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I'm running VMware 15.0.4 and MacOS Catalina 10.15.6 and after a random BSOD error I am stuck at VMware logo, any help? Help Request

Hello, First of all, I'm assuming this build can handle the workloads below, but the first question is -- is that true? Then, can I accomplish the same goals with a cheaper build? This build was supposedly $500 at some point and is currently $721 at the Amazon link below. Maybe a build of similar quality is around $500 now? And/or can I get better results from a different build at a similar price point? Should I try for a motherboard with 4 DIMM slots? I think I forgot other questions while writing this novel, but it all kind of just boils down to "how do VMs and VR cheap pls" anyway. Parts list: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 $151.99 MOBO ASRock H410M $58.99 GPU Gigabyte GTX 1650S $271.93 RAM Patriot Viper 8GB $31.99 (pretty sure I'll actually start out with 16GB) SSD ADATA 480GB $46.99 CASE AeroCool Cylon $54.38 PSU Antec 750W $104.94 Tried to build it on pcpartpicker.com, but several parts aren't listed there. This slightly aggressive Amazon link will say "do you want to shove these parts into your cart?" and link all the items with a "don't shove them into my cart" link at the bottom. Build is from https://techguided.com/vr-ready-pc-builds/ Budget (including currency): hoping USD500 isn't a joke for my expectations, since this build was USD500 at some point, but I can maybe go up to $800 (the Amazon link has this build at $721 currently) Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Eve Online (1 instance on the host OS and 1+ in VMs, even though I can "multibox" on the host OS), Diablo 2 (3+ instances on the host OS if I find a better solution for that, probably trying to do 1 on host and 2+ in VMs), WoW Classic (1 instance on the host OS and 1+ in VMs, even though I can "multibox" on the host OS), League of Legends. One game at a time, but I'm going to multibox most games at some point. Minimum settings are fine, although if it can actually do all of that with the games at minimum settings, I assume I can run them at max settings. Other details: I'd like to meet the minimum requirements listed for Oculus Rift (i3-6100 / Ryzen 3 1200; GTX 1050Ti / RX 470) and Oculus Link (i5-4590 / Ryzen 5 1500X; I think GTX 970 and AMD 400 Series are sort of the minimum, but not every GPU above those is certified). At least one USB type A port and one type C at the USB 3.0 standard or better (type C usually means 3.0+ but doesn't technically have to). The above are "hard" requirements if that's not absurd for $500. If it is, I'll try to go up as far as $700-800, but I'll also have to consider lowering my expectations to stay around the $500 mark. 4+ USB ports at 3.0+ highly preferred. Thunderbolt 3 preferred, but maybe not reasonable at this price point. It suggested I mention what I'm upgrading from. It's an Aspire E5-575G-562T: i5-7200U @ 2500MHz (well, that's what CPU-Z says in the Specification field, but I haven't overclocked it and Core Speed for Core #0 is hovering just under 3100MHz, so idk) "Ironman_SK" mainboard 8GB single-rank DDR4-2400 & 16GB dual-rank DDR4-3200 GTX 950M 2GB When I'm going to buy: Probably Prime Day, Oct 13-14 Displays: I'd like to be able to run at least three 1080p displays at 60Hz, but I only need two physical display outputs (I'll probably only ever have three displays in Immersed, which now supports fully virtual displays on Windows, so I won't need to plug a headless display emulator into a third output). I would like to be able to have 3 games, 2 in their own VMs, visible at the same time, but that's not a hard requirement (I think GPUs still do rendering work for minimized windows, but less? although that might not be true for minimized VMs). I'm used to having one game instance visible at a time and alt-tabbing between them, and when multiboxing Diablo 2 I'll hardly ever look at the VMs anyway (I'll be "cheating" with hotkeynet or similar, but not on servers with other people). Bonus workloads: I'd also like to be able to run CoD BlOps Cold War, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 smoothly at minimum settings, but that's less important, and it looks like if I can get anywhere near my VM and VR goals, these games will be fine.

