VMWare Player crashes Redhat 6
I cannot run VMPlayer or uninstall VMPlayer. It crashes my machine. get this error in the logs: unable to initialize gtk How can I solve this, or just remove VMWare Player.
View ArticleRouting Question from External to VM OS
Was hoping someone here could help with my setup and how I can route appropiately. My setup is as such:I have a Windows 7 Laptop running Ubuntu in a VMPlayer. The Windows laptop is connected...
View ArticleBoot from USB drive in VMWare Player?
I'm running VMware Player V5.0 on a 64 bit Windows 7 platform. Is it possible to boot from a USB drive for OS install? When I power up the virtual machine it tries to boot from the network before I...
View ArticlePlease help me to recreate a *VMX* from the the attached Log files.
Hi all was using VMPlayer and had a great deal of success with a virtual Windows 7 installation. Recently I ran out of disk space and before I got a chance to clean up and extend the hard disk...
View ArticleWill Updating, Requiring Uninstalling, Make Me Reinstall Programs?
My VMware Player alerted me to update for security purposes, etc. In the process, I closed my VMware Player which has acrobat, pagemaker, quickbooks installed on it. The setup wizard for VMware Player...
View ArticleIs there a way to upgrade DDI Version 9Ex to Version 10? Thanks
Greetings, My company uses VMWare Player to have access to virtual images. We would like to try a mapping application that requires DDI Version 10. Running DirectX diagnostics tool (please see...
View ArticleUSB 3.0 support in W7 x64 guest under W7 x64 host.
I am afraid this question has been answered, but I have done many searches with no luck. It looks like USB 3.0 support works under certain Linux guests but I can find no definitive answers about W7...
View ArticleVMWare Workstation 10 refuses to Sync time with Host OS
I am having problems getting my Win 8.1 VM Guest to sync with the Win 8.1 Host machine. I have 'Sync' switched on, but every time I start the VM the time is wrong (even from suspend). If I go in and...
View ArticleVMware player Graphics issues on Linux
Hey all. Not sure if this it the correct area for this discussion but could find non better. I am trying to run vmware payer on an Linux Mint host machine. (Based on Ubuntu 13.10. Saucy). When I create...
View ArticleWhen leaving the fullscreen mode, VMWare player resizes to a very small size...
When leaving the fullscreen mode, VMWare player resizes to a very small size forcing all the guest windows to resize. As a consequence, I have to resize all my windows back to the original size when I...
View ArticleUnusual artifact after OS upgrade
I have been a VMware Workstation and VMware Player user for the last several years. Within the past few days I wiped my system clean and installed Linux 14.04 LTS and installed the latest version of...
View ArticleDoes VMplayer’s guest OS have a memory bandwidth limitation, compared to an...
1: Does anyone know if VMplayer has a limited memory bandwidth, compared to the physical bandwidth in the host computer? Is there a bottleneck? I do BOINC crunching on VMplayer guests on two different...
View ArticleInstallation of VMware player on a non GUI OS
Hi All, I am using ubuntu 12 server edition and it is only CLI. Can I install vmware player in it and install a GUI OS. If yes please provide the steps for it. Please help Thanks for your timeAchyuth...
View ArticleBest hardware setup for vm windows 7 ultimate
Hello,I want to run windows 7 ultimate insite VMware Player and would like to know how many ram and processors cores I should specified in the setup please.here is my config:Laptop Asus G75vw...
View ArticlePatch: VMware Player 6.0.2 compilation fails on kernel 3.15.0-rc7, Ubuntu...
VMware Player ran into compilation issues after installing kernel 3.15.0-rc7 on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit. The errors are thrown when compiling the vmci and vsock modules. I have fixed the issues and shared...
View ArticleVMPlayer behaves like a jealous child
VMPlayer is very frustrating because whenever any other process on the host increases the CPU load, VMPlayer (vmware-vmx.exe) immediately spikes to match it. It is like a jealous child jumping up and...
View ArticleCan't install 64-bit VMware Player - So what am I missing?
I've got a new Acer Aspire V3-772G-9829 on which I am trying to install VMWare Player so I can run a 64-bit OS. Unfortunately I can't get Player to install the 64-bit version. I've been searching and...
View ArticleSlow Erratic mouse behavior in Unity Mode.
Hello All, I have read the other posts on this forum for this same behavior, but the "workaround" that most people posted was to "Always Optimize mouse for games", or something very similar to that....
View ArticleAnother newbie fails vmware-tools install
I know the process is supposed to be automated, idiot-proof and user friendly, but my newly installed Player with guest Debian Linux 7 doesn't want to install vmware-tools V9.6.2, which it keeps...
View ArticleHelp me to downoad and install Virtual Machine
Hi folks, I need a help regarding installing Virtual Machine. My Requirement:I need to install Virtual Machine on My laptop and then need to install and configure Cloudera's Distribution Hadoop (CDH)...
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