VM Windows 7 asking for activation
I has a copy of a Windows 7 VM version 8. I am running it on a Windows 7 machine. my VM is version 9. I am getting a notice to active my Windows 7 on my VM. Do I need a windows 7 license for each copy...
View ArticleMulti-Monitor lost if a program installed into Win7
Host - Win8 64 bit with 24 GB RAM, 4 monitors and 2 video cards.Guest - Win7 64 bit using 2 monitors on the same video card.Workstation 10 Repeated bug - if I install a program and it greys out...
View ArticleComparing VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion
I'd like to try to understand any impacts of deciding to use VMware Fusion vs. VMware Workstation. I have a make using bootcamp that can boot either into Windows 7 or Maverick. I need to decide...
View Articlemount: unknown filesystem type 'hgfs'
Hi, I may be stupid, but I did install the VMware Tools and have successfully loaded the vmhgfs module, and my shared folder is present (See output from vmware-hgfsclient.) Nevertheless, this is what I...
View ArticleDNS not querying/ recognizing/ resolving internal domain name when nslookup
DNS is not querying/ recognizing/ resolving internal domain name when I do NSLOOKUP In my vmware workstation 8, for practice lab purpose my setup is as follows:- 1] Win 2k8R2 Enetrprise edi.vm as my...
View Articleopengl on windows
We use VMWare Worksation as a test platform for our software which we have recently upgraded to use shaders and opengl 3.3 and is able to fallback to 2.1. VMWare on Windows uses an very old...
View ArticleDisk Performance
Hi,I find the performance of a vm guest to be very slow with disk access. I searched but couldn't find any information with WS10, only older versions. It is a clean installation of the guest machine...
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Is there a trick to installing Vista in UEFI mode?
I have been setting up some UEFI VMs and I'm having trouble with Vista.As per other posts I've seen I enabled UEFI by creating a new VM and then entering the following into the .vmx filefirmware =...
View Articleunable to update workstation 9.0.1 to 9.0.3
I am unable to install the workstation 9.0.3 update because I keep getting a message saying that the vmware authorization service cannot be stopped due to permission problems.I am a local...
View ArticleCompiling Workstation 10.0.2
Hello everyone, I'd like to compile workstation from the sources using this official link, but it seems to be a joke: the "open source tarball" contains only (old) libraries, but the source files are...
View ArticleUnwanted control-Z in putty when VMware Workstation gets focus
I've searched the forums for a mention of this and come up empty.... I have a Windows 7 VM running under Workstation 8 from which I frequently use the "puTTY" ssh client to access various remote linux...
View Articlecan install windows 8 pro desktop OS in vmware vm (oracle virtual machine) of...
if my system supports upgrade to win 8 pro but I want: can install windows 8 pro desktop OS in vmware vm (oracle virtual machine) of (my system) win 7 pro DeskTop PC 4-core i5 16GB RAM? if yes windows...
View ArticleCan I fool a VM in to thinking it's on battery power?
I have a remote controlled robotics application that won't allow me to activate certain features if the application thinks the computer is plugged in. I'm running this application on Windows XP (it's...
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Unexpected behaviour of WinAPI function WinHttpGetIEProxyConfigForCurrentUser...
Hi, I met problem. WinAPI function returns different result on in Windows working on real hardware and on VMware® Workstation. I use version 9.0.1.I tested on host OS: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 32 and 64...
View ArticleDoes VMWare Workstation 10 support VMs running ReFS?
Is VMWare Workstation 10 capable of running VMs with Windows Server 2012 R2 using ReFS?
View ArticleCan not see the shared folders
Hi...i'm totaly new in vm...i want to install xp sp3 over win7 64 and use some of my preffered programs in xp...so...my probl is that some of them has an large library...(38 GB)...that libraries exist...
View ArticleCan't virtualize a physicale machine with VMware workstation 9
I have a server Windows server 2012 with VMware workstation 9.0.3.41939, trying to convert a physical machine that is Windows 7 (Enterprise) x64.I see it start ''copying the disk data of ''...
View ArticleUnity Menus: modify content: question and partial answer?
I would like to know how workstation 10 builds the launchmenu.menudata list that determines the windows 7 Unity Menus content. It must look in some windows registry, file list, or something, and I'd...
View ArticleUbuntu 14.04 guest: Shared folders /mnt/hgfs doesn't work (VMWare Workstation 9)
*** [vmhgfs.ko] Error 2I've read a lot of posts on the internet about this, apparently there is something incompatible in the vmhgfs module that it won't compile with my kernel (3.11.0-20-generic). I'm...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 vm image will support other PC
Hi All, I have small issue I have installed windows 2008 R2 os in VMware works successfully .but same image i copied in other PC. After I copied am ready to start but OS not loading. I just what to...
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