Questions tagged [vmware-workstation]
A desktop virtualization solution offered by VMware, for Windows and Linux hosts.
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Increase storage size of a VM inside VMWare Workstation [duplicate]
I have a windows 10 running on VM. I started with 50 GB. It too small for me now. I want to increase to 150 GB. I power off and expand in the VM settings to 150 GB already as you can see.
I restart ...
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In vmware's unity mode, how to make the client's tray display on the host
I have some applications running on the client, they have a tray and some message alerts are displayed on the tray icon (e.g. Telegram)
But when I use unity mode, I find that these tray icons are not ...
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How Is it possible to use virtualization engine options in vmware workstation when using Hypervisor?
I use the vmware workstations virtualization engine heavily, but I noticed after enabling WSL2 which requires the Hypervisor to be enabled, I can no more run any virtualization with those options ...
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What are optimal VMware Processors settings if host Windows PC has an i7-10510U?
The host CPU has 4 cores, 8 threads according to the Intel spec sheet. It also has 32GB of RAM and an SSD.
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VMware tools not installing on Windows 7 ultimate. VMware workstation pro
So, I made a windows 7 virtual machine and VMware tools will not install. It just fails to install loads of stuff. I use custom and unselect the stuff that fails to install. It just rolls back. I'm ...
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How can I prevent the text from flickering in Chrome in Kubuntu 20.04.4 LTS in VMware Workstation Pro 15?
The text is sometimes from flickering in Chrome in Kubuntu 20.04.4 LTS in VMware Workstation Pro 15:
How can I prevent that?
I don't have this issue with Firefox.
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Hypervisor: VMWare ...
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How do I fix transparent menus in Microsoft Edge?
For reasons I cannot explain, the menus in Edge have gone transparent, rendering them nearly impossible to see unless I'm on a website with a dark background. Here is an example:
This is the ...
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VM in VMWare Workstation keeps changing IP
I have a proprietary VM that is Linux based. When I deploy it under VMware Workstation, its IP changes once in a while after reboot (always go up by 1). Both this VM and an Ubuntu VM are deployed ...
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OS-update in VMWare "Template VM" - possible to propagate to the LINK:ed VM:s?
OS-update in VMWare "Template VM" - possible to propagate to the LINK:ed VM:s?
To elaborate; using VMware Workstation 15 Pro I have a Windows 10 "Template" from which I have ...
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How to convert .vmdk file into a raw ext4 disk image?
I want to learn some in-depth knowledge of the ext4 file system and I need to do some experiments. I could attach a physical hard drive to a VMware Workstation virtual machine and mkfs.ext4 the ...
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Best way to route USB devices when using VMWare Workstation and VMWare-KVM
I am using VMWare Workstation, but in order to hide the host from my users all VMs I want to deploay will run in VMware-KVM.
When connecting a USB device to the host, the different classes of devices ...
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Ryzen (Zen2) super slow VMWare Workstation emulation on Windows 10. But why?
I know, kind of a vague question but I have nowhere else to turn to.
We wish to run virtual machines on one of our work machines and we can't figure out why it is so slow.
No matter what guest OS we ...
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VMWare VM does not see a Shared Folder
My OS Windows, I have VMWare and VM with Ubuntu 21.10 inside.
All works fine. But I'd like to have a Shared folder to exchange files.
I have created in Windows the folder: SharedUFolder.
Then go to VM ...
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VMWare: The private IPs of my Virtual machines configured on NAT still perfectly visible on host machine
I have 2 virtual machines configured and running on VMWare (Ubuntu and Kali). Both these machines are attached have a single network interface configured on VMWare which is the NAT interface.
From my ...
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In Clash's TUN mode(simliar to VPN), how to prohibit VMware virtual machines go through the host proxy
Because of some requirements, I am using Clash's TUN mode for the global proxy of the host (which is similar to VPN), but I don't want the virtual machine to go through the proxy. I want the machine ...
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"Unable to connect to the MKS: Too many socket connect attempts" when trying to launch a virtual machine in VMware Workstation Pro 14.1.1
I am trying to launch a virtual machine in VMware Workstation Pro 14.1.1. Host: Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate. Guest: Microsoft Windows 10. I get the error message "Unable to connect to the MKS: ...
