Questions related to Ubuntu and VMware Virtualization software, whether Ubuntu is the Host system or the Virtual system.
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Adding space to VMware Virtual Disk for running Ubuntu Server Guest on LVM Partition
I have been testing methods for adding space to an Ubuntu Server guest running on VMware. I have setup the server using LVM so I can add physical disks to to the LVM group and expand the logical ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 32 Bit VMWare
Attempting to configure my video cards, GTX 560 TI x 2 SLI Mode for use of CUDA processing power for use with Pyrit. I am unable to install the driver I downloaded as it says I don't have a supported ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine Windows 7 networking
I installed VMware workstation (9.0) on my Windows 7 PC, and installed Ubuntu 12.04. I got everything else working except that I cannot seem to get networking going in the ubuntu box. In the VMware ...
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How do install Ubuntu on VMware Player and have it visible and usable by all users?
Host OS is Windows 7
VMware Player 5 will host the virtual machine
Ubuntu desktop is the virtual OS
How can I install and configure VMware Player and Ubuntu so all users can login and use the Ubuntu ...
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Computer fails to boot properly after vmware workstation 9 was installed on Ubuntu 12.04
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 3.5.0-27-generic on an HP dm4-1028tx. I just reinstalled Ubuntu 12.04 after encountering problems with Ubuntu 12.10. I was installing VMware Workstation 9 after uninstalling ...
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Command ps freezed. How to fix it?
When I execute ps on the server runs ubuntu 12.04, it always freeze.
like this:
root@xxx:xxxxx# ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
26328 pts/1 00:00:00 sudo
26329 pts/1 00:00:00 su
26330 pts/1 ...
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Is there a free trusted vmware image with Ubuntu preinstalled?
Since the vmware virtual machine drivers are pretty standard I don't see any technical reason for a preinstalled image not to be portable.
Although the above situation is obvious, I didn't find any ...
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How to Prevent Ubuntu (running in VMware) shutt down when the PC is shut down accidentally?
I'm using Ubuntu in VMware 8 in a public lab and sometimes the computer may be restarted or shut down accidentally. Is there any way to prevent ubuntu from shutting down in order to continue running ...
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Dlink DWA -111 USB Wifi card on Ubuntu 12.10 in Vmware workstation
I am trying to make my Dlink DWA-111 work on Ubuntu 12.10 in vmware workstation. since Vmware doesn't recognize my integrated wifi card as a wifi card, I changed to a USB one. This one is recognized ...
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Dlink USB WLAN Card on Ubuntu 12.04 on VMware [closed]
I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on Vmware. I am trying to connect Ubuntu directly to the card. The Vmware recognises the card and disconnects it from the host (windows7) to connect it to the guest ...
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VMware Player 5.0.2 slowness after Ubuntu 12.10 upgrade
I'm experiencing a frequent slowness/hanging on some virtual machines guests after upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10. I was using the same VMs with Ubuntu 12.04 / VMware Player version with no slowness/hanging.
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How to go full screen in ubuntu 12.04 in Vmware Player 4.0+
I had recently installed VMware 4.0+ on my Windows 7 Home Premium machine. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on it. However, when I turn on my VM, Ubuntu doesn't run in full screen mode. Moreover, the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS crash when starting a guest on VMware 9.0.2
Just recently moved to Ubuntu from MS platforms.
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and using VMware 9.0.2 for various purposes.
A few days ago, my VMware workstation started to crash my system every time I ...
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Refresh Unity UI Time By Command Line
I have a Ubuntu 12.04 desktop virtual machine ran by VMWare and having some issue with the GUI clock/time what ever it is called. The thing in the right corner showing the time.
When I put the laptop ...
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What is better: Win7 host running VMware with Ubuntu guest or visa versa?
I need both running on one computer
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Ubuntu 12.10 - Vmware 3D support
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 (host), and I am running window 7 in VMware Player (guest). When I run VMware it says 3D acceleration is not supported from host but when I check my settings in terminal it ...
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Ubuntu inside virtual machine: ntpd or ntpdate or ??? to avoid clock drift
Problem: ntpd, when installed on a virtual machine running Ubuntu (I've had this on hosts with a variety of hypervisors such as KVM and VMware ESX) seem to be prone to severe clock drift. I haven't ...
