10 Jul 2013 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 the mount point /path/to/mount/point.
This has been tested in Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS.
This command is also available in the Windows version of VMware Workstation.
Tags: mount, vmdk, VMware, VMware Workstation, vmware-mount
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
02 Oct 2010 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: app-140471525164800| Your GCC version: 4.4 Oct 02 00:10:54.618: app-140471525164800| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic. Oct 02 00:10:54.622: app-140471525164800| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic. Oct 02 00:10:54.626: app-140471525164800| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic. Oct 02 00:10:54.628: app-140471525164800| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic. Oct 02 00:10:54.629: app-140471525164800| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic. Oct 02 00:10:54.734: app-140471525164800| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic. Oct 02 00:10:54.734: app-140471525164800| Building module vmmon. Oct 02 00:10:54.734: app-140471525164800| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Oct 02 00:10:54.744: app-140471525164800| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1 HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.4.5 Oct 02 00:10:56.712: app-140471525164800| Failed to compile module vmmon!
You can see that the vmmon module will not compile.
According to ArchWiki you have to compile and install a patch that enables you to compile the VMware modules:
For 2.6.35 kernel and VMware 7.x.x, there’s a script to patch the VMware sources
# cd /tmp # wget http://www.sputnick-area.net/scripts/vmware7.1.1-patch-kernel-2.6.35.bash # sudo chmod +x vmware7.1.1-patch-kernel-2.6.35.bash # sudo ./vmware7.1.1-patch-kernel-2.6.35.bash
Now you can install the modules. You can do this with either by launching VMware and letting it install the modules from there with the GUI or alternatively you can execute the command
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
Please note that this solution has not been tested on VMware 7.1.2
Tags: patch, VMware, VMware Workstation
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
07 Aug 2009 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 me switch applications (Alt+Tab) because the Tab-key doesn’t respond. The solution to my problem was to suspend the virtual machine from the console.
- First you have to switch to a console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 – This lets you login to a console.
- Suspend the virtual machine by issuing the following command from the console
# vmrun suspend /path/to/the/vmx-file/vmxfile.vmx
Switch back to your graphical desktop by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F7. You will now see that the suspend indicator is hard at work suspending the virtual machine that is causing problems. When the host has been suspended you can shutdown VMware Workstation as you normally do.
To make sure that VMware haven’t got any processes that are defunct stop and start the VMware daemon.
Note:
Remember to shut down or suspend all virtual machines before issuing the following commands from the console to avoid losing data
Stopping the VMware daemon
# /etc/init.d/vmware stop Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine communication interface done Virtual machine monitor done Blocking file system done
Starting the VMware daemon
# /etc/init.d/vmware start Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor done Virtual machine communication interface done Blocking file system done Virtual ethernet done Shared Memory Available done
Start VMware as you normally do and resume the host. The host should now work without any problems.
The vmrun command gives you other options as well like list, start, stop, reset and upgradevm, but I won’t describe the use of these in this post.
Tags: console, suspend, Ubuntu, vmrun, VMware, VMware Workstation
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
08 Jan 2009 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 into ~/.vmware/config
xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0x138 # Alt_R xkeymap.keycode.106 = 0x135 # KP_Divide xkeymap.keycode.104 = 0x11c # KP_Enter xkeymap.keycode.111 = 0x148 # Up xkeymap.keycode.116 = 0x150 # Down xkeymap.keycode.113 = 0x14b # Left xkeymap.keycode.114 = 0x14d # Right xkeymap.keycode.105 = 0x11d # Control_R xkeymap.keycode.118 = 0x152 # Insert xkeymap.keycode.119 = 0x153 # Delete xkeymap.keycode.110 = 0x147 # Home xkeymap.keycode.115 = 0x14f # End xkeymap.keycode.112 = 0x149 # Prior xkeymap.keycode.117 = 0x151 # Next xkeymap.keycode.78 = 0x46 # Scroll_Lock xkeymap.keycode.127 = 0x100 # Pause xkeymap.keycode.133 = 0x15b # Meta_L xkeymap.keycode.134 = 0x15c # Meta_R xkeymap.keycode.135 = 0x15d # Menu
This code comes instead of the line added in Solution #1.
Source
The solution was found on the VMWare Forums in a thread named Keyboard in bad shape with Workstation 6.5 running under Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10
Another interesting page about this problem can be found on http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/vmware-and-fubar-keyboard-effect.html
Tags: VMware, VMware Workstation
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