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How to set the clipboard sharing mode to one-way only in vmware workstation/player
I noticed that VMware's clipboard sharing is a two-way sharing, but because I often run dangerous software in the virtual machine, I don't want the dangerous software inside the virtual machine to ...
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Does VM share resources (CPU cores/memory) with its host machine?
In my VMWare player/Virtualbox only has one VM. if I allocated 8 processors to this VM but it only use 2 processors when running, are the other 6 processors free to be used by the host? Or the 8 ...
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Application goes off screen when switching workstations in virtual environment
We use an application at my workplace that displays as a banner across the top of the screen. This app is always on top and it "pushes" the desktop icons and other applications down below it....
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VMware workstation Processor Optimization
My i5 processor has 4 cores and 4 threads, when running centos 7 VM on VMware workstation 16.2 with the following CPU configuration:-
Number of processors 1
Number of cores per processor: 4
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Disable restart shortcut in VMWare?
I have set Ctrl-Alt-Win to be my hotkey for getting out of a VM and into the host. This works fine. Unfortunately, sometimes when I switch between the VM and the host and want to refresh a browser, I ...
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VM stopped working - The content ID of the parent virtual disk does not match the corresponding parent content ID in the child
I have a virtual machine on VMware workstation, that stopped working after I tried to mount the vmdk file to a virtual disk with imDisk tools, the filesystem was not recognized and I accidentally ...
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Which is more important Ram or Cpu a typical win 10 vm
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I am currently running a win 10 vm locally on vmware. This guest os is used for sole development purposes. Mostly running eclipse, vscode and dbeaver along with some Firefox tabs. ...
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What are the VMware's vm.scoreboard files?
Basically the same ask as from here:
I see a few new files beside usual guest file:
vm.scoreboard
vm-1.scoreboard
vm-2.scoreboard
etc. What are they?
The answer there doesn't make sense to me:
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Failed to start LSB: This service starts and stops VMware services
Have upgraded Ubuntu-18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS using below commands on command line.
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade --yes
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --yes
Upgrade finished successfully. ...
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Moving VMware's virtual machine to another host
Currently I am running a virtual machine created by VMware Workstation 16 Player (free version) on a laptop that I have been using for 5-6 years. Recently, my laptop is starting to shows signs that it ...
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VMware Workstation Player allows Nested VM option on my RHEL machine, but not my Kali Machine
I have two virtual machines on my VMware workstation 16 player. Kali-Linux-2021.3-vmware-amd64
and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 64-bit. In the edit virtual machine settings page after clicking ...
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VMWare Workstation NAT Service crashes after Windows update
Usual story. Installed Windows updates and then after a reboot all my VMs in VMware Workstation 15 lost network connectivity. I checked and VMWare NAT service was disabled:
But then if I try to start ...
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How can I share my virtual machine (Ubuntu)'s VPN connection with the host (Windows)?
My configuration:
Host: Microsoft Windows.
Guest: Ubuntu, connected to a VPN server.
Hypervisor: Vmware Workstation Pro.
How can I configure my virtual machine (guest: Ubuntu) so that the host (...
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VMware Authentication Service missing
After updating to Vmware Workstation 16.2.0, I'm missing the VMware Authentication Service.
Error Message:
VMware Workstation cannot connect to the virtual machine. Make sure
you have rights to run ...
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How can i mount windows drive to LInux VM for Docker volumes
I have windows Host and external Drive Data
I have create Ubuntu VM and using vmware shared folders i am accessing Data drive in /data
I want to use that folder for all docker volumes
Problem is ...
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Trying to pass through a sound card to a windows 10 vm
I am using VMware Workstation 16. The host computer is Also Windows 10 x64 VM is Windows 10 x64. The sound card I am trying to pass through is a Focusrite 2i2 Gen2. It's important for me to get ASIO ...
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VMWare Workstation Connect VM to internet through SOCKS5
How can I connect a VM in VMWare Workstation to the internet through a proxy of type SOCKS5 ? The host OS is Windows, while the guest OS is linux/ubuntu.
