vmware-workstation

Is there any possibility to get VMWARE HOST computer name from GUEST workstation without changing things on HOST?

Let's suppose I have VMWARE workstation (guesting Windows and hosted by Windows). Is there any possible way to receive host name of hosting machine? And without changing things on host machine like in this link. ...

vmware fusion view coldfusion debugging host os

i am using vmware fusion windows xp apache coldfusion 8 and I am trying to view the cf debugging through safari on my snow leopard host. I have turned on debugging and tried adding my ip, however, this did not work, any ideas? ...

Access Hard Disk From VM Image

Hi, I'm running Mac OSX in VM under Windows Vista. How can I setup so that my MacOS X can access my Windows Vista hard drive? ...

Getting VPN to work from Virtual PC

Setup: Host is running Windows7. Virtual PC is a Windows Server 2008 running under VMWare workstation 6.5. From the Host I have a VPN to e.g. TFS and other resources. From the VPC I need to connect to e.g. a SQL server via the VPN. My problem is, that I cannot get a connection from the VPC. If I'm sitting on the corporate network, all ...

How to make screenshots using VMWare tool "vmrun"?

Hi everybody! I'm currently working with the vmrun-Tool, to control VMWare Virtual Machines. I'm using VMWareWorkstation 7.0.0/7.0.1 and VMWarePlayer 3.0.0 on Windows 7 x64. I simply want to take a screenshot of each virtual machine which is powered on. Listing the power-on virtual machines is quite simply and works! (vmrun list) But...

Cannot find network path for VM guest XP computer on the network

VMWare Workstation 6.5 is running as an app on a Windows Vista 64bit PC host. Thanks to Workstation we have 2 guest machines running: TerriVM and MattVM (both of these run Windows XP SP2). We are attempting to get virtual networking configured so we can access the files of both of these VM guest systems from other real PCs connected to ...

How to disable vmware workstation taskbar preview?

VMWare workstation uses the new taskbar preview feature in windows 7 - click on the icon in the taskbar and instead of switching to the app it shows you the open tabs. I just want to switch to the app. Does anyone know how to disable this feature? I've tried to check the vmware website, but it's pretty awful. ...

How can shared folders using VMware Workstation 7 access hidden filenames?

For our build machines, we run VMware Workstation. We have source code checked out in a shared folder (shared from the host using VMware). In the builds we do svn operations like update etc. This worked fine until updating to Workstation 7. Now we get errors like this: svn: In directory 'E:\bitten\winxpbitten\bitten\j5-trunk\j5\Sites\C...

FileNotFoundException thrown when calling Assembly.GetExportedTypes()

I'm getting this error when running a .net 2.0 app on a stripped-down XP SP3 x86 virtual machine, even if .net 2.0 framework runtime has already been installed prior to installing the app. Exception Source: mscorlib Exception Type: System.IO.FileNotFoundException Exception Message: Could not load file or assembly 'Windo...

USB and VMWare Workstation on Windows 7 x64

Hi, I am facing challenges with VMWare Workstation and Player on Windows 7 host. When a USB device is plugged in, the status bar doesn't display an icon for the recently plugged in device. But pre-configured devices such as mouse, keyboard, and CD player are available in the guest. If I start the Workstation with a device plugged in, ...

VMWare Disk space

Hi, I am using VmWare 2.5.2 build-156735. Could anybody guide me step by step how to increase the Disk space as I am running on low space. thank you. ...