I have a virtual machine with Windows XP. And my host computer is on Windows 10. I'm using VMware version 14. I'm trying to setup a shared folder for my virtual machine and faced with an issue that Shared Folder doesn't appear on my VM. I've started investigate and found that VMware Tools are not installed on my VM. When I go Player -> Manage -> Install VMware Tools -> nothing happens. I don't see any pop-up windows with installation. It seems like virtual CD is inserted but nothing more. I can't see it in My Computer.
What did I miss?
Can you ping your XP VM from your Host Win 10 Machine?
If you couldn't ping your XP VM IP from your host machine, turn your firewall off on both machines and try to ping again.
Did you turn on your network discovery on your Windows 10 Machine and XP Machine?
If you can ping your VM from Host machine, turn on file and print sharing settings.
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Good morning,
I cannot copy&paste between host and virtual machine. It seems that both host and VM won't share Clipboard.
I tried many programs and different virtual machines and it doesn't work at all in both directions.
I can't copy anything.
Host is Windows 10. I tried:
VMWare Workstation 12, VMWare Workstation 15 - Fedora (Gnome, lxqt, lxed)
VirtualBox - Fedora (lxqt), Solaris, Windows 8.1
All options inside VirtualBox either VMWare were set properly.
On any of listed machines copy&paste doesn't work.
I installed VirtualBox on a Windows 10 PC. I installed Ubuntu v. 16.04 in it. But when I shutdown the virtual machine and restart it, it asks me to install it again. The installation itself is not saved to my virtual machine.
It sounds like your virtual machine is booting from the installation media.
In virtual box go to your virtual machine's configuration and ensure that you remove the live USB / disk image from the available devices section. However, a more suitable place for this question is Ask Ubuntu.
I have a window7 (32 bit) machine. I installed Virtual Box and created a VM (Windows 2012 {64bit} with enabled VT-x/AMD-V,Nested Paging).
I want to enable Hyper-V on this VM any Idea?
I tried following links but not working for me:
Link1
Link2
but in my case I am using Virtual Box.
How can I enable Hyper-V feature?
Do you want to expose VT-x/AMD-V to the guest system in the VM so it can run Hyper-V inside VM? As far as I know, VirtualBox does not support it, but VMWare does, even in their free VMWare Player.
I have been running Windows Phone 8 emulator in VMWare Player without problems. Yes, it required manual editing of .vmx file, but is works reliably and without any problems at all.
If you decide to give VMWare Player a try, make sure you have VT-x/AMD-V available and enabled on your physical host computer. Then add the following setting to your VMWare machine:
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"
mce.enable = "TRUE"
and you should be able to start Hyper-V inside your VM.
For more information, see these links:
Unable to use Hyper-V platform inside a Windows 8 virtual machine
How to Enable Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Role in VMware
and some useful topics on VirtualBox forums which explain why the feature is not available on VirtualBox:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20589
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=52625&p=304452
I really miss this feature on VirtualBox because I find VMWare Player to be bloated and it slows the host system down much more than VirtualBox does.
I was given a VMWare image running Windows Server 2008 which was imported on my PC perfectly fine and works.
I really want to run it on my MacBook Pro and would have to use Oracle Virtual Box as it seems there is no VMWare Player for OSX.
According to the Internet, the strategy for opening a VMWare machine in Oracle Virtual Box is to create a new machine and attach an existing hard drive.
On the Mac I tried this and get into a situation "Windows Error Recovery" which I am unable to recover from.
On the PC I get exactly the same problems with Oracle Virtual Box with that same image as I do on the Mac.
On the PC (as stated) I can run the VM in VMWare BUT if I have already attempted to open the VM in Oracle Virtual Box, the image is corrupted and can't then be opened on the PC with VMWare.
My question is if anyone has any knowledge of what settings need to be changed in Oracle Virtual Box before opening the VM and destroying the image with it.
Many thanks
Kevin
I worked around this issue by attaching the Windows Server 2008 disk image as additional Storage to another VM that was already working (e.g. an IE8 Win7 VM downloaded from Microsoft). You can set the hard disk as master or slave, or switch when booting up the main VM.
Apologies if this has been asked already, searching the web reveals lots and lots of threads about installing the Win8 beta on VMware but not the other way around.
I am trying to install VMware Server 2.0.2 on a Windows 8 Preview machine. It appears to install correctly but I cannot then reach the web based homepage to configure virtual machines, i.e.
https://localhost:8333/ui/
gives the error that the "connection attempt to localhost was rejected. The website may be down or your network may not be properly configured".
Has anyone had any success running VMware Server 2.0.2 on Windows 8 Preview? If so were there any gotchas you needed to avoid?
I don't think it will ever be resolved. VMware Server was declared End Of Availability in January 2010; There will be no support for Windows 8.
Your best try would be trying launching the services in compatibility mode, but why would you do that? Why not use the much more advanced VMware Player or VMware Workstation products?
I've found a way to run it on Windows 8.
On my PC with a x64 version of Windows 8, when I installed VMware Server 2, I found there was a service called VMware Host Agent that cannot be run. When I opened the system Service Manager and clicked to launch this service, it gave me the error.
My solution is to create a service with the same command string and set it to start automatically by using the "sc create" command in cmd.exe. And it worked for me!