Comments on: Clearing VMWare Player Recent Virtual Machines list

By: Elena

Elena — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:16:32 +0000

Thanks for this tip! I use VMware everyday and had been looking for a way to get rid of that annoying list for months! :)

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:39:44 +0000

Thanks it worked like a charm

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:41:31 +0000

Thanks, very useful. I renamed a virtual machine in VMWare inside the VMX file, and found that the old (incorrectly named) recently-used machine did not work correctly. It loaded, started, then caused a blue screen of death when I tried to kill it, in Vista.

By: Jose V. Cabo

Jose V. Cabo — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:36:15 +0000

In (K)Ubuntu you must edit/delete the file:

$HOME/.recently-used.xbel

Thanks for the previous info. Without it I wouldn't have not be able to figure out the solution in Linux.

By: selamy

selamy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:01:45 +0000

thanks for the tip mate.. :D

By: Eric Martin

Eric Martin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:59:43 +0000

@David - thanks for the Linux tip!

By: Chew

Chew — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:17:34 +0000

Thanks for the hint, this issue became quite annoying ;)

By: David Campbell

David Campbell — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:39:30 +0000

Regarding the question of how to clear the list on linux, it appears that VMware player uses Linux's list of most recently used files.

You can clear the VMware player list by doing this [I'm using Fedora 8 Linux but likely to be similar to others]:

Choose Places/Recent Documents/Clear Recent Documents
then select that you really want to do it.

After that, if you restart VMware player, the list is clear and will be recreated when you open a VM.

By: Alex Cohn

Alex Cohn — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:39:45 +0000

Thanks a lot!

By: Eric Martin

Eric Martin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:43:21 +0000

@JD Nbrs - I'm not sure, but you might be able to find a preferences file by doing a file-system search for "pref.mruVMX"