Virtualization

Some days ago I have updated my Lenny and VMware stop working, this time it was not a problem of a new kernel usually solved reconfiguring vmware, this time the problem was the new version of libx11-6 does not work with vmware, so the solution is to downgrade it to the Etch version.

First create a file called

/etc/apt/preferences

put this content inside:

Package: libx11-6
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 500

Then modify your /etc/apt/sources.list

Today I upgraded my Linux from Etch to Lenny, and one of the first things that stop working was vmware-server, actually I did not expect it to work at all.

Well to fix that I run ./vmware-config.pl as root

Introduction

A friend of mine from StumbeUpon, to be precise The Master Chief (Visit his SU blog) asked me after reading Dual boot with two Linux sharing home asked me if I have ever hear about doing the same thing under VMware, well the answer was not, but I decided to try it and here it is what I did, hope this was what to need MasterChief.

When trying to use my VMware server to run an asterisk on it, I had the problem that as soon as I click on the browse button the VMware just hang on.

I got also this error on the terminal,

(vmware:5077): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot load module `/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so' (/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6))

What I found in a forum here is that you can run vmware using this command.

Installing VMWare server on my new F7, and after running these commands,

yum install libx11-6 libx11-dev libxtst6 xinetd wget

yum install kernel-devel

yum install binutils-doc make manpages-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb libc6-dev-amd64 lib64gcc1 gcc-2.95-doc

yum install gcc

I have just installed a new fresh Debian Etch, and this time when I tried to install VMware server on it following my own instructions I could not, I am now using vmware server 1.0.3, There was not need to patch it in order to have it installed and running, but as soon as I tried to browse the directory to open a VM I got this error.

I did a big mistake today, I tried to install vmware on Feisty and even though I have written an article about Installing VMWare server on Feisty I tried to install it without the Vmware patch, and what did I get?

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for

Today after some weeks not running vmware in my Ubuntu Feisty, which was originally Dapper, upgraded to Edgy and now to Feisty, I have use this method to upgrade Edgy to Feisty.

Ok, today when I tried to use VMware I got this message

...libpng12.so.0: no version information available..., What I did to fix this is:

sudo apt-get remove libdbus-1-2

If this does not work for you try also this:

sudo cp /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/

It is good to have virtualization tools like vmware and VirtualBox to test new Linux distributions, but if you are lazy and do not want to install your own machine, or if you are using vmwareplayer and not server or workstation, you can download the images directly.

VMWare has just released its beta version of VMMark, which is a Benchmarking tool that can be used to measure the performance of your virtualization platform.
But before you start downloading it keep in mind that you will need 5 GByte of memory to run it.

Read here the most relevant parts of the original document.

Preliminary

This march 14th the verson 1.3.8 of VirtualBox was released

VirtualBox is an opensource virtualization software, it has a nice graphical interface like
VMWare, and which is a lack of QEMU, recently (march, 14th) it has released its version
this is what their site says about VirtualBox.

"InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as
well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance
product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely
available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).
See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction; see "InnoTek" for more about our company."

Here I will show step by step and with screenshots how to install VirtualBox on your Linux
to install another OS on it, in this case I will show this until booting Debian Etch as the gest, the VirtualBox
software will be installed on an Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06) as the host.

Yesterday I updated my Ubuntu from Edgy to Feisty, just one day after doing it from Dapper Drake, and that because on Edgy my Intel Pro/Wireless stop working, but now with Feisty seems to be working again, anyway my VMware Server stop working and the vmware-config.pl did not success to compile the module for my Kernel 2.6.20-12-generic.

Sometimes, it is really needed to run some windows software on your Linux machines, there are different ways to do this, one of them is using wine.
We will see here to do it, running at the end of the example the famous putty.exe file

We will see here how to do it for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora

To install VMware server on Debian Etch (4.0) you first need to have Etch installed on you host PC, you can achieve this by using the netinst CD available at:

Running a script to backup your VMWare machine. If you are running a server as a Virtual Machine and you are using VMWare to do this, you can
have this VMware Virtual Machine completely backed up in a periodic basis, and here is how

QEMU, is a great alternative to VMWare or XEN, for installing let's say Windows on your Linux Machine

I have got this info from a spanish site
http://chgonzalez.blogspot.com/2006/11/instalar-vmware-server-en-fedora-core-6.html
So the thanks to Christian González G.