Questions tagged [vmware-player]

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.

See more at product website.

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Bridged networking does not work on VMWare Player 15.5

If I use NAT I get connectivity between my guest OS and all other hosts on my network. If I use Bridged networking I cannot connect from the host to guest os and my guest os cannot connect to any other host on my network. My host is Windows 10…
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Downloading VM from VMWare ESX to VMWare player, preserving thin storage format

I'm using ESX 4.1 and want to download VM's to run on VMWare Player (v3.1.3). I'm able to download and run them, but the space on the virtual disk files, which are in "thin format" expands to the full provisioned storage size. How do I make the…
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how to add WiFi network adapter to a virtual Windows 10 on VMware player

We are developing a .NET app on Windows 10 that must communicate with our Linux app. Linux runs VMware which virtualizes Windows 10. But we can't find a VMware selection for WiFi. Using VirtualBox, virtual Windows 10 WiFi works OK. But we need to…
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VMware Tool doesn't install

I have a virtual machine with Windows XP. And my host computer is on Windows 10. I'm using VMware version 14. I'm trying to setup a shared folder for my virtual machine and faced with an issue that Shared Folder doesn't appear on my VM. I've started…
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How do I manually install vmware tools?

I installed UBUNTU with Vmware Player on my Windows 7 system. For some reason Vmware Player cannot get the Vmware Tools files from internet, possibly a connection problem due to firewall limitations. I want to get the Vmware Tools files in…
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How to install mac OS X ElCapitan on Windows 10

I have window PC , it has 4 gb ram, intel i3 processor and 120 gb ssd. When I am install mac osx on Windows 10 os, it gives the following error. Mac OS X is not supported with binary translation. To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware…
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Host and virtual machine cant ping each other

My hosts is Win 10, virtual machine is ubuntu on VMware play. I fixed the VMnet1 IP as 192.168.32.1 and set static address 192.168.32.10 in /etc/network/interfaces on Ubuntu. But I can't ping each other successfully. Who can tell me the reason in…
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Can't manage to connect my virtual machine to the internet

I have a windows server 2003 as the guest in VMware player and windows 7 enterprise as the host. I'm trying to connect to the inernet from my guest and i can't. In my VMware player virtual machine settings my network addapter is set to NAT but i…
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Windows XP Mode loading in small screen in vmware player

I am running windows 7. I have just finished downloading and converting (using vmware converter) the Windows XP Mode vmware image to a .vmx file for vmware player. I can then play the Windows XP image fine in VMWare player. There is however and…
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Ping ubuntu running inside VMPlayer

I have installed Ubuntu in Windows 8 using VMwarePlayer. I do not know how can I PING the Ubuntu OS from a different Machine .
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VMWare Player vs VMWare Player Plus for running networking/database programs?

I'm new to VMWare and want to use VMWare to implement some networking examples(mainly just networking between two computers, and testing out some self-configuration and failsafe abilities). Also to possibly test out some failsafe capabilities of the…
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Checking small network in mininet by Opendaylight

I have a question about Checking small network by opendaylight I am not really sure why I can't accress Opendaylight menu which I created from mininet I am using windows 7 and VMWare player to run mininet and opendaylight(on Ubuntu). First, i run…
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Can we access a VMX appliance by a name?

I want to distribute a Struts 2 application as a VMX appliance running Jeos. I had seen an Openbravo demo which was distributed as a VMX appliance. However, the appliance had to be accessed by typing an IP address in the browser. Is there a way to…
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Share VPN for Windows 7 Host running Ubuntu VMplayer with Cisco AnyConnect VPN

I've attempted to search the forums for any insight on whether this is possible or not with no luck. I have a Windows 7 Host Machine running an Ubuntu 10.04 Virtual Machine with VMware Player. When I am not connected to the VPN my Ubuntu VM can…
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VMware Player - Unable to enable USB ports

I have been looking for several days to find a solution to the title's problem. I had a virtual machine that was working fine for more than 3 years however it "broke down" and I decided to create a new one with the latest version of lubuntu for…
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