VMWare Server 1.0 doesn’t support the same set of features as the more recent versions of VMWare Workstation and VMWare Player, so you may not be able to open virtual machines created with more advanced features. However by simply modifying the configuration file you may be able to start up the virtual machine anyway, as [...]
A couple of days ago I decided to try out Beta 2 of the free VMWare Server version 2. After installing it on Windows Vista I attempted to log into the VMWare Infrastructure Web Access but got an error message saying “Access Denied”. This post looks at how to successfully log into the web access [...]
VMWare Workstation and the various flavours of VMWare Server allow you to install a package called “VMWare Tools”. These VMWare Tools contain various methods of communication between the guest virtual machine and the host and in general should make the guest VM run better. This post looks at how to install VMWare Tools on a [...]
VMWare Server Console allows you to connect to a VMWare Server virtual machine running either on your local machine or a remote machine. The remote machine might be on your local network or located somewhere on the Internet. This post looks at how to deal with the error message in the VMWare Server Console “unable [...]
VMWare’s virtualisation products are great. But I have one thing I need to have a rant about. The “suspend” function uses the Ctrl+Z keyboard shortcut and there doesn’t seem to be any way to be able to change it. If there is, suggestions about how to change it are welcome. Ctrl+Z is commonly used as [...]
You can install Vmware Tools on a guest machine in VMware Server or VMWare Workstation using an SSH session, but after installing it, VMware Tools must be configured by issuing the vmware-config-tools.pl command. This configuration script actually stops the network connection completely, so you cannot install VMWare Tools from an ssh session and must do [...]
After I unwittingly upgraded from openSUSE 10.2 to openSUSE 10.3, I wasn’t able to configure VMWare Workstation 6.0 on openSUSE 10.3 so ended up downloading the updated 6.0.1 version of VMWare Workstation. This fixed my issue with being able to configure it and run my guest operating systems but changing from the 2.6.18 kernel to [...]
I use VMWare Workstation 6.0 on a daily basis to run a Windows XP virtual machine on my SUSE Linux host machine so that I can run Windows only applications such as Adobe Photoshop, and to test websites with Internet Explorer, Opera and Mozilla Firefox on a native Windows platform. I also use it for [...]
After attempting to install VMWare on Gentoo Linux you may get the following error message when trying to run the vmware-config.pl configuration script: vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. /etc/init.d/vmware: line 919: [: -: integer expression expected Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor failed Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done DHCP server on [...]
VMWare is virtual machine software that lets you run a guest operating system inside your operating system without having to reboot your computer. This article covers an error that can happen which prevents VMWare from starting up in the event of a crash. Note that I have only had experience with this error on Linux [...]
