Questions tagged [vmware-workstation]
Questions related to Ubuntu and VMware Workstation, whether Ubuntu is the Host system or the Virtual(guest operating) system.
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How do I autorun a vm on VMware Workstation at startup?
I'm using Ubuntu 23.04 and VMware Workstation Pro 17.
I created a shell script called, vmware.sh, with the following instructions in it and saved it in /etc/init.d/ so that it would execute at startup:...
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Not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine with its configured settings - VMWare Workstation 17.0.2
After recently bumping up my RAM to 64GB to freely toy with some more powerful VMs, I've disappointingly found I'm unable to boot anything with more than 3668 MB of RAM allocated - VMWare itself is ...
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Getting shared folders to work on a VM
VMWare Workstation Pro Version 17.0.2 build-21581411
Host System: Win 10 Pro most recent version
Guest OS: Zorin OS 16 Core most recent version
I want to setup a shared folder between my windows host ...
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Getting error while installing NetExtender in Ubuntu 22.04
Unable to install netextender in Ubuntu while executing ./install in termnal. The error coming is
./install: line 302: /usr/sbin/netExtender: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
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How to install VMware Tools in Ubuntu
I installed Ubuntu 23.04 as a Guest OS on VMware Workstation. Please let me know how install VMware Tools.
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How to enable copy paste between Mac M1 and Ubuntu server 22.0
I am using Vmware fusion 13 on Mac M1. Im trying to copy paste and have tried different solutions but all in vain. In isolation, copy paste is enabled. I have also reinstalled VM tools. But nothing ...
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Mounting share Problems Ubuntu running on Windows 10 in VMWare
I have an Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS running in VMWare Workstation 15 Pro on a Windows 10.
In that Ubuntu I have a Plex Server running.
I use vmhgfs-fuse in the fstab to mount the shared folders to certain ...
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Cannot boot ISO of Guest OS on VMWare 17 for Linux [Ubuntu 22.04]
I posted this on VMWare communities but I didn't get a reply.
I have an Asus PRIME Z690-P D4 (Intel 500 Chipset). This M/Board will not boot in UEFI with CSM when the onbboard video is used. This is ...
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How do I enable WIFI in Ubuntu 20.04 within a Virtual Machine?
I have a Virtual Machine Installed on Windows 11 with Ubuntu installed on it, but it has no WiFi connection enabled(does not show any wireless network). I bought a wireless adapter and installed it ...
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Installation of VMware workstation error
Could not open /dev/vmmon: no such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module 'vmmon' is loaded.
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Firefox inconsistent in Ubuntu
My goal: Run Apache on Ubuntu. Use it to debug web sites before I put the HTML on shared hosting.
I hope: Every time Firefox runs, it will render a web site the same.
I get: Firefox doesn't reliably ...
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VM Ware Ubuntu 20.04 lost eth0 when moving to a new host machine
I recently had to replace my PC, so copied the drive file for my guest Ubuntu 20.04 machine to the new box. I installed VM Ware Workstation Pro 16 and started the Ubuntu system up. When it started up ...
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VMware Workstation 16.2.4 Pro: Some keys are not sent to the virtual machine, whatever operating system it has
VMware® Workstation 16 Pro 16.2.4 build-20089737
Host machine: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Upgraded from 20.04 LTS).
Virtual machine: any.
The Windows-Logo key, the ctrl+alr+del keys, the stamp-r-sist key (for ...
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graphical glitches in electron-based apps
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Testing electron-based applications on a Ubuntu 22.04 (LTS) VM (upgraded from 21.10). Specifically, I'm using VMWare workstation 12 on Windows 10, and the VM has the following OpenGL specs (...
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Load grub menu when running ubuntu 22.04 LTS on VMware workstation 16 player
How to load grub menu while booting ubuntu 22.04 LTS on VMware workstation 16 player to get back sudo access to the user Also how to boot ubuntu on VMware ?
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Accessing shared folder in ubuntu from VMWare workstation
How do I mount shared folder in Ubuntu from VMware Workstation?
