Workstation 10 VM Guests exhibiting occasional periodic "flicker" or "jiggle"
I'm a fairly new user of vmware workstation 10. I have a couple of guest machines, and both exhibit the following behavior very occasionally, but one does so with a frequency of once every sixty to...
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When a malware-free VM is shut down, it releases its ram to the host. The host can then give the same area of ram to another VM that carries malware. Can the malware see the previous VM's data traces...
View ArticleRegression in workstation 10 with usb mice linux guests
In workstation 9 I had my usb 7 button mouse working correctly in linux.mouse.vusb.enable = "TRUE"usb.generic.allowHID = TRUE allowed me to get 7 button events in xev. From there I was able to map the...
View Articlecopy a Snapshot to a different VMware environment
I have a Snapshot that is about 33bg I want to be able to put that same snaphot on a diiffernt laptop that I have Please advise on the complete detail process or what is best process to complete this...
View ArticleMultiple windows in VMware workstation
Is it possible to have multiple windows with difference VM's open on the screen at the same time? I know you can do this with the VMware server web interface but it is possible with workstation? I...
View ArticleException 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred when starting VM
Hello. I created a WIndows 2003 R2 image using VMware Workstation 6.5.5 build 328052. The host is Windows 7. It was working fine, but now I am seeing Exception 0xc0000005 a while after I start the...
View ArticleBoot into a VM.
After searching around for a few hours, i have been unable to find a straight answer on how to do this, if possible. Basically, i am wanting to boot a physical computer directly into a virtual machine...
View ArticleHaving issues with Win7 host running XP VM to support an old Olympus P400...
The title pretty much says it. I have a 64bit Windows 7 host running Windows XP in a VMWare Workstation 10 VM and I'm wanting to use an Olympus P400 printer connected via USB. The host OS sees the...
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insanely slow Win8.1 + VS2012 as a guest OS
I'm running server 2008 r2 as a development workstation (i7-3770K, 18GB). Since newer Microsoft tools require Win 8 or even Win 8.1 to be able to develop, I chose to install Win8.1 in a VM instead of...
View ArticleRed hat enterprise linux rhel 6.4 64 bit vm machine installation successful...
I am running vm workstation 10.0.1 in Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, I created a VMware machine in workstation using RHEL 6.4 media, after all the installation was successfully completed, The RHEL...
View ArticleWorkstation 10.0.1 Install "Unable to find the file bootstrap.lua"
Attempting to a fresh install of Workstaion 10.0.01 Build 1379776 (Dated 2013-10-24) on a Windows 8.1 x64 Host. I get the error message ""Unable to find the file bootstrap.lua". This is NEW install of...
View Articlefresh Windows XP Pro guest install breaks after hours of idling - Workstation...
Running VMware Workstation 10 under 64-bit Linux with a fresh install of Windows XP Pro 32-bit plus SP3 and all of the latest MS updates. At this point I've created a snapshot to revert back to this...
View ArticleAutofit Guest stopped working after VMWare Tools update
I updated Workstation from version 8 to 10. I had several Windows 7 x64 VMs that I then updated with the latest VMWare Tools (v9.6.1.1378637). Now one of the VMs will not auto resize properly....
View ArticleDoes anyone knows how to *permanently* remove a vm in the Library under 'My...
Topic says it all...i can remove what i want from the library under my computer but after restarting workstation they simply reappear...*very annoying* tia,marc
View ArticleInstalling VMware tools on CentOS 6.5 guest with X.org 1.13
Hi, I've got a current (yum update running daily) CentOS 6.5 guest with X.Org server 1.13 [sag@rhel6-mcjwi01 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i xorg ¦ grep -i...
View ArticleUsing XP Partition as VM
I was trying to use my XP partition as a vm in Windows 7. I keep getting Module DiskEarly Power on failed. My hard drive is a 120gb ssd partitioned in half with XP Pro 32 on the first half and Windows...
View ArticleBAD_POOL_HEADER BSOD crash with Workstation 10.0.1 & Ubuntu 13.10
I recently installed ubuntu-13.10-desktop-amd64 in a VM using Easy Install and everything worked fine initially. Install completed, and guest OS booted successfully (host OS is Win7 64-bit). I shut...
View ArticleDragging Workstation VM to ESXi I get "Upload failed: Invalid OVF name...
I get "Upload failed: Invalid OVF name (bridged) specified in net mapping" when I try to drag a Workstation 9 VM to ESXi 5.1. In theory, this should work, and I did try it with another VM that was a...
View ArticleInstalling Workstation 7.1.6 on OpenSuse 13.1
HiI'm trying to install Workstation 7.1.6 on a fresh (and fully updated) install of OpenSuse 13.1 .I get to the point where it is asking for the location of the kernel header files but I can't point it...
View ArticleWorkstation 8, Win7 x64, Brother MFC-6910DW not able to access scanner
On my host I have Win8.1 x64 installed. On the host I installed Workstation 10. On the VMware workstation install I installed two VMs, Win8.0 x64 and Win7 x64. On each VM I installed the appropriate...
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