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[edit] VMware 5.0
- The VMware seminar
I attended a seminar and got a free license for the new version (new to me, anyway). I arrived an hour and a half before the presentation start because I overestimated the amount of time it would take me to get out that way. Good thing I brought a book. I heard there was free food, but I didn't bother with it. Good crowd, very personable speaker and mildly interesting topics. A few items were of particular interest so it was worth it to attend for them and not just for the license. =)
- Open-partition silent file destruction
- Remains unsolved.
- Allowing free access for guest operating systems to use real partitions is still something they have a disclaimer against and is presumably still potentially distructive. Damn.
- Snapshotting
- It's nice to see that snapshotting has a nice GUI frontend to it. This was a desire of mine.
- It's .. um.. "instant". Whoa.
- Sound
- Sound pops.
- But it popped under a previous version using a Windows host as well, so it could be me. It could also be issues with drive speed or the like. This is being revisited.
- Full-screen
- A fine border may still be painted around everything, which would force scrollbars. I think this is the fault of the window manager. Control-Alt-T should work.
[edit] VMware Installation
- I did not need to apply any of Ocilent1 VMware fixes.
- See also VMware troubleshooting.
[edit] VMware 5.0 and PCLinuxOS 0.91
- Install a good kernel and make sure its source files are also installed. Use synaptic.
- "kernel-pclos-i686-up-4GB-2.6.13.oci2.mdk#1-1tex" allowed VMware to install just fine, and without any installation deviations, but gave Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. when a virtual machine was started.
- "kernel-pclos-2.6.13.oci2.mdk#1-1tex" is in testing.
- mcc > Lilo settings > specify the new kernel, make it default
- reboot, choosing that kernel.
- For me it was 2613-oci2
- Install vmware
- I did an rpm -i --force vmware*.rpm
- The --force is for when you re-install vmware, to overwrite destination files.
- If reinstalling, you may get "Unable to stop VMware Workstation's services." .. rebooting before doing the rpm install might be a good idea.
- I did an rpm -i --force vmware*.rpm
- su
- Edit /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl perl script:
Search for
} elsif ($first =~ /^[89ab]$/) {
$first = '80000000';
Replace with
} elsif ($first =~ /^[89a]$/) {
$first = '80000000';
} elsif ($first =~ /^[b]$/) {
$first = 'B0000000';
- vmware-config.pl
- I used the defaults.
- I had to rm /etc/vmware/not_installed
