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 [...]

Running all desktops on VMWare

Monday, May 4th, 2009 229 views

I have become increasingly dissatisfied with openSUSE, particularly since upgrading from 10.2 to 10.3 with a large number of breakages and general instability after the upgrade. I guess if I’d done a clean install then I wouldn’t be suffering from some of the instabilities, but it’s not something I really considered doing (especially given I [...]

VMWare USB device issues on openSUSE 10.3

Monday, May 4th, 2009 141 views

After I unwittingly upgraded from openSUSE 10.2 to openSUSE 10.3, I wasn’t able to configure VMWare Workstation 6.0 on openSUSE 10.3 so ended up downloading the updated 6.0.1 version of VMWare Workstation. This fixed my issue with being able to configure it and run my guest operating systems but changing from the 2.6.18 kernel to [...]

Using Ctrl+Alt+F1 in a VMWare Virtual Machine

Monday, May 4th, 2009 133 views

I use VMWare Workstation 6.0 on a daily basis to run a Windows XP virtual machine on my SUSE Linux host machine so that I can run Windows only applications such as Adobe Photoshop, and to test websites with Internet Explorer, Opera and Mozilla Firefox on a native Windows platform. I also use it for [...]

Installing VMWare on Gentoo

Monday, May 4th, 2009 124 views

After attempting to install VMWare on Gentoo Linux you may get the following error message when trying to run the vmware-config.pl configuration script: vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. /etc/init.d/vmware: line 919: [: -: integer expression expected Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor failed Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done DHCP server on [...]

VMWare Writelock Disk Error

Monday, May 4th, 2009 176 views

VMWare is virtual machine software that lets you run a guest operating system inside your operating system without having to reboot your computer. This article covers an error that can happen which prevents VMWare from starting up in the event of a crash. Note that I have only had experience with this error on Linux [...]

Error 800: Unable to establish the VPN connection

Monday, April 27th, 2009 429 views

we have a similar problem here in our office, the VPN connection was working for 16 days now without any problems. Yesterday we did reboot the router, but we did not change anything and now the VPN connecion just stopped to work. I have to say we had the same problem before and then all [...]