Posts tagged vmware
Install VMware Tools on Debian Squeez...
1. Install required packages
aptitude install autoconf automake binutils cpp gcc linux-headers-$(uname -r) make psmisc
2. Mount VMware Tools
mkdir /tmp/vmtools
mount /dev/cdrom /tmp/vmtools
3. Unzip the tools
tar -C /tmp -vfx /tmp/vmtools/VMwareTools*.tar.gz
4. Run install script
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.p [...]
VMWare Open Virtualization Format Too...
Command line utility that supports import and export of OVF packages.
Download
Download VMWare Open Virtualization Format Tool here:
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/automationtools/ovf
You can download this tool for Windows (64-Bit or 32-Bit), Linux (64-Bit or 32-Bit) and Mac OSX.
Install
chmod +x VMware-ovftool-2.0.1-26 [...]
How to Use VNC to access VMware Serve...
Edit the “.vmx” file of your virtual machine and add this lines:
RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "TRUE"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = "5900"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = "YOUR_PASSWORD"
Note: Use a different port for each virtual machine.
Links:
* http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1246
VMware Server 2, Proxysvc SSL Handsha...
Get this server in /var/log/vmware/hostd.log if you want to connect to your VMWare Server ?
Proxysvc SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception
Open about:config in Firefox and change
security.enable.ssl2 from false into true
In some cases you have to kill the vmware-hostd process and restart the management deamon:
/etc/init.d/v [...]
VMWare Server 2 – Unable to bui...
Just a quick Post, the solution for the “Unable to build the vsock module” error message if you install VMWare Server 2 on Debian or Ubuntu:
tar xvf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vsock.tar
cd vsock-only
sed -i 's/^\#include
//' autoconf/*.c
make
cp vsock.o /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc
ln -s vsock.o /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/ [...]
VMWare Workstation / Player Installer...
The installer of VMWare Workstation (and Player) hangs on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10.
“Cause: the installer runs vmware-modconfig-console which produces enough output with some kernels that the python engine deadlocks is command piplining during the compile.”
You need 2 consoles.
In the first one type:
sudo -i
while true; do killall -9 v [...]
VMWare Server 2 – RuntimeFault:...
If you add a new User (New Permission) to the VMWare Server 2 via the VMware Infrastructure Web Access you may get the message “The server response included one or more errors” with the details “RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems”.
To fix this you first have to stop the VMWare ma [...]
VMWare Infrastructure Client with VMW...
I had a lot of problems with the new webinterface of VMWare Server 2. The interface is very unstable and not very comfortable for the VMWare configuration. I need an alternative for the browser application.
The new VMWare Server 2 is very simular to the ESXi or ESX Server from VMWare so you can use the VMWare Infrastructure Client of this p [...]
VMWare Server 1.0.5 – Ubuntu Ha...
The VMWare server is not available over the paketmanager in Ubuntu 8.04. You have to do a manual installation. First you have to download the server from the VMWare website and the vmware-any-any-update116 (482.8 KB) (version 1.1.6) which you have to extract into the vmware-server-distrib folder (extracted VMWare server). Befor you can start [...]
