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Mount VMware virtual disk VMDK-file in a physical linux machine

This example has been used on a machine with VMware Workstation 9 installed locally. To mount a VMDK-file you can use the VMware command vmware-mount like this $ sudo vmware-mount /path/to/vmdk/file/name-of-vmdk-file.vmdk 1 /path/to/mount/point In the example above we have mounted partition 1 in the VMDK-file from the disk /path/to/vmdk/file/name-of-vmdk-file.vmdk The files are now accessible from […]

Linux

Installing VMware Workstation 7.1.1 64 bit on Ubuntu 10.10

Installing the 64 bit VMware Workstation 7.1.1 on Ubuntu # ./VMware-Workstation-Full-7.1.1-282343.x86_64.bundle When you try to start VMware Workstation for the first time you will get the following error message You have to read the log file to get the details why VMware would not start, in my case it is named /tmp/vmware-root/setup-24056.log Oct 02 00:10:54.570: […]

Misc

Suspend a VMware Workstation host from command line

This post gives a short description of how to suspend a VMware Workstation 6.5.x guest/VM on a Ubuntu 9.04 Workstation but it shouldn’t be any problem to follow it on other linux distributions. Lately I’ve experienced that one of my VMware Workstation host lock up and my mouse cursor stops responding. The keyboard doesn’t let […]

Linux

Vmware Workstation 6.5 On Ubuntu 8.10 Modifiers Keys Not Working

This post describes a quick fix to enable arrow, delete, ins, end and other special keyboard keys in a VMWare Workstation 6.5 for linux like the norwegian/norske letters/bokstavene ÆØÅ. Solution #1 echo ‘xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true’ > ~/.vmware/config This has been tested successfully on Windows hosts. Solution #2 Another solution is to paste the following code […]