If you have recently upgraded to the latest versions of ed/x/ubuntu (10.x) and the latest version of vmware player (3.1.1) you may experience the “good old” vmware tools & vmware toolbox “missing make”, “missing gcc” or “missing kernel headers” errors !
These can normally be fixed by running
# aptitude install bin-utils
# aptitude install linux-headers-generic
before re-running
# vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
and
# vmware-config-tools.pl
VMware Player 3.1.1 282343 is now available
Lets hope it resolves my issue of its HostOnly and/or NAT virtual networks sending NTP & other broadcasts on my physical network and our network adminstrator discovering I was running the previous version of VMware Player (3.1.0 – 261024) when i thought the whole point of the VMware HostOnly and/or NAT virtual networks was to HIDE my VMs from network administrators !
VMware Server 1.x is alive and well and still works fine with a CentOS/OEL/RHEL 5.x host and CentOS/OEL/RHEL 5.x guests
If you’ve ever struggled with VMware Server 2.x security configuration you should find VMware Server 1.x security model much easier !
It turns out that enabling the VMware Player “replicate physical network state” mode is only for use when running VMware Player on a device that has a WI-Fi connection and means that :
as you move from one wired or wireless network to another, the IP address is automatically renewed inside the virtual machine.
See
file:///C:/Program%20Files/VMware/VMware%20Player/help/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm
#href=t_set_up_bridged_networking.html
According to The Register NASA have started to build a private Nebula Cloud based on Ubuntu 10 and Eucalyptus Enterprise 2 which will likely underpin websites across the federal government.
Eucalyptus Enterprise works with the Xen and KVM hypervisors and the latest version has now been ported to VMware hypervisors as well, allowing for installation atop VMware’s vSphere, ESXi, and ESX virtualization technologies. The Eucalyptus Enterprise edition also includes an image converter that helps users develop VMware-based applications that are compatible with Amazon EC2.
VMware have bought SpringSource who have bought RabbitMQ cloud messaging !
VMware Player 3 (finally) auto recompiles kernel modules after you have updated/upgraded your linux kernel !
VMware ESXi 4.0 is certified to run on a broad range of 64-bit hardware. Check the Hardware Compatibility List to ensure that the server model you intend to use is certified to run VMware ESXi 4. For 32-bit hardware support, download the previous version, VMware ESXi 3.5.
If your Xubuntu 8.x/9.x (XFCE) VM keeps logging you out on startup it may be a problem with your XFCE config startup or VMware tools toolbox startup settings.
So just reboot your VM into single user mode or login as root (only if you’ve pre/re/enabled root account login) and goto the users directory that has the problem and :
# cd ~user-with-problem
# mv .config .old
# logout
Now you should be able to re-login as then problem user !
However they will have lost all their XFCE X11 X settings but you can now :
$ diff -qr .config .old
to investigate the XFCE or VMware setting that was causing the problem !
You can also check your .xsession-errors file(s) to see if you’re getting:
vmware-user: could not open /proc/fs/vmblock/dev
in which case you could try and re-run vmware-config-tools.pl and reboot to fix !
If you’ve built a VMware VM but forgotten to turn off LVM and therefore cant use vmware virtual toolbox to shrink your disks you can still perform a virtual shrink by filling up your vm vmdks with 0’s !
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=40M count=40 of=1
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=40M count=40 of=2
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=40M count=40 of=3
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=40M count=40 of=4
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=40M count=40 of=5
etc etc
$ rm 1 2 3 4 5
This didnt affect the 11G of space used by my vm vmdk disks but it did reduce the tgz of the entire vm from 5.5G to 3.3G !