Host operating system reinstall

Monday, May 4th, 2009 156 views

I currently run VMWare Workstation on my desktop computer, using the Linux host operating system to mainly just run the VMWare sessions; I run two main desktop environments (Linux and Windows XP) and one development webserver (CentOS) in Virtual Machines. Just over a month ago I was using SUSE Linux as my main desktop computer, [...]

VMWare rant about Ctrl-Z

Monday, May 4th, 2009 553 views

VMWare’s virtualisation products are great. But I have one thing I need to have a rant about. The “suspend” function uses the Ctrl+Z keyboard shortcut and there doesn’t seem to be any way to be able to change it. If there is, suggestions about how to change it are welcome. Ctrl+Z is commonly used as [...]

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 [...]

Install Yum on openSUSE with Yast

Monday, May 4th, 2009 338 views
Install Yum on openSUSE with Yast

openSUSE has an excellent system management tool called Yast, but the software package management tool in Yast is really slow to run. It is possible to install and use Yum instead on openSUSE and all of a sudden the slowness of running Yast’s package management goes away. I have a pretty fast machine with a [...]

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 [...]