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VMware Player is a freeware virtualization software package from VMware, Inc.

Mware Player can run existing virtual appliances and create its own virtual machines (which require a licensed operating system to be installed to be functional). It uses the same virtualization core as VMware Workstation, a similar program with more features, and not free of charge. VMware Player is available for personal non-commercial use, or for distribution or other use by written agreement.

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VMWare OVA file

I've received an .OVA file and I need to be aple to open/parse it. When I try to open it with VMware player, I get the following error: "Failed to open virtual machine: Failed to query source for information." When I try to open it with the…
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How to prevent virtual machines's copy

I'll have to deploy virtual machines on demo laptops, which will use Vmware player, but I've got some security concerns, as some data stored in the virtual machines are a bit sensitive. Is there a way to prevent the copy of these virtual machines ?…
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Does VMWare Player 3.0 require Intel-VT capable processor

I have Dell Studio laptop with Intel E6600 processor, I have checked and confirmed that this processor does not have Intel-VT support. (Its available in 6670 available on Dell Vostro) Has anyone practially used VMWare Player 3.0 on a machine/laptop…
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Connecting a physical ethernet port to a VMware virtual switch?

I hope this is the correct place for this question. I thought about posting it to Super User first, but it seems to be more relevant to this place. Anyway, here goes: I need to connect a device plugged into a physical ethernet port of my workstation…
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How can I move the Vmware virtual Hard Drive files?

I have limited space on my C: drive and lots on my V: drive. I'd like to move the VMware Player's virtual HD files (and any large supporting files) to my V: drive. Any pointers to how I do that? (I'm afraid to just move the file. Tried that once w/…
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How do I choose which Ethernet Adapter to bridge in VMPlayer

I am running vmplayer 3.1.0 on Ubuntu. The host machine has four ethernet adapters that are configured to run on four different subnets. I need to run four VMs each with a single ethernet adapter bridged onto a specific one of the physical…
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VMware: Connect to the guest's localhost from the host OS?

Using VMware Player, is there a way to connect to the guest's localhost from the host? (In this case, the guest is Ubuntu, the host is Windows 7.)
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Slow http traffic between VMWare Player guest and host

I have a web application running as an http server inside the VMWare Player guest OS, and I'm trying to access the content from the host OS. The guest is running Ubuntu, and the host is running Windows XP. The problem is, when I try to access the…
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Converting VMWare to ISO

I installed VMWare player on vista and tried Ubuntu on it, I am quite happy with it, the built my dev env on it (Ruby, Rails, MySQL etc). Now i want to move to a dedicated machine, is it possible to create a iso file out from VMWare file, so that i…
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How to setup VMWare Player on dual-homed (2 NICs) host?

Host OS is Vista, Guest OS is Linux. The host has 2 NICs: one LAN, one WAN. Currently the guest only sees the LAN. How can I get the guest OS to directly see and access both the LAN and WAN NICs? Thanks
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Can Proxy Authentication be bypassed using virtual machines?

My Institute uses Proxy Authentication for monitoring individual browsing activities. This usually means I need to enter my username and password for using any internet related things. But recently I was using a virtual machine (Ubuntu on VMware) on…
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Is there a way to free swap?

After using vmware player with some virtual machine, it seems like my swap stays quite occupied and it doesn't changes unless i reboot it. However, regularly swap is not used much by other applications. Configuration is bit unusual: Swap is about…
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transfer vm machine created in virtualbox to vmware player

Fedora 17 Host Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.4 Vmware Player 5.0.1 build-894247 I have Fedora 17 and have installed Virtualbox and vmware player. I created a CentOS virtual machine guest in virtual box. Using the vmdk disk image format. I have the…
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Can't install kernel-uek-headers for currently running kernel

I have just created a VM in VMWare and installed a minimal install of Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3. # cat /etc/oracle-release Oracle Linux Server release 6.3 It is running with the UEK kernel. # uname -r 2.6.39-200.24.1.el6uek.x86_64 When I try and…
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How do you disable DHCP in VMWare Player?

VMWare Player seems to have a DHCP server built into it that automatically runs on the "Host-Only" networks and provides addresses to the clients. Is there some way that I can disable this DHCP service and make those networks just act like a dumb…
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