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VMWare Player mouse becomes erratic
I have been experiencing a problem with VMWare Player 3.1.6
This is on a Panasonic Toughbook CF53 the Host OS is Windows XPSP3 fully updated, The Guest os is Windows XPSP3 fully updated.
It seems ...
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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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Installing VMware Player via MSI failed
This error pops up every time (both VMware Player and Workstation) and never is able to install at all. I stopped installation after the temp file is created and ran the MSI file directly. It now ...
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How to mount an ext3 VMware Virtual Disk Image (vmdk)
I found a wiki entry on how to mount an NTFS VMware Virtual Disk Image (vmdk) and another link. I want to mount an ext3 vmdk file on Windows XP. How can I do that?
The VMware-mount-5.5.0-18463.exe ...
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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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Bridged Ubuntu guest on VMWare Player not accessible via TCP from host only
Using VMWare Player 3.1.3 build-324285 on Windows 7 64 bits, guest is Ubuntu 10.10 with VMWare tools installed. For networking, the Ubuntu guest is bridged.
Here is the problem :
- ICMP work from my ...
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Moved VM doesnt work correctly on my Ubuntu machine
I have a Windows 7 VM that I have moved onto my Ubuntu 64bit host machine that is running VMware player 3.1.0. I think the VM was created on a Windows host.
The problem I have is that when I login to ...
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Caps Lock key not working in VMware Player
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 as a guest on VMware Player on Win 7. Recently I noticed that the Caps Lock key has no effect in the VM. SHIFT key works fine in capitalizing the typed keys.
How can I make ...
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PuttyFatalError- networkerror:connection timed out
I am unable to connect vmware player through putty. My vmware ipadd and ipaddr from http://www.whatismyip.com/ is different. I get connection timed out error. Please can some one help me the reason ...
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how to dd capture partitions of a VMware Player VM
I have a Linux VM that runs in VMware Player. It has /dev/sda1 mounted as /boot and /dev/sda2 mounted as /. I want to use dd to capture both partitions. I now know from the answer to this post that ...
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Win-Vista w/VMWare Player w/Ubuntu Server 12.04; IE on host can't connect to image
Created brand new image of Ubuntu Server 12.04
Installed Apache2
Applied all updates / upgrades
ifconfig shows IP aaa.bbb.c.ddd
Using 'Bridged' setting in VMPlayer
Using IE on host, enter ...
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Slow PHP over ubuntu server | VirtualMachine
I have an Ubuntu-server 12.04LT-64x installed on VMware Player (I found VMWare works better than Virtualbox after few installations over vb).
My host computer is an Intel i3 with 6GB-RAM and ...
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Running a Snow Leopard 10.6.7 Image on an AMD: The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system
I am trying to run a Mac OS X Snow Leopard VMware image 10.6.7 on my AMD quad core computer with VMware Workstation 9.0.
My latest attempt involves opening the specific configuration .vmx file (which ...
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Scrolling makes VMware Player leave fullscreen
I am using the VMware Player which comes with Workstation 8 to run Mac OS X Lion for which I don't have trackpad drivers. Therefore, scrolling doesn't work, which is a pity but not my issue here (I do ...
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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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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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Cannot install VMware-player-5.0.2-1031769
My system is Windows8 64bit. When I try to install VMware-player-5.0.2-1031769, I got this error:
I am already the Admin of my computer.
P.S. I have the previous version installed. But I cannot ...
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vmware player/virtualbox bridged networks not working on windows 7, but nat connections work
I am trying to run ubuntu server inside a virtual machine on my windows 7 (64 bit) laptop. I am a developer so I need to run server software on the ubuntu virtual machine. Ubuntu also needs to go out ...
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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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Not able to login to Ubuntu 12.04
I am using VMPlayer to run ubuntu 12.04 as a guest OS with host being Windows 7.
When I try to login to my account it says that the password is not correct.
However, if I switch to console mode by ...
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Configuring bridged network card on VMWare VM - Host : Windows 7 - Guest : Ubuntu Server 12.04
My question is about giving Internet connection to a VM with a STATIC IP address, by connecting to the WiFi I have at home.
I gave my VM, running Ubuntu Server 12.04 on VMWare Player, one network ...
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Converting a VMware player image from non-persistant to persistant
I'm pondering setting up a virtual machine to generate app-v (since i got mdop from school) or thinapp application virtualisation packages. Ideally with either of these, i should work off a fresh ...
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How to enable network adapter for Windows 8 in VMWare Player
Just downloaded and installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview onto a VMWare virtual machine. Despite VMWare not recognising the OS (I selected Other -> Other at setup) everything works fine. However, ...
