townx - Installing Dapper as a guest operating system on VMware - Comments

Brilliant! Thanks for the

elliot — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:37:50 -0500

Brilliant! Thanks for the corrections and the new stuff: I hadn't worked that out for myself, so you've helped me out. If you have a blog or website I can reference, I'll stick a link in to the credit I've added to the page. I've also turned on comments (not sure why they were off in the first place).

vmware-user and missing libraries

Sean Flanigan — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:18:58 -0500

I forgot to mention something I had to do to get vmware-user to work in step 20:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32/libgdk-1.2.so.0/libgdk-1.2.so.0 /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32/libgtk-1.2.so.0/libgtk-1.2.so.0 /usr/lib

Sean.

Thanks for the Ubuntu 6.10 howto

Sean Flanigan — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:11:15 -0500

G'day, for some reason the Edgy page (http://townx.org/installing-ubuntu-6-10-edgy-guest-operating-system-vmwa...) doesn't allow comments.

Anyway, I wanted to thank you for the howto. I've followed some of the other Edgy/VMware guides, but yours are the first that got the mouse ungrab working for me.

However, there were a couple of steps I adapted/added, so I thought I would make a note of them:

16. I had to change "./vmware-tools-install.pl" to "./vmware-install.pl"
17.1 "vmmouse_drv.o" should be "vmmouse_drv.so"
20. To get copy and paste working, you have to run vmware-toolbox, and the "Autofit Guest" feature requires vmware-user. I added these two commands to the session startup using System/Preferences/Session/Startup Programs:
vmware-user
vmware-toolbox --minimize

Unfortunately, you always have to keep the vmware-toolbox window open to keep copy/paste working.
If you have AllTray (http://alltray.sourceforge.net/) installed, you can use "alltray vmware-toolbox" instead, to keep it in the system tray and out of the main task list.

Sean.

Thanks for the suggestion. I

elliot — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:36:11 -0500

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't have that many VMs, so it's probably overkill for me.

Is it maybe because apt-get

elliot — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:35:24 -0500

Is it maybe because apt-get isn't recognised, or was misspelled?

Thanks for those notes. I

elliot — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:09:39 -0600

Thanks for those notes. I think these settings are specific to the machine you're using, so you may need to tweak them a bit. In my case, I didn't need to do anything to the sync and refresh settings.

You're most welcome. Glad

elliot — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:03:31 -0600

You're most welcome. Glad you found it useful. That's precisely why I wrote it up: the existing info. was disorganised and scattered all over the place. Good luck with it.

Dapper & VMWare Tools

Guest — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:13:25 -0600

Like previous comment, I needed help getting vmtools to compile in dapper. I am new to Linux/Ubuntu. I was frustrated when the compile failed. The VMWare site was particularly unenlightening. Folks & users there seem to take a special pride in obfuscation and minimalistic advice. Thanks for taking time to share your most excellent and concise advice.

You're welcome! Here's to

elliot — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:44:45 -0600

You're welcome! Here's to much happy Linux-ing.

Just saying THANKS!

MaikR — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:36:05 -0600

New to the world of Linux, so getting the Tools up and running was quite a breeze with your tutor.

So thank you!

Best regards,
Maik

Screen Resolution

Guest — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:42:59 -0500

I could not get the screen resolution above 1024*768 just by editing the Modes sections in /etc/X11/xorg.conf as described above, I also had to edit the Monitor section and change the refresh limits to:
HorizSync 28-105
VertRefresh 43-72
and set the colour depth to 16 in the Screen section:
DefaultDepth 16
(After changing CTRL-ALT-Backspace to restart)
I found that adding the maximum resolution I required (in my case 1280*1024) into the Modes sections made all other intermediate modes between this and 1024*768 appear in the Screen Resolution tool.

Hello there. uname is a

elliot — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:29:28 -0500

Hello there. uname is a standard utility and should be on every Linux distribution (I thought). Do you get nothing at all if you type uname -r at a prompt?

