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Error Creating Virtual Machine

March 24, 2019, 12:48 pm
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I am not sure if this is the correct forum to ask my question, so if not please advise how I can get help.

 

I am installing VMware-Player version 14 (also tried version 15) and I am using the free version since this is only for personal use.

 

I am installing the app on Win 10 64 bit PC with more than enough free space.  I double clicked on the app and it seems to install okay but then when I try to open it I get an error message, see below.I would appreciate any help or detailed installtion instructions.

 

Thank you!

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How to set EFI device boot order in Workstation Player

March 25, 2019, 11:42 pm
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Currently, Workstation Player (15.0.3) supports (U)EFI for guest OS. This can be specified by simple configuration in the VM's config file.

How can the EFI device boot order be set? It seems the default boot order is hard drive, network and then other devices, so if booting from something other than hard drive or network, on each boot the process has to wait for the network boot attempt to time out.

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Before you can run VMware, several modules must be compiled and loaded into the running kernel.

September 29, 2018, 2:17 pm
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Does anyone know how to get rid of it giving me the message below every time I run VMware Player 15? After I click "Install" and enter my password, in a few seconds it comes up and runs normally. But next time I open it the same message appears. Any help appreciated.

 

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Host OS is Ubuntu 18.04 x64.

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How can I get the VIX API ? I need it for GNS3.

May 9, 2018, 8:39 am
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Hi,

I am installing GNS3, the network emulator, which requires VIX API to operate.

The installer stopped with an error message stating :

"VMware vmrun tool could not be found, VMware or the VIX API (required for VMware player) is probably not installed. You can download it from https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/. After installation you need to restart GNS3."

But on that page I only found release note and documentation, no software to download.

can anyone help me find it ?

Dany

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Edit OS files when machine is OFF

April 1, 2019, 4:26 pm
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Hello! I have a Windows 10 VM in which I would like to edit and parse files related to the Windows installation (for example editing a file on the Guest OS's Desktop folder), while the machine is shutdown. Is there a possible way to do using VMware ?

 

Thank you in advance!

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VM Workstation Player (free) and linuxmint-19.1-xfce-64bit.iso

April 5, 2019, 9:37 am
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Trying to use linuxmint-19.1-xfce-64bit.iso with Work Station Player (non commercial).  I get to a point of:

 

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When I tried to select the OS, the only option that would do anything was UBUNTU.  Just about everything else said it would not run.  I selected UBUNTU but renamed what was appropriate to Mint-64.

 

This Credential Guard thing appears to be way too complicated to me.  Do I need to somehow start over and this time do it the 'right way"?  And, .. what would that be?  Can linuxmint-19.1-xfce-64bit.iso even run under VMware Player??

 

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Ubuntu 18.04 Hangs at booting on VMWare Player 15.0.4

April 9, 2019, 1:23 am
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I installed Ubuntu 18.04 through OS ISO image. It was working fine for last siz months, but from yesterday it hangs at booting.

 

Please check attached screenshot to figure out where exactly its hanging.

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XP VM suddenly slow, Win 7 fine

February 10, 2017, 12:38 am
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I have a number of Windows XP and Windows 7 virtual machines installed on my Win10 host that have worked fine for months.

Today I had two Win 7 machines started and started a Win XP one, the performance on the XP VM was extremely slow or stalled for minutes at a time. The Win 7 machines were still running OK.

I tried closing all other VM's and XP was still slow, tried a XP and host reboot and XP still slow (10 mins to restart XP).

I have also tried another two WinXP VM's and they are also slow.

I moved one of the XP VM's to another host and it goes fine.

 

XP task manager shows 100% cpu usage with ~95% kernel times. Host machine is around 20% usage and still responds OK.

Any suggestions?

VMware is also saying the vmware tools are out of date and no 3D graphics will be avail.

Not sure if related but this morning I also couldn't log in to my host Win10 profile until I tried a windows update (no updates) and then restarted (as suggested on forums).

I might try a different user profile when this XP finishes updating vmware tools (40 mins into it so far, zzzz)

 

Update: Feb 13

Tried on a different profile and same, reinstalled VMware and still the same (XP VM slow, Win7 VM fine).

