Install VMWare Tools on a Debian 5 Guest Virtual Machine

Monday, May 4th, 2009 661 views

Just over a year I posted how to install VMWare Tools on a Linux Guest Virtual Machine which specifically looks at installing VMWare Tools for Red Hat / CentOS. I recently set up a Debian 5 Lenny virtual machine using VMWare Server and installed the VMWare Tools and the process is fairly similar but I [...]

VMWare busy inodes on changed media message

Monday, May 4th, 2009 923 views

After installing VMWare tools on a Linux VMWare guest operating system you might get the “VFS: busy inodes on changed media” error message repeating on the console. This post looks at the simple solution to get rid of the repeating message. The error message looks like this: VFS: busy inodes on changed media and keeps [...]

VMWare Server – errors opening virtual machines from Workstation /Player

Monday, May 4th, 2009 284 views
VMWare Server – errors opening virtual machines from Workstation /Player

VMWare Server 1.0 doesn’t support the same set of features as the more recent versions of VMWare Workstation and VMWare Player, so you may not be able to open virtual machines created with more advanced features. However by simply modifying the configuration file you may be able to start up the virtual machine anyway, as [...]

Access denied when logging into VMWare Infrastructure Web Access on Windows

Monday, May 4th, 2009 302 views

A couple of days ago I decided to try out Beta 2 of the free VMWare Server version 2. After installing it on Windows Vista I attempted to log into the VMWare Infrastructure Web Access but got an error message saying “Access Denied”. This post looks at how to successfully log into the web access [...]

Install VMWare Tools on a Linux Guest Virtual Machine

Monday, May 4th, 2009 320 views

VMWare Workstation and the various flavours of VMWare Server allow you to install a package called “VMWare Tools”. These VMWare Tools contain various methods of communication between the guest virtual machine and the host and in general should make the guest VM run better. This post looks at how to install VMWare Tools on a [...]

VMWare Server Console Connection Refused

Monday, May 4th, 2009 272 views
VMWare Server Console Connection Refused

VMWare Server Console allows you to connect to a VMWare Server virtual machine running either on your local machine or a remote machine. The remote machine might be on your local network or located somewhere on the Internet. This post looks at how to deal with the error message in the VMWare Server Console “unable [...]

Keyboard shortcuts to switch between running VMWare Virtual Machines

Monday, May 4th, 2009 197 views
Keyboard shortcuts to switch between running VMWare Virtual Machines

I run VMWare Workstation on a Linux host machine with multiple virtual machines as my day to day desktop environments: one with Linux as my primary desktop with email, development environment, web browsing etc, and the second with Windows XP to run applications like Adobe Photoshop, CD label printing, and to test websites in Internet [...]