Virtualization
VMWare Workstation / Player Installer 6.5.3 Hangs
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 vmware-modconfig-console; sleep 1; done […]
VMWare Server 2 – RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems
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 management service: […]
VMWare Infrastructure Client with VMWare Server
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 […]