Questions tagged [vmware]
VMWare, Inc. is a company that provides cloud and virtualization products and services. Use this tag if you are using VMware's products along with the tag for the software you are using; either [vmware-player] (for VMware Player) or [vmware-workstation] (for VMware Workstation) or [vmware-fusion] (for VMware Fusion), [vmware-view] (for VMware Horizon View), [vmware-tools] (for VMware Tools).
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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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What password is the Other Locations window is asking for to connect to my Mac files?
I installed Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS on VMWare Fusion Player Ver 12.1.0 that is on my iMac-Pro running Mac OS Big Sur version 11.2.3. I believe I'm to date on all software. I'm trying to access my Mac files ...
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VMware tools could not locate components on 20.04
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 host and I tried to install VMware tools on MacOS 10.15 guest.
When I tried to press "Install VMware tools", It shows Could not find component on update server. ...
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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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How to set a domain to ubuntu server 16 in VMware?
I have a pc with ubuntu-desktop OS. I have installed a VMware on it. Then I have installed a ubuntu server in VMware. I can connect to it with ssh [email protected] from my ubuntu desktop....
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How to connect to internet from Ubuntu which is installed in a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation?
Today I downloaded VMware Workstation 16 Player and I am running Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 in a virtual machine. My host os is Windows 10 x64. The problem that I have is that I can’t find a way to connect the ...
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Access to a VMware VM Ubuntu server via SSH from the internet with public IP
I'm using Ubuntu Server 20.04.2 which is fully functional inside my home network. The server is a VM inside VMware Workstation Pro and I can access it via SSH using its IP address 192.168.42.135
Now, ...
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Ubuntu Server 20.04.2 network interfaces won't keep static IP
I'm using VMware with Ubuntu Server 20.04.2 LTS VM.
I have two network interfaces connected to the VM; the first one ens33 is connected to NAT and provides the internet connection to the server. The ...
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kernel panic hyper v vmbus
I found this error on Ubuntu VM hosted with Hyper-V.
Some help would be great.
Please see the attached picture.
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Install Shadow demon on ubuntu 20.04 server
Hi for best security practise , I would like to install Shadow deamon (web application firewall) in virtual environement using vmware workstation 16.x..
I install docker , download the file from ...
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How can I remove VMWare Player?
The vmware-installer command isn't found. Perhaps someone could send me their vmware-installer binary? It isn't an apt or snap app.
vmware-installer: command not found
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VMWare: File system is critically low on free space and VMWARE Player paused because disk is too full
I'm receiving this error message when I start up my VMWare Player. I think I have enough free space - would appreciate help as important files are on this machine!
The file system upon which '/home/...
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How to SSH to my Ubuntu 20.04 machine on VMware from the Windows PC it's installed on?
I've tried everything I can, but I keep getting Connection refused.
I have VMware Workstation 16 Player, and Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS installed on it.
I installed openssh-server and created key-pair using ...
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Installer crashes when installing Ubuntu 18.04.5 on vmware workstation 16
II am trying to install Ubuntu 18.04.5 into a VMWare Workstation 16 VM. It starts up the installer and just after the "Installing kernel" step it flashed a installer failed message and ...
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Struggling to resize disk in Ubuntu VM
I have an Ubuntu VM using VMware Fusion. It originally had 100 GB of hard disk space, which I increased to 120 GB following Resizing a virtual disk in VMware Fusion (1020778). This worked fine, but ...
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why scp foo.txt root@remoteMaching: fails
scp foo.txt [email protected]:. can succeed, while scp foo.txt [email protected]:. always fail, after I input the correct root password as scp requires, it always say: Permission denied, please ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 has problems compared with 18.04 [closed]
I've been an Ubuntu user for about a decade.
I'm writing this post to warn potential users and upgraders to avoid 20.04 for some time.
Note that a few things are better (for me) in 20.04 vs 18.04 - ...
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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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Virtual machine BLE support for Linux guest
I am using latest Ubuntu image as a guest on a Windows host.
I want to use hcitool for ble the output is as follows:
sudo hcitool lescan
Set scan parameters failed: Input/output error
Although I'm ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Deemix launching error
I get the following error when I try to open an executable file with ./deemix-pyweb:
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This ...
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dwm window manager on VmWare Player - no copy-paste between host and guest
I run ubuntu on VMWare Player on windows and I have my custom dwm window manager. Using GPaste as a clipboard manager. The clipboard copy-paste is not working between guest and host, when I switch to ...
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VmPlayer 15.5.6 error on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
VMware Player 15.5.6 build-16341506
Kernel: 5.8.0-36-generic
I installed VmWare Playe anew, then applied the patches from https://github.com/baryonix/vmware-host-modules/tree/fixes-...
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How do I turn on Forged Transmit?
I have Ubuntu 20.10 desktop and am using VMWare Workstation to setup a nested vSphere/ESXi test lab.
For VMs to be able to communicate from within these nested ESXi servers I need to turn on both ...
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VMware workstation/player does not work on Ubuntu 20.04.1
I have several Windows VMs, one of Win10 brand new VM for test, which starts, but it takes ages to get a login screen - practically speaking VMs cannot be used at all. I have used VMware for 15+ years ...
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Can the newest IPAD-pro run Ubuntu as a VM under an app such as VMware?
We just got a new IPAD-Pro and would like to run Ubuntu on it. Previous posts have very much negated this possibility, however the newest IPAD seems to have all of the speed needed; BTW, there is a ...
