Windows 10: VMWare WKS 15 - attaching devices -- great new feature

Hi there

I noticed using WKS 15 a great new feature -- a screen prompt comes up asking if you want to connect the device to the HOST or the VM. (Also you can drop down to choose the VM if you have several running).





Sometimes you want it to the HOST, sometimes to the VM - I like this as it saves messing around within the VM to attach the device. Similarly this method attaches the device to the HOST correctly whereas before sometimes you had to go into control panel -->administrative tools-->disk management and then add / change drive letter to access the device on the Host Windows system. Now it works perfectly (both as Host in current windows build and latest skippy).

Amazing how a little simple change makes this so much more easy to use. You don't always need to add mega complex new features to releases --although this release definitely as I previously pointed out is really a well worth while upgrade as everything about the GUEST machines run snappier - significantly too.

Cheers
jimbo

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Vmware WKS 12 - max PHYSICAL disk size


Hi there

anybody know what Max HDD size is allowed in VMware workstation (PHYSICAL Disk)

I've seen plenty of references to Max VIRTUAL HDD size - and that's 8TB - but what about when using a PHYSICAL HDD.

I have a RAID array of 9.1 TB attached as a Physical HDD -- my VM accepts it just fine

Can I actually USE the whole 9.1 TB or will the Host stop after 8TB.

The Host actually doesn't see the HDD in Windows File explorer as it's offline to Windows and formatted with XFS.






In the VM capacity is shown as 9.1 TB which is correct.





Cheers
jimbo

 

VMWARE WKS - 12.1 Enable printing ?? Solved


Hi there

VMWARE WKS 12.1 seems to have an error on both LINUX and WINDOWS Hosts.
If you try and attach a printer to the VM you get "Printing must be globally enabled" message in the VMware VM configuration.

There's nowhere to set this !!!!!.

Any way of adding it manually to the actual vmx (config) file itself --often there's options you can set in that which don't appear in the vm gui editor.


Edit : Fixed -- you need to choose edit--->preferences in the VM menu -- Documentation not clear !!!! for PLAYER it's in File. ???


Another issue - can't get Bridged networking to work on Anniversary build (W10 build 1607).

Cheers
jimbo

 

VMware-usb storage device not recognized


Hello,

I'm running Windows XP in Workstation Player on a Windows 10 laptop.

My USB CD/DVD drive is able to mount in the Player. So is a flash drive.

My Western Digital ssd (My Passport Ultra) is listed in "Removable devices", but fails to mount, giving this error:





In the Virtual Machine settings, the USB controller is using usb 2.0.

The WD ssd is compatible with usb 3.0 and 2.0, and is supported by Windows XP. My desktop computer running Win XP has no problem mounting the drive.

The device manager in virtual Win XP shows it as an "unknown device."

I've read everything I can find on the problem, and tried a number of suggestions from the knowledge base at VMware as well as solutions via google searches.

Perhaps the WD ssd just won't work on the free version of VM Workstation Player (v. 14).

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Paul