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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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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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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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LVM partition as “physical” disk for VMware Player
I would like to make a VMware Player virtual machine, where the disk would be stored on an LVM partition. I'd like to have the virtual disk contents stored on raw LVM logical volume, and not as a file ...
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How to share folders inside VMWare virtual machine to host
I am running VMWare Player inside Ubuntu. Inside VMWare Player I am running Windows. I can share folders from my Ubuntu system to my Windows system through VMWare. Can I also use VMWare to share ...
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Connect to server in VMWare player while host is not connected to a network
I have a linux server VM on my host machine using VMWare player and if I'm on a network, I can connect to the web server on the VM via a web browser. However, I tried to do the same while I was ...
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Can't get VMware player to isntall usb driver
I have a USB based oscilloscope that ran on XP. The driver wont install on Windows 7 64 bit, so I'm trying VMware player. Should I be able to install the driver in an XP VM? I can't get it to work.
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Debian Wheezy - VMWare Player and Gnome3
I have installed Debian Wheezy in VMWare Player 5.0.2 build-1031769 and all is fine. Except the "Failed to load Gome3" messages keep on coming. This is what I did so far:
Installed VMWare Tools ...
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Web browser in virtual machine spawns error on host machine
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 in VmWare Player, and my host machine is running Windows 7 x64. I was browsing the Web from within the virtual machine, and somehow the site I was visiting tried to infect my ...
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VMWare guest does not automatically resize even with Tools installed
I'm resizing the window, but the guest does NOT automatically resize. How can I make it?
Guest OS is Windows XP, Host is Debian 6, WM is i3, and I'm using Player 5.0.2.
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How to start VMX86 (VMWare Player) in the safe mode
I have a limited RAM, and I want to run 4 ubuntu virtual machines using VMWare player. So, I have started my windows 7 in safe mode to save RAM and am trying to start VMWare Player in safe mode. But ...
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VM Player Snap Shot Functionality
I currently have VM Player installed (version 5.0.1) and I know this does NOT have the snapshot functionality.
Does anyone know how to take snapshots with VM Player. I can not install the version ...
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Using a .vmdk file in VMware player 5.0.1
I am new to VMware player. I downloaded an OS ready for VMware player, which turned up to be a .vmdk.
I am using VMware player 5.0.1 for Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.
How will I open the file?
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Setting the ungrab hotkey in Vmware Player 5 / Workstation 9 to Right Alt
After numerous bugs with virtualbox ( Namely random graphical failures ), I swapped to vmware player ( And since, vmware workstation ). However, I'd like to change the ungrab hotkey to the right alt ...
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Is it possible to change the 'hardware version' in VMWare player?
I am using the latest version of VMWare Player, and I need to create an image for a server. Is it possible to downgrade the hardware version to version 7 (equivalent to VMWare Player 3.xx), rather ...
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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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Using a named pipe to simulate a serial port on a VMware virtual machine (linux host and client)
Trying to write a python program to create a simulated data stream and feed it, through a named pipe, to a VMware virtual machine. The host is running Ubuntu 11.10 and VMware player 5.0.0. The Vm is ...
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Triple fault vmplayer - shutdown state
I'm new to VMs and I'm messing around with getting mountain lion on my VM. I got up to 10.7.3 Lion on the VM. I then upgraded the software to Mountain Lion through the app store. Upon the software ...
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Use non-standard floppy disk size with vmware player?
I'm testing very old distros and some of them have to create a non-standard floppy disk size (1722Ko). It is the way the distrib is done.
could you tell if we can and possibly how to use a image of ...
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How to open IE as administrator in VM Player
My internet explorer is hanging whenever I open it, and all the buttons under Tools menu got disabled. and it always says Connecting... but it will never connects. So I debugged and came to know that ...
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Internet issues with VM with Bridged
My host machine is Fedora15 and I have trying to use a debian VM. I am not able to connect to internet on my VM. I am trying this with bridged mode. I am new to linux so don't know a lot about ...
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pkgadd solaris 10 on VMWare - process datastream failed for SUNWi1cs errno=2
I am trying to install packadges SUNWi1cs and SUNWi15cs for Oracle 11g on Solaris 10 (VMWare Player). NO cdrom (I dont know how to mount it the iso file is on USB device), I transferd the ISO and ...
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Accessing local USB port from a VM Player guest which is running on a remote computer
I am connecting to a multi core Windows XP 64 bit machine from my single core 32 bit Windows XP machine in order to access Visual Studio to build our solution. Then we test the product on several VMs ...
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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.
ifconfig command ...
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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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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 ...
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Address Linux VMWare Guest by Hostname
This question is very similar to this one, except the host machine is Windows Server 2003 instead of OSX.
Essentially I need to be able to SSH (via cygwin and/or PuTTy) from the host machine into a ...