So there is this application/browser that many colleges around the New York area use to administer tests and exams online. The application in question is called Respondus Lockdown Browser. This browser basically is supposed to replace your traditional browsers (chrome, firefox...) when you're trying to take an exam. When lockdown browser is open it prevents you from switching to another application to prevent cheating. I thought I was smart and had the idea of creative a VM and using respondus within the VM so that I can freely switch between the VM and and my host pc to search up questions during the exam. I tried it and you can see how that turned out with the photo I attached to this post. Does anyone know of any parameters I can put in the .vmx file of the VM or is there anyway I can bypass this VM detection. I really need to figure this out by the end of October 7th. Here is the prepaid link to download Lockdown Browser if anyone wants to have a shot at bypassing this<Removed by staff> Please help me!!!

I’m finishing my pc of tonight and I’m using a user friendly version of Linux called ubanto I think I’m woundering if I use VM ware can I use windows and one last question if I have 4 cores 8 threads and 16gb of ram can I use the windows virtual machine as if it had all of the same specs?

The title pretty much says it all. I want VMWare to stop the guest OS from suspending it if I leave it unattended for some time. Some suggestions I saw online were to set the power options in my host PC to never automatically go to sleep or the display to turn off. I have done both these things and stopped the PC from sleeping and turning display off for power saving but still no luck. I also tried adding these codes: suspend.disabled = “True” and suspend.disabled = “1” in the vmx file of the vm and restarted VMware. This didnt work too. If u know of anyway to achieve this please do let me know. Thanks.

Hello friends, I think it goes without saying Zoom is one of the most sketchiest conference programs being used today, And as I have a job interview this Friday, I would like to get it running in a VM first. I've tried pushing my camera both with the Virtualbox extension pack and as a standard USB device, neither work on Windows or Linux (Not pictured because my PC BSOD when I kill the VM but I also tried Manjaro), Camera is a C920 Pro, Works fine on my base system, Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Hello Everyone looking for a suggestion here.I am planning on to assemble a Gamng/esxi machine. CPU: AMD 3900x/3950x MOBO:X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16D-64GVK GPU: 2070/2080 Super I already have a ssd and hdd from old machine to use. Case:Fractal Design Node 202 Case+750W PSU I want this to be as minimal as it can be in terms of space. Looking for suggestions here or your feedback to how I should proceed. Thanks in advance

Does anyone know a way that I can make a macOS Catalina VM using VMware and Windows 10 as a host OS?

Hello. I would appreciate it if anyone can help I have a virtual machine on a vmware player 12 my data got hit by a ransomware ryuk and the vmdk file was encrypted .ryk extension added and all data for the virtual machine profile was deleted. I was wondering if anyone has any idea about recovering the vmdk file. I read something about recreating the virtual machine disk discriptor file using esxi host. If anyone can help me if this can or might work or worth trying Note that I have a copy of vmdk file same machine and a copy of the virtual machine configuration if this might help (backed up years ago). Appreciate your help Thank you

So VMWare is supposedly targeting AMD's high-level server CPUs with their new licensing fees according to a Tom's Hardware article here. VMWare themselves have acknowledged the licensing changes in their news updates section although they've not mentioned AMD or any other company by name. Been seeing a lot of people theorizing that Intel tossed a lot of money at VMWare to do this seeing as how it seemingly doesn't touch Intel CPUs yet. Don't personally believe this to be the case but I've been proven wrong before. One way or another though, this is definitely going shake things up considering how widespread VMWare Workstation and it's parent company Dell is in the industry coupled with the shifting trends towards higher core counts. Interested in hearing other people's input on the matter though.

So, i assume i am not the first to ask it here, but i did not manage to find any proper answer... some background (not vital to my question): I have been an advanced system administrator for a government company for almost 3 years now, "mastering" in linux, vmware, netapp, windows, hardware and more... I have a fair amount of technical background, and fluent in the technical lingual... To my main question here: Both at work and at my home server (running esxi 6.5), i have an Ubuntu server, both at work and at home i encountered a dilemma so to say... should i extend the existing virtual disk, therefor extend the existing pv, vg and lv? or should i create a new virtual disk, extend the vg with it and then extend the lv? at work we have a "suggested" way to do it, but it is only for the root drive, and we say to always add a new virtual disk, although i believe it is because of a trauma from working with esxi 5.0 back in the days, where extending disks would lead to all kind of problems... I would really like a solid answer, from the technical side of it, so not like "its easier like that...", but like "this way increase the misalignment over the physical disks..." or something.. p.s. i want to know if it changes if i am doing it to the root partition, a data partition, or even a lvcached partition. thanks.

