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Display issues in Windows 10 guest after returning from sleep mode in Ubuntu 18.10 host

January 17, 2019, 8:09 pm
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Hello,

 

This display bug is hard to replicate, but I'm running a Windows 10 guest with Ubuntu 18.10 host. After I return the laptop from sleep mode a couple of issues will often occur.

 

First, the gnome lock screen doesn't activate and I am free to continue using both the guest and host system without my password - this almost always happens when the virtual machine is in full screen mode.

 

Secondly, Windows itself will produce a whirlwind of display issues including missing borders around the windows, missing buttons in programs, etc. It looks like the graphics driver is not properly redrawing everything. I either have to manually restart Windows Explorer or restart Windows completely. Here is a screenshot of one of the problems (but sometimes it looks worse with tearing and missing icons):

Capture.PNG

 

Here's another screenshot that looks worse with the windows settings app open after sleep (without Windows being full screen):

Screenshot from 2019-01-17 23-12-08.png

 

My system specs are:

 

  • Workstation Player 15.0.2 build-10952284
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (Gnome 3.30.1, stock settings from the install)
  • Kernel 4.18.0-13-generic
  • Using X (Wayland doesn't seem to work with VMware)
  • Dell Latitude 5591 with i7 8850H and Nvidia GeForce MX 130 graphics
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 1080p touchscreen display
  • Windows 10 is using 1809 and has 2 CPU cores, 4 GB RAM, and 1 GB of graphics with 3D acceleration enabled.

 

Thanks,

 

Ian

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ignore missing virtual disk

January 21, 2019, 4:17 am
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i would need VMware Player to ignore a missing virtual disk. The virtual disk is for data, it resides on a removeable device and I need it rarely. I would prefer to have it always configured, and optionally present.

 

(First exact reason and exact problem: it is a disk and not a shared folder because Microsoft SQL Server requires backup data, to restore, to be on a local disk, not on a network disk or network location. Key point is BACKUP DATA, on RESTORE. And I would then also put there BACKUP DATA, on BACKUP occasion. My data is large enough that it warrants the feature, that is storing on a host-removeable disk.)

 

(Second, additional road block is that I cannot attach this specific 7200rpm in an external USB3 enclosure to the VM. VMware Workstation Player does not handle connection of this USB3 enclosure as a removeable device to the VM. )

 

(Third road block: I do have even two different 7200 rpm+USB3 enclosures and both of them do not connect to the VM. Other, branded external, 5400rpm, USB3 disks do connect as removeable devices to the VM in VMware Player,  But then I would lose using this 7200rpm/USB3 device that I do have. )

 

This is how I attempted to solve. VMware Player is version 15.0.2. Perhaps there are other auto-detecting solutions.

 

This was already asked in 2013 by byroncollege and didn't get a solution. See Ignore missing virtual disk and boot anyway?

 

Thank you

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Linux Host/Windows 10 Pro 64 Guest - Bad Audio?

April 4, 2017, 2:30 am
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Hi,

 

Host: Linux Mint 18.1 MATE 64Bit / Guest: Windows 10 Pro 64Bit

 

I've been using VMWare Player for many years on Linux hosts with no problems.

I recently updated Linux VMWare Player and now have a problem:

In my Windows 10 Pro 64Bit guest I have bad audio?

When a sound is played in Win 10 virtual machine the sound is heavily distorted?

I do have current VMWare Tools for Windows installed.

This issue happened recently after updating Linux VMWare Player.

Any help in fixing this problem would be appreciated, thank you!

 

Jesse

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root password?

July 8, 2008, 2:59 pm
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Hi,

 

 

I downloaded VMware Player and Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS from the Virtual Appliance Marketplace to run Linux on my Windows Vista machine.  The download page for Ubuntu gave me a user name and password, but the password is apparently just for the one username and not the root password, as I tried doing su and it wasn't correct.  I also looked in the /home directory and only saw a folder for vmplanet, the username I got from the download page, but no folder for root.  Is the root password hidden somewhere in the downloaded files, or can I just not sign in as root using VMware Player?  Sorry for the simple question, but I don't know what to do.  Thanks!

 

 

arreay

 

 

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Can guest see device if device not recognised properly in host?

January 23, 2019, 6:42 am
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It seems that the driver for a hardware device I have does not work on Windows 10 (yellow triangle beside the device in Device Manager). It works on Windows 7 though.

I though I could get it running by using a Win7 guest on Win10 host using VMware Player.

But it doesnt appear in the list of Removable Devices.

Am I right in thinking if the host OS cant get the driver to work properly, the guest will not be able to see the device either, and so there is no point it trying the above?

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VMWare Player vs VMWare Workstation - what's the difference?

January 29, 2019, 3:30 am
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I set up a laptop running Linux Mint and then download the VMWare Workstation Bundle.  I then had two programs in my menu - VMWare Player and VMWare Workstation.

 

I went into VMWare Player (VM Workstation 15 Player) and created a Windows 10 virtual machine.  Fine - no problem.  After shutting down the virtual machine and then going back into VMWare Player, if I click on Open A Virtual Machine and then browse to the .vmx file in my home directory, nothing opens.

