May 4, 2011
Skip to instructions Update: Due to more bugs found with VMware Server and the unlikely event that they will be resolved I have since switched to VMware Player on Ubuntu. Instructions here for installing Server are still valid at the time of writing this (June 2011). Recently, to my mistake,… [...]
March 6, 2011
If you are running a VMware product on Ubuntu (or another Linux host I suspect) then you may encounter a problem when trying to mount/attach a USB device plugged into your host, to one of your virtual machines. The error message I was getting was “Remote USB device error: Remote… [...]
February 27, 2011
Have just installed VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 10 and the Remote console plug-in doesn’t work. VMware Server 2 is all web-based which is great as you dont need to install much but to get to the console screen of your VMs you need a browser plug-in which should… [...]
October 7, 2008
Unlike on Windows guest operating systems there is no click-to-install function to install VMware Tools on Linux guests. This must be done via a Terminal session and compiling the package for the specific Linux kernel. Here are brief instructions for installing or upgrading VMware Tools on Ubuntu linux. For this… [...]
October 1, 2008
I noticed that the release version of VMware Server 2 is available now. As I was currently running v1, thought I should upgrade so downloaded the installer .exe and got going. So the first thing it did was uninstall the current version (obviously leaving the VMs alone) and next started… [...]
April 6, 2008
Editing VMWare images without workstation Did you know that you can edit/add certain functions to WMWare images without the need to have VMWare Workstation, or any other full product. So if you have only Player then you can change your virtual machine simply by editing the .vmx file. Eg to… [...]