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Unable to share a folder between Windows 7 and Ubuntu (running in VMWare)
I have installed vmware toolbox in Ubuntu (guest OS). I tried to share a location from the settings of the virtual machine. But when I click Ok, the following error in thrown in the host (Win 7) OS.
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vmplayer 5: can't create VM from vmdk
Yesterday I installed VMware player 5.0.2 from bundle file on a ubuntu 12.10 machine.
Then I created a VM containing WinXP Professional, this too went well.
But when I looked for creating a new VM ...
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Sharing internet to Ubuntu 12.04 VMWare guest
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Mac VMWare Fusion (Version 4.1.2).
The installation went fine and Ubuntu seemed to update itself during the install.
After reboot I cannot get Ubuntu to access the ...
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vmware tools does not work in ubuntu 12.04 guest [duplicate]
I just installed ubuntu 12.04 on vmware workstation 8.0.4. I am trying to install vmware tools, but I got stuck on this step:
The filesystem driver (vmhgfs module) is used only for the shared folder
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install a minimal 64bit Ubuntu 12.04 server virtual machine to use alongside a 32bit Ubuntu 12.04?
I would like to install a minimal 64bit Ubuntu 12.04 server virtual machine to basically be able to use a terminal to run 64bit code alongside my 32bit Ubuntu 12.04 gnome session on my 64bit ...
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Unable to run Ubuntu on Virtual box: Kernel require X86-6PU [duplicate]
I am trying to install Ubuntu on oracle virtual box but I am not able to. I tried the same about a year back and it worked like a charm.
Here are the details:
1) Installed oracle virtual box version ...
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Can't get 1920 x 1080 in Ubuntu via VMWare
I just installed Ubuntu and typed in sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools
I can change my resolution to 1920 x 1200, but not 1920 x 1080. Any ideas?
I've tried this, and this but no luck. The second ...
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How can I uninstall/reinstall VMWare-workstation after manually deleting the files?
I installed VMWare Workstation 9 x64 on my laptop, but the operating system was crashing at startup after the installation of VMWare, so I deleted the VMWare files with an Ubuntu bootable disk. So I ...
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Why doesn't VMWare 7 recognize the Kernal headers for version 3.5.0-26-generic?
I installed VMWare 7.0 on Ubuntu 12.10 and when I run it I get an error that says:
VMware Kernel Module Updater
Before you can run VMware, several modules must be compiled and loaded into the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit keeps freezing when using VMs [Using Lenovo ideapad g580 laptop]
I'm having an annoying issue with my machine that I hope someone can help me with.
My machine keeps freezing when running a VM under it. From what I noticed till now, it happens mostly when I save a ...
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Change screen resolution in command-line ubuntu? [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu 12.10 running as a command line OS(No GUI installed) in VMware. But I cannot figure out how to get my system out of the really small window that everything thats installed into vmware ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 as VMware Player guest OS has window redraw issues
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 64bit as a guest OS inside VMware Player 4.0.2 on a Windows 7 64 bit host OS. I have the latest VMware Tools installed (reinstalled it just in case). I'm using Gnome Classic, ...
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Why don't shared files show up in HGFS?
Sharing files between my Guest Kubuntu OS and Host Windows has become a real headache.
So, far I have done the steps below:
GUEST LINUX OS
VM -> Settings -> Options -> Shared Folders. And added my ...
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How to share a folder with a host machine?
Using VMWare, I am running Kubuntu as a Guest OS on top of a Windows OS.
I have tried installing the VMWare tools but it fails to initialise the guest OS system daemon. It seems to be a fairly common ...
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VPN connection doesn't work on VMWARE
I use vmware for my dev work with ubuntu 12.04.
I just installed KDE for add my vpn connection, the configuration seems ok.
But I can't find how to connect my interface eth0 with my VPN.
When I try
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No login screen on Ubuntu 12.10 after update
A few weeks back, I applied the latest updates to my Ubuntu 12.10 (32-bit) running Gnome-Shell, which happens to be a virtual machine running under VMware Player 5.0 on Windows 7. After the updates ...