Looks like the main slow point is disk access, with nothing running I can bring up the start menu pretty quick. Updating the tools took around 1.5 hours.

Tried running an xp vm that a colleague had made with workstation and it was set to use 8 cores and it near froze the host.

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centos 7 shared virtual folder

April 17, 2019, 12:48 am
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Hi

I've installed CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) on a vmware player.

And the latest version o vmware-tools

I'm trying to mount the shared virtual folder

 

I used

vmhgfs-fuse -o allow_other  .host:/ /mnt/hgfs/

And I get inside /mnt/hgfs/ and see the folder SharedFolder

 

I can write in it

echo "teste" >> /mnt/hgfs/SharedFolder

I can read what I wrote

cat /mnt/hgfs/SharedFolder

teste

I can list the content

ls /mnt/hgfs/SharedFolder

 

but when I try to enter

cd /mnt/hgfs/SharedFolder

I get

-bash: cd: SharedFolder/: Permission denied

 

the permissions of the folder are:

d---------. 1 root root 4096 Apr 17 08:20 SharedFolder

 

when I list the permissions in the file browser they are set as forbidden

 

Anyone has a solution for this?

 

Thank you

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Shared Folders don't appear in Windows XP VM within Windows 10

April 17, 2019, 6:21 pm
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I've set up shared folders in Settings for a Windows XP VM, Enabled and mapped as network drive option.

Windows firewalls are OFF.

However none of the shared folders appear in the XP virtual machine.

I've googled many threads, but nothing seems to work. Please advise.

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Player 15 Odd Problem With Win7 Aero

April 21, 2019, 8:21 am
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I'm running the latest 15.04 Player on Linux Mint 19.1 on an Intel PC with a current generation nVidia GTX-1050 video board. A fresh install of Win7 Enterprise into a VM (12GB RAM 4 cores 10.3.5 Tools) yields an odd problem. The Aero theme works perfectly for about 5 seconds and then Windows automatically switches to the "basic" theme with a pop up indicating "The color scheme has been changed to Windows Basic" and it says it's due to insufficient video memory.

 

I have 1GB of video memory allocated in Player with 3D enabled. Windows reports 1024MB of "Shared System Memory" but only 128MB of "Dedicated Video Memory" and zero "System Video Memory" for a total of 1152MB of video memory. Even 256MB is enough to easily run Aero at 1920 x 1080. I'm wondering if the problem is it seeing only 128MB of "dedicated video memory?"

 

It doesn't matter what you do with the Windows performance settings. Trying to force Aero to stay enabled still fails after a few seconds. The Aero troubleshooter just restarts the Desktop Manager service which brings Aero back for a few seconds which pleases the troubleshooter but Windows just auto-reverts back to the Basic theme after the troubleshooter completes.

 

Does anyone have any ideas? It did the same thing with VMWare tools 10.3.2. The Linux host is running the latest nVidia closed-source video driver.

 

My best guess is the VMWare SVGA 3D is not correctly seeing the allocated video memory which causes Windows to revert to the Basic theme?

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Wireless Mouse wheel doesn't work while Wired Mouse worked fine(guset: Ubuntu, Host: Win 10)

April 23, 2019, 3:27 am
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Since my guest Ubuntu OS support kvm feature on workstation, I'd rather use VMware Workstation than virtualbox(which don't support kvm, but wheel works fine).

But I found Wireless Mouse wheel doesn't work while Wired Mouse worked fine.  It's just the wheel . The left and right click also works fine. So perhaps it's a bug?

 

Here is some information you may need:

product: VMware® Workstation 15 Player (not PRO)

version: 15.0.4 build-12990004

host: Win 10 1809 home edition

guest: Ubuntu 18.04

mouse: random logitech mice with a USB receiver

 

This issus bothers me for some time. I really want to work on my wireless mouse

Hope I will get it solved here.

Thanks!

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Error while powering on: VMware Player cannot connect to the virtual machine. Make sure you have rights to run the program, access all directories the program uses, and access all directories for temporary files. Failed to connect pipe to virtual machine

April 27, 2019, 7:32 am
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I have used VMware 12 player for a long time with almost no problem at all.

When I tried to find out if that installation was 32 or 64 bit I find WMware player 15 available.

