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ovf file did not pass OVF specification conformance or virtual hardware compliance checks

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Hi All,

 

I am trying to install a bluecoat product on the vmware workstation in the ovf format, however, I am getting an error upon opening the file that "the .ovf did not pass OVF specification conformance or virtual hardware compliance checks. Click Retry to relax OVF specification and virtual hardware compliance checks and try the import again, or click Cancel to cancel the import. If you retry the import, you might not be able to use the virtual machine in VMware Workstation."

 

When I retry and the vm finally starts installing, it says, "ERROR: Cannot find disks for persistent filesystems."

 

Can somebody please provide their assistance on this issue ?


Unable to download VMware tools - There was a problem updating a software component.

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Host - openSUSE 15.0

guest - any

VMware W/S Linux 14.1.2

 

This was not an issue on openSUSE Leap 42.3 but I have upgraded to openSUSE 15.0

All is working ok when I start and load VMs but when I try to install VMWare tools, the download begins, asks for root privileges which are given but then fails with the error

"There was a problem updating a software component. Try again later and if the problem persists, contact VMware Support or your system administrator."

Nothing about vmware tools in the log at this point.

Other than tools, everything else is working.

 

rgds Kev

VMRest password cannot be longer than 12 characters?

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How do I defeat this check so that I can configure longer passwords?

 

PS C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation> .\vmrest -C

VMware Workstation REST API

Copyright (C) 2018 VMware Inc.

All Rights Reserved

 

vmrest 1.2.0 build-12990004

Username:username

New password:

Password does not meet complexity requirements:

- Minimum 1 uppercase character

- Minimum 1 lowercase character

- Minimum 1 numeric digit

- Minimum 1 special character(!#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[]^_`{|}~)

- Length between 8 and 12

VMWare Workstation Pro 14 - Won't Start my win10 VM now. HELP PLEASE

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I am having a severe problem with VMWare Workstation Pro 14.

I got notifications last week that there were updates.  I did the updates.

Though I am not sure that my issues are related to the updates, but it seems that my current

win10 VM that I have been using for quite a while has now degraded to an unusable state.

 

It will either not boot up (stays in the initial screen loading windows where the little animated circle is) or

it boots up and then essentially becomes unresponsive after a very short while...

 

I am not an expert on VMware but would love some advice on troubleshooting to see what is happening.

I really need the data on it.

VMware Workstation can't report battery info to guest OS on Win10 1903

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RT, i upgraded the host OS to win10 1903 a few days ago. then i found vmware can't report battery info to guest OS. if the guest os is win98se, the guest OS will hang during boot. if the guest os is winme, it will hang when you open power management -> power meter tab. if the guest os are others eg. 98/2k/xp/vista/7……, it displays the battery level 0%. if you unplug the ac adapter to use battery, the guest os will say the battery is low. i tried vm 14.1.7 & 15.0.4, they are all same.

 

the screenshot below is winme. in this picture i switched to the power meter tab but the content is still the tab power scheme. it already hung.

Windows Me-2019-04-12-22-26-06.png

 

this is win98 original not 98se. the battery level is 0%

Windows 98 FE-2019-04-12-22-30-56.png

Can I Rename VM Files?

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I have a Windows 10 VM that started as Windows 8.1.  After upgrading, it is now Windows 10

 

Five files for this VM where the files reside have the following names:

 

Windows 8_1 x64.nvram

Windows 8_1 x64.vmdk

Windows 8_1 x64.vmsd

Windows 8_1 x64.vmx

Windows 8_1 x64.vmxf

 

Am I able to safely rename these files above with the VMs continuing to function correctly?

 

I would prefer the following names:

 

Windows 10 x64.nvram

Windows 10 x64.vmdk

Windows 10 x64.vmsd

Windows 10 x64.vmx

Windows 10 x64.vmxf

 

Thanks.

Unable to open file "E:\xxx.vmdk": One of the disks in this virtual machine is already in use by a virtual machine or by a snapshot

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Hello to everyone,

from today and without any particular reason I have a problem starting a virtual machine.

I have some snapshot and a list of xxx1.vmdk , xxx1-000001.vmdk, xxx1-000002.vmdk, xxx1-000003.vmdk...

When I try to start the virtual machine, gives me the error: Unable to open file "xxx1-000002.vmdk":   One of the disks in this virtual machine is already in use by a virtual machine or by a snapshot.

I can not revert to other snapshot because gives me the same error....

