How to VMWare Server 2.0 on Ubuntu 8.10

[Hellaxe]

Did you follow the instructions in the first post of this how to?

If so, what did you add to ~/.vmware/config ?

I did exactly as is in the How To:

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = TRUE

Only today I had time to check this out.

[williec4]

Last you will need to configure your keyboard.

Using any editor make a file ~/.vmware/config

The directory ~/.vmware *should* exist, but the "config" file does not.

How do I make a file like this. Please show me step by step.

[bodhi.zazen]

From the command line :

gedit ~/.vmware/config

Make your edit, save the file.

You can use any editor (vim, nano, emacs, kate ....).

You can make an empty file with touch

touch ~/.vmware/config

Then naviagate to ~/.vmware (with nautilus) and open the file.

[thierrybo]

I read reports that the "old" solution is better because it does not break the Unity feature. The best place seems to be /etc/vmware/config, not ~/.vmware/config

[*]Last you will need to configure your keyboard.

Using any editor make a file ~/.vmware/config

The directory ~/.vmware *should* exist, but the "config" file does not.

Add the following text (from the VMWare forums):

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = TRUE

WARNING: The 'xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true' configuration breaks the Unity feature on VMWare Workstation! Use the alternate solution below.

[indent]Old solution (I left this in the event the "new" configuration does not work, you do not need to do this if the above solution works).

[williec4]

I read reports that the "old" solution is better because it does not break the Unity feature. The best place seems to be /etc/vmware/config, not ~/.vmware/config

Can I do it from any directory or I have to move to some specific folder?

[thierrybo]

I read reports that the "old" solution is better because it does not break the Unity feature. The best place seems to be /etc/vmware/config, not ~/.vmware/config

Can I do it from any directory or I have to move to some specific folder?

sorry, don't understand exactly how your question is related to my previous post.

[gtdaqua]

[*]Last you will need to configure your keyboard.

Using any editor make a file ~/.vmware/config

The directory ~/.vmware *should* exist, but the "config" file does not.

Add the following text (from the VMWare forums):

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = TRUE

Thanks for this hack. Really need this.

[ready2go]

Hi all,
I am running VMWare Server 2.0 build 122589 on Ubuntu 8.1 64-bit, on an Intel Q6600. VMWare server had been running for some time, then I had an error which stopped all VMs from completing start-up. The error was "Failed to initialize monitor device." I checked around forums and with Google, came to suspect it was because I had KVM libraries installed. I uninstalled KVM, restarted, and the VMs ran.

Recently the VMs all stopped running again with the same error. I don't believe I installed anything 'interesting'. I checked that KVM is not installed, and that Xen is not installed. There is very little information from VMWare corp on how to troubleshoot. I have found a /var/log/vmware/hostd-5.log which collects entries as the VMs start and fail.

There is an entry in this log that says: " on <machine name> in ha-datacenter: The virtualization capability of your processor is already in use. Disable any other running hypervisors before running VMware Server."

I am fairly new to Linux, and am not sure how to confirm what, if any, other virtualization technologies are running.

[ready2go]

There is an entry in this log that says: " on <machine name> in ha-datacenter: The virtualization capability of your processor is already in use. Disable any other running hypervisors before running VMware Server."

I am fairly new to Linux, and am not sure how to confirm what, if any, other virtualization technologies are running.

Fixed it myself by installing sysv-rc-conf and using it to disable kvm in all run-levels. Surely this can be checked by the VMWare Server install scripts

[mahasmb]

Umm... can I not run this in a browser? Is there another way to it? I mean when I install Windows XP into it I don't want to be running Windows XP in a browser...

Also, I keep on getting this error whenever I power on the virtual machine:

"Power On Virtual Machine" failed to complete

If these problems persist, please contact your system administrator.
DetailsA general system error occurred: Cannot connect to the virtual machine

Edit: Nevermind. VMWare has been so very very very tedious to install and set up and I can't even get it to work properly. So I tried VirtualBox... which was honestly a breeze. Why isn't VMWare that easy to install and setup? Plus, my VirtualBox actually works. I've already got Windows XP installed.

So I just have one question. How do I do a complete removal?