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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.

See more at product website.

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Error installing vmware-tools 9.9 after upgrade to linux-image-3.13.0-46

After having upgraded my guest ubuntu to linux-image-3.13.0-46 I got an error install vmware-tools and I cannot share folders any more. I ran vmware player 7.0.0 build-2305329 both in Windows 8 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host machine and during the…
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VMware player: could not find component on update server

I installed MacOS 10.15 "Catalina" on VMWare Workstation Player in Windows 10 as host. Now I want to install VMWare Tools so I clicked Player -> Manage -> Install VMware tools but I got this error: I am using this version of player: VMware®…
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How can I get a /dev/ptp0 ptp hardware clock on a VM running Linux?

I'm trying to run software which needs to get hardware timestamps using ptp. Therefore, I need to have /dev/ptp0 available. I'm running Linux/Ubuntu on a VMWare. Is there a way to make this work on a VM? Thanks!
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How to convert VMware virtual SCSI disk to new virtual NVMe disk?

VMware Workstation Pro 14 now supports virtual NVMe drives. What is the easiest way to convert existing virtual SCSI disk to the new virtual NVMe disk?
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Clipboard Copy and Paste does not work in VMWare Player 12

i can copy and paste text and files between Virtuelle Maschine (Windows 7) and my local Windows 7. But I can't copy this what is in clipboard - for example between two displays the same program (on display in Virtuale Maschine and second display in…
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ERROR Failed to get exclusive lock on the configuration file. Another VMware process might be running using the configuration file

I have been using a virtual machine for a long time and have never had problems starting but now I have a problem: Whenever I try to start it shows this error: "Failed to get exclusive lock on the configuration file. Another VMware process might be…
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convert vmdk to ova using ovftool

I am trying to convert vmdk file to ova uisng ovftool This is the command I type. C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool -st=vmdk "C:\Windows Server 2016\win2trg1-1.vmdk" -tt=ova "C:\Windows Server 2016\win2trg1-1.ova" However it did not…
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NO directory, logging in with HOME=/

I checked by doing : cd / then cd home after ls shows my directory malik ls malik as shown in picture as well : But I don't know why it is saying "No directory, logging in with" ?
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How to change permission of vmware's shared folder

I'm using ubuntu 16.04 on vmware player. The shared folder is enabled and is visible on /mnt/fghs. But, the owner(root) can't be changed by chown. How to change it? Please, advice me. Additionally, some person said the owner could be changed after…
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Enabling Web Inspector for the BlackBerry10 Browser from simulator

I am running BB10 simulator in Windows7 PC using VMware Player with bridge connection. Web pages are opeming in BB10 Browser. I want to enable developer tool to test my web application in BB10 Browser. According tho the given link…
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VSCode Flickering/Disappearing text after upgrade to Code 1.69.1

I have the similar problem of flickering text (more like disappearing text after I upgrade to Code 1.69.1). Attached is the image below showing the problem The flickering problem is dynamic ie various parts of text will show at some point then…
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How to set a custom resolution on Android-x86 in VMware Player

I want to run Android X86 9.0-r1 virtual machine in Full Hd resolution within Vmware Workstation Player 15.
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With VMPlayer is it possible to programmatically create a shared folder with host?

Answer using Delphi preferred but any solution would be helpful. What I'd like to do is to create an app that when run from within VMPlayer will create a shared folder to a known location on the host. The VMPlayer will be running Windows XP 32bit,…
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Can't access running Docker container in browser

I'm working behind a corporate proxy. I'm on Windows 10 machine but I'm also running VMware. Inside VMware I'm running a Fedora 28 image. Because I'm behind a corporate proxy I have to run an NTLM proxy server on Windows 10 so that Fedora can…
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cannot connect iOS device to vmWare

I have searched a lot for this and tried many answers, but device is not connecting tho the vmware all suggestions will be appreciated
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