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Today's Guardian exposes some sneaky plans by the BBC to try to leverage its broadcast license into control over the devices that can receive broadcasts,thus undermining the concept of free/open...

HermanAB:

If I reinstall VMWare Server, do I have to reinstall XP? Do I lose all my XP files?

Help!

My Vmware Server has stopped running. I click on the icon in the panel and nothing happens.

I am on Dapper and have been running Windows XP Home in my virtual machine; it has worked fine...

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Description of VMWare problem with WebStudio loading

VM Server Console
Version 1.0.0. build-28343
1.54 Ghz AMD Athlon desktop; 384 Kb memory
Host: Linux Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper)
VM guest: Windows...

Lord Raiden

Thanks for the instructions. I am back in business; however, I still don't have sound! :(

I will go back to the start of this thread and carry on where I left off. Presumably this...

Impressive Howto, but by following it I have completely buggered up my laptop.

My Dell Latitude -- which had been happily working under Dapper for several weeks -- had suddenly gone silent, maybe...

Nicbink wrote:


Brilliant, absolutely brilliant! Did as you said, and my connection now works.

To be honest, when I ran the setup first time, I didn't really have a clue what all those...

Nicbink

Thanks very much for trying to help me sort out this problem.

I started my virtual machine and then edited the virtual machine settings by adding an ethernet device and made it bridged....

Having sorted my USB problem in VMware server :) now I turn to trying to connect my wireless card to my home network.

Host computer runs Ubuntu 6.06; connects via wlan0 using D-Link AirPlus...

Nicbink

See my edit -- just now I caught on to that and am now making progress, though not without problems. I don't have an IPod, I just have a couple of USB disk devices that I need to write to.

oolunch wrote:


Well I did all that, of course, but when I get to USB, it says "Empty", unlike the entries for my CD and floppy drives, which give the choice of "Disconnect" and "Edit". At that...

To Eric_t:

I tried your code and got this result:

steve@steve-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge vmware
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E:...

To Eric_T:
thanks for the uninstall code; I really appreciate it.

to oolunchbox:
Join the club! I installed Vmware server according to this Howto. It seemed to be working fine when I installed...

How do I uninstall VMware Server? I installed it following the instructions in this thread, that is, I used the apt-get command. It doesn't show up in either of my two GUI installers -- Autmatix or...

Great NOWTO, but I didn't seem to succeed in installing wine.

I used Automatix to install wine, then picked up the HOWTO. During installation I got these error messages:


An error or exception...

USB DEVICES NOT RECOGNIZED

Excellent HOWTO. Installed WindowsXP, powered up the machine, but it didn't recognize two USB storage devices: an external HDD (Freecom FHD2-Pro) and a 512Kb memory...

This is an excellent Howto, and the VM seems to be just what I need. It installed flawlessly and it is working as it should.

HOWEVER, I can't seem to get file sharing working. I followed Chris's...

I'm a newbie, so can't answer most of your questions, but regarding the wireless connection, I have Ubuntu Dapper Duck beta installed on an ageing Dell laptop, using a Belkin wireless PCMCIA card,...

The HOWTO looks very promising, and everything went fine until this bit of the dialogue:


steve@steve:~$ tar -xf winetools*
steve@steve:~$ wt
bash: wt: command not found
steve@steve:~$ tar -xf...