Can not enter the BIOS
Hello, I am trying to access the BIOS in a VMThe option "Power on to BIOS" just boot's the OSAdding the line "bios.forceSetupOnce = "TRUE"" to the .vmx also does nothing and the OS just bootsAdding the...
View ArticleVMware Workstation 10 and Player 6 Do Not Correctly Support Automatic DPI...
I and many others have a problem running VMware Workstation 10 on Windows 8.1 with a Windows 7 or 8 guest. The problem seems to be related to the new Windows 8.1 automatic DPI scaling feature (which...
View ArticleNot able to ping GUEST from HOST and HOST from GUEST
I installed VMWARE on my windows 8.1 box and created 2 Linux VMs (centos 7) I setup the VM to use BRIDGED NETWORK. I went into windows 8 and added 2 rules to allow inbound and outbound connections for...
View ArticleAero on Shared VMs in VMware Workstation 10 / Windows 7
Hi guys. I have a virtual machine which is running Windows 7, running on a computer running Windows 7 / VMware Workstation 10. The VM is currently assigned 1.6GB of RAM, and uses 3D acceleration....
View ArticleVMWARE Workstation networking question
I have installed many Linux CentOS VMs on my Windows 8.1 machine which connects to the internet via WiFi. I want to setup a network between all VMs and host with the following reqiurements 1. All VMs...
View ArticleThe File Specified is not a virtual Disk Error / VMDK File 0KB -
Hi; When i try to run my vmachine, it says "The File Specified is not a virtual Disk". I checked machine folder and find that machine vmdk file size 0 byte. Any way to recover this file or re-run...
View Article"The file specified is not a virtual disk" Error
Hi, When i try to power on my virtual machine, it displays "The file specified is not a virtual disk" Error, i checked machine folder and see that the vmdk file ise 0 byte length. I have attached a...
View ArticleForce vm to automatically change MAC address on each boot via command line...
Hi All, on virtualbox, there is the ability to start a vm and have the MAC address of the vm automatically generate a new one. It is a two step process where a virtualbox cli modifies the vm...
View ArticleWorkstation 10: Visual Studio 2013 freezes Linux host in Unity mode
I am using vmware Workstation 10 on a Gentoo linux laptop with kernel 3.14 and KDE-4.13. Guest is Windows 7 Professional 64bit. Unity mode has always been working perfectly well and smooth, no matter...
View ArticleVirtual network editor opens in background
When I open Virtual Network Editor, it always opens behind the Workstation window. Also, a suggestion: since doing basically anything in the editor requires administrative privileges, IMHO it would be...
View ArticleRAMDISK as container of VMX and VMDK files performance Problem
Hi there we got an application which is very disc usage intensive and like to increase performance by setting up a VM running out of RAMDISK. Our Setup:Xeon Quad (HT) -> 8 cores64GB RAM...
View ArticleWhere to start ?
I don't no where to start ? I have a Windows 8.1 on the laptop, I want to take a copy of my Windows 8.1 so I can use it on another laptop later. So where do I start, what wm software is needed ? best...
View Articlewhere to start
hi I want to make a copy of my Windows 8.1 installation, so I can use it on another laptop later. Where to start ? which software is needed to make a copy and how do I install the wmware on a another...
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corrupt mac os x installer.vmdk
hello,i have a mac os x lion installer.vmdk file that is corrupt. i tried to repair it with vdiskmanager. I opened cmd and typed:vmware-vdiskmanager -R "D:\Mac OS X Lion installer.vmdk".but each time...
View ArticleBug that destroyed my VM and replaced it by another one
I encountered a bug a few minutes ago.I'm working under a W8.1 x64, the VM was Ubuntu 14.04. VMWare Workstation 10.0.3 build-1895310 I was installing a package (Meteor.js using curl) in the VM, at the...
View Articleis it possible that an application in vm is faster than in its host?
To measure our software’s performance on vmware, we compare the vm performance against that of its host machine.We found out that the performance on three different machines showed very different...
View ArticleUbuntu 14.04 Host with Win 8.1 Guest - Can't full screen
Just installed WS10.0.3 on Ubuntu 14.04 and built a Win8.1 guest. It has tools installed and works great so far, however when I click fullscreen, the window completely disappears. It can be recovered...
View ArticleFree vmware images
Hi, I am just starting to use vmware. I wanted to know where can I get free vmware platform images to download? Thanks,Jassim
View ArticleUbuntu64 guest dies on Windows 8.1 host with "MONITOR PANIC"
Hello everybody, I just got the following as part of a guest crash: 2014-07-20T11:37:59.639+02:00| DAC1| I120: VTHREAD start thread 11 "DAC1" host id 67922014-07-20T11:37:59.639+02:00| vcpu-1| I120:...
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