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apt-get fails with 307 Temporary Redirect
I created a fresh install of ubuntu 12.10 as a VMWare Player virtual machine. To enable apt-get to get past my proxy I created an /etc/apt/apt.conf.d file with these lines:
Acquire::http::Proxy ...
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Not getting GUI mode on ubuntu 12.04 desktop edition after installation on vmware workstation 7
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 desktop edition on my PC using VMWare workstation 7.
I assigned 1GB RAM and 20 GB Hard disk to Ubuntu.
While starting Ubuntu virtual machine, It is not starting up with GUI ...
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VMWARE View install
VMWARe.com at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VIEWCLIENTS_LINUX32_170&productId=331&rPId=3638#product_downloads
states:
"To download the VMware Horizon View client ...
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ubuntu 12.04 can not start vmware 9.0.0 .kernel 3.5
lemon@freedom:/tmp$ sudo cat vmware-root/vmware-authdlauncher-28892.log
2013-03-24T22:08:30.219+08:00| authdlauncher| I120: Log for VMware Authentication Daemon Launcher pid=28895 version=9.0.0 ...
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Can Compiz work in an Ubuntu guest in VMware workstation 9?
OpenGL it's supported in VMware Workstation 9
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws90/doc/workstation-90-release-notes.html#OpenGL
So Compiz theoretically can run inside a Ubuntu guest in VMware ...
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VMware wants /dev/dsp, but it does not exist
Running an MS-DOS virtual machine within VMware Workstation 9.01 requires the "virtual sound card" to be set to SB16. However, when it is configured as SB16, it wants /dev/dsp. This device does not ...
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Can't install VMWare Player on Ubuntu 12.10?
I was attempting to install VMware Player through the terminal using these codes:
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-uname -r
mkdir ~/VMware && cd ~/VMware
wget ...
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Improving virtual Ubuntu hdd performance running on Windows host
I have a Windows 2008 R2 server with:
1 x 80GB SCSI, partitioned:
100MB reserved
79GB NTFS windows
2 x 1TB SCSI HDD running in a hardware RAID 0 striped configuration, partitioned:
7GB RAW (left ...
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How to make Ubuntu Server fit into a VMware window?
I installed Ubuntu Server edition in VMware 7.0.1. I am using latest version of Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is not filling into complete VMware window. How can I fix this?
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Ubuntu 12.10 in VMware Player pointer problems
Ubuntu 12.10 works flawlessly in VMware Player 5.0.2 except for one major issue - cursor is rendered in the wrong location (a pixel, or so, to the left and to the top; same thing observed in ...
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Networking Disabled under VMWare Fusion on Mac OS X
I use MacBook with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. I have installed VMWare Fusion 5.0.2, under which Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS have been installed as virtual machines. Under Ubuntu vmware-tools-distrib ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - VMware 4 Video Crash
I'm having issues with vmware 4 and ubuntu 12.10.
My screen appears green/red on the desktop, but the control bars appear on normal colors.
Already changed the resolution / color settings but without ...
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Unable to Mount location, Ubuntu on Windows 7 virtual machine
I have installed Ubuntu on windows 7 VM. On installation I have assigned space from my drive to Ubuntu. Now I can see icon in ubuntu 161GB Hard Disk but when I click on it it shows message 'Unable to ...
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asynchronous logging via rsyslogd(8) and write buffer increase
On a pretty high traffic web site running in virtual containers (VMware) and lacking local storage, we've managed to increase throughput (requests per second) significantly by switching from logging ...
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Ubuntu 12 with logitech c525 webcam, and disabling auto exposure inside a virtual machine
This problem may be related to v4l2 ctl exposure-auto-setting fails which has not been answered and has remained opened since November.
I am using the c525 with OpenCV, and for my application to work ...
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Unbuntu 12.10 install into VMware WS 8.04 (under win7) stuck on file 43
I've gotten the same result 4 times thus far. Using Windows 7 Enterprise on Apple Mac Pro. Vmware Workstation 8.04, attempting to install Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit
VMware seems to correctly identify ...
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How can I install ubuntu in VMware workstation in windows 8?
I bought a new sony vaio laptop.
I found that I cannot dual boot in this system (model sve15136cns). When I try to use it on a Virtual machine (VMware) it suddenly shuts down.
