HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

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Thank you m.musashi that worked, now that I have WindowsXp loaded and running I noticed that my DVD player and my DVD-RW player have not been installed any ideas?

I would like to take this time to say Thank You to everyone that has helped me.

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[m.musashi]

Getting everything to work right can be a bit of a challenge. I haven't figured out yet how to access physical hard drives. CDs and such are not too bad.

Open your XP vm and instead of clicking power on, choose edit vm settings. On the left half of the window are your devices. If CD is there it may not be correctly configured. If not, choose add to add one (or two). I chose auto detect because that seems to work for me. You may need to play around to find the right settings for you.

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Wow just tried to start up Windows and it's a no go, typed sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl and I got this.

joe203@joe203-desktop:~$ sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done
Virtual ethernet failed
Unable to stop services for VMware Server

Execution aborted.

I'm starting to think this just isn't meant to be .

[hfw]

I got the same unable to stop services when i tried to config as well. I am curious what the fix for that is.

hfw

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Some how i have installed the Vmware server on my feisty ubuntu. Then I tested it with debian-stable as the guest OS; working well.
But for Windows Xp I have the pain. XP setup is halting saying that "There is no hardisk attached to your computer". I tried with different versions of XP but the problem remained the same.

SOS

[xreed88]

after i go through through the vmware setup i get this error



Unable to get the last modification timestamp of the destination file
/etc/vmware/ssl/rui.key.

Excution aborted


anyone else have this problem?
thx in advance

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So can anyone tell me why my Virtual Ethernet failed? Windows ran just fine yesterday I had no problems logging on to the Internet.



joe203@joe203-desktop:~$ sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done
Virtual ethernet failed
Unable to stop services for VMware Server

Thanks.

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[evkefalas]

i follow the instructions and after i run the install
i get
evan@evan-laptop:~/Desktop/tmp/vmware-server-distrib$ vmware
bash: vmware: command not found
evan@evan-laptop:~/Desktop/tmp/vmware-server-distrib$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

Failure

Execution aborted.

evan@evan-laptop:~/Desktop/tmp/vmware-server-distrib$

i ve tried to install nmplayer before from the synaptic pakg manager
but didnt use it and removed it normally
so it thinks i have a previous vmware installation there
any ideas how to solve this?

Many Thanks

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evkefalas just type the following to purge your system of Vmware, then reinstall.

sudo rm -rf /etc/vmware

type in your password when prompted and it will do the rest.


Needless to say you have to be very careful about how you use that command as used in the wrong place it can wipe out your whole OS


Thanks to praxis 22 for this code.

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