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VMWare running error
I was following this tutorial trying to install VMware Workstation 16.2.3 Player for Linux 64-bit on Ubuntu 21.10 and after trying to launch the program I get the error "before you can run VMWare,...
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vmlinux not available in Ubuntu 22.04
When attempting to install vmware modules on Ubuntu 22.04, it appears that vmlinux is not available.
The short output of the sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
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Skipping BTF generation ...
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VMWare not starting since upgrade to latest Ubuntu
I am running VMWare Workstation 16 on Ubuntu 22.04. Since its installation, I used to successfully run the following commands every time it refused to start (usually after a kernel update). But since ...
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kcore file on /proc/ 128tb
my vm with windows with shared folders and my ubuntu showing the file on KDE Dolphin
/proc/kcore - 128TB
a link to the file
ok, i creating a project in a Windows VM, the Linux+Windows, copying my host ...
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Stuck on terminal instead of GUI in Ubuntu 20.04.4 , on Virtual Machine VMWARE
I've had a big problem and can't resolve it even with Google's help..
I'm stuck on the terminal / shell from Ubuntu; which is on VMWARE Workstation on Windows 10.
I would like to get the GUI / ...
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Vmware workstation (Virtual machine monitor & Virtual ethernet) service issue
Environment:-
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
$ uname -a
Linux bmrmt 5.4.0-91-...
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How to keep Displays scale 200%?
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 on VMware Workstation Pro 16. Everything works fine. But the icon looks really small. I'd like to enlarge it by 200%. So I do Settings->Displays->Scale->200%and apply ...
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Ubuntu-20.04 - C header files matching your running kernel were not found
On Ubuntu-20.04LTS have installed VMWare workstation successfully. When i tried to launch, it shows below error.
The below workaround couldn't help.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade --yes
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VMWARE 16: Can't Load Guest on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - "Could not open /dev/vmmon" Error
I am having an issue with VMWare on Linux.After trying to launch an Ubuntu or Windows Guest on a host running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-BIT, I am presented with the following three errors:
Could not open /...
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Export or convert files [ovf - mf - vmdk] to img
An exported VM of which I have 3 files.
os.mf
os.ovf
os-disk1.vmdk
I want to convert this to a * .img image
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Copy/paste not working in VMware VM with Live Linux system
Following up with Copy/paste and drag&drop not working in VMware machine with Ubuntu,
For any Live Linux system (Ubuntu, KUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc), I don't think copy/paste text can be working out of ...
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Why can't I SSH in to my Ubuntu VM anymore?
I have a couple Debian based Linux distributions running on VMware Workstation Player on Windows 10. I used to be able to SSH in to the virtual machine from the host machine from a PowerShell or ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 on VMWare 16.1.2 - no internet connection with NAT
I have couple Ubuntu VMs - 20.04.1 and 20.04.2. Both are set for NAT connection. Both have identical setting except 20.04.1 has Docker installed and 20.04.2 has Minikube.
Both at one point had ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 on VMWare Workstation 16 says the disk full even though it isn't
I've checked for similar problems more or less but couldn't find the exact cause. I'm in a hurry right now, I'm developing a program on Ubuntu 20.04. If I close this VM for now it won't boot again.
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How to download beta versions of Vmware fusion
How can I download beta versions of Vmware fusion for Mac?
The current version has a lot of bugs with macOS big sur
I searched the internet a lot but nothing was found.
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Change VMWare Shared Folder Permission
I have a Ubuntu guest on a Win10 host. I shared a host directory using VMWare's Shared Folder feature (/mnt/hgfs/HostData) and that works great. What I'd like to do is change the owner and set ...
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VMWare Workstation Pro - vmmon not found
I am having an issue setting up my new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS install with VMWare Workstation Pro 14. Install is successful and reports no errors, but when I go to launch a VM it complains about a module &...
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When I move mouse, mouse cursor disappears and reappears. How to fix it?
I have created an Ubuntu VM with VMware on my Windows 10 laptop. When I move the mouse cursor in Ubuntu, it starts flickering and disappearing and reappearing.
