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In some cases, the Install VMware Tools option is greyed out and you cannot install the tools for the virtual machine. In this case, we cannot install the VMware Tools on our Windows 7 virtual machine. When the VMware Tools…
After installed a Windows VM in VMware Workstation, you cannot set the VM screen to full screen. To fix this, you need install the VMware Tools into the guest operating system. 1. While the VM is running, let’s right click…
In some cases, you got these error when install VMware Tools in Windows 7 virtual machine: Setup failed to install the Memory Control driver automatically. This driver will have to be installed manually. 1. Download the security updates for Windows…
You have noticed an annoying feature in the VMWare Workstation hypervisor. If you don’t use a virtual machine for some time, it is automatically suspended by the built-in Auto-Suspend feature. To continue using the VM, you have to click the…
In some cases, your host crashed and when you try to start your VM then you got the error in the title for each of the VM disks and then it ends with a message that the VM failed to start:
When you are in Full Screen view, the VMware Workstation shows a 1-pixel sliver bar at the top of your screen. You can set the VMware Workstation menu bar to hide all the time.
Let’s imagine this scenario: you’ve created a virtual disk, created partitions, and installed a guest operating system on one of the partitions on that virtual disk. Later, as you’re working, you realize that performance is suffering because there’s not enough disk space. Insufficient disk space on a system partition degrades performance.
The blank popups mainly appeared in Google Chrome, but I’ve seen a couple of them with the new Microsoft Edge as well (not sure about this, but this could make sense as this is also a Chromium-based browser). If you’ve…
The blank popups mainly appeared in Microsoft Edge, but I’ve seen a couple of them with the new Google Chrome as well (not sure about this, but this could make sense as this is also a Chromium-based browser). If you’ve…
In this post, how to by pass the error “This PC can’t run Windows 11, This PC doesn’t meet the minimum system requirements to install this version of Windows.” when install a Windows 11 virtual machine in VMware Workstation, VMware Player…