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Note: These instructions only applies to version 6.0.2 and 6.0.3. Version 6.0.4 now supports Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 out of the box (Updated instructions for 6.0.4 and Ubuntu Intrepid) Seems VMware has released a new version of Workstation; 6.0.3 I had hoped that this release had fixed the problems encountered with 6.0.2. This isn’t the case (By the way; this problem is not only with Ubuntu Hardy Herron but for for all distributions using Linux 2.6.24+) ...

We’ve all seen the tin foil prank, the Post-It(tm) prank, the card board box prank This one has outdone them all That’s it. I’m not gonna post any more fun stuff today. Promise.

If you ever owned a cat you can definately relate to this I swear, except for the baseball bat, this is how every cat I ever owned has behaved (some more than other). The animation is “Simon’s Cat in ‘Cat Man Do’” by Simon Tofield

This is so true :) Cartoon Church is not one of my regular web comics but they have some pretty hillarious stuff.

A new vmware-any-any patch is floating around the VMKernelNewbies group. It is unknown who has made the patch but I am very grateful. Not only has this person taken care of the tidious work if getting vmmon to compile but also fixed the problem with bridging on a wireless interface. I have a local copy of the file – just in case it disappears.

After trying my luck with VMware Server 2.0 Beta (which I’ve been running while I upgraded my laptop to Hardy). Finally getting tired of the bloated MUI I switched back to Server 1.0.4 and discovered that the server console not longer works: $ vmware-server-console /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6) /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6) /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6) Luckily the first solution I tried work: ...

This is in no way hot news but I wanted to write it down anyway. I am currently working on upgrading some VMware ESX 2.5 servers to ESX 3.0.2. We have opted for a rolling upgrade by installing one of the servers with 3.0.2, adding a new LUN, format it with VMFS3 and then migrating servers of the old servers and LUNs and then reinstalling the server. The new VMFS was formated with standard options (but not by me). ...

Sometimes when I use VMware Workstation I suddenly might find that my CTRL, shift and capslock keys do not work when I am back in Xorg. I have yet to find out exactly what happens but running setxkbmap from a terminal (without any arguments) fixes the problem. (This workaround was found in the VMware Community forums) Weird.

Update 21-03-2008 Please see my updated instructions for VMware Workstation 6.0.3 – It will also work for 6.0.2 When running vmware-config.pl for VMware Workstation 6.0.2 (build 59824) one is presented with this error: Unknown VMware Workstation 6.0.2 build 59824 detected. Building for Workstation 6.0.0. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-4-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-4-generic' CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driverLog.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/comport.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o In file included from include/asm/bitops.h:2, from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/vcpuset.h:74, from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/modulecall.h:23, from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.h:19, from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/hostif.h:18, from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.c:15: include/asm/bitops_32.h:9:2: error: #error only <linux/bitops.h> can be included directly make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-4-generic' make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and "http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html". Execution aborted. No worries the solution is right at hand – Simply follow the instuctions for 6.0.3. ...

After upgrading to Hardy Herron some pretty critical Java applications stopped working – they all crashed with this error: java: xcb_xlib.c:82: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed. This particular application uses IBM JRE but the error is the same in Sun Java 6. Apparently it’s a known problem in Java and the initial response is that it should be fixed in Java 7. A workaround is to add the following line to ~/.profile: export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=true Remember to log out and in to activate the change.