P.S. I need it to be configured OUTSIDE guest; ...
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EVE-ng has not ip address on its interface
I previously worked with EVE-ng. But today when I power on it, it does not have an IP address on its interface. What are the reasons for that? I attached a screenshot of Eve-ng on VMware. VMWare ...
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How to share VmWare machine via command line?
I've just transferred a VM to a server (running Debian) that runs VmWare Workstation and I want to start it. In order to do so I need to share it thus making it available for remote access. Given that ...
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Why do the VM files on the host keep growing in size?
There is a VM with VMware Workstation. The files on the host keep growing and the physical disk runs out of space. I don't know why this is happening. The guest OS still has ~100GB free space. I ...
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No operating System found in Vmware workstation 16 for Solaris 11 in MX Linux
I have downloaded the Solaris 11 testing ISO from the official Solaris download page; I wanted to try out a Unix-based operating system. I have downloaded the ISO from this link.
I have created a ...
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BSOD when attempting to start Windows 10 Enterprise VM
I'm running into what I think is a fairly unusual error. I am setting up a new Windows 10 VM on my laptop (an Acer Aspire 5, more specs available if needed). However I am running into a BSOD on my ...
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Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform. Continue without virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT?
I am running windows 11 and VMware workstation 16. I need to do virtualization anyhow to run "Qubes OS". My pc supports it. I tried all ways of internet even turning off and on hyper v. I ...
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VM files on physical disk have taken up too much space. How to shrink? [duplicate]
I have a single VM on a physical disk. The physical disk now has 0 free space but inside the guest OS, there is ~50GB free. The guest can start for a short time but then Workstation quickly gives the ...
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Getting a, “The file specified is not a virtual disk. Cannot open the disk xxxx or one of the snapshot disks it depends on” in Vmware Workstation
I am running Windows 10 using VMware Workstation 16 on my Window 10 Laptop. All was well until I put my VM into suspended mode and then put my computer to sleep for the night. Once I booted it up it ...
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Vmware Workstation - The file specified is not a virtual disk. Cannot open the disk xxxx or one of the snapshot disks it depends on
I am running Windows 10 using VMware Workstation 16 on my Window 10 Laptop. All was well until I put my VM into suspended mode and then put my computer to sleep for the night. Once I booted it up it ...
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Scaling guest OS resolution in VMWare Workstation
I have try to find answer the question: may I use resolution bigger than maximum resolution i have on the host without the appearance of the side and bottom slider in window guest OS. And how it does ...
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A VM box which auto reverts to a saved state automatically on power loss or shutdown
So I can't seem to find much online about how to do this, but essentially I'd like to be able to have a Virtual Machine box (could be either VirtualBox, VM Ware or maybe something else), which would ...
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VMWare player on debian host fails to update
I've had VMWare Workstation Player 15 (and then recently 16) runnning on my Debian 11 for about 2.5 years now, and updating either Player or Tools has never worked. The error thrown is a string ...
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When should I use VMware V-sphere, when should I use workstation?
I have read multiple answers related to cases where people wondered whether to dual boot or make VMs. I kind of gotten a sense that VMing is more appreciated than to dual boot, the disadvantages of ...
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Windows is not running in a VMware Vitual Machine
I am trying to use Windows 10 (and also the leaked Windows 11) in a Virtual Machine but if I try to run the Virtual Machine it just stops working (it shows me "Press any key to bot from CD/DVD&...
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Downgrade hardware compatibility
I need to run VMware virtual machine that was created on on VMware version 16 in VMware workstation 15. Is it possible to convert virtual machine in order to run it on lower version workstation?
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VMware workstation access device behind virtual adapter in VM from other VM
I feel like this is is gonna be an odd one but i'm trying to see if the following is possible,
I've got a device at ip 169.254.11.22 behind a virtual ethernet adapter inside a VMWare (VMWare ...
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How to use hardware virtualization?
I have used hardware assisted virtualization in over a year now.
The difference in performance is huge. But last week is stop working.
This is critical as I spend most of my workday in VmWare ...
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