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How to fix VMWare Fusion Pro 10, "Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"
With help from Daniel I was not able to find the solution although it took me a bit to find the right area. I have written up the process in detail below to help others resolve this issue. I found ...
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No /mnt/hgfs in Ubuntu guest under VMWare Fusion
sudo mkdir /mnt/hgfs
Use the above command first, followed by the following:
sudo /usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other
I am using macOS and VMware Fusion with ...
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No /mnt/hgfs in Ubuntu guest under VMWare Fusion
For Ubuntu 16.04 I had to use vmhgfs-fuse, see https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/199#issuecomment-335525133:
This impacts the Shared Folders client as we have switched from a kernel ...
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How do you close a VMWare Fusion VM Window without shutting it down or suspending it?
There is a better way (at least with Fusion 8)
VMware Fusion > Preferences and tick the "Confirm before closing" checkbox.
Now, when you close a GUI window, you will receive a prompt with buttons ...
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How to fix VMWare Fusion Pro 10, "Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"
In my case I did not get the allow button to appear under the Security & Privacy General tab, no matter how many times I reinstalled or rebooted.
To fix it I enabled the "Allow apps downloaded ...
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Merge non-contiguous partition on Windows 10
From the comments, it sounds like:
It can't be done with Windows' built in Disk Management tool.
The de facto solution is "just use GParted", which is free, open-source, and cross platform.
...
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VMWare Fusion: Unable to connect a Transcend USB 3.0 SD card reader
The solution was to change the USB controller compatibility level to USB 3.0 as shown in the screenshot below.
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How to convert a Physical OS X machine to Virtual Machine
This is how I did it:
Create a Image File on an external drive (Sparse Bundle, so the size of the original drive can be variable
On the source machine, use SuperDuper or CCC to copy the drive to the ...
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Disabling HiDPI in a Mac OSX virtual machine
With a little bit more digging I found this website https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/hidpi-mode-os-x/ which suggested running the following command in terminal window:
sudo defaults delete /Library/...
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How to fix VMWare Fusion Pro 10, "Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"
On your Mac try:
"System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Allow VMware Fussion"
This resolved my issue. Hope it works for you!
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VMware Fusion multiple users at same time
Not in the way you're trying to do it now. How can many people control the same mouse cursor? It would not work.
The only way this would work, is if everyone uses Remote Desktop to log into their own ...
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Remove associations with applications in VMWare Fusion
In Virtual Machine > Settings > Default Applications unchecking Open your Mac files and web links by using Windows applications and clicking Clean Up Applications removed all file associations for me ...
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Why does my terminal start up with "(eval):export:1: not valid in this context"?
As it turns out, the issue was that my path included Postgress and VMWare despite uninstalling them. They were not added in .zshrc, but actually in /etc/paths.d (which is a directory). Inside this ...
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How to get a free license key for VMWare FUSION Pro?
i had the same problem, so please clean cache or use an other Browser, after i used Safari i get the key by open the link:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=fusion-player-personal
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MacOS Big Slur and VMware Fusion NAT not working
Below is the workaround for this issue. It's a bummer it would not work out of the box.
Host Machine with no VPN:
Update the DNS to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 within your VM (In my case Ubuntu)
Disable and ...
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How to enable copy-paste texts between host MacOS and VMware Fusion MacOS?
To enable copy / paste from Guest machine to Host machine or the other way, you need to install VMware Tools on the Guest Machine.
For a MAC Mojave Guest, here are the VMware Tools instructions.
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Getting an error trying to set up shared folders on an Ubuntu instance of VMWare Fusion running on OSX
I had a similar problem but the solution was a bit different. First a bit of an explanation - Linux/Unix maps drives over directory mount points. If there are files present in a directory, they are ...
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xmonad on debian: how to change screen resolution
Add this to your .xinitrc file or .xsession to load up during startup:
xrandr --output Virtual-0 --mode 1440x900
Note, Virtual-0 is the Display name. To get the name of the Display on your system, ...
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Get Windows 10 to install in an OSX VM
So what is that minimal/safe version compatible with VM installations?
In general, any version of Windows 10 will work in a VM as well as any other.
where I can get it?
Microsoft's online ...
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RDP inside VMware fusion doesn't get keyboard shortcuts
This plagued me for months. What worked for me was to disable all key combinations.
Steps:
Virtual Machine > Settings > Keyboard & Mouse:
Key Mappings uncheck "Enable Key Mappings" and "Enabled ...
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Can I backup my virtual machine while it is suspended instead of turned off? [VMWare]
A potential issue with backing up a suspended VM is that you won't be able to resume it if the backup is restored to a different host. (That might happen because you upgraded to a new physical machine,...
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How to get a free license key for VMWare FUSION Pro?
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=fusion-player-personal
It appears that was a bad link. I believe on Fusion is free, Fusion Pro likely is not. Above link seems to indicate you have to ...
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DHCP Options in VMware Fusion
I had the same problem and this is what works for me on Fusion 10+. Fusion is pretty finicky and the docs are obscure, so it took a bit of trial and error to figure this out.
On the VM:
Find the ...
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How do I disable the beep sound coming from the guest OS for VM Fusion?
mks.noBeep = "TRUE" is the correct configuration option to add. It should work across VMware products and is not specific to VMware Workstation.
Make sure that you power off the VM and ...
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SeAccessCheckEx CPU usage in Windows Server 2016 + VMWare Fusion
I ran into this same issue today with a new install of Windows Server 2016 on ESXi 6.00 Build 3620759.
Same thread ntoskrnl.exe!SeAccessCheckEx using 50% cpu (or 100% of one cpu depending on your ...
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How much damage is caused to a laptop under load?
Macbooks are designed to run hot...up to 100 degrees celsius and more. It won't do any damage to the hardware but it can most certainly give slight burns to your body if you use it as a "laptop". You ...
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Repair Bootcamp Windows 10 0xc0000225
In any case, there's one way I've found to resolve this. If you have access to another computer, take out the affected computer's primary drive and find a way to mount it in the system (internally, ...
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How do I migrate a VMWare Fusion virtual machine to Azure?
Microsoft describes those steps in detail - no additional SW tools needed:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/canitpro/2014/07/14/step-by-step-migrating-from-vmware-to-microsoft-azure/
In short you ...
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VMware Fusion black screen on boot
I've had exactly the same problem, and it turns out it is introduced with the update to macOS Sierra 10.12.4.
The solution to this problem is to open the .vmx file of the virtual machine, and add the ...
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Tilde on Ubuntu virtual machine with QWERTZ keyboard (MAC)
Type right ‘alt’ and the ‘+’ button, that worked for me
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