Hi, I'm on windows 10 and I would like to setup a macOS VM with VMware Workstation 15 Player (I have the mojave .iso) but when I'm running the VMware path it doesn't work. I tried different versions of unlocker, I reinstalled VMware, but each time the "Apple MacOS X" option doesn't appear when creating a VM. I join the console text that I have when running the patch, don't know if it will help. It seems like the vmwarebase.dll isn't changed or that the "darwin" file doesn't exist/isn't extracted from the .tar archive. Hope someone can help, thanks ! logs.txt

Hi, I've been a huge fan of the show, specially when it comes to servers and vm's. Currently i'm running a dedicated server for esxi 6.7, specs are on my build log: Looking back, now i'm worried I started that on the wrong thread considering how that's going. Well the problem i'm having, one of the vm's running win 10, updated vm tools, and wtih a setup for 2cpu at 4v-cores each. I'm trying to use this vm, so that me and wifey can use 1 vm for our business which i hope to save $$ buy just buying 1 license for applications that we may need further down. My current situation is that no matter how much I allocate in terms of phisical power cpu, ram. The machine has this savage lag, regardless if i'm going in through the vmware workstation, or rdp to the vm. The server is currently running cat 7@10gb on the cable, but i'm afraid that my problem could be that the sever can't handle the amount of data being sent out some how? I'm a complete noob self teaching, and with massive add my biggest learning attribute has been do it break it, learn do it again. But the stakes are getting higher, and I can't keep just nuking the machine like before. My current troubleshooting bouncing ball is leading me, to opening the pipe on the server by installing an actual 10gb card, and then running the line to sfp port converter on the ubnt switch. I could be really really wrong. Hope someone could nudge me in the righ direction, if the network isn't a possible culprit. Thank you in advace.

Hi, I use VMware player to run old operating systems to play old games sometimes and I always have to set my host operating system's resolution to something stupid like 800x600 in order to play anything since the default screen is so small, but this doesn't work if I want to watch videos or something in another window at the same time. Is there a way to stretch the guest window to 2x or 3x without changing the host operating system's resolution? I saw some stuff online about how you can do this, but it seems to only apply to VMware workstation pro which is like $250 and wouldn't be worth buying just for this.

I have had the best experience thus far with VirtualBox out of the many VM solutions I have tried on Windows (despite its XP-esque GUI styling). But please, change my mind - what is your go to VM solution, and why? Which one gives you the easiest snapshot, restore, and network isolation.

Hey all. What would it take run 24/7 virtualization while VR gaming without dropping performance? I’m looking to run Windows as my host os just for VR gaming and then run a linux box guest as my daily driver and maybe sandbox environment as well? What’s the best way to tackle this? ESXI, I only want one set of monitors and keyboard and mouse. This Option is out then. VMware Workstation, Is guest os multiple monitor support actually working as if it was the host OS? If not, should buy a low end graphic cards just to pass it through? Would that even do anything? Host: Windows 10: VR Gaming Guest 1: Linux box: Daily Driver Guest 2: Windows? Linux? Sandbox/Whatever Hardware: [Which CPU will be able to handle this?] -CPU: 3900x 12/24 @3.8/4.6 Is this overkill? It looks sexy though. Host: 6Cores 12 Threads Guest 1: 4Cores 8Threads Guest 2: 2Cores 4Threads -CPU: 9700K 8/8 @3.6/4.9 Why not just get a 3900x instead? Is 8 threads even enough? Host: 4Cores 4Threads Guest 1: 3Cores 2Threads Guest 2: 1Cores 2Threads -CPU: 3700x 8/16 @3.6/4.4 Is this suitable?
Host: 4Cores 8Threads Guest 1: 2Cores 6Threads Guest 2: 2Cores 2Threads -Ram: G.Skill Tridient 32GB Host: 20GB Guest 1: 8GB Guest 2: 4GB GPU: Given to Host GPU2: Do I even need a low GPU for the guest OS? HDD: Real world performance won’t be noticeable with SSDs getting pass through the guest OS, right? One SSD for all guest OSes is enough? Monitor Setup: 4 to 5 monitors What do you think about the hardware I have picked out? What needs to be changed out and with what? What about CPUs? Which one will enough power? GPUs? I will definitely overclock my build as well. Parts will need play along with each other nicely.