 

If I go into VMWare Workstation (Workstation 15 Pro) and click on the virtual machine under My Computer, it starts normally and can be used.

 

I'm sure the issue here is that I don't understand the difference between Player and Workstation, but I haven't been able to figure out on my own what that difference is.

 

Thanks.

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EFI Shell command -b option causes Firmware Crash

February 1, 2019, 3:04 am
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Hi,

I am using VMWare Player 14 on Windows 7 64 Host OS. I have a shell.efi application (64 bit) downloaded from this link  

It's from Intel's Tianocore EDK II project. I have created a Windows 7 64 Guest OS in UEFI mode.

 

When I run Shell.efi & enter a shell command followed by -b option to pause at page, the VMware Firmware Crashes.

The issue does not exist with the VMware's own built-in shell.

 

A command like

Help

works fine but the moment I pass

Help -b

the firmware crashes at the first page break.

 

Basically any applicable shell command that supports -b option, when invoked with -b causes VMware to crash.

Does anyone have any idea what could the fix here?

 

There's no issue on a real UEFI Hardware. On my real hardware 'help -b' runs just fine as expected.

 

Thanks.

shell.png

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Component Installation Error: Ubuntu 18.10 with Player 15.0.2

February 1, 2019, 5:08 pm
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Player 15.0.2 running under Ubuntu 18.10: All attempts to Download and Install Components for Client Tools fail...

 

Although the Download proceeds normally, installation of the Components fails???

 

Attached is a Log Section where the Failure of the Installation of the Component for a Windows 10 Client Tools is recorded:

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Unable to resize guest window size in Windows 10

February 2, 2019, 10:11 pm
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I am using VMware Workstation 15 Player (free edition), and have Ubuntu 18 64 bit as a guest, on Windows 10 machine.

 

It runs fine, but for some reason, the guest window size is fixed. When I drag the bottom corner to increase the size, and it just "snaps back" to the default size.

 

I'm sure I ran it a couple of months ago, and I could resize to whatever size I wanted without issue.

 

Any idea how to resolve the issue?

 

Thanks so much,

Lee

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HCMON - "\Driver\asmtxhci"

June 15, 2012, 8:42 am
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I am experiencing warnings in my event viewer every time I boot my PC.

 

  • I have a new EVGA X79 motherboard
  • It contains the ASMedia ASM1042 chipset for USB 3.0 support
  • Running VMWare Player 4.0.3
  • Source: hcmon; Warning: Detected unrecognized USB driver "\Driver\asmtxhci"
  • Source: hcmon; Warning: Detected unrecognized USB driver "\Driver\pci"

 

I believe the HCMON service is from VMWare. Any suggestions how I can resolve the warnings would be greatly appreciated!

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Memory Problem

February 6, 2019, 11:17 pm
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Hello,

 

I'm using Workstation Player 15.0.2 on a Win7 SP1 PC.

Host PC has 24 GB Ram.

I created a guest and reserved 16 GB memory for it. (Guest is also Win7 SP1)

When i open an application on guest, memory increases to its required value to work. (It's 3 - 5 GB physical Ram usage i see on the task manager)

The problem is, it wont decrease if i close all running applications on the guest. (Host is not running any other applications from start to end.)

I see 3 GB memory usage on guest, when the host uses 16 GB for VmWare. It decrease only when i stop vmware.

I didnt understand why memory is not adjusting itself?

 

Thanks for your help.

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VMware Player - Windows Guest Machine completely overloaded with over 2gb of memory

February 7, 2019, 6:52 am
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Hello Community,

I'm sorry for my english, but I need your help.

 

My host System is Linux Mint 19.1 and I use VMware Player in the current version. I want to install Windows 7. I use the default Settings (2gb memory, 2 Cores). The machine is very fast and all is normal. But if I give the virtual machine more than 2gb memory, the machine is completely overloadet. The system starts in more than 5 minutes. And when I catch the mouse in the machine the machine freezes more or less. The mouse can no longer be controlled or decoupled out of the machine. The system clock works normaly and the Host system is normal with the programs they run in the background. Just the Windows 7 virtual machine is "broken". When I make a hard shutdown and change the settings on only 2gb memory the system is normal and fast. No matter if I change the settings between 3gb or 14gb of memory - the system is not useable. I tried it with Windows 10, but it gave me the same result. Once again: with exactly 2gb of memory it have the perfect performance.

 

I hope you can read what I mean and have a solution for me. If I forgot something, just let me know. Thank you very much in advance. You are my last hope

 

 

Important data:

 

  • MSI 970 Gaming Mainboard
  • AMD FX-6300 6-core
  • 16gb DDR3 1600mhz (2x8gb)
  • GTX 960 4gb
  • For the virtual machine I use a 120gb SSD SanDisk
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Windows 2000 on VMWare Player

February 7, 2019, 7:05 am
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Hello dear Users,

 

im new in this Forum, also im German and my English isnt pretty well. Please Sorry me for all the wrong sentences :=)

 

My Problem is following:

 

I have a Windows 2000 Professional Workstation here which i want to Virtualize, because the Computer-Hardware is slowly gonna die and the whole System is just usable for one Task.

