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VMware
VMware
VMware version 5 is reported to work with Ubuntu out-of-the-box. Try using NAT rather than bridging when using VMware 5 with Ubuntu as a guest OS.
VMware Workstation 4, VMware Workstation 4.5, or VMware GSX 3.1 under Ubuntu causes some problems because of Ubuntu's use of udev. Fortunately there is a patch for VMware that solves this and many other problems. Follow the instructions below after you have installed VMware.
- Open a terminal and change into a temporary directory.
Download the patch by running
wget http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update92.tar.gz
- (check the directory for new versions if that wget fails).
Extract the patch by running
tar xzvf vmware-any-any-update90.tar.gz
Change into the directory where the patch was extracted
cd vmware-any-any-update90
Apply the patch
sudo ./runme.pl
After the patch is applied it will prompt to run vmware-config.pl. Choose Yes and accept the defaults.
Installation tips
The install script asks for the path of gcc. If it isn't automatically found find the path on your system by running
which gcc
When you run vmware-config.pl, if the script can't find your kernel's C headers you must install the appropriate headers package. Do this by running
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
You must then point vmware-config.pl to the appropriate directory, such as
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.10-5-686/include
If the VMware Management Interface (MUI) for GSX complains about a lack of libdb.so.3 and instruct you to get compat-db-3.3.<##>-<#>.i386.rpm. You want the ubuntu package libdb2 for this.
Enabling Parallel Port Access
VMware allows direct access to parallel ports, which is handy if you've got a scanner that only has Windows drivers. You may need to make the following minor change to VMware's startup script.
Open /etc/iniit.d/vmware in an editor by running
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/vmware
Find the case statement that looks like this (around line 814)
# See how we were called. case "$1" in start)
Add the following text at the end of the case statement
rmmod lp chgrp lpadmin /dev/parport0 chmod g+rw /dev/parport0
VmWare (last edited 2008-08-06 16:15:49 by localhost)