I am using Ubuntu 20.04.
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Unable to run VMWare workstation after installation on Ubuntu 20.10
After successfully installed VMWare workstation 15.5.5 in Ubuntu 20.10, I am unable to run vmware workstation. Please help,Details are as follows:
sudo ./VMware-Workstation-Full-15.5.5-16285975.x86_64....
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Installing two Ubuntu VMs on VMware [duplicate]
So I need to install two ubuntu VMs on my Windows Machine in VMWare. Do I have to download two separate installers i.e the .exe file for downloading and running two machines or can I just use the same ...
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How to uninstall VMWARE-VMRC
I have this error when I try to uninstall using vmware-installer -u vmware-vmrc
/usr/bin/vmware-installer: line 421: 8988 Segmentation fault (core dumped) LC_ALL="C" VMWARE_INSTALLER=&...
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Ubuntu 20 DVD installs without asking, then won't boot (in VMware)
I’m trying to evaluate Ubuntu live without installing, and to be safe I’m using a VMware virtual machine. I downloaded the ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso image since I didn’t see any specific “live”...
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fsck read-only file system on unmounted usb stick (SD Card Reader)
I have a Raspberry Pi that is getting a kernelPanic at boot due to what looks like a corrupted file system. I'm trying to run fsck to check for sure, but have run into issues.
I've got the micro sd ...
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Vmware - gcc version (null) was not found
I couldn't install my VMware on Ubuntu. Whenever I execute sudo vmware, I receive a popup asking me to choose the version of gcc. However, unlike other errors similar to this, I am faced to choose a ...
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How to assign disk unallocated space to ubuntu partition using terminal? [duplicate]
I recently installed ubuntu-server on a VM and later on increased the virtual hard disk size from 10Gb to 70Gb.
Here is the result of lsblk.
user@ubuntuserver:/$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:...
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Extended ubuntu-server VM's memory. Still not enough available size
I recently installed an Ubuntu-server (20.04) on VM initially giving it only 10Gb RAM. Soon enough, I noticed that the program I need to install (Gluu-server) requires at least 40Gb. Hence, I ...
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Ubuntu VM fails to boot and blocks at "installing open-vm-tools"
I have created a VM with ubuntu 20.04.1 on VMware Workstation 12.5.
When starting the VM it gets blocked at installing open-vm-tools
I have the network connected and I can open a Fedora VM which is ...
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VMware: kernel headers not found!
Just updated my ubuntu to 20.04 and when i tried to run VMware and VMware Kernel Module started compiling Virtual Machine Monitor and Virtual Network Device and it failed
i started VMware using ...
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Mouse Stutter for USB Mouse in Ubuntu 20.04
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 in VMWareWorkstation 15.1.0 build-13591040, which runs on Windows 10, and am accessing Windows desktop through RDP. I have been doing this just fine since 20.04 was released. ...
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Connecting to VMWare Workstation Server crashes the service
I am unsure whether this question belongs here, on Super User, or on Server Fault, so if it is in the wrong place I apologize.
I have two systems involved here: an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system and a ...
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Ubuntu 19.10 can't able to access the internet in the VMware Workstation
I had installed Ubuntu 19.10 a couple of months ago in my VMware. Everything was working fine. But today I noticed that Ubuntu can't able to access the internet.
There is no issue with my internet. ...
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Ubuntu 18.04-Vmware Worksation 15.5.2 networking issues
I have networking issues with vmware workstation v15.5.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.
I installed ESXi and Openstack on vmware worksation with NAT, Host-only and Bridged adapters each time, then I set up a vm ...
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After typing "apt-get update" terminal says Could not open lock file [duplicate]
i am a beginner in Ubuntu and currently using Ubuntu 19.10
in terminal i used
apt-get update
and this error showed up
Reading package lists... Done
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/...
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No wireless interface found in ubuntu 18.04 running within virtual machine
I'm trying to use the iwconfig command to list all my wireless device interface, but I'm getting nothing:
root@ubuntu:~# iwconfig
Result:
ens33 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless ...
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