here is what I ...
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Cannot ping vm in vmplayer?
Hi I have a fedora os vm installed In my local vmplayer
I am trying to remote connect from my windows machine but however I cannot ping the ip address of the fedora os vm
Can anyone advise how do I ...
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How to expand a partition inside a VMware Linux VM
I need to expand a partition inside a Debian VM on a Windows host (and in the process move a small partition).
I think I should use a Live CD (Which one?)
Can I mount an ISO to the VM?
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How should I backup my VMWare virtual machine?
I am using VMWare Player and I need to transfer my virtual machine to another PC. Can I just copy everything in the virtual machine's directory to a DVD and restore it on another machine?
Are there ...
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Using Another VM's Harddrive VMWare Server
I am playing around with VMWare and came across this scenario.
I created a VMWare in VMPlayer, then decided I wanted to go the VMWare Server route instead (I know it's deprecated, but it's free!). ...
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Making VMPlayer actually scale to full screen
I'm trying to use VMware Player 4.0 to play my existing virtual machines (previously created using VMware Workstation, to which I don't have access anymore).
All works fine, but when the guest OS ...
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Virtual ubuntu hangs on upgrade
Running VMWare player on 64-bit Windows 7. I had a virtual Ubuntu 11.04, and yesterday I tried upgrading to 11.10 via the built-in upgrade method. It got to "Installing new packages" and a dialog ...
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Can't hear sound in Windows XP VM, running in Fedora VMware
I use Fedora 15 and VMware 8.0. In VMware, I have a Windows XP virtual machine.
When I play sound in my VMware virtual Windows XP machine, I can't hear it. So in Fedora, I verified the PulseAudio ...
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Using FTDI device with Ubuntu on VMware virtual machine
Now that I can connect a USB devices to Ubuntu on VMware Player on Win 7, I tried to use my Altera FPGA dev board. This board contains a FTDI bridge allowing it to connect to the PC via a USB port. ...
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Why VMware Player does not recognize USB devices?
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as a guest OS via VMware Player 3.1.4 build-385536 over Windows 7 Home Premium host OS. This runs on a HP Pavilion g7-1173dx laptop.
At the Virtual Machine... menu > VM ...
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Unique network for each user?
I want to use a guest OS via VMware Player. In that OS I run a Cisco VPN client.
My resources are located in two different networks. I need access to them at the same time - but not necessarily in ...
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How do I use dual monitors with VMware Player on Windows and an Ubuntu Guest?
I have my VMware Player (v 3.1.4 build-385536) all up and running Ubuntu (11.04) from my Windows (XP SP2) machine, but now I'm getting greedy and want to run Ubuntu on both monitors.
I've tried ...
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Best way to set static IP for a guest vm on a laptop, although the laptop is often on different networks
A Win 2008 Server runs (guest) in VMWare Player, on Win 7 laptop (host)
The guest has installed software, Oracle, that demands the same IP address each time I start the guest. At home it works fine ...
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Is it possible to split VirtualBox Hard Drive to multiple volumes?
VirtualBox hard drive usually has one or a few files when you create a drive. I think it is good because you manage only a few files. However, I have out of space of my drive. Is it possible to span ...
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What are the CURRENT advantages of the VMware Workstation over the VMware Player?
There's a question here asking about the same, however, it's answer is outdated and incomplete. I was looking for an answer on the VMWare page, but it contains mostly marketing speech like "Gain an ...
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VMWare Player doesn't start any VM on Ubuntu
after a reboot my VMWare Player doesn't start up any VM. Launching vmplayer my-machine.vmx from bash it opens VMWare Player GUI but it remains black and not responding. I must killall vmware-vmx and ...
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Changing Keyboard Layout in VMWare Player
I'm running a virtualized version of MacOSX Lion on my Win7 Machine.
The installation of the Virtual OS has set the Windows Key as the MacOS Control key, which feels very un-natural.
Is there a way ...
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Running Oracle XE Server in VMWare Player
I have installed the Oracle XE server an VMWare on Windows XP. In the virtual machine environment I have installed Oracle XE server also.
The Oracle server which is running on actual Windows machine ...
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Run VmwarePlayer service automatically also logoff our system
i want run my vmwareplayer always in background,becuase i am install this Vmwareplayer in our server this is shared my multiple persions.even system is logedoff that service must run this is our ...
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Vmware player bridge mode problem [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
VMWare player and Windows 7 network problem
I have a windows vista, then I have a Vmware with a debian in bridge mode:
I did so,
I configure the vista network with ...
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VMWare player and Windows 7 network problem
Sorry, but I have no idea about Windows, since I'm not really interested (I always use Linux), but at my work, I have to use it, so it's the rule.
My problem is with VMware and a network issue.
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Automatically update ip-address in hosts file?
My development environment is Ubuntu guest OS inside VMWare Player with Windows 7 as the host OS. I edit the hosts file in windows to point http://dev.mydomain.com to the ip-address of my VM so that ...
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How to mount a .vmdk VMWare virtual harddisk outside of the virtual machine
I've got the virtual harddisk (VMWare .vmdk file) of an old (crashed) virtual machine. How can I open this to extract files without booting from it or attaching it to a virtual machine?
I know ...
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VMWare unity chaning the 'start menu'
I've got an Ubuntu VM running on a Windows host. When I enter unity, I get this nice start-menu that has various applications from the VM. However, that menu doesn't respond to right-click or ...
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Cant run VMware player image after crash
I have a Ubuntu server 11.04 VM that I've been running (and created) within VMware player 3.1.3 build-324285. Yesterday my host OS crashed (windows 7), now I cant run my VM from VMware player.
When I ...
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VMware Player does not display USB stick and can not connect to network
I am running a Windows 7 guest OS on VMware Player from Windows 7. However, when I insert a USB jump drive the guest OS can not access it. VMware Player tells me the stick is connected, but it ...
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Cannot connect to guest OS from host OS
I have installed OpenSUSE on VMWare player as guest OS and my host OS is Windows XP. What I want to achieve is to send message from my host (i.e XP), say on port 7000 and receive it on a specific port ...
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Migrate Guest OS to Host OS
Is it possible to take a Guest OS running inside VMWare Player and create an ISO or some sort of installation utility that will allow me to install the Guest OS as the Host OS (replacing the current ...
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Number of cores available to VMware Player limited to physical cores or hyperthreaded cores?
I have an i7 with 2 physical cores, because of hyper threading Windows 7 reports 4 cores (at least in the Task Manager). My question is, when allocating cores to a VM in VMWare Player is it taking ...
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Why would VMWare Player Not Boot When Using Partitions?
I'm trying to run a virtualized Ubuntu environment on a physical partition on top of Windows 7, using VMWare Player's physical partitions feature, which creates a .vmdk file that points to a physical ...
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Synergy+ client keeps retrying bad or old or ??? server IP addresses
Synergy client keeps searching bad or old IP addresses for my Server (which is a laptop, with DHCP gets new IP regularly). Also my laptop has a couple "bad" ipaddress which are visible to other PC's ...
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I ran ubuntu in vmplayer on windows 7: Working in ubuntu and access the DVD freezes ubuntu
Using ubuntu 10.04 the freeze happens during the spin-up of the dvd, after the dvd sends data the freeze goes away.
During the freeze no mouse-actions, no keyboard strokes are accepted. What could ...
