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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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How to do port forwarding on VMWare Player 14.1.2 (Ubuntu 18.04 guest, Windows 10 host)?

I have a VMWare Player (14.1.2 build-8497320) running a Ubuntu 18.04 guest on a Windows 10 host. The Ubuntu guest has a LAMP stack that runs a few web applications. I am using NAT to connect the Ubuntu guest to the Windows host's network. I can…
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Can VMware PLayer Workstation (free) run multiple VMs at at time?

That may be a simple one, but I have several VMs created under VMware. I have a couple of versions of Windows as well as some installs ofdistros of Linux. My VMware player runs under Ubuntu Linux 16.04. The problem is that when I start the VMware…
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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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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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VMware 14 with macOS 10 don't recognize iPad 10.5

I have iPad pro 2017 Ubuntu 18.04 Lightning to USB Cable (from box) VMware player 14.1.2 (USB 2.0 selected in preferences and installed vmtools) macOS 10.13.6 When I first time connect iPad to PC, it ask is to trust to PC - I answered to yes, then…
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