Archive for May, 2008

Apple’s new product!

May 22, 2008

Thats a good joke that blends both politics and IT. After this video I just realized that IT  itself is an apple product if you write in this way “iT”. believe me bcos iSay it and iMean it. and what about iMyself?? lets see the iClip

when i upgrade ubuntu from gutsy to Hardy, VMWare is not functioning

May 22, 2008

I had VMware workstation 5.5.3 installed in my earlier version of ubuntu. then i upgraded it wont start anymore.

This is bcos of the fact that, None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for the new running kernel (2.6.24).  The way I solved it is
1. download the latest version of vmware-any-any package, from the link
this program build the vmmon module for your system.
save the package in the same directory as the vmware distribution file
vmware-any-any-update116 ( I have it in ~/src/VMWare/)

2. tar xzf vmware-any-any-update116.tar.gz
3. cd ~/src/VMWare/vmware-any-any-update116
4. sudo ./runme.pl

this solved my problem, and it is running again!!

Sharing Files Between Ubuntu Host and Virtual Machines

May 13, 2008

after i enable the shared folder in ubuntu, I can’t see the shared folder in WInXP ,

>> try to map network drive.
if you browse, you will see the VMware shared folders inside Entire Network
you will find the enabled shared folder there. Select the folder and you have a mapped network drive icon to access the folder now!

see the link–for other related problems
http://maketecheasier.com/sharing-files-between-ubuntu-host-and-virtual-machines/2007/12/17