The other way to find out which kernel version you have is to do:

dpkg-query -W linux-image*

The highest numbered one is likely to be the one you are running. Alternatively, have a look at the grub menu when you boot, as this displays the Linux kernel version.

Once you know what it is, install the appropriate headers package. E.g. on my system, the dpkg-query line returns:

linux-image
linux-image-2.6
linux-image-2.6.15-23-386       2.6.15-23.39
linux-image-2.6.15-25-386       2.6.15-25.43
linux-image-2.6.15-26-386       2.6.15-26.47
linux-image-2.6.15-27-386       2.6.15-27.48
linux-image-386 2.6.15.25

So my kernel is linux-image-2.6.15-27-386. So I need to install:

apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.15-27-386

(just change image to headers).

Hope this helps.

apt-get install

Guest5 — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:28:33 -0500

apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

came up with an error it did not recognize the -r

so I 'apt-get install linux-headers'

but now it has a long list of kernel options it says I need to select, and I am new to ubutnu, a little lost.

please help, I am running kubutnu dapper latest download

thanks

Thanks

Richie — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:32:01 -0500

Now I can swing my mouse in and out with the CTRL-ALT combo... thanks!

cheers!

Thanks for taking the time

elliot — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:30:16 -0500

Thanks for taking the time to comment: I know this page gets hit a fair bit, but very few people stop to say thanks. I appreciate it. Glad the instructions worked.

Installing Dapper as a guest operating system on VMware

elliot — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:14:46 -0500

Note: If you're installing Ubuntu Edgy as a guest OS, I've updated these instructions (as it's easier than Dapper). See this page of instructions instead.

Hmm, not simple. But I've licked it. I'm using VMware Workstation 5.5.1 build-19175 and Ubuntu Dapper as the host operating system. I am installing a second Ubuntu Dapper as the guest operating system. I also worked out how to get the VMware Tools to work. Here's what I did:

Downloaded the Ubunutu .iso file from http://ubuntu.org/. (I tried to install off CD and failed miserably: it hung when it tried to create the Ubuntu Live CD user.)
Created a new virtual machine in VMware (I accepted all the defaults). I set the hard disk to 4Gb which should be big enough.
Edit the virtual machine and set its CD to use an ISO image; point it at the Ubuntu .iso file you downloaded.
Boot the virtual machine. Press enter when prompted to install Ubuntu. This will boot into the Live CD version of Ubuntu.
Once in, double-click the "Install" icon on the desktop to install the Live CD image onto the hard disk.
Follow through the installation procedure.
When you power off ready for reboot, you can point the CD for the virtual machine back at the physical drive (I used the "Autodetect" setting).
Boot into Ubuntu. You are now using the hard disk installation rather than the Live CD image.
Select the VM > Install VMware Tools option from the VMware workstation menu. You should get a CD icon on your Ubuntu desktop; if not, go to Places and choose the CD there.
Copy the .tar.gz file to your desktop. Right click on it and select "Extract here". This will give you a folder called vmware-tools-distrib.
Get a console up and cd to the vmware-tools-distrib directory.
Make yourself root (sudo su).
There are a few things we're going to need to be able to install the tools, so get those:
apt-get install gcc gcc-3.4 make
We also need the Linux kernel headers.
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
Once they're installed, it's worth creating a symlink to make the installer run more smoothly:
ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15.23-386 /usr/src/linux
Tell the installer script which compiler to use:
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4
While you're still in the vmware-tools-distrib directory, run the install script:
./vmware-tools-install.pl
I accepted all the default settings and said yes to everything.
This gets everything (pretty much) working except the mouse. You can fix this like so:
1. sudo ln -s /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/6.8.x/vmmouse_drv.o /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/
2. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and find the section headed Section "InputDevice", with the line Driver "mouse". Change the Driver "mouse" line so it reads Driver "vmmouse".
As I'm using a widescreen laptop, I also had to edit the settings for my screen resolution in the Section "Screen", e.g.:
Modes "1280×768" "1024×768" "800×600" "640×480"
This works fine on my IBM Z60t.
Logout and kill X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This should make all your new settings come alive.

Hurrah! It works!