VMware Workstation Player (formerly known as VMware Player) is a virtualization software package.
VMware Workstation Player (formerly known as VMware Player) is a virtualization software package supplied free of charge by VMware, Inc.
Questions tagged [vmware-player]
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How do I access the host's hard drive in VMware?
I have a Windows 7 host machine. My VMware player is running Ubuntu 10.10.
I want to access my main C:\ in Ubuntu to be able to access all my files.
I have tried: "Edit virtual machine settings" > Hardware > Add > Hard Disk > Use Physical disk > Use…
darren
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In VMWare Player on Win7 can't expand my virtual OS's disk even though I have 10GB free on my Win7 file system
I'm running VMWare Player on 64-bit Win7. I have exactly one guest OS within it: 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04. It's virtual disk space is 16GB: It's partitions take up all 16GB: 15GB primary and 1GB swap space. They are ~100% full. My host OS Win7 has…
Joe C
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Making VMware player fullscreen in windows?
How can I make VMware player run the VM in full screen in windows? I'm using VMware Player 4.0.2.
Rajat Gupta
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What are these VMWare instructions actually doing? (Disabling device guard and removing EFI variables)
I'm trying to run a VMWare VM on my windows 10 device, but am getting an error that it is not compatible with Device Guard. I was directed to this page:…
Douglas Gaskell
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Install Windows on VMWare using USB flash drive
I have Windows install on USB drive and would like to install it to a VMWare virtual machine.
When I create the new virtual machine and select "install from" it displays:
Installer disc - No drives available
Installer disc image file (iso)
As…
vico
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VMWare Player mouse becomes erratic
I have been experiencing a problem with VMWare Player 3.1.6
This is on a Panasonic Toughbook CF53 the Host OS is Windows XPSP3 fully updated, The Guest os is Windows XPSP3 fully updated.
It seems that randomly in the guest the mouse cursor becomes…
squareborg
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Installing VMware Player via MSI failed
This error pops up every time (both VMware Player and Workstation) and never is able to install at all. I stopped installation after the temp file is created and ran the MSI file directly. It now fails on "hcmon driver unable to install". I posted…
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VMware Player does not display USB stick and can not connect to network
I am running a Windows 7 guest OS on VMware Player from Windows 7. However, when I insert a USB jump drive the guest OS can not access it. VMware Player tells me the stick is connected, but it does not appear on the guest OS 'my computer'. The same…
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How do I get the VM Menu in VMWare Player?
Here is VMware Player, it happens to be 'playing' a Ubuntu VM.
I'd like to take a snapshot but I see no VM Menu.
How do I make the VM Menu appear?
Added
I now see how to make a snapshot.. one does it in a roundabout way in VMWare Player…
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How do I manage virtual network settings in VMWare Player?
In former times, there was a vmnetcfg.exe present with the VMWare Player distribution.
Using vmnetcfg.exe, one was able to configure the VMWare network settings like setting up a port forwarding for NAT and so on.
Unfortunately, vmnetcfg.exe is no…
eckes
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VMWare Ubuntu guest multitouch touchpad
Related: Use Synaptics Touchpad Scroll in VMware Guest
I've read that it's not possible to enable multitouch in vmware guest.
What confuses me, is that when I use something special (like two finger scroll) in guest OS, I can see the cursor change to…
mreq
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VMWare vmrun -T player start Ubuntu.vmx nogui fails (under Windows 7)
The VMWare player is running on Win 7 64.
The following command works fine:
vmrun.exe -T player start "C:\...\Ubuntu.vmx"
But when I try it with the nogui option then I get an error:
vmrun.exe -T player start "C:\...\Ubuntu.vmx" nogui
Error:…
KcFnMi
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VMware player: How to change position of menu bar in full screen?
I'm running Ubuntu in VMware Player in fullscreen mode.
When an application window is expanded, its menu is shown at very top of the screen. When I move mouse cusror to select something in the application menu, Player's menu bar appears over…
ponomandr
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Stop VMWare moving the mouse cursor to the center
I'm using a dual-monitor setup and in one of the monitors I have a maximized VMWare virtual machine. Everytime the virtual machine's window receives focus it moves the mouse to the center of that monitor. If the virtual machine window is not…
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Speed up VMs hdd perfomance
I'm using VMware on my Lenovo R500 laptop for running developer enviroment (Win2003 server r2, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2005). Everything runs fine except HDD, which is like 10x slower than on host os. Not really 10x, but a lot.
So, those…
Hrvoje Hudo
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