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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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How to resize a W2003Srv basic partition in Vmvare player

Environment I have Windows 2003 server (XP) Installed as virtual machine using Vmware Player 4.0.2 Primary partition is, as usual, C:-volume, where Windows is installed. Partition type is basic, which cannot be resized with windows tools. I…
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Best way to share directory between Windows and Linux on VMPlayer

What is the best way to share directories between Windows Vista host and Linux guest on VMPlayer? The scenario is following: on the Windows host I've got development tools (IDE, etc.); on virtualized Linux I've got the test environment; I need to…
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VMWare Player side-by-side VirtualBox

Can I have the latest version of VMWare Player with the latest version of VirtualBox installed side-by-side on the same machine on Windows 7? Are there any conflicts? AFAIK, they both create virtual network adapters, etc.
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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx crashed in VMware - Cannot Access Recovery Mode

My main virtual machine crashed today. More specifically, the Windows7 host crashed while the VM was transferring files (very slowly) to a flash drive. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Lucid Lynx in VMware (not sure if it is VMware Player, esx, or…
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Fedora 12 on Vmware network disabled on restore

I have a fedora 12 guest running on VMWare on windows 7. I use it mainly for the occasional linux dev. Whenever I restart the guest, networking works fine. But if I close the VMware player and save state, the next time I start the image, networking…
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simple routing don't work under debian jessie

I'm trying to set up simple enogh system with 3 virtual debian jessie machines: first connected to second and second connected to third. I want first one to be able ping third one. To achieve this, I've set up static IP addresses (via…
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Share file system between VMWare Linux and Standalone Linux

I have the following setup. I have a Windows XP and Linux system, which are connected to each other directly through cable and not connected to any other network. I have hosted a VMWare with CentOS on XP System. Now I want to assign a static IP…
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Can't Access VMware VM Remotely

I have a VM several layers away that I want to access remotely, but I can't get to it for some reason. I've tried several things to figure it out, and I wonder if I am missing something. I would like to RDP into the machine or access the web…
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Identify compatible VMWare Player version based on vmx file

Is it possible to identify which VMWare Player versions can open VM images? I pasted the vmx file below. I have this version of VMWare Player: 4.0.6 build-1035888 I'm getting these error messages: Here is my vmx file: .encoding =…
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ESXi Windows Server 2003 Guest 32-bit Installation gets stuck on blue Starting Windows screen?

I'm trying to install Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition 32-bit as a guest on ESXi 5.1 for testing purposes; but when I try to install it, it gets stuck on the blue Starting Windows screen and the CPU usage on the VM CPU jumps to 50% and it kind…
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nodejs server is not responding after a while

I've running a Ubuntu Server guest on my Windows Host (using VMware Player). My nodejs app starts with a upstart-forever script: description "My App" start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0) stop on shutdown respawn respawn limit…
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Installing VMware Player on Ubuntu 9.04

I want to install VMware Player on Ubuntu 9.04. The official VMware download page does not have a deb package. Should I use their RPM? Or is there a better way to do this?
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Connecting to oracle database instance running on VM(Guest Computer) from remote computer

I have oracle database instance up and running on vmware player on Redhat linux(Guest OS). This virtual machine is running on on windows 7 computer(Host OS). I am able to connect to the database instance running on vm using sql developer which is…
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VMware Player – Can we directly share a file-system folder between Windows XP and Windows 7?

On a workstation we have 32-bit Windows XP hosting 64-bit Windows 7 in VMware Player v5.0.1. We want to directly share a file-system folder between Windows 7 and Windows XP. Directly means that we do not want to go via a network share. The reason…
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VmWare Player Windows XP Performance

I am having a huge performance problem with my Windows Xp virtual machine. The mouse kind of stutters and disappears, then reappears, rapidly, repeatedly. It is crawling. The strange thing is that it starts out fast, but the performance degrades…
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