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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Can't connect iPhone 6 to macOS virtual machine

I'm trying to test a flutter app on iOS using my macOS virtual machine, but I can't get my old iPhone 6 to connect. I was able to get it to connect once last week, but since then it will immediately disconnect from the guest and back to the host…
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VMWare error: VMware Player and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible

I've been running ubuntu 19 (64 bit) on VMWare Workstation 15 Player for 2 months now. There was no problem in running the virtual machine till now, but today when I tried running the machine, it gave me the following error: VMware Player and…
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Connect a docker's container port that is running inside an Ubuntu VM, with the VM's host machine network

I have a Docker running inside an Ubuntu-18.04 image (VMWare Player) which is hosted on a Windows PC. Docker has a container for Gitlab which I can access through localhost:4000 from my VM. The question is how can I access the very same Gitlab…
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Using Delay(TimeSpan) or Thread.Sleep doesn’t properly work in VMware

I reduced my problem to this example: [STAThread] static void Main() { var t = Task.Run(async delegate { await Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5)); return "delayed action"; }); t.Wait(); Console.WriteLine("Task t Status:…
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VMWare Player installation on NixOS

I downloaded the VMware-Player-15.1.0-13591040.x86_64.bundle file from: https://www.vmware.com/go/getplayer-linux Then I followed these instructions for installing it:…
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installing VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle .bundle Vmware Player

how to install VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle ? chmod +x VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle ./VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle ./VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle: line 302:…
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VMWare Ubuntu warns me on no disk space, but GParted shows there is lots of space

I have a vmware ubuntu allocated with 300G of disk space, but recently I got a disk space warning. I run df -h as this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev tmpfs …
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Freeing allocated memory of VM in VM Ware Workstation Player

I had Ubuntu 14.04 on VM Ware Workstation Player in Windows platform.I had allocated 150 GB to it.When I wanted to delete that VM ,I had removed it from library,but I think it has not released all memory acquired by VM .So my query is, does removing…
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Issues when running a VM in VMware on a Windows host

These are the details of my physical server: Windows Edition: Windows Server 2008 R2 Processor: Intel Xeon System Type: 64 bit operating system I am trying to run CentOS 7 using VMware Workstation Pro Version 14. After creating the VM, when…
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Signing VMware drivers on Ubuntu

I am trying to setup VMware Workstation 14 Player on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and as expected, facing a challenge with unsigned 'vmmon' and 'vmnet' drivers. As a consequence, 'Virtual machine monitor' and 'Virtual ethernet' services fails to start. As…
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Windows 8 VMWare guest under Ubuntu 16.04 host doesn't have access to the internet

I have Ubuntu 16.04 host machine with WMWare Player and Windows 8 guest. The problem is that the guest Windows machine doesn't have access to the internet. Host Ubuntu 16.04 configuration: >>> grep VERSION= /etc/*-release…
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How to read the list of Virtual Machines in the VmWare Workstation 12 Library?

I'm trying to find all the virtual machines installed in a machine. Generally all the VM's list is available in the library of the VmWare (side panel) in the application. Is there anyway i can get the list of all the available vm's irrespective of…
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Difference between vsphere 5.5 and vsphere 6

What are the main difference between vsphere 5.5 and vsphere 6? Are there any feature additions? Are they backwards compatible?
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VMWare Guest Can't Connect to Host Server

I'm running OS X Sierra in VMWare Player on top of Linux Mint 18. I can ping Linux but it won't connect to my server through the browser. I have a separate machine with a test server set up on the same local network. I can reach that one via the…
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VMware - Minix 3 - pkgin error

I have set up Minix 3.3.0 on VMware 12.5.2 Ubuntu 16.04, Linux 4.4.8 When I try running # pkgin update I get an error saying pkgin: Can't open database /usr/var/db/pkgin/pkgin.db: unable to open database file: No such file or directory I have…
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