5.0
Table Of Contents
- Getting Started with VMware Player
- Contents
- Getting Started with VMware Player
- Introduction and System Requirements
- Installing and Using Player
- Creating Virtual Machines
- Understanding Virtual Machines
- Preparing to Create a Virtual Machine
- Create a Virtual Machine
- Use Easy Install to Install a Guest Operating System
- Install a Guest Operating System Manually
- Importing Virtual Machines
- Installing and Upgrading VMware Tools
- Installing VMware Tools
- Upgrading VMware Tools
- Configure Software Update Preferences
- Configure VMware Tools Updates for a Specific Virtual Machine
- Manually Installing and Upgrading VMware Tools
- Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Windows Virtual Machine
- Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Linux Virtual Machine
- Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a NetWare Virtual Machine
- Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Solaris Virtual Machine
- Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a FreeBSD Virtual Machine
- Start the VMware User Process Manually If You Do Not Use a Session Manager
- Uninstall VMware Tools
- Virtual Machine Files
- Using Virtual Machines
- Starting Virtual Machines in Player
- Stopping Virtual Machines in Player
- Transferring Files and Text
- Using the Drag-and-Drop Feature
- Using the Copy and Paste Feature
- Using Shared Folders
- Mapping a Virtual Disk to the Host System
- Add a Host Printer to a Virtual Machine
- Using Removable Devices in Virtual Machines
- Install New Software in a Virtual Machine
- Changing the Virtual Machine Display
- Download a Virtual Appliance in Player
- Remove a Virtual Machine from the Library in Player
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Machines
- Change the Name of a Virtual Machine
- Change the Guest Operating System for a Virtual Machine
- Change the Working Directory for a Virtual Machine
- Change the Virtual Machine Directory for a Virtual Machine
- Change the Memory Allocation for a Virtual Machine
- Configuring Video and Sound
- Moving Virtual Machines
- Delete a Virtual Machine
- View the Message Log for a Virtual Machine
- Using the VIX API
- Configuring and Managing Devices
- Configuring DVD, CD-ROM, and Floppy Drives
- Configuring a USB Controller
- Configuring and Maintaining Virtual Hard Disks
- Configuring Virtual Ports
- Add a Virtual Parallel Port to a Virtual Machine
- Configure a Virtual Parallel Port on a Linux 2.6.x Kernel Host
- Configure Permissions for a Parallel Port Device on a Linux Host
- Troubleshoot ECR Errors for Parallel Ports
- Add a Virtual Serial Port to a Virtual Machine
- Change the Input Speed of a Serial Connection
- Configuring Generic SCSI Devices
- Configuring Eight-Way Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing
- Configuring Keyboard Features
- Modify Hardware Settings for a Virtual Machine
- Configuring Network Connections
- Index
8 Click Finish to add the drive to the virtual machine.
9 Click OK to save your changes.
Configure Legacy Emulation Mode for a DVD or CD-ROM Drive
Use legacy emulation mode to work around direct communication problems between a guest operating system
and a DVD or CD-ROM drive.
In legacy emulation mode, you can read only from data discs in the DVD or CD-ROM drive. Legacy emulation
mode does not provide the other capabilities of normal mode. In normal mode, the guest operating system
communicates directly with the CD-ROM or DVD drive. This direct communication enables you to read
multisession CDs, perform digital audio extraction, view videos, and use CD and DVD writers to burn discs.
If you run more than one virtual machine at a time, and if their CD-ROM drives are in legacy emulation mode,
you must start the virtual machines with their CD-ROM drives disconnected. By disconnecting the CD-ROM
drives in the virtual machines, you prevent multiple virtual machines from being connected to the CD-ROM
drive at the same time.
Procedure
1 Select the virtual machine and select Player > Manage > Virtual Machine Settings.
2 On the Hardware tab, select the drive and click Advanced.
3 Select Legacy emulation and click OK.
On Windows hosts, this option is deselected by default. On Linux hosts that have IDE drives, the default
setting depends on whether the ide-scsi module is loaded in the kernel. The ide-scsi module must be
loaded, or you must use a physical SCSI drive, to connect directly to the DVD or CD-ROM drive.
4 Click OK to save your changes.
Configuring a USB Controller
A virtual machine must have a USB controller to use USB devices and smart card readers. To use a smart card
reader, a virtual machine must have a USB controller regardless of whether the smart card reader is actually
a USB device.
Player provides a USB controller to support the following types of USB devices.
n
USB 1.1 UHCI (Universal Host Controller Interface) is supported for all virtual machine hardware
versions.
n
USB 2.0 EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller Interface) controllers are supported if the virtual machine
hardware is compatible with Workstation 6 and later virtual machines.
n
USB 3.0 xHCI (Extensible Host Controller Interface) support is available for Linux guests running kernel
version 2.6.35 or later and for Windows 8 guests. The virtual machine hardware must be compatible with
Workstation 8 or later virtual machines.
For USB 2.0 or 3.0 support, you must select USB 2.0 or 3.0 compatibility by configuring virtual machine settings
for the USB controller. USB 2.0 and 3.0 devices are high-speed devices that include the latest models of USB
flash drives, USB hard drives, iPods, and iPhone.
If you select USB 2.0 compatibility, when a USB 2.0 device connects to a USB port on the host system, the device
connects to the EHCI controller and operates in USB 2.0 mode. A USB 1.1 device connects to the UHCI controller
and operates in USB 1.1 mode. If you enable USB 3.0, the xHCI controller can support all USB devices, including
USB 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0 devices.
Although the host operating system must support USB, you do not need to install device-specific drivers for
USB devices in the host operating system to use those devices only in the virtual machine. Windows NT and
Linux kernels earlier than 2.2.17 do not support USB.
Chapter 6 Configuring and Managing Devices
VMware, Inc. 75