 

What I could do?

thank you

 

Daniele

10Gb networking in VMware Workstation

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Hello all,

 

I find it difficult to get results from google searches. Has anyone been able to get 10Gb networking to run at a decent performance(>1.5Gbps) in VMware Workstation?

 

I have two machines with 10Gb HW network adapters connected point-to-point.

 

1. FreeNAS server with a samba share.

2. Win10 host running WS 15 with another FreeNAS server VM running.

 

Network is setup as bridged inside the VM, the adapter HW is VMXNET3 set from editing the .vmx file

 

In normal operation, copying from machine 1 samba share to local disk on machine 2 works with 1.15GB/s. Both machines are reading/writing to SSD media, they are able to saturate the 10Gb link copying to/from shares in the host OS.

 

Copying data from machine 1 samba share to the guest VM samba share on machine 2 from the host OS results in 100Mb/s at best, average is less than that. Guest OS configures the VMXNET3 card just fine, it comes with vmware-tools preinstalled.

 

 

Guest VM has 4 cores allocated and 32Gb of RAM. Host CPU is I7 9800X@3.8Ghz base clock.

 

I know VMXNET3 on WS is not really supported but I would expect at least higher than 1Gbps speeds.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.


Cloning

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Author : John Domenichini

URL : http:////docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/15.0/com.vmware.ws.using.doc/GUID-C43F006A-65E2-4289-BDB9-56C5E35E740A.html

Topic Name : Install New Software in a Virtual Machine

Publication Name : Using VMware Workstation Pro

Product/Version : VMware Workstation Pro/15.0

Question :

I setup a Centos minimal installation, then ran a full clone which worked fine, except that the Hostname was not changed....is there a way to set the new hostname before the clone process runs?

Workstation 15 Pro locks Host and Guest

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I'm running Workstation 15 Pro on an updated Windows 10 Pro host. I've been testing Windows 10 Pro and Ubuntu 18.04lts guest oses and have the same issue.

 

Symptoms

If I try to drag an drop, the dialog window comes up and then the VM freezes and the HOST os needs to be rebooted. I have restarted numerous services and ended / started tasks as well with no avail.

When a guest locks up, the host needs to be rebooted to get it to work again until the next lockup. The Library shows the guest vm as running but start/stop section of the specific vm is greyed out and can not be selected.

 

Attempted fixes

I have fully uninstalled and rebooted several times to ensure that there is nothing left over, then downloaded a clean 15.0.3/15.0.4 installer and installed it again.

I have rebuilt a fresh windows and ubuntu guest with the same results.

Locked Linux Folder

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I'm testing VMWare Workstation 15 on a Linux system. My problem is that the directory where the image of Windows 8.1 is being stored is locked. I cannot backup, delete, move or rename any files inside the folder because Linux has a lock on it -- I don't know how to remove this. I've asked the user forum for my distro of Linux, and they say it's an issue with VMWare; and not the OS itself. So I need to know how to unlock the folder to get to my data.

 

Any ideas??

 

Thank you for your help in this matter.

Can't get shared folders working in any linux guest

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I've tried different linux guests all seem to have the same issue with sharing folders and drag/drop feature. I've reinstalled numerous times. Sharing is enabled. Issue is with Workstation 15 Pro and Ubuntu based guests. Can anyone point me in a direction to get this working? Thanks in advance.

Configure the virtual network using the editor in a LAB with a "Home Router"

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Hi Folks.

 

Do you know how to configure the virtual network using the editor in a VMware® Workstation 14 Pro? In my "LAB", I have 3 physicals computers and 1 home router.


  • The network 192.168.1.0 is published by that router.

 

I don't have have enough resources to setup that "LAB" in only 1 PC.

 

Many thanks in advance.

kernel-5.0.7 and workstation pro 14.1.7 /sbin/modinfo exited with status 256

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Hi,

is anyone using kernel-5.0.7 with any workstation pro?

 

At the moment I have like below:

Invoking modinfo on "vmmon".

"/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 256.

Invoking modinfo on "vmnet".

"/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 256.

Invoking modinfo on "vmblock".

"/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 256.

Invoking modinfo on "vmci".

"/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 256.

Invoking modinfo on "vsock".