 

The Task is Simple: The Device is used to Dictate letters.

 

There is a USB Device connected to the Computer, which records and Reproduces the Sound and gives it to a Programm on the System to write down the Sentences automatically.

 

My Problem is, that i could Virtualize the Windows 2000 without any Problems, it runs very smoothly and with VMWare Tools is it better than on the Workstation, i can Scroll and click in the machine with the dictating device, but i cant use the buttons for Record, pause, stop or rewind.

 

The Device is aknowledged by Windows 10 as a HID as i can see, but i think there are no Drivers for Windows 10 from Philipps (The Device is a Speechmike Pro 6274).

 

So i need Help from the Community now, to Passthrough the Device complete to the Virtual Machine.

I Think it would Work then, because it worked almost 20 Years on the Old System

 

I dont know if i will receive Email notifications to this Threads, if i dont answer for multiple Days please Contact me: Danielalpha007@gmail.com

 

Greetings from Germany and the Netherlands,

Sincerly

Daniel   

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dGPU acceleration of VM

February 10, 2019, 3:06 pm
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Hi all,  I was wondering if the VM can be accelerated by using the discrete GPU in my surface book 2. The whole system seems to use the integrated intel GPU even after changing to my nvidia gpu on the nvidia control panel.

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USB 3.0 Devices can not connect to Guest

February 12, 2019, 12:40 am
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Host: Windows 10 Pro 1803
Guest Windows 10 Pro 1709
VMWare Workstation 15 Player


I wanted to connect a USB 3.0 device (CFast-Card-Reader) to my virtual machine. I can see the drive in my Host-system, but not in my guest.
There's no warning or error message, which's shows that this device doesn't work. It just doesn't show up.

Has anybody an idea what to do?
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Auto Connect USB Device to Guest O/S

August 19, 2010, 8:30 am
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I am running a Win XP guest OS and have a USB device needed for a particular application.  It's a USB to SERIAL adapter.  All works fine, but the users have to go in and select REMOVEABLE DEVICES - CONNECT (DISCONNECT FROM HOST) when the vm starts up.  Is there a way to make it do this automatically everytime the VM starts?  I'm using VM Player.

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Copy paste Not working ( windows 10 Host and guest)

February 14, 2019, 11:59 am
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The vmware is installed still I can not get the copy and paste to work ?

 

Any help

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VMware Module Disk power on failed..

February 18, 2019, 12:01 pm
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I suddenly got this error on my vmmachine. Does anyone know what kind of problem is it?

I really need to fix it. I do not have a backup yet.

 

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[15.0.2] Promts License screen on every start and list of created VMs are always empty

February 20, 2019, 1:28 am
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The problems: on every start of VMware Workstation Player it prompts for License screen and after agree it the list of created VMs from last starts are always empty. I always have to open and locate the .vmx to add it to the list. But on next start the list empty again.

Also disable the "Show Hints" never got saved.

And on every GUI action the GUI freezes short.

If i read the logs, I often see it couldn't load the config files. So i assume it never could write the config files. And the some config files at the time of installation date has last edited date like the time of the installation date.

I'm using Win10Pro(1809) linked to a corporate domain.

 

2019-02-20T09:50:55.730+01:00| vmx| I125: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "\\corporate.lan\home\user\AppData\Roaming\VMware\config.ini": Unknown error 2 (0x2).

2019-02-20T09:50:55.730+01:00| vmx| I125: ----------------------------------------

2019-02-20T09:50:55.730+01:00| vmx| I125: ConfigDB: Failed to load \\corporate.lan\home\user\AppData\Roaming\VMware\config.ini

2019-02-20T09:50:55.732+01:00| vmx| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Player\config.ini": Unknown error 2 (0x2).

2019-02-20T09:50:55.732+01:00| vmx| I125: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Player\config.ini": Unknown error 2 (0x2).

 

(For privacy reason I renamed the file paths like corporate.lan)

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USB Headset Audio Stuttering (only when mic enabled as input device)

June 27, 2016, 10:06 am
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For Workstation 12, Windows 10 host, Ubuntu 14.04 guest:  I have a Kingston HyperX Cloud II USB headset/mic combo that I like to use for voice communications via google hangouts.  If I attach the device to a linux guest (tried both ubuntu and centOS), set the headphones to the output device AND the headset mic as the input device, I receive audio stuttering in the VM.  Now the interesting thing is that if I disable the headset mic as the input device the audio stuttering goes away and all is well (except that I can't use the mic of course).

 

When using the headset in the Windows 10 host OS, I have no such problems and the headset works fine with the mic enabled.

 

Has anyone else run across this issue, or perhaps had any success with USB headsets in a Linux guest?  Any thoughts on what to try that might resolve the issue?

 

Thanks in advance!

Dave

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