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VMware horizon client fails in physical machine but works in VM in Ubuntu 20.4 or 20.10
I have had difficulties using any VMware Horizon client in a physical machine, but it always works in a virtual machine (under Virtual Box) running in the same host where it does not run.
In some ...
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Error loading config file: .dockercfg: $HOME is not defined
After the VM(VMware) crashed, I tried to start Synapse and got the following errors:
Dec 18 11:05:20 systemd[1]: Stopped Synapse server.
Dec 18 11:05:20 systemd[1]: Starting Synapse server...
Dec 18 ...
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VMware Workstation 15 Ubuntu 18.04 very slow
I have VMware Workstation with Ubuntu 18.04 gust on Windows 10 host
I'm not sure what I did that cause the system to become very slow especially after opening a terminal.
So slow that it would take it ...
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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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What are the best settings to run Ubuntu on a VM?
What are the best settings to run Ubuntu on a VM?
Like how much storage and ram should allocate towards it.
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Accessing web app running in a VM from host using SSH tunnel
Perhaps there is a better way of doing this, but I'm trying to access the web app running in the VM (VMware Player 16) from the host's Chrome browser.
The host is Windows 10 and the VM is Ubuntu.
I ...
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I cannot increase my disk space using Gparted in Vmware
I have a Ubuntu OS provided by my teacher that has preinstalled programs in order for us to work from home. The problem is that it almost runs out of storage memory and I would like to expand it.
I ...
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How can I recover from read-only filesystem when operating on VMWare?
I run Ubuntu 18.04 in a VMWare virtual machine. Something has happened that caused there to apparently be an I/O problem. Every time I boot the machine, after only about 1 minute, the entire ...
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How to solve end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt while installing Ubuntu20 in VMware Workstation12 pro?
Here's a screenshot to show the error prompted at the time of installation of Ubuntu20.4 in VMware workstation 12 Pro
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Extra space of extended partition is not used
So I have a virtual machine and my guest is missing space. So I increased its VM disk size and now I want it to dispose of that extra space. I've extended the partition using GParted (from inside the ...
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Trying to configure & mount 4 Virtual hard drives as RAID-5 volume in Virtual Ubuntu Server 20.04 under VMWare
I have a VMWare server running Ubuntu Server 20.04. Things are working great for the most part. For some reason, I'm having troubles mounting a RAID 5 volume that contains 4 1TB hard drives as a 3TB ...
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VMWare Installer unable to load gtk: No module named gtk, falling back to console
I'm new to Ubuntu (20.10) and just installed it on my Raspberry Pi 400. I have my VMWare-Horizon-Client-2006-8.0.0-16522670.x64.bundle in the home directory.
I'm following this guide Install or ...
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SSH connection refused to Ubuntu Virtual Machine
I am using a windows 10 machine(corporate), firewall is turned off.
I have installed Ubuntu on my VMWare VM and setup openssh-server. I also did: sudo netstat -tupan to see if my ssh daemon is ...
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Is VMware Horizon Client available to download on Unbutu
I am new to Ubuntu on raspberry Pi 4 and am wondering if VMware Horizon Client is supported for the 20.10 version? If, so can you provide instructions on how to download?
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XRDP & XFCE apparently incompatible
Server is Ubuntu 20.04 on VMware, installed with gnome. Installed XRDP; works great - except for complaints of lagging and sluggishness. The screen's not the usual Gnome layout though; no icons, but ...
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Uninstalling VMware horizon client issue
I'm having trouble uninstalling VMware Horizon Client since it stopped working with the new ubuntu update I got a few days ago.
I tried this
sudo env VMWARE_KEEP_CONFIG=yes \
./VMware-Horizon-Client-...
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How to expand the disk space in Ubuntu 18.04 in VMware Workstation Player running in Win 10 Host
I'm using VMWare on Win10 as host system and Ubuntu 18.04 as guest. I had 20 GB to Ubuntu. When it complained low disk space recently, I am trying to expand it to 40GB.
I did the following steps to ...
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Disabling write caching in a Ubuntu VM to avoid file system corruption?
Quite a few times over the years have I had Ubuntu lock-up at some point, and upon starting I have found that the file system has been damaged in some way. I only notice what went wrong when trying to ...
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How to solve following Error?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04. I downloaded VMware Workstation 16 and tried running sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all, but got the following error:
LD [M] /tmp/modconfig-9jBQOf/vmnet-only/vmnet....
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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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Internet doesn't work un Ubuntu on Vmware but works onLubuntu
Suddenly, Network stopped working on Ubuntu, I'm using it on VMware workstation.
I tried to install Ubuntu 20.04 but the same result.
However, the internet works on Lubuntu.
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How to copy and paste text from Windows notepad to Nano editor running in Ubuntu( running in VMWare Workstation Player )
Background:
Physical machine is Windows 10.
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS is running on VMware Workstation Player, in the same Windows 10 machine.
When I try to copy a text from notepad to Ubuntu terminal or ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 not scaled properly for 1366x768 display
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my 1366×768 resolution display and noticed that the screen was conjusted. The window template was also larger. It looks like it was not optimized for my display.
Also while ...
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Is it possible it run VMware Player 12.5.9 on Ubuntu 20.04?
The installation of VMware Player 12.5.9 ran smoothly but when I'm trying to run it
user@path:~$ vmplayer
it doesn't complain, that means no messages in the terminal window and no dialog boxes, but ...
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"git config --list" not showing output in terminal?
Hi guys I'm running Ubuntu inside VMware and I have installed Git however after inserting both user name and email when I run "git config --list" there's no output? like nothing at all.
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