A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
This post describes how you can get your VMware vSphere Client version 4 running on a 32-bit Windows 7 (RTM) installation until VMware makes an update to fix this Microsoft .Net problem. Be aware that this method of getting the client to run is not recommended in a production environment since you are running the […]
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 […]
This post describes how you can resize your VMWare disk in linux using the vmware-vdiskmanager tool, a offline disk manipulation utility. I’ve been using VMWare Workstation version 6.5 on a Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex linux installation. Shrink a disk image vmware-vdiskmanager -k diskname.vmdk Expand the disk to the specified capacity vmware-vdiskmanager -x <new-capacity> diskimage.vmdk Example […]
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 […]