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VMware Player is a virtualization product from VMWare that is free for personal use.

VMware Player is a streamlined desktop virtualization application that runs one or more operating systems on the same computer without rebooting.

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Cannot access wireless connection of host machine from VM created in vmware player.

My host PC is running windows 8 and I'm accessing internet using the wireless connection (as I work in a room which doesn't have wired connection). I have a VM machine (created using the free vm ware player with guest operating system: windows 2008…
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Connect from Android Browser to Virtual Machine IP

My local environment is a Windows 7 with Eclipse, I installed Android SDK and created an Android Virtual Device(AVD) for testing web pages purposes. My development environment is on a Virtual Machine(VMWare) with CentOs(LAMP). I create a responsive…
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VMware Player VM - 1 core CPU limitation

I'm using a VM with VMware Player to write code and compile. As my current program is huge, the compilation takes a while to be done (upto 5 minutes) using 25% of my 4 cores CPU on my host = 100% of one core. It seems that the VM is limited to use 1…
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Using VMware .dmvk file with VirtualBox

My OS#1 is Windows 7 64bit, I have installed VMware Player and have installed Windows XP as my Guest OS. I Plan to install Ubuntu 64bit on another harddisk's partition as OS#2. Is it possible to use VirtualBox on Ubuntu to open exising .dmvk file,…
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Vmware Ubuntu : UDP Packet transmission issue

VMware Version : 4.0.2 build-591240 Runs on : winxp Vmware configures to Load Ubuntu 10.04. Problem statement : Wireshark Running on Ubuntu : Vmware Linux IP : 192.168.83.1 Win Ip : 10.67.8.70 Host tartget IP : 10.67.8.40 wireshark displays…
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vmware player performance tuning

I did some compilation (ACE TAO, and Boost C++ library) in vmware player virtualmachine environment. I find I was unable to tolerate the performance. My machine is T410(i7 620, 6G memory and 5400 harddriver). The installed OS is Ubuntu 12.04 and…
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How do I speed up VMware Player on Windows

I recently set up Ubuntu 12.04 as a guest system running inside Windows 8 using the free VMware player. Everything is working fine, but things are running pretty slow. I use GNU Emacs 23 to write code, but the program really drags. I've tried all…
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Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Preview does not Install Phone SDK 8 in VM

I download the Windows 8.1 / IE 11 VM from modern.ie, start it in VMPlayer and want to install the Visual Studio 2013 Preview. The installer does not offer to optionally also install the Windows Phone SDK 8. I thought the reason might be the Phone…
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How to open port 9091 on a linux running under vmware?

i have on my machine windows 7. I installed vmware player and created a virtual machine running centos. I installed Transmission on the centos. Now i want to access it via web, like http://111.111.111.111:9091 9091 is the port of Transmission. This…
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Communication with a VMWare guest system without network

does anybody know an API that allows to send and receive data to/from a VMWare guest system without using an IP network? I have to communicate with a program inside a VMWare guest but the guest is not allowed to have an IP network. As file transfers…
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GLSL Support on VMware Player

I managed to install OpenGL driver on a VMware ubuntu guest using the methods described here. I'm wondering with this method will provide GLSL support under this VM, and if yes, where can I get the include files that has the OpenGL GLSL-related…
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vmware player unable to start services in kubuntu

my environment: kubuntu : 3.2.0-generic-pae vmware player: VMware-Player-4.0.4-744019.i386.bundle And i have been installed it. $sh VMware-Player-4.0.4-744019.i386.bundle I have a problem, when i launch "menu->system->VMware Player" it launch a…
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Vmware Install Error - vmwarer mcisocket64.msi failed

The following error is achieved on Vmware Installation when installing on an x64 Windows 7: vmware mcisocket64.msi failed
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vmware tools is not working properly, I cannot share folder in my virtual machine ubuntu

I am using windows XP, I created a virtual machine using VMware player and installed Ubuntu in it. I want to have a shared folder between windows and my virtual machine, so I installed VMware tools, enabled the shared folders and named them.…
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how to access local sql db from windows VM (cretaed using VMware player)

my machine has an Ubuntu operation system and I installed sql. I need to run powerBi dashboards for testing purposes. So i created a windows VM using VM ware player. Now i need to connect ubuntu SQL DB as powerBi data source. Is this possible? or…
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