Printer in vmware vida

MAC99 · Post by **MAC99** » 26 Oct 2018, 17:50

looking for information, how to hook up a printer for Vida in VMware. Any buddy know?
Daniel

Post by **RickHaleParker** » 27 Oct 2018, 01:20

It is in the VMware Documentation.

"Add a Host Printer to a Virtual Machine

You can print from a virtual machine to any printer available to the host computer without having to install additional drivers in the virtual machine.

The Workstation printer feature uses ThinPrint technology to replicate the host system printer mapping in the virtual machine. When you enable the virtual machine printer, Workstation configures a virtual serial port to communicate with the host printers.
Note

You cannot add a printer to a shared or remote virtual machine.
Procedure
1 Select the virtual machine and select VM > Settings.
2 On the Hardware tab, select Add.
3 In the Add Hardware wizard, select Printer and Finish.

The default device setting is to connect the virtual machine printer when the virtual machine is powered on.
What to do next

In a Print window, when you attempt to select a printer in Windows 7 virtual machines, you might see only the default printer, even though other printers are available. To see the other printers, right-click the default printer and point to Printer properties."

MAC99 · Post by **MAC99** » 27 Oct 2018, 10:21

Thank You good info. I now have the printer in VM, however, VM is now telling me it can not find a properly installed network adapter.
My laptop has one and it works just fine, I can use my network printers.

MAC99 · Post by **MAC99** » 27 Oct 2018, 10:31

I am looking in VMware Documentation

Post by **RickHaleParker** » 27 Oct 2018, 19:58

If your Network adapter is WIFI direct access is out unless you go through USB to a WIFI dongle. Other then that set up the VM NIC as a bridge connection to the host network.