Mac Os For Vmware Player
Riley Boylan
I have a couple of premade Win2k3 VMs that I need to use for some application testing that need to be run at the same time on the same machine. I'm running 13.04 Desktop and do this often with VirtualBox, whereby I run multiple instances at the same time.
Is there a way to run multiple guests at the same time from Player? I do have an eSXI server that I normally might use, but I need to be portable and it would be preferable to just have these run at the same time...
Unlike VirtualBox, by default with VMware Player if one tries to launch a second instance (e.g. another machine that you want to run at the same time), the original running machine comes into focus and one doesn't get to the 'library" list. One never is able to get back to interface in 'home' state where you can choose the machine while a machine is running. After some experimentation, I did discover that one can do an ALT+F2 and type in "vmplayer" and get to the machine picker mode... from there, one can indeed run another machine... I think I just need to create launchers specific to my machines....
Since the latest VirtualBox was having visual issues with Ubuntu 14.10 (At least until a new virtualbox comes out), I used VMWare PLayer to practice some Server-Client stuff. Since I needed at least 2 Guests, the way I opened multiple VMs with VMWare was to simply middle click the VMWare icon on the Launcher or simply open another VMWare in dash.
VMWare Player does NOT come with an easy to use multiple VM management window for simultaneous VMs. It only has the main window where it offers which VM you want to run and that's it. You have to open one VMWare Player for each VM. Big difference when compared to VirtualBox for example where the main window stays independent of how many VMs you end up running (I have tested at least 8 VMs at the same time). So you need to open an additional VMWare Player for each VM you wish to run.
I am currently running only 3 VMs, two are assigned 2GB of RAM and one 4 GB. So if you are running one VM, you can easily choose between VirtualBox or VMWare Player, but if you are looking into creating a virtual network on guest VMs, VMWare Player would not be recommended over VirtualBox. In my particular case, I would rather wait until VirtualBox has correct support for Ubuntu 14.10 than having to stay with VMWare Player.
While I asked about running identical VMs simultaneously, the answer indicates that VMware Player requires an extension of some kind called Workstation in order to run multiple guests on the same host.
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The actual command for launching vmware player from the terminal is vmplayer, That is why it wasn't launching for you. To launch vmware player as root just run the following command from the terminal.
Yes, it's possible to use vmware player as a service for Linux (there's a separate answer for Windows); it's easy and there's no reason I can think of not to do it. It's especially great for hosting a headless server from a headless server.
The other VMware-oriented choice, VMware Server, is deprecated and the only other $0 choice I know of is VirtualBox. If you like that better than VMWare Player, more power to you, but I know VMWare Player and I don't see a reason not to use a well-supported path to get what I want.
Ive been using players up-till 16 until recently, so i was rather use to that, until i installed another ha-os in Vmware on debian, then i ended up in same situation as you, used to install Player 16, with no issues, but 17 !?, Well eventually i found that brilliant detailed instruction
Please mark the post with the Url, as Solution, so other people will have easier to find it
My laptop is a Surface Pro 3 on Windows 10. I am using WMware Player 12 to run the Cloudera QuickStart 5.5 as a single node virtual machine. In the Network Adapter settings of the VM player, I tried both Brigded, NAT and Custom. I even used vmnetcfg.exe to add vmnet0.
Hi all, I used to use Keepass to send my password to VMWare 10 and everything worked fine, however I recently updated my linux environment (I was Linux Mint 17 with Cinnamon, and upgraded to Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 ) and I had to update also VMWare 12 (for kernel incompatibility) and now my password passes to the vmware guest without any Shift characters (if my password is MypA$$wOrd it would be sent as mypa44word).
KeePassX also has the issue... so are you saying that is probably a VMWare issue? how could that be, if when I type in the VM, I can use shift with no problem, but just when Keepass2/X sends the password the issue happens.
Confirmed same behavior on both ports. A semi-functional workaround is to use VMware's built-in VNC functionality on a separate workspace just to enter passwords, but that means no shared clipboard and a few other goodies.
I despise Necromancy, but I have yet to see anyone post a solution for this and the vmware community items are just as dead. This thread seems to be the one all my mates keep referencing in one way or another so if any of the original posters still need it the tool works.
I wrote a wrapper that acts as a buffer between KeePass and VMWare. The root cause on linux has to do with the way VMWare handles keymapping from xdotool which performs the autotyping.
When xdotool executes the type, vmware's shenanigans for keymapping and hotkeys basically fail to interpret an implied shift coming with capital letters and special characters.
There is a workaround, use 'xdotoolk key' with explicit shift characters.
As a proof of concept I wrote the wrapper and it's working well for me:
I set it in my autotype to execute via the following: DELAY 3000CMD:!/absolute/path/to/vmwareXDoTool.sh PASSWORD!W=1,WS=H
Known issues: Besides only being for a US keyboard currently, this does not handle passwords with ' and " characters currently; I didn't have an obvious way to escape those characters in the command call without altering the value of the password field in the entry which was undesireable.
Long term I may write a plugin or something to perform the autotype as an individual key call rather than a whole type operation as a selectable flag.