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, I saw Ubuntu 11.04 was… Read more »
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How to attach USB devices on Ubuntu to VMs
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 device disconnected: an error occured… Read more »
How to start VMware Remote console plug-in on Ubuntu
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 download and start automatically but… Read more »
How to install VMware Tools on an Ubuntu guest
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 instance I was using Ubuntu… Read more »
VMware Server 2
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 to install the new version,… Read more »
Editing VMWare images for Player without workstation
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 add a shared folder from… Read more »