 

My Pc is recently improved with Samsung SSD 500GB for C: and run nicely.
But now I can not use new installation of VMware 15 Player.

 

I would be very happy if someone can help me out.

 

Svenne

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VmWare Player vs the machine

May 1, 2019, 2:17 am
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I moved (same UUID) an XPVM to a second machine. Both machines have Windows 10 (1809) installed with VmWare Player. Both also have a PCI (not PCIE) parallel adapter card installed, with a single parallel LPT port into which two Sentinel SuperPro hardware locks (keys) are plugged in. These are required by two CAD programs installed on the XPVM.

 

According to Device Manager, on both the host and the guest, the LPT port is enabled, working properly, and without I/O conflicts. The XPVM shows that it is connected to the physical port on the host. However, the second machine refuses to recognise the SuperPro keys! I have tried to:

 

1. Adjust the BIOS settings in the guest. The host has nothing in the BIOS about Parallel Ports, since it is a "modern" machine;

2. Reinstall the SuperPro driver on the guest;

3. Reinstall both CAD programs on the guest;

4. Reinstall Windows 10, VmWare Player, and the XPVM on the host;

5. Check hardware and software settings on both.

 

The SuperPro keys are not dead, since they work perfectly on the old machine. So, my question is: is the problem with the hardware on the new machine (possible but unlikely), or the moved XPVM? Does moving a VM modify it somehow? The SuperPro keys are hardware devices, so no licence files are generated in software, and as such cannot be overwritten in any way. The keys are just that, and plugging them in should just work and unlock the CAD programs, but they don't.

 

Where should I be looking to resolve this issue? The host OS/Hardware or the guest OS? Does VmWare Pro have additional settings or features that might fix the problem? Thanks in advance!

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VMWare Player 15 for Ubuntu 19.4 and Fedora 30 (kernel 5.x)

May 3, 2019, 8:14 am
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Any indication of when updated kernel modules will be available for version 5 of the Linux kernel?  Now that Fedora 30 and Ubuntu 19.4 have been officially released it would be nice to be able to use Player on machines which have upgraded to the new O/S releases.

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add stretch mode in VMware workstation player

November 21, 2018, 11:12 am
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add stretch mode in VMware workstation player

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Can RHEL 8.0 be installed via Workstation Player 15.0.4?

May 9, 2019, 10:13 am
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RHEL 8.0 was recently released.  However, Player does not recognize the operating system associated with the RHEL 8.0 dvd.iso file and there is no RHEL 8 in the dropdown menu of available operating systems.  Any solution to this problem?  Any coming update to Workstation Player to include/accomodate RHEL 8.0?

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Windows 2000 VMWare Tools installation problem

May 10, 2019, 1:00 am
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Hello.

 

Recently I tried to install VMWare Tools on my Windows 2000 Professional. When I select "Install VMWare Tools" from Manage menu, it starts initializing, but, after initialization, it gives me the following error: "Setup was unable to upgrade the Windows Installer".

 

I'm using VMWare Workstation 15 Player.

 

Can anyone help me?

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Windows NT 3.1 Problems

May 10, 2019, 10:22 am
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Hello.

 

I am trying to install Windows NT 3.1. The text mode setup was completed succesfully, but after restart I'm getting a BSOD: INACCESIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. And a bunch of other memory addresses because it's early NT.

 

Can someone help me?

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Can not install any Linux OS in VMware 14 Player with host OS Windows 10 Home ver. 1809

May 14, 2019, 10:43 am
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Can not install any Linux OS in VMware 14 Player with host OS Windows 10 Home ver. 1809.
It might be the problem I have to install VMware tools. It is far more complex in linux with hints to
mount a  virtual CD player and open a terminal and add something for VMware tools.pl.
In the other OS istallations like Win XP, Win 7 and win 10 Pro it is a very simple thing to install
VMware tools from the bottom line and they all work nicely with sound and external connection.

 

Perhaps it is a completly different fault, but I have always the CD symbol "Install Linux".
I can open Firefox but not use it on line. I am not asked to enter the pesonal details.
There is no sound available.

 

I would be very happy if this annoying foult can be fixed, since all other OS work so perfect in my VMware 14 player.

 

SvenneG

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