Is there no more free vmware player for home use ?

[William Gaatjes]

I was looking to see if there were any updates. And i noticed that the vmware player is now only a trial available ? Am i looking wrong ? Is there no more vmware player for home use ?

 

[MustISO]

There's a free and paid version of VMware Workstation Player:

https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_player/12_0


Notes

VMware Workstation Player (FREE & PAID).
Enter a license key into the VMware Workstation Player user interface to license for commercial use and to enable the VMware Workstation Player (PAID) features.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Thank you.

Does a VM created with vmware player 7 still work ?
It is a windows xp virtual machine.

I read there is with vmware player 12 better support for graphics. I guess i need vmtools for that ?

 

[William Gaatjes]

Well, i upgraded to vmware player 12. And i should better have not. The vmtools were updated too. And now i have to start the vmtools service manually because it will not start. I have it set to start automatically but it does not do that. The virtual machine is a windows xp machine. Anybody else had this issue before ?

 

[William Gaatjes]

I will go through the event logs to see what is going on.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Well, it resolved it self. After starting the virtual machine, the vmtools service start after about a minute. I checked, i have it set to start automatically in system / administrative tools / services. And i have it set to try again after some failure.

I did notice that some thin print is not working.

 

[TeknoBug]

It's there, just a little bit harder to find.

Perhaps remove player 7 and install fresh from 12?

 

[John Connor]

Never had that issue with VMware Tools. But I can tell you trying to get Ubuntu Server LTS to works is a damn joke. Kept getting a kernel panic and it even said the OS disabled the damn CPU!

I need to try Virtualbox.

 

[pauldun170]

Was using VMPlayer for a few years and went through the normal upgrade path on VM's.
When they went to 12, I had some issues with virtual printers and sound drivers but overall, VM's I had for years were able to import cleanly.