Hello, I am trying to replace my router with Dyi OpenWRT running in VM. And something went wrong ... I can’t figure out how to make it work. I am using a miniPC with 4 LAN ports: Current network configuration: With parameters: And the future network configuration should be: So far, I have installed OpenWRT in the VM and tried to configure it, but ... already at this point I can’t access the Internet from the LAN device (192.168.2.5). For testing, I still use a MiniPC connected to the router, and the Internet works fine on the host system. My Vmware configuration (WiFi card not yet installed): And my OpenWRT configuration (WiFi card not yet installed): Does anyone know a step-by-step guide for such a configuration or can advise how to do this? Thank you in advance! all images: https://imgur.com/a/LMZiOEI

I haven't used many virtualization programs over the years .. pretty much just daemon tools & Alcohol 120% Im looking to run VMware workstation player within POP-Os that will run Win 10 on it... as Ive heard its better for (some)gaming that virtual box. There are 2 things Im not to sure about still as there is so much info/reading on the web ? 1 > Does the current release of Vmplayer/workstation support DX10.1 & 11 yet? 2 > Can I use a physical HDD to install games onto that will run within the Virtual Win 10 or is the entire virtual experience ran from a purely a virtual environment e.g virtual HDD? hope that makes sense ?

I'm using Vmware workstation player. I have 1 guest OS that is Windows 7. I want better performance. There is little difference in my game performance when gaming on both Host and Guest at the same time vs just gaming on either one of them. I've come to the conclusion that it must be the amount of processors/cores I've assigned in Vmware workstation player. My CPU is an AMD Ryzen 5 1400 with virtualization support and I am using a Radeon Rx580 4gb. 8gb of Ram. My VM is 40GB. My processor has 8 cores. Also supports SMT/Hyperthreading. How many cores would you recommend that I assign to my VM? I get the same Frame Rates on the Host with the VM running a game as I would with the VM not running. I get the same Frame Rates on the VM while running a game on host as I do with just playing a game on the VM and not the Host.

Good day, Yesterday I lost over 580GB of science data which I have been working over the summer. Right now, I am running a recovery tool to get most of the data back (EaseUs). Anyhow, I realized I needed either a Virtual Machine environment where I can log in and work via the internet on a Win10 machine from Mac and do it locally as well. I read about Virtual box and VMWare. I would like to have 2 x VM where catastrophic failure I can continue where I left off remotely or locally. Currently I have a Threadripper with 64GB of RAM on Win10 which might be used as a server? Looking forward for your expertise.Thank you