"/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.

to be installed: vmmon status: 0

to be installed: vmnet status: 0

 

And in compiler logs:

/tmp/modconfig-2NNvCx/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:985:1: warning: always_inline function might not be inlinable [-Wattributes]

LinuxDriverSyncReadTSCs(uint64 *delta) // OUT: TSC max - TSC min

^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

/tmp/modconfig-2NNvCx/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIF_EstimateLockedPageLimit’:

/tmp/modconfig-2NNvCx/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1502:25: error: ‘totalram_pages’ redeclared as different kind of symbol

    extern unsigned long totalram_pages;

                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In file included from /tmp/modconfig-2NNvCx/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:42:

./include/linux/mm.h:52:29: note: previous definition of ‘totalram_pages’ was here

static inline unsigned long totalram_pages(void)

                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

/tmp/modconfig-2NNvCx/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1648:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘do_gettimeofday’; did you mean ‘do_settimeofday64’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

    do_gettimeofday(&tv);

    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    do_settimeofday64

 

/tmp/modconfig-2NNvCx/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:3203:40: error: macro "access_ok" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2

    if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, p, size)) {

                                        ^

/tmp/modconfig-2NNvCx/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:3203:9: error: ‘access_ok’ undeclared (first use in this function)

    if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, p, size)) {

         ^~~~~~~~~

 

/tmp/modconfig-2NNvCx/vmnet-only/userif.c:145:52: error: macro "access_ok" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2

    if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, (void *)uAddr, size) ||

                                                    ^

/tmp/modconfig-2NNvCx/vmnet-only/userif.c:145:9: error: ‘access_ok’ undeclared (first use in this function)

    if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, (void *)uAddr, size) ||

         ^~~~~~~~~

 

Is anyone who can help?

Installing Wireshark broke VMNet0

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VMWare Version: 12.5.9 build-7535481

Wireshark Version: Version 3.0.1 (v3.0.1-0-gea351cd8)

 

After installing Wireshark my Virtual MAchines Bridged Network Connections fail.  I am unable to ping the physical default router. I've used the Virtual Network Editor to restore VMNet0 to defaults and that has not resolved the issue.

 

Has anyone encountered this issue before and found a fix?

 

Virtual machine settings

Ping fails to GW

Physical Machine

Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:

 

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::a4bc:92a:7d1b:1123%15

   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.0.12

   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.0.1

 

C:\Users\dsmith>ping 172.16.0.1

 

Pinging 172.16.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 172.16.0.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64

Reply from 172.16.0.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64

 

C:\Users\dsmith>ping 172.16.0.131

 

Pinging 172.16.0.131 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 172.16.0.12: Destination host unreachable.

 

 

Regards,

Dale


Not working USB3.0 hard drive on Workstation 15 version even if no error and no alarm.

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I use VMware workstation pro 15 on my laptop. However USB3.0 hard drive(1TB) is not working even if there is no issues and error and alarm.

 

Just USB stick(32GB) is OK and working well.

 

Please refer to attaching file and let me have your comments.

 

 

no error.jpg

i am not able to do p2v of windows server 2008 r2

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Dear,

 

I have installed windows server 2008 R2 in VMware workstation 10.& i am trying to convert that virtual machine of p2v from 3.4.6 oracle vm server media cd.

But its getting restart after booting 3.4.6  with in few minute.

i am not able to export VMware workstation 10 virtual machine into Oracle VM Manager

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i am not able to export VMware workstation 10 virtual machine into Oracle VM Manager

Windows 10 VM on Windows 10 Host Hangs Frequently (occurs on both Workstation Player 14 and 15)

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My host PC is running Windows 10 Enterprise x64 (v1809, build 17763.316), VMWare Workstation Pro v14.

I have also tried a host running Windows 10 Pro x64, VMWare Workstation Player v15.

 

My client PC is running Windows 10 Enterprise x64 (v1803 build 17134.706).

I have also tried a client running Windows 10 Pro x64.

 

The hangs usually last for anywhere from 3 minutes to 15 minutes.

 

I had extremely frequent hangs when running on a Samsung 970 Pro 1TB PCIe NVMe (MZ-V7P1T0BW) in an Orico NVMe enclosure.  I had a hang about every 30 minutes.

I moved the VM to a spinning disk HDD.  This reduced the hangs significantly.  I still see hangs about every 2 hours.

VMWare Workstation Pro 15 MessageBox are too long when there are mutiple screens.

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Hi,

 

Just as my title, I have two screens  and set project as Extended in my windows 10:
extended_project_in_windows_10.png
Now every time popup the message box, it always show very very very long window that I can't find Yes/No/OK buttons. I have to drag it to to show these buttons and can click these buttons to close the message box. If my mouse cursor on the left screen, I have to move it to the right screen and can click to close the message.

 

Hopefully, it can be fixed ASAP since I switch snapshots often and always get the long message box.

 

 

vmware_screen.png

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