Background for context: I'm creating this topic to find what you guys think of these three operating systems and what the pros/cons of each are. That and I'm trying to come to the best conclusion as to what os i should use for the sole purpose of having a host for PCI-Passthrough for the guest VM's to have. I have enough money to get UnRaid OS (basic) if I really have to, and I say this because in my experience with using linux, I did all the steps necessary to get it working and not only that but i also made sure that all hardware in my server are in separate IOMMU groups (which they are, every last part are and no ACS override patch is necessary.) What bugs me the most is that after following all necessary steps to get it working, it always fails one way or another. The only distro that i know of that worked without spitting out errors to my face is Manjaro. But, there in lies another issue: OVMF Tianocore firmware not recognized by libvirt gui, and within the software library gui i had it installed and restarted my server and yet it still didn't recognize that it was included. That is unless my particular build of Manjaro is buggy then fair enough. But, until I can find out about it with manual testing (I don't have physical access to it for now because it is located at my father's house and the drive is a long way's away. There's a good reason for it, I don't trust my step family with my computer. period. And my father is FAR from computer illiterate and knows which is which. Moving on..) i will have to plan ahead and make sure that i can go with the best option and if necessary, i will buy just to get PCI Passthrough working. From reading a couple of forums, OpenSuse, Arch, CentOS and Gentoo are arguably the ones that are well-suited to have run as the host for having these vms. OpenSuse caught my eye in particular due to having a gui desktop, and the kernel(s) (if I'm not mistaken, otherwise please correct me) are pre-configured for this type of virtualization application. And the command line scheme is familiar to me because i am used to the "apt-get" style that i learned from ubuntu originally when i first began using linux. Speaking of that, why does manjaro have to have a confusing command scheme? Instead of "apt-get" its "pamac" or something else. I get that linux can be open source and the command variable schemes can be different but dang is it confusing the hell out of me. XP Anyway, that aside I don't mind getting my hands dirty to get PCI passthrough working just as long as it works, otherwise my genetically coded stubbornness thanks to my scotch-irishness will make me continue until insanity comes around to making it work. So, what i know so far already are: i.) Citrix XenServer is Windows-centric (i.e., requires the server management console software to be run on a windows system in order to create vms, etc. Note that there's an open source version of this said software for linux available.) ii.) in order to get vmware esxi i would have to put in a lot of info before i can buy a license or let alone download a free version of the said hypervisor software. iii.) In order to get to download XenServer hypervisor, i must create an account and i'll be able to download it for free or buy a license to get more features. (Makes sense if i have to do that so I can add the licensed vers. to my account's shopping cart to purchase, fair enough.) iv.) unraid requires that you get a trial key or a key that allows you to use it full time (basic, pro, etc.) made by purchasing a key. So, is there any info at this point that needs to be corrected? If so, please correct me. Use Case moving forward: In my head, i would have a host that i can get access to in order to create and spin up a vm so that i can not only run it as a server for my windows machine to play games but as well as a hackintosh rendering station for content creation (non-commercial; private use at home.) and finally have it serve up some media for my kodi/plex clients and be a general-purpose file server. Final Conclusion: So, in terms of: i.) ease to setup a vm with a pci host device passed through to guest machine without too much difficulty (i.e., the manjaro example where the ovmf firmware wasn't detected after installation of package.) ii.) ease to obtain an .iso. iii.) ease to setup the packages required to host vms (libvirt, qemu, ovmf, etc.) iv.) less prone to errors when passing through a host device to a vm (note: while all devices are in completely separate iommu groups.) So, in your experience or opinion, which distro mentioned here is best for this application?

Hey Everyone, Quick question, but is there an easy way to figure out the physical port that's been given a certain NIC designation? In VMWare, it's designated as NIC-5, but that means nothing to us -- the NIC's aren't labeled.

Okay this is a weird one. I am reconfiguring my ESXi 6.7.0 Update 2 (Build 13006603) host to run the OS on a small flash drive instead of a SATA hard drive so I can keep it separate from my datastore. All of my VMs are migrated and stored on a new hard drive. I then plug in a 64GB USB 3.0 drive and am able to install ESXi on it. The problem is now that when I reboot the system, ESXi seems to reset to factory settings. All of my settings go away including my VMWare license key, my created users, my VM registrations, and my management network settings. It reverts from Static to DHCP and resets the hostname and DNS configuration. This problem never occurred when ESXi was installed on a SATA drive (which was running 6.7 [not Update 2]) but has consistently reverted all of these settings on reboot since migrating to the flash drive. Anyone else ever experience this? Am I better off using a smaller SATA drive to store ESXi on if it avoids this problem or is this an indication of something else?

I'm looking for a software based solution, to control several virtual machines at one time using a single mouse and keyboard. Example: If I was on Google and clicked the search bar, all of my virtual machines would click the search bar at the same time; and then when I type something, they would all type. I've looked around but found nothing, I can't think why this wouldn't exist?

Hi, i'm looking at a replacement SAN for our esxi hosts, we have about 20 vm's running between 2 hosts, currently using a 4Gb link direct to the SAN, however.. our SAN is due to be replaced and repurposed and i'm looking at upgrading to 10Gb Ethernet direct to the hosts with at least 36TB of Storage with possibility to expand if needed. i've had some quotes back for just over 10k in GBP, and would like to see if i can do better, i'm not mega familiar with what sans are out there and which ones to avoid, so i'm really looking for recommendations, it must have ideally quad 10gb ethernet, at least 2U, but can be larger if needed doesn't matter. reliable and robust for 24/7 running, obviously the configuration of the actual array will be decided one we know storage capacity and amount of drives. this is for a educational environment not for myself, so it MUST